The physics engine has been rebuilt. Not upgraded. Rebuilt . When you rip a fire hydrant from the ground, the water pressure isn't just a particle effect anymore—it creates a temporary hazard zone that civilians slip on and enemies use for cover. One tester already posted a clip of flooding an entire subway car to short-circuit a Hunter-Killer. That’s new.
SuperPowered -v0.45.02- is a mess. But it’s an honest mess. Unlike the glossy, overproduced superhero slop from major studios, this indie alpha from Night City Productions feels like a scrapbook of ambition. You can see the duct tape holding the AI director together. You can feel the moment the framerate stutters because the game is trying to calculate whether a falling billboard should kill two civilians or three.
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. 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
That’s cruel. That’s also brilliant. The physics engine has been rebuilt
This is the "low-power" pivot the devs warned about.
It is not finished. It may never be finished. But in an era of sanitized early access, there is something magnetic about a build that dares you to break it. When you rip a fire hydrant from the
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.
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.”
The morality system, previously a joke, now remembers. In v0.45.02, if you saved the courier in Act 1 (build 0.43.09), she shows up as a fence in the Black Market. If you let her die, her brother is now a mini-boss with a voice line that cuts: “You could have lifted the car. You chose not to.”
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