Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 Update Lets Players Finally Punish A…

Summary

The recent Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update allows players to punish the hated character Fingers without consequences, eliminating the need to let him live for exclusive top-tier implants.
The update also brings significant adjustments to the game, including an overhauled skill tree, improved enemy AI, and the ability to fire weapons from a vehicle.
Despite the threat of law enforcement, players are excited to finally take revenge on Fingers for his vile actions, as they no longer have to worry about losing access to his rare cybernetic implants.

The recent Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update patch adds many features to CD Projekt Red’s futuristic first-person RPG, including the ability to punish one of the game’s most hated NPCs without consequence. Night City is home to many unsavory characters, but few have managed to get under the player’s skin quite like Finn "Fingers" Gerstatt, a ripperdoc V encounters during their search for Evelyn Parker. Parker helps V during Cyberpunk 2077’s early heist on Konpeki Plaza - only for Fingers to sell her off to a company that makes snuff braindances.

WARNING: This article has some SPOILERS for Cyberpunk 2077

Parker goes through horrific torture as a result of this, and the trauma ultimately leads her to take her own life. Fingers’s lack of remorse for his role in her fate and the fact that he regularly cons his patients into receiving faulty implants make him especially loathsome in the eyes of Cyberpunk 2077 players, who are given the option to beat up or even outright kill him for his misdeeds. As tempting as this might be, Fingers also grants access to some exclusive top-tier implants should players decide to let him live - or at least he did until Cyberpunk 2077’s latest update.

Not too long after Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update went live earlier this month, players like Reddit user HolyApplebutter noticed that all ripperdocs now provide the upgrades that were once exclusive to Fingers - thus eliminating the one reason most have for not giving him a brutal beating at the first opportunity. The comments section of HolyApplebutter’s post is filled with Cyberpunk 2077 fans relishing the chance to give Fingers his just desserts, including the story of one who killed him and presented his corpse to Wakako Okada (another person responsible for what happened to Evelyn Parker) as a warning of what happens to those who hurt V’s friends.

Being able to punish Fingers for his vile actions is just one of the perks of Cyberpunk 2077’s new 2.0 update, which added a plethora of significant adjustments to the game ahead of Phantom Liberty’s launch earlier this week. This includes an overhauled skill tree that offers up new abilities, improved enemy AI, and even the ability to fire weapons from the driver’s seat of a vehicle. Additionally, Night City police and MaxTac units now hunt players who build up a wanted level from attacking NPCs - even those who are as morally reprehensible as Fingers.

Judging from the comments to HolyApplebutter’s Reddit post, the threat of law enforcement won’t be much of a deterrent against punishing Fingers, especially since players no longer have to worry about losing access to his supply of rare cybernetic implants. As was the case with Cyberpunk 2077 villain Adam Smasher following the success of the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime, fans will likely jump at the chance to punch, maim, or even kill the cowardly and abusive ripperdoc after letting him off scot-free for the past three years.