Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5 Is Out: Dual-Wielding, Console Mods and an Edgerunners 2 Quest

Night City isn’t done with you yet. Six years after launch, Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5, the Edgerunners 2 Update, is out today (22 October). It adds a side quest tied to the new Netflix anime, a gear set based on one of its characters, a radio station full of Edgerunners music, dual-wielding pistols, customisable arm cyberware and, the big one, official mod support on PC, Mac and consoles.

It’s live now on PC and Mac (Steam, GOG and Epic), PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Switch 2 and the Mac App Store version follow “in the days after”, according to CD Projekt Red.

The Edgerunners stuff

• Clampdown, a new side quest set before the events of Edgerunners 2. To unlock it, finish The Heist and two gigs for Wakako, then wait for her to message you.
• The King gear set. It’s five pieces based on King, the show’s veteran edgerunner sliding into cyberpsychosis, and you get it through Clampdown.
• HKGN 102.0 FM, a new radio station playing tracks from the Edgerunners series.

Dual-wielding is finally here

The new Double Trouble perk sits in the Cool tree, with four more perks hanging off it. It lets you dual-wield any combination of Power pistols and revolvers. People have been begging for this since 2020, and Photo Mode gets new dual-wield poses so you can show it off. It also adds Cyberpunk Trading Card Game frames.

Pimp your Mantis Blades

Hand cyberware customisation is in. Take your Mantis Blades, Gorilla Arms, Monowire or Projectile Launch System to one of five Glamdocs around the city (look for the spray-paint icon on the map) and restyle them. Each shop has its own intro scene and a catalogue of skins with custom colours.

The fashion crowd is looked after too:

• Five new outfit sets from Maxiwear (Heywood, Arroyo, Little China), Jinguji (City Center), NetWatch (Kabuki, Japantown) and IconAmerica (Pacifica, Badlands, Northside). One more set is coming later.
• The NUS Infiltrator set is now sold in Kabuki and Japantown.
• Some NPC-only hairstyles are now available to V. Some are locked to one body type.
• Four TWINTONE skins for the Quadra Turbo-R V-Tech via Twitch Drops.

Mods on console. Yes, really

This is the headline for a lot of people. Cyberpunk now has cross-platform mod support through mod.io, built right into the menus. You can browse and install a curated selection of player-made mods on PC, Mac, PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2. CDPR says more mods will be added over time. Modded saves get their own icon, and on console you can’t earn achievements or trophies on a modded save, so keep a clean one if you’re hunting platinums.

Console players also finally get an FOV slider.

More to do in Night City

• Welcome to Paradise: a new side quest told through a guided tour narrated by Richard Night, the man who founded Night City. There’s a mystery hidden in it. It unlocks after The Heist once you hit Street Cred 15.
• 12 new Minor Arcana tarot cards are hidden around the city. Scanning one starts an extension of the Fool on the Hill quest, and collecting the whole set earns a special reward.

Tech and quality of life

• DLSS 4.5, with up to 6X Multi Frame Generation, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and the 2nd Generation Transformer Model.
• FSR changes: FSR 3 upscaling is gone. FSR 2.1, FSR 4 and FSR 3.1 Frame Generation stay, and there’s a new FSR Anti-Lag 2 toggle.
• Glasses-free 3D on Samsung Odyssey 3D monitors, plus MetalFX Frame Interpolation and Denoising on Mac.
• Performance work, including ray tracing and PS5 Pro improvements, and more accurate HDR.
• Saves are grouped by playthrough, and apartment and vehicle stashes get item filters.
• Fixes include PS5 HDR settings doing nothing, Switch 2 saves failing with “insufficient space”, and Delamain cabs getting stuck and blocking quests.

Edgerunners 2: the new season

The update rides in on the back of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which dropped on Netflix on 20 October, all 10 episodes at once. It’s Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Red again, directed by Kai Ikarashi with Bartosz Sztybor as writer and showrunner. Don’t expect David and Lucy, though. It’s a standalone story with an all-new cast, so you can watch it without having seen the first season, and Netflix describes it as a “raw chronicle of redemption and revenge”.

Instead of one lead, it follows a group of characters across Night City, including:

• Roman Carax, a 12-year-old film nerd recording the city on an old camera.
• Weak “King” Kingsley, a veteran edgerunner falling into cyberpsychosis. He’s voiced by Clancy Brown in English, and he’s the King behind the new gear set.
• D, a netrunner out for revenge after his clan was massacred.
• Talia Yang, a Maelstrom ganger with a degenerative neural disease.
• Capri, a rogue personality construct from Arasaka’s “Project Capricorn”.

Hideo Kojima also turns up again, reprising his Cyberpunk 2077 cameo. Early reviews are mostly positive. IGN liked the visuals and the “satisfying” finale, and Mashable called it a “love letter to filmmaking”. Gizmodo was cooler, saying it’s too ambitious and the pacing wanders. Season 1 set a ridiculously high bar: it had a 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and sent the game’s player numbers through the roof in 2022.

Where Cyberpunk is at

• 40 million copies sold, as of CDPR’s July 2026 announcement. That’s about 5 million more in eight months, six years after launch.
• It’s cheap right now. At the time of writing, Cyberpunk 2077 is 70% off on Steam NZ at NZ$29.99 (normally NZ$99.99).
• Cyberpunk 2 (formerly Project Orion) is in early development, with reports putting about 163 developers on it as of April. Nobody should expect it soon.
• Is 2.5 the last update? CDPR hasn’t said, but there’s one outfit set still to come. CDPR also has a habit of dropping free updates for a game it previously said was finished.

Our take

Remember December 2020? The game that got pulled off the PlayStation Store is now getting free updates six years later, and they’re not small ones. Official mods on console is massive. Outside Bethesda’s games, hardly anyone does it, and having it built into the menus on PS5 is a big deal. Dual-wielding should have been in from day one, but we’ll take it.

It’s also a masterclass in how to use a TV tie-in. The first Edgerunners sent the game’s player count rocketing. This time CDPR has a quest, a gear set and a radio station waiting on day one, and the game’s 70% off. Cynical? Sure. But compare it with the other big news this week, where a publisher shut down a beloved RPG studio. CDPR is still pouring work into a six-year-old game, and we’re not going to complain about that.

One warning: if you’re going to fill your console with mods, keep a clean save if you care about trophies. And go watch the anime. Just maybe not right before bed.

Oh, and if CDPR tells you this is the last one, don’t believe it. Update 2.0 was the big send-off with Phantom Liberty. Then 2.1 was “the last major update”. Then 2.2 turned up, then 2.3, and now here we are at 2.5. At this point Cyberpunk 2077 is on its final, final, final update, and we fully expect to be writing about Update 2.6 the week Cyberpunk 2 launches. Not that we’re complaining. Keep them coming, CDPR.

Going back to Night City for dual-wielding and mods, or have you already binged Edgerunners 2? Tell us in the comments, or come argue about whether it beats season one in the GetRekt Discord.

Sources

• CD PROJEKT RED: What’s coming to Night City in the Edgerunners 2 Update (official patch notes, 21 Oct)
• Cyberpunk 2077 on X: Patch 2.5 notes
• IGN: Cyberpunk 2077 Official Edgerunners 2 Update Overview Trailer
• Kotaku: Everything in Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.5 update
• Netflix Tudum: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2
• Wikipedia: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 (cast, crew and reviews roundup)
• VGC: Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 40 million copies (July 2026)
• Steam: Cyberpunk 2077 (NZ price checked 22 Oct)