This is the "low-power" pivot the devs warned about.
Tonight, I flew for twelve seconds before the game crashed. Twelve seconds of pure, unoptimized, illegally fast flight over a neon skyline that clipped into a void at the edges. It was the most alive I’ve felt in a game all year.
The loading screen hangs for exactly 4.2 seconds longer than it should. That’s the first tell. The second is the audio glitch—a cybernetic wheeze where the bass drop should hit. Welcome back to SuperPowered , build 0.45.02.
“Don’t report the T-pose bug. We like it.” SuperPowered -v0.45.02- -Night City Productions-
SUPERPOWERED -v0.45.02- Studio: Night City Productions Build Date: 2026.04.17 Status: Unstable Alpha – User Testing Phase
Night City Productions has been teasing this update for six weeks. The forums called it “The Balance Patch.” The Discord called it “The Nerfening.” But no one is prepared for what actually loads: a city that breathes differently now.
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That’s cruel. That’s also brilliant.
Also, the new stealth takedown animation desyncs. You’ll snap a guard’s neck, and the ragdoll will T-pose for a full second, floating two feet off the ground. Night City Productions hasn’t fixed this since v0.41.00. At this point, it’s a feature.
You wake up as Echo-7, a street-level telekinetic with a busted regulator and a rent bill due in 48 in-game hours. The previous builds (0.44.xx) were power fantasies. You could toss cars, stop bullets, ragdoll corpo-enforcers across the bridge district. This version? Your first throw of a trash can lid drains 18% of your stamina and alerts every TacDrone within 200 meters. This is the "low-power" pivot the devs warned about
The memory leak during rainstorms is catastrophic. After 20 minutes of precipitation, your telekinetic grab starts pulling random assets—street signs, a hot dog cart, and for one user, the entire geometry of a skyscraper. The patch notes call this “an unintended mass-shift event.” The community calls it “God Mode by Glitch.”
Play with autosaves every 90 seconds. Avoid the rain. And when the skyscraper starts floating, just ride it until the crash.