PC-specific
- Enabled Ray Tracing on AMD graphics cards. Latest GPU drivers are required.
- Keyboard bindings: more keys are now available for rebinding.
- Keyboard bindings: It is now possible to bind opening and closing specific panels to the same key.
- Keyboard bindings: It’s now possible to unbind dodge from the movement keys (in Settings -> Controls). Dodging can still be performed by double-tapping the crouch (toggle) action key (default C).
- It is now possible to enter Journal from the Map panel using a keyboard.
- Achievements will now work on Epic Games Store.
- Modding: Added a new “mod” folder for loading modded archives. The modded archives can be named in any way and go into the “mod” folder now. Having mod archives in the “patch” folder is no longer supported.
- Fixed an issue that prevented grenades from being charged after closing a dialogue window using ESC.
- Fixed the issue where some environment elements would not be displayed correctly on 8k screens.
- Fixed an issue where HUD elements would be missing in 8K resolution.
- Fixed an issue where perks from a certain area of the submenus were not displaying descriptions on 4K and 5K Ultra Wide resolutions.
Console-specific
- Fixed an issue on PlayStation 4 where items couldn’t be dropped from the backpack as they would always reappear back in the inventory.
- Fixed an issue where Johnny’s custom HUD wouldn’t be present on Xbox One during the concert scene in Love Like Fire.
- Fixed an issue that caused the game to zoom in when pressing pause on PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X.
- Fixed a streaming issue with the elevator panel in Play it Safe on Xbox One.
- Improved the mechanism for adjusting the UI texture resolution depending on the platform.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the game to become unresponsive when pressing “A” immediately after deleting a save on Xbox One.
- Fixed an issue on Xbox One that could cause the game to become unresponsive when changing profiles on the title menu.
- Fixed an issue where loading a game save while being in a car could turn the screen black on Xbox.
- Various memory handling optimizations on Xbox.
- Improved Screen Space Reflections.
- Fixed issues with Screen Space Reflections and Temporal Anti-Aliasing.
- Fixed rendering issues when fog interacts with nearby lighting on PlayStation 4.
- Various environment streaming and input/output improvements.
- Various NPCs and vehicle streaming improvements.
- Fixed multiple issues with random game freezes.
- Fixed issues on PlayStation 4 whereby corpses with head dismembered could glitch out.
- Fixed an issue where V could fall down the elevator shaft.
- Fixed an issue where the game on Xbox One would become unresponsive when signing out while the controller disconnection message is visible.
- Fixed an issue that caused the player to be unable to exit the Settings menu after making changes.
- Claire’s truck is now properly placed in the garage in The Beast in Me.
- Fixed the missing water surface shader on PlayStation 4.
Graphics, audio, animation
- Fixed NPCs moving after being killed.
- Improvements in textures rendering from afar.
- Fixed a visual issue with fast travel and cinematic transition.
- Adjusted visual quality of some elements when underwater.
- Improvements in materials details quality.
- Fixed V’s incorrect position while riding a motorcycle.
- Improvement for interior and exterior light sources.
- Adjusted dirt quality on Medium and Low settings.
- Fixed the lack of a crack in the mirror after V smashed it.
- Fixed an issue where pink particles could appear on camera close-up.
- Improved foliage destruction visuals.
- Fixed a visual issue where pavements could be covered with rectangular shapes in shore areas.
- Fixed the overexposed foliage elements visible when entering a vehicle.
- Fixed an issue where some items could disappear after being destroyed.
- Kerry’s bathrobe is no longer incorrectly attached to his lower part of the body.
- V’s hands are now correctly displayed on a steering wheel while driving.
- V now leans out of a vehicle correctly during chases.
- Fixed an issue where the character could appear deformed while mounting motorcycles.
- Fixed a level of detail issue occurring for joy toys in Jig-Jig Street.
- Fixed several issues with missing lipsync.
- Fixed multiple issues with NPCs T-posing.
- Camera no longer flips when V is under an object and jumps.
- Improved camera movement when entering a vehicle.
- Fixed an issue where some items could be attached to NPCs twice.
- Fixed NPCs shouting after being killed.
- Jackie no longer shouts “Nice shot!” when V kills enemies while in stealth mode.
- Fixed particle burning effect applied repeatedly when player stands in fire.
- Fixed NPC animation issues after skipping the ride.
- Fixed flickering of stars on the surface of the lake in one of the scenes.
- Fixed far away terrain disappearing in Badlands.
- Other city parts visible from the distance now look more realistic due to adjusted lighting.
- Fixed an issue with black weapon scopes during the chase in Riders on the Storm.
- Improved visual quality of Black Wall and Mikoshi.
- Fixed an issue where the weather state would not adjust correctly after loading saves or exiting to the main menu.
- Holographic elements in specific character outfits now display correctly.
- Fixed an unwanted jitter effect on frosted glass surfaces.
- Fixed an issue where a white line could be visible at the top of the screen when in cyberspace.
UI
- Fixed an issue with ads not being properly displayed on curbs.
- Multiple visual updates and adjustments for ads.
- Fixed multiple visual issues in quests briefings.
- Updated the Arabic language layout in quests briefings.
- Updated grenades icons according to their damage type.
- Fixed multiple visual issues with the icons display.
- Fixed multiple visual issues in the UI panels, including Journal, Map, Scanner, and others.
- Fixed an issue that paused the game if the shard was read directly from the loot container in a minor activity.
- Fixed freezes and crashes related to equipping and unequipping Johnny’s Jacket.
- Added button hints in order to move forward on the treadmill in Where is My Mind?
- Fixed an issue where database links would not allow jumping to a selected entry.
- Fixed an issue that blocked a player from answering holocalls manually.
- Entering a vehicle right before opening the Vehicle Menu should no longer block further progression.
- The health bar should now be visible during car chases.
- Performance improvement to the Inventory panel.
- Fixed an issue where the NPCs could be tagged as “Minimal Threat” regardless of their actual level.
- Fixed multiple issues with button hints.
- Fixed multiple issues in the Character Creation panel.
- Multiple fixes and improvements to the Crafting panel.
- Fixed issues where the level requirement was not displayed correctly in the Upgrade menu.
- Added an option to craft multiple items at once.
- Fixed an issue where preview stats show the same values before upgrading an item.
- Added a “Crafted” icon to the tooltip of crafted items.
- Fixed multiple issues related to the Cyberware panel.
- Multiple adjustments for the D-pad input.
- Fixed multiple issues related to HUD elements.
- Multiple fixes in the Inventory and Backpack panels.
- Fixed an issue when weapons could show 0 DPS before looting them.
- Fixed an improper icon of the clothing item when looting body in Gig: Serial Suicide.
- Multiple fixes and adjustments to the Main Menu and Settings panels.
- Fixed an issue where replacing mods on some legendary items could add an empty mod slot.
- Added a disabled state to mod slots when there are no available mods to equip.
- Optimizations for Crafting panel and items display.
- Fixed an overlapping tooltip of Body attribute in the Character menu.
- Visual effect for adding attribute points in the Character menu should no longer be missing after hovering over Perks tree.
- Multiple fixes for Scanning functionality and its HUD display.
- Added a toggle to enable/disable comparing tooltip.
- Multiple fixes related to buyback pricing and performance improvement in the Vendor panel.
- Fixed an issue where the game could freeze during Ghost Town if a player chose to “Wait until Rogue is ready” right after asking Claire for a drink.
- Fixed an issue where a player could die right before the scene transition in Play It Safe resulting in blocked progression.
- Fixed an issue where weapon crosshair did not disappear after aiming down or unequipping it.
- Fixed an issue where debug text could appear after skipping and fast-forwarding credits.
- Updated the credits list.
- Fixed an issue where ads text localization upon scanning did not work properly.
- Fixed an issue where highlighted dialogue lines when talking to Johnny could not be visible after visiting Hanako and taking the elevator down in Nocturne Op55N1.
- Fixed an issue where restoring defaults could set all settings to Low on second and consecutive launches.
- Fixed corrupted characters in different languages.
- Multiple fixes and adjustments for input issues.
- Various UI performance and stability improvements.
- Epic and Legendary loot dropping from defeated enemies are now better visible on the minimap.
- Threat level for undiscovered gigs is now displayed correctly.
- Fixed issues with D-pad/arrows navigation in the menu and inventory.
- Removed unnecessary health bar animations after loading a save.
- Fixed item tooltips remaining on screen after closing them.
- Fixed an issue where the value per unit would be displayed instead of total value in case of items with quantity larger than one.
- Fixed issues related to changing gameplay difficulty settings in the menu.
- My Rewards popup in the Main Menu is now hidden when Streamer mode is enabled.
- Fixed issue with broken buildings visible on the main map.
- Added Overhead Text Size option to the Subtitles Settings.
- Fixed multiple text-related issues.
- Fixed multiple issues related to UI streaming.
Stability and performance
- Improved stability and performance of the engine and the rendering engine (reducing the number of random crashes).
- Memory optimizations and memory management improvements in various systems (reducing the number of crashes).
- Various optimizations and improvements in shadows, shaders, physics, workspot system, spawn system, scene system, animation system, occlusion system, and facial animations system.
- Fixed mechanism for managing UI icons atlases memory which helps with memory-related crashes, especially during long playthroughs.
- Multiple UI stability improvements and fixes for the most common UI-related crashes.
- Various crash fixes (among others, in Settings menu, and upon reloading saves repeatedly during gameplay and GPU-related).
- Multiple UI performance improvements.
- Fixed a performance drop during controller-button-mashing causing V to receive multiple copies of the same item.
- Fixed detection map markers sometimes appearing broken or glitchy on machines with slower hard drives.
- Various other stability and performance improvements.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed incorrect censorship when playing a copy of the game from a region other than Japan while the console region is set to Japan or language to Japanese.
- A settings option to hide Potential Enemy Markers was added to the Interface tab.
- A settings option to hide NPC name overhead display was added to the Interface tab.
- Telemetry consent is now saved in the user profile and synced via the cloud.
- Logic for loading last checkpoint when there is no existing savefile improved.
- Fixed game going to a black screen after difficulty is changed in the Pause menu.
- Improved D-pad/arrow navigation in menus.
- Navigation in Load/Save menu improved.
- Fixed Fists description in the quick weapon selection menu.
- Fixed an issue where the player could get locked in an aiming or crouching state after leaving a vehicle.
- Fixed an issue where jumping or carrying a body into Point of No Return area could lead to Point of No Return save not being created.
- Added fade-in on returning to the game after final credits.
- The “One more gig” message will no longer be displayed when the game ends and there is no Point of No Return save.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the money transfer notification to appear as 0 if the player performed a save/load cycle right before it showed.
- Fixed an issue where NPCs were missing their weapons after loading a save
- Fixed an issue where engaging in combat in front of Misty’s Esoterica could cause a nearby Animals’ bouncer to follow V in combat state to Viktor’s clinic in The Ripperdoc.
- Fixed an issue where Monk’s walk could reset if the Monk stepped on a defeated Maelstrom corpse in Losing My Religion.
- Misty will now walk correctly down the stairs on the way to “El Coyote Cojo” bar in Heroes.
- Telemetry consent request reappears once for some players due to an issue causing a reset of settings.
PC-specific
- Enabled Ray Tracing on AMD graphics cards. Latest GPU drivers are required.
- Keyboard bindings: more keys are now available for rebinding.
- Keyboard bindings: It is now possible to bind opening and closing specific panels to the same key.
- Keyboard bindings: It’s now possible to unbind dodge from the movement keys (in Settings -> Controls). Dodging can still be performed by double-tapping the crouch (toggle) action key (default C).
- It is now possible to enter Journal from the Map panel using a keyboard.
- Achievements will now work on Epic Games Store.
- Modding: Added a new “mod” folder for loading modded archives. The modded archives can be named in any way and go into the “mod” folder now. Having mod archives in the “patch” folder is no longer supported.
- Fixed an issue that prevented grenades from being charged after closing a dialogue window using ESC.
- Fixed the issue where some environment elements would not be displayed correctly on 8k screens.
- Fixed an issue where HUD elements would be missing in 8K resolution.
- Fixed an issue where perks from a certain area of the submenus were not displaying descriptions on 4K and 5K Ultra Wide resolutions.
Console-specific
- Fixed an issue on PlayStation 4 where items couldn’t be dropped from the backpack as they would always reappear back in the inventory.
- Fixed an issue where Johnny’s custom HUD wouldn’t be present on Xbox One during the concert scene in Love Like Fire.
- Fixed an issue that caused the game to zoom in when pressing pause on PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X.
- Fixed a streaming issue with the elevator panel in Play it Safe on Xbox One.
- Improved the mechanism for adjusting the UI texture resolution depending on the platform.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the game to become unresponsive when pressing “A” immediately after deleting a save on Xbox One.
- Fixed an issue on Xbox One that could cause the game to become unresponsive when changing profiles on the title menu.
- Fixed an issue where loading a game save while being in a car could turn the screen black on Xbox.
- Various memory handling optimizations on Xbox.
- Improved Screen Space Reflections.
- Fixed issues with Screen Space Reflections and Temporal Anti-Aliasing.
- Fixed rendering issues when fog interacts with nearby lighting on PlayStation 4.
- Various environment streaming and input/output improvements.
- Various NPCs and vehicle streaming improvements.
- Fixed multiple issues with random game freezes.
- Fixed issues on PlayStation 4 whereby corpses with head dismembered could glitch out.
- Fixed an issue where V could fall down the elevator shaft.
- Fixed an issue where the game on Xbox One would become unresponsive when signing out while the controller disconnection message is visible.
- Fixed an issue that caused the player to be unable to exit the Settings menu after making changes.
- Claire’s truck is now properly placed in the garage in The Beast in Me.
- Fixed the missing water surface shader on PlayStation 4.
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