You Don't Choose Your Gender In Cyberpunk 2077 Anymore

Character customization is an interesting feature in Cyberpunk 2077. It gives players the chance to create the main protagonist on their will.

And for the sake of making everyone comfortable with their experience, the developer CD Projekt Red has made some changes to this feature. Specifically, you'll no longer have to choose your gender while creating your character.

Before getting into the details, let's watch this gameplay demo to see what the character creating parts look like in Cyberpunk 2077. It starts at 0:40, which you can skip to in order to save your precious time:

Cyberpunk 2077 removes the gender-choosing feature

Cyberpunk 2077 has faced some negative feedbacks about the gender-choosing part after some gameplay reveal. To be more specific, in the character creating part, players are required to choose their gender from two options: Male and Female.

People from the LGBT community doesn't like having to do this at all, so they want the developer to make and amendment. CD Projekt Red has taken these feedbacks into consideration seriously. As a result, today, it was announced that it's changing this feature. The game will no longer ask players to choose their gender anymore.

Cyberpunk 2077 Characters — Many players don't like having to choose their gender from only Male and Female

However, that doesn't mean we've lost a huge option in creating our characters. In fact, this option has changed its label to "choosing a body type". The choices are the masculine type and the masculine type.

Cyberpunk 2077 Gender Choice Removed 2 — You don't have to choose your gender anymore, but can still choose your body type

This elimination of the old preset names doesn't affect the whole character customization progress at all but still manages to satisfy the demands of players from the third gender. That's exactly what the developer is aiming to do.

Freely decide how your character looks and sounds

After choosing what your body type is, you can decide what your character's voice will be. From the words of the creators, you can choose one or two different voice tone for your characters. One will sound like a male, and the other will be more feminine. Furthermore, you can choose to mix or connect them at every ratio you want.

The developer even goes more deeply by allowing players to choose the skin tone, the hairstyle and put more tattoos on your protagonist. Jonkers said that CD Projekt Red welcomes every feedbacks from the players, and they'll make changes to deliver the best experience for anyone.