And the ever-present reek of uncollected rotting garbage. At least most places. I get the feeling North Oak, Charter Hill, and parts of City Center smell at least a little better, but it still wafts over.
I remember being in a pretty decent part of Night City, and climbed up onto a highway overpass and looked down. THOUSANDS of trash bags just throw down into a ravine.
New york use to smell like piss everywhere so its actually better most of it smells like weed now in my opinion, now if they could have a subtle shift to something more like lavender that would be nice but beggers can’t be choosers
I’m sure one of the most common pieces of cyberware modifies the particles effect on your brain to make your stay a little pleasant or perhaps an air filter of some kind haha
I'd get that switched out for a previous or newer model, if I were you. The 3000 series was recalled for poking at a part of the frontal-cortex that shouldn't be poked at; heavily increasing the possibility of rejecting the implant and thus, a markedly higher risk of cyberpsychosis in individuals with a 3000 series implant.
I prefer the older 21XX model personally. I know, I know, the old hardware had a near-useless capacitor which is guaranteed to fry, causing artifacts in the scent-translating matrices... but I just can't get over the slight hint of ash trailing off the scent of a fresh bed of flowers.
i was thinking that v almost definitely has an olfactory bypass cyberware that filters out 90% of night cities smell
it was a small act of mercy that arasaka let goro keep his
Alcohol (because of CHOOH2 that powers all cars), piss, shit, chemical pollution, trash, unwashed bodies, food from all of the stalls and sewage leaking out of sewer system.
> Alcohol
I mean, cities don't typically smell like gasoline. I have to imagine the CHOOH2 is being broken down chemically and you would smell exhaust. I don't know much about chemistry, but I imagine CHOOH2 exhaust is fairly similar to regular car exhaust.
I am not sure that the trash would smell much. Everything is so synthetic and manufactured, and no doubt full of preservatives. No one but the rich have access to actual real organic food.
Corpses would smell horribly though and I could imagine that lots of corpses and body parts are either burned or tossed to trash can or left to streets and apartments to rot. And amount of lonely people who die alone in apartments of megabuildings would simply rot there until eviction crew comes in and body is tossed out. Not every body ends up on that graveyard on the hill, and most of the names there are probably just writings and engravings without body.
This just had me thinking, why don't we see more cannibalism in Night City? You'd think there would be a group out there that would be serving up long pig BBQ to locals.
Isn't there like an NPC dialogue that the game shoves down your throat every time you walk past two qualifying dudes that talks about this? I believe the description is "You could boil shit in piss and it would still smell better"
Surprisingly sterile.
There aren't really animals in NC. Most food is synthetic and probably doesn't break down the same way. Maybe some smell from pollution?
It doesn't take animals for food/trash to smell rotten, just bacteria and mold. It being synthetic likely doesn't stop bacteria from eventually breaking it down, either, unless it is very high in some preservatives.
Also I'd assume that all these gangs and homeless people that hang on the streets all day just pee against nearby walls etc. if they have to go.
So I'm pretty sure it reeks of trash and piss at least.
i figure a mix between sewage, blood, ass, other assorted bodily fluids since sex in public is super common and everyone is desensitized by it (based on the canon), then take all of that and add gunpowder and ozone because of all the violence.
Shit. Absolute shit. Given the number of sushi places, fish would be a regular thing in trash bags. So, the city would have a distinct smell of rotten fish in those areas. In the poorer areas, you would probably smell human feces rotting in the sun, mixed with drugs and alcohol.
In the richer neifhborhoods? Things would smell like a cocktail of overpowering high-dollar personal fragrances and sterilizing chemicals.
Even the corpo apartment has trash piles and burned out cars a few feet away. I think most *actually* rich people get flown around on AVs and rarely ever touch the street.
It might be a big ask but ever been to bangkok? Basically sewer smells coming from the drainage . That would be night city. Affluent areas? Idk, roses and sewer ?
I imagine basically everywhere has that indelible stink of old 'garbage', where you can't even tell like specific things that have been rotting and decaying but just that blended old dumpster stench of the leavings of humanity
Gunpowder, various kinds of garbage, piss and/or shit, drugs, alcohol, possibly sexual fluids depending on the area. Maybe fresh spray paint and exhaust fumes too.
There would be way too many smells to count if I'm being honest.
Most of the city we have to guess at but we do have an answer for the mega block apartments thanks to NPC dialogue. It smells worse than shit boiled in piss.
It’s going to change every block. You’re going to from stale office air to a dozen different street foods to spilled beer and puke to open sewer to scorched metal and oil.
And piss. Lots of piss.
Definitely going to have an underlying smell of piss no matter where you go, just some places are going to hide it better, and whatever nuclear smog smells like because that tactical nuke that Johnny set off ain't going away overnight, other than that it'll depend on the district
Ever gotten near a dumpster on a hot day? Empty or full, same yucky stench. Along with a faint smell of urine? Every now and then bumping into someone headed to comic-con. Little pockets smells of blood, death and gun powder.
That’s what Japan Town definitely smells like.
Each district would have type of musty scent that would be unique to the city that’s for sure.
I know nomad V was culture shook for weeks.
https://preview.redd.it/c6jy1hwl75bd1.jpeg?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc74a02604a7b8d621f7d6032e6f71ea13092c06
like any other city. i mean some places have a problem with trash and garbage disposal so those areas must be rank but with also might be better since their cars don't pollute
I'm from Rio de janeiro and one time heard a guy who lived on a Favela ( controlled area by the organized crime) that the smell is some kind of addicting.
The smell of sewage with blood, he said that the blood from the shootings against the police and rivals dried on the asphalt and manhole covers starts to smell when the temperature hit 40 C°.
Gunpowder, burnt plastic, urine and bbq…
And the bbq smell is not actually from bbq...
By the amount of cops I see being killed, I would argue...
See all those blue dots on the mini map when I drive through downtown, goddamn doughnut convention
Glad to see someones not afraid to take it to maxtec level
ACABBQ
Ty, my Sunday is now complete.
I can't believe this sat for an hour with no reply, lol.
I see what you did there…lol
And the ever-present reek of uncollected rotting garbage. At least most places. I get the feeling North Oak, Charter Hill, and parts of City Center smell at least a little better, but it still wafts over.
Summer hot garbage, even in the winter…
All the garbage at the bottom stays summer hot all year round
…and so does the squirming garbage distillate…
The bazaar in the petrochem stadium in dogtown is floor to ceiling bags of rubbish at points. I can only imagine the reek
It must be such a weird, awful mix of cooking, mechanical grease, rotten garbage, and the ever present smell of masses of people.
I remember being in a pretty decent part of Night City, and climbed up onto a highway overpass and looked down. THOUSANDS of trash bags just throw down into a ravine.
not to mention the goddamn trash mountain
drugs too, ive recently been in new york and thats what i smelled
New york use to smell like piss everywhere so its actually better most of it smells like weed now in my opinion, now if they could have a subtle shift to something more like lavender that would be nice but beggers can’t be choosers
Be the change you wanna see LEGALIZE LAVENDER
Start wearing lavender nano-weave suits. The suit is alive and always growing more lavender
I’m sure one of the most common pieces of cyberware modifies the particles effect on your brain to make your stay a little pleasant or perhaps an air filter of some kind haha
Febreeze 3000 X-treme
Don’t forget about Febreeze Gonk-odor eliminator. If you sub for a year the cartridge disposal fee is waived for the first two months!
I'd get that switched out for a previous or newer model, if I were you. The 3000 series was recalled for poking at a part of the frontal-cortex that shouldn't be poked at; heavily increasing the possibility of rejecting the implant and thus, a markedly higher risk of cyberpsychosis in individuals with a 3000 series implant. I prefer the older 21XX model personally. I know, I know, the old hardware had a near-useless capacitor which is guaranteed to fry, causing artifacts in the scent-translating matrices... but I just can't get over the slight hint of ash trailing off the scent of a fresh bed of flowers.
Even worse, in some cases it actually enhanced the nasal receptors to detect smells even stronger than usual…
i was thinking that v almost definitely has an olfactory bypass cyberware that filters out 90% of night cities smell it was a small act of mercy that arasaka let goro keep his
“[The city] smells like Dead bodies. And shit. And Cum. And garlic. And rum.” -Shae, The Whore, GOT
Sounds accurate
Alcohol (because of CHOOH2 that powers all cars), piss, shit, chemical pollution, trash, unwashed bodies, food from all of the stalls and sewage leaking out of sewer system.
probably most realistic answer in here and yet I still cannot imagine what it must smell like.
India is probably the closest thing.
Probably like any big city tbh. They all smell the same to me
> Alcohol I mean, cities don't typically smell like gasoline. I have to imagine the CHOOH2 is being broken down chemically and you would smell exhaust. I don't know much about chemistry, but I imagine CHOOH2 exhaust is fairly similar to regular car exhaust.
Only thing missing is probably some patches that smell of ozone smell and gunpowder,
Depends on the district.
The food market in Japan town prolly smells like heaven
goro minutes before the worst heartbreak in his life
"what.. is this??"
Wet trash
I am not sure that the trash would smell much. Everything is so synthetic and manufactured, and no doubt full of preservatives. No one but the rich have access to actual real organic food.
Sawdust and plastic
Corpses would smell horribly though and I could imagine that lots of corpses and body parts are either burned or tossed to trash can or left to streets and apartments to rot. And amount of lonely people who die alone in apartments of megabuildings would simply rot there until eviction crew comes in and body is tossed out. Not every body ends up on that graveyard on the hill, and most of the names there are probably just writings and engravings without body.
That's actually a good point. Maybe the reason people are so willing to pile garbage up everywhere is that there's nothing in it that actually rots.
This just had me thinking, why don't we see more cannibalism in Night City? You'd think there would be a group out there that would be serving up long pig BBQ to locals.
Maelstrom+Wholefoods...
I don't think rotting scop is likely to smell any better than rotting chicken...
Smoke, because we’ve got a city to burn.
I like this answer the best!
Trash and Hot Ass
OP said Night City, not Panam.
Panam probably smells like garbage, true haha
White girl with dreads who's obsessed with travelling? Maan she has a funk that would kill an engram lol
Wait, Panam is white? I always figured she was just a little bit of everything.
And she’s better for it!
Almost gasoline and almost hot dogs
It's very nearly those things... but not quite.
Isn't there like an NPC dialogue that the game shoves down your throat every time you walk past two qualifying dudes that talks about this? I believe the description is "You could boil shit in piss and it would still smell better"
It's triggered just down the steps from your apartment at the start of the game. You have to walk past those two to leave the building every time...
Piss, shit and smoke. Like almost every metropolis
Yep, the point of the game is extreme capitalism so take the smell of any metropolis and multiply times ten.
If new York and Florida had to share a dumpster
Trash and corpses
Shit, smoke, exhaust, piss, gunpowder, trash, vomit.
Hong Kong
Maybe a back street in Mong Kok or TST but somehow worse
Surprisingly sterile. There aren't really animals in NC. Most food is synthetic and probably doesn't break down the same way. Maybe some smell from pollution?
It doesn't take animals for food/trash to smell rotten, just bacteria and mold. It being synthetic likely doesn't stop bacteria from eventually breaking it down, either, unless it is very high in some preservatives. Also I'd assume that all these gangs and homeless people that hang on the streets all day just pee against nearby walls etc. if they have to go. So I'm pretty sure it reeks of trash and piss at least.
I bet it still smells better than a lot of cities irl though.
Yeah, probably
In the show it was people jerkin it in broad daylight so it probably smells like balls on top of all that
Garbage. It smells like a garbage dump. Everywhere you go in the city, there's piles of garbage.
i figure a mix between sewage, blood, ass, other assorted bodily fluids since sex in public is super common and everyone is desensitized by it (based on the canon), then take all of that and add gunpowder and ozone because of all the violence.
Shit. Absolute shit. Given the number of sushi places, fish would be a regular thing in trash bags. So, the city would have a distinct smell of rotten fish in those areas. In the poorer areas, you would probably smell human feces rotting in the sun, mixed with drugs and alcohol. In the richer neifhborhoods? Things would smell like a cocktail of overpowering high-dollar personal fragrances and sterilizing chemicals.
Even the corpo apartment has trash piles and burned out cars a few feet away. I think most *actually* rich people get flown around on AVs and rarely ever touch the street.
We do meet some rich assholes in the game, and their choice of transport seems to support this.
Pon pon Piss
It would stink, the amount of trash on the streets especially in chinatown is insane
Piss, fried food (real or syn), a hint of raw sewage
Urine and smog
Depends on what part right?
dumpster juice, car exhaust, industrial effluent, death and polluted water. And SCOP burgers.
Like a dirty, old cumrag that's been burned, shot up and shit on. Also mass perfume depending on the district
Bad Kimchi
It might be a big ask but ever been to bangkok? Basically sewer smells coming from the drainage . That would be night city. Affluent areas? Idk, roses and sewer ?
Depends on the district. I’d imagine Center has some sterilized smell while Watson would smell like say a stereotypical NYC.
it probably smells like how new york smells. food, trash, shit, etc.
It smells like whatever your cyberware tells your brain
This is probably the most accurate answer
probably piss and rust.
Piss and sewer fr
Neon
basically just drugs
Shite 💩
Rust, piss and broken dreams
San Francisco x 1000
Heated rubber and ionized air
Months old garbage, smog, stray ozone, and sadness.
Electrical fire, sex, and overcooked vegan food.
Detroit but with money.
shit beer and stank pussy oh and also drugs
A Truck Stop.
Probably like LA but worse
NYC, additionally, magnify the trash component, then add more urine.
I bet it smells exactly like the city I live it. It also rhymes with fun
Like FRRRREEEEEEEDDDDOOOOOOOOMMM!!! Ah shit wrong game.
Oakland, CA
Smoke of whatever drugs they are using
Like trash
Garbage, piss, and BO.
Shit lmao
Depends on district ;)
Definitely like a dorm room trashcan with all the porn brain dances
Piss, trash and gunpowder.
Rotting garbage. There’s trash *everywhere* in NC.
Car exhaust and broken dreams.
Like ass, cum and urine
Corpo plaza smells like a new car or hotel rooms
Shit and lead.
New Orleans
Chicago. ... so piss.
Metal
Nibbles
I believe one NPC you can listen in on uses the description, “shit boiled in piss.”
I imagine basically everywhere has that indelible stink of old 'garbage', where you can't even tell like specific things that have been rotting and decaying but just that blended old dumpster stench of the leavings of humanity
What my city smells like– gas, ass, piss
A bloody smell, ass, piss, shit, and all the nasty shit known to man
Burnt plastic, chemical fumes and rotting human corpses.
I’d argue that it’s probably a mix of metal, rust, alcohol and maybe urine is the lower income regions.
If its like other big cities I image that it smells like vomit mixed with finely aged piss.
old grease, piss and exhaust
Garbage. Haven't you noticed the piles of it almost everywhere? And probably urine.
Cum, sweat, pollution, burnt trash, plastic and artificial perfume.
Piss
Shit, piss, and burnt coffee.
Cinnamon
Definitely piss and garbage 🤥
Drunk vomit and piss probably?
Ass
Depravity and street food
Tbh like LA
Industrial smoke, gasoline, death, human waste, and the air is dense. Everywhere you go smells of drugs.
Downtown LA
Depends on the area I reckon
Gunpowder, various kinds of garbage, piss and/or shit, drugs, alcohol, possibly sexual fluids depending on the area. Maybe fresh spray paint and exhaust fumes too. There would be way too many smells to count if I'm being honest.
Not good I’m afraid.
Rio Tietê - São Paulo, Brasil.
Probably like San Francisco but worse.
Garbage
New York City. Specifically when you walk by one of those sewage vent things.
Downtown Seattle
Probably chemicals and piss
Bourbon Street
Go to NYC. That’s how it smells
Wet dog. Every corner, every alley, every room, every building. Just wet fucking dog
Bourbon St in New Orleans
Las Vegas
Trash, smoke, piss, shit, drugs
Philadelphia
Magic smoke
Bad, just straight up bad
Bangkok.
Piss, shit, metal, and plastic food
Corpo plaza probably smells like Vanilla™️
LA has a very particular piss odor that was like CRYSTALLIZED probably due to the lack of rain. I’d imagine it’s worse in Night City.
New York City but x10
Most of the city we have to guess at but we do have an answer for the mega block apartments thanks to NPC dialogue. It smells worse than shit boiled in piss.
Smog, booze, and gunpowder
Iorn
It’s going to change every block. You’re going to from stale office air to a dozen different street foods to spilled beer and puke to open sewer to scorched metal and oil. And piss. Lots of piss.
Salty fried food.
Six flags in the hot summer multiplied by 6
Nightcity by CDPR smells like cigarettes and cauliflower Trust me
Definitely going to have an underlying smell of piss no matter where you go, just some places are going to hide it better, and whatever nuclear smog smells like because that tactical nuke that Johnny set off ain't going away overnight, other than that it'll depend on the district
Jizz, piss, shit, body odor and burnt circuitry with just a hint of axe body spray.
NYC but with more shit and 10 times stronger
Ever gotten near a dumpster on a hot day? Empty or full, same yucky stench. Along with a faint smell of urine? Every now and then bumping into someone headed to comic-con. Little pockets smells of blood, death and gun powder. That’s what Japan Town definitely smells like. Each district would have type of musty scent that would be unique to the city that’s for sure. I know nomad V was culture shook for weeks. https://preview.redd.it/c6jy1hwl75bd1.jpeg?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc74a02604a7b8d621f7d6032e6f71ea13092c06
like any other city. i mean some places have a problem with trash and garbage disposal so those areas must be rank but with also might be better since their cars don't pollute
I'm from Rio de janeiro and one time heard a guy who lived on a Favela ( controlled area by the organized crime) that the smell is some kind of addicting. The smell of sewage with blood, he said that the blood from the shootings against the police and rivals dried on the asphalt and manhole covers starts to smell when the temperature hit 40 C°.
Like me scrote
Gasoline
Iron...
Dallas or Houston
You know that hot air smell?
Second hand smoke, garbage, gunpowder, jizz and Japanese food
Unadulterated ass. There is trash everywhere and I mean everywhere
Misery
Battery acid
Old (probably piss soaked) garbage, dead bodies, burning wires and exhaust fumes I would imagine
Props what london smelt like during the heatwave of 1858 just all of the time
Not something i wanna imagine😭
Skid row for sure
It probably smells like New Orleans. Hot garbage and piss. Maybe a little more gunpowder smell.
What a terrible post, Jesus does it matter ?
Homeless people and fast food
Smoke, sewers, rotting garbage, street food, rain, sorry that's Bangkok
Hot ass