Players continue to discuss various quests from Cyberpunk 2077 online. Recently, a screenshot of an "encounter" with Meredith went viral – her body was found at the bottom with a shaved head.
Cyberpunk 2077 Quest Director Paweł Sasko noticed the publication and said that he likes to leave such details in games:
I love adding such details to my quests – players often need time to discover them, but the feeling of delight and satisfaction afterward is unforgettable. It shows that no one is safe in Night City: there's always someone stronger, and the stakes are high everywhere.
He also decided to reveal a production secret. It turned out that Meredith's shaved head was not entirely a creative decision – the developers had a limited budget, so they had to figure out how to work around the lack of hair physics:
Her head is shaved because there wasn't enough budget for rigging and animating hair that would gently move underwater. We had to improvise in the design, and I turned it into part of the story.
However, Paweł Sasko even likes this. In his opinion, the limitations ultimately benefited creativity:
From an anthropological point of view, I liked it because shaving one's head is associated with loss of honor, dignity, and a sense of shame. This is one example of how limitations breed creativity.