i wish Exotics were an option in the game. hopefully that happens, maybe as a mod :D

Yeah. I've got Chromebook 2 for the original pen and paper game, which had them, but nothing in the video game yet.

(And from comments I've heard, I suspect bug fixing of the driving mode would be a higher priority for the devs.)

ooh! cool!

and true

Exotic biomods are briefly mentioned in the Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. revised mainbook, and in the same section (roughly speaking) in the newest Cyberpunk RED corebook, too. There's not a lot to them, but when I remembered reading that Ken Sample once called his Fursons 'Exotics' I was sure I knew what the biomod suggested in my CP 2020 Corebook. I was a bit disappointed myself that Exotics are extremely rare in CP 2077; I am told there is a place to buy Exotic biomods in-game, but they are nutter expensive even if you find the place to do it, and they're limited to anime-esque Catgirls, no full-body mods like Huntress' tigerform.

I did decide to pick up a copy of Cyberpunk 2077 in the Winter Steam Sale for my birthday (no discount, mind, but during the sale anyway) as I'm sustained by the modding potential CD Projekt Red has promised (and in January, the first tools supplied on that promise), and some of that modding I plan on doing for my own projects, now that I've been learning how to use my tablet and stylus to do 3D sculpting along with my 2D work.

-2Paw.

i was not aware Exotics were already in the game, if only in that limited of a capacity. that at least gives us hope for modders (or perhaps an expansion in the future? doubt it but here's hoping). i'll need to find this place for myself :3c

i have the game, too (been enjoying it despite its flaws) and can't wait to see your mod once it's done! :D

That's my understanding; that they are in the game, but are rare and expensive, both the mod availability and fellow Cyberpunks with those mods. I had presumed incorrectly from a CP 2077 'background' video post on Youtube, that covered more how Exotics worked but not what of them were actually in the game, likely stemming from my being very excited that they would be in more 'humanoid animal body' format. The canon CP2020 Booster/Rippergangs that worked on a aniform humanoid motif for their members were totally ignored in the game's context and content.

If I'm understanding correctly, at least for the time being Cyberpunk 2077's CD Projekt Red DLC will be free, as in complimentary to all purchasers of the game. This was indicated by CDPR long before the game's launch; I first read of it in Spring or Summer 2020. As for my own, I'm just planning on having fun with modelling and using the models I make in-game; that said, I will be very happy to share my work with you and anyone else who'd like to take a peek. That's part of the fun for me, the sharing! <3

-2Paw.

Unfortunately, now I'm recalling Shadowrun and 'Striper' looking at this.

I'm somewhat familiar with Shadowrun, but not 'Striper', so not sure just how unfortunate that is.

*looks it up, finding an entire page at https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Striper for this* Ahh, I see. Yeah, that's not Huntress. Huntress takes bodyguard and burglary jobs, mostly; she's more commando than assassin.

Oh of course, but that future dystopia which Cyberpunk taps into? I still default over into Shadowrun when thinking about it - that was my first exposure. Which is more the 'unfortunate' part than the other thing...

... then again, that exposure was due to the SNES game. This I don't regret.

Ahh, that's fair enough.

My first exposure was reading William Gibson, particularly Neuromancer when it came out in paperback, though I'd se*96en some of Gibson's short stories before then (including Johnny Mnemonic, which is set in the same world).

"The sky was the colour of burnished bronze, tuned to a moist fleshtone. Of course, that was because Jenora was holding her footpaw over my head." <3

-2Paw.

Heh.

There have been comments that we now have a new generation that won't know what 'tuned to a dead channel' was supposed to mean because it's been a long time since TVs had primarily analog tuners.

And TVs (or video screens & devices) aren't really a live broadcast-reception medium now, at least over antenna-radiative airwaves. Radio is still here, with the irony being that radio technology, while functionally similar to analogue television broadcasting, is of considerably more vintage than the original format of television.

I think the first starkly-noticeable 'dating' in Neuromancer for me was 'three megabytes of hot RAM'. Even by 1996 standards and my 486DX2/66 Frankenrig built for me by my older brother for my birthday that year, 3MB would be two 3 1/2" floppy disks, spanned. Of course, Neuromancer was published in 1984, and I assume Gibson started writing it a year or two before that, which would make much more sense for that time period's computer technology.

Your footpaw does make a wonderfully appealing skybox, I admit happily, lovely starcat. <3

-2Paw.