Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Adds Dancing Robot As Chappie Easter Egg

One eagle-eyed Cyberpunk 2077 player recently noticed a dancing robot in the streets of Night City, one that was possibly added as a reference to the 2017 sci-fi film Chappie. Earlier this week, developer CD Projekt Red released the long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 update patch, which added several features that fans have been waiting for since the long-troubled first-person RPG was launched back in 2020. Additionally, Cyberpunk 2077 was finally made available on current-gen consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, allowing players to take in the sights of Night City in true 4K resolution.

As part of the cyberpunk genre, Cyberpunk 2077 has taken influence from plenty of other noteworthy sci-fi works – which in turn might have drawn their influence from the old Cyberpunk tabletop RPG that Cyberpunk 2077 is based on. One of these works is Chappie, a 2015 film by District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp. The film is set in a dystopian version of Johannesburg, South Africa that is not unlike Cyberpunk 2077’s crime-ridden Night City. A scientist develops an advanced artificial intelligence and implants it into a damaged police robot – which is then taken in by a street gang. Named “Chappie,” this robot is taught how to defend himself on the mean streets of Johannesburg, as well as how to dance and act “cool” in the face of danger.

Reddit user Prophet_of_Duality spotted a possible reference to Chappie while exploring Cyberpunk 2077 in the wake of this week’s 1.5 update patch. In a video posted to the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit, V discovers a lone Arasaka Robot R Mk.2 unit sitting deactivated in a canal near Kabuki. Once V repairs and reactivates this damaged robot, the machine starts dancing and air-drumming in a manner that some viewers in the comments section have compared to Chappie’s dance moves in his titular film. Others have instead noted that the robot’s routine resembles the boxing robot Atom from Real Steel, another sci-fi film centered around a friendly robot that featured Hugh Jackman in a lead role.

See the original post on Reddit here.

As mentioned before, Cyberpunk 2077’s recent 1.5 update patch added many quality-of-life features that were missing from the base game, such as the ability to alter V’s appearance after first creating them in the beginning and rent out multiple apartments that they can share with their given Cyberpunk 2077 love interest. The graphical jump to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S also gained considerable praise, with players posting comparison pictures to show off just how much the visuals have improved from the original PS4 and Xbox One versions. This is all part of CD Projekt’s continuing efforts to restore players’ trust in Cyberpunk 2077 after its controversial launch back in 2020 – an effort that has led to multiple updates and even a wave of positive reviews among PC owners when Cyberpunk 2077 was offered at a discount on Steam last fall.

Given that both Chappie and Cyberpunk 2077 feature law enforcement robots in a gritty, dystopian sci-fi world, it wouldn’t be too out of the ordinary for CDPR to include a small Easter Egg reference to Neil Blomkamp’s under-appreciated 2015 cyberpunk fable. Fans are still finding hidden details in Cyberpunk 2077’s open world of Night City two years after V first set out on their journey to become the world’s most infamous Netrunner, especially in the wake of the recent 1.5 update patch.

Source: Prophet_of_Duality/Reddit

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