Gang attacks are annoying

[fastica]

I had 20 minutes to try the metro system (I'm a busy man) but I couldn't get to the station as I got attacked two times. Are there any way to drive without gang attacks? It's really annoying.

[DucGrandma]

Congrats, now I don't have any gang attack encounter in end game.

[pedrojdm2014]

After 2.1 no one is attacking me anymore. (i think...) i had some dudes attacking me when i was about to finish phantom liberty, but after that nope.

i think it maybee, has something to do with your merc rep. ?

[Graf Erik]

Publicado originalmente por pedrojdm2014:

After 2.1 no one is attacking me anymore. (i think...) i had some dudes attacking me when i was about to finish phantom liberty, but after that nope.

i think it maybee, has something to do with your merc rep. ?

No, its simply that the number of attacks is limited.

Gang attacks are caused by certain decisions during missions/gigs.
During story missions you can often make a decision on how to solve an issue Killing Royce in The Pickup/ Killing Placide and Brigit in Transmission, while during gigs you can in general decide between sneaking in and out without getting seen and slaughtering anyone on site.

If you chose violence, violence comes after you. Once. Its typicaly one attack caused by one mission.

And the whole thing was introduced in 2.1. If you continued a save from before that, there might have been a certain number of attacks on-route. Some persist, others are apparently waived. Or maybe the total number of queued attacks is limited.

[Inari]

Publicado originalmente por Titan Awaken:

Publicado originalmente por Inari:

Water is in fact not wet, water wets things.

Tangential comment. If you have an issue with the proverb, that’s on you; I didn’t invent it.

Now back to the original topic…

Well it was the only thing to really comment on since the rest was just "Well it's annoying in real-life so no wonder it's annoying in a game!"

[EJR]

Gang attacks are non-existent in my save. Don't know why. I had two gang attacks since it was included, one from Arasaka and another from Maelstrom. But afterwards I get nothing. Don't know what the issue is, perhaps I need to spend a certain amount of time in a certain district for its gang to go after me but IDK.

Publicado originalmente por ImHelping:

Everyone whining they are a realistic challenge and punishment are basically lying to themselves to sound hardcore. When you can handle them on very hard it is your responsibility to admit to everyone "Yeah this is still just dumb", not try to shame people for finding it an awkward and immersion breaking joke.

Simply sounds like a you problem. Many people, myself included, play on VH or at the very least H and find no issue. We genuinely love the challenge of the game trying to kill us, especially since level scaling is a thing.

It also fits with the lore as NC is rampant with corruption and crime. The 5-star police system and the patrolling cops you see in-game is just for game mechanics, in-universe the police chief was replaced by an actual corpo exec sometime in the 2070s and he laid off many cops and put their primary focus on giving tickets so the NCPD is nothing more but another way for the government of NC to maximize profits.

[zeredis]

ima be honest i havent been gang attacked all that much, most ive seen of cars running up on me is when ive been givin cars to muramar

but the easiest fix ive had for unwanted car-tailing I just look at the car, have em stop and explode all while im on my merry way lmao

[þujöhol]

update: random car chases stopped for me after I finished the dlc
idk if that's normal but it's better this way, driving became enjoyable again

[Khloros]

I would not have a problem with it except it seems like something is busted with the gang spawning attacks, because every time i get into a car it happens.

[Aleddra]

How is any part of getting destroyed thoroughly right after you saved your game, fun?

Does this game have console options i could use to save this game? I'm not going to bother making another one. Heh, same thing if i did?

[Tampa Powers]

I haven't gotten one in hours of gameplay and I go around mowing each any everyone I find down.

[Aleddra]

Some people get ambushes right? I know i do.

So, 2 cars pull up. I park mine, running away doesn't work, they're faster.

Then a single skull mob and a bunch of regular get off the cars.

What am i expected to do? I think i only just finished the prologue.

[jpsmailplace]

Johnny's advice is "you need a faster car"

[Phynrae]

Publicado originalmente por EJR:

Gang attacks are non-existent in my save. Don't know why. I had two gang attacks since it was included, one from Arasaka and another from Maelstrom. But afterwards I get nothing. Don't know what the issue is, perhaps I need to spend a certain amount of time in a certain district for its gang to go after me but IDK.

Same here. They broke about half-way through my playthrough, no idea why or how, but absolutely nothing happens now.

And it's not just the retaliatory attacks (for instance, i killed Brigitte and Placide a week ago, and i know the VDB's are supposed to retaliate for that one, hasen't happened though), it's also all the random car events (certain spots where rival gangs will chase eachother in cars), those have also completely stopped happening.

[jjwinel]

Publicado originalmente por fastica:

I had 20 minutes to try the metro system (I'm a busy man) but I couldn't get to the station as I got attacked two times. Are there any way to drive without gang attacks? It's really annoying.

Welcome to St. Louis...ummm...I mean Night City.

[Titan Awaken]

Publicado originalmente por Inari:

Publicado originalmente por Titan Awaken:

Tangential comment. If you have an issue with the proverb, that’s on you; I didn’t invent it.

Now back to the original topic…

Well it was the only thing to really comment on since the rest was just "Well it's annoying in real-life so no wonder it's annoying in a game!"

Well what in the blue sky do you expect me to say instead?

“Ackshually no, gang attacks are fun entertainment and keep you quick on your feet at all times!”

Gang attacks are obviously annoying and nuisances much like any activity that is forced upon you without your consent and/or any prior warning. This holds true whether in-game or in real life.

If you want to argue that gang attacks aren’t annoying then be my guest. The floor is all yours.