I finally finished Cyberpunk 2077 yesterday, and today 2.21 points just a little frustrated because CD Projekt finally fixed a small but annoying bug in the Phantom Liberty expansion that forced me into a fight I never wanted.
Minor spoilers follow, so skip that bit and go straight to the notes if you’re concerned about such things. Bugs appeared late on Phantom Liberty, when V dressed up as a Cuban hitman for a bit head with NPC. You can talk him out or kill him – but talking him out leads to a bug that prevents you from changing the secret at the end of the encounter. Worse, the game refuses to let you leave the area until you do, so you’re stuck in a grungy way back until the end. It’s a great bug, going by the number of complaints on Reddit and elsewhere, and the only sure thing to do is to delete the old save and start cracking.
It wasn’t particularly difficult, but it pulled me out of the story because the rush to violence isn’t how my V rolls. There is no point affecting the game – everything is solved the same whether you fight or not – but it is the principle of the thing that affects me: I discussed the Deal and now all I want to do is change my clothes! (I also spent a stupid amount of time trying to figure out another way before I finally gave up and started pouring lead.)
However, that is not the most important development in this area, but it is fixed and that is good news for everyone who is infected and has not yet completed the activity. The bigger news is the addition of DLSS 4 support with multi-core for Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs, which promises to use the magic of AI to support large frames. These cards won’t be available for purchase until January 30, but the RTX 40-series cards will still see improvements from a faster single frame design with reduced memory usage.
On top of that, there are improvements and updates to the game’s graphics, character creation and vehicle fixes, a few tweaks to Johnny Shotgun (which is honestly my favorite end-stage addition for Cyberpunk 2077-I’m not tired of him yelling at me to slow down), and a bunch more.
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.21 patch is out now, and the full patch is below.
Photo mode
- Nibbles and Adam Smasher can now be created when V is in the air or in water.
- Fixed the face selection for Adam Smasher.
- Fixed an issue where Adam Smasher’s heart chest cyberware was missing.
- Fixed an issue where, if Johnny’s Alternate Appearance was enabled, both options to make him (default and alternate) were different.
- Characters spawned when V is in the air or in water will not snap to the ground.
- Characters will now be saved correctly in presets.
- Spawned characters will now be visible after adding the background.
- V’s rotation and current position will be stored in presets.
- Fixed an issue where adjusting the Up/Down slider for V would not change their position on certain values.
- NPCs that turn invisible after disabling the Surrounding NPCs option will no longer crash.
- Fixed a problem where preloading can cause additional lighting to appear even when disabled, or make them in the wrong position.
- Fixed an issue where the camera could get stuck on the wall after setting Full Competition to ON.
- Fixed an issue where the camera settings were only used after loading the save twice.
- Enabling the background will no longer change the camera position.
- Turning the camera will now work well with the background.
- Fixed an issue where the warnings for Move Camera and Rotate Camera would appear when the camera could not be moved (such as when using the First-Person Perspective camera).
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to move the camera after spawning a character when highlighting the Edit Character option.
- Disabling Chromatic Aberration in Graphics settings will not affect the ability to correct it.
- Fixed an issue where some objects in scenes disappeared after setting the Surrounding NPCs option to OFF.
- Fixed an issue that caused PhysX Cloth to not freeze NCPD vehicles.
- The right of our grid will now change to the aspect ratio option.
- Fixed an issue where images in SmartFrame would not be visible if entered when V is not facing it.
- Fixed an issue where opening Photo Mode simultaneously with Wardrobe or Stash caused the game to become unresponsive.
- Fixed an issue where it could access Image Mode before saving all files, making it open without UI and blocking additional functionality.
- Fixed other minor Photo issues related to spawned characters, camera movement, controls, and more.
- Fixed various UI issues in Photo Mode, SmartFrames and Gallery menus, including slider inconsistency, localization errors, noise, incorrect behavior when interacting with certain features, and more.
Car Color Customization
- Fixed several texture and color inconsistencies for vehicles using CrystalCoat.
- Fixed an issue where the description of the paint icon was missing in the Autofixer tutorial pop-up after the car contract was completed.
- Fixed several minor UI issues in CrystalCoat and TwinTone menus.
Create a habit
- Randomizer settings in Character Creation will now be saved after advancing to the Customize Attributes step.
- Fixed an issue where the Piercing Color option would not be available in Character Creation after activating the socks if the initial V was not available.
- Fixed other minor issues in Character Creation, including options not being used correctly, visual clipping, inconsistent UI behavior, post-use performance issues the randomizer, and more.
Other things
- Run this town – Fixed an issue where, under certain circumstances, it was not possible to suppress the Aguilar imprint after meeting with Bennett.
- Fixed several cases where Johnny could appear duplicated in the passenger seat during some quests when he was already in place.
- Fixed an issue where Johnny did not appear as a passenger often enough.
- Introduced various fixes to NPC and vehicle behavior for various minor events throughout Night City.
- Fixed an issue where some vendors were not interacting as expected.
- Fixed an issue where announcements on TV news could disappear or be silent.
- Fixed an issue where the Quadra Turbo-R V-Tech used the description of the Quadra Turbo-R 740 instead of its own specification.
- Fixed the missing 2.2 “check what’s new” pop-up in the main menu.
Console exclusive
- Fixed an issue where screenshots were displayed as missing in Gallery on Xbox if they were taken with HDR10 enabled.
- Added a pop-up in the Gallery to notify players when access to screenshots is blocked by the console’s privacy settings on Xbox.
- Screenshots deleted from the Xbox outside of the Gallery UI will now be correctly marked in the Gallery and will disappear from the gallery after reopening the Gallery.
- Fixed an issue where Graphics Mode on Xbox Series S could be set to Good instead of working by default.
PC specific
- Added support for DLSS 4 with Multi-Processing for GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, which boosts FPS by using AI to generate up to three times the normal frame rate – enabled with GeForce RTX 50 Series when January 30th. DLSS 4 also introduces faster Single Frame Design with reduced memory usage for the RTX 50 and 40 Series. Additionally, you can now choose between the CNN model or the new Transformer model for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, DLSS Super Resolution, and DLAA on all GeForce RTX cards today. The new Transformer model enhances stability, lighting, and detail in movement.
- Fixed artifacts and smudging on in-game screens when using DLSS Ray Reconstruction.
- The Frame Design field in the Graphics settings will now properly reset after changing the Scaling resolution to OFF.
