Water

[Pinnacle of Pineapple]

Why is it so hard to get/find water in this ♥♥♥♥ game? Alcohol at every corner, but I simply want water. No soda, no energy drink ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Just plain water

[gimmethegepgun]

Welcome to the dystopian future. There is no water, only stimulants and depressants.

[Silverbane7]

there is water but most of it is bad.
you can buy 'real water' and if you notice, its 99 eurodollars per ltr.
there is also a couple of other waters you can get from vendors (food and bar)
and nomads can start out with some 'filtered rainwater'

they kicked everyone out of the place called 'Lagoona Bend' (where Judy grew up) a while back. it was to create a dam that would supposedly supply NC with clean and safe drinking water.
except its all toxic now. not as toxic now as it was, but it's still bad water.

there was the Red (10 years of beautiful but scary sunrises and sunset after 2023's AHQ bombing), the DataKrash and subsiquent depression/recession where money was tight.
Corps did what they always do, which is whatever the hell they want, that makes them money. and the land paid the price.
BioTechnica was trying to repair some of it back before the AHQ but maybe they didnt see any profit in it.
many many speices went extinct, or were forcibly wiped out (birds for example, around NC) ether for profits or due to plague ect.

so yeah... clean basic water is hard to get.
the water in your apartment is probably okay. Watson's Little China has decent (ie, not toxic) water in the system. Parts of Northside (closest to the plants) have sorta nasty water (slightly discoloured and a little smelly i think) and Rancho's stuff is a little dodgy.
City Center, Corpo Plaza and Charter Hill have drinkable water, good enough, so long as your a Corp or live in a ConApt.
Pacifica's is probably the worst, along with Dogtown (outside of anywhere the Garghast bunk)

[nukeman]

I went from Yakuza 7 which has some of the best in game food and drink in video games to this as my next game. I'm having fun with the combat but the food is so depressing!

[CLeRiC670]

It's so precious and rare that they have billboard advertisements in Corpo-town.

Only the wealthy elite can actually afford water.

[uni790]

It's because that's how the world looks when Megacorps rule things, the enviroment wasn't cared for, and now it's mostly a toxic garbage dump, clean water is reserved for the ruling elite, while it lasts, the Earth in Cyberpunk is essentially on the verge of uninhabitable, without all the cybernetics, it would be.

Now, I don't mean to be that person, but it's the direction our Earth is currently headed, and has been headed for quite some time, nothing any of us peons can do about it, but we're more or less headed straight for Cyberpunk, or Fallout, or probably a mix of both.

[Okihara Jones]

Seriously, though, wtf do you need water for?

[Pinnacle of Pineapple]

Originally posted by uni790:

It's because that's how the world looks when Megacorps rule things, the enviroment wasn't cared for, and now it's mostly a toxic garbage dump, clean water is reserved for the ruling elite, while it lasts, the Earth in Cyberpunk is essentially on the verge of uninhabitable, without all the cybernetics, it would be.

Now, I don't mean to be that person, but it's the direction our Earth is currently headed, and has been headed for quite some time, nothing any of us peons can do about it, but we're more or less headed straight for Cyberpunk, or Fallout, or probably a mix of both.

Bro, alcohol and other liquid is made from water as well. So if there were no water, there would be no alcohol in the first place. This game is weird in some aspects

Originally posted by Okihara Jones:

Seriously, though, wtf do you need water for?

Have a mod where I need to eat, drink and rest

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Pinnacle of Pineapple:

Have a mod where I need to eat, drink and rest

It's not that there isn't any water in the Cyberpunk world but simply that most of it, even less than our real world, is undrinkable without being heavily treated.
Hence why it's far easier to find drinks that merely have a water content than anything that is pure. Because it's cheaper to make.
And certainly why you will never see a vending machine selling water.

If you want to track it down your best bet is simply all the food vendors. With the ones located on the outskirts of the city generally being your best bet at anything that could be called "normal" water and the ones in the upmarket areas for the overpriced water with fancy names like "Vatnajöku".

Personally I'd take a closer look at that mod to see if it specifies what counts for fulfilling the requirement of "drink". I'd be surprised (also disappointed) if only basic water itself counts.

[spekt3r]

Originally posted by Pinnacle of Pineapple:

Bro, alcohol and other liquid is made from water as well. So if there were no water, there would be no alcohol in the first place. This game is weird in some aspects

alcohol has disinfecting attributes.
just like why folks drunk mostly beer wine and other low % stuff in the past.
water is fragile ang easy to contaminate, alc not so much.

[Spartykins]

can't wait to put bria water filters in my throat to drink the irradiated sewage seawater blend

[Rathalos47]

nice looking water

[damion.ord]

Originally posted by spekt3r:

Originally posted by Pinnacle of Pineapple:

Bro, alcohol and other liquid is made from water as well. So if there were no water, there would be no alcohol in the first place. This game is weird in some aspects

alcohol has disinfecting attributes.
just like why folks drunk mostly beer wine and other low % stuff in the past.
water is fragile ang easy to contaminate, alc not so much.

Yep, in 18th and 19th century England some wells were contaminated with disease, people were falling ill and then it was noticed that workers at the local brewery were not getting ill, they and their families were part paid in beer. The brewing process purified the water despite it coming from the same well.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by damion.ord:

Yep, in 18th and 19th century England some wells were contaminated with disease, people were falling ill and then it was noticed that workers at the local brewery were not getting ill, they and their families were part paid in beer. The brewing process purified the water despite it coming from the same well.

It goes back further than that, but yeah. The fermentation process and the creation of the beverage "cleanse" the water of the dangerous bugs and parasites, making alcoholic drinks much safer to drink than water.

[damion.ord]

All the doctors telling us we should drink less alcohol are obviously in the pockets of the big bottled water corpos.

[nukeman]

This is fun history and ties into the game lore... but I really hope we don't turn into Cyberpunk