Clearing up some misconceptions about a Q&A Podcast from German Magazine GameStar where there were alleged information on Cyberspace combat, a detail about Night City’s thousands of NPCs, the revamped melee system and more, Cyberpunk 2077’s ratings in the middle east, a new song by samurai, and the Cyberpunk 2077 Limited Edition Console and an awesome add on it comes with all in todays Cyberpunk 2077 News!
First up we have a reddit post which got a ton of traction online and that we actually covered in the past Cyberpunk 2077 Community Podcast. In it the original poster had translated what appeared to be a new GameStar+ podcast featuring Miles Tost and Philipp Weber.
Now GameStar+ is premium paywalled content, and so non-members actually didn’t have access to it, and additionally it was all in German. It was mistranslated, but not before it was picked up by a ton of people including big media outlets.
Now the stand out points from the article were that Cyberspace Netrunning battles would involve summoning RPG-esque creatures, and programs, that thousands of NPCs had daily routines and that the melee system had received a big overhaul. What most people didn’t see however, was Senior Quest designer Philip Weber addressing this information on reddit and twitter as being mistranslated. In a response to a VG247 article containing the misinformation he responded specifically to the Cyberspace battle part as information based on a mistranslation and that it is not correct.
The reddit user directly apologized to Weber to which he responded with no problem at all, just wanted to make sure to clarify so the proper info is out there. I can’t go into detail how these systems actually work, but I am sure there will be more news about Cyberpunk soon with the Night City Wire. SO essentially take all this information from this thread with a grain of salt.
I know we were pretty excited about this info on the last podcast even though we did mention that it wasn’t confirmed, but hopefully battles in cyberspace, npc routines and the melee system are still going to impress however CDPR chooses to implement it.
Moving on we have some updates via the IMDB page for Cyberpunk 2077 on potential new characters. We’ve talked about updates to the IMDB page a couple of times before with characters like Vazquez and Doctor Paradox popping up on the page, but this time we have what seems to be an Asian woman named Wakako Okada played by Ren Hanami as well as Mateo played by Antonio Alvarez. Obviously not much to note about these characters other than they have appeared on the page and may be in the game and that there is quite the cultural diversity so far, which is on par with the diversity we’ve seen so far in 2077 footage.
Moving on we have a brand-new song release from Samurai, Johnny Silverhand’s band in Cyberpunk 2077. This is still as far as I know unlisted on the Cyberpunk 2077 youtube channel, and is named the Ballad of Bucky Rogers? Here’s a snippet of this brand-new rock song by the REFUSED who are creating the music for the fictional in game band.
Next we have a new rating board giving Cyberpunk 2077 the go ahead to be released. The UAE who have historically been pretty harsh when it comes to games ratings did not ban Cyberpunk 2077 from being released their, so for my middle eastern friends you won’t have to jump through hoops to get your cyberpunk fix. This is coming off the heels of the middle east banning the last of us 2. We’ll leave the speculations on why to the community and chalk it up as a win for CDPR’s upcoming title.
Next up we have some news about Stadia. Cyberpunk 2077 will not launch on Stadia, on September 17th and has been pushed back till an unknown date at the end of the year. There doesn’t seem to be an explanation from google either, so if you are a stadia player, that’s a definite bummer. Stadia has been a pretty big failure on google’s end, and I don’t really have faith in the product. If you do own only a stadia but want to play 2077 on release on a budget consider getting a cheap console.
Segwaying nicely here we have the release of the Xbox One limited edition Cyberpunk console that was just released. Not only does it look high tech, but there’s also a ton of easter eggs on the console itself when its under a UV light. Not only does the console look great, but it also comes with a free expansion. Some outlets were mentioning free DLC, but DLC is free for all, so yes the first Cyberpunk expansion that drops will be yours free of cost if you end up picking up this console. Stock seems to be going quickly, so if you get the chance to grab one it might be a good idea.
