In a game that features a sprawling dystopian metropolis like Night City, you can never be sure whether that unfinished construction project you’re speeding through on the streets was made to look like … or maybe, it was meant for something more. After all, a corrupt corporate technological world would not feel well without its share of failed public works projects.
But even as Cyberpunk 2077 takes the hard blows that came with the rocky launch of one of this year’s most anticipated games, fans continue to explore the confines of Night City’s concrete jungle. For PS4 and Xbox One players, that means cutting out all the bugs, freezes and low-resolution textures that affected the next-generation version – but it’s not stopping the more adventurous players from taking stealthy advantage of all the tears in Cyberpunkdigital fabric from.
In the mysterious case of the semi-finished monorail in the sky, no one seems to know whether the huge web of tracks should be standing up there, just waiting for trains that never arrive – or if it is yet another ever-present reminder of how far to end 2077critics believe the game remains.
As reported by the NME for the first time, Reddit user Sybekul climbed the elevated railroad and did an in-depth reconnaissance mission to find out what the mysterious monorail may be hiding. This led to the discovery of a large-scale, elevated urban transport system that does not work in the game – although the network of unfinished train stations, incomplete textures and other artifacts suggest that the monorail may have been part of CD Projekt RED’s early. Cyberpunk ambitions.
As you can see in the second clip above, other players also explored on the elevated tracks, even hitching a ride on a moving train that (at least for now) was not really meant to be boarded. In each case, the results are the same: the trails run all over the city, but there is little to do when you are there.
Monorail stations are marked as part of the Night City Area Rapid Transit (NCART) system, a train system (complete with its own history) that players can see NPCs boarding across the city – but cannot walk alone. Like the much talked about mechanics that was shown in previous teasers, it seems to be one of the ambitious features that the studio intended to build in the final version of the game, but that was not included in the final version of the game with imminent deadlines and a last-minute development crisis.
While CD Projekt continues to work on fixes and patches for the PS4 and Xbox One, Cyberpunk 2077, there is always the possibility that a future DLC patch may bring full functionality to the megamonorail. At least on PC and the current generation console versions of the game, Night City is already a lively place at street level – but time will tell if the studio will continue to build new features in its virtual dystopia, just as you would probably expect from a true world-wide conversion of the semi-black urban border of Night City.