Exploring All of Night City during Lockdown ( Pre- heist)
So I made a new (4th) playthough (streetkid, netrunner build) and out of boredom wondered how much I can do before the Heist.
After doing nearly every side job/ gig in Watson, I managed to sneak out via monorail to explore the rest of Night City during the lockdown. Few things I noticed:
- Explored junkyard where you were dropped off after Heist: No Dex body, but Bartmoss fridge is still there. Can't interact to take cyberdeck.
- Acquired Skippy- does not talk
- Able to unlock fast travel points everywhere on map when I reached it so I can go back and forth between Watson and the rest of Night City
- Some of the legendary gear is missing (still able to get legendary gear for all body slots)
- Due to lack of mission triggers, most buildings that involve missions doors are closed (such as 7th Hell)
- Enemy NPCs specific to mission are missing.
- No side jobs or gigs (the few that showed up were inacessible)
- I was able to trigger the highwayman side mission and got the motorcycle. Johnny appeared where he usually was
- ATM lvl 15, 33 street cred with legendary Ping, Short Circuit and Cyberpsychosis on a Tetratronic Rippler (Spreads legendary quickhacks)
Still exploring.. let me know if there's anything interesting I should take a look around the map, pre- heist
Posted Jan 11, 2021, 12:00 AM UTC
Before the typical 'omg game so buggy lol' - everything mentioned by OP works exactly as it's supposed to.
Devs can either choose to allow signal to reach those questphases immediately or block it until lockdown ends. As you can see some of them did the later, some did the former. The only bug is being allowed to get out of Watson.