Summary
It’s often said that one of the main characters inCyberpunk 2077is Night City itself. It’s an antagonist, a mentor, a love interest, etc. It’s hard to fault this vaguely trite idea considering how detailed Night City is,with real-world city plannershaving helped CD Projekt Red put it all together in the name of realism. It certainly feels like a real, breathing city, where every glitzy main street is accompanied by shady alleyways and slums.
Despite how polished and glamorous it all might look, anyone who has played this game knows Night City is not perfect. Yes, it’s imperfect in the sense that a single company has essentially monopolized the entire city, but also, the scars fromCyberpunk’s troubled developmentstill linger even after the patches and DLC fixed its most glaring issues. Some of the promise of what Night City could have been never came to fruition, butthese mods help improve Night Cityas players know it and bring back some of thatCyberpunkcharm.
7Night City Interactions
Brings Vitality To The City And Partners
Cyberpunk 2077has a wide variety of character interactions available, especially with thehandful of characters available to romance, but something that often stifles these interactions is how manufactured they tend to feel—the game needs to essentially be put on hold to focus on a conversation or moment.
This mod changes that, and in doing so really changes the composition of Night City’s environment by adding locations where players can organically have conversations and interactions with various characters, both within the romanceable pool and beyond.
6Night City Alive
Makes The City Feel As Dangerous As They Say
Night City has one of the highest murder rates per capita, it’s said. It borders on anarchy, with the police only there to stop those who affect the Corps' bottom line. This is Night City from the lore’s perspective, but gameplay-wise, the city tends to feel much more peaceful than that.
This mod changes things for the better, with roving gangs now fighting each other—and the player—at random spots all over the map; not as a set encounter, but as something that happens as organically and fluidly as NPCs walking down the street. For those with some weaponsthey’ve been itching to try out, or those who want more immersion, this is the ideal mod.
5Weather Probability Rebalance
Promotes More Interesting Weather Patterns
Night City has a lot of weather. There can be sunshine! Rain! Acid rain, fun! The weather and the way it changes the entireatmosphere of Night Cityis such a huge part of this game’s environment, but it does tend to feel like all players see sometimes is sunshine with a chance of clouds.
This mod changes how the variability works between different weather states, meaning that if a player sees sunshine, once the weather transitions to something else, they’re guaranteed to get an ‘interesting’ weather effect before they get sunshine again.
4Proxima’s Apartment Emporium
An Overhaul Of The City’s Apartments
There are ahost of available apartmentsfor V to discover, and one day live in, throughout Night City. They all have their own unique perks and charms, from the dingiest Northside hovel to the sprawling penthouses overlooking the whole city.
Proxima’s Apartment Emporium makes every apartment feel even more unique and charming, with a host of modular presets that can be baked into the mod to make each apartment appear more personalized to the tastes of the player and the specific type of V they’re running.
3Street Vendors
Makes Merchants Feel More Present
While there’s no doubt thatCyberpunk 2077has one of the most realistic and vital cities in thehistory of open-world games, sometimes the city can feel make V feel more like a tourist, traveling around and staring at all the unique details.
This mod makes the city feel more alive by having many of the street vendors, who were once only really there for the occasional quest or for adding to the scenery, are now proper merchants that V can interact and trade with.
2Sit Anywhere
Take In Night City And Have A Rest
There are so many beautiful sights and scenes in Night City, every player who has gotten a hold of this game has at least once stopped to simply drink in the view. What might bug them is that, while they’re doing this, V is just staring blankly into space from an outsider’s perspective, like they’re trying to remember if they left the oven on at home.
This simple, immersive mod lets V sit anywhere (hence the title) to add that extra level of immersion to the whole experience. V can now sit down on any couch, bench, or bench-adjacent surface to take a breather and watch Night City go about its day.
1Stock Market And News System
Immersive And Fully Interactive Capitalism
Do you think the corpo background is objectively the best one? Wish V could take on the CEO mindset like ingames such asCruelty Squad?This mod might be the answer to those prayers with a fully interactive stock market and news system.
The two systems here work in tandem as events that happen in the game —both those within and outside V’s control—and will drastically change the stock margins of all the listings on the market. This is another one of those mods that just makes the game feel real.
