Will the Cyberpunk 2077 1.2 patch still be released in February?

As always, it has been near radio silence about the state of Cyberpunk 2077, but this time with an added complication.

CDPR did indeed manage to release the promised 1.1 patch for Cyberpunk in January, but with a week to go in February, the supposedly much larger, more substantial 1.2 patch has not been pre-previewed or released when this one month would arrive. .

The complication, of course, is CDPR’s recent, extensive hack that stole everything from employee data to the source code of Cyberpunk, The Witcher 3, and Gwent. There are conflicting reports as to whether the code was actually sold or not, and CDPR is reportedly trying to use removals to prevent anyone from doing anything substantial with it.

This means that it certainly seems possible that the 1.2 patch will be delayed if the hack has caused too much disruption as CDPR. Granted, teams chasing hackers and those who would buy stolen information from them are likely to be different from those tracking down bugs and glitches in Cyberpunk, but it makes sense that there could be some overlap if the chaos caused by the elaborate hack is too harmful . For example, it seemed as if the hackers were encrypting CDPR’s servers, which they had to restore from backups. Who knows if any work has been lost.

Cyberpunk is still in desperate need of a major patch, which it really hasn’t had since its release in December. There have been some minor hotfixes, and even the original 1.1 patch felt like a bigger hotfix rather than something transformative. Sony has still not allowed Cyberpunk 2077 to be sold digitally on the PS Store after launching shortly after launch due to technical issues and constant refund requests. That’s the version of the game for both PS4 and PS5, and Cyberpunk’s console sales declined actively in January as it was not available for purchase on the digital store of the largest gaming platform in the world.

It’s not clear what it takes to get Sony to have the game ‘ready’ enough to be sold again, but CDPR burned that bridge when they told people to go after Sony for a refund when Sony didn’t have a digital return policy had on all of them (they had to make one just for Cyberpunk).

Cyberpunk remains full of bugs and performance issues, and longer-term issues like traffic and police AI are most likely not going to be fixed even in a major upcoming patch. And nobody expects the promised free DLC for the game, whatever that may be, until late spring or early summer at this point. The official Cyberpunk account has not tweeted since February 5th when it released a hotfix to fix an issue discovered with unsafe mods.

CDPR slipped under the thread with the last patch in January, so it’s possible they’ll do the same this week. But the hack complicates matters, and the long, long-term fixes for Cyberpunk, including a next-gen upgrade on consoles, seem like an eternity away.

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