Cyberpunk 2077: New Metro, Romance, and Cars

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Patch Notes

CD Projekt Red has released the final major update for Cyberpunk 2077, Update 2.1, arriving on December 5th. This patch includes a plethora of features and improvements, including the long-awaited metro system, romantic partner hangouts, new vehicles, and more.

New Features

• Metro System: V can now utilize the metro system to travel between 19 stations across Night City on 5 distinct lines. Players can choose to enjoy the immersive experience of riding the train or simply fast travel for convenience.
• Romantic Partner Hangouts: V can now invite their significant other to their apartment for unlimited hangouts, offering a new way to deepen relationships.
• Radioport: Listen to the radio while exploring Night City on foot or riding the train. The radio seamlessly switches to the car radio when you enter a vehicle and turns off when quest-specific music begins. Volume control is now also available directly within the radio window.
• Replayable Car Races: After completing “The Beast in Me,” V can participate in replayable car races by looking for race flag icons on the map. Winning these races provides eddies and a discount at the Autofixer website. Improved racer AI and enhancements make these races more competitive and enjoyable.
• Sightseeing Binoculars: Discover various scenic spots around Night City equipped with binoculars to appreciate the city’s breathtaking vistas.

Accessibility

• Larger Interface Font: An option to enable a larger interface font is now available.
• Breach Protocol Timer: Players can now disable the timer in the Breach Protocol minigame.
• Customizable HUD: The HUD offers a wider range of customization options:
  • Larger HUD elements
  • Removed HUD Lens Distortion
  • Removed HUD Visual Effects
  • Reduced HUD Decorative Elements
  • New Accessibility Tab
  • Weapon Cycling to Arm Cyberware Setting
  • Rebindable UI panel Up/Down and Left/Right keys

Quests & Open World

• Gang Pursuit: V may be pursued by gangs after taking an aggressive approach during certain gigs and main quests.
• Vehicle Thefts & Combat Sequences: Gigs involving stealing and delivering vehicles can now escalate into car chases and combat encounters.
• Functional Vendors: Decorative vendors within kiosks are now functional, allowing for interactions with vendors at bars throughout Night City.
• Numerous Quest Fixes: Various fixes for quests and issues encountered in the open world, including:
  • Fixed gigs not triggering after approaching the quest area.
  • Fixed Rogue’s permanent following issue in “Chippin’ In.”
  • Fixed Peter Greene’s body remaining highlighted after scanning in “Cyberpsycho Sighting: House on a Hill.”
  • Fixed reward vehicles not spawning for certain gigs in Badlands and City Center.
  • Fixed various other quest-related issues, such as missing characters, blocked progress, and inconsistent events.

Phantom Liberty-Specific

• Dogtown Suspected Organized Crime Activities: Fixed issues where enemies would not spawn in certain areas, blocking progress.
• In-Game Time After Braindance: Fixed an issue where in-game time would not pass after watching Lizzy Wizzy’s concert braindance.
• Achievement Fixes: Resolved issues preventing the unlocking of “Arachnophobia” and “All the President’s Men” achievements.
• Relic Ruler Achievement: Fixed an issue where the “Relic Ruler” achievement would unlock after acquiring only one Relic Perk.
• Iconic Weapons: Iconic weapons previously exclusive to Phantom Liberty are now obtainable in the base game.
• Quest Fixes: Numerous bug fixes for quests within Phantom Liberty, including:
  • Fixed “Addicted to Chaos” from completing automatically without being finished.
  • Fixed issues with garage doors not opening, missing characters, and other progression blockers.

Gameplay

• Boss Fight Improvements: Enhanced boss fights with Yasha Ivanov, Boris Ribakov, and Adam Smasher. Smasher now has the ability to activate Sandevistan.
• New Cyberware:
  • Feen-X: Skeleton Cyberware: Increased armor and RAM Regen Rate based on available RAM.
  • Cogito Lattice: Integumentary System Cyberware: Enhanced armor based on available RAM.
• Cyberware Rebalance: Numerous Cyberware items have received stat adjustments to improve balance and gameplay, including:
  • Adreno-Trigger: Decreased movement speed bonus duration.
  • All Berserks (except Militech Berserk): Added damage reduction bonus.
  • Axolotl: Decreased Cooldown reduction.
  • Camillo RAM Manager: Decreased Cooldown.
  • Chrome Compressor: Increased Cyberware Capacity bonus, lowered price.
  • Dense Marrow: Decreased Armor, increased melee Stamina cost.
  • Epimorphic Skeleton: Decreased Armor.
  • Ex-Disk: Increased quickhack upload speed bonus.
  • Leeroy Ligament System: Increased Armor.
  • Lynx Paws: Added 20% damage reduction from falls.
  • Microgenerator: Decreased Electrical damage.
  • Militech “Apogee” Sandevistan: Decreased extended duration bonus, decreased Max Duration, increased headshot damage, increased Crit Chance and Crit Damage.
  • Militech “Falcon” Sandevistan: Decreased extended duration bonus, increased Max Duration, increased Health bonus after neutralizing an enemy.
  • Nano-Plating: Changed Attunement from Cool to Reflex (Crit Chance bonus).
  • Peripheral Inverse: Increased Armor.
  • RAM Reallocator: Increased recovered Max RAM.
  • RAM Upgrade: Increased RAM recovery rate.
  • Reinforced Tendons: Decreased Armor.
  • Self-ICE: Decreased Cooldown.
  • Shock-N-Awe: Changed Attunement bonus to Tech weapon damage.
  • Universal Booster: Health Item effects now stack.
  • Decreased Cyberware Capacity cost for various items.
• Perk Balance Changes: Adjusted the effectiveness of certain perks to improve balance and gameplay.
• Weapon Balance Tweaks: Various adjustments to weapon stats and functionality:
  • Electric Baton: Adjusted stats and added multi-enemy hit capability.
  • M2067 Defender, MA70 HB: Adjusted recoil patterns.
  • DR-12 Quasar, HA-4 Grit, L-69 Zhuo, DB-4 Palica: Increased damage.
  • Tech weapons with charge mode: Increased stability and damage in charge mode.
  • Crafted Weapons: Now have up to two mod slots.
  • Weapon Mods: Increased drop rate and availability in vendors’ stock.
  • Increased max ammo limit for all ammo types.
  • Fixed issues with crafted Iconic weapons, Cyberware Capacity Shards, and weapon/cyberware tier inconsistencies.
  • Overclock now activates when controlling cameras.
  • Kerenzikov now works with throwable weapons.
  • Fixed achievement unlocking issues (“V for Vendetta” and “The Quick and the Dead”).
  • Adjusted controller stick tilt angle for sprinting.
  • Secondary cyberware stats will no longer be randomized after saving/loading.
  • Improved Overclock functionality at level 60 in the Netrunner skill.
  • Synapse Burnout quickhack: Adjusted damage bonus.
• Improved Movement and Responsiveness: Enhanced player movement for smoother and more responsive gameplay, including:
  • Immediate sprinting after shooting.
  • Improved sprint consistency after jumping, falling, and other actions.
  • Sprint resumption after landing while shooting, aiming, scanning, or using melee weapons.
  • Fixed issues with “Multitasker” perk.
  • Fixed issues with “Ninjutsu” perk.
  • Enhanced sprint area on controller sticks.
  • Added sprint toggle functionality during dodge/dash.
  • New dash slide mechanic.
  • Improved slide direction and cancellation.
  • Improved automatic vaulting and climbing during dash.
  • Fixed shooting blockage while falling after air dash.
  • Enhanced double-tap dodge/dash functionality.
  • Fixed slide execution with Dynamic Control Scheme on controller.
• Crafting: Crafting specs for Active Chimera Core and Cerberus’s Decoded Behavioral System Component will disappear from the Crafting panel after being used.
• Cyberware: Players who completed Regina’s gigs before Update 2.0 will have their Neofiber cyberware replaced with Axolotl. Arm cyberware stats now apply correctly regardless of whether they are drawn or not.
• BioDyne Berserks: Fixed an issue where BioDyne Berserks’s effect would remain active permanently, preventing HP from dropping below 25%.

Vehicles & Traffic

• Open Highway: The previously closed-off highway spanning Westbrook, Santo Domingo, and Heywood is now accessible.
• Bike Leaning: Added leaning functionality for bikes, allowing for wheelies, endoes, flips, and spins.
• New Vehicles: Five new bikes and a new car, the Porsche 911 Cabriolet, are available for purchase from the Autofixer website.
• Vehicle Favorites: Added an option to mark vehicles as favorites in the Call Vehicle menu.
• Throwing Weapons While Riding Bikes: Players can now throw knives and axes while riding bikes.
• Improved Melee Animations: Enhanced melee animations while driving bikes in third-person perspective.
• Vehicle Swerving: Attacking an NPC driver now causes their vehicle to swerve.

Sound

• Overhauled Sound Effects: Improved sound effects in scenes from the base game’s main, side, and minor quests.
• Surround Sound: Up-mixed scenes to surround sound format.
• Added Sound Effects: Added missing sound effects.
• Voice Post-Processing Fixes: Fixed missing post-processing for voices.
• Gun and Combat Sound Improvements: Enhanced gun and combat sound effects.
• Vehicle Audio Improvements: Improved vehicle audio.
• Various Sound Fixes: Addressed various sound-related issues.
• Panam’s Holocall Audio Fix: Panam no longer sounds like she’s in a holocall when talking in person about events from Phantom Liberty.

Visual

• Lighting Improvements: Various lighting improvements throughout the city.
• Kiroshi Scanner Highlights: Improved visuals of Kiroshi scanner highlights.
• Blackwall Visual Consistency: Changed the appearance of the Blackwall in “Transmission” to match its appearance in Phantom Liberty.
• Cigarette Fix: Resolved an issue where a cigarette would be permanently attached to V’s hand.
• Yaiba Kusanagi CT-3X Flame: Fixed flame alignment with exhaust pipes on the Yaiba Kusanagi CT-3X.
• Electroshock VFX: Electroshock VFX from Microgenerator now appears when playing without Phantom Liberty.
• Cyberware Installation Animation Fix: Resolved issues with missing animations after installing cyberware at Ripperdocs.

UI

• Weapon Favorites: Added an option to mark weapons as favorites, preventing them from being sold, disassembled, or dropped.
• Resolution Scaling: Changed the presentation of Resolution Scaling modes in Graphics Settings and added a toggle to switch between DLSS Super Resolution, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1, and Intel Xe Super Sampling 1.2.
• Skill Progression Tooltip: Added a tooltip explaining XP gain in each skill within the Skill Progression panel.
• Combat Disabled Popup: Attempting to attack or shoot in areas where combat is disabled now displays an “Action Blocked” popup.

PC-Specific

• Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode: Exits preview status and includes several image quality improvements.
• ReSTIR GI: Improved path-traced lighting quality in RT: Overdrive mode, minimizing ghosting.
• DLSS Ray Reconstruction: Available in RT Ultra and other RT modes with RT Reflections enabled.
• Metallic Skin Effect Fix: Fixed an issue causing a metallic-like effect on V’s and NPCs’ skin when Ray Tracing was enabled.
• Character Hair Shadows: Fixed an issue where some characters’ hair did not cast shadows with Ray Tracing enabled.
• DualSense Controller Support: Added support for DualSense controllers.
• Samsung HDR10+ GAMING Support: Added support for Samsung HDR10+ GAMING for NVIDIA GPUs.

Console-Specific

• Xbox Save Failed Error: Fixed an issue causing a “Save failed – insufficient space” popup to appear despite not reaching the save limit.
• Xbox Phantom Liberty Installation Error: Added an error message that appears when Phantom Liberty is installed on an unsupported drive.

Misc

• Crash Fix: Fixed a crash occurring when attempting to reach the second sniper in “Play It Safe.”
• Radio Interaction: Fixed an issue preventing proper interaction with the radio in V’s apartment in Megabuilding H10.
• Controller Dead Zone: Fixed an issue where there was still a dead zone after setting the Inner Dead Zone on a controller to 0.
• New Secrets: Added more secrets for players to discover in Night City.