Exciting Cyberpunk 2077 details including just what kind of different open world activities, random encounters, quests and side jobs we can do in Night City, Some beautiful new screenshots from CD PROJEKT RED, some details on the district of Watson with some screens and concept art of this melting pot district, and a ton more unique details you may have missed from previews and hands on events all in todays Cyberpunk 2077 News Video!
Before we get into it check out this response to Kanye Wests announcement that he’s running for presidency by the Cyberpunk 2077 twitter page. As we know Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the source of Cyberpunk 2020 and the dark future, so they decided to respond with “sooo this is how it started” insuniating that a Kanye presidency is this timeline’s beginning of the DarkFuture. Definetly some pretty on brand humor from CDPR, which I think we can all agree was a top tier tweet.
Now First up we have a feature from CDPR on the district of Watson explaining the district where V’s apartment resides as follows. “Watson used to have it all. Nightclubs, skyscrapes, corporate offices, a top-end medcenter – even the biggest black market in Night City. Japanese corporations competinv with Arasaka invested billions of Eurodollars in the district, intending to make it self-sufficent and prosperous.
Everything changed when Arasaka returned to the city after the Unification War. It bled other corporations dry and changed Watson forever.
Today, Watson is a sad and deseperate place. It’s one of Night City’s poorest districts and it’s a battleground between Maelstrom and Tyger Claws.
Maelstrom settled in the Northside Industrial District. It’s filled with factories (most of them abandoned) and working-class apartment blocks. You can also find the well-known Totentanz bar here.
Tyger claws operate from Little China and Kabuki. Little China used to be an extension of downtown; It’s a high density urban region with skyscrapers, overpopulated with Asian immigrants during the late 2040s.
The rest of Watson is the Arasaka waterfront. An area off limits for non-employees.”
Moving on we have some of the open world activities that were noted by Journalists who had a chance to go hands on with cyberpunk 2077. Some play testers wrote down each of the open world elements as a comprehensive list, and although there could be more this is a really good sign to the diversity of things to do in Night city. Going down the list we have Main jobs and side jobs, gun for hire or mercenary quests, search and recovery quests, thievery, agent saboteur and SOS quests, Mercs needed, special delivieries, assaults in progress, Cyberpsycho sightings, clothing sotres, ripperdocs, techies, weapons and gun shops, trainers, foods and restaraunts, bars and other side quests.
During the Nomad playthrough, there was a segment where the Snake Nation was mentioned. Now we know the Wraiths and the Aldecaldos are the nomad factions that have been confirmed for Cyberpunk 2077, but hearing a reference to some of the other Nomad nations might give some insight into them showing up at some point during the game. The snake Nation in 2020 was the largest Nomad nation that was created as a response to the Nomad Movement in North America, led by a man named Freddie Douglas.
Now during the Nomad Lifepath previews prior had mentioned attempting to smuggle something into Night City, which we were for the most part never made aware of as the reader. It turns out this was an Iguana, who are now rare because they had seemingly gone extinct over 30 years ago.
At 26 minutes in, Alanah mentions that a Red had told her about a Forza 4 styled driving build for vehicles.
We’ve all seen the Maelstrom 48 minute demo, and again a Red mentioned to Alanah on her playthrough that there were 7 different outcomes of that particular quest. This is insane for the potential of branching narratives, replayability and repurcussions to your actions. One scenario ended with Militech storming the lair and fighting the Maesltrom as you simply looked on.
Some of the loot included condoms, burritos and handcuffs, and there will be a sell all junk button to streamline the selling process at vendors and stores.
When it comes to Melee and Boxing, there is a questline which starts off with the training robot in your apartment. After you’ve completed that, you will move on to a kind of street brawling tournament which begins with fighting the oscillation sync twins in Kabuki.
There is a TV talk show in the world where ARasaka employees are discussing the morality and ethics of the relic chip. It was allegedly created to house the leader of Arasaka’s consciousness. This explains why Silverhand who died at the hands of Adam Smasher is on the chip, and the end of the Cyberpunk 2020 timeline.
