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Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a mammoth-sized update, titled Update 2.0, tomorrow, September 21, and it promises to be a bit of a game changer. A police revamp, a progression overhaul, a new cybernetics system, vehicular combat, DLSS 3.5—it's vast, and thankfully separate from the Phantom Liberty expansion due next week, so you'll get all of this for free. With so many changes, the developer is naturally recommending that you experience it all on a fresh save, starting a new game rather than continuing an existing one.

It's entirely possible to just carry on with an old save, but making a new character will ease you into all of the big changes, most notably the skill system, which might be a bit jarring if you have to rebuild an existing character. "Due to the number of changes, starting fresh will enhance your overall gameplay experience," reads the tweet from CD Projekt Red.

Hey, chooms! While you'll be able to continue the game with your current character on an existing save, we recommend starting a new game after @CyberpunkGame
Update 2.0. Due to the number of changes, starting fresh will enhance your overall gameplay experience!

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[-] flux@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

"Hey gonks! Remember that game we released and was dirty as hell but you all gave up the eddies because we told you it was preem. We finally have the game we should have released just 3 years later. Go ahead and flatline your 200hr characters and reboot."

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

If you got 200hours out of release then clear you got your moneys worth out of the game and enjoyed it, promises not kept or not.

Personally the game could’ve been better but I certainly enjoyed the one 120ish hour playthrough I did and had no major issues other than some texture bugs or weird physics, I had a capable PC though not a last gen console trying to play at being modern.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

weird physics

MOTORCYCLES SUDDENLY DID NOT STOPPIE ANY MORE

My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined. This was a feature, not a bug.

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm sure someone'll mod it back in

[-] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I did a heavily modded 90hr playthrough and loved it. Dealt with a ton of crashes though 😅 I'm planning on playing this vanilla finally, or very lightly modded for UI and stuff.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yea I played vanilla release over 100 hours, then some ui/qol mods. Looking forward to a vanilla 2.0 and dlc run then maybe see what some of these overhaul mods are doing a few months after that once they’ve been patched up

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 year ago

I played it on PS4. CDPR said it plays surprisingly well on it.

Lmao

Petty AF. Massive update that overhaults the game and dlc its common practice to restart at updates like this

[-] flux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm actually a fan of the game. I'm excited to play it. I just find it funny they are saying they have made it so much better that they recommend starting over. My point is that they are saying they finally got a lot of things "right" in 2.0 that we were playing an inferior game with quite a few quaility issues. Probably due to deadlines, etc. I'm happy devs continue to improve based on sales and feedback to make it better.

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

PC launch play was mostly fine. Only Console launch, mostly caused by massive delusion about min. spec.s, was f'd up completely. The PC issues were also the easiest to fix and even when they could fix the Console issues, they had to convince the Console store's Owners that the relaunch wouldn't be a shit show. But then I play on PC and so expect similar to last time, once I buy it after it launches.

[-] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

If you sunk 200 hours into the game, was it really that awful?

[-] flux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No it's a good game. I like it even with the qc issues because it's ambitious. But the devs are basically admitting that they worked on it for 3 years to fullfill the original vision and it's so much better that it's worth starting over.

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You make it sound like they are forcing you to do so. You have the freedom of choice.

[-] flux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Of course. I'm happy they are allowing you to continue. I'll keep going as I like the game.

[-] AttackPanda@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I wish I had the fortitude to start over at 140 hours deep into my character but damn I’m not sure I do.

Same. But I have wanted to explore other characters. My current one I made a baseball bat wielding, hard punching, aggressive nomad punk with a heart of gold, with some sniper secondary skills. Basically what I imagined a nomad would be like, with the skills I thought they'd have.

I kind of want to see what it's like as full stealth or a corpo hacker or a street samurai katana wielder or knife thrower.

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