Cyberpunk needs a Taxi System

Good Morning Friends. Sometimes in a game, it is the little things that you really enjoy. Last night I had this thought about how much I enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077 when someone else is driving the car. My entire adult life I have been the primary driver in our household, for various reasons… but not the least of which my wife has significant issues. As a result, I never get to just chill out and gaze out the window watching the scenery go by as I did as a child. So I deeply enjoy the experience of when an NPC drives me around from point a to point b while on a mission. There is just something so cool about the way that this tech works in-game, and I wish honestly that it were an option to just hop in a taxi instead of using the fast travel system.

Another thing that I really dig about Cyberpunk is how Night City has more of a sense of presence than almost any other game that I have played. While set in the future, there are absolutely places that feel like places I have been before. The texture of the city is recognizable, especially as it fades into areas that blend more and more industrial development. Living in Oklahoma there are lots of areas where there is prolific petroleum industry debris jutted right up against an attempt at residential areas. The poorer the area, the more the zoning lines blend and fade into each other. Basically, it is a believable space for me to inhabit while living in this future punk late capitalism hellscape.

I’m going through a weird time where I am bouncing pretty heavily between games. I spent some time over the weekend chipping away at Diablo III Season 27, and also some time poking around Path of Exile. While I have largely wrapped my goals up, I still have a stack of maps and tablets to run through and do when nothing else sounds right. I got this really dumb or lucky drop depending on your perspective and found 38 maps in one single kill. It seems that I had a combination of an affix that turns ALL loot drops into maps and that was combined with another affix that causes everything to drop a mirrored copy. So that means I have a ton of maps to play with and even managed to get a few divines to drop last night.

I am still in a bit of a holding pattern waiting for the Greatsword/Brimstone Sands patch to drop. I spent a lot of time poking around the PTR, but have largely tapered that off given that it is throwaway progress. I am sufficiently happy with what I have seen as far as leveling speed and ease of leveling professions. I am still angling for a restart when the patch drops, and I kinda just want to get that all over with. I hate living in this limbo of not quite knowing for certain what that process is going to look like and when it is going to happen. I am still occasionally poking my head in, farming a bit of gypsum and getting a few expertise raises a day on my main. However, I really want to start fresh and experience all of the new content from scratch… and have it NOT be on a PTR server.