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’ House Cats collection of mods, and also you may suppose 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 likewise doginess – into CD Projekt’s RPG through a textual content service that seems like it could 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 motorcycle constructed from an enormous hotdog and two cheeseburgers to Cyberpunk.
Principally, it is an automatic service on V’s in-game telephone that’ll lower by the limitless string of texts from fixers and different precise game-related stuff to deliver you random info 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 of message from a brand new contact referred to as ‘Catfacts’ telling you one thing like: “A bunch of cats is named a clowder.” Then, you get on with enjoying and the message auto-deletes so it does not clog up your inbox. Everybody wins.
If you happen to’re questioning the place the info come from, the reply is a free on-line API (software programming interface) referred to as Catfact.ninja, which the mod calls on to retrieve a random cat reality through one other Cyberpunk mod referred to as ‘RedHttpClient’. If you happen to do not like cats, you can too tweak CatFacts’ settings so that it will serve you canine info as a substitute, through one other free API referred to as, effectively, DogAPI. In DogAPI’s case, the API’s website states that the bits of information you will get are sourced from “a group of canine info which have been submitted by members of the general public”.
MisterChedda’s additionally made the supply code of their mod public through GitHub, in case you wish to confirm for your self that it isn’t making some other requests/calls other than those to those two APIs.
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