Empty City

[Izuzul]

So I finished Phantom Liberty and had no real issues or bugs. Today when I loaded my game from last night all traffic and 99% of NPC's are gone. Streets are empty. Never had anything like this happen before. Went back to a previous save and it was ok. Did a mission and same thing happened again, world was suddenly a ghost town.

Ryzen 5800x3d
3080ti
nvme ssd
Edit: Verified my files and no change. Ghost World.

[Izuzul]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3042820823

[Revell]

I get the same bug occasionally, doesn't seem to be tied to any specific triggers. I guess we can only wait for a hotfix.

[Izuzul]

Originally posted by Black Orca:

I get the same bug occasionally, doesn't seem to be tied to any specific triggers. I guess we can only wait for a hotfix.

Sux

[Silverbane7]

I had that happen in 1.61
Had to go back to an older save to fix it. All the normal NPCs vanished.
The only ones about were the gangoons, corpo mooks, cops and those npc's who talk to each other. Like the two women talking about a trip to some island where they built a columbarium in an old mine, or the dude talking about how Julio is a real bastardo, man! (XD)
I drove all over. Cars would be visible in front of me in the distance, but when they got closer, they would pop like soap bubbles. Even the area outside of V's apartment was empty. Drove at speed (something I NEVER do lol, as I crash a lot) on Jackie's bike to the badlands but still, everything was empty.
Felt like NC was filming a zombie apocalypse movie, just without the zombies o.0 was way too unreal for me, even tho some areas are quiet and empty (looking at you, Northside near the oilfields)

Now, I panic a little if the area gets too empty XD I worry I'm going to have to go back earlier again.

[dethtrain]

Oh wow my keyboard driving self would love this

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by dethtrain:

Oh wow my keyboard driving self would love this

There is a mod that was for changing up (or down) the amount of cars and NPCs on the streets. Don't know if its been updated tho. (Checked, currently broken in 2.0 but should work in 1.63 legacy)
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/3955?tab=description
Optimised custom crowd and traffic density.

I tried this to fix the empty city bug, but it barely added anyone even at custom max+

For me, I think the bug triggered when I was sneaking. Gangs were walking about as normal (' here, kitty kitty') lol but the normal citizens were freaking out for a massive area of affect.
I tried changing mods, fixed that but then got Ghosted by NC itself lol.

[Izuzul]

Originally posted by Black Orca:

I get the same bug occasionally, doesn't seem to be tied to any specific triggers. I guess we can only wait for a hotfix.

I was able to fix it by starting a new game. After playing the first mission I went back to the old game and traffic and NPC's were back. Dunno if they will stick around, but for now it's back to normal.

[brük]

I have the same problem (game is on ssd crowd density high). After I finished DLC main missions I started to do some side quests and went to get the free caliburn from badlands. When I came back to the city there were no npcs or cars. I thought it happened because I was driving way to fast and game didn't had a chance to load the traffic ( always happens with caliburn) 2 hours later I gave up reloaded my save and did all those things again without issue, saved my game and went to sleep but today I'm having the same issue on all of my saves from last night.

[Dahlberg9428]

For me this bug triggers when you do the "Moving Heat" quest as soon i finished it and got the car the world becomes emty.

[brük]

Originally posted by Dahlberg9428:

For me this bug triggers when you do the "Moving Heat" quest as soon i finished it and got the car the world becomes emty.

Just skipped that quest and it's fixed for me

[Mr.Kim]

Same happened to me after finished Moving Heat quest or criminal active area in dogtown at near V's temporary apartment.

[Izuzul]

Originally posted by Walliday:

Originally posted by Dahlberg9428:

For me this bug triggers when you do the "Moving Heat" quest as soon i finished it and got the car the world becomes emty.

Literally just had this happen to me. Same mission. Were you able to fix it?

I fixed it by starting a new game and doing the first mission then reloaded the broken save and traffic/npc's spawned again. Dunno if there is an easier way, but it worked for me.

[Rawen (からす)]

Same problem after getting Sport S7 Charon car. On the older saved position, everything is fine.

[r1nry.]

same problem after completing side missions, hope what's the new patch can fix it

edit:
While I was writing this message, I downloaded the game again and the problem was solved. I went to Night City and started a shootout with the cops. Then I left the game and loaded again by pressing the "continue" button (I didn't finish the shootout with the cops, but just left the game during the shootout and started the last save).

All the problems are raised, I hope that I will help someone

[NiD*YNWA]

Originally posted by R1NRY:

same problem after completing side missions, hope what's the new patch can fix it

edit:
While I was writing this message, I downloaded the game again and the problem was solved. I went to Night City and started a shootout with the cops. Then I left the game and loaded again by pressing the "continue" button (I didn't finish the shootout with the cops, but just left the game during the shootout and started the last save).

All the problems are raised, I hope that I will help someone

Can confirm that this works.

When driving around NC you will see NCPD standing around at some places. You can kill them without getting wanted. You can reload an older save or quicksave after killing them. Reloading will make the cars and NPCs appear again.

It is annoying, as it happend 5 times now for me in around 3hrs playtime but one can only hope for a hotix.

Plenty people reporting, that this happens after "Moving Heat" but i did that mission like 7hrs playtime ago. The bug only appeared now randomly without any real trigger. It happend to me for example after leaving the Ripperdoc.