![]() ![]() The first is that you may be tempted to think of the game's launch problems as being solely about its technical performance - that really, underneath, there's a revolutionary RPG being held back by a laundry list of fixable bugs. It seems necessary to accept this truth about Cyberpunk 2077 in the first instance for two reasons. There's no mysterious man behind the curtain here the curtain hangs in front of a solid wall. So much of the experience is a veneer like viewing a series of stylish movie posters that hint at movies which don't actually exist. Put another way, Cyberpunk 2077 asks many questions but regularly fails to explore the rich spaces where satisfying answers might be found. Others - actually, most - are tentatively plucked, in ways that feel like non-committal box-ticking. Some threads are pulled forcefully, with clarity of direction and cohesion of experience. As its name perhaps suggests, it pulls at the many threads present within the broad cyberpunk genre. Cyberpunk 2077 feels like a game that was designed by committee. I came away from my first playthrough with mixed feelings. Still, the overall experience was technically sound enough to be able to play from beginning to end and experience most of what the game has to offer. But the game certainly wasn't bug-free, and it was clear that CD Projekt Red still had a lot of work ahead of it to iron out many of the rough spots. At the time, the game seemed stable enough for the most part I wasn't experiencing any crashes or truly game-breaking bugs on patch 1.1. Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on an RTX-enabled PC with ultra settings meant that I was experiencing the game in its best possible light. I first jumped into the game in early 2021, right after the first major patch landed (the 1.1 update). View Cyberpunk 2077's full patch history Some things for some people some of the time The most recent major patch - 1.5 - contained the 'next-gen update', which enabled Cyberpunk 2077 to take advantage of Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 hardware features. Four of these were classified as major updates. ![]() Since launching in December 2020, Cyberpunk 2077 has been patched a whopping 21 times. But what the sum of these updates actually means to you is going to vary based on when you first played the game and your platform of choice. Cyberpunk 2077 has been patched to within an inch of its life this is both the least and most CD Projekt Red could do, given the game's birth defects. ![]() Has that ever happened to a triple-A game before? □Īt the time of writing, the controversies surrounding the launch have largely faded away. You might remember that Sony took the extraordinary decision to pull the game from PSN due to its fundamentally broken state. But even if folks were prepared to accept that - and many are, given that Cyberpunk 2077 now has a "mostly positive" rating on Steam - the technical condition of the launch game was unacceptably poor, especially for console owners. There's no question that the game didn't live up to CD Projekt Red's own hype. The launch was an abysmal failure on multiple levels. Prior to launching in December 2020, it was hailed by many as gaming's Second Coming the RPG to end all RPGs. ![]() CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 has been on one hell of a journey. ![]()
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