Cyberpunk 2077

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28851619

Just wondering what 2020ish or later cyberpunk books/authors you've read and would recommend. Every list I find is either the same handful of admittedly quintessential 1970/80s stuff (Gibson, Stephenson, Dick, etc), mega compilations that aren't deliniated by year/quality (and haven't been updated in years), or wildly irrelevant bot slop.

Human authors only... nothing AI/LLM-generated, please.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32485136

TL;DR:

• Directed by Kai Ikarashi (responsible for episode 6 of season one)
• Standalone story
• 10 episodes
• “A raw chronicle of redemption and revenge”
• “I wasn’t satisfied with the sadness… so I want you to be even more sad now.” - Bartosz Sztybor (writer/producer of both seasons)
• Key art

If this is true, there should be a 2.3 update coming

Original post on Bluesky

What are y'all running for mods these days?

I didn't know they didn't affect achievements, so I'm just getting into them now after my first ending (I restarted a lot).

So far I have:

• some body mods
• Lizzie's Braindances/Dark Future/Street Vendors to work together for immersion.
• Also, Night City Alive for immersion, but it doesn't really interact with the ones above.
• I forgot the name but it replaces River with Rhino, including a mostly-passable AI voice change.

Any other suggestions? I think I could use a combat mod, something that spices things up a bit and adds challenge. I might try Amateur Hackers and AI Netrunners Enhanced, so something that blends well with that would be preem.

Long story short, "CHOOH₂" is probably esters of oxalic acid (C₂H₂O₄ a.k.a "CHOO CHOO") as additive to biogasoline derived from GMO crops.

Fortunately, even though the "red tanks go boom when you shoot or quickhack them" chemistry is scary-accurate...

Could Such a Hazardous Fuel System Be Adopted in Reality?

Unlikely at scale in democratic nations due to:

1. Continued oil abundance from fracking, oil sands, and conventional reserves.
2. Rapid cost declines and deployment of renewables (solar, wind, nuclear).
3. Strong regulatory frameworks (OSHA, EPA) and legal challenges. (Possibly moot in the US, but there's hope I suppose.)
4. Public and corporate pressure for safer, cleaner energy. (When the enemy is only chasing money, you can probably get them to back anything if it sells their product to you. That said, fuck Big Data Is Watching You.)

a) Possible in authoritarian or resource-constrained regimes where safety is sacrificed for cheap energy or autarky. b) Niche or military uses might tolerate riskier fuels for strategic reasons.

Final Thoughts

While CHOOH₂’s explosive volatility and dystopian neglect make for compelling fiction, the real world’s energy landscape—with abundant oil, advancing renewables, and regulatory safeguards—makes widespread adoption of such dangerous biofuels highly improbable. Vigilance, policy resilience, and community action remain key to ensuring safe, sustainable energy futures.

So basically, CHOOH₂ is real and refers to one of the fuel additives, not the fuel itself (which is biogasoline or similar). Fortunately for everyone, nobody wants to own a cyberbugatti if it actually explodes if you shoot the gas tank and most countries aren't beholden to that monster in the oval office, Russia's famous hate machine, or the CCP.

Just keep pushing for renewables and mass transit, or impeachment if you're in the US and he's still somehow in power now that he's violated a direct court order from the SCOTUS and been found in contempt of court.

Anyway, I just thought this was an interesting one to share. Politics don't have a place here, I'm guessing, so try to keep the discussion to chemistry and the implications it could have for a society that actually went the route that the Cyberpunk timeline did.

EDIT: Can anybody ask around reddit? They keep banning me.

Second Heart should have 300 - 200 seconds ( 5 - 3.3 minutes ) timeout. But for me it is 35 MINUTES, does anybody know why?

Tier 4:

Tier 5++:

Additional Info:

One of the images contains cooldown for Self-Ice. That one is actually seconds and work as it intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ObhEWzCvo

I saw it's 60% off on steam rn and was thinking about pulling the trigger finally lol

Ok this one blew me away, its another little no parkour required area and this time with multiple fairly obvious yet inconspicuous entrances, beyond being pretty this one has some pretty strong cut-gig vibes.

One entrance hidden behind a Trauma team AV, I later found prettier entrances but I'm not booting up the game with all my mods again. Its pretty winding down there but you can find a small un-marked scav event as article of evidence #1.

Star of the show is this pit, equidistant from pretty much all entrances and with a clearly deliberate parkour path all the way down.

Its a looooong way down, there's also a dead guy with a lore shard down here and a weird red fan that I all the garbage slopes into like it was meant to be some kind of entrance.

This elevator has no useable floors but otherwise appears to be completely functional, even the doors work.

Map location of one entrance for convenience.

So I stumbled upon another cool little spot that's totally easy to overlook despite all of us having certainly passed it dozens of time. its another great example of verticality with a little village of shops and homes tucked into the shadowy spaces between buildings, it even has a little scene with a lore shard if you explore all the way to the bottom.

From above we can see just how far the rabbit hole goes, with the deepest part being accessable by ladders just under the pipes on the left.

It's dystopian as hell but damn this place has a vibe, wish V could have an apartment here.

Looking up from the lowest inhabited section the sky is barely visible under all that concrete and steel.

Just a map location:

So I am playing with the Hardcore 22 V2 mod which makes enemies a lot more deadly but removes the egregious spongyness of very hard mode in exchange.

This gun just has it all, quick fire shotgun blasts for cqb, long range still fairly quick lovetaps to the head for when a ton of enemies are rushing you at once and of course a charged mode to punch through walls, just beautiful with stalker optics (I also banned myself from using the middle click highlight because its OP as hell)

Patch 2.21 for Cyberpunk 2077 is being rolled out on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S!

This update adds support for DLSS 4 on PC and introduces various fixes, notably to SmartFrames on Xbox and Photo Mode across all platforms. For details, check the full list of changes below:

Photo Mode

• Nibbles and Adam Smasher can now be spawned while V is in the air or in water.
• Fixed the Facial Expression option for Adam Smasher.
• Fixed an issue where Adam Smasher's glowing chest cyberware was missing.
• Fixed an issue where, if Johnny's Alternate Appearance was enabled, both options to spawn him (default and alternate) resulted in the alternate look.
• Characters spawned while V is in the air or in water will no longer snap to the ground.
• Characters will now be properly saved in presets.
• Spawned characters will now be visible after adding a background.
• V's rotation and position will now be properly saved in presets.
• Fixed an issue where adjusting the Up/Down slider for V wouldn't change their position between certain values.
• NPCs that turn invisible after disabling the Surrounding NPCs option will no longer have collision.
• Fixed an issue where loading a preset could cause additional light sources to appear even when disabled, or spawn them in incorrect positions.
• Fixed an issue where the camera could get stuck on walls after setting Full Collision to ON.
• Fixed an issue where camera settings would only apply after loading a saved preset twice.
• Enabling a background will no longer change camera position.
• Rotating the camera will now work properly with a background enabled.
• Fixed an issue where the prompts for Move Camera and Rotate Camera would appear when the camera cannot be moved (e.g. when using the First-Person Perspective camera).
• Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to move the camera after spawning a character while highlighting the Edit Character option.
• Disabling Chromatic Aberration in the Graphics settings will no longer affect the ability to adjust it.
• Fixed an issue where some items in scenes disappeared after setting the Surrounding NPCs option to OFF.
• Fixed an issue where enabling PhysX Cloth would unfreeze NCPD vehicles.
• The rule of thirds grid will now properly adapt to the selected aspect ratio.
• Fixed an issue where the image in a SmartFrame wouldn't be visible if accessed while V was not facing it.
• Fixed an issue where opening Photo Mode simultaneously with Wardrobe or Stash caused the game to become unresponsive.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to access Photo Mode before a save file fully loaded, causing it to open without UI and block any further action.
• Fixed other minor Photo Mode issues related to spawned characters, camera movement, controls, and more.
• Fixed various UI issues in Photo Mode, SmartFrames and Gallery menus, including slider inconsistencies, localization errors, missing sound effects, incorrect behavior when interacting with certain features, and more.

Vehicle Color Customization

• Fixed several texture and color inconsistencies for vehicles that have CrystalCoat applied.
• Fixed an issue where the explanation of the spray paint icon was missing in the Autofixer tutorial pop-up after a vehicle contract was completed.
• Fixed several minor UI issues in the CrystalCoat and TwinTone menus.

Character Creation

• Randomizer settings in Character Creation will now be preserved after advancing to the Customize Attributes step.
• Fixed an issue where the Piercing Color option would not be available in Character Creation after enabling piercings if V initially had none.
• Fixed other minor issues in Character Creation, including appearance options not applying correctly, visual clipping, inconsistent UI behavior, functionality issues after using the randomizer, and more.

Miscellaneous

• Run This Town - Fixed an issue where, under certain circumstances, it wasn't possible to deactivate the Aguilar imprint after meeting with Bennett.
• Fixed several instances where Johnny could appear duplicated in the passenger seat during some quests when he was already present in the scene.
• Fixed an issue where Johnny did not appear as a passenger often enough.
• Introduced several fixes to NPC and vehicle behavior for various small events throughout Night City.
• Fixed an issue where some vendors were not interactable as intended.
• Fixed an issue where voiceovers on TV news channels could be missing or too quiet.
• Fixed an issue where the Quadra Turbo-R V-Tech used a description of Quadra Turbo-R 740 instead of its own unique one.
• Fixed the missing 2.2 "check what's new" pop-up in the main menu.

Console-specific

• Fixed an issue where screenshots appeared as blank in the Gallery on Xbox if they were taken with HDR10 enabled.
• Added a pop-up in the Gallery to notify players when access to screenshots is blocked by the console's privacy settings on Xbox.
• Screenshots deleted on Xbox outside the Gallery UI will now be correctly marked in the Gallery and will disappear from occupied slots after reopening the Gallery.
• Fixed an issue where the Graphics Mode on Xbox Series S could be set to Quality instead of Performance by default.

PC-specific

• Added support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, which boosts FPS by using AI to generate up to three times per traditionally rendered frame – enabled with GeForce RTX 50 Series on January 30th. DLSS 4 also introduces faster single Frame Generation with reduced memory usage for RTX 50 and 40 Series. Additionally, you can now choose between the CNN model or the new Transformer model for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, DLSS Super Resolution, and DLAA on all GeForce RTX graphics cards today. The new Transformer model enhances stability, lighting, and detail in motion.
• Fixed artifacts and smudging on in-game screens when using DLSS Ray Reconstruction.
• The Frame Generation field in Graphics settings will now properly reset after switching Resolution Scaling to OFF.

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