1.63 Legacy Patch Awareness Foundation

[Sabbath Bloody Sabbath]

IF YOU WANT TO REVERT YOUR GAME BACK TO VERSION 1.63, JUST GO TO YOUR LIBRARY, LEFT CLICK ON CYBERPUNK 2077 THEN CHOOSE PROPERTIES...>BETAS>1.63 LEGACY PATCH
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Like a lot of folks, I'm one that got deeply invested in the 1.63 version of the game (I bought it nearly a month ago and put over 50h on it already) so I can see why there are a lot of complaints regarding the "overhaul" in core game mechanics.

I am somewhat in the middle of the game and when 2.0 came along, I was excited to try it out, but after seeing that it pretty much broke my V (a blunt/revolver/shotgun/LMG user that sneaks MGS style, only using cyberhacks to disable environmental hazzards and distract enemies, who also drives a siiiiick BMW E30 M3, obviously modded), I was totally disapointed and was desperate to change back my game, feeling that I wasted all my time in a character that became useless after the patch.

Thing is, I BARELY FOUND ANY INFO REGARDING THE LEGACY PATCH, and still, after all those weeks that went on with the 2.0 (and now 2.1) patch release, it's still hard to find info and tips towards this patch. I really don't want to b*tch about how "2.0 patch bad", cause there are a lot of cool new things in it and I can see why people like some mechanics better, but I feel that more folks deserve to know that you can revert your game back to the same old Cyberpunk 2077 that we grew up with. The Legacy patch feels almost like a "secret club" (literally, I saw like one reddit thread mentioning it, three or four comments saying that you can revert your game back to 1.63 on Steam discussions complaining about the 2.0 patch, and a footnote that feels almost like a subliminal message, easter-egg or hidden note on official CDPR news)

SO PLEASE, RAISE THE AWARENESS REGARDING THE LEGACY PATCH, share any info you can about it, if you know any details or thing we need to know about this patch, please share it here (or anywhere else), cause even though we got A LOT of QOL improvements, we pretty much lost a game for one with a different gameplay and mechanics.

I really hope that CDPR eventually allow us to choose between the new and old perking/looting/crafting mechanics, or at least that some modders can manage to work it out for us, fans of the 1.63 mechanics, so we can have the best of both worlds, all the amazing stuff that the 2.0 patch gave us, without losing the core mechanics that we got so used too. Come on, it can't be that hard, right...?

Also, I *think* I know that you can't play Phantom Liberty with the Legacy Patch, but I still don't own it and that just proves my point on how little this patch is talked about. We have pretty much no info ANYWHERE about it.

[adema066]

Thank you for posting this.. I +1 this movement and would hope to see it extended with a patch that allows reverting some of the changes that make the game less fun, such as level-scaling, a less robust looting system and a skill/perk system that reminds me of something out of CoD with flashy/gimmicky stuff. It would be awesome if we could revert the bad changes on 2.0 and still BE on 2.0 to play the expansion, but I know that's not going to happen.

As I said, it's clear they changed the main game that we know and loved for 3 years to adapt to an expansion 3 years later versus doing it right and adapting the expansion TO THE MAIN GAME.

[DEAD MEAT]

cool beanz,
but what happens when STEAM tries to auto update it, will it remain this beta version. When I'm looking at this game I do not seem to have any options to not update it.
My options are ... just how and when it updates, not to stop them all together?

[RIVEIR]

Originally posted by DEAD MEAT:

cool beanz,
but what happens when STEAM tries to auto update it, will it remain this beta version. When I'm looking at this game I do not seem to have any options to not update it.
My options are ... just how and when it updates, not to stop them all together?

If you use the Beta you’re done with updates. It remains that version. Unless they remove it from the beta tab which is highly unlikely

[$CRWD]

Originally posted by DEAD MEAT:

cool beanz,
but what happens when STEAM tries to auto update it, will it remain this beta version. When I'm looking at this game I do not seem to have any options to not update it.
My options are ... just how and when it updates, not to stop them all together?

Set the game to update on launch, and rather than launch through steam, just launch the exe directly.

[DEAD MEAT]

Originally posted by RIVEIR:

Originally posted by DEAD MEAT:

cool beanz,
but what happens when STEAM tries to auto update it, will it remain this beta version. When I'm looking at this game I do not seem to have any options to not update it.
My options are ... just how and when it updates, not to stop them all together?

If you use the Beta you’re done with updates. It remains that version. Unless they remove it from the beta tab which is highly unlikely

Originally posted by Pietro:

Originally posted by DEAD MEAT:

cool beanz,
but what happens when STEAM tries to auto update it, will it remain this beta version. When I'm looking at this game I do not seem to have any options to not update it.
My options are ... just how and when it updates, not to stop them all together?

Set the game to update on launch, and rather than launch through steam, just launch the exe directly.

Thanks,
cool beanz ... I'm a 62 year old SIMULATIONS player, and I'll take all the help I can get.

[Beltway]

For how long it's going to be supported?

[mayrc]

Yep thanks the game was so good before patch now i can enjoy the game again even if it means skipping Phantom liberty. Glad i didnt buy it on launch.

[𝕷𝖆𝖗𝖆𝕸]

But what about phantom liberty? does it work with this 1.63 version? and if I decide to return to update 2.01 can I?

[XAPDPOK]

Here in 2025 I applaud you man for keeping this bit of knowledge live. Played the game on launch, really enjoyed it back then, returned now for phantom liberty and constantly had an itch to go back to the og version of progression and ui, so thank you

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by XAPDPOK:

Here in 2025 I applaud you man for keeping this bit of knowledge live. Played the game on launch, really enjoyed it back then, returned now for phantom liberty and constantly had an itch to go back to the og version of progression and ui, so thank you

Not only can you go back (and forth) if you wish.... You can have both versions.

I have a small SSD dedicated to just cyberpunk (the game itself)
Currently it has folders for each version of the game I keep.
1.61 modded
1.63 legacy vanilla
2.02 modded backup.

I have shortcuts to each .exe on my desktop, so I can start any of these versions from there.
No need to worry about steam patching them, since steam didn't install them there.
You can just copy the whole cyberpunk 2077 folder over.
The only issue is save games.

Saves are not saved to the game folder, but to one in your main drive (C:)
And copies of a save, even inside another folder inside the save game folder, show up inside the game.
So to fix that, I go up 1 folder and save them there, inside named folders for each V
(That way, I can copy out and in different versions of my saves, as 1.61 is compatible with 2.02 but buggy...but 2.02 is not compatible at all backwards)

Originally posted by 𝕷𝖆𝖗𝖆𝕸:

But what about phantom liberty? does it work with this 1.63 version? and if I decide to return to update 2.01 can I?

You can go back to 2.0+ any time by opting out of the 1.63 legacy beta, but saves will likely be bugged in 2.0+ (so it's recommended to start over)

Unfortunately 1.63 is not compatible at all with the expansion.
Phantom Liberty was created around 2.0 exclusively, and requires it's mechanics to function.
The updated perk system and reworked attributes system are integral to its workings, and can't be separated out so easily.

(Tho some crazy arse motherf*cker of an insane mod maker might be able to manually build the whole thing as some insane modded dlc, like the folks who rebuilt Morrowind in Oblivion or Skyrim lol. They would probably have to do it all by hand tho, and it would likely require mods that no longer are updated or supported for that version, and *that* would likely need the original makers permissions to include or host, their older originals. A mammoth task to be sure. But there is always *someone* willing to go 'hold my NiCola' and give it a punt)