On an open fire
Everybody in Cinci knows the best way to spend the holidays is hungover. Nobody understood it better than all of you wasters. This Christmas, Cinci received a visit from Saint Nick himself as part of our annual holiday event – and, in the name of good cheer, you guys cumulatively gave him more than 3,200 beers, wines, and shots. More than that: when Santa offered you his friendship, of the entire cyberpunkdreams community, only four miserable grinches turned him down. Guess the Christmas spirit is alive and well in the dark future after all. Unlike the Christmas trees, or the reindeer, or the little kids. But hey – if you’re drunk on Christmas, and you’re gonna be drunk on New Year’s, why bother sobering up between them? In Cinci, all the real heads are gonna schlep it to the new revamped bar mechanics – currently active in Cowgirls and Frank’s and soon to be implemented across all of your favourite dives. Listen to the new bar stories to catch some of Cinci’s most sordid second hand: incest, accidents, and murders. Look, people gotta do something now that the Internet’s broke.

7 MAC 11s
At the start of December, we rolled out a weapons update that mostly changed things under the hood, though players who spend a lot of time with guns noticed a few convenient changes to their inventory management as well. We also tweaked a few other things here and there in the weeks just before and after – weapon holsters, multiple delineations of weapon size, and experimenting with switchable ammo feeds being the big ones. Now it’s easy to equip, swap and manage multiple weapons at the same time – not to mention a whole lot easier for us here on the production side to add new ones. For example: we also, and this is the most important part, added a katana. Yeah, that’s right, like all the real cyberpunks have. Did you get yours already? You should, all the guys who own katanas are meeting up in Discord to talk about how cool and practical our weapons are. Speaking of practical weapons.A thing you won’t find in the magazines

Out here in the fields
Players who keep their ears to the ground already heard the cars coming: the rest of you can think of this message as the roaring coal-rolling v8 motor of a deathproof Ford Falcon. This year you’ll be further from the PZs than ever before when you venture out into the badlands. West of Cinci’s border there’s vast sprawl of dust bowls, famine, and subhumans that some still call Indiana. We have made the difficult and questionable decision to depict this way of life in our game cyberpunkdreams, which we understand some players may find in poor taste – but other players will find that poor taste is just where it begins. Trekking along the abandoned highways you’ll find a world of indifferent hazards, and people who are…a little screwy. Sometimes the kind of screwy that Wes Anderson puts in movies and sometimes the kind of screwy that Tobe Hooper puts in movies.