why are the npc's on the street the same

[四筒]

The are too many NPCs in the street that look the same,and some of them have penetrate the model.

[Duang]

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[CloudSeeker]

Because you can only make so many random NPC models.

[[=]Josiah]

Game engines can only buffer so many textures. The longer a session you play, the worse this effect gets as the engine has to “cheat” to keep the appearance of a populated city.

[Bjørn]

I believe the 'HDD Mode' setting in the game is relevant to this.

When I have this enabled, I sometimes see a lot of identical NPCs at the same time. I don't experience this with HDD Mode off.

[vram1974]

There's a mod that prevents this from happening I think called "No More Duplicate NPCs" but even with that mod I feel like I've seen some dupes.

[failsafe]

Noticed that happens more often if you are running low on VRAM, since I upgraded from an 8gb GPU to a 16gb GPU I get a lot less groupings of the same NPC. still happens sometimes were you might get 2 or 3 that look the same close together but no where near as many or as often as when I was using my old 8gb card.

[maldorf]

Originally posted by failsafe:

Noticed that happens more often if you are running low on VRAM, since I upgraded from an 8gb GPU to a 16gb GPU I get a lot less groupings of the same NPC. still happens sometimes were you might get 2 or 3 that look the same close together but no where near as many or as often as when I was using my old 8gb card.

Wow, I wouldnt think that would be related, having duplicates. Id think it would just limit how many people can be on the screen. I guess system RAM doesnt play a part?

[Phynrae]

There's another factor, namely the NPC designs themselves.

Cyberpunk has a lot of colourfull and unique looking pedestrian NPC's, which is great for painting a picture of NC and what kind of city it is, but it does also hurt the game when they get duplicated, because they stand out, they are noticable.


In truth, duplicate pedestrians has always been a problem in games like this, but i think people notice it a lot more in this one.