Silent Bodies

Thanks to the Cyberpunk 2077 modding community on Discord for helping me find the right spots in the game and pointing me in the right direction.

Silent Bodies fixes a long-standing stealth issue where NPCs can get alerted by dead bodies even when they shouldn’t realistically be able to see them.

In vanilla behavior, a single corpse can trigger alerts through cars, cover, or solid geometry, often even immediately after loading a save. This mod adds a proper line-of-sight validation before an NPC reacts to a dead body.

Experimental Version features (0. 3a)

New Features:

• []Smooth Day/Night Detection: NPC detection range now scales smoothly with time of day using actual in-game TimeSystem (dawn/dusk transitions instead of hard hour cutoffs)

  []Weather Integration: Rain reduces NPC detection range (light rain: 85%, heavy rain: 65%)

  []NPC Field of View: NPCs can only detect bodies within their FOV cone, which varies by awareness state (Relaxed: 80°, Alerted: 120°, Combat: 150°). Bodies at your feet (< 3m) bypass FOV

  []NPC Awareness Scaling: Alerted NPCs detect 1. 5x farther, Combat 2. 0x, Stealth 1. 3x

  []Enhanced Player Detection Module: Now factors in player locomotion state (crouching: 0. 6x, sprinting: 1. 3x detection range)

  []Distance-Based Detection Probability (off by default): Quadratic falloff: guaranteed detection within 5m, decreasing chance beyond that

  []CityLightSystem Integration: Detects city-wide blackout events (quest-triggered power outages reduce detection to 30%)

  []Local Light Probe (off by default, experimental): Scans nearby light entities to estimate local illumination. Dark alleys = harder detection, well-lit streets = normal detection. Heavily throttled for performance (scans every 2s, capped entity iteration)

• []Settings reorganized into categories: Core, Raycast, NPC FOV, NPC Awareness, Day/Night & Light, Weather, Player Detection, Distance Probability, Light Probe

  []Removed old integer-based night hour settings and manual light approximation

  []All new features can be individually toggled and tuned in ModSettings

  How it works:

  • []When an NPC is about to be alerted by a corpse, the mod performs multiple raycasts from the NPC’s eye position to different vertical points on the body (head / torso / lower body).

    []If none of the rays have a clear path, the alert is canceled.

    []Optional distance limiting ensures vanilla behavior is preserved at long ranges.

  Everything is fully configurable via Codeware’s Mod Settings (enable/disable, eye height, ray offsets, target heights, max distance).

  Result: stealth plays as expected, no more psychic corpse detection, fewer false alerts, and cleaner stealth runs.