Sorry for the hiatus. This was really really fun but i'm itching to get back to bread and butter. More mod videos soontm

22 mins "audio cuts in like this" lmfao the Hbomberguy style

I recently did the ending where I gave Johnny my body, and I thought it was really beautiful. Not like V had nothing to live for, but more like he felt that giving Johnny a second chance at a full life was more valuable than having 6 months of agony knowing it would be over so soon

Johnnys ending(s) and the Phantom Liberty endings are essentially DeShawns question: Blaze of glory or quietly fade away.

Johnny's lack of class consciousness feels kinda intentional to me, and part of the tragedy. His disdain towards sex workers actually reminds me of some folk who actually babble about "proletariat/worker unity" all day but they will arbitrarily decide certain people aren't of the working class because they don't fit "hammer&sickle aesthetics". "Bringing up question without solution" is a valid and realistic approach IMO, because some dystopian settings aren't not meant to be "saved/fixed", they are fictional warnings to tell us to never go there or a message about "to struggle and try" regardless of the circumstances, because we don't have a clear answer in real life as well. This is similar to a lot of anti-war stories, they are more like warnings than any cohesive "guide on how to avoid/end war". And ultimately a lot of stories focus on personal salvation/victory for that reason, it doesn't matter if you end war and capitalism for good, you saved people and gave them a chance to live and fight.

One of the things about Phantom Liberty and post 2.0 Cyberpunk that I can’t get out of my head is how much better the base game could have been if it wasn’t rushed out the door as undercooked as it was at launch. PL feels much closer to the Cyberpunk we all had hyped up in our heads in 2021 and it’s crazy to think of what could have been had that level of quality been evenly distributed throughout more of the game.

oh he BACK!!!! On a side note I'm really glad people are starting to love this game. I unironically loved it since day one because everything about it felt so personal. The stories on every level focused not on changing major systems and structures but of finding meaning and purpose in human connection with what little time we're given. The setting is a gorgeous exaggeration of an existential crisis and instead of asking how to fix it, it asks what to do when you find yourself there. By forcing the player into these no-win situations with no happy endings (as Johnny says: "In this city? For people like us?") in every quest and side-gig, it forces the player to confront how they feel about things and what they value when even the power fantasy isn't enough to cause change. Most games have a "right choice" in the sense that they solve the problem and everything is good again. In Cyberpunk, the "right choice" is simply the best thing you can do in the moment, which is rarely even good but leaves you with a more meaningful comfort that someone might, at least for a while, be happy or at least a little less hurt because of what you did. You can't save SoMi and yourself, but you can give SoMi a chance at survival. You can't save Johnny and Yourself, but you can live six more months or let a (hopefully) redeemed Silverhand continue your work. You can't save Saul or Rogue, but you can take the secret ending and guarantee you take no one down with you. You can't save the Preachers kid, but you can kill the BD editor and his son to stop them from continuing their work, even if they'll be replaced... but you have to deal with watching the fallout. The game does a good job of telegraphing what the consequences of an action will be so the player has to choose what they value most. Each ending carries a philosophical perspective for and against and presents it as a high-octane thought exercise for the player to work through as they consider the details of each decision, revealing in the process the details of their personal philosophies. Also what is this River slander!? I will not have it! (the cop argument is valid. Counterpoint: you get a "Fuck The Police" tank top if you sleep with him. I also think his story, including him being fired, is meant to showcase just how corrupt the NCPD are.)

You mention disliking the Johnny's Body ending because to you it feels out of character and hearing that actually made me reflect on why I feel similarly to the Phantom Liberty quiet life ending. To me and how I see V, they would never want that, going down that path takes away everything they wanted out of their life, effectively a punishment for taking another persons autonomy from them. I usually pick the Don't Fear The Reaper ending and while yes the V at the end of that path does not learn much, the spirit of being an ignorant, stubborn kid who doesn't learn but still gets to say "fuck you I matter" will always be the most dopest shit ever. But at the same time I completely understand and agree with the idea that you don't need to be some special protagonist to have a life that matters, I think that most people (including me) are unexceptional and that fact doesn't change the value of our lives. My perception of the Quiet Life Ending as being one of the bad endings stems from how I view and play the character of V and how I play most of my protagonists in these games. What I'm saying is your video got me to think about my own view of this game in a different light and that's cool as shit. Thank you Warlockracy.

God dammit I just realized that So Mi being a dying netrunner due to overuse is a parallel to case in Neuromancer

There is a gig you can do for Rogue in which she hires you to kill or knock out and capture a man who has been beating and intimidating workers that try to stand up for better pay and conditions. The text explaining the gig mentions that back in her day employees had unions to help them but now they are gone, so she does what she can in her capacity as a fixer to help them for no charge.

While I ultimately agree, that I prefer the epilogue of the nomad ending, I really like the secret ending's finale. I just wish the game was a little more of an RPG and allowed me to choose what epilogue I want to have. To me the secret ending isn't about embracing the "become a legend" childishness, but about never giving up and fighting until you don't have any fight left and then some. It's the same way So Mi fought right until the end, it took her everything, but in the end she succeeded with your help. The main themes I took away from the game were not giving up and forging strong bonds. I feel like V succeeds in the suicide run, not because they embrace being a legend, but because they are just doing this to survive, not concerning themselves with reputation. Which is why I interpret the glory ending the same way as convincing Joshua to do it for himself; fuck the media, corps and everyone else - they aren't using you - you are using them, same as V.

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I think cyberpunk is the first rpg ever made where the player is not the main character, or the main focal point of the entire world .. the world doesn’t revolve around v, u can’t decide the fate of the world or the actions of every NPC u come across, but u can effect them in small ways that ultimately do alter the state of the world by the time it’s all said and done.. this may have been off putting to most veteran rpg players, but I absolutely loved and understood it right from the jump, maybe because I am definitely not a veteran rpg player, so I went in to cyberpunk with little to no actual expectations of what the game would be like, and I just fell in love with this game from the start, I finished my first play through and then immediately started another, and then another, and then another after that, and 3+ years later I’m still doing new play throughs

probably the greatest opening of a video ever

Ramblelamb does a Cyberpunk thing? Okay Choom.

We aren't back, we never left.

Daddy's back with the milk and ciggies AND a Cyberpunk video? You spoil us.

I’m gonna have to slightly disagree about the Don’t Fear the Reaper, but it is more do to Meta context than in-game characterization. I did almost every ending before that one, and I was really sick of watching V’s friends get killed helping him pull things off. I went through the final mission with the mantra of “No one else needs to die!”. My biggest issue with that ending is that V doesn’t leave the city with the Aldecados, but that’s just me wanting to have my cake and eat it to.

The moon ending for Somi has heavy implications that she will be a slave to either night corp or the rogue AI depending on who you think the blue eyed man is associated with. None of the endings are really happy for her.

Just to ramble on for a minute here about one of the endings and how it effects me irl, the phantom liberty ending where you let go of Johnny and everyone you know genuinely made me cry lol. Just because I have went through something extremely close to that,lss unfortunate circumstances led me to have to move away from my home town and not come back for a long time, and all I could think about was what I left behind and how everything around me sucked compared to that and how happy I’d be returning and seeing my friends and such. It wasn’t like that at all, everyone forgot who I was and moved on, everyone but me, and it crushed me on a level nothing ever has. That feeling is awful and seeing my V go through it was so heartbreaking it made me go to therapy.

It's nice to see you're back. Out of all the little Videos I watched on cyberpunk 2077 yours is the one that for me atleast has reached the deepest understanding of the game as it lead me to re-evaluate the gripes I had with the Story and setting. I am defenitly looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts in the future no matter how much downtime will be inbetween, as your already published videos will still be available and have succeded in creating meaning. (Sorry not a native speaker, hard to express what i actually want to say)

I played 2077 on release, didn't dislike it, no fast travel, had raytracing on and drive through the city in Jackie's Arch on 1st person view... even with all the bugs and half-baked systems, it was special to me. Edgerunners reminded me of it, no wonder I liked Edgerunners so much. But when 2.0 released I went back into the game, I ironically find myself unable to enjoy it anymore. I could no longer afford so much time and energy into games, that when I saw the street cred and level numbers and those map markers I straight up lose all motivation...

Made my day with the meme at the start

Great video, honestly the story of Cyberpunk 2077 is a pretty complicated one for me. I think me personally I'd want to commit to the ending in Phantom Liberty where V actually gets to live their life even if it means sacrificing a lot and compromising a bit on some morals. But I can totally see why a majority would disagree there, this isn't one of those games where I feel one ending is objectively the best or would even say my "preferred" ending is the best one. Always cool when a story can inspire that feeling, and I feel all the endings are worth talking about even in terms of what they can offer to the player as an additional angle to think about the whole experience.

I think the reason Cyberpunk (the franchise) is unwilling to actually address collective action or class consciousness is because it goes against the fantasy of the setting. If Night City ever solved its problems, it wouldn't be Night City anymore. The setting exists to be an environment where the player can inhabit a very specific idea of how the world could end up. If it ever got its shit together, it would be a different setting entirely. It's kind of like the trope of medieval stasis, right. Like a sword and sorcery setting will have hundreds of years pass and nobody invents much of anything new, because the second someone messes with gunpowder, the setting changes. And that's why you won't see words like "socialism" enter the cyberpunk lexicon, because even starting that conversation would lead to the end of the setting. Cynically, this is also why Bethesda keeps inventing new reasons why the east coast can't organize. Because once someone sweeps the floors, it no longer looks like a post-apocalypse. (Yes I'm aware Fallout is intended to be post-post-apocalypse but Bethesda has clearly picked their side of that debate). Cyberpunk is only allowed to discuss the problems, not the solutions, because if it ever did, the story would have to end somewhere. And this is something the game actually recognizes, with Johnny bemoaning just how eeriely little Night City changed in over 50 years. Cyberpunk is defined by cultural stasis. By design.

This is probably my favourite youtube channel, really good analysis in the second half of the video.

So happy to see new content from you in my Sub box 💕

this channel has recently become my favourite so i hope you got more content coming soon, LOVE the fallout mods videos especially!

I find it unfortunate Kerry's story didn't really grab you, I felt that it was all-taken-into-account one of the best stories the game has to tell. My problem with 2077, really, is that there are a lot of little nuggets of extremely good writing sprinkled throughout with an absolute shitton of filler and a main story where even though you theoretically have agency you just wind up as a pawn for everyone around you. It's a power fantasy where you're powerless, with a mediocre main story carried by excellent characters (and also River).

With the game getting a second chance, I Hope more people get into the tabletop game. Mike pondsmith has made a rich and hauntingly beautiful world and i wish more people would explore it beyond the anime.

Writing V like Geralt I actually think works to make the narrative better, at the cost of making a worse RPG. V is an amazingly compelling character to me, which is something we can’t really get with a custom character. I will always prefer games with custom protagonists, but I’d be lying if I said female V isn’t my favourite video game protagonist.

41:39 its on the same lines as "this is the only language they understand" moment when the bad guys who have a point have to do something irreversibly evil to remain the bad guys. similarly you couldnt have an actual bartmoss collective that had an internal division so the messages they were sending out were constantly being re edited thus making them look garbled, it had to be a prank, a troll, a bill boards programming gone wrong. I just wish more games had the guts to do what fallout new vegas and disco elysium did.

Nah bro, no way you started the vid with that lmfao wtf. Im hooked.

Man I love your videos, I find them very refreshing. Also you have no idea how much I wanna hear your opinions on lonesome road lol

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I've been going through and watching your videos again ramblelime, and what I like about you is the fact you add so much pizzazz to your work. Your remind me of how I write a online when i should be writing paper caffeined out of my gourd about some hyper specific topic, and I mean this as an extremely high praise compliment. But you prob already know that, so I came to make this comment to ask, as a guy who was about to become a patreon sub to you, how the hell do you manage to have the most deadpan emotionless dry patreon reads I've ever seen. I'm not even mad it's just funny. Lmao

The suicide ending is definitely a true ending, to me. It's amazing and touching. Endings are not supposed to be "positive", just like in movies and shows. But obviously some others were great, too. And yeah, I'm in love with this game still, and I even enjoyed the early versions.

My feelings on 2077 are as follows: The isn't what I was told by the horse(the developers) and it wasn't what I was looking for. I had bought the game on release for the ps4, had a very good experience(three crashes across a three week playthrough) and was left unsatisfied with what the game offered. I could find some fun in the gameplay, the world was and still is to my opinion very barren and not fleshed out. The story and characters have far too many lows compared to the highs. V as a character is paradoxically both your and not your created character, the closest comparisons I have are Geralt and Jensen. Both are preset characters that you can influence the story with choices for, but the options are still within character even if loosely for Geralt. V at times doesn't feel like a character you have crafted while also feeling like a blank slate for your options. As for the world, I want more of it and what we got just makes me shake my head. I will add this in because it is the games biggest sin: When you have me defending Fallout 4 and 76 for outfit and gun customization we have a problem. Not entirely sure I like the new skill trees however, I thought the old system was more of a hot mess to look at more and could be confusing to figure out. But I the new system is sort of hit and miss for me. While the advantages are much more clear, you can still end up being a jack of all trades that at least is specialized in one area better than the others. I have been able to recreate my build from launch with ease and much of the new cyberware made this even easier to do, because I could just put a perk into something else.

My favourite little aspect of the world that originates in '77, to my knowledge, is the absolute bank that the retwisted USSR makes through branding their revolutionary iconography. It's one of those touches you tend to see only in stuff from the former Eastern Bloc.

Have you ever heard of the Fallout 3 mod, Mothership Zeta Crew? It’s an incredibly ambitious mod that adds a new story after Mothership Zeta. Unfortunately I don’t believe it’ll ever be finished, but I definitely think it’s worth checking out.

i been waiting for so long

Fucking amazing video dude, I was looking for a CP video to listen to while playing and couldn’t find a good one, but this was everything I wanted n more. (Gonna have to show my dad this one too)

Panam is definitely the best. Also, I did not expect to experience such a deep analysis of CP2077, after bingeing hours of your Fallout content. Now I'm thinking of philosophy.

I do love when fore shadowing Is aliterary DEvice!

when it comes to the life paths they have their own pros on cons imo nomad: pros: best intro of the 3 and a cool exclusive side quest Cons: least interesting/impactful exclusive dialogue options Street kid: pros: makes the most narrative sense and introduces night city the best cons: no note worthy exclusive content corpo: pros: best and most interesting exclusive dialogue options and offers some interesting world building cons: worst intro especially narratively. weak exclusive quest

can't wait to see you talk about fallout tv show :D

great vid man, really reflected my own thoughts/experiences with it. i remember watching the E3 trailer and getting invited by a friend to play the 2020 ttrpg and it set my expectations unrealistically high, which, side note, CDPR did an astounding job of making 'going to the source material' one of the worst ways to prepare myself for what the final product would be. but, accepting it as an ARPG about V, yeah this shit does indeed kinda bang, especially now that its fun

The sole problem of Phantom Liberties ending was, CDPR cruelly ripped off all of the connections in a very crude way. my whole work is just nothing by playing that expansion 3 days non-stop. I understand that the Cyberpunk's development ethics were not suited to my play style, however, I fully understand it after more days. but still, they had pulled it out like nothing. like they did not care how we put through that playthrough. that subbing Juddy? She was long gone. Pannam? MIA. River? had been corrupted to live in Night City. So he does not want to talk with V Kerry? empty promises cause of growing fames. and others? won't mentioning here. CDPR's message was clear, Die with Fame, or Live with nothing. You can't have both. but in this way? This was the crudest shock treatment I ever had in Storytelling RPG. Of course in all Mediamix, not as the 'Dragon Quest: Your Story' Movie, But was next to that. for that, I will say this one more time. Where was my past play time? for nothing then?

With a title like that You make it sound like A chore😂

I enjoyed the game but this is a good and well thought out critique of the game, you make many great points.

I can't finish the video because I'm playing phantom liberty at this moment. Just wanted to say that I appreciate this perspective. I play RPGs with a very surface level view. How I feel after this moment, whether a line or quest ending resonated with me. Cyberpunk definitely leans into this style of storytelling and questing, with very segregated arcs and plotlines. The most extreme version I can think of was Nier Automata, which drags you from arc to arc so rapidly and intensely that it even disoriented me, making me wonder what was happening, or what the point was. Despite that, it succeeded in making me remember a lot of these story beats, even if they dont always feel cohesive. Nier Automata might feel especially artificial because of that, with small biomes that don't feel like a "world". But another of Cyberpunk's strengths is its world as well. I might not care about every district but I definitely cared about locations like pacifica and the badlands and factions like the Maelstrom and Voodoo Boys. Cyberpunk might not be a masterpiece with a strong message to tell, but instead its a buffet rpg very much like Witcher 3. A platter of different bites and flavors tied together by this world that you'll grow to love.

Legit was about to come and comment to see your opinion on the game, as I just started playing it

amazing video

Really want to watch this video but i haven't finished cyberpunk yet som i'm gonna have to wait

I like your funny words, lime man

Yoooo you're back, nice.

I was not only JUST thinking about your channel, but I was ALSO thinking about picking up 2077. I have to ask, is it comfortable in my walls?

Johnny Sliverhands spitting facts at the opening

Nice channel bro

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i understand the last ending being your favorite because its the most human but it also feels like running away. should you turn your back on suffering if you cannot change it or think you cannot ?

you don't want a world where there's a god guiding us on our shoulder, cuz that would be Elden Ring's world (outer gods shouldering in action)

I rate this one 77 cyberpsychosis out of 10

Letting Johnny live is the players ending. Because I wanted everyone to live.

i should note that Alt created the Soulkiller which is why Johnny bombed Arasaka tower Johnny isn't just infused with irony, he's comedy

Unlike any other Cyberpunk review I’ve seen on KZfaq

Cyberpunk is just as much of an RPG as GTA V.

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I genuinely hope the sequel (known as Orion right now) will be the game that they initially advertised this game as

i feel cyberpunk 2077's story being more about finding out you are going to die from what is pretty much a terminal disease and how you and those around you react to it. make this game way more intresting then it being another corpo bad conspiracy plot that most cyberpunk stories are.

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As someone who hasn't played Cyberpunk, only seen videos on it, this video was beautiful. Your analysis of the endings especially and the way none are truly "good" (except for leaving), but rather make sense for individual choices V might make and weigh reminds me of so of the best stories and RPGs out there. As soon as I get a proper pc and not just a laptop that can't run anything after 2012 at max resolution and can't run anything after 2015 when I turn everything down to the minimum (and even then not well, my current playthrough of Fallout 4 is a... low poly, laggy, freezing mess that I'm still enjoying regardless), my first purchase is going to be a copy of the game. Because even if I don't like it after I play it, this video has convinced me I'll certainly want to play it so I can form that opinion myself.

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i remember doing sinnerman at like 1 in the morning and it being the most jarring shit to my high tired mind, and i needed to turn off the game and go to bed to process what happened after i crucified him.

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when my friend got me this game a few months back i was like this shit might kill my pc but i decided to fuck around and find out. turn out i really like the game and story, i normally wouldn't give two shits about the story. but the main story, side story hell even gigs draw me in. i really like night city seeing on how hellish yet beautiful the city looks. only thing i don't like abt the game is i can't join trauma team. they are my favorite corporation in game .

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The DLC ending low key was sad AF too

As someone who played this a total of, checks Xbox stats, 10 days most of which came after 2.0 this game is probably my favorite game to play when bored.

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My canon ending is don't fear the reaper and givin the body up. First, i just cant take my family to die fighting arasaka and my new gf to fight freaking cyborg legend smasher. My life isn't worth all the aldecaldos. And with just a couple months to live, yeah, i take a bullet for my friend. I have nothing to lose and He's got everything to gain. Yeah he already had a chance at life, but diying for nothing or saving/giving life to a guy that is basically a part of me now? Easy choice. Amazing video bro!

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Fuck this video really makes me want to go and actually give cyberpunk a try.

i feel kinda dumb saying this, as i don't have a solution, but i think your thumbnails to be bolder. I almost didnt click on the video at all even though I've been waiting for it because it just didn't register in my brain as something interesting

your first point is kinda redundant because one of the first perks you can get is a 1 percent boost to healing for every percentage of health lost. Not saying i dont love the game i really love it , its amazing but it is a pretty powerful perk.

Happy, people finally realise what was always good in the game

You know whats funny....every time I see a critique of a rpg from a youtuber I like I always say to myself, man I wish he examined Enderal, that game needs more love. And then I remember you are the same M**F** who made one of my favorite Enderal critiques over a year ago, that was a nice surprise. Im still gonna wait for third person combat on Cyberpunk, I just cannot fight in first person, I feel sick.

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Loved the vid but you didnt talk about edgerunners😭

cyberpunk 2077 I'm going to be honest with you it's one of my favorite games time despite the broken launch ( and was one of my most hyped up games before Starfield which I also like despite its flaws but that game is a different story for another time) I still enjoy the story, The gameplay and everything else yeah I would love to say aside from Keanu Reeves ( legendary actor in my opinion mainly from The Matrix and John Wick and its performance is Johnny silverhand is pretty fantastic) and Idris Elba ( a successful actor in my opinion although for me I mostly know this guy is knuckles for Sonic the Hedgehog movies I really need to see the second movie and knuckles show before the third movie sorry I don't watch The Wire). one of my favorite performances I would say is female V who is the voice by cherami leigh ( a legendary voice actress in my opinion with huge range asuna, Lucy, makoto, Sailor Venus and A2 just a name a few) there are more recognizable names in cyberpunk but I just feel like going to pick one of my favorites to be honest yes I do enjoy the Phantom Liberty DLC they have done nomads end in 1.0 but I might also do the Don't Fear the Reaper ending (2nd sun ending) yeah I kind of didn't care too much with really trying to get trying to get back from the top after getting fired from my job but end up just leaving the city and going to be the same except for I came back from the top in a different way I can't wait for whenever project Orion comes out and other things from CD projekt Red

I would love to see some baldurs gate videos

I really really tried to actually kinda like the game but couldn't get over it's many half-baked concepts and ideas...

Loved the Cyberpunk game analysis bits, and laughed a lot at the political and philosophical stuff. Thanks! I also loved the "small cities" part. Always liked to see how people whose whole lives consisted of living in a depressing concrete jungle visit somwhere where the air is clean and there isn't that horrible grime everywhere. As always, small to medium cities are so much better for your life than any of the massive ones will ever be.

I don't see Johnny's ending like that. i see it more as v trying to protect the people they know and stop them from dying in arasaka tower. as with the rougue or the nomads, on nomad ending 3 nomads die trying to help V. so v doing everything alone for yourself as a cyberpyscho is better than sacrificing the lives of others in the process

Ramble, idk if you're a big D&D guy, but as the one of the CRPG guys.... you gotta talk about Baldur's Gate 3.... please

Story is great, there is nothing that you must learn to like it.

back when i first played around 1.36 update, cyberpunk to me was just a decent 7/10 game with some fun parts but also a lot of jank across the board. Even with 2.0 update i wasn't all too impressed. It was better, just nothing that would warrant calling cyberpunk amazing or a master piece by any means. A lot of things in the game to me are either limited or jank. Be it the limited customization in weird ways, the subpar driving physics making 90% of vehicles unfun to drive, the close to useless crafting system (seemed way more important before the overhaul), many visual effects are honestly quite ugly like various particles effects. Customization is something i take particular offense towards as i absolutely love customizing my characters and vehicles and buildings etc. And for a game like cyberpunk, an RPG set in a world where you have access to technologies that would allow you to straight up become a protogen dragon if you desired to, the limited customization is bleh. Of course, the clothing system is quite great with loads of options able to be used on the fly, but inability to change the clothing color at will, or hell, at other besides hoping to find the specific piece of clothing with a specific color, is really disappointing. What's even more disappointing is the lack of any weapon or vehicle customization. For weapons the only way you can customize them is adding a scope.... and for vehicles you literally can't do jack except for the 3 vehicles CDPR made a whole ass on the fly color changing mechanic. 2077 and i can't bloody spray paint my car from red to green at some garage.