Everything we know about Cyberpunk 2077 | GOG.com posted:

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City, a megalopolis obsessed with power, glamour and body modification. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant that is the key to immortality. You can customize your character’s cyberware (in 11 slots; Frontal Cortex, Ocular System, Circulatory System, Immune System, Nervous System, Integumentary System, Operating System, Skeleton, Hands, Arms, and Legs), skillset and playstyle, and explore a vast city where the choices you make shape the story and the world around you.

Become a cyberpunk, an urban mercenary equipped with cybernetic enhancements and build your legend on the streets of Night City.

Enter the massive open world of Night City, a place that sets new standards in terms of visuals, complexity and depth.

Take the riskiest job of your life and go after a prototype implant that is the key to immortality.
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In contrast to previous CD PROJEKT RED games, Cyberpunk 2077 is an FPP game. This lets you immerse yourself fully in the game’s world, and makes using all the weapons provided to your character much easier, and satisfying, to use.

The arsenal V can use in Cyberpunk 2077 is huge! Revolvers, machine guns, shotguns, pistols, knives, swords – you name it! 12 corporations produce weapons distributed on Night City’s streets – from top tier arms from Arasaka, to Rostovic products that almost anyone can afford. As for types of weaponry, you can choose from power weapons, tech weapons, smart weapons (with guided ammunition), and melee weapons (along with razor-sharp katanas). In many cases, once you’ll find your favorite arms’ type, it’s up to you to customize its parameters.

The same diversity applies to vehicles you’ll encounter in Night City. 12 car manufacturers will supply V with cars. This includes luxurious Herrera and Rayfield vehicles to middle-tier cars from ThorTon, and even small, cheap cars from Makigai. It’s already confirmed that one of the game’s best cars will be a 1977 Porsche 911 owned previously by Johnny Silverhand. Natural born rebels can chase the wind with motorcycles from Yaiba or Arch (a real-live company owned by Keanu Reeves). There are also military vehicles from Arasaka and Militech corporations, but getting behind the wheel of one of them may prove quite the challenge!

As we already mentioned, another one of Cyberpunk 2077's important features is cybernetic enhancements, which can turn your body into a killing machine. Cyberware can modify your character’s stats, with two important limitations – how much your body can take in, and how much your wallet can give out. Cyberware also gives our hero a gate to Braindance, a sort of personal version of the net. Thanks to it, you can not only indulge yourself in virtual reality pleasures but also access other people’s memories in extreme cases.

A selective timeline | cyberpunk.fandom.com posted:

<sub>1996
• The Event known as The Collapse begins.

2022
• The Fourth Corporate War begins.

2023
• Nuclear device detonated in the Arasaka Towers facility, much of central Night City destroyed.
• Over a half million people are killed. Another quarter million die in the resulting aftermath.
• Arasaka forces expelled from continental US.
• Fourth Corporate War ends.
• NET shuts down.

2026-2030
• The Diaspora begins. Groups displaced from ruined cities set out to reclaim locations abandoned since the Collapse.

2030-2035
• Resettlement of Suburban Night City.
• Reestablishing of Nomad High Roads.
• Start of Night City Reconstruction.

2035-2049
• Netwatch attempts to clear out the R.A.B.I.D.S. fail, all major nodes into the old NET shutdown.
• Rebuilding of old factories and old tech begins to be replaced, New Corps begin to rise.
• Events of Cyberpunk Red take place.

2054
• Oct.12: V is born

2062
• Haiti officially abandoned after a series of vicious storms.

2069
• Unification War starts

2070
• Unification War ends by Free States signed a treaty known as the Treaty of Unification and Arasaka is welcomed back to Night City.

2077
• The events of the game take place.</sub>

The World of Cyberpunk 2077 posted:

<sub>CITY CENTER
About fifty years ago this place was a ruined battlefield, still smoldering after the climax of the
Fourth Corporate War, when a nuke was detonated on floor 120 of the Arasaka Towers.
After years of rebuilding and reconstruction, City Center was restored to its former glory and
is once again the seat of Night City's financial and economic power.

WATSON
Watson used to be a place to live and thrive. During the time of Rebuilding the Watson district had it all.

It all ended when Saburo Arasaka came back to Night City after the Unification War.
Saburo's lawyers and bankers finished off his competitors here--one and all.

That's when Watson changed. A lot of people became unemployed, and Arasaka took over the Watson Waterfront.

HEYWOOD
Heywood is a neighborhood of contrasts. The northern part is modern and well maintained.
Further to the south and east the district is visibly poorer and more dangerous. This is where
gangs like the Valentinos and 6th Street run their businesses - legal and illegal alike.

PACIFICA
The idea was to make money on tourism. Investors poured massive sums into
a project in an attempt to turn the poor southern suburbs of Night City into
a booming tourist resort.

Then came 2069 and the Unification War... Most investors withdrew their funding
and abandoned Pacifica. This left thousands of people without a place to go.

Then, in an unprecedented act of civil initiative the Voodoo Boys unified the locals
to create a new Creole community in Pacifica.

WESTBROOK
These are the residences of the rich and powerful situated on the hillside of North Oak.
Charter Hill, the promised land for all ambitious mid-level corporate employees.
Lastly, Japantown, the entertainment center of Night City.

Parts of Westbrook adjacent to City Center suffered during the Nuke Incident in 2023, and
for the next twenty years crumbling skyscrapers haunted the landscape.

Then came the Rebuilding in 2040. Asian corporations began to erect new megabuildings,
restoring Japantown to its former glory.

SANTO DOMINGO
Santo Domingo is one of Night City's oldest districts. Its unique location saved
it from destruction during the Fourth Corporate War.

Divided into two subdistricts, Arroyo and Rancho Coronado, Santo Domingo is
subject to constant change. Various corporations are continually buying and
selling land for new investements, and demolishing old factories and warehouses.
Construction sites are guarded by corporate security forces - supported by drones.

DOGTOWN
A district added in the Phantom Liberty expansion. Located between Santo Domingo and Pacifica [...]

THE BADLANDS
Not an official district of Night City, the Badlands are home to the Nomads.

Nomads emerged as a seperate caste of society during the collpase at the end of the previous century. The global crises caused by worldwide financial meltdown had resulted in an estimated one quarter of the US population becoming homeless.
It was then that groups of refugess began to move from one city to another in search for a better life. These people eventually came to be known as Nomads.

The Nomads are divided into families, clans, tribes, and nations. Families can be as few as two people to as many as one hundred. A clan can range from a few hundred to over a thousand members. Tribes are much larges, consisting of several tens of thousands of people.
Nomads are expected to contribute to their society from a very early age.
Nomads today are divided into Seven Nations and Raffen Shiv. As the name suggests, the Seven Nations are comprised of seven different groups, each with a single respected leader. Raffen Shiv are outlaws and outcast from Nomad society, and do not form a single nation.
Robberies, ambushes, and raids performed by various Raffen Shiv gangs are often reported by victims as "Nomad attacks", and are the reason that innocent Nomads are sometimes greeted with a negative response.</sub>

Everything we know about Cyberpunk 2077 | GOG.com posted:

In Cyberpunk 2077, our hero is highly customizable. Apart from his or her appearance, along with details like eyes and hair color, body shape, or tattoos, we can select our character’s Lifepath from the three distinct options available. Our choice will not only affect the character’s stats and traits but also will give them a unique narrative background.

Everything we know about Cyberpunk 2077 | GOG.com posted:

• If you choose the Nomad Lifepath, the hero will come to Night City from the polluted Badlands, where independence and resourcefulness are top qualities.
• If you decide on the Streetkid Lifepath, the main character will know more about life on Night City’s crime-infested streets.
• Finally, if your choice is the Corporate Lifepath, you’ll be skilled in the subtle art of intrigue, honed in the corridors of the Arasaka megacorporation.

Character Attributes Guide | nightcity.gg posted:

Body
The Body Attribute modifies Shotguns, Two-Handed, Melee, and Athletics skills.

Intelligence
The Intelligence Attribute modifies the Device Hacking and Target Hacking skills.

Reflexes
The Reflexes Attribute modifies Handguns, Rifles, and Blades skills.

Technical Ability
The Technical Ability Attribute modifies Crafting and Engineering skills.

Cool
The Cool Attribute modifies Assassination, Nerve, and Sniper Rifles skills.

quote:

6 skin types. 35 hairstyles. 17 eyes. 8 eyebrows. 17 mouths. 17 jaws. 17 ears. 9 cyberware. 10 scars. 7 facial tattoos. 12 piercing. 5 sets of teeth. 8 eye makeup. 6 lip makeup. 3 blemish types. 3 nipple types. 3 breast sizes. 5 body tattoos. 2 body scars. 2 penis types (or none). 3 penis sizes. 1 vagina type (or none). 5 pubic hair types.

Sachant posted:

This is pretty cool, 3D map (with markers etc.) of Night City. https://atlasforge.gg/cyberpunk-2077/map

v1ld posted:

Chesapeake is an Iconic Smart SMG from the Amazon Prime tie in. It's great and you can keep it upgraded to the end of the game. Use a mod like this one to get it without loving around with Twitch and stuff: Phantom Liberty exclusive items

Or cut and paste this into the CET console to have all the extra drop items added to your inventory, includes Chesapeake

code:

	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Twitch_Drop_Specs", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Twitch_Drop_Vest", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Twitch_Drop_Pants", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Twitch_Drop_Boots", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Ashura_Twitch", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Warden_Amazon", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Nekomata_Amazon", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Kyubi_Amazon", 1) 
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Grit_Amazon", 1)
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Crusher_Amazon", 1) 
	Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Ajax_Amazon", 1)

Phantom Liberty Optimized Settings posted:

Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

Miles Tost talking about level design and the lessons we learned in his GDC talk from this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXLRd5Kah-I

forest spirit posted:

Roundtable discussion with Josh Sawyer, Mike Laidlaw, Strix Beltran, Paweł Sasko, and Lis Moberly on RPGs

quote:

"Witcher 3 has so many loving tricks," Sasko said, explaining one in particular—the way it would often cut to black to stage scenes or transition between bits of a quest, letting the developers spawn or despawn objects, and change the weather or time of day. "Sometimes there's a scene of a guy behind a bar, and he's like, submerged waist-up to the terrain because we didn't have animation. So he's just sitting there. But he looks perfectly fine in that scene, and it looks like he actually matches and everything works.

"Then you look at Cyberpunk. No cuts, no black screens, you're 'in' V all the time. Staging is in-person. It got so incredibly more expensive to generate branches. Adding branches to Witcher 3 was so easy in comparison to Cyberpunk. This article really sparked that discussion."

The article about big budget RPGs

forest spirit posted:

I'm timestamping to a fun part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reFw8H6dF28&t=452s

Link to this guy's mod list: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OCJhal0o9ooSX4TudCag5yAMGJ06s96H/view

For people asking for mods, the entirety of this video will give you plenty of ideas of where to start and the link means you can piecemeal out what you want.

forest spirit posted:

cross posting from the VR thread, but if you have VR you can visit night city now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmSMe4lH4Sg

VorpX developer has released a six-dof free standalone VR mod for Cyberpunk 2077.

sean10mm posted:

Cyberpunk Mod Reviews

2house2fly posted:

I'm only halfway through this video but it's a pretty cool essay on the narrative themes; there's so much talk online about the technical state of the game and the gameplay systems that I'm inclined to boost any talk about the story:

https://youtu.be/GxDJuTqmdBs

Farm Frenzy posted:

New Jason Schrier article about the games' development is a pretty good read. very classic story of how game development goes wrong

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/cyberpunk-2077-what-caused-the-video-game-s-disastrous-rollout

also this:

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1350330156683026433

itry posted:

Somebody compiled a bunch of photos into a satellite-like map of the game area

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/744

https://maps.piggyback.com/cyberpunk-2077/maps/night-city

Bronze Fonz posted:

Found this chart to be very useful for PC settings, shows performance cost each option has:

ughhhh posted:

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/cyberpunk-2077-aesthetics-elon-musk-anti-capitalist-fiction

Even Jacobin is in on it

It's actually a good article tho. Didn't think about capitalist realism (which both works well and is inevitable for the cyberpunk gaae) when thinking about choices and consequences presented to the player.

Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

We named all the quests after the "prologue" after song titles, mostly stuff we imagined that Johnny might have liked or been influenced by (and era appropriate to the alt-history). We made a few exceptions because of reasons (usually quest designer REALLY wanted a specific song, or the title was perfect and we were too exausted to keep looking).

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bV7n0QshCtpLXfQlGEl4K
Tidal (for jerks): https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/98e6ca98-dd4c-4726-9fc8-e46c4528e50a

Not quite everything is on there, cause some songs aren't on streaming services, so we've also included a few covers and substitutions. Obviously minor spoilers for quest names.

That Italian Guy posted:

Doing a rough transcript of the spoilerfree Q/A from this super long video so that you don't have to go through 3h of it. I may miss some short Q/A here and there but it should be most of the content. Also, I'm going to skip Qs where the answer is "I don't know". I've skipped Q/A that were too spoilery for my taste, although I've included some very light spoilers under spoiler tags.

[CLICK TO GO TO ORIGINAL POST FOR TRANSCRIPT] (It's long)

Palpek posted:

Wet Fifty posted:

The screen you get after trying to start the game after the PC preload. No spoilers.

Gyoru posted:

Spuckuk posted:

I'd really recommend Altered Carbon: Resleeved in particular, the standalone animated movie, it's VERY CP2077 in looks and execution, even moreso than the TV show imho.

Shoehead posted:

The role Karl Urban's chin was born to play.

Shoehead posted:

Guy buys some weird scavenged robot parts from a junk vendor for his artist girlfriend to use and... uh it goes really well.

Shoehead posted:

Ok this movie sucks but its got Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall and all Hauer does is smoke and ingest coffee and it's all on youtube

Mantis42 posted:

Tetsuo is about a guy who gets infected with this living metal organism and goes full cyberpsycho. Think of it as less of a robot and more like a tangled mass of metal and wires jutting out of human body and you'll understand why this is a famously grotesque film. Like if Adam Smasher was cobbled together by the people on Junkyard Wars. A really silly and relatively brief Japanese indie film on a small budget.

Shoehead posted:

A paraplegic man is given an experimental nerve-chip that allows him to walk again and starts using it's help (with it's AI assistant) to investigate the mugging that injured him.

CobiWann posted:

I'd recommend Strange Days as well. It gives off the "high tech/low life" vibe very well mixed with police corruption.

Mantis42 posted:

Videodrome is about a pirate snuff channel that alters your mind's eye and the rebel new flesh that seeks to overthrow it. Does Jean Baudrillard better than The Matrix and completely by coincidence, having been written concurrently with Simulacra and Simulation.

Simone Magus posted:

Most cyberpunk writers get hyper focused on the neon, the grime, the transhumanism - all good stuff - but only Gibson, Sterling and a few others get the details which, for me, make the setting appealing.

doingitwrong posted:

In all the chat about what to read, I’m surprised not to see much mention of Bruce Sterling, “the other cyberpunk guy” who has a standing slot at SxSW as a kind of uncle figure for weird Wired tech.

Islands in the Net is a classic. Distraction is my favourite.

2house2fly posted:

I reread Do Androids Dream and it absolutely rules. I'm so mad at ~23 year old me for not liking it because Deckard just shoots Roy Baty mid-paragraph instead of having a climactic rooftop chase and tearjerking monologue. Read it if you haven't for some wonderful (albeit depressing) vibes

Son of Rodney posted:

I only read snow crash from Stephenson and I distinctly had the impression that I was reading a kind of comedic tribute to Gibson and the genre. It was so tongue in cheek and over the top that I never got the idea that people would see it as a serious novel. The main guy is named hiro protagonist and delivers pizza in a batmobile for an Italian mafia boss who's name is papa Giovanni or something. That's like fanfic level of plot points.

Simone Magus posted:

Snow Crash is of-course a parody, but it is still pretty... bad. There's juvenile fun to be had there, sure. Just be prepared to cringe a lot.

Spuckuk posted:

If you need a really ott, cyberpunk in mostly aesthetic only, ultimately fun show, the anime Akudama Drive thats airing right now might do you.

Spuckuk posted:

Person of Interest is lighter on the scifi stuff but does a great job of portraying a runner group (and dystopian as heck)

Splorange posted:

Since this thread keeps firing neurons that connect to related media and speaking of that cop quest: I remember Total Recall 2070 as being a fairly compelling tv show that lasted only one season.

I don't know if you can get hold of it now and I fear that it might turn out to be garbage that doesn't hold up in 2020. But I think it did have an overarching plot and a really nice aesthetic.

I do remember the main actor being a poor man's David Duchovny as in; could easily have been doing soft porn before this gig.

Axel Serenity posted:

I made a video awhile back about some of my favorite futuristic/cyberpunk games to play while waiting if we're looking at recommendations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJVz8ACgGGk

Was pleasantly surprised by Cloudpunk, even though it might be a bit too chill for some people.

Phenotype posted:

I just rolled credits on Gamedec, and I think it was a pretty good ride all the way through. The gimmick is that in the cyberpunk dystopia, people spend entire days jacked into VR and you're a private detective who solves cases that intersect with VR worlds. And the detective stuff is pretty good! Lots of fairly three-dimensional characters, lots of clues to find, lots of stuff that you'll read and it ticks over in your head and you're like "ohhh poo poo", a deduction mechanic where you have to commit to your theory of what happened or whodunnit. As far as the narrative, I don't think it "flubs it" at all -- some of the twists were a little predictable but in a well-foreshadowed, purposeful sort of way, y'know? You don't say "how predictable" when someone gets shot with the gun that's been on the mantle the whole time. And it still shocked me quite a few times, too! Definitely worth looking at if you're at all interested in Cyberpunk or Disco Elysium style games.

Basic Chunnel posted:

I'll keep banging this drum but Prey is a cyberpunk game in which you are an Arasaka scion

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i am ready for a enjoyable/good if buggy time. can't wait to play green haired/puss peepered redeedmed corpo V and cut up some corpos with Neo.

also loving amazing OT.

The Last Call posted:

A hell of an OP, great job, you did beyond imagination.

kloa posted:

something to play while waiting:

https://neenaw.itch.io/cyberjunk-2020

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Yay nomad wins. My thinking is that since I don't know much about the setting and the focus is the city choosing a path where I'm coming in as an outsider would be best for a first run.

Sachant posted:

Is Penis 3 a GameStop exclusive?

Sachant posted:

Is Penis 3 a GameStop exclusive?

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

OP, whenever the spoiler thread goes up, can you add that to the OP too?


Thanks OP + nice thread

Dapper_Swindler posted:

the rockateer is a loving amazing movie and i am glad someone else remembers that scene too.

DC Murderverse posted:

I cannot wait to download 100GB to play a game that I bought on disc on its day of release

Darth Walrus posted:

Definitely in this for Corpo (puts you right in the middle of the game's main plot, immerses you in all the cool futuristic technology of the setting, and offers plenty of fun fish-out-of-water options when you get tossed onto the street), and still interested to see how feasible (and playable) full wizard builds end up being. Why play a cyberpunk game where you're mostly using your own primitive meat-sleeve to fight people?

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

Good thing it's out at the start of the month so it can chew through entire data caps