Cyberpunk 2077 Gained in Realism Over 3 Years, but Some Silliness Remains
The first comparisons of how Cyberpunk 2077 presented itself at launch with version 2.0 have appeared online. Although CD Projekt's game has changed for the better in almost three years, the game's community avoids excessive optimism.
The day before yesterday, update 2.0 for Cyberpunk 2077 has been released. The big patch precedes the Phantom Liberty DLC, which significantly rebuilt key game systems, so to speak, and represents a new opening for CD Projekt's work.
For this reason videos comparing the game's current state to its problematic launch version, released almost three years ago, have quickly started to pop up in the web.
Another such video made its way to Reddit.
There is no doubt that Cyberpunk 2077 in its current state is a different game from what we could experience in December 2020 - in a positive sense, of course.
And it's not just about the much improved reaction of passersby or police to the player's actions, but also a whole multitude of small details, whose absence does not break immersion. As we can see in the above materials, many animations have been added or improved, such as jumping out of vehicles while driving or climbing a ladder.
On the plus side, the physics and look of the game have also changed - which is not surprising, given the updated system requirements.
It is worth noting, however, that not all elements of CP2077 have been improved since the game's release. As noted in the videos in question, the game still struggles with a few - rather minor - problems, such as the artificial intelligence of NPCs, which leaves much to be desired, or broken shadows when diving.
Changes received positively, but without excessive optimism
The gaming community mostly appreciated the effort put by CD Projekt into fixing Cyberpunk 2077, while noting that the game still needs many minor fixes.
"While update 2.0 is full of phenomenal changes and improvements, it's not perfect. I would expect some of these issues to be resolved, but I'm not sure how much more time and effort CDPR wants to put into the game after Phantom Liberty."
The more scathing Internet users joke that the game should have debuted only after the fixes included in Update 2.0.
"Essentially, then, the game was three years away from completion at the time of its release."
"So did they need three more years to complete the game?"
Still others believe that the game is still far from Rockstar productions, such as Grand Theft Auto V, when it comes to the credibility of the open world - which can be seen, for example, in one of the materials we wrote about.
"This game has made me appreciate Rockstar's games more. The open world and the level of detail [in Cyberpunk 2077 - Editor's note] will never be on their level. However, if you ignore all that and focus only on the storyline, it's a decent game."
A number of commenters also noted - rightly in my opinion - that the comparison is mostly about fairly trivial things that most will not pay attention to..
"This is the most picky comparison I've ever seen, and it's full of things that 90% of people won't notice or care about."
Undoubtedly, there is still a strong need for a more comprehensive analysis that will take a "hands-on" look at what are the more important systems of the game.
And how do you assess Cyberpunk 2077's road from release to its current state? Let us know in the comments.
Finally, let me remind you that September 26 will see the premiere a major DLC for Cyberpunk 2077, Phantom Liberty. Highly praised by the press, the expansion will be released on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
