CD Projekt Red Forces ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Fixes But Has Yet to End One Hilarious Glitch
Not that they had to, but if the game developers at CD Projekt Red’s much-anticipated but controversial new game Cyberpunk 2077 could only fix one major glitch, choosing to disable the seizure-inducing light effects had to be more important than fixing a glitch that exposes the genitals of players.
Cyberpunk 2077, to back up some, is a role-playing game set in the neon-lit dystopia of Night City, featuring actor Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand, one of the characters. It was released Wednesday and CDPR was immediately deluged with complaints about errors, including frame-rate drops for users playing the game on PlayStation 4 or Xbox (the game was made for PS5 but is backwards-compatible.)
The most serious of glitches manifested in the game’s virtual reality “braindance” sequence, which featured red and white flashing lights that could cause players with epilepsy to have seizures. In fact, one reviewer did have a seizure while playing the game.
Obviously, this was a serious problem that needed an immediate fix, which it got. The update pushed through on Saturday modifies the lighting effect to reduce the risk of inducing epileptic symptoms, reducing the flashing in frequency and magnitude.
Another, let’s face it, amusing glitch involves, well, cyberjunk. In Cyberpunk 2077, you can customize your genitals (!) with two different penis options and a size slider. For some players, the customizable genitalia are causing issues: their penis just doesn’t stay in their pants. Not even for the female characters.
Polygon detailed the unusual error in an article including more NSFW graphics than we can show you on a family website. There’s no word on when this error, which pops up (sorry) only in certain parts of gameplay, will be fixed.
CD Projekt Red also removed copyrighted songs that played even when users selected the “disable copyrighted music” feature. This presented the streamer community with the huge issue of having their content taken down following a DMCA strike.
More fixes are expected, so players who enjoy flashing their genitals, digitally, that is, have a little while longer to do so.