CD Projekt Red announced on October 20 that Cyberpunk 2077 will receive a free update on October 22, timed to the release of the second season of the Netflix anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. The studio is calling it the Edgerunners 2 Update, or Update 2.5.
The update lands on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, with Eurogamer and Polygon both reporting that the Nintendo Switch 2 version will, in the studio's words, follow shortly.
introduce a range of new items and features to the game, including content inspired by Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2
CD Projekt Red held back most of the detail, but named two inclusions in its announcement post: cyberware customisation and a new dual-wielding playstyle. PC Gamer and GameSpot both picked out the second of those, noting that Cyberpunk 2077 has never let players properly dual wield guns - Jackie Welles' twin pistols become a single-handed weapon when picked up, despite the item description mentioning dual wielding. The studio scheduled a livestream for October 21 at 11 a.m. EDT, 5 p.m. CEST, on Twitch, YouTube and Steam to go through the rest.
A reversal on the studio's May position
IGN noted that the announcement cuts against what the studio said in May, when CD Projekt Red stated it had no plans for further Cyberpunk 2077 DLC or expansions. The game has received one expansion, 2023's Phantom Liberty. CD Projekt confirmed in July that Cyberpunk 2077 had sold 40 million copies since its December 2020 launch.
Paweł Sasko, associate game director on the in-development Cyberpunk 2, posted that he was hyped about what the studio had prepared, without describing it. CD Projekt co-CEO Michał Nowakowski has previously suggested Cyberpunk 2 will not arrive until at least 2030, IGN reported.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is out on Netflix now. Polygon described it as a standalone sequel to the 2022 series, set in the same Night City and following a new cast: a veteran edgerunner, a young cinephile, a chrome-obsessed delinquent and a Snake Nation netrunner, per the series' own description. The first Edgerunners season, which followed the rise and fall of David Martinez, is widely credited with reviving interest in Cyberpunk 2077 in 2022, and CD Projekt Red marked it at the time with an update that added Edgerunners-inspired cosmetics.