Roughly one month since the game’s deeply troubled launch in December of last year, CD Projekt Red have issued a formal commitment to fix the problems plaguing Cyberpunk 2077. The statement comes alongside a video message from studio co-founder Marcin Iwinski, attempting to explain why the launch went so badly wrong.
CD Projekt Red’s Commitment to Fix Cyberpunk
In the official statement, CD Projekt Red states that the studio is; “committed to fixing bugs and crashes and will continue to work and improve the game via future updates to make sure you are enjoying the game regardless of the platform”. Importantly, this confirms that the studio has no intention of letting the last-gen consoles languish; something which some fans had been worried might happen.
In fact, the studio has also revealed that, in order to focus on patches, plans for early free DLC have been delayed. This content was originally due to launch relatively soon. However, it will now be pushed back so that patches and bug-fixing can take priority. It also seems that the free next-gen upgrade for Cyberpunk 2077 is also being delayed. An official release date for this upgrade was never announced. However, CD Projekt Red had previously stated on several occasions that this upgrade would be releasing in ‘early 2021’. The new ‘Updates Roadmap‘ now has this upgrade arriving much later in 2021, within the last third of the year.
The statement is light on exact details about upcoming patches and content. However, it does include a detailed Q&A section, answering many questions about the roots of the game’s problems. For instance, it states that “the main culprit,” for the problems on console was in-game streaming. “Streaming is responsible for ‘feeding’ the engine with what you see on screen,” it explains; “as well as the game mechanics. Since the city is so packed and the disk bandwidth of old-gen consoles is what it is, this is something that constantly challenged us.”