An alleged developer from CD Projekt Red has shared the company's plans for Cyberpunk 2077 DLC, outlining a plan of reintegrating cut content through later releases in order to improve the game and get it to the state that was promised at release. There's certainly plenty of cut content for the team to use; fans have been discovering all sorts of in-game features that they probably weren't supposed to find. For instance, last week a fan discovered evidence of an unused monorail station, suggesting a whole new method of fast travelling around Night City which never got used in the finished game.
This alleged plan would be a solid one, because "unfinished" is arguably one of the kinder words that could be applied to Cyberpunk 2077. The release of the long-anticipated RPG sparked one of the biggest video game controversies in recent memory; the versions that released on PS4 and Xbox One were found to be all but unplayable thanks to a litany of major bugs and glitches. Even now players are still finding new problems with the game, from teleporting police officers to plummeting frame rates to holes in reality itself. CDPR has promised fixes, but fans are still waiting.
Now it seems that CDPR is in dedicated damage control mode, according to a lengthy and impassioned speech from someone claiming to be a disgruntled Cyberpunk 2077 developer on GameFAQs (via DualShockers). The potential employee goes into detail about CDPR's plans to reintroduce all cut content through DLC and patches set to begin arriving in March. The developer condemns the executives at CDPR for a variety of reasons; whether or not this is a legitimate source, it's hard to deny that the executives mishandled the controversy, leading OpenCritic to issue a warning about the console versions of the game. But they also claim that the company is planning a "No Man's Sky style comeback" through its DLC schedule.
No Man's Sky was once in exactly the same situation Cyberpunk 2077 is in now. When that ambitious title released in 2016, fans were thoroughly disappointed in it. There was far less content than developer Hello Games had promised, including omissions that the developer flat out lied about. The game was mercilessly panned and largely abandoned by players. But it was not abandoned by the developers. Over the past several years Hello Games has worked diligently to improve No Man's Sky in a myriad of ways, resulting in an excellent game largely unrecognizable from the bare-bones version that launched four years ago.
It looks like a redemption story like this is Cyberpunk 2077's best shot, because no one is happy with the game right now. Sony's unprecedented decision to remove it from the PlayStation Store and offer full refunds is good for fans but devastating for CD Projekt Red, and the company is now facing down a lawsuit as well. The leaker claims that the actual full version of Cyberpunk 2077 should be playable by the end of 2021. One can only hope they're right.
Source: GameFAQs (via DualShockers)