Cyberpunk 2077 NPCs Can Now Die in Car Crashes After 1.5 Update
A lot of attention has been brought to the many new features and fixes that accompanied Cyberpunk 2077's recent 1.5 update, but one lesser-known adjustment has been made: NPCs can now be involved in fatal car crashes. This can be added to the laundry list of changes that have been made to the game's many NPCs through this patch, alongside the ability of Cyberpunk 2077 NPCs to use umbrellas when it rains.
Since its release in late 2020, Cyberpunk has been relentlessly dragged by video game players and critics for its bugs and poor performance on consoles, particularly Xbox One and PS4. The game was indeed in very rough shape, and so developer CD Projekt Red set out to polish up the title, and many would agree that it did just that over the year following its launch. The team managed to fix most of the game-breaking bugs and even added some additional content like alternate outfits for Keanu Reeve's Johnny Silverhand. The biggest changes by far, however, came with this week's 1.5 patch for Cyberpunk 2077, which fixed even more glitches, rebalanced the gameplay, and at long last delivered the highly anticipated next-gen upgrade. Aside from these tweaks, one of the most notable changes had to do with Night City's NPCs, who now act in far more natural, organic, and interesting ways.
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This altered NPC behavior appears to extend beyond the pedestrian realm. As pointed out by Reddit user SOBKiller18, NPC drivers can be killed when suffering a crash. In a video that SOBKiller18 shared to the Cyberpunk subreddit, V swerves into oncoming traffic, causing a head-on collision with an NPC vehicle. The car comes to an abrupt halt and the horn starts blaring,
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