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Bio1590 posted...

That's not a coding issue, that's a game design issue that was a deliberately made choice.

No, the deliberate choice they made at design time was to just let you pick male or female. It wasn't until relatively recently that people complained that they weren't being inclusive enough, so they had to retroactively change character creation. That created a new problem, though, because of all the spoken dialogue. They needed to find a way to let NPCs know how to address you, but the option that used to do that was removed. Since NPC's don't automatically know what kind of junk you have, they picked voice as the way to do it. Obviously that wasn't a perfect solution, but it was never part of their original design to begin with.

Edit: for context, here's what the lead concept artist on the game had to say
https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2019/08/27/cyberpunk-2077s-character-creation-system-wont-have-gender-options/

Of course, if you tackle certain subjects then you will expect people to have an opinion about it and we respect that. And its good that people give us feedback. And our character creation menu, for instance, compared to the last demo we now give you so many more options. For instance, you dont choose your gender anymore.

You dont choose, I want to be a female or male character you now choose a body type. Because we want you to feel free to create any character you want. So you choose your body type and we have two voices, one thats male sounding, one is female sounding. You can mix and match. You can just connect them any way you want. And then we have a lot of extra skin tones and tattoos and hairstyles. So we really want to give people the freedom to make their own character and play the way they want to play.

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