Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Features
Adds a full NCART (Night City Area Rapid Transit) metro system to the game, allowing players to travel around Night City via public transport.
Metros can still be used as fast travel points, but actually getting on one results in a much more cinematic experience where you travel in real time, looking out of windows and engaging with NPCs
Adds an on-person radio, or Radioport, which lets you listen to the game's existing radio stations while exploring Night City on foot or via the metro
The Radioport will be disabled during some quests that have specific music, and during key conversations
The Radioport's volume can be adjusted
Improved boss fights, including a much more powerful Adam Smasher, who now uses his Sandevistan implant like in the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime
Adds replayable car races that become available after finishing Claire's questline; you can win money and vehicle discounts
Adds a bunch of new vehicles to buy, including an open-top Porsche
You can now throw knives and axes while riding motorcycles
Motorcycle driving has been reworked, with leans, wheelies, and tricks
Enemy factions will now hunt you down after completing certain gigs, engaging in more vehicular battles
Adds a new accessibility tab in the options menu, including new settings for clearer HUD visuals, and customization for puzzle time limits
Adds hangouts with romantic partners
Anyone else feel a little miffed by these further additions? On the one hand I’m glad to see the game get bigger and better for new and current players, but I just finished a full and leisurely playthrough after 2.0 and it almost feels like the version of the game I played has been downgraded by comparison. I’m sure this not a healthy or mature way to think about it but it is kind of how I feel and I wonder if I’m alone?
You can join patient gaming philosophy and play 5 years out for 20 USD and only play bangers, but at the end of the day, you miss out on the zeitgeist.
Have you ever played a modded game? Mods get updated all the time, often in major ways. New Vegas recently got a full remake of the Character Kit, making characters look far less potatoey, and has genuine shadows added now with New Vegas Reloaded. If I play it now, it will be the best it has ever been, and yet in a month something new will make me wish I had waited.
At the end of the day, play!
Eh, if you enjoyed it you enjoyed it. If you wanted to you could always play through again now after these new additions
That's on you. I'm waiting till they're done developing the game to play it. I encourage others to only play finished games if they're going to have this type of attitude.