Cyberpunk 2077 Developers Lacked Budget, So CDPR Elegantly Handled the Absence of Hair Physics

Limitations forced the developers to make changes to the character's design, which were then incorporated into the story.

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.