I eventually gave up after I’d keep getting random crashes that would force me to start the current quest over.
Maybe my issue was something less common, but I still have yet to experience the game that I’ve been more excited about than almost any other for quite a few years.
Maybe 3-5 bugs, mostly small stuff. Only saw 1 dude randomly t-pose, and another (a civilian hiding from a shootout) slowly fade/sink into the earth. Maybe one hard crash, which isn't bad compared to the issues I'd see with FNV or Skyrim. In other words, played fine.
Cool setting, and the first half of the game is amazing -- blew me away -- but the gameplay is fairly repetitive otherwise; i.e. go here, kill people, collect loot, go here kill people, collect loot, go here don't kill people (stealth mission!), but then get in a shoot-out after you steal the thing and collect loot, etc.
Skyrim and FNV felt like you had more choices as to how you played, while GTA V had a lot more to do, like the silly Yoga minigames, or stock manipulation, or submarines and aircraft, etc. I played a bit of Shadowrun and CP2020 on the tabletop and I remember the old CP2020 Rulebook talking about "style over substance" and that's kinda how the game plays.
I'd grumble if I had paid full-price but am pretty satisfied at half, and I'd consider the DLC as long as it wasn't buggy as hell and got alright reviews.
Other than that one large bug, the game has been great, little bit of jank but no worse than say, Skyrim without the community bug patch. I only purchased it in the last steam sale so missed all the rough stuff.
I'm currently 40ish hours into a second playthrough (no more tertiary/secondary quest markers on the map, although I need to wait for a few more secondary quests to activate before completing the main quest line) of 1.61 and haven't had any freezes or crashes.
For the record, I highly recommend the game. It has great world building, gameplay, immersiveness, it feels alive in a way that I haven't felt about any game in a while.
I'm playing on Linux with an AMD GPU in Wayland. YMMV on Windows and/or nvidia and/or X.org.
Playing on an XBox Series S.
That being said, once you finish everything it really does feel empty. There's no repeatable content once the game is finished, unlike most other open world games. This is pretty unfortunate because I would sometimes just happen upon fun little notes and hiding spots. I'm sure there are tons of little details that will never be noticed because there's no drive to go out of your way and find them once all the other stuff is done.
I think that has been patched as of 1.2. The patch notes include:
> The game's infamously speedy police department have been told to take a chill pill, with an increase to their spawn radius for when a player commits a crime. Hopefully this means a whole squad will no longer appear behind your back.
And 1.21 had:
> It makes a long list of fixes, including for an issue where, after the player commits a crime on the roof of a building, NCPD officers would spawn behind the player's back.
Software stacks nowadays are such massive pieces of garbage that it is kind of surprising things are not falling apart repeatedly. Which also means having the "right" parts and pieces together you actually may see this happening, unfortunately.
Early on, the crashes were constant. Couldn’t get past the intro.
Eventually they became more occasional, but not until a few patches after the first “major” patch they released.
I’ll have to give this another try.