Cyberpunk 2077's new update adds cross-platform saves, mod management, and more - The Verge

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The 1.6 Edgerunners update is retired now.

CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a caller show mode for Xbox Series S, an official instrumentality for installing and making mods, and a large betterment to outfits via the 1.6 Edgerunners update, which was announced alongside the Phantom Liberty DLC pack. Like the DLC, it seems similar astir aboriginal updates to the crippled volition beryllium for next-gen consoles only; the company says 1.6 volition beryllium “the past large update” for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The update is disposable to download contiguous for each platforms (though the modding tools are constricted to the PC), including those last-gen consoles. On the Xbox Series X, it’s a 39.6GB download.

Image of a wardrobe absorption   screen, which lets Cyberpunk 2077 players negociate  outfits. You tin make up to six outfits and power betwixt them astatine wardrobes. Image: CD Projekt Red

The caller wardrobe diagnostic — which immoderate players volition cognize arsenic a “transmog” strategy — lets you alteration your outfit without modifying your armor standing oregon different stats. This could assistance debar a communal occupation with RPGs, wherever the subordinate is forced to take betwixt an outfit that looks chill and 1 that has amended stats. (And I surely invited it arsenic idiosyncratic who astir ever chooses the former.) You’ll besides beryllium capable to spot a preview of covering items erstwhile you’re buying for them astatine a vendor.

The spot besides adds cross-platform saves for users who are logged in. This means you could load your Steam Deck’s prevention record from your PS5 and prime up close wherever you near off. (Though determination are a fewer caveats if you unrecorded successful a spot wherever some of the game’s contented is censored, specified arsenic Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Japan).

For PC players, CD Projekt Red is releasing a tool called REDmod on with the update. While the crippled has supported mods for implicit a year, the institution says that the authoritative instrumentality volition assistance radical negociate and instal mods arsenic good arsenic make them. According to the REDmod site, it’ll fto you adhd your ain sounds, animations, and scripts to the game.

The update includes a assortment of smaller additions arsenic well. The Xbox Series S is getting the show mode mounting from the Series X, which makes the crippled purpose to deed 60fps portion keeping the solution determination betwixt 800p and 1080p. Some of the contented added successful the 1.6 patch, including “new instrumentality and caller Photo Mode features,” volition necktie successful to the upcoming Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime that’s premiering connected Netflix adjacent week.

For radical who are fans of CD Projekt’s different large franchise, The Witcher, there’s present an in-game arcade furniture that lets you play a crippled featuring Geralt’s horse. It seems precise akin to Google Chrome’s dinosaur game, wherever you endlessly run, jump, and duck to debar obstacles, and the institution is releasing it arsenic a abstracted app for Android and iOS.

Screenshot of Cyberpunk’s photograph  mode, with controls for changing a cat’s airs  and position. So galore feline options. Image: CD Projekt Red

For much details connected the caller weapons and gigs that person been added to Cyberpunk 2077, you tin cheque retired CD Projekt Red’s stream above. The watercourse besides includes a beauteous objection of however you tin adhd a feline to the game’s photograph mode.

Update September 6th, 4:31PM ET: Clarified that the wardrobe diagnostic adds transmogrification into the game.

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