I've been staying off of socials today but I am so thrilled to see this change! I worked with CDPR earlier this week to test some braindance animations and I think this will help MANY epileptics and non-epileptics feel safer in #Cyberpunk2077.
— Liana Ruppert (@DirtyEffinHippy) December 11, 2020
Thank you, @CDPROJEKTRED 💚 https://t.co/KUOVFJGFmA
Cyberpunk’s latest update fixes epilepsy triggers, crashes and console reflections
New patch is out now on all platforms
CD Projekt Red has released a new Cyberpunk 2077 update, which it says fixes various issues across quests, gameplay and performance.
The update is now live on PlayStation and PC and will be followed later on Xbox consoles.
The most significant change in the patch is the modification of the flashing effect during braindance sequences, which one epileptic viewer had claimed caused a seizure during her playthrough.
UPDATE: The patch is now available on all platforms.
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ORIGINAL STORY CONTINUES: CD Projekt Red says the effect has been “smoothed out” and the flashes reduced in frequency and magnitude.
In a post on Twitter, Game Informer journalist Liana Ruppert said she’d worked with Cyberpunk’s developer to test the new animations, following her report earlier this week.
In addition, today’s Cyberpunk 2077 patch makes a number of visual improvements, according to CDPR, including the reduction of vehicle pop-in and improvements to reflections quality on Xbox One and PS4.
General stability has also been improved, according to the developer, and it’s removed copyrighted songs incorrectly present in the game with “Disable Copyrighted Music” feature toggled on.
Cyberpunk 2077’s performance on base PS4 and Xbox One has been criticised this week, with a new Digital Foundry analysis calling performance on base PS4 consoles “dire” and “a mess”.
Digital Foundry found that on the base PS4 the much-anticipated open-world game dropped to 15fps in some sequences, while the PS4 Pro dropped to as low as 18fps but hits 30fps “a lot more often”.
“They’ve clearly built a high-end PC experience targeting cutting edge hardware and that comes with a cost,” Digital Foundry’s John Linneman said.
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Cyberpunk 2077 Dec 11 patch notes
Quests
- Fixed an issue with completing the final objective in Gig: Freedom of the Press.
- Fixed an issue with starting conversation with Johnny at the end in Life During Wartime.
- Corrected a rare issue with NPCs no longer calling V if A Like Supreme quest was abandoned mid-way.
- Fixed an issue with Nix not going into his default state in Spellbound and KOLD MIRAGE.
- Fixed issues blocking progress in I Fought The Law if the quest area is left.
- Fixed inability to find Delamain in Epistrophy.
- Fixed issues related to remaining in the second phase of the quest after finishing Pacifica fight with Ozob if played after Finals.
- Fixed an issue with Nomads no longer present if V leaves the quest area mid-combat in With a Little Help from My Friends/Queen of the Highway.
- Adjusted mappings and re-enabled quest tracker in M’ap Tann Pèlen/I Walk the Line/Transmission.
- Fixed constraints on freedom to get up and sit down if neither blueline condition is met in Violence.
- Fixed issues with time and space resulting from leaving the quest area or abandoning the quest in Following the River.
- Fixed an issue with conversation with Johnny not starting after leaving the hotel in Tapeworm.
- Fixed an issue with quest being blocked upon leaving the quest area before climbing the hill in Following the River.
- Fixed the objective “Go into booth 9” not completing if the room’s entered too fast in Automatic Love.
- Fixed Jackie’s issues with sitting still in The Ripperdoc.
- Other quest fixes
Gameplay
- Fixed the preview in weapon crafting.
Visual
- Reduced vehicle appearance pop-in.
- Speeded up switching first person perspective to third person perspective in a vehicle.
- Fixed issues with animations missing from important quest NPCs during cinematics.
Performance & Stability
- Improved stability, including various crash fixes.
Miscellaneous
- Modified the flashing effect on braindances to reduce the risk of inducing epileptic symptoms. The effect has been smoothed out and the flashes reduced in frequency and magnitude.
- Removed copyrighted songs incorrectly present in the game with “Disable Copyrighted Music” feature toggled on.
PC-specific
- Switching language to default in the in-game settings now correctly sets it to the language of your Steam client.
Console-specific
- Improved reflections quality on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 to eliminate the smudge effect.
- Fixed “The Wasteland” achievement being stuck on 97% after completing all relevant missions in The Badlands on Xbox.
- Fixed an issue with missing PT-BR VO for Xbox players in Americas.
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