I'm not going to lie to you people, this is the place. Positively infinitesimal. So small that it might slip between the gaps in the corn. But I think it's interesting, so here we are.
“It” in this case is an Easter egg found in the main menu of Cyberpunk 2077. It was discovered (and spotted by) a Twitter user named Crushovitz GamesRadar), it turns out that if you hover your mouse long enough over the current patch version of the game, it will be marked to show 2.0.77. Hey! This is the year Cyberpunk 2077 will happen! You can tell because they put it in the name.
Hey, Easter egg in the main menu! #Cyberpunk2077 #Cyberpunk2077PhantomLiberty #GamingCommunity pic.twitter.com/joUthMfDvwMarch 12, 2024
I told you it was niche, but here's what I think is really cool about it: Cyberpunk 2077 is a massive game, and I don't just mean in terms of size. This is something that has been endlessly picked on for years on end, and yet it still has its secrets. In fact, the secrets were so secret that CDPR began to wonder if anyone would ever find them.
In response to Krushowitz's tweet: CDPR Dave Powell Sasco– Assistant Game Director for Cyberpunk Next – Congratulated the player: “Good find, I'm beginning to doubt you'll ever find it! It was very well hidden.” Another of Night City's secrets is revealed through the diligent investigations of the real-life Morgan Blackhand.
Well kind of. Like I said, what I like about this game isn't so much the Easter egg itself as it is the fact that it seems to have been lying around undetected despite being in the game's main menu. Even if it wasn't there to begin with — it could have been added alongside the game's 2.0 update, for example — it's still impressive to me that there hasn't been a single thread on Reddit about it in the entire time I've been there.
In any case, we will now join the ranks of all the other Easter eggs in Cyberpunk, which have been discovered a lot, such as the Doom one, the Witcher 3, or the endless Edgerunners. In fact, that's every Easter egg we've found since the game was first released. I think none of us kept our eyes on the patch release for this long.
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