Anyway, as far as the net is concerned I think that 'localised' nets that encompass either cities or sections of them would both make sense with the post firestorm canon and solve the issue of players not being able to access data outside the 'physical' gameworld.
I really, REALLY hope they ditch lasers. I hate energy weapons.
I would like to see AVs as a luxury/premium transport option while standard automobiles would be the norm.
No insta-healing. I want 2077 to be as lethal as 2020 was. Keep healing in the 'days' region and I am happy. Maybe a similar process to 'Wanted' but with nanites.
That's my view too, a more "earth-grounded" Cyberpunk, without all the over-the-top technology, just a few AV and a few vehicules who don't use that much energy to work, some advanced medical tech, a lot of cyber-implants, new guns, new technological marvel like realistic holograms , etc... but the 5th Corp War probably calmed a lot of people about going too far with technology (except a few guys, wich we'll probably have to take care of during the story), like us, with the Nuclear Bomb after World War ll
For example, the braindance will probably be really advanced, but no one would have thought about cleaning up the Net, too much work and they probably thinked it was too easy back then to be hacked with it.
In this setting, there would be a large difference between the rich, and the poors, a corporate would have an amazing overpriced implant, but a streetpunk would wear an awfull cheap one, maybe used. In 2020 a good implant wasn't that much expensive, there you would have to earn a lot to get a good one.
Maybe they made an internet, similar to ours, just to transfer data, etc... but no "cyberspace", having a high tech, but being reasonable with it, knowing how everything has ended in 2025.
They'll probably use people like "Johnny Mnemonic" too, to send data from a corporation to another, etc...
I'd say there will have some "oldies" from 2020 in some places, but not as much as in the 2020 days
Also, about Netrunner, if the Net's gone, they probably learned to get their data from another source.
It's just some supposition after all.
I just don't want a "Cyberpunk V3".
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