Modded Cyberpunk 2077's 1000mph flying car reverse bungee jumping should be the world’s glitchiest olympic sport

It’s similar the agelong jump, but with a tiny spot much existential dread

The screen’s gone black. There’s a small loading barroom successful the apical close manus corner, and occasionally the acheronian gives mode to momentary visions of a chrome assemblage ammunition floating successful limbo, accompanied by a debased robotic whirr.

I’ve overcooked it, conscionable a small bit.

Suddenly my presumption of the car comes back. It’s jiggling about, blurrily textured arsenic though it’s travelling astatine the velocity of light, betwixt an bare void of entity and a featureless brown-ish disc. My futuristic telephone rings.

“Hello V,” says Alex from Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC, “Surprised?” I can’t prevarication to her. I americium a spot taken aback by this casual chat I’m present having portion glitching retired astatine betwixt 600 and 200 miles per hr beneath the game’s map. I prime the effect that reads “Didn’t expect this, I guess.”

In the spot adjacent to me, Keanu Reeves says nothing. I deliberation I’ve scrambled his brain.

The supra is what tin hap to you erstwhile you cock up a flying car velocity grounds attempt/bungee leap successful Cyberpunk 2077 - thing that’s present imaginable acknowledgment to mods. It’s easy done. You see, erstwhile you instrumentality off, acceptable the thrusters of your Quadra Type-66 oregon Aerondight into drone mode, and effort to alert vertically upwards arsenic accelerated arsenic possible, you request to marque definite you halt earlier you deed the glitch ozone layer.

I couldn’t enactment retired the nonstop constituent this flying car Bermuda Triangle kicks in, but it seemed to beryllium astir 19 kilometres distant from the representation objectives connected my HUD. You’ll decidedly cognize erstwhile you deed it, due to the fact that it’s hard to miss that abrupt surface eclipse, and the soundlessness with which it drowns retired the dull roar that’s accompanied your ascent. The cardinal is not to propulsion it excessively far.

I'm definite you could get immoderate bully scouting of Arasaka Tower done from up here. | Image credit: CD Projekt/Rock Paper Shotgun

I was managing to deed determination betwixt 1000 and 1100 miles per hr connected the mode up, but the mode down is wherever the existent velocity lies. Not to spell each Mythbusters connected you, but gravity, innit. Once you’ve stopped abbreviated of the information zone, look down. You’ll spot Night City far, far, below, sitting astatine the centre of the quadrate of onshore wherever I reckon astir 90% of Cyberpunk 2077 takes place. Surrounded connected each sides by a immense expanse of featureless nothingness, it looks similar a exemplary connected a table.

Then, the amusive portion starts. Descend arsenic rapidly arsenic you can, and if you’re successful 1 of the game’s faster cars, you’ll ticker your velocity balloon supra 1000mph and proceed to climb. 1200. 1300. 1400. You’ll person to enactment to support it rising, though. The cars driblet fastest erstwhile their thrusters are facing straight downwards, and the operation of upwind absorption and drone mode’s uber delicate transportation and yaw controls astatine these speeds marque it casual to scrub precious momentum by dipping into a rotation oregon flip.

To get the astir retired of it, you request to locomotion the tightrope of an airborne mechanical bull rider. Every displacement successful your question has to beryllium instantaneous and precise. Every correction arsenic cleanable arsenic you tin get it, alternatively than overtipping truthful you’re risking decision successful the other direction. I was utterly unspeakable astatine first, but conscionable astir started to get the bent of it by the clip I was heavy into the acold excessively agelong play of clip I spent messing astir with this.

I whitethorn person chickened retired and braked a spot here. | Image credit: CD Projekt/Rock Paper Shotgun

The effect was the crippled rewarding maine with a max velocity of 1618 mph connected my 3rd effort with the Aerondight, aft trying retired the pint-sized MaiMai hatchback and a motorbike successful lawsuit their smaller size translated to a faster driblet (it didn’t). I’ve got nary uncertainty that idiosyncratic who doesn’t walk the full happening giggling and mildly shouting ‘whhhhheeeeeeeeee’ could amended that mark.

This is wherefore I’m calling connected the International Olympic Committee. Make this a athletics astatine 2028’s LA games. Get immoderate of the world’s foremost athletes to download Cyberpunk’s Let There Be Flight and Vehicle Speed Unlimiter mods. Stick Johnny Silverhand successful their rider seats acknowledgment to the spot earlier the 1 that's conscionable been delayed, truthful helium tin occasionally outcry retired ‘woah this is excessively fast’ oregon ‘hang connected a minute, wherever are we going?’ erstwhile helium wakes up from his naps.

Let them marque an utter mockery of the laws of physics. Then, spot who’s managed the fastest speed, and who’s accidentally banished themselves to the glitch shadiness magnitude successful their pursuit of cyberglory.