Cyberpunk 2077
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CDPR has finally deemed it time to preview its latest post-launch Cyberpunk 2077 update, despite saying many, many times it was doing adding things. Well, guess what? Even more things are coming.
The stream gave us a release date for Update 2.3, which mercifully, is tomorrow, Thursday, July 17, so no more waiting. They also broke down what exactly to expect, which feels like less than the 2.1 and 2.2 updates in terms of what they added. Here’s the list:
Main Goal– More “novelty” and “fresh air” in order to make you want to replay the game. Also a lot of fan-requests added. A big vehicle focus.
Crystal Coat/Twin Tone – This is the car color system that was introduced in past patches. This has been expanded to a lot of new cars in 2.3, including lower-end vehicles. Almost all the cars are now usable minus a few exceptions. 32 vehicles now can use the system. There are 205 generic colors and 168 unique paint jobs for cars now.
Cyberpunk 2077
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New Vehicles Being Added – New sports car from a Cyberpunk comic book added. New heavy truck covered in graffiti and is the first weaponized truck. There are actual quests you need to complete in order to get some of the new vehicles, but these appear to be existing quests you play in the game as you go.
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Autodrive – All vehicles can use this. It will automatically drive you around without touching the wheel, heading to each quest destination or custom points. However, this is rather slow and will follow normal traffic patterns. You can also just set the vehicle to drive totally randomly for I suppose, some sort of chill ASMR relaxation system.
Delamain Taxi – New car service you can call to take you anywhere after you complete that side quest. Same autodrive if for whatever reason you don’t want to drive your own car.
Photo Mode – New tab to change time of day and weather. New NPCs being added to the system, 27 you can now add to pose with you. Almost all NPCs have alternate outfits (just in photo mode). Lots of new stickers and frames. New poses, new lighting, ability to pick where someone looks, which changes the pose itself in a natural way. Three new hue bars for color balance. They say it’s now the most feature-heavy photo mode in gaming.
Cyberpunk 2077
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Tech – Better HDR Settings, AMD FSR 4, AMD FSR 3.1 Frame Generation, Intel XESS 2.0 with XESS Frame Generation, Intel HDR10+ Gaming Support, VRR on consoles.
So this is probably the smallest patch we’ve seen out of the 2.1/2.2/2.3 batch, which I’m guessing some players may be a touch disappointed with. I’m not exactly seeing the stated idea of “we want people to play the game again” based on these cool but small additions, but hey, it’s free, it’s neat, it’s something. But if they are going to do this, I wish that they would expand beyond the concepts they’ve already done a lot of work on (cars, photo mode).
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