

This permits to talk about reality themes too (not only in terms of +1 to aim => DO IT or -10% walkspeed => DON'T DO IT).īecause of those 1 dimensional bonuses/maluses, I think the current game is politicaly correct about drugs. Drugs are a very very common trope in Cyberpunk (see Neuromancer for exemple). Thoughs mainly because CP is the first dice and paper RPG to talk openly about (fantasy) drugs. Money cost at one given dealer may increase by 1 tier for 10 doses or decrease by 1 tier each ingame day with no buying event.ĪKA : what about injecting more adult themes about this subject/matter/phenomenon in CP77 ? Addiction : +1% XP (cumulative) for 1 hour per dose, "you gonna love the experience" Buying too much drugs to a given dealer would regen agression events around that dealer (with common loot only, because else, this is rainbow/unicorn the other way). Sleep solves all drugs / alcool timers.

Removes more effects for top tier alcool, or have less bad effect. Alcool could have an always bad effect but after its effect, it would remove one random drug timer ("good" or "bad" timer). => With this, accumulating drugs would be a quick boost then a spiral of maluses. (combo) Smash : TECH +2 / COOL +2 (aka temp fix synth coke's descent effects) for 2 minutes then (-2 total to other attributes) for 5 minutes. Synthcoke : INT+3 / DEX +3 / TECH -2 for 2 minutes then TECH -1 / COOL -1 for 5 minutes. What about a quest in a future DLC asking for a moral choice here ? (note that I did not played all the mission yet)Įxemple of a set of rules I see for drugs : What about making the player actually think about sociology of drugs, instead of being forced to be Batman against drugs ? cyber punk game ? Addiction ? Shouldn't drugs be treated as having one "good" effect then one "bad" effect instead of "alcool is always bad + the few drugs boosters you would find are equivalents of always good medieval potions" ? What if the player actually wants to be a punk, in a. In CP77, drinking can (only) be for losers.Īfter 1 year of lockdown tbh, I crave for a good bender with friends. This also evacuate the social issue with drugs and permit CDPR to be "ligth" on that subject.Īlso, alcool is only seen with a detrimental effect. This message, "drugs are for villains / the PC champ don't do drug" message is straigth from Reagan's America. are an element reserved for supervilains, or superstupid characters. : so far I found one dealer in Jig-Jig street, and I feel the game is totally rainbow/unicorn/politically correct about drugs. Instead of asking "moar sex" (there is a lot of threads about that), in term of adult themes, I'd ask moar drugs.
