The poor Cyberpunk 2077 dev team at CDPR is working tirelessly to fix the game their bosses forced them to release in an unfinished state, and Hotfix 1.05 may be the biggest update the game has seen yet, which has addressed a number of core problems. Though it may have created more in a few instances.

Hotfix 1.05 should be live on all platforms for Cyberpunk right now, and you can read the full patch notes here if you want. The majority of it is fixing mission-specific bugs that are preventing progress across a host of different gigs and story quests, but there are also more generalized improvements.

The results are…mixed, judging from what I’m seeing online.

Here’s one tweet that essentially sums it up. While some are reporting smoother performance on PS4 and last gen specifically, the game still is riddled with plenty of crashes and bugs:

I have seen that sentiment widely spread across a number of different players, that PS4 in particular seems to be running better, and that may be the case for Xbox One as well. However, I’ve also heard that for some the game now might be running worse on PS5, and in particular, I am hearing about a nasty bug that doesn’t let you exit the “settings” menu when you try to change things there.

As for my personal testing, the game running poorly has not really been an issue on Series X. I did struggle with the visuals early on but after changing a number of settings I managed to get it looking okay. Not amazing, but better. I can report that patch note changes that say they improved how film grain and chromatic aberration look in the game have indeed panned out. I can now turn those on and the game looks fine, when before, turning those off were the key to make the game look more sharp and crisp. They said they also made HDR more “warm” but my settings are already so drastically different from their baseline I’m not sure I can tell the difference there.

The game has fixed some of its most “iconic” funny bugs like Dum Dum following players everywhere long after his mission is over, or Delmain appearing on top of other callers from your phone. CDPR has not bothered to fix things like the infinite money glitch, which is probably pretty low on their priority list, and they know they’d get yelled at if they bothered with that while so much else remains wrong with the game.

In short, it seems like this may have improved performance a good amount for last generation players, though perhaps not universally. And there are still plenty of bugs to go around with loads left to fix.

I’m not sure if this hotfix was the patch that was promised for “next week” and it just got here early, but CDPR is promising very, very large patches for January and February. It would be a shame though if all it took was nine extra days to fix the largest problems with last gen performance, and we could have avoided most of this refund mess. Not that the game was in “release state” regardless of that, but this situation may not have become this intense.

Anyway, let me know how the game is performing for you via Twitter, and what platform you’re on.

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