Well players thought they might know when Cyberpunk 2077’s long-anticipated 1.2 patch was going to arrive, but that has not panned out, it seems.
Cyberpunk 2077 released its last major patch 1.1, and some of its hotfixes, on Fridays. So with CDPR saying they were “aiming for” release in the second half of March after a delay of patch 1.2 out of February, many players thought that yesterday, March 26, the last Friday of the month, was the best guess for when the patch would actually arrive.
But it didn’t, and we haven’t heard anything from CDPR about it since five days ago when they said it was being tested, and full patch notes would be out for it ahead of its release:
The previous week, CDPR rolled out a patch preview which detailed some relatively minor changes to driving and police AI as part of a narrative-based blog post. Fans are still not clear on whether those are supposed to be the major changes coming in the patch (which wouldn’t be great) or if there’s a ton more hiding under the surface.
As ever, the main “point” of this patch for CDPR is likely to fix the game enough so that Sony lets it back on the PlayStation store, which it has been removed from since a week after launch after Sony was swamped with refund demands due to the game’s poor performance on base PS4. It’s been gone ever since, and that means there is no digital version of Cyberpunk for sale for PS4 or PS5, a massive playerbase that CDPR hasn’t had access to for three months now. What will trigger Sony to finally relent and put the game back in the store is unclear, but 1.2 patch should have the most technical fixes of anything else to date.
We are also getting somewhat close to CDPR’s roadmap which said that free DLC which was supposed to be out “early” in 2021 was instead going to be delayed and come out in the first half of the year. But we are essentially two months out from the first half of the year being over, and no word on any of that. The only other thing on the roadmap is the release of the next-gen versions of the game in the second half of the year, but keep in mind this entire roadmap was devised before the huge hack of CDPR, which may mean even more delays.
I will say I’m expecting patch 1.2 in the next few days here. CDPR, for all its problems, has generally hit the windows they’ve said for patch/hotfix releases, even if it’s last minute, though I know the hack really through a wrench into things. At the very least, I think another patch preview would be welcome in the interim.
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