Wednesday, February 24th 2021
Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.2 Delayed Due to Cyber Attack on CD Projekt RED
Oh the irony! Hacking was a very viable way to develop your character and play Cyberpunk 2077, but CD Projekt RED did not think their 2021 would be made worse due to an IRL hack. Not only did they lose out invaluable source code to hackers, but said hackers also sold the codes in a move that jeopardizes the structural integrity of a video game developer. You could make jokes about the 90's meme letter the hackers sent to the company, however they clearly don't see the humor in this situation as this has taken up resources which otherwise were meant to go towards patching Cyberpunk 2077- especially on older gen consoles.
CD Projekt RED took to twitter earlier today to inform us that the patch is delayed, as many speculated, but also that the additional time will also contribute towards increasing the scope of the patch beyond earlier updates. Indeed, in a situation where they simply can't seem to catch a break, perhaps transparency and downplaying expectations would have been the way to go. As it stands, the public feedback to this news is a gentle reminder to the sane TPU reader to keep social media and public comments at arm's length to maintain said sanity. We sympathize with CD Projekt RED and hope that they come out better to do better by their paying customers alike.
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CD Projekt Red
CD Projekt RED took to twitter earlier today to inform us that the patch is delayed, as many speculated, but also that the additional time will also contribute towards increasing the scope of the patch beyond earlier updates. Indeed, in a situation where they simply can't seem to catch a break, perhaps transparency and downplaying expectations would have been the way to go. As it stands, the public feedback to this news is a gentle reminder to the sane TPU reader to keep social media and public comments at arm's length to maintain said sanity. We sympathize with CD Projekt RED and hope that they come out better to do better by their paying customers alike.
32 Comments on Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.2 Delayed Due to Cyber Attack on CD Projekt RED
And yeah when a car falls in the water...there should be a splash..when you shoot the water there should be a splash, ps2 games did that already....
So the cops dont just spawn behind you now, so what happens now then when you "commit a crime", do they drive to your location, get out of the car and open fire? do they call in reinforcements when stuff goes poorly? like MAX-TAC, that was so nicely shown in that scripted driving scene?
oh speaking of scripted, do you now actually have to shoot at things in those scripted chase scenes or do enemies still just blow up or crash when the script says they should?
This is simply the management using this situation to lower expectations to cover their own behinds, especially when they have to answer to their own board.I feel sorry for the poor developers who have to try to patch together this mess.
It may not even be lack of skilled developers, bad project management can turn even the best teams and the most promising projects into spectacular failures. And if heads starts rolling, you know who will get the short end of the stick.
These days it seems like the largest games struggle the most during development, despite the gaming market being larger than ever. Many of these game studios will go bust if they don't get their business under control.
Sooo its up to your to prove you are not making it up.
I own the game and know how it currently plays. I'm calling out these claims of problems. You want to see it for yourself? Buy the game and play it, making sure to update it and start a fresh save file. Find a problem, take a screenshot making sure to show the version of the game being played as well as your settings, both in game and drivers, so we can attempt to replicate said problem. Otherwise it's all just BS whining and CDPR bashing.