Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 2.2 Out Now, Expands Character Creation, Vehicle Customisation, Photo Mode

Well that was a load of dookie water…

This is the type of free dookie they should have been doing regularly for the past couple years instead of fixing the game.

That was the definition of "this should have been an email" for those of us who sit through pointless corporate calls in our job.

I hated this game at launch but absolutely loved after complete overhaul....
Just hope they add third person also in part 2......

Honestly all that is fine... but please let us respec more than 1 time... why the limit? Like at all? I don't get it.

I burned my respec early, not realizing that I only had one to burn. And now never again? Really? I'll trade you all 10 cars and customization options for infinite respecs.

Cruising around Night City with Johnny Silverhand sat in the passenger seat. Nova.

For the folks hoping for more substantial updates, I suspect these random ones are just coming from a small handful of devs who have a cool idea and their supervisor just goes "yeah, sure, until we have something more important for you to do."

@wildcat_kickz it’s just the fact they hyped it up like it was going to be a game changer when realistically it’s just all customizational options that people have modded in on PC already and the character creation thing is cool and all but you HARDLY ever see V to truly care unless they would have added 3rd Person

why on earth did they hype this up as much as they did? what a nothing burger.

More customization is very much welcome. Wish they would add cyberware for the rest of your body though like neck,chest,stomach and back but I'll take it.

@danzoEX hyped up meaning the algorithm sent you a notification on this. It was clear that this wasn't going to be anything big.

@Juvenlast This is actually my biggest critique of the game. It makes no sense.

They proved they can let you do it. It's not archaically hard coded or any some such nonsense.

I expect they want people to replay the game to try new builds but the fact of that matter is: people have lives. They have other games. Hard limits on a game forces all players to replay, and many very well may, but many (like myself) will instead DRASTICALLY reduce their potential engagement.

I simply will not replay a massive RPG. Especially those with big moral choices. I play the game, initially, how I would make choices. The "role play" element is me inserting myself into the game. That's the fun. To have ME exist within the game world. (I could never replay Mass Effect because I EARNED that story. I don't WANT to be any other version of Shepherd in that story.)

Forcing me to replay to try a different build won't happen. I don't want to re-experience the story because I'd again want to make choices AS ME. I, for one, don't want to essentially "act" or role play as a completely different person. That's not fun to me (I know for some it is).

So if I can't easily respec, I play it once and never mess around with anything else. If I can respec, I'd be making my own fun trying new things, replaying what I can (depending on the game), etc. THAT is what boosts my engagement.

And what irks me is that it's a simple fix and DOES NOT impact anyone who does want to replay a game from beginning to end in order to respec/re-experience it. They can still choose to do that if respec was made easier/allowed infinitely. Players can FORCE that guard rail upon themselves; no one is stopping them.from making a new save. But if the option to respec indefinitely is not available, it cannot be REMOVED by players who want to play the way I (and it seems you) want.

It makes no logical sense to me. At all.

If they were adding the cut casino or New Game +, sure, keep it a surprise. Nothing wrong with what is in this update, but I don't get why they didn't just announce it was focusing on customisation yesterday.

This is going to be my Christmas break game so I'm glad they're still updating.

@HappyGamerGirl what a nothing burger.

Lol.

The only update that would interest me is 3rd person mode

@wildcat_kickz until we have something more important for you to do.

Like The Witcher 4? that's apparently being made on the Unreal 5+? it could be disastrous if they bodge this title.

Return to Night City? I never left mate.

@KillerBoy The only update that would interest me is 3rd person mode

You can on pc but it looks a bit janky to me, best cyberpunk2077 is this imho https://youtu.be/D04S2vHpXws?si=7C9MmgH_NGIE8U3r

@torquex I suspect the devs putting out the Cyberpunk 2077 updates are actually the folks in Boston (USA) working on the sequel, but I might be wrong. Pretty sure the Poland team is fully working on Witcher 4.

@wildcat_kickz

Oh ok good stuff I didn't know that I just assumed there was one big studio working one game at a time.

Oooh push square comments now show the message you reply to instead of just tagging a person. This update was more worthy of an hour long presentation than patch 2.2.

@torquex Yeah, CDPR is actually pretty massive. Their website says they have 5 studio locations: 3 in Poland, 1 in Canada, 1 in USA. And that is totally disregarding the parent company, CDP, which I think includes GOG.com.

@torquex @wildcat_kickz It sounds like this update (and maybe future updates, if there are any) was actually outsourced to a third-party developer in France. I forget the name, but it was mentioned on the stream.

So when CDPR said no one's working on 2077, they were telling the truth.

@ShogunRok Thanks for the info! I hope it continues (fingers crossed for W3 too).

Still no NG+ or PS 5 Pro patch..

@ShogunRok 2 different articles about cyberpunk but both comment sections are the same...could you sort this out please so they have the relevant comments restored?

Still no skip option to skip the intro story quests, like I want to see Jackie die over and over.

Yes, this stuff is fine, and the photo frames sound cute - but hardly worth a press conference.

That's uh .. 2 years old of that embedded video right there ..

Anyways, could look at these updates as a sort of NG+ either ways 🤷

Gonna snap a pic of my best choom Jackie then put it in the SmartFrame above V's bed after the heist.

lol and of course I literally just started this game like 5 days ago. After sitting in my backlog since launch, I finally did it. The update for character customization is annoying in particular because you don't seem to get access to every option when you try to change things in the apartment.

@Veritas7Ax - I think the idea is that you can only customise 'realistic' things in your apartment, like make-up, hair-style and hair colour, while you need a ripperdoc for actual plastic surgery.

@ApostateMage preem, choom, preem. The game still crashes hard occasionally and I discovered it has to do with the number of autosaves I alow it to create. If I take the time to prune out the numbers, from time to time, by going to load and delete the old autosaves and quicksaves the game stays stable.

@Bunchesopuppies plot spoiler..and i do believe that there is a way to save Jackie so if that's actually a thing it would change things up. There are also a lot of things to do in the section you are spoiling for those who have yet to play it..

@Northern_munkey by the time your on the 3rd or 4th play through, it gets old. Things don’t get interesting until after the job, and no you can’t save Jackie no matter what.

@Bunchesopuppies plenty of vids on Youtube say otherwise..have a look.

Maybe they can finally release a real ultimate edition on disc instead of the nonsense they pulled with the Last edition.

@KillerBoy pretty much this, I haven't bought the game because of it.

@deadfred77

Is that so? I'll have to take a look next time. I'm still learning things. And yeah, to clarify my original post, my "frustration" (and that's already a bit strong) is just the timing of me starting the game and literally a couple days later, them adding more customization options. Because you don't have the same number of options at the mirror as you do when creating your character. But I'll check out the Ripperdoc and see, like you said. Appreciate it.

@Bunchesopuppies OK I've watched a few "save jackie" vids and I get your point. They don't really save jackie but just show a glitch and the different option for what to do with his body.

Tom's Diner being full of cops is definitely new. Nice little addition.

Quite liked the braindance missions looking for the clues, unfortunately i traded in my ps4 disc, I can download the ps5 version/upgrade but need the disc.