Cyberpunk 2077's Crucial v1.2 Patch Delayed on PS5, PS4

I kinda wish these people would leave CDPR alone, so they can do their jobs. Hacking their servers isn’t going to teach them the lesson the hackers expect it to. The better they can work, the sooner they can push out fixes so those guys are just ruining it for everyone.

Not exactly surprising

The irony is pretty outstanding. Still, I feel for the devs who now have even more work for zero credit.

Personally, I see this as a welcome first step in transparency and open communication - crucial building blocks toward rebuilding a trusting relationship with customers.

Yeah, I doubt the native PS5 and XBS versions are coming out this year

I am just so thankful I own both a PS5 and Series X because my experience of Cyberpunk on Series X has been outstanding. Not a single crash in my first 80-hour playthrough.

I get it is so easy to hate on this game but despite the flaws it features some of the most well-written and emotionally-charged quests I've ever experienced. I have already immediately jumped into a second playthrough to experience it all over again and I wasn't even someone excited for this game at first.

I expect to stay in Night City for hundreds of hours to come. I've played through several endings and each one was brought to the point of sobbing. Haven't had a story touch me like this for a long time.

It looks it was not so bad idea to have limited time demo of full game (ps3)

@jmac1686 you have been extremely lucky to experience no issues. I have had several crashes on ps5 so far and a number of quests that simply will not complete.

Having said that, in spite of its issues it is a fantastic game and I look forward to the finished product so I can complete my play through.

Did they steal the patch? Hopefully this patch goes someway to fixing and finishing the game and doesn't release until it is ready

98 more patches and a big apology letter to Sony and the game will be worth buying... on PS6

@jmac1686 I played quite a bit on Series S so didn't have any crashes or major technical issues, it was clear that even without those the game was far from finished. That said the city is one of the best video game environments I've ever seen, it just needs to be much more interactive and the story was great. I'm looking forward to playing through it on PC when I can get hold of a graphics card and by then it should be updated quite a bit too

@jmac1686 I agree it is a great game I platinumed it on the PS5 and did everything it could offer. There were a few crashes but nothing major, I was just wondering if without spoilers could you say what made you emotional about it?
I don't want to be rude or confrontational but I can't for the life of me think of what could make you emotional in that game.

I'm over this game now. Will probably play it when this gen is close to finishing. haha

They’ll never finish the game to an acceptable state. Best they’ll do is fix the crashes and improve performance. The AI is a lost cause. True PS3 levels of bad.

It's Almost as if they hacked themselves to gain sympathy and delay again?

Lol it’s actually ironic

@Pinkman Yes, it is definitely more stable than PS5...questline glitches of course aren't universal so it seems people just hit very unlucky instances where things go haywire. I've had a couple HUD glitches where I needed to re-load but that has been about the extent of it.

How do you delay a patch a month in the making by a month? Obviously a bigger task than they thought? But surely it would make better sense to put out a patch in dev with certain fixes, then another one in March?

@Mostik I found the story very sad and touching. Also, there are so many side-story questlines that were very wonderfully written and I enjoyed my romanced with Kerry. Some games hit people differently, some people are touched by things others aren't. I have always had games as a medium make me emotional and I connect to them on a personal level. Just who I am as a person.

@carlos82 I mean my experience never felt like an "incomplete" game in terms of the stories and side quests. The meat of this game is in the side stories, which can equal up to a 100 hours worth of content if you do everything and it does fully flesh out the main questline quite a bit. I am not defending the technical flaws, I've just enjoyed the story enough to past them.

@Jimmer-jammer I'd agree, EXCEPT...they had that chance back near the end of 2020 when they delayed the release by a month. If they'd said THEN, that it really wasn't ready on consoles, especially original consoles, instead of "it runs surprisingly well" and that they just needed some polish...THAT was the time to be honest. Everything since then is just damage control - and honesty in the name of damage control isn't real honesty, it's forced.

@jmac1686 Kool mate and fair enough we are all different and that is what makes the world so beautiful (or at least it should). For me Panam was the best and definitely my first choice ending

this video shows it all for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyoJ7onNrg this is it running on every system & that none of them were perfect.

the GTA & Saints Row comparisons really show how lacking this game is in parts! & I enjoyed it a lot when it worked! so I'm not a hater just being realistic.

@carlos82 You would think they have back ups...

@kyleforrester87 the reality is though, unless the hackers took the code for the patch what they are saying isn’t true. Just a convenient excuse. I’d rather they said it’s going to take a bit longer, or as I say, patch what they have and then a further 3rd update.

@jmac1686 maybe "far from finished" was a bit unfair, in terms of the story, questlines etc they absolutely do feel fully realised. I was think more along the lines of the overall world building such as NPC AI which is downright poor at times and the wanted system feels under developed and a general lack of interactivity across the city, certainly less so then some early trailers would suggest

I've put in 80 hours on the PS5 after 1.1 with maybe a dozen hard crashes, a few minor glitches and no bugged quests. The game is great. It's no where near the hot mess many would have you think.

A few days ago I was thinking about Witcher 3, then I got to thinking about Cyberpunk and it made me feel bad for CDPR. They were on top of the mountain when Witcher 3 released, but they tumbled the whole way down with Cyberpunk.

@RobN perhaps I should have placed more emphasis on the word “rebuilding”. When/where does one definitively draw the line between damage control and earnestness? It’s a matter of personal discretion.

Scrap this crap.

@BloodNinja

Not to mention the fiasco isn't the developers fault, it's the upper management and leadership that chose to release it in the state they did.

I don't trust CDPR, nothing they say is taken as truth.

They released the half assed explanation of what happened and it was just an excuse. Basically saying, "we were working so hard to bring you the best game ever, and we didn't have enough time to finish everything." In reality is was more like, "We attempted to release the game on the old generation and at Christmas time, so that we could get a bunch of money, but we didn't have enough time to finish the game, and the old gen version isn't possible due to technology limitations. We knew there would be trouble from this but you guys aren't going to care because you are adjusted to mediocre games."

@Kang81 Exactly, agreed on all points.

NINJA APPROVED

I'm really looking forward to playing this 'at some point'.
People that have played it through say it's a great world, story etc etc
(See, I didn't knock the game, because I haven't played it yet.) 😉

CDPR refunded me directly at the start of all the brouhaha and never asked for the game back.

So I've got a free game that at some point, I think I will really enjoy, free or not.
£50 is a few hours at work so I'm a bit less triggered for 50 notes than most.
On the other hand, I did get that back soo...🤦🏼‍♂️
I could play it sooner rather than later I know, and although they have already slipped from their roadmap dates, I'm sure the PS5 patch, this year/next year will make what many have called a great experience, only better.

I wish them all the best and I hope they can recover from the recent cyber attacks, but am I the only one sick of websites constantly reporting news about this game ? Far superior products don't get nearly as much attention as this giant t*rd.

I'm not surprised that this happened with everything going on. I still enjoy the game, and every time I see Judy in a thumbnail I get a little smile because she is one of the best parts of the game.

I think everyone just needs to forget about this game until next year, then check it out. Anyone waiting for any updates and info is going to get disappointed, and it won’t be anything like you hope until a lot of updates are put in.

Looks like my copy is staying the wrapper for a lot longer then. I've plenty of other stuff to play. I think they clearly want to make sure this patch makes a obvious and significant improvement to the game.

Best game I've played since RDR2.

@BloodNinja Exactly! It's quite petty to be honest.

I've literally given up playing this game until the second patch comes out since the first one didn't do anything. Haven't gotten past much of the second act so I am fine waiting

@BloodNinja Let them take their time the damage has been done nothing against the developers but i do do have a issue with the higher ups at CDPR. im not giving them a pass for blatently lying how could you not know what trainwreck you have released.

@AgentMantis a dozen freezes i terrible if it was a smaller studio they probably would be destroyed. The game was not ready it still isnt completely so no way they did not know what terrible state it was on PS4 and Xbox One.

It's been my favorite game over the last 2 years, going by hours alone. So very many great things went into the making of this game. Playing through it slowly, you really get a sense for how much the developers loved what they were working on. This game has PERSONALITY. It feels like everything put into the world is there for a reason. One city, 30 mood changes. A game that isn't buggy is not by default a good game. Conversely, just because a game is buggy does not make it a bad game. Right now, this is a Rolls Royce with a bad paint job. I'd much rather drive it than a newly painted sky blue Ford Pinto.

I question whether or not the cyber attack is the real reason behind the delay, too. But instead of taking another cheap broadside at CDPR, I'd like to think the changes they are making are significant and requiring more time than they initially thought. This game is a classic. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

I finished it with 140 hours spent, and I plan on playing it again taking a different character style when Sony can actually make and sell some more PS5s. The lack of those machines is much more disappointing than a few glitches in an otherwise great game.

@Jimmer-jammer Point taken. Personally, I don't given any hint of honesty from CDPR any credence right now - they're still just saying what they have to say to minimize legal fallout. There was a time to be honest and come clean, and they blew it.

Now, I do look forward to playing this game some day - after it's patched up and upgraded for the PS5, probably. I do hope they can squash the bugs and add the polish they wanted to add, and it's a shame the developers who worked so hard get punished. But I'm not sure I'm willing to forgive the blatant lying cash grab, at least until CDPR management can show me with their NEXT game that they've learned some lessons - really learned them, not "don't sue us, and let us back in the PS Store, pretty please" learned them.

Bring the patches, take the time to get them right, and keep them coming. When they actually have the game they promised last year, I'll jump in.

For now, CDPR doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt - they deserve to be remembered with every delay mentioned this year - as in, "Yeah, I wish Ratchet & Clank was ready in March, but I'd rather wait than get Ratchet & Clank 2077."

How does someone stealing some code delay a patch ,its not like they had to make the game again to replace the stolen code ,I mean it was still there right? Or where they stood there with their hands on their heads dumbfounded for a couple of weeks,surely they have a completely separate department for security or did they get the tea lady in to help out too.

At least by the time the PS5 version comes, it will already be in the bargain prices. They wouldn't expect to release the PS5 version at full price considering technically the game came out last year.

@mariomaster96 By that time this mediocre game will be DOA even if all bugs are fixed. The core game design itself was just meh.

All too convenient that they can't fix this game, patches aren't working, then all of a sudden a hacking occurs that buys them some time....

I CALL BS

So, a game about hacking got hacked?

@RobN Well said. I am in the same boat as you. I was excited to play this game (on my PS5) but when I saw all the issues and the glitches with the game, then, I decided to wait until most of these bugs have been fixed and for the upgraded PS5 version to be released.

@vapidwolf Pretty simple, really.

If someone breaks into your network, one of the first things you might do is shut down all access to affected servers until you can identify how the break-in occurred, so you can prevent it happening again. There are companies who have paid ransomware demands to get their data decrypted, just to have to do it AGAIN a month later, because they didn't spend the time to find and plug the holes that got them exposed in the first place.

If key parts of the network are offline or inaccessible for forensic work and security improvements, then people can't do their jobs.