The video clip, shared on Reddit by user oldmanrainsie, is short and simple. The player approaches a crosswalk with a crowd of people before him as they wait for the light to change. One NPC on the opposite side of the street ignores the light and jaywalks. A vehicle approaching the sidewalk brakes for the jaywalker, honking its horn, and turns slightly to avoid an accident. The jaywalker continues on and the car goes on its way. It’s that simple, yet it’s evidence of a dramatic, game-changing improvement for Cyberpunk 2077.

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To frame the changes, in the launch version of Cyberpunk 2077 the short video clip could never have happened. Starting with traffic, it was described by players as a “Disneyland ride.” Vehicles were effectively on a track and would either entirely ignore the player and NPCs or it would just phase through them. Drivers had no real agency for unique situations. Cyberpunk 2077’s NPCs, in turn, were incredibly dumb and impermanent. Even looking a different direction could cause NPCs to spawn or despawn. They certainly rarely had unique behavior.

Long story short, none of what happened in the short Cyberpunk 2077 video could have happened prior to patch 1.5. The NPC wouldn’t have crossed the street and the vehicle wouldn’t have acknowledged the pedestrian or braked whatsoever. Everything that makes the sequence feel like something that should happen in an open-world game didn’t occur before the patch.

At least in this regard, Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.5 update is incredibly meaningful. It’s not going to make playing Cyberpunk 2077 significantly more fun, by any means. It’s just a car braking for an NPC. But it’s going to allow the player to immerse themselves in the world just enough that they can enjoy the rest of the experience.

Cyberpunk 2077 remains, in many ways, an incomplete version of what was originally promised of CD Projekt Red. Patch 1.5 only goes so far. But it does improve certain systems that stood out in an egregious way. Traffic, NPC and crowd behavior, and police behavior were all areas that were heavily criticized, but have now been upgraded to a point where they’re solid. This should provide a foundation for CD Projekt Red to launch future content and potentially rewrite Cyberpunk 2077’s legacy.

Cyberpunk 2077 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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