Idea: Turn the world of Cyberpunk into the world of Star Wars
The idea dawned upon me recently, that the existing world of Cyberpunk lends itself to be a potentially awesome Star Wars experience. This will be a massive undertaking, so I am just here to pitch the idea for modders to potentially look into it in the future.
What could change:
- Entire Night City aesthetics overhaul with a higher focus on grey tones akin to traditional Empire colorschemes, while maintaining the neon aspect of the city, but adapted to match the color pallette of the Empire - so a very high focus on red and pure white lighting - gradually expanding into more diverse coloring the further away from the city center you get - as a sort of gradient that visualizes the control of the Empire.
- Factions within NC would be changed, so the big corps represent major alliances within the Empire, Arasaka being the core. Street gangs could be bounty hunter guilds, and Nomads could be turned into Rebel forces, and you already got the Tatooine-like setting in the desert (to an extend. Idk if it would be possible to remove foliage and trees and turn the badlands into an actual desert).
- Total weapons system rework. Many weapons actually only need reskins, as their aesthetics already match traditional Star Wars weaponry very well. What would see the most significant change, would be the physics and visuals of gunshots that would have to be changed to some sort of blaster fire. If possible it would be great if they could be converted to fire a projectile-like shot that has travel time, rather than the instant hit detection - but in the end just having the visuals would make do if implemented well.
- Existing melee weapons would be largely discarded in favor of remodelled versions of typical Star Wars melee weapons. I imagine that there in this world would exist mimic lightsabers which intend to take the place of current Katanas, and work sort of similar to traditional lightsabers, but without the extended capabilities and performance. However, certain "iconic" sabers would be classified as "Real lightsaber" and be unique in color and properties. They would be able to deflect blaster fire from basic firearms etc, while having increased base stats compared to the regular "non-real" lightsabers.
Then of course a whole host of other types of melee weaponry could be added as well.
- Clothing is already decent, with some pieces benefitting from reskins, and some potential custom clothing being added like cloaks and capes and various armor types and helmets (could even be a combination of multiple existing clothing pieces/helmets that are combined and reskinned).
- All mods and the whole tech tree could be reworked to suit a Star Wars-centric universe and abilities associated with beings in such a universe. Implementing the Force in some aspect would be very interesting, and it could potentially replace the Quickhack aspect of CP77.
- Vehicles could to some extend be modified to remove wheels and instead let them float above the road surface (Like the basilisk) - and maybe finally adding actually player-operated flying vehicles.
- Police and mechs would just need basic reclothing/reskins, but the whole drone setting already fits perfectly into the world of Star Wars - and so does the incompetence of Police AI match stormtroopers ^^.
Well, take any of this, all of this, or even more than this, and think about what an experience could be created. CP77 has the great foundation for such an extensive mod, and while it's not possible to do now, perhaps it will become feasible in the future. That's why I want to plant the idea early, so that someone may potentially think ahead with this concept (or any other concept similar to this).
The idea dawned upon me recently, that the existing world of Cyberpunk lends itself to be a potentially awesome Star Wars experience. This will be a massive undertaking, so I am just here to pitch the idea for modders to potentially look into it in the future.
What could change:
- Entire Night City aesthetics overhaul with a higher focus on grey tones akin to traditional Empire colorschemes, while maintaining the neon aspect of the city, but adapted to match the color pallette of the Empire - so a very high focus on red and pure white lighting - gradually expanding into more diverse coloring the further away from the city center you get - as a sort of gradient that visualizes the control of the Empire.
- Factions within NC would be changed, so the big corps represent major alliances within the Empire, Arasaka being the core. Street gangs could be bounty hunter guilds, and Nomads could be turned into Rebel forces, and you already got the Tatooine-like setting in the desert (to an extend. Idk if it would be possible to remove foliage and trees and turn the badlands into an actual desert).
- Total weapons system rework. Many weapons actually only need reskins, as their aesthetics already match traditional Star Wars weaponry very well. What would see the most significant change, would be the physics and visuals of gunshots that would have to be changed to some sort of blaster fire. If possible it would be great if they could be converted to fire a projectile-like shot that has travel time, rather than the instant hit detection - but in the end just having the visuals would make do if implemented well.
- Existing melee weapons would be largely discarded in favor of remodelled versions of typical Star Wars melee weapons. I imagine that there in this world would exist mimic lightsabers which intend to take the place of current Katanas, and work sort of similar to traditional lightsabers, but without the extended capabilities and performance. However, certain "iconic" sabers would be classified as "Real lightsaber" and be unique in color and properties. They would be able to deflect blaster fire from basic firearms etc, while having increased base stats compared to the regular "non-real" lightsabers.
Then of course a whole host of other types of melee weaponry could be added as well.
- Clothing is already decent, with some pieces benefitting from reskins, and some potential custom clothing being added like cloaks and capes and various armor types and helmets (could even be a combination of multiple existing clothing pieces/helmets that are combined and reskinned).
- All mods and the whole tech tree could be reworked to suit a Star Wars-centric universe and abilities associated with beings in such a universe. Implementing the Force in some aspect would be very interesting, and it could potentially replace the Quickhack aspect of CP77.
- Vehicles could to some extend be modified to remove wheels and instead let them float above the road surface (Like the basilisk) - and maybe finally adding actually player-operated flying vehicles.
- Police and mechs would just need basic reclothing/reskins, but the whole drone setting already fits perfectly into the world of Star Wars - and so does the incompetence of Police AI match stormtroopers ^^.
Well, take any of this, all of this, or even more than this, and think about what an experience could be created. CP77 has the great foundation for such an extensive mod, and while it's not possible to do now, perhaps it will become feasible in the future. That's why I want to plant the idea early, so that someone may potentially think ahead with this concept (or any other concept similar to this).
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