Update 2.5 for Cyberpunk 2077 arrives on October 22nd and costs nothing for anyone who owns the game. The studio announced it in a blog post and scheduled a REDstream for this Wednesday, October 21st at 5 PM CEST to go over the details. Only two features were named in that post: cyberware customization and a dual wielding playstyle. Either CDPR is being coy or the rest of the list is sitting in a drawer waiting for the stream.
Dual wielding deserves a closer look because of the word “playstyle.” That word usually promises more than a perk that lets you hold two pistols at once. If CDPR means it literally, expect new skills and perks, and probably a dedicated branch of the skill tree built around it.
Cyberware customization is vaguer. New implants are easy to picture, but customizing them suggests the studio is reworking how the existing system functions. That would ripple straight into how players plan their builds, so anyone with a spreadsheet full of perk point allocations should probably stretch their hands before launch.
The timing lines up with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2, which hits Netflix today. The first season ranks among the best reviewed shows the service has ever carried, and the update art features King next to V with a gun in each fist, which explains the dual wielding headline. Some kind of story content seems likely, though nobody has said how much. A quest or two is a fair expectation.
The update looks like the largest one since Phantom Liberty launched in 2023. The patches in between were good, but two named features with this much room to grow suggest 2.5 is aiming at a bigger target than any of them. It will not be a full relaunch like the 2.0 overhaul, but it sounds like a step up from what the game has received over the last three years. The REDstream on Wednesday should show how big that step is.
