Top 10 Hilarious Cyberpunk 2077 Bugs and Glitches
Script written by Caitlin Johnson
#10: Teleporting NPCs
It’s safe to say NPCs have their issues in “Cyberpunk 2077”. Playing on a last-gen console, NPCs will spawn in small numbers with low-resolution textures, and the pre-determined routes they take around Night City are even more obvious. But though they can often seem lifeless, this is miles better than seeing them teleport around the screen. This has been sighted all over the place, from generic people in the streets to major secondary characters. On top of that, if you commit a crime, cops will teleport to your location and spawn directly behind you, even if you’re on top of a skyscraper or in the middle of the desert.
#9: Textures
If you’re playing on a machine that can’t handle “Cyberpunk” in its poorly-optimized launch state, you’ve probably encountered lots of texture and asset pop in – and sometimes things don’t even pop-in at all. Textures can often take so long to load it leaves you wondering whether the game hasn’t completely broken, but no, it’s just struggling that much under its own weight. Even when the textures do load, the hundreds of visual effects CDPR has thrown at the game mean they can appear grainy, fuzzy, and distorted. The draw distance has been found to be so poor, mods to fix it were released to PC players within days.
#8: Flying Cars
If you’ve seen “Blade Runner”, you know that flying cars are a vital part of the worldbuilding in any good cyberpunk dystopia. There are some flying cars in “2077”, you ride in one during the Corpo prologue, but for the most part you won’t be encountering them too much. Unless, of course, you run into one of the many vehicular bugs that have had all sorts of hilarious results. One player even recorded a car flying across the map straight at V, crashing into the sidewalk before coming to a stop. A similar bug occurred during one of Panam’s quests where an entire tank came falling from the sky, which none of the nomads paid any attention to.
#7: Clipping Guns
This bug was encountered during a particularly poignant scene in the game’s main story. Jackie sustains some serious injuries and is talking to V, but instead of putting his pistol down, the gun stays in his hand, and clips straight through his head as he tries to have an emotional moment. While this is definitely funny, it’s also sad that such an important scene is undercut by Jackie sticking his own gun so far through his head that it comes out the other side. Similar glitches have seen V still able to wield guns and shoot while fists are equipped as the weapon of choice, with the guns clipping through their hands.
#6: Headless Camera Freeze
If you go into third-person mode for driving, which most people do, you may run into this odd bug. It’s been experienced during the Disasterpiece quest with Judy Alvarez where you join her in her van and she’s the one driving. The camera will rigidly freeze behind the van and then, when it’s time to get out, it will stay stuck. V will get out of the car in third person but now headless. This is because the camera is supposed to be where V’s head is, so their head doesn’t render at all in first-person segments – only, the game doesn’t realize that it’s not in first-person. The only way out of this is to reload and hope for the best.
#5: T-Posing
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Character models are often stored in distinct T-poses when they’re not supposed to be seen or aren’t in use by the game – if a character is going to be needed in a scene, the model might already be loaded outside of the game’s boundaries to appear as necessary. But many of “Cyberpunk’s” NPCs have been sighted stuck in T-poses all over the place. Sometimes even while driving, they’ll actually be floating above or through a vehicle in a T-pose – and on top of that, it might combine with another glitch that removes V’s pants, leaving them naked from the waist down, in a T-pose, while driving a car. You couldn’t make this up.
#4: Road Rage
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One of the game’s biggest technical problems is the lack of AI for NPCs and, more noticeably, other drivers on the road. Night City’s drivers are programmed to follow a predetermined route and if anything gets in their way, the illusion of life is completely shattered. This leads to plenty of weird glitches, including one where NPCs repeatedly drove into the same barrier and yelled at V for getting in their way before they drove off. A similar scene happened with a safety barrier on the freeway, where every single car in the outside lane kept crashing into the same barrier.
#3: Something Feels Off Here
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One player encountered this glitch at the beginning of the “Epistrophy” side quests for your friendly, neighborhood AI Delamain. A rogue Delamain cab runs into V’s car and sends it away for 10 real-world hours to be repaired. But there may not be any repairing the damage done by this bug, which sees the cab clip through V’s car so severely the car itself then clips through the floor of the parking lot and crashes onto the ground below. Johnny Silverhand then appears for some choice words of wisdom when V says “something feels off” about her car suddenly gaining the ability to phase through solid objects.
#2: Tiny Trees
It was games critic Jason Schreier who first brought attention to this bizarre glitch just as the game released, uploading images to Twitter of “Cyberpunk’s” rich cityscape looking a little overgrown. Tiny trees covered the map, growing through the floors, in vehicles, and even suspended in the air. Schreier had to update his graphics card drivers to purge Night City of its greenery problem, a fix that seemed to work for lots of PC players who encountered the same strange issue. In fairness, Night City could probably benefit from some more plant life, but an invasive tree problem is the last thing you need when you’re trying to pay attention to the game.
Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few Honorable (or rather Dishonorable) Mentions
Through the Window
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Officer Down
This Cop Fainted When a Player Pulled a Gun on Them.
#1: Full Frontal
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We’ve always known that “Cyberpunk” was going to heavily feature adult content. Night City is obsessed with sex – it’s on every street corner, in every in-game advertisement, and in quite a lot of the quests. But wearing clothes that don’t hide your modesty whatsoever is maybe a step too far. This glitch has plagued players since the game came out, with frequent issues in the inventory screen leaving gamers with their genitals clipping through their clothes and on full display. It’s true that there were a lot of genital customization options people will want to see, but you can’t just walk around the city with your private parts hanging out. Then again, it’s not like any of the NPCs even notice.
