Fool Me Eight Times: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Releasing Big New 2.3 Patch Soon

CDPR has previously made a big show of the fact that it was moving on to Cyberpunk 2077’s next iteration, the sequel codenamed Orion. That involved ceasing development 2077 shortly after its 2.0 Phantom Liberty expansion dropped, but that…did not turn out to be the case.

It’s an ongoing joke at this point that despite the fact that CDPR says it’s done with Cyberpunk 2077, they keep making new patches. And now a big one is on the horizon. CDPR has announced that Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.3 will arrive on June 26. As a full “point” numbered patch, it’s going to be a big one. Here’s what happened in the last two big patches:

Patch 2.1

• A full, working Metro system in the game
• New car-based combat missions and new cars added to earn
• New romantic hangouts with V at home.
• The ability to listen to the radio anywhere.

Patch 2.2

• 100 new character customization options
• Lots of new enhancements to photo mode including the ability to spawn NPCs.
• The ability to change car paint with a reactive car color system
• Johnny now appearing in your car
• A Balatro-based quest

There have been other patches in between these that are mostly technical in nature or adding somewhat minor new things. But the point being, the game has received significant updates since Phantom Liberty launched in 2023.

This 2.3 patch came up during a CDPR stream where they were asked about new DLC for the game. They revealed the patch was coming, but I believe they consider the above features to be technically DLC, rather than say, an expansion like Phantom Liberty. Still, there are recent hints that there may be at least some new quests in development for a future update, maybe this one, based on job listings.

Why now? Well, CDPR really didn’t seem to need a reason before, but this new update will come a month after Cyberpunk 2077 has launched on Nintendo Switch 2, something of a technical miracle that they were able to make that happen on a handheld system with those specs. It’s a potential new audience getting to play the entire game up to patch 2.2 from the start, which is awesome. But now, 2.3 will be here soon and I’m guessing it will be similar to the last two. I cannot wait to see what it brings, and I will be reinstalling just to check it out.

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