• CDPR is planning a “No Man’s Sky” style comeback for the game in late June
• The first two major Cyberpunk 2077 updates will be out by mid-Mach.
• Sony Japan was furious with the developers due to a large number of refund requests
• CDPR cut a quest that was rewritten multiple times because one of the executives wasn’t “feeling” it, and it might be added with a post-launch DLC
• Most apartments with “Closed (locked)” indications used to be lootable
• CDPR scrapped 50,000+ lines of dialogue and the June update will bring a whole lot of cut content back into the game
• There used to be a huge underground part of the city that the public never got to see because it “looked ugly” to the execs
• Before Keanu, the original Johnny Silverhand was way cooler and sounded like a maniac
• The original Johnny Silverhand was heavily inspired by David Hayter’s Solid Snake from the first MGS and Cillian Murphy
• There was a whole AI routine with minor gang violence in those areas. Players could watch it unfold or influence it directly.
• They scrapped roughly 160 GB of content before E3 2019
• Two whole story arcs were scrapped due to a save bug with character placement
• A big portion of the underground and sewers was scrapped due to bugs
• Night City had three different types of cab besides Villefort and drivers would hold whole conversations and give quests but that was scrapped
• Police pathfinding script worked initially but someone messed it up before launch, and they are working on fixing it now
• One of the planned DLCs will add Morgan Blackhand’s backstory and a nod to the Corporate Wars