Okay, so Cyberpunk 2077 gamers have a little bit of a factor for cats. They like hanging out with moggies of their futuristic flats because of Deceptious’ Condominium Cats collection of mods, and also you may assume that’d be sufficient.
It ain’t, although. There can by no means be sufficient cat stuff in Cyberpunk, as a result of as you effectively know, cats are nice. Enter a brand new mod that injects a bunch extra cattiness – and in addition doginess – into CD Projekt’s RPG by way of a textual content service that seems like it will possibly interrupt your journey at any time to let you know random pet pub quiz trivia, supplied you set it up to take action.
It is modder MisterChedda’s ‘CatFacts’ and it does precisely what it says on the tin, plus a bit extra. I might count on nothing much less from a modder who beforehand added a bike made out of a large hotdog and two cheeseburgers to Cyberpunk.
Principally, it is an automatic service on V’s in-game telephone that’ll reduce by the countless string of texts from fixers and different precise game-related stuff to convey you random details about cats as typically as you set them to reach by tweaking the mod’s settings.
Image the scene. You are doing one thing unimportant like having a deep chat with Johnny Silverhand or breaking into Arasaka Tower, all weapons blazing. Bloomp. You get a bit message from a brand new contact known as ‘Catfacts’ telling you one thing like: “A gaggle of cats is known as a clowder.” Then, you get on with taking part in and the message auto-deletes so it does not clog up your inbox. Everybody wins.
Should you’re questioning the place the details come from, the reply is a free on-line API (utility programming interface) known as Catfact.ninja, which the mod calls on to retrieve a random cat reality by way of one other Cyberpunk mod known as ‘RedHttpClient’. Should you don’t love cats, you may also tweak CatFacts’ settings so that it will serve you canine details as a substitute, by way of one other free API known as, effectively, DogAPI. In DogAPI’s case, the API’s website states that the bits of information you may get are sourced from “a set of canine details which were submitted by members of the general public”.
MisterChedda’s additionally made the supply code of their mod public by way of GitHub, in case you wish to confirm for your self that it is not making every other requests/calls apart from those to those two APIs.
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