You will have to wait until the second half of March for the next big Cyberpunk 2077 patch, CD Projekt Red announced on Twitter today. The developer cites his recent ransomware hack as the main culprit – initially planning to release patch 1.2 in February. While I am sure the news will disappoint many players, this problem is beyond the studio’s control. Dealing with the consequences of a massive hack is difficult enough, doing so while trying to fix one of the biggest creative flaws in gaming history seems totally impossible without forcing developers to analyze it further. The studio says you can expect “several improvements and general quality fixes” when patch 1.2 arrives.
While we really wanted to deliver Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077 in the timeframe we detailed earlier, the recent cyber attack on the studio’s IT infrastructure and the broad scope of the update mean that this will unfortunately not happen – we will need more time. 1/3
– Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) February 24, 2021
CD Projekt Red announced it had been hacked earlier this month and at the time said it would not be trading or paying the hackers. Consequently, it expects some confidential information to leak. The delay hits PlayStation 5 owners particularly hard, as Sony has yet to allow the game to return to the PlayStation Store. It won’t happen until Cyberpunk 2077 is in better shape.