Elon Musk doesn’t have a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 regardless of rumblings on the web saying he is within the recreation. That is in accordance with a senior CD Projekt RED staffer who labored on the sport extensively.
You see, many on-line appear to suppose an NPC seen in a toilet early within the recreation is Musk, however in accordance with the sport’s senior quest designer Patrick Ok. Mills, this character shouldn’t be the billionaire.
“That wasn’t Elon musk, it appears nothing like him,” mentioned Mills on the social community previously generally known as Twitter. “Who got here up with this nonsense?”
The assumed inclusion of Musk grew to become viral when an excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk hit the web. In keeping with the biography, when Musk’s then-partner Grimes was recording her traces for Lizzy Wizzy within the recreation, he strolled in carrying a 200-year-old flintlock pistol insisting on a cameo.
“The studio guys had been like sweating,” Grimes said in accordance with the biography, to which Musk added: “I informed them that I used to be armed however not harmful”.
Musk’s obvious need to be included within the recreation had one thing to do with the sport’s cybernetic implants being by some means associated to his work on Neuralink expertise.
Mills states that whereas he wasn’t on the workplace the day Musk reportedly confirmed up, “even when [the story’s] true, that does not imply this random Japanese man is meant to be him.”
Regardless of the case, the fella you see lurking within the lavatory in Cyberpunk 2077 is seemingly not Elon Musk. Take that bit of knowledge as you’ll.
Free Replace 2.0 for Cyberpunk 2077 drops on September 21, whereas the paid enlargement Liberty Metropolis releases on September 26.