The modding community for Cyberpunk 2077 is still very active and tries not only to upgrade the game with performance and graphic mods. The »Kiroshi Opticals Crowd Scanner« was created by the modders Alien and BadAssGodFather, and brings a popular feature from Watch Dogs into play.
Each NPC gets its own story
In the dystopian future of cyberpunk, digitization plays a major role. With the right augmentation, not only can computer systems be hacked, but people can be hacked to gain valuable information.
The new Crowd Scanner Mod wants to make this clear to you by generating a random background story for each NPC. If you scan a citizen, you will be provided with interesting information about the past, current living conditions and important events in the person’s life.
The results are not as random as you might think and are primarily dependent on the appearance of the figure. A good-looking NPC in a suit has a different background story than, for example, a gang member from the street.
So you install the mod:
The language of the text displayed in the game can be adjusted according to your wishes, as Alien explains in detail on nexusmod. All you have to do is adapt the text.reds files and you can even change the language.
The behavior of the NPCs was revised with the update 1.2. You can read how good Cyberpunk has become with the new patch in our review of Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.2.