Cyberpunk 2077’s Adam Smasher May Finally Live Up To His Reputation

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Adam Smasher is supposed to be a near-legendary threat to Night City itself, built up through in-game and out-of-game lore. As the final boss of and a memorable character in the anime, he should have been an epic battle that players made it through by the barest of margins. Instead, he was a relative weakling and a huge letdown for players once they went toe-to-toe with him as V. After patch 2.1, however, he is much closer to the reputation that precedes him.

[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077 and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.]Patch 2.1 for contains a lot of updates for the game, from accessibility features to boss-fight tweaks. One of the primary fights that was adjusted is Adam Smasher, though he is not the only one being updated. The developers at CD PROJEKT RED want players to experience the menace Smasher was supposed to be all along. They also wanted to remove some of the cheesy builds people would make specifically to take down the final boss in just a handful of seconds.

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Adam Smasher has been notoriously weak and ineffective as a final boss in such a massive game as. Players have posted videos on Reddit, YouTube, and numerous social media sites with strategies of how they were able to defeat Adam Smasher, the massively cybernetically enhanced enforcer, in under 5 seconds. For a character who has killed some of the most well-known figures in Night City, including Johnny Silverhand, that's pitiful.

In previous versions of the fight, Adam Smasher was not relentless, nor as hard-hitting as he was in the anime or said to be throughout. Players have found ways to hack his cyberware and pummel him to death