Those are the Arasaka robots that attack V and Takemura after The Heist. And they don’t need taxis.
CD Projekt Red probably looked at player tests and realized that most people pressed a button to skip car rides and wisely decided not to add more.
DukeIGM
Stop asking for stuff we dont need no more updates. Im not resseting my mods again 🤣🤣🤣
No-Start4754
Because I can guarantee u that everyone will skip the taxi rides and the existing ai for the npcs like judy, river and rouge driving is really bad so taxi drivers won’t be any better
DeftestY
Why would you use a taxi anyway? Sounds insufferable.
skrott404
Always thought that was a combat cab.
LaraNacht
Taxis that V can use would suck, but it would be neat to have taxis ferrying passengers around the map, though.
Rizenstrom
Delamain is a taxi service. As far as why we don’t see them out in the world I don’t really know. It wouldn’t be that hard to see a few out and about.
Maybe just to avoid the conflict of why Delamain wouldn’t address you hitting or blowing up his cars.
Terror-Of-Demons
Even LEGO City Undercover has taxis
Last-Influence-2954
Their clone agents like hitman type stuff. Actual in game lore on them. Forget where I found the lore but I remeber I did.
CapnLimbless
You can see how they would have worked if you have AMM installed. Just give yourself any NPC with full animation as a companion and assign them the drivers seat. Then get in a car and the map pops up and you can select any fast travel point and they will drive you there. It was reassembled from leftover code in the game.
p1agnut
creeepy
nimajnebmai
Crash Test Dummies
Zairy47
>why’d they cut taxis from the game?
Considering the state of the game at launched? They should’ve cut the whole game instead…
I doubt these were ever in the game. It’s just a promotional video (ads).
TheFourtHorsmen
What gameplay niche they would serve? You can drive, or fast travel.
Hot_Ad8643
Arasaka predators
lilnothin
in the lore, this is called combat cab and there are a few that actually spawn in the game with 6th street decals although they’re not functional. according to the wiki, this taxi company is the one that operates the fast travel data terminals
kingexalt91
Arasaka ninjas, they were the dudes chasing you an takamora on motorcycles
prof-pm
They look like an early version of Maelstrom
PrestigiousAd2717
Pretty sure Delamain is the taxi service for night city. Even though V can’t use him as an actual taxi. But why would we need a taxi service as a game mechanic when we have the fast travel points, and as of 2.1 the metro?
No idea who the robot characters are, but they do kinda look like Delamain.
Human_Adept
Those are the guys that chased V and Takemura. They using bikes now, much better than Taxis.. it would be funny if they chase you down using taxi.
TGX03
To be honest I’d been very surprised if there were actual human-operated taxis in the Cyberpunk world. Why pay a human some eddies when you can just have the cars drive themselves?
And we kinda got that with Delamain, however those are clearly luxury taxis, and only in missions, but still.
But I guess the actual reason is, as sadly very often in the game, a lack of time and resources.
Like17Badgers
counterpoint: why on earth would you ever use a Taxi when fast travel or *simply driving there yourself* would always be FAR faster?
Jengazi
If you look at the fast travel terminals, you’ll see text which reads something to the effect of “service provided by CombatCab”
So basically whenever you use fast travel you are calling a cab to pick you up and drive to one of the other terminals in and around the area of NC, so I guess for roleplay purposes you still do use taxis but that’s obviously not the same as riding in one immersively
pinespplepizza
Idk who they are but they hard
laughingskull00
honestly the battle taxis were such a dumb but fun concept
libra00
Man, I would love to see Combat Cab in 2077. That one Delamain ride sort of aped it, but it wasn’t the same.
RyanBurnsRed
That must’ve been the taxi service before the company brought on the Delamain AI and it took over the business.
IWearBones138__
Driver AI’s are pretty crap in Cyberpunk (just try and make it through a whole Claire or River trip). Plus the whole middle eastern taxi driver thing mightve been a little too on-the-nose. Probably cut it because Delamain became a more interesting concept.
Those guys in the back are generic hitmen. Same guys Arasaka sends after you and Takemura after the junkyard awakening.
Matduka
Those look like the Arasaka goons that come after you and Takemura after the dump.
stealthylyric
Idk but taxis should really be in the game
Ghorek1
The in-game lore says that human operated transit was severely reduced due to automation. There should be automated taxis and buses driving around, but were probably cut from the game. Especially since there are buses and yellow taxi cabs in game. They are only found parked though. I have yet to see one on the road.
SoonerBornSoonerBret
These guys look similar to what I envisioned the Monks from the Avery Cate’s Electric Church novel by Jeff Somers to look like.
azur933
ngl they would be such a pointless addition
Templar_Gus
Why do you want a taxi service in a game where you can hit one button and your car will drive up to you?
Immolation_E
I’ve found a couple of stationary taxi cars that weren’t Delamain before. And there’s a wrecked Delamain you can find with a message shard regarding how it ended up in that state in Pacifica.
HowlinBanshee
Judging by their African phenotypes and weaponry, They were probably some sort of iteration of the Voodoo boys that went heavy on the cybernetics. It looks like one of them is holding that g-58 Dian–a smart SMG, which tracks with their net runner speciality. I’m guessing we don’t have cabs in game simply because unlike games like GTA IV, which had cabs, we can summon a car of our liking without needing to resort to cheats or mods, so there wouldn’t be a need for cabs or buses. It looks like at one point both cabs and buses would have appeared in game.
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Money and time.
Thats the Delamain gang
Those are the Arasaka robots that attack V and Takemura after The Heist. And they don’t need taxis.
CD Projekt Red probably looked at player tests and realized that most people pressed a button to skip car rides and wisely decided not to add more.
Stop asking for stuff we dont need no more updates. Im not resseting my mods again 🤣🤣🤣
Because I can guarantee u that everyone will skip the taxi rides and the existing ai for the npcs like judy, river and rouge driving is really bad so taxi drivers won’t be any better
Why would you use a taxi anyway? Sounds insufferable.
Always thought that was a combat cab.
Taxis that V can use would suck, but it would be neat to have taxis ferrying passengers around the map, though.
Delamain is a taxi service. As far as why we don’t see them out in the world I don’t really know. It wouldn’t be that hard to see a few out and about.
Maybe just to avoid the conflict of why Delamain wouldn’t address you hitting or blowing up his cars.
Even LEGO City Undercover has taxis
Their clone agents like hitman type stuff. Actual in game lore on them. Forget where I found the lore but I remeber I did.
You can see how they would have worked if you have AMM installed. Just give yourself any NPC with full animation as a companion and assign them the drivers seat. Then get in a car and the map pops up and you can select any fast travel point and they will drive you there. It was reassembled from leftover code in the game.
creeepy
Crash Test Dummies
>why’d they cut taxis from the game?
Considering the state of the game at launched? They should’ve cut the whole game instead…
*not talking about cp2077 current state
Delaque 🤫
delamain: am i a joke to you?
These three could be [Brainiacs](https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Brainiacs), a NC-Gang that did not appear in the game.
Same question was asked 2 months ago: [https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/17sibtd/who_are_these_guys_in_a_taxi_in_the_e3_2018/](https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/17sibtd/who_are_these_guys_in_a_taxi_in_the_e3_2018/)
I doubt these were ever in the game. It’s just a promotional video (ads).
What gameplay niche they would serve? You can drive, or fast travel.
Arasaka predators
in the lore, this is called combat cab and there are a few that actually spawn in the game with 6th street decals although they’re not functional. according to the wiki, this taxi company is the one that operates the fast travel data terminals
Arasaka ninjas, they were the dudes chasing you an takamora on motorcycles
They look like an early version of Maelstrom
Pretty sure Delamain is the taxi service for night city. Even though V can’t use him as an actual taxi. But why would we need a taxi service as a game mechanic when we have the fast travel points, and as of 2.1 the metro?
No idea who the robot characters are, but they do kinda look like Delamain.
Those are the guys that chased V and Takemura. They using bikes now, much better than Taxis.. it would be funny if they chase you down using taxi.
To be honest I’d been very surprised if there were actual human-operated taxis in the Cyberpunk world. Why pay a human some eddies when you can just have the cars drive themselves?
And we kinda got that with Delamain, however those are clearly luxury taxis, and only in missions, but still.
But I guess the actual reason is, as sadly very often in the game, a lack of time and resources.
counterpoint: why on earth would you ever use a Taxi when fast travel or *simply driving there yourself* would always be FAR faster?
If you look at the fast travel terminals, you’ll see text which reads something to the effect of “service provided by CombatCab”
So basically whenever you use fast travel you are calling a cab to pick you up and drive to one of the other terminals in and around the area of NC, so I guess for roleplay purposes you still do use taxis but that’s obviously not the same as riding in one immersively
Idk who they are but they hard
honestly the battle taxis were such a dumb but fun concept
Man, I would love to see Combat Cab in 2077. That one Delamain ride sort of aped it, but it wasn’t the same.
That must’ve been the taxi service before the company brought on the Delamain AI and it took over the business.
Driver AI’s are pretty crap in Cyberpunk (just try and make it through a whole Claire or River trip). Plus the whole middle eastern taxi driver thing mightve been a little too on-the-nose. Probably cut it because Delamain became a more interesting concept.
Those guys in the back are generic hitmen. Same guys Arasaka sends after you and Takemura after the junkyard awakening.
Those look like the Arasaka goons that come after you and Takemura after the dump.
Idk but taxis should really be in the game
The in-game lore says that human operated transit was severely reduced due to automation. There should be automated taxis and buses driving around, but were probably cut from the game. Especially since there are buses and yellow taxi cabs in game. They are only found parked though. I have yet to see one on the road.
These guys look similar to what I envisioned the Monks from the Avery Cate’s Electric Church novel by Jeff Somers to look like.
ngl they would be such a pointless addition
Why do you want a taxi service in a game where you can hit one button and your car will drive up to you?
I’ve found a couple of stationary taxi cars that weren’t Delamain before. And there’s a wrecked Delamain you can find with a message shard regarding how it ended up in that state in Pacifica.
Judging by their African phenotypes and weaponry, They were probably some sort of iteration of the Voodoo boys that went heavy on the cybernetics. It looks like one of them is holding that g-58 Dian–a smart SMG, which tracks with their net runner speciality. I’m guessing we don’t have cabs in game simply because unlike games like GTA IV, which had cabs, we can summon a car of our liking without needing to resort to cheats or mods, so there wouldn’t be a need for cabs or buses. It looks like at one point both cabs and buses would have appeared in game.