Cyberpunk 2077: Overdrive trailer blows fans away with its next-gen graphics

Thanks to a number of big updates, as well as the extra hype that the Netflix anime series, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners generated, Cyberpunk 2077 today is feels like a very different game to the one that released in December 2020. Fans are genuinely so excited about the upcoming Phantom Liberty expansion, and who can blame them? It stars Idris Elba, for crying out loud. Before that releases though, fans have a huge new update to look forward to - Overdrive Mode.

Overdrive Mode is coming to the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 next week, and will add path tracing to the game - basically a better version of ray tracing which simulates light even better than before. While Night City was already an undeniably beautiful location, this new technology takes it up a notch - as TechEBlog reports, every source of light, from the billboards dotted around the city to the headlights from cars, will all be ray traced. All light sources will cast more accurate shadows, too.

“This not only gives better visuals to the players but also has the promise to revolutionise the entire pipeline of how games are being created,” Pawel Kozlowski, senior technology developer engineer at NVIDIA said in a recent blog post.

The update is totally free, and will be releasing on 11 April. However, you’ll need a pretty high-powered PC in order to run it - unsurprisingly, the mode requires some high specs to function. NVIDIA recommends that players use a GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU and NVIDIA DLSS 3.