Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Features
Adds a full NCART (Night City Area Rapid Transit) metro system to the game, allowing players to travel around Night City via public transport.
Metros can still be used as fast travel points, but actually getting on one results in a much more cinematic experience where you travel in real time, looking out of windows and engaging with NPCs
Adds an on-person radio, or Radioport, which lets you listen to the game’s existing radio stations while exploring Night City on foot or via the metro
The Radioport will be disabled during some quests that have specific music, and during key conversations
The Radioport’s volume can be adjusted
Improved boss fights, including a much more powerful Adam Smasher, who now uses his Sandevistan implant like in the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime
Adds replayable car races that become available after finishing Claire’s questline; you can win money and vehicle discounts
Adds a bunch of new vehicles to buy, including an open-top Porsche
You can now throw knives and axes while riding motorcycles
Motorcycle driving has been reworked, with leans, wheelies, and tricks
Enemy factions will now hunt you down after completing certain gigs, engaging in more vehicular battles
Adds a new accessibility tab in the options menu, including new settings for clearer HUD visuals, and customization for puzzle time limits
Adds hangouts with romantic partners
Very excited to get my hands on this. 2.x has been absolutely incredible, and all of these changes sound like a good time. Going to give it a bit of time though, so that the mods can catch up
Meanwhile the modders who have worked really hard on adding many of these features already
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve been able to use parts of the metro mod, or at least used it as a blueprint.
And if it isn’t absolutely perfect, it’s time for the modders to get to work.
Anyone else feel a little miffed by these further additions? On the one hand I’m glad to see the game get bigger and better for new and current players, but I just finished a full and leisurely playthrough after 2.0 and it almost feels like the version of the game I played has been downgraded by comparison. I’m sure this not a healthy or mature way to think about it but it is kind of how I feel and I wonder if I’m alone?
You can join patient gaming philosophy and play 5 years out for 20 USD and only play bangers, but at the end of the day, you miss out on the zeitgeist.
Have you ever played a modded game? Mods get updated all the time, often in major ways. New Vegas recently got a full remake of the Character Kit, making characters look far less potatoey, and has genuine shadows added now with New Vegas Reloaded. If I play it now, it will be the best it has ever been, and yet in a month something new will make me wish I had waited.
At the end of the day, play!
Eh, if you enjoyed it you enjoyed it. If you wanted to you could always play through again now after these new additions
That’s on you. I’m waiting till they’re done developing the game to play it. I encourage others to only play finished games if they’re going to have this type of attitude.
Yay! Now, as soon as it hits 80%ish discount on Steam, it’s a purchase!
Witcher 3 routinely dips down to like $5 these days, so if you’re willing to wait another 10 years or so you can really get a killer deal!
That game is 10+ years old??? Jesus
Edit: Witcher 3 came out 8 years ago in 2015. That’s still longer than I thought.
I first played Witcher 3 sometime around when Cyberpunk came out. By then, my PC ran it at a nice steady 1080p 120 Hz or something. I’ve got time.
Finally, a game where I can listen to the radio out loud while riding the bus! I feel seen!
Oh man, car racing would be so terrible in this game
The races that are already in the game aren’t half bad
Wow, its almost as if the game is finally, with its final update, where it should have fucking been at launch.
Should I buy it now?
The 2.x series is a different game than the 1.x updates. It’s more action-oriented, so if that’s your thing - absolutely. It’s rock solid, I’ve played hundred of hours with tons of mods without crashes and major bugs.
The story is stellar, just like it always was.
I’m so happy to see people recommending this game now. I’ve kept faith in CDPR the whole time and actually really enjoyed the game at launch. Everyone seems to forget how much of a shit show the witcher 3 was at launch now it’s considered one of the best RPGs of all time.
if you can find it on a dirt cheap sale, bundled with phantom liberty, I guess.
Played through on ps5 around 2.01. It still crashes for me but very seldom.
Absolutely worth it. Incredible game.
Whoa it’s almost a complete game, only another year of dev and it can leave early access
A Metro system? Finally? I am perplexed.
As a fan of Cities in Motion and Transport Fever, maybe I’ll finally check out this game.
Sad part is everything needed was already in the game. A modder figured out how to turn it on a couple years back. CDPR left it disabled likely due to stability issues. So must finally be all ironed out.
I doubt it was finished finished - the mod uses workarounds for the cart, they’re literally the bus model when viewed from the inside.
What’s more perplexing is an immersive breathing system was complete but cut, later added with mods. The modder said all they did was literally add breathing=1 to the config or something equally simple.
Motorcycle wheelies and stunts? Yee-haw!
That’s pretty impressive. I love how they’re adopting the metro mod wholesale.
And the pocket radio mod
Oh shoot, public transport!? Finally…damn, bless those hard working game devs.
Yeah, it always felt very American to have a highly populated area and you just drive a car around.
So no native 3rd person camera with facial animations…
Was that something they said they were gonna do?
No it wasn’t. But I can still voice my displeasure about this omission
Hell yeah! This game is just awesome, love the devs that keep showing it love, too!
Are they going to continue to add more to this game with updates or DLC or is this it? I haven’t really paid attention to it I’ve just heard it’s no man’s sky all over again so I wanna wait until it’s fully done before I buy it.
2.0 was the last major update they said, and I think we might also get 2.2 because fsr3 was promised, before they are done. they do have cyberpunk orion to work on so.
This is pretty much it. I recall hearing the devs say they’re going to finish up some minor updates post-Phantom Liberty before calling it a day. I’m surprised they even came out with this.
Once they officially call it quits with CP77 soon, they will complete a currently ongoing reorganization of the company: RedEngine will be abandoned in favor of UE5, devs who want to work on Witcher 4 will remain in Poland to do that (many have already started apparently). Devs working on the next Cyberpunk game will follow Pawel Sasko to Boston and open CDPR North America, starting work on that game there.
