Bug(?) When Venturing Too Far Out on the Map.

[Erogamez]

Recently, I spent a little time exploring the far northwest corner of the map in Cyberpunk 2077. I drove my V along the roads surrounded by the oil fields just a bit beyond the northwest edge of Northside.

While driving west along the area’s main highway—Highway 101, if I remember correctly—I passed a large roadside sign that read “Now Leaving Night City.” I continued to venture beyond that. But, pretty soon after that, the game displayed a message on its interface that basically said to turn back as there was nothing more there. That’s normal when players explore near the limits of the game map.

But then, soon after that turn back message, something happened that did not appear to be normal, but a bug. The game abruptly displayed red, green & blue pixelated static for about a second (the same effect it sometimes uses during the story or missions to indicate a passage of time or change of location). When it cleared, the game had placed my V, still in his car, back near the Now Leaving Night City sign, but just inside the city limits and facing east, toward the direction I had just driven away from.

So, I figured to just go to another location within the limits of Night City, far from any of the map’s edges. I continued east along Highway 101 for a while, heading well into Northside. Then, I turned to leave the highway—and the same red, green & blue static effect suddenly happened again. And, when it ended, the game had again placed my V back near that Now Leaving Night City sign.

I drove east along the highway again and tried to leave it using a differing road. Again, the RGB static occurred and, again, I found my V near the same Now Leaving Night City sign. Each time I tried to leave the highway (far away from the map‘s edge and using a different cross road each time) the static and reset kept happening.

I restarted the game and loaded an earlier save. The static and resetting have not occurred since then.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with the game unexpectedly and repeatedly producing static and resetting itself?

Is that a bug in the game? I can’t think of any other reason.

[Simple Man]

Its a bug introduced with 2.0 and as of 2.02 doesn't seem to have been fixed.

Everytime you cross a border for some reason, get a fair distance away from it, save, and load that save, otherwise until you (re)load, the game will continue to randomly send you back there, even if you're in the middle of corpo plaza.

[damion.ord]

It's not a bug, it's there to stop you going places you can't or shouldn't be able to go to. It's been there since day one mostly to prevent you leaving Watson in act 1 since there are a few seemingly unblocked routes out of the district.

Thought I had found a way to the rest of the city, got the nothing for you yet message and then the exact RGB thing before getting teleported back to before the boundry.

Nobody actually leaves NC because NC is a simulation of an Earth city floating through space for the entertainment of the Techno Necromancers of Alpha Centauri, try to leave and they just beam you back inside. Any memories you have of the outside are implanted.