What i saw the devs claim the answear is yes to interacting and fighting random npcs but fighting random npcs will be consider a crime like it would in real life so expect depending on where your at in the game corperate police or gangsters to start shooting at you.

Also they said that npcs will gather at crimes sceens or interact with each other talking about events and or gather around a crime sceen and talk about it even if they saw you commite the crime make a comment to each other about things like i think thats the Guy/Girl who did it. =P

Keep in mind the kids you cant hurt tho witch is a good thing but its unclear if kids will be preasent in the game I personally thing it be a good thing they arent but im sure other would feel this would break there immersion, I just worrie how the the community would reacte and treat kids and or modding community in the future if they open up mod support.

Hopefully devs will add some kinda hidden program that makes the game go crazy with corperate police and some kinda military force on the player if they harm a child if the modding community adds a mod to harm a kid in game. =(

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