Cyberpunk 2077 News

Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 overhaul was inspired by the 'old school design' of Diablo 2's skill trees and Doom's 'relentless' combat

Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update changed so much about the game, it'd probably be quicker to list things it didn't touch than the systems it tweaked or wholesale refinished. But the most impactful, I think, is the skill tree revamp, which changes how you build V and what you're capable of. I only played about two hours of Cyberpunk in 2020, so when I really sunk my teeth into 2.0 I was shocked to look back at how the trees were designed before. There were still cool skills there, but without the more obvious build paths and synergies in 2.0. I asked CD Projekt Red how that change came about...
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Here’s why Phantom Liberty was never going to change Cyberpunk 2077’s endings

Cyberpunk 2077 was never going to get an expansion designed to take place following the conclusion of the base game’s main story, as the team behind the game didn’t want to risk diluting how V’s tale ends.

This is according to CD Projekt Red narrative director Igor Sarzyński, who told PC Gamer that, prior to settling on the premise that would end up coming to life as Phantom Liberty, Cyberpunk’s developers did contemplate taking things in a couple of other directions. Though, Sarzyński says that continuing on from the events that can follow V’s meeting with Hanako Arasaka at Embers wasn’t on the cards.

Acknowledging that, had CDPR selected one set of ending circumstances to serve as the basis for a post-final mission adventure, it would have risked annoying players by potentially undermining the choices they’d made for their version of V during the events of the game, narrative director also suggested that doing so wouldn’t have meshed with the team’s desires.

If you'd asked me what I thought a Cyberpunk 2077 expansion would focus on after I first beat the game in December 2020, I would have guessed the heist on the Crystal Palace satellite casino teased in two of the base game's endings. According to CD Projekt Red narrative director Igor Sarzyński, though, the team was always firm on Cyberpunk's endings being the final word on V's story. Spoilers for 2077 and Phantom Liberty ahead...
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Cyberpunk 2077's 2.02 patch rebalances the near-impossible vehicle contracts

Even after several years of updates and an excellent expansion, Cyberpunk 2077 still isn't bug-free. I said as much in my Phantom Liberty review. The difference now versus launch back in 2020 is that the bugs are now within acceptable limits.

CDPR continue to fix them, too. Patch 2.02 is out now.

Cyberpunk's 2.02 patch has hit, bringing with it a surfeit of tweaks, fixes, and improvements to Night City in the wake of the game's sweeping 2.0 update and accompanying redemption arc. As usual there's a whole lot of bullet points here, and I'll put the full patch notes below, but there are a couple of entries worth highlighting in particular...
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