What's Inside Night City's MedCenter? | Cyberpunk 2077

Hello one and all, welcome welcome to another cheeky out of bounds exploration. Today we are not claiming cut content, we are instead satisfying the primal urge to understand the unknown, you know, you want what you can't have.
Join me for a look behind closed doors as one of Night City's biggest buildings, that of course, is never ever used for gameplay.
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[@morganblackhand2020]

I wonder how different the game would be if the executives never rushed the dev team. If the devs were given the two or three extra years they requested then I imagine we would have a lot more interior locations.

[@EverydayEdgelord-dy1gh]

Mhm. "Coming when it's ready" has to be one of the biggest lies in the video game industry thus far.

[@TheSurlySoutherner]

I don't think it would've been all that different. The game's main issue is it's backbone. The plot! And even then, the plot doesn't explore what would make the world interesting. We get Johnny stuck in our head and we're just out to get favours and save our lives. It's a pretty dull story when you think about it. Silverhand has a vendetta against Arasaka, we kinda find out why, because of Alt, but it also felt kinda weak. And Arasaka aren't even really explored, we get some exposision, but I actually had to go to Wiki to find out exactly what they are because the game doesn't really tell us other than they're "Big corp bad"

[@nnnneeeeuuuu]

Like the prison having a bunch of guards and basketball court and you wouldn’t know that if you didn’t try to jump in

[@Gandu420_]

@@TheSurlySouthernerna the game def tells u lol, u just actually have to read the shards

[@morganblackhand2020]

@@TheSurlySoutherner Say what you want about the story but it doesn't change the fact that the world is overall dull and rather lifeless despite being beautiful. It was nothing like we were promised and there could have been so many improvements with a few more years in the oven.

[@drnafari0us962]

Seriously, the intro of the game with Sandra suggested that Trauma Team would have a bigger role to play rather than basically being side content.

[@SirMZK]

still the biggest offender for catfishing in this game, why aren't any of the corporations fleshed out in free roam??

[@JohnnySilverwrench]

Well there was a massive amount of cut content as we all know by now we had a huge underground massive areas of unplayable and now after talking to numerous people it seems to be cause of time graphic limitations and things....like a lot was cut cause of time there was supposed to be so much more story as originally we where supposed to choose Silverhand or Arasaka lol the more you know chooms 🤘

[@filipniemier8300]

I believe some of the large abandoned areas were meant for multiplayer instead of single player content. Klepping supplies from MedCenter, raiding Arasaka Waterfront or maybe even Militech Building and Prison. Those are huge areas and using them in the storyline would require quite some sightseeing from the player. But party of four, where netrunner goes for the access point, solo goes through the main entrance, tech from the back etc. ? Yeah, that looks a bit more like what the devs had in mind before the execs rushed the game and ruined post lunch plans.

[@SirMZK]

Good point never considered this

[@veryrare432hz]

CyberMP team have some work to do

[@Xegethra]

A lot of the stuff is there because of the tabletop, all the names are there. But there's so much of it, it hardly does anything. Stories are much easier when they are in your head.

[@Khannea]

Those squares are visualisation spots for a builder to stand and watch how certain structures look in-world. We use those all the time.

[@SirMZK]

oh that's really cool, why would they be there of all places though? does that mean the ground level was down there at some point in development?

[@Inferryu]

@@SirMZKThey would be put there by the person doing the work, the terrain is of no consequence to this, the artist just forgot to remove them, if it where the case, this is the first time I've ever heard of this to be honest. To me it looks more like artifacts left behind by the terrain tools, for such a big building it makes no sense to even store terrain data that should never be seen, so you just run a collision check to see what to remove or not.

[@FrankByDaylight]

Fun fact-ish. Waayyyyy before the game was even fully revealed. Like only 3 years into the teaser trailer coming out. Some devs were saying that Militech, Medtech (buildings) and stuff like that would have been accessible for V if they chose that origin for them. Obviously the origin storys was changed to be very limited. But that makes me believe that the reason the building in the finished product has a lot inside of it is cuz of those leftovers. But obviously the origin story was changed very later on. So yes. More was planned. But def scrapped very early.

[@SirMZK]

this is so cool thank you. Man i'd pay a stupid amount of money for some pre release build of this game

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

you mean instead of the nomad, street kid and corpo life paths there would've been more fleshed out ones with actual different missions and buildings accessible depending on which origin you started with/

[@El__Wiwi]

source for this? was it a thread on the old cyberpunk 2077 forum?

[@helline9]

it'd love to see videos like this from the dev's explaining why buildings look like this behind the scenes in the out of bounds areas. artifacts etc. as for if the Medcenter was ever going to be used. i would think building one floor, a lift and the foyer wouldn't be too hard if it was to be used.

[@FigmentHF]

Could be as simple as some dev was working on the asset, finished the exterior and started throwing in some collision meshes and assets in the interior and then got moved onto something else as they didn’t know exactly what buildings needed interiors and which didn’t. The answer to these mysteries is often incredibly banal One thing I do wonder, is why don’t they delete everything that’s not used/accessible/visible in order to increase performance. I have to imagine the gains are just so negligible that’s it’s not worth the time

[@ChaosZero.]

Well, the good news is that they confirmed actual real modding tools for TW3 which will allow in 2024 players to edit the world and make new quests, so as I mentioned a couple of times in previous videos, there were rumors that something like that was in the works and now that it's confirmed there is a chance that something similar will come for CP2077 as well.

[@Noeland]

I have a hunch that more was planned for the gig where you have to get that nomad kid a new kidney. When that gig first popped up for me on my first playthrough I thought for sure we'd be breaking into the med center and maybe using that trauma team AV that's sitting on the roof of that building with gangoons around it. But that was obviously not the case. I tried many times to get on that roof too, but without mods for streaming Stadia players I never did.

[@FigmentHF]

I think a lot of these larger more prominent buildings were intended to have interiors and maybe some quest elements, but reality quickly crept in. And so they focused resources on the most important mission areas, and as we all know, they were far from done polishing what they had got. I do dream of a night city with more interiors, more verticality and a working transit system, but I’m not sure how realistic that is with todays technical fidelity. I’m hoping that advancements in AI will help take away some of the laborious and painstaking work that’s currently being done by talented and creative humans, so they can better spend their time on more creative and fun aspects of development

[@Yusuke_Denton]

Good news is no advancements are really needed for this kind of procgen. If they'd give us map editing tools we could do it ourselves.

[@veryrare432hz]

There is actually a mod for this. Lets get to work@@Yusuke_Denton

[@TheSurlySoutherner]

Seems like it's jsut one massive piece of set dressing. Trauma Team aren't really explored though. Outside the of the tutorial mission, we basically never interact with them again outside of them sitting on a few street corners. Same goes with the Gangs as well. I was disappointed there was no real meat to them. Like you'd be doing a job for one fixer and shooting Tyger Claws, then you'd be doing a mission for Wakako and shooting up, idk Valentinos. Really wish they'd have explored the gangs a lot more and maybe had some loyalty system with them.

[@ninjak13]

To be fair they did try to give them some content on side gigs but it honestly wasn't enough.

[@chrispekel5709]

There's also the video game you can play!

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

@@chrispekel5709 the arcade video games inside the game? I haven't bothered with any of those, are they even fun?

[@i3deal]

Thanks for these clips. Yes that is gold. Gold is used in an energy process. I was actually working on the medcenter yesterday. So white,black,grey strips means water pipes located there .. medcenter has a water filtration system that has to be activated. Trees are also used in the process of cleaning the air. That place is massive so it is hard to get everything done in a small amount of time. I will be returning there tonight after work.

[@JunjiItoDougWalker]

what did he mean by this?

[@Neferpitou-]

Great video as always! I enjoy this type of content.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

You're not off base at all. It's obvious they wanted to do a little more there, either with Trauma Team (potentially featured in one of the planned DLCs) or at least a gig or two. Besides the Ncart station the highway goes straight from there to V's megabuilding upper garage. (another poorly used location) Doubt they would have filled much of the building though. Probably just ground level and the roof area with all the detailed props.

[@perhapsyes2493]

Theory on the building layout, potential purpose: I can imagine a really cool story mission (it's a lot more than just a simple gig) where you have to finish a failed hit job (potentially your own?), having to infiltrate the MedCenter to finish the job. The guy had TraumaTeam Premium coverage and got saved before the original hitman could complete the task. Do it through stealth and do not raise alarms, or do it guns blazing and you would have to find your way through a maze of closing gates and hallways.

[@Talos_1]

oh i wished to get into the med centre so much

[@churchill87]

Keep the videos coming mate!! So wish CDPR were continuing to update the game, PL saved and end the game

[@skrungusVEVO]

what ive noticed from these videos is that whoever was responsible for making the cyberpunk map left it in quite a "dirty" state, like with the weird softsys logos inside of the wall and the sets of empty doors in this video, not to mention that single questionably closed off tunnel that went near the casino, which is also a crazy thing to just leave in the game lol

[@SirMZK]

Yeah I know what you mean. The only explanation I can think of is these logos and doorways are just attached to the models and can’t be removed.

[@Jojje94]

Another bit of the world that had to be axed when they ran out of time. I hope for the sequel they build on top of what's already here, like the Yakuza series did

[@chrispekel5709]

I honestly think this is exactly what they will do. When you have the best map in existence, why not use it?

[@drnafari0us962]

@@chrispekel5709 Agreed, loved exploring every bit of Night City. Really hoping Project Orion does the world of Cyberpunk justice.

[@GrantErickson_IT]

have you found the floating shotgun at coordinates 0, 0, 0 ? haven't checked it since 2.0 update, but I never found anything online when i initially stumbled upon it over 2 years ago... just a thought. keep up the good work, cheers. *can check coordinates with a mod, or in photo mode **just looked into this and apparently CDPR has an internal thing called the zero-zero bug, and this seems to fit the randomness. actually interesting and funny

[@mrazbyte3150]

the hell is a zero zero bug, i cant find anything about it

[@schrodingerduck5737]

bro, i luv your vid, is something I am always happy to see

[@SirMZK]

ey that's good to hear :)

[@robertwatson6880]

Corpo V also had a med card that player was to hold the card but not collect the card.

[@ripHalo0002]

I've drivien under this building so many times. The colors are really distinctive

[@storytellerdavis]

The medcenter is such a core point of the city. But darn to the new massive interior :P I wonder how many of these buildings they created concepts for and it got green lit or not. This looks like it wasn't meant to be more.

[@BIGWojo68]

You need to do a video on the "airport" it looks like theres a whole other place in Terminal B beyond the metal detectors!

[@SirMZK]

Hehe I’ve had a look at this place and it’s cool for sure. Stay tuned

[@perhapsyes2493]

2:35 ; probably just some planters? The actual planter and plant itself has been removed but the dirt 'base' for the plants just never got taken out?

[@ART1E057]

do those keypads appear anywhere else in the game? i don’t recall seeing them and the UI/screen design reminds me of what earlier versions of CP2077’s UI looked like

[@SirMZK]

there's one on the outside of the med center but other than that, can't say I've seen them anywhere. Maybe specific to this building?

[@iricalexis7508]

i think they plan to use that medical center and team for V immersive respawn system when he died like what some people do at GTA V RP instead just game over. And use flying vehicle at top or metro system as fast travel after they respawned at the hospital, but again it's just too complex and actually is not that convenient for the game point of view so. yeah. They cut it.

[@EustaH]

It's not their first time - the Witcher 2 was massively cut as well (literally half of the game was cut), albeit for financial issues - the only difference was that the part that weren't cut was actually finished, but the reason was similar - they made everything, including the engine form scratch and it proved to be too much. But when they've got all the technical bits & pieces already there for TW2 they've got us the Witcher 3 which was amazing on every level. Now they already have art direction, concept arts, basic map layout (given it will still take place in Night CIty), and a lot of scripts and mechanics that can be reused for the project Orion - they can take that massive amount of time they used to make the OG CP2077 work at all, and use it to make it's sequel amazing instead. Let's hope they overdeliver this time, like they did with TW3.

[@Sashalexandros]

Shame they didn't use hospital, considering the amount of "injuries" and stray bullets people of Night City tend to catch every day.

[@joshuaritter5095]

It definitely looks like they just cut that entire first floor out. It's strange that they did that but not the upper levels.

[@systmmusic4729]

Did you know about the arasaka tunnel under the tower that leads all the way to the badlands? Really huge peice of cut content

[@systmmusic4729]

WAIT IT LEADS TO THE CASINO WHAT

[@cyborgvalkyrie]

4:30 What's that metal scaffolding? Is that the bottom of a landing pad?

[@SirMZK]

exactly that

[@JunjiItoDougWalker]

I miss Let There Be Flight so so much ;_;

[@SirMZK]

probably the greatest mod by far

[@timothy790110]

Man, im a few hours in and im getting depressed when i see how much is missing.

[@adrianogianni6583]

where do you get the photos for the video covers?

[@SirMZK]

Take them myself :)

[@RodimusPrime29]

All the stuff not finished in this game I'd imagine a release date of now or mid 2024 if devs weren't rushed

[@jhinds4315]

can you do those buildings that are in a line out in the ocean?

[@SirMZK]

nothing there sadly, would make a video but it would be very very short

[@chrispekel5709]

Those are tidal power stations I think? And maybe also a sea wall so night city doesn't flood

[@vincer7824]

My daily dose of English 'tism.

[@SirMZK]

hell yeah brotha

[@chargeduphellcat4937]

What we need is a modder to fill all these parts and maps that are unfinished so we can use them again 😅

[@chrispekel5709]

Cant unless they release a map editor. All we can do is place objects but not walls. We can't do things like change the doors for ones that open.

[@Cardali]

You should work some blackwall theme in to your sub-asks. Grab peoples' attention.

[@SirMZK]

blackwall theme??

[@CamNuggets]

Part of me wonders what this game would be like if it was a pc exclusive or waited until ps5/series x. It seems like so much was cut and could still barely run on bases Xbox ones and ps4s People say they were pushed but I’m sure they just cut this side content to make sure the story and most important elements could stay

[@chamoo232]

I agree. Just take the bottom floor of V's apartment building for example. You can't go down there. Loot still spawn if you use freecam to go there and avoid the invisible death walls. It was designed to be a playable area. I bet it was going to be the entrance to the building. It never made sense to me that the entrance to a building would be an elevator. Going up megabuilding 10's front steps was probably going to lead into that bottom floor and from there you would take an elevator to V's apartment. It probably didn't work for PS4 and XB1 going that quickly from outside to full inside so they cut it with an elevator that made it slower and easier to completely cut off.

[@npz1838]

Trauma Team, what could have been 😭😭😭

[@zettysoffc]

And what about the "Night City Medcenter We Never Got"

[@iamvmotherfucker]

This is an amazing video! Btw when are you going to continue the restoration of the casino?

[@Edmitsu]

You ever get the urge to go though the 1.0 build and compare any differences from it to the current build?

[@SirMZK]

yes every day, the issue is rolling it back to 1.0 and then trying to get mods to work with it

[@rupertthebear]

Why isn't anyone taking about the Makigai MaiMai?

[@unrealengine1enhanced]

exploring a shitty broken game. never thought i'd see it. but here i am.

[@nothing-fh8vi]

it ain't broken bro...

[@zoubeirfaouzi149]

Hello, I'm sorry if my request is annoying. But can you turn the interface off and only leave the mini map on? I find those things in the corner very annoying and irrelevant. 🤣

[@Re.T986]

Subscription? I got you bud.

[@SirMZK]

real g over here thank

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

The truth is, the Trauma Team doesn't actually save anyone. The building is just a front for a deeper lie :o jk

[@romanzuev2105]

those lads who don't subscribe...😔

[@SirMZK]

tell me about it pfff

[@deepfriedicecream576]

i hope the sequel sacrifices land size for a super dense city with interiors and underground structures. i want to go up, down and everywhere in between

[@CopperHvH]

"just a quick one guys" proceeds to waste additional time before and after asking for my to subscribe

[@CopperHvH]

also please don't do that cliché clap again.

[@SirMZK]

mwaahahaha

[@robbierichards7479]

The more i see of your channel just solidify's my thoughts that the witvher 3 was a complete one off for cdpr and they have no actual clue how to make a proper game

[@Tanzu15]

This proves. Night city is in fact empty and lifeless.

[@SirMZK]

sadly have to agree

[@drnafari0us962]

No matter how many people may argue otherwise, it really is. First I played it was release day because I bought 2 copies hoping for a different game (the one presented at 2018) but I was presented with no cops, AI that doesn't have their day and night cycles and just dying outta nowhere and crashes. 😂😭

[@Tanzu15]

@@drnafari0us962 also full of bugs still on 2.02, dog shit AI NPCs. The world is soulless.