Tuesday, October 20th 2026

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets a Surprise Update This Week, Tied to Edgerunners 2

CD Projekt RED has announced Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5, a free patch arriving on October 22 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. The Switch 2 version will follow "shortly," though there's no date for it yet. The update ties into Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which premiered all ten episodes on Netflix on October 20, and brings new items and features inspired by the anime. So far, CDPR has only teased cyberware customization and a new dual-wielding playstyle. A first look is coming during a REDstreams broadcast on October 21 at 5 PM CEST, and the official patch notes will go live the same day.

This one is quite a surprise, since Cyberpunk 2077 hasn't received an update in over a year. Update 2.3 arrived in July 2025 with FSR 4, XeSS frame generation, and VRR for consoles, and it looked like the game's final major update at the time. A smaller 2.31 patch followed in September 2025, and the studio has since put most of its focus on The Witcher 4, which has a 2028 release window. Interestingly, 2.31 launched on Switch 2 alongside the other platforms, so the staggered release this time is a bit unusual. CDPR hasn't said anything about PC-specific changes like new upscalers or ray tracing tweaks, so it's reasonable to wait for the patch notes on October 21 before expecting anything on that front.
Sources: CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk on X
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14 Comments on Cyberpunk 2077 Gets a Surprise Update This Week, Tied to Edgerunners 2

#1
csendesmark
Now we know updates are coming.
So how it will be a surprise after this?
:D :nutkick:
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#2
Grimling
csendesmarkNow we know updates are coming.
So how it will be a surprise after this?
:D :nutkick:
Surprisingly, i am surprised by this surprise, and i find it feels surprisingly good being surprised that way!
Will they update the DLSS stuff to v4.5 as well?
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#3
MikOnTopGG
Why do they bother with support for the nintendo switch

its a device for little kids, which, by God's prayers, shouldn't be playing this game.
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#4
AGlezB
What surprise? I was expecting this the moment CP2077-branded stuff started showing up last month and I learned about Edgerunners 2 release date. CDPR wasn't going to pass up the chance to add E2 stuff to the game to get players back in into it and sell more copies. They even delayed the patch a couple of days to give enough time for people to watch the series.

www.techpowerup.com/353176/hiby-unveils-cyberpunk-2077-themed-gaming-headset-and-external-sound-card

BTW if there is an Edgerunners 3 before the next CyberPunk game is out the door you'll see another update to CP2077.
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#5
cerulliber
at the overall profits for keeping players playing, offloading new content via a 3rd party like fool's theory who developed witcher 3 next next gen make sense.
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#6
Vayra86
I hate these collabs with a passion at this point. Its so cheap. So empty.

There is a reason you eventually get poop brown goo if you mix too many things.
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#7
Nathaaab
Already almost finished the anime here :p
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#8
AGlezB
NathaaabAlready almost finished the anime here :p
Already watched it.


Garbage.
Decent if you like old anime and ignore them adding literal magic (telekinesis and creation) to the setting, but as an anime in Pondsmith's Cyberpunk setting it's a failure.
I'll go watch season 1 again and forget 2 ever existed.
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#9
Nathaaab
AGlezBignore them adding literal magic (telekinesis and creation) to the setting
telekinesis and creation?
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#10
AGlezB
Nathaaabtelekinesis and creation?


They start throwing cars around in ep. 3 and it only gets worse from there. There's your telekinesis.



In the end D has a new arm and leg that Capri built out of scrap. Call it creation or transmutation, it doesn't make any difference.



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#11
dyonoctis
Vayra86I hate these collabs with a passion at this point. Its so cheap. So empty.

There is a reason you eventually get poop brown goo if you mix too many things.
Edgerunner is canon to the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, so it's not really a collab. Adam Smasher was a major antagonist in season one
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#12
AsRock
TPU addict
Cannot watch Edgerunners it's so ? umm frameless, like OMG there was more frames with Morth many moons ago.

Sorry need much better quility than this as it's just a slide show.

A dam film already.
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#13
Nathaaab
AGlezB


They start throwing cars around in ep. 3 and it only gets worse from there. There's your telekinesis.



In the end D has a new arm and leg that Capri built out of scrap. Call it creation or transmutation, it doesn't make any difference.




Look I just finished it, calling it garbage is pretty funny.
The throwing cars around is weird sure, but when Capri is in Talia it makes sense anyway as she has electromagnet implants. The rest seems just like quickhacks turned to 11 with the relic's power. D's arm and leg at the end are Talia's and the robot they just destroyed, but I do agree it is weird he just integrated with it like that. At the same time, we don't really know just how powerful Capri is and what exactly it is beyond a relic like V's with multiple constructs. If it's anything close to the Rogue AIs that are beyond the blackwall, then it would explain why it is so powerful, maybe.

But otherwise yeah it is probably not as memorable and devastating as S1. There won't be a song from S2 that will give us 'PTSD' like in S1, but it was still a good watch.
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#14
AGlezB
Nathaaab

Look I just finished it, calling it garbage is pretty funny.
The throwing cars around is weird sure, but when Capri is in Talia it makes sense anyway as she has electromagnet implants. The rest seems just like quickhacks turned to 11 with the relic's power. D's arm and leg at the end are Talia's and the robot they just destroyed, but I do agree it is weird he just integrated with it like that. At the same time, we don't really know just how powerful Capri is and what exactly it is beyond a relic like V's with multiple constructs. If it's anything close to the Rogue AIs that are beyond the blackwall, then it would explain why it is so powerful, maybe.

We do do know how powerfull AIs are (inmensely) but the only mention of AIs being able to alter reality is a quote from Rache Bartmoss that's just left in the setting as "could be, but not really". The power from AIs comes from ther ability to affect digital systems in a world where everything is digital and connected.
Also, the whole thing about multiple people forming a single construct is absurd, the personalities would have killed each other until the last remained, because a chip is not a magic thing. They just wanted an explanation of why Capri wasn't an AI and came up with that BS. Alt consuming and integrating other personalities into herself is only possible because she is an actual AI from beyond the blackwall.
Nathaaab
But otherwise yeah it is probably not as memorable and devastating as S1. There won't be a song from S2 that will give us 'PTSD' like in S1, but it was still a good watch.

Not as memorable is an understatement. Who is your favorite character?
  • The 12-year old kid used as a medium for the camera who followed D around because he got infatuated with D's smile from when he was rampaging on ep. 3?
  • The literal nepo baby who doesn't give a crap about anything but herself and gets introduced to us by leaving said kid in the hands of Maelstrom gangoons?
  • The shonen netrunner with the shonen spiky hair that gets spikier when he's high on Capri and has no defining character features outside his shonen Uchiha Sasuke obsession with vengeance?
  • The psychotic BS pseudo-AI that only wants to take over a body to go around causing mayhem?
You know the series is a bust when the only good characters are the former merc trying to find a reason to keep living and the corpo father of the nepo baby being very good at being a corpo.
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