Cyberpunk 2077 Update 1.5 Crowd AI Was Too Much for PS4 and Xbox One to Handle

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After years of build-up and multiple delays, Cyberpunk 2077 was released on December 10, 2020 in one of the most controversial launches in all of video games. The game, which was promoted as a truly next-gen game with a living, breathing open-world, turned out to be extremely buggy and unpolished. Cyberpunk 2077’s developers at CD Project Red have worked nonstop since then to bring the game closer in line with what players were promised.

A series of major updates were released intermittently in the time since release which have made the game more stable and playable. Now, in a surprise relaunch, CD Project Red have released a new update for the next-gen release of Cyberpunk 2077 that focuses not just on stability, but bringing in gameplay features and graphical fidelity that were promised in the game’s pre-release gameplay reveals.

How Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 is Improving Its Romances

This 1.5 update is focusing mainly on improving the experience on next-gen systems, Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PC, and Stadia. Specifically, the overhaul of the game’s crowd AI, which applies to the NPCs and pedestrians of Night City, will only be coming to next-gen. Looking back on the first gameplay reveals for Cyberpunk 2077, the population's AI was touted as one of the most impressive things about the game, as NPCs seemed to interact and get out of each other’s way. When the game first released, however, NPCs had been dramatically scaled back, both in number and interaction, essentially just being lycra-wearing ghosts that would walk laps around city blocks and spout the same lines of dialogue at the player if they got close.

The new update adds more reactions from pedestrians, allowing them to realistically react to player actions, including the