CD Projekt recommends starting a new game when Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 drops: 'starting fresh will enhance your overall gameplay experience'
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!
"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."
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.
MOTORCYCLES SUDDENLY DID NOT STOPPIE ANY MORE
My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined. This was a feature, not a bug.
Oh I'm sure someone'll mod it back in
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.
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
I played it on PS4. CDPR said it plays surprisingly well on it.
Lmao
by that definition you get your money's worth of every movie you watch in the theater, the longer the better.
it's a shitty take.
don't pretend they didn't screw up.
if there was a movie that was 200 hours long and you chose to stay for the entire duration and not walk out, then you either enjoyed the movie or you need to learn about the sunk-cost fallacy
And don't circlejerk over the dead horse that this game is unsalvageable because it had a shitty release. People forgave No Man's Sky, but the internet won't let this one go.
You got it completely wrong.
Shitty games with shitty releases go into oblivion, the game is obviously good.
I'm not criticizing the game, I'm criticizing the company and the billionaries that preside it and decided people swallow it all up if they launched a game in the state they did.
I agree but I think it took about this long from Cyberpunk released till there was a better outlook on No Man's Sky and I bought both at release, I enjoyed both, but I'd say at release Cyberpunk was a better game at launch (I didn't have any bugs I got lucky). NMS did much more work on content in the following years to where it's barely the same experience. Has been awhile since I restarted Cyberpunk will do for 2.0 though. Maybe I haven't caught much newer content and they added it but it seemed updates were tweaks / fixes than content.
People shouldn't have forgiven NMS for their blatant and shitty lies either
The analogy your looking for is that you get your money's worth out of every movie you see 3 times in the theater but only pay once.
it's a shitty take.
don't pretend you didn't screw up
Petty AF. Massive update that overhaults the game and dlc its common practice to restart at updates like this
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.
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.
If you sunk 200 hours into the game, was it really that awful?
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.
You make it sound like they are forcing you to do so. You have the freedom of choice.
Of course. I'm happy they are allowing you to continue. I'll keep going as I like the game.
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.