Elon Musk not in Cyberpunk 2077, despite viral rumors


Elon Musk doesn’t have a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 regardless of rumblings on the web saying he is within the recreation. That is based on 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 based on the sport’s senior quest designer Patrick Okay. Mills, this character will not be the billionaire.


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“That wasn’t Elon musk, it seems nothing like him,” mentioned Mills on the social community previously often 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 response to the biography, when Musk’s then-partner Grimes was recording her strains 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 acknowledged based on the biography, to which Musk added: “I advised them that I used to be armed however not harmful”.

Musk’s obvious want to be included within the recreation had one thing to do with the sport’s cybernetic implants being in some way associated to his work on Neuralink know-how.

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 toilet in Cyberpunk 2077 is seemingly not Elon Musk. Take that bit of data as you’ll.

Free Replace 2.0 for Cyberpunk 2077 drops on September 21, whereas the paid enlargement Liberty Metropolis releases on September 26.