CD Projekt Red has deployed another "hotfix" for Cyberpunk 2077 on PlayStation 4 (and PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility). The update includes yet more bug fixes and performance improvements. It's a 15GB download.
Generally speaking, the game's been in a better state since patch 1.21, which seemed to ease crashing issues and make the open world run a bit more smoothly. It's still far from perfect, but the hope is that these additional improvements all add up.
In any case, you can find the full patch notes below.
Cyberpunk 2077 Update 1.22 Patch Notes
Quests & Open World
- The Metro: Memorial Park dataterm should now properly count towards the Frequent Flyer achievement.
- Fixed glitches in Johnny's appearance occurring after buying the Nomad car from Lana.
- Fixed an issue in Gig: Until Death Do Us Part where it was not possible to use the elevator.
- Fixed an issue in Epistrophy where the player could get trapped in the garage if they didn't follow the drone and ran into the control room instead.
- Added a retrofix for the issue we fixed in 1.21, where Takemura could get stuck in Japantown Docks in Down on the Street - for players who already experienced it before update 1.21 and continued playing until 1.22, Takemura will now teleport to Wakako's parlor.
- Fixed an issue preventing the player from opening the phone in the apartment at the beginning of New Dawn Fades.
- Fixed an issue where the player could become unable to use weapons and consumables after interacting with a maintenance panel in Riders on the Storm.
Visual
- Fixed various issues related to clipping in NPCs' clothes.
UI
- Fixed an issue where subtitles were not properly aligned in the Arabic language version.
Stability and performance
- Various memory management improvements (reducing the number of crashes), and other optimizations.
- Improved GPU performance of skinning and cloth rendering.
Console-specific
- Memory management improvements on PlayStation 5.
Seeing as Cyberpunk 2077 has now been missing from the PlayStation Store for almost five months, we have to wonder whether Sony's keeping a close eye on all these updates. Hopefully we're not too far off from the game being reissued in a far more stable state.
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Just here to express my appreciation for the subheader.
@The_New_Butler not waiting for Next Gen patch 🙏🏻😇
Typo in the final sentence (unless intentional...)
@The_New_Butler I hope so I got the platinum back in December but lately I’ve been trying to do a 2nd playthrough and my assets and textures won’t load so I could never go into buildings for missions or I just fall through the map hopefully this fixes that I’m excited to go through night city again.
No amount of bug fixes could fix what's clearly a game with severely rushed development.
As much as I wanted to like it I found the story severely lacking, especially with how fast it flies by and oft the game made me mutter "Was that it?" in response to a lot of side quests and even main story beats.
On a base PS4 it can look... decent at times. But other times it can look like absolute ass with textures and models that'd make the PS2 blush.
Night City was a slog to travel through and I'm sure it looks really nice on a high end PC with all the ray tracing bells and whistles and is a technical marvel or whatever with how dense it is... it still doesn't mean it isn't shallower then a puddle.
I walked past Game today and it still has 2 massive Cyberpunk 2077 posters in the window and it says “winner of over 200 awards”. Is that a joke? That can’t be right surely...
@Alpine021 I remember seeing those posters before it even came out! Pretty sure it's based on like E3 "best of show" kind of awards. BS marketing that looks even worse now it has actually been released.
You're missing "Not *too far off" from your last sentence, @shogunrok ✌
@AhabSpampurse Thank you!
Just finished downloading the latest patch, going back in.
To all who criticize, good for you, don't play it.
Completely lost interest in this game now, its still in its box from Xmas, absolute disgrace what's happened with this game. To be honest I don't think I even want to play it at all now. Which is a shame because it was the only real title I was hyped for ages with. It will be way over a year before its how it should have been at launch and that's just not acceptable, same time they had my money so they won I lose.
@LordSteev Exactly! I've enjoyed the overall experience on PS5 and Series S. Looking forward to the dlc and the next gen updates.
They need to get this done (better to wait for PS5 version with RayTracing) and focus on some Story DLCs
So many things they can do with the world, characters and story.
This will be like The Witcher. The expansions will blow the great foundation they made wide open.
I got completely sucked back into this over the last week. For me, the game’s best content exists outside of the main story. I’m really looking forward to the DLC expansions
I was waiting for a native PS5 version (I assume they have a different team working on that) but I'm not so sure I really want it, unless they sort out the PS3 era physics (which I'm sure they won't/can't as it's built into the game engine). The physics should be as engaging as the game itself and I'm afraid I'd find myself too critical of why enviroments aren't reacting to bullets/explosions or such which would ruin any immersive experience for me.
I hope they add a new game plus before the PS5 version turns up. Sunk too much time into it to replay from the start 🙂
@Jimmer-jammer True, some of the side quests really flesh out the game and usually not just throw away fetch quests 😎
@Jimmer-jammer
Good points. This current playthrough, it really has hit me how short the actual 'main story' is. The side content is where the meat is! Fleshes everything out and ties it all together. Plus they are so varied and the writing is so good on them, taken as a whole they put the main story to shame.
@Darylb88 Glad to hear I'm not the only one! Good to hear you're enjoying it.
How about fixing the cars disappearing in the far distance?
If CDPR can finally prevent the random crashes. I will be happy to play another life path and 100% complete the game. It's so annoying that I need to constantly save out of fear that it might crash on me again.
By the time this game is fully fixed assuming it gets fully fixed at all which being realistic I don't think it will the PS4's HD won't be big enough to be able to install it.
@RubyCarbuncle the patches are not adding to the size of the install. They replace existing files.
@MatthewJP I know I was being facetious. The size of each update is insane and the amount of issues that the game launched with to this day I just can't get over it. Honestly as much as I'm hopeful about the Native PS5 version I'm not going to set my expectations too high.
@BrainHacker You just made fell super lucky! I clocked 55 hour in gameplay and haven’t experienced any crash to this moment! (PS4 pro, started playing with 1.2 version of the game.)
One of the best RPG I played so far in the last 37 years, if not the best! (actually, Final Fantasy 6 still brings me fond memories)
Cyberpunk is like Flashback, Blade Runner and Deus Ex combined in one beautiful package.
The story of the missions is pretty wild and intense... a bold decision in the narrative.
@Crowley22g @LordSteev yeah, for example, I never even discovered Kerry’s entire quest line with reuniting the band until just this week. As I explore, the game just keeps on giving.
@The_New_Butler if you have a PS5, it might be waiting just another 6 months for the official PS5 version.
That's when I'm going to have my second play-through.
@thiagoauler I'm playing Cyberpunk on PC. Cyberpunk doesn't crash on me during main missions but it's more often on side missions. the game crashes on me when I travel around night city or even after buying stuff from the gun store. I learn my lesson and just use the fast travel points.
@RubyCarbuncle ah fair enough, and yeah the patches have been gigantic. I'm tempted to delete it, go offline and sample the game in its 'gone gold' state just out of interest.
Those with a ps5 who are waiting for the native release will experience some nice visuals and ray tracing but the core game and mechanics will be the same as they are now, I don't see the point in waiting. For its many faults, it's a great game with some very memorable characters and the best motion cap conversations I've experienced in a game, so lifelike in their movements
@Jimmer-jammer
The one I loved that I skipped the first time through is the dude running for mayor. Got some goosebumps as that unfolded. Sinnerman, too.
That’s a great one! I actually think they could/should expand on that whole narrative with future DLC.
@Jimmer-jammer
I'd love that! It's sort of left me hanging...
Something else that's transpired differently this playthrough is, you know towards the very beginning of the game, when you first go to see Ripperdoc Victor Vector, that crazy prophet standing outside of Misty's place? Well, in my first playthrough he got killed by some Tygerclaws about the third time I saw him. This time, I kept him alive till he gave me a quest, and it was odd indeed. Could have tied in nicely with the mayor line, I thought.
@LordSteev interesting...now that you mention it, I had completely forgot about that fellow. Don’t know what ever came of him. Something to look out for on my next play through!
@Jimmer-jammer
Yeah, I don't want to give too much away, but if you listen to him rant for a bit, he stops shouting and speaks directly to you. He'll ask for donations, and I gave him the highest amount three times before anything happened. (only 100 each time) I had no idea he'd actually do anything like give me a quest, but it ended up being a tough shootout and a pleasant surprise! Like you said, the game just continues to give..
Did they fix the loss of audio from a video feed when in a quest with a major side mission character? Doesn't look like it in the bug fixes
@Ultraman1966 Without being too specific, are you talking about being in a truck with a cop? If so, the answer is sadly no. Just played that mission early this morning, though that might have still been 1.21, come to think of it.
Really? I'm not sure we're even playing the same game. I'd consider Night City anything but shallow. Any time I get on I end up just exploring the city to see what I can find. And there's quite a bit to be found.@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
@LordSteev @Jimmer-jammer At the end of the quest for Jefferson Peralez (bloke running for mayor) where you meet up to tell him all about your investigation, did you see Mr Blue Eyes watching you from the adjacent balcony? That whole quest gives me chills. Loved it.
@LordSteev yeah, that's the one. I have stopped playing at that point because, although it is minor, I think it removes an immersion I had and I want to believe they can fix obvious problems like that.
@ApostateMage
No! Missed him, but got some weird kind of blackout/warning right before I talked to Jefferson Downtown.
@Ultraman1966
Yeah, that pissed me off, too. I finished the quest, but I'm not sure I 100% understood what was happening for the rest of it. I just keep going, though. Once I have a PS5 and they release a native PS5 version, I expect quirks like that to be ironed out, and I'm so into this game I know I'll do another playthrough or three when that time comes. I don't mind the rough edges, they give me something to look forward to in future playthroughs. You're right though, it IS frustrating.
once the dust clears and this game runs solid I may get this at a discount and check it out, but right now it's a hard pass for me.
@ApostateMage @LordSteev I don’t think I’ve met a Mr. Blue Eyes yet, but now that we’re talking about it, I do remember that crazy prophet going on about aliens with blue eyes or something...
@Jimmer-jammer haha! Yep, that's the guy!
@frabbit that's wat bs preordering does. It tells marketing companies its gonna be a best seller so they make fake posters even before reviews are out. If I remember they didn't allow reviewers to post reviews until the game came out, I think the devs probably knew they didn't spend enough time with the console version and spent all their resources on the pc release.
On pc people tell me they didn't experience a single bug meanwhile on ps4 I crashed 80 times or more. Ima come back to it in 2077... only 56 years to go for the bug fixes
@MatthewJP so I played it on launch before the patches where it would crash my ps5 about 80 times usually whenever I drove a car. Does anyone with a ps5 experience this? I'm thinking of coming back one day if they iron out the bugs but if they do release the next gen update do you think there will be bugs just for the ps5 version?
I just hope that “Various memory management improvements (reducing the number of crashes), and other optimizations.” means that it runs on X Box One without crashing now. That’s my only issue with the game. TBH I get pretty annoyed by all the hype about PS5 potential - I can’t afford a TV that would show what a PS5 or latest X Box can achieve so I just don’t care...
But yeah, I want the mayoral election story to be fleshed out in further DLC.
@LordSteev I am very fortunate to be able to play it on a reasonable spec PC so have experienced far fewer glitches. Fingers crossed it will continue to improve, maybe revisit by end of the year...
@Ultraman1966
Congrats! I used to be big into pc gaming, back in the 3DFX Voodoo card days. I just got very frustrated trying to remain current with things and walked away from all that. I miss the immediacy of having the screen right in front of you and the precision of mouse/keyboard, but I've grown too comfortable in a lazy-boy with a big screen, and no tinkering and driver updates, etc.
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