Cyberpunk 2077 got updated last Friday, but it's honestly starting to sound like patch 1.10 has done more harm than good. Countless reports of a brand new, game-breaking bug have flooded the internet over the weekend, and there's currently no guaranteed way to get around it.
During the main story quest 'Down on the Street', you receive a call from Takemura. But with this bug, the stern Japanese doesn't actually say anything. His portrait just sits at the top of your screen in silence. And because the game thinks you're in a conversation, you're unable to interact with the rest of the release, effectively breaking the entire experience. It's the kind of bug that beggars belief, especially since it's been introduced via an update that was supposed to fix a laundry list of problems.
Developer CD Projekt Red says that it's currently working on a solution, and will process a new hotfix "as soon as possible". In the meantime, if this issue is stopping you from progressing, the studio suggests the following steps:
- Load a gamesave before Takemura and V leave Wakako's office.
- Finish the conversation with Takemura outside the office right away.
- Right after the finished conversation and when the quest was updated, skip 23h.
- See if the holocall triggers and the dialogue with Takemura starts.
Just another day in Night City, eh?
[source support.cdprojektred.com]
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So glad I got a refund. I enjoyed what I played, but this game just keeps getting worse and worse. I can’t support CDPR anymore, which is a true shame.
The Cyberpunk 2077 situation is like a scene in a cartoon where a character is trying to plug up multiple holes on a ship, and then a giant one bursts open and blasts the character in the face with a ton of water.
Game has more bugs now than before the patch. Some times my weapon won't fire. Sometimes I push forward and my character goes flying into the air. I be driving and car will stop by itself and character jumps out of the car without me doing a thing.
@RBMango that’s the most accurate description I’ve read on this situation.
I managed to finish it over the weekend and get all of the endings without any game breaking bugs.
Bugs and crashes aside, I really enjoyed it while I was playing through the main story. But once I was finished... I dunno. I can't see myself going back to it.
I spent 100 hours or so with it. The city is incredible, and there are some really fun and interesting upgrade paths with cyberware, but other than that it doesn't do anything amazingly new.
I mean, games don't need to do anything new to be good, or even great, but after 8 years I guess I was expecting the holodeck or something.
An hour ago I got my first crash since the new patch. That was after 15 hours straight, so no big deal. Game's been more smooth and steady for me with each patch. 1.10 had the added benefit of making all textures sharper and advertisements easier to read, along with spectacular moving colored lights over bridges and way better lighting effects in general.
I'm sorry for those of you it didn't work out for, but how many times are you going to post how happy you are you got your refund? Move on, already.
It’s getting to the point where it honestly sounds like they should just refund and start again. Obviously they won’t / can’t for financial reasons, but it really sounds like there is just fundamentally bad coding at the heart of this thing.
Cyberpunk 2077? Seems more like Clusterf*ck 2021.
Feels like this game was created with poorly written spaghetti code where one fix breaks something else. Also, wondering why the visual quality was downgraded across all platforms. NPCs won't walk up stairs anymore either.
@LordSteev What platform you playing on because I've been reading about visual downgrades across all platforms.
@thefourfoldroot Oh, I don't think it will ever return to the PSN store at this point.
@jmac1686
the oldest, most base ps4. 7 yrs old, never even cleaned the fan.
What a s*it show
Thank goodness I'm almost near the end of the game. The game is amazing and Panam and Judy are two of the coolest women I've seen in a game but this game has a lot of issues. Side Note: Judy is the best.
I always wonder, how bugs differ on same machine type... for example I can finish Xcom2 multiple times with just sound bug. My cousin on his console gets always his save file corrupted. We both have ps4 pro. We both have same digital versions with same dlcs.
@djlard Rest mode is the most likely answer. I had the same thing on the Witcher 3 and a few other games. A friend never uses rest mode and I suspend games several times a day whenever I take a break and rarely reboot my PS4 pro out of convinience. He never had a crash and I had quite a few.
@jmac1686 oh, Icalso noticed this.
Seems like when you are driving a car, game is dropping visual quality.
And, yeah, all stairs are empty now.
Also, I've noticed that while roaming the streets, there's same car models in the traffic all the way.
This is ridiculously bad update, I would say. And I'm glad I finished my firts playtrough before it apllied.
@Rhaoulos interresting... I turned off my machine maybe 5 times at all in 3 years, otherway I use rest mode. I had about 12 crashes at all? (4 in Shadows Awakening, 3 in Van Helsing, 2 in AC Odyssey, 3 in random games). He plays daily, but is moving his console at least once a week so shuts down it regularly...
Yes yes! I had this bug before the patch! Finally they have seen this! Let us hang up a Phone call when ever we want!
Surprised Pushsquare hasn't done an article that has been on Gamesradar+ among others in the past few days..
That people have been given their refunds direct from CDPR, and have still kept the physical disk.. so far.
No request to send it anywhere. As yet.
I have done the same.
Have I played it, no.
Will I, yes whenever the PS5 patch goes in, so not soon.
So I get £50 back and rebuy off eBay for £30 at some point.
Or... Let's be honest here, what others are doing but not completely being open about... Get money back, keep free game. 🤐🤫
@Skywalker1080p the entire fact that CDPR has offered refunds and followed through with them is in my opinion a massive gesture of goodwill and the clearest example of them acknowledging that they messed up and are trying to make it right.
Folks are out for blood though, and CDPR’s plummeting stock price, complete loss of trust and destroyed reputation resulting in being the butt of every current gaming joke while still offering your money back (without requesting the product in return in some cases) is still just not enough. Yikes.
@Jimmer-jammer
So if a refund is given, and they never ask for the game back, what is one to do from a moral standpoint?
Throw the game in the bin?
Therefore never playing a free game and not profiting by reselling it.
What a moral quandary 🤔
The most important thing is that we can see Misty's tarot cards again!
Wake me up when I can ride my motorcycle through Japantown at full speed without a crash
@Skywalker1080p if they’re not asking for it, and there’s no clear path for returning it, I would hold on to it. When it meets an acceptable level of quality for you, play it. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it, and your experience can stand as an example of CDPR’s efforts to restore customer satisfaction. Perhaps you’ll purchase their products in the future at asking price. That’s just good customer service in my eyes.
It officially has more bugs than Bugsnax...
Guess I can put this one on the shelf until the PS5 update is available. At least I got it on sale.
@MidnightDragonDX Makes Obsidian Games look like Nintendo 1st party titles.
@Mpquikster I think it’s just whatever setting looks best to you. I also remember hearing that, but honestly with my setup I’ve always found HDR on makes the game look better. It’s not washed out at all for me.
@JapaneseSonic I always shut down apps/games (I hate running miltiple tasks even on pc). But using just rest mode. It is habit from pc where everything checks for update on startup and bricks your computer for minutes. Even with auto updates turned off (especially Win updates) it is annoying as hell.
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