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

As always, there has been virtually radio silence about the state of Cyberpunk 2077, although this time, with an added complication.

CDPR actually managed to release the promised patch 1.1 for Cyberpunk in January, but with a week to the end of February, patch 1.2 supposedly much larger and more substantive has not yet been predicted or released yet, when it was due this month.

The complication, of course, is the recent and extensive CDPR hack, which stole everything from employee data to the source code for Cyberpunk, The Witcher 3 and Gwent. There are conflicting reports about whether the code was actually sold or not, and CDPR is trying to use the removal to prevent anyone from doing anything meaningful with it.

This means that it seems possible that patch 1.2 could end up being delayed if the hack caused a lot of disruption like CDPR. Granted, teams that chase hackers and those that would buy information stolen from them are probably different from those that chase bugs and flaws in Cyberpunk, but of course there can be some overlap if the chaos caused by the extensive hack is very damaging. For example, it appeared that the hackers encrypted the CDPR servers, which they had to restore from backups. Who knows if any work was lost there.

Cyberpunk still needs a major patch, which it hasn’t really had since its December release. There were several hotfixes on a smaller scale and even the original 1.1 patch looked like a bigger hotfix than anything transformative. Sony has not yet allowed Cyberpunk 2077 to be sold digitally on the PS Store after it was withdrawn shortly after launch due to technical problems and constant demands for refunds. This is the version of the game for PS4 and PS5, and sales of Cyberpunk consoles dropped actively in January because, well, it was not for sale in the digital store of the world’s largest gaming platform.

It’s unclear what it will take for Sony to consider the game “ready” enough to be sold again, but CDPR kind of burned that bridge when it told people to chase Sony for refunds when Sony didn’t have a policy of digital devolution in all (they had to make just one for Cyberpunk).

Cyberpunk remains full of bugs and performance issues, and long-term issues like traffic and police AI are unlikely to be fixed even in a major patch to come. And no one expects the promised free DLC for the game, whatever it may be, until late spring or early summer right now. Cyberpunk’s official account hasn’t tweeted since February 5, when it released a hotfix to fix a problem discovered with unsafe mods.

CDPR slid under the wire with the last patch in January, so it is possible that they will do the same this week. But the hack complicates things and the long, long-term fixes for Cyberpunk, including a next-generation console update, seem like an eternity away.

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