Cyberpunk 2077 Level Designer Reveals That Players Can Hack Into People’s Brains
Cyberpunk 2077 may still be years away, but it seems that CD Projekt Red can’t wait to tell fans about their upcoming game. Although the studio hasn’t shown any gameplay publicly, their representatives have been in interview after interview talking about Cyberpunk’s different features. The latest such interview was with level designer Max Pears, who went into some detail about how the Cyberpunk 2077 hacking system will interact with classes.
The Cyberpunk 2077 Class System
CD Projekt Red is calling their class system the “Fluid Class System”. Similarly to how Skyrim allowed players to invest experience in a variety of different skill trees; the Fluid Class System allows players in Cyberpunk 2077 to build a character from a variety of different skill trees. The three main class paths in this system are Netrunner, Techie, and Solo.
“We have this really cool class system,” said Max Pears, speaking in a recent interview; “where we have things like Netrunner, Techie, and Solo, but what we do is we’ve got this fluid class system. Each of these is gonna have different abilities. So a Netrunner can hack into people’s brains, like in the demo”. Rather than picking one class, however, players will be able to invest in any of the paths throughout the game, mixing and matching abilities to create a unique character.
“Each class is gonna have some great abilities.” continued Pears; “So the fact that you’re going to be able to put your own mix of these classes together to make your own cyberpunk; that’s gonna be awesome. We look forward to that.”
It remains to be seen how CD Projekt Red will actually realize hacking somebody’s brain in the game. Nevertheless, given how it appeared in the story trailer, it seems likely that it will be a very powerful ability. The trailer appeared to depict someone assassinating a character by hacking their brain, after all.