Main Quest Delay / Early Open World System

[DreamLineRacing]

Coming back to play 2077 again has made me wonder what it would be like to be able to play as V, not in a world without Johnny, but in a world when you can choose when all that begins. After the Sandra Dorsett rescue, you immediately get that call from Jackie that leads into the Dex meeting and ultimately, the Heist mission. I was thinking it would be really neat if instead of receiving this call from Jackie immediately, you could send him a message asking about any new jobs, whenever you're ready to play the main story. Until then, the open world and side missions / gigs that don't feature Johnny in any way could open up for you to do, so you could sort of 'build up a name for yourself' and explore the world before diving straight into the main quest. It would also give people that want a Relic/Johnny-less playthrough an option to do so! There are a fair few gigs and other little side quests where Johnny doesn't pop up at all, so there should still be at least a little bit to do quest-wise, alongside the random NCPD assaults and other world events.

Understandably this could be a lot of work, but I just thought it was a cool idea that was worth sharing. Something a little similar can be achieved with commands (Covered by Simwag on the Cyberpunk Reddit), but that approach just essentially marks the main quest as completed before you even do it, and doesn't prevent you from doing side missions that Johnny appears in.

I'm not at all clued up when it comes to making mods for this game, although i've made a few mods for other games in the past and i'm happy to start learning any time, I'd love to get involved in a project with this as the end-goal, or even if someone could just point me in the direction of tools that might be able to help me achieve this, I'd be happy to try myself. There just seem to be so many tools available (Wolvenkit, Cyberscript, Redscript etc) that I dont know which one is actually going to work for something like this.

Is there anyone else that would like to see this kind of mod?

[moonknight1993]

It's very difficult with the barebones tools we have. There's no documentation.

 

I'm currently trying to increase the delay in time during the Judy questline. As you can see, the quest graph is very complex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The game uses something called Pause Condition to handle these conditions.

 

 

 

 

My guess is this condition determines that 1 day has to pass before the next phase of Judy quest begins. But how do I know which part of the quest it is? That's the difficult part.

 

In your case, I think Jackie calls you after you have completed a certain in game action, so it might be even more difficult

[Illtempered]

Jackie and Dex are still waiting in The Afterlife for me. I only told Dex I'd take the job to get access to the club. Johnny and his relic can rot in Cyberhell.

Edited November 11, 2023 by Illtempered