Cyberpunk 2077 is 4 years outdated right this moment, and CD Projekt Red is celebrating with a shock patch for its open-world RPG that’s out now. The workforce held a reside stream to run down a few of the large modifications coming in patch 2.2, which comes over a 12 months after the Phantom Liberty enlargement, 2.0 overhaul, and the large romance replace. It seems like that is speculated to be the ultimate replace for Cyberpunk 2077, however CDPR has already stated it wasn’t engaged on the sport anymore and but right here I’m writing about one other patch, so who is aware of? For now, let’s break down what’s new in Night City.
The new patch was developed in collaboration with Virtuous, and is primarily centered on participant expression. The patch is nicknamed “Express Yourself” and contains new automobile customization choices akin to shade and hue modifications that you would be able to apply from any location at any time. You also can scan any of the vehicles you see all through the sport so as to add patterns and paint jobs to your automobiles, so now you don’t must steal a automobile you want off the road. Changing your colours and patterns on the fly will even enable you to escape a police chase if you happen to’re on the run.
I usually drive bikes in Cyberpunk 2077, so most of that is nothing to me. However, CD Projekt Red additionally confirmed that Johnny Silverhand will now generally spawn in your passenger seat when driving and can have reactions to issues such as you crashing your automobile or simply observing him too lengthy. Keanu Reeves reaching his true potential as a passenger princess.
The recreation’s already wonderful photograph mode has additionally been up to date, with the largest change being that the digicam is now not locked to the participant’s place, and might now enter a drone mode that freely flies round an space. The collision between the digicam and characters and environments can also be gone, which opens up quite a lot of choices for the pictures you’ll be able to take. New facet ratio choices are additionally being added, however solely on PC as a consequence of technical limitations. The coolest addition, nonetheless, is the choice to spawn completely different NPCs whereas in photograph mode, which you’ll be able to then pose to take footage with alongside your V. Whatever footage you are taking can now even be framed and displayed in your house. Be proper again, I’m gonna take some pics with my boyfriend Kerry and put them up throughout my house.
On high of all this, CD Projekt Red has added over 100 new belongings to the character creator, together with new eye choices, faceplates, make-up, nail polish, tattoos, and extra. The full patch notes are as follows:
New Features
- Rayfield’s CrystalCoat™ know-how, initially designed for Rayfield automobiles solely, has now been adopted by different automobile producers. You can now change the paint jobs on Herrera, Mizutani, Quadra and Villefort automobiles. Pro tip: Use CrystalCoat™ to idiot the cops and decrease your NCPD wished stage!
- Kiroshi presents TWINTONE™! As CrystalCoat™ continues to in acquire recognition, TWINTONE™ takes your paint jobs to the subsequent stage. Simply scan a automobile along with your Kiroshi optics, swap to the TWINTONE™ tab, then save the automobile’s shade scheme for a small payment. You’ll then be capable to choose the scheme within the TWINTONE™ database underneath the CrystalCoat™ menu. There, you’ll additionally discover generic shade schemes for all CrystalCoat™-compatible automobiles in addition to distinctive shade schemes unique to the automobile mannequin from which they have been copied. Please be aware that shade scheme cloning isn’t approved on automobiles which might be linked to quests, belong to the NCPD or which might be incompatible with CrystalCoat™ tech.
- All automobiles suitable with CrystalCoat™ and TWINTONE™ are marked with a twig can icon on Autofixer.
The ten most requested automobiles from the streets of Night City are actually out there for buy on Autofixer:
- Mizutani Shion MZ1
- Mizutani Shion Targa MZT
- Thorton Galena GA32t
- Thorton Colby CST40
- Archer Quartz EC-L r275
- Quadra Type-66 640 TS
- Quadra Type-66 680 TS
- Mizutani Hozuki MH2
- Villefort Deleon V410-S Coupe (Phantom Liberty solely)
- Mahir Supron FS3-T (Phantom Liberty solely)
- Following Act 1, Johnny will now generally seem within the passenger seat whereas V is driving to touch upon and react to what’s occurring.
- We’ve overhauled Photo Mode and added a number of community-requested options:
- Drone Camera is now a free digicam as a substitute of an orbital digicam centered round V.
- Increased digicam vary.
- Full Collision (ON/OFF) – determines whether or not the digicam respects in-game object collisions.
- Lock Camera (ON/OFF) – locks the digicam to keep away from misclicking and ruining the body.
- Precise Camera (ON/OFF) – slows the digicam down for simpler aiming.
- Aspect Ratio (PC-only. Custom-resolution screenshots are usually not out there on consoles. Console programs can solely export photos in the usual 16:9 format.)
- Characters tab: Spawn as much as 3 NPCs on your photograph, with a listing of over 20 characters to select from. You can alter their expression, pose and place.
- Lighting tab: Spawn and alter gentle sources.
- Fixed the Depth of Field ghosting concern.
- Added an Effect Intensity slider
- SmartFrames™ by Kiroshi means that you can show your Photo Mode pictures in-game by interacting with the image frames in V’s flats. Browse your photograph assortment within the new Gallery menu tab positioned alongside Journal, Shards and Tarot. The Gallery pulls .png photos from the screenshots folder in your PC or out of your console gallery. For extra particulars on SmartFrames™ and the Gallery, see this Support article.
- Added extra character customization choices:
- 32 eye colours
- 18 lip make-up sorts
- 17 nail colours
- 10 cheek make-up sorts
- 16 eye make-up sorts
- 4 face scars
- 5 eyebrow shapes
- 4 face tattoos
- 2 physique tattoos
- 8 beauty face cyberware choices
- Upgraded the Character Creator randomizer to characteristic a brand new Plain-to-Punk slider. Whether you’re aiming for an understated, informal look or a daring, edgy fashion on your V, now you can use the slider to strike the proper steadiness.
- Added extra secrets and techniques to find in Night City.
Quests & Open World
- Rephrased targets for quests that inform you to attend a selected period of time to progress. The recreation is designed in a manner that doesn’t all the time enable gamers to easily skip in-game time to advance the target, as a substitute requiring them proceed taking part in to set off the subsequent occasion.
- Cyberpsycho Sighting: Where the Bodies Hit the Floor – Fixed a difficulty the place no shard could possibly be discovered on the cyberpsycho’s physique, blocking progress.
- Dream On – The Trauma Team AV on the roof will now be correctly hidden in stealth mode.
- Heroes – Fixed a difficulty the place the hunt, regardless of being accomplished, might stay marked as incomplete within the Journal with the non-obligatory targets “Talk to Padre” and “Talk to the Valentinos.”
Phantom Liberty-Specific
- Balls to the Wall – Fixed a difficulty the place it was not possible to exit the elevator and speak to Yuri due to an invisible wall.
- Firestarter – Fixed a difficulty the place quick journey could possibly be blocked if the participant saved the sport quickly after exiting Reed’s automobile.
- Gig: Waiting for Dodger – After being freed, Bill and Charles will now be extra aware of their driving and keep away from working over Dodger’s goons, stopping any pointless fight.
- Hi Ho Silver Lining – The VIP part within the Heavy Hearts membership will now be accessible to gamers who couldn’t meet with Mr. Hands as a consequence of a keycard being required to make use of the elevator.
- I’ve Seen That Face Before – The storage door stopping gamers from reaching the assembly level will now be open.
- Run This Town – The elevator within the Heavy Hearts membership is now again in service, so V can lastly meet with Mr. Hands.
- Somewhat Damaged – Fixed a difficulty the place the immediate to unplug the cables from the Neural Network system was lacking.
- The Killing Moon – Fixed the problem of a wall blocking the trail when carrying Songbird to the shuttle.
Gameplay
- Fixed one of many katana finisher animations in order that it correctly decapitates enemies.
- Iconic Synapse Burnout and Iconic System Collapse quickhacks will now be correctly affected by the RAM price discount buff.
- The icons for Tier 5+ and 5++ Behavioral Imprint-synced Faceplate will now be seen on the HUD whereas driving.
- Fixed a difficulty inflicting the Synaptic Accelerator to remain lively indefinitely if the participant is detected whereas not in fight.
- The automobile horn will now not honk when the participant reloads a weapon throughout automobile fight whereas taking part in with a controller.
- Fixed a difficulty the place the NCPD might cease functioning correctly after V engages in a shootout in Pacifica between the Voodoo Boys and Trauma Team.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed a difficulty the place TV program sound was muted or too quiet.
- Fixed a difficulty the place CrystalCoat™didn’t apply correctly after getting into a automobile.
- Due to standard demand, we’ve lowered the Trauma Drama excessive scores.
- Adjusted V’s mouth motion in varied scenes, together with the endings.
- Fixed the problem of voiceover cutoff in the course of the Ebunike station announcement on NCART.
- Fixed ray-traced shadows for V in Photo Mode.
PC-Specific
- You will now be capable to correctly rebind W and S to completely different actions apart from their default settings within the Vehicle class.
- Optimized threading system to enhance efficiency by as much as 33% on Intel Arrow Lake based mostly CPUs.
- Added extra Razer Chroma results for some sections in Phantom Liberty and romance scenes.
