Cyberpunk 2077's 2.01 update gives new meaning to the phrase "performance drop"

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CD Projekt have detailed Cyberpunk 2077 2.01, the game's first patch following update 2.0, which implemented a top-to-bottom reset of the once-ailing but at present, rather triumphant sci-fi RPG. According to the provisional changelog, the latest update encompasses general performance improvements and minor fixes plus a fatal bug which sees V falling through an elevator floor to their death when the performance falls too low. Now that's what I call a plunging frame-rate.

While we're talking Cyberpunk updates, CD Projekt recently told PCGamer that update 2.0 and the accompanying Phantom Liberty DLC are the game's "last big updates" - from this point on, the Cyberpunk dev team will be shifting over to the currently untitled sequel. "We'll do a little something more, but those are the last big ones," game director Gabe Amatangelo told the site. "Then it's Cyberpunk 2. Or 'Orion,' I should say, whatever we end up naming it."

The game is certainly in a much stronger place today than it was back at launch in 2020. Graham pronounced Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty one of the best expansions ever made. Combat and customisation system tune-ups aside, the 2.0 update harbours a DOOM clone starring Johnny Silverhand which forms the iceberg's tip of a metafictional mystery. The update's Ukrainian localisation also contains references to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which CD Projekt have apologised for and promised to remove.

Speaking to investors in October 2022, CD Projekt touched briefly on the aforesaid Cyberpunk sequel plus several forthcoming Witcher titles and new IP. These include "Project Hadar", which was in the concept phase at the time, and Project Canis Majoris, a new "story-driven single player open-world RPG set