Night City goes to get larger subsequent 12 months with Phantom Liberty, an enlargement including new characters and a contemporary location to Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a spy thriller starring V, the sport’s protagonist, and Johnny Silverhand, the ghostly character performed by Keanu Reeves, and it entails espionage work for the New United States of America. However, Phantom Liberty is barely heading to Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, PC and Stadia, skipping Xbox One and PS4 altogether.

CD Projekt RED’s choice to drop last-gen console assist is not stunning, contemplating the difficulties builders had delivering a useful sport on these platforms. Cyberpunk has obtained loads of patches since its launch in December 2020, with a lot of the deal with fixing main points with the sport’s efficiency; it was extremely buggy and unplayable in some instances at launch, and it notably struggled on older-gen {hardware}. Phantom Liberty is a story and world replace that includes new content material, places and characters, and it marks a big step ahead within the sport’s post-launch improvement cycle, regardless that it leaves Xbox One and PS4 gamers within the mud.

Ahead of Phantom Liberty, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a little bit of DLC tied to Edgerunners, the approaching anime based mostly on the sport. The anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, will hit Netflix on September thirteenth, and the sport replace is stay proper now. Patch 1.6 is called the Edgerunners Update and it provides gadgets from the Netflix present to the sport, together with the protagonist’s jacket and one other character’s shotgun. It additionally unlocks new secrets and techniques to be found in Night City — however just like the Phantom Liberty rollout, these will not be obtainable on Xbox One or PS4. 

“Due to some technical challenges, this change isn’t available on the previous generation of consoles,” the replace weblog reads. To get round these challenges in future patches, CDPR is halting work on previous-gen consoles: Patch 1.6 would be the final for Xbox One and PS4.

The Edgerunners Update provides three new gigs, six new firearms and 5 new melee weapons, plus it unlocks cross-progression and brings a brand new mini-game known as Roach Race to the arcade cupboards scattered all through Night City. Roach Race can also be obtainable on Android and iOS at present, no Cyberpunk required. On high of all this, there is a litany of gameplay, UI and different updates hitting Cyberpunk in Patch 1.6.