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Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026

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I have been playing Cyberpunk but hit a couple of snags that derailed me. I kind of want to go back but am not sure if I will. First, I've been having performance issues where the game will freeze entirely for a second or two. I can't pinpoint why exactly this happens but it seems to be when I turn around (maybe the engine loading or unloading things). It's really annoying though, moreso because I'm playing a melee build so I bounce around a lot as I go from enemy to enemy.

Second, I'm finally doing the Phantom Liberty content and I got to the tank boss fight. I died in the third phase (after the repair drones come out) and was frustrated because it was kind of a slog. There are a ton of weak points to hit in phase 1 so it takes a hot minute, which was even more annoying with the aforementioned performance issues going on. So I put the game down for the evening and haven't gotten back to it yet. We'll see.

In the meantime I finally started on the DLC for FE Engage, figure I'll knock that out before Fortune's Weave next month. And I also gave into the itch to start another P5R playthrough, though that's lower priority than other stuff.

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