Cyberpunk 2077 offers a versatile world that you explore and get to know more as V. To get from A to B, there are many different ways in various other open-world games to do it quickly. However, players say: Night City doesn’t need that at all.
What mechanic is being referred to? In a Reddit thread, the community of Cyberpunk 2077 discusses the fast travel options in the game. Whether you can actually call this a discussion is questionable. Based on the many reactions, the community seems to agree and supports the headline of the post by Ok_Time6234: “[Cyberpunk] 2077 is probably the only game where I hardly fast travel.”
About 4,700 additional fans agree with this realization and explain why they do without fast travel in Cyberpunk 2077. The game does a lot right to make traveling and navigating the city enjoyable, but the reason is just as simple as effective: Night City is so awesome that there is no reason to fast travel.
Here you can see the trailer for the “City of Dreams” in Cyberpunk 2077, where fast travel becomes a minor issue:
Whether on streets or rooftops – Cyberpunk 2077 is too good for fast travel
For what reasons do players forgo fast travel? In the exchange on the Reddit thread, it quickly becomes clear that players are not explicitly against fast travel itself. The alternatives in Cyberpunk 2077 are simply too good to teleport from one point to another.
Based on the reactions, two main reasons stand out: the vehicles and the movement possibilities and maneuvers that can be obtained in the game. Together with the level design and the world layout, one does not want to forgo navigating the city independently.
With a combination of dashing and sprinting that can be unlocked in the skill tree, V can move faster and significantly more vertically than the AI-controlled cars. This way, one can jump like a parkour pro from rooftop to rooftop in Night City and experience the city from a completely new perspective.
“The sprint-dash and jump-dash right after are by far the most entertaining way to get around in the game,” explains a player.
In this clip on Reddit, you can see how effective mobility in Cyberpunk 2077 can become through the skill tree:
But the vehicles also impress a lot, not only through the selection and driving itself but also through the features they contain:
“The cars and motorcycles you have in the game are incredibly cool, […] the radio is great, and above all, Night City is excellently designed both visually and in terms of the map layout – it really feels like a city, unlike any other game before” (Guillermidas on Reddit).
MeinMMO editor Caro says: Fast travel in Cyberpunk 2077 has become as irrelevant to me as the community voices on Reddit describe. I have also become a big fan of the “sprint-dash-jump-dash” maneuver, so the X and O buttons on my controller will probably soon show signs of wear.
Due to the verticality in Night City from the various overlapping streets and buildings, that is incredibly useful.
Also, like many other fans mentioned in the discussion, I am a big fan of the soundtrack from Cyberpunk 2077 and love to listen to NC-Radio while driving through the city. My personal recommendation is “98.7 Body Heat Radio” for bangers like Night City, History, Hole In The Sun, and – of course – I Really Want to Stay at Your House.
For me, the immersion of the game is destroyed by fast travel, which would be a real shame in such an immersive world like Cyberpunk 2077. Therefore, I also love to use the tram that was added in a later update. Whether I would handle it this way in every game, I doubt. But in Cyberpunk 2077 it allows me to dive even deeper into the game and the everyday life of the inhabitants, making the city feel much more alive.
What do you think about fast travel in Cyberpunk 2077 or other open-world games? Feel free to let us know in the comments!
Whether you choose fast travel or a grounded walk, that’s entirely up to you. However, there are some decisions in Cyberpunk 2077 that MeinMMO editor Caro will definitely judge you for: Ranking of the 5 worst decisions in Cyberpunk 2077 for which I personally judge you
