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A quest forCyberpunk 2077in the style of the first-person shooterSuperhotwas workshopped for Cyberpunk 2077, according to a quest designer who worked on the game. For those unfamiliar, Superhot is a first-person shooter where time only moves when the player moves, adding a neat puzzle-like element to every level.
In response to news about a Superhot mod releasing for Cyberpunk 2077, Philipp Weber of CD Projekt Red spoke about Cyberpunk’s scrapped quest in a post on X: “That’s so cool to see! Early in development we briefly workshopped a quest with similar mechanics. You became a construct, essentially able to do a million things at once, and this is how we simulated the full quest only taking a few seconds in ‘real time’. Now someone did it!”
In Cyberpunk, a construct is a digitalised consciousness of a human. It’s a form of immortality, essentially translating a human brain into code. Johnny Silverhand, Saburo Arasaka and Alt Cunningham are constructs you encounter in Cyberpunk 2077.
The use of Superhot-style mechanics to simulate the neural power of a construct is an interesting one, but CD Projekt Red perhaps ultimately felt it was out of step with the rest of the game. Thankfully, the aforementioned Cyberpunk Super Hot Mode mod by Nexus Mods userjackexe has now made this a reality.
Using the mod, you’ll be able toggle the mode on and off, adding some extra energy to battles for players looking to play Cyberpunk 2077 differently. However, a key difference between the mod and Superhot is that the player dies to one bullet in Superhot, whereas that doesn’t appear to be the case in Super Hot Mode.
Cyberpunk 2077 in slow motion where the player only has one life would be reminiscent of something likeGhostrunner 2, where the player needs to navigate a fight perfectly to progress. Obviously, Ghostrunner was designed with this in mind and Cyberpunk 2077 was not.
CD Projekt Red is currently working on a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, codenamed Project Orion. Orion is primarily in development by the team in Boston, with help from the teams in Vancouver and Warsaw.
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Developed by CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077 is a first-person action role-playing game based on the Cyberpunk tabletop RPG. You must choose your path through life in the lawless Night City, while contending with the memories of Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves).
