invisible walls

[Chungo Beepis]

why so many invisible walls in this game, i thought we stopped that stuff early 2000's because it was stupid.

[Zebedee]

It's even stupider to let players fall through the map because they've found a way to get outside the intended playable area. They could put the resources into bulletproofing everything or they could put the same resources into making/improving something the majority of players will see/interact with and CDPR have generally favoured doing the latter.

[zn4rf]

Originally posted by Zebedee:

It's even stupider to let players fall through the map because they've found a way to get outside the intended playable area. They could put the resources into bulletproofing everything or they could put the same resources into making/improving something the majority of players will see/interact with and CDPR have generally favoured doing the latter.

Hm, but you can get out of bounds quite easy in CP2077, even without exploits...
Then again a minority is into exploring that, would be my guess.

[Zebedee]

Originally posted by zn4rf:

Hm, but you can get out of bounds quite easy in CP2077, even without exploits...
Then again a minority is into exploring that, would be my guess.

Yeah, although it still takes some effort (or should... bug report otherwise...).

To give an example of how they think about it, they left the ability to climb onto a specific flying car in the game for absolutely ages because they didn't want to take away from something silly and fun even though it took players to places they'd not intended. They eventually introduced an insta-kill thing to it when it started to cause problems leading to bug reports as more and more started to climb onto it. (Source: Miles Tost and a member of QA in his stream's chat talking about this.)