I have done two plays throughs.
1. Mele weapons
2. Pistons and rifles
At some point I will do a stealthy netrunner play through using hacking and silent take downs.
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1. Mele weapons
2. Pistons and rifles
At some point I will do a stealthy netrunner play through using hacking and silent take downs.
Photo Album 7
Goro Takemura at the Dinner
V Pos'n (Previous playthrough. I've been looking for white Star Wars boots for this entire playthrough.)
Rhino, one of the Fighters at the Animals Fight Club, I whooped her in a Fist Fight
Night City Social
Kerry Eurodine, Samurai Legend Portrait
Photo Albums
Goro Takemura at the Dinner
V Pos'n (Previous playthrough. I've been looking for white Star Wars boots for this entire playthrough.)
Rhino, one of the Fighters at the Animals Fight Club, I whooped her in a Fist Fight
Night City Social
Kerry Eurodine, Samurai Legend Portrait
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Radar Love Again- I went to a Sandevision CPU, adjusted some of my body augmentations, switched to Jenkin's Tendons, which gives you a 50% movement bonus, but then tapers down to 10% and Radar Love became suprisingly easy playing on Hard. I already had optical camo, which I've rarely used, but now am, and I just avoided the central court yard and circled around. I'm at a street cred 50, and I feel pretty much unstoppable. Now if you get into a situation where a bunch of adversaries were shooting you, Sandevision would be a good thing to have in a pinch. Second Heart is a godsend.
I'm a little bothered that with Sandevision you lose all of your hacks. I found that shooting a camera with a silenced weapon, still puts everyone on alert, but if you wait a bit, they seem to loose interest. This makes a sneaking mission more of a hassle. You can use Sandevison or opital camo to get by cameras. But I realize the primary task I use hacking for is turning off cameras. Second is throwing contagion out, but I'm needing it less at the higher street credit. 🤔
I'm a little bothered that with Sandevision you lose all of your hacks. I found that shooting a camera with a silenced weapon, still puts everyone on alert, but if you wait a bit, they seem to loose interest. This makes a sneaking mission more of a hassle. You can use Sandevison or opital camo to get by cameras. But I realize the primary task I use hacking for is turning off cameras. Second is throwing contagion out, but I'm needing it less at the higher street credit. 🤔
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Speaking of sneaking and hassles, I did a Gig last night called "Goodbye Night City" I guy is kidnapped and a friend asks you to save him, but not kill anyone. Damn is he Kidd'n? Well I went to the Ripperdoc and loaded up my regular CPU and snuck into a Militech facility out in the country. The place is crawling with adversaries. Basically I snuck around the outside turning off all cameras, using "distract" and stealth knocking out everyone out and moving them to in conspicuous places. Then I jumped up on the roof in front, went into the second floor, knocked out 1 more in the office back down on the first floor, then found Bruce Welby the victim in the central open space. He was not the only one hostage, but the game offered me no opportunity to take the others too. He was ready to get out of there. Since I had virtually knocked out just about everyone, except the guy in the front watch tower and those in the shooing range, getting out at that point was cake. 😄
This view is from the front roof. The 1st guy in front you choke will eventually
be standing by the truck drivers side.
If you don't want to know stop here:
I came towards the front then swung around the right side (my perspective), on the left side (outside) of the facility (same side) there are landmines and camera, (hack disabled), a guy periodically working on some equipment (choked to unconsciousness) and a drone (overloaded), a guy in the rear watch tower (choked), a heavy armored individual (skull icon) who patrols the rear. He can be choked too. Catch him when he's walking away. There's an entrance on the left side where the guy is working on the machinery (1st guy knocked out). Inside I choked the inside side guard. in front of building another guy is working on machinery, disabled a camera or 2, be patient, because a guy up on the front roof will drop down briefly talk him. You slide around behind him, and the other guy will walk away to work on something else. Choked both of them... one at a time. ☺️ Back up top, disable turret, inside and down to the front office and take care of the lone guy there. Used distract on some equipment making him turn his back. Locate Barry, talk, and he will follow you out, I go out using the back door, then swing around to the left again, where I originally came in.
This view is from the front roof. The 1st guy in front you choke will eventually
be standing by the truck drivers side.
If you don't want to know stop here:
I came towards the front then swung around the right side (my perspective), on the left side (outside) of the facility (same side) there are landmines and camera, (hack disabled), a guy periodically working on some equipment (choked to unconsciousness) and a drone (overloaded), a guy in the rear watch tower (choked), a heavy armored individual (skull icon) who patrols the rear. He can be choked too. Catch him when he's walking away. There's an entrance on the left side where the guy is working on the machinery (1st guy knocked out). Inside I choked the inside side guard. in front of building another guy is working on machinery, disabled a camera or 2, be patient, because a guy up on the front roof will drop down briefly talk him. You slide around behind him, and the other guy will walk away to work on something else. Choked both of them... one at a time. ☺️ Back up top, disable turret, inside and down to the front office and take care of the lone guy there. Used distract on some equipment making him turn his back. Locate Barry, talk, and he will follow you out, I go out using the back door, then swing around to the left again, where I originally came in.
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Imo, it would be doable, but harder without hacking capabilities.
With sandevision installed, in Dog Town, I repeated the Save the President big fight, much easier. I only died twice instead of 5 or 6 times.
Sometimes I'd get caught up on something in the dark environment, and would get zapped... it can happen fast if 1 or 2 adversaries are shooting you with their heavy weapons.
PhotonAlbum 8
Vehicle tip of the day:
All you really need is Jackie‘s Arch for the best city driving experience, but I broke down and purchased the following because it looks and is fast.
Why a motorcycle? Because you can ride between lanes and zip though traffic slowdowns, where in a car, you’ll get slowed up or banged up. I spend 95% of my game time on a bike…
Kusanagi CT-3X
And secondly to help Claire, the bartender win Street races:
Fastest car in game, handles relatively well, and is free if you help PanAm, but it is not rewarded to you, it just becomes available, in a shipping crate. There used to be a pretty white one for sale, but for this playthough contented myself with the free Black Viper (my name). 😁
One other vehicle I like for desert driving with built in guns is… $78k
Mizutani Shion "Coyote
Last but not least, I used to salivate over a particular convertible I saw in town, but could not buy. I forget which model, but since the V2 patch there is now a…
Also free if you do the right gig. Note this is a nice car, but the Murkmobile leaves it in the dust. My first street race with Claire was in this and was not impressed with it’s top speed.
911 Turbo Cabriolet
Vehicle tip of the day:
All you really need is Jackie‘s Arch for the best city driving experience, but I broke down and purchased the following because it looks and is fast.
Why a motorcycle? Because you can ride between lanes and zip though traffic slowdowns, where in a car, you’ll get slowed up or banged up. I spend 95% of my game time on a bike…
Kusanagi CT-3X
Rayfield Caliburn "Murkmobile”
Fastest car in game, handles relatively well, and is free if you help PanAm, but it is not rewarded to you, it just becomes available, in a shipping crate. There used to be a pretty white one for sale, but for this playthough contented myself with the free Black Viper (my name). 😁
It’s in the cave where you help her get even with the guy she’s at war with, and you might not see it as available until you are about level 30 or so, should show on the map.
One other vehicle I like for desert driving with built in guns is… $78k
Last but not least, I used to salivate over a particular convertible I saw in town, but could not buy. I forget which model, but since the V2 patch there is now a…
Also free if you do the right gig. Note this is a nice car, but the Murkmobile leaves it in the dust. My first street race with Claire was in this and was not impressed with it’s top speed.
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In Dog Town last night I came across a gun fight between police and a local gang. Not Night City Police, who are not allowed into Dog Town, so they were Kurt Hanson’s (the Dog Town Boss) Security forces, but they act like police and you’ll get law breaker stars ⭐️ pop up on your screen if you cross them, and the dogs of hell are unleashed upon you. 😉
So I stood there watching, normally as a (Night City) law enforcement contractor, I’d pitch in to help the police, but this was not Night City jurisdiction, so I let them sink or swim on their own. After the last one fell, and the gang remained, I launched myself into the remaining gang members, because there was a car close by, that I was contracted to steal. No, I’m not a complete angel in Night City.
But during this fight, Security forces returned and attacked me! Stars against me! 😳 Have you ever tried to drive a vehicle in Dog Town trying to evade security forces? Not good! 🫣 The only choice is to bail from the vehicle and evade on foot… I swear I did not attack DTSF. I’ve seen more of this since the V2 Patch.
So I stood there watching, normally as a (Night City) law enforcement contractor, I’d pitch in to help the police, but this was not Night City jurisdiction, so I let them sink or swim on their own. After the last one fell, and the gang remained, I launched myself into the remaining gang members, because there was a car close by, that I was contracted to steal. No, I’m not a complete angel in Night City.
But during this fight, Security forces returned and attacked me! Stars against me! 😳 Have you ever tried to drive a vehicle in Dog Town trying to evade security forces? Not good! 🫣 The only choice is to bail from the vehicle and evade on foot… I swear I did not attack DTSF. I’ve seen more of this since the V2 Patch.
After the big fight in Dog Town did a mission to save 2 cops (Mr Hands- Working for the Cops) that had gotten themselves into trouble with the Voodoo Boys. This really was a sneaking job, since the cop’s wife requested I not hurt gang members cause it might blow back on her husband. But since I still had Sandevision installed, I was hard pressed to sneak. I ended up killing all the bad guys. 😳 You might think I was putting a huge dent in crime, just wiping places out, but now it feels brutish to me, not as polished, just a wrecking train.
Anyway when the boss showed up, before we escaped, his assistant scans the building, “ they’re all flatlined“ he says. Amazingly, the boss is still willing to let us go. Maybe he realizes what a threat I represent. So the 2 officers jump in their squad car to race out of there, they hit the boss and a helper with their car, the boss is triggered and attacks me, and well… they ended up dead too. 🫤
Not that it would have reduced the death toll, but since then I have since switched back to a hacking CPU. For most circumstances other than large sustained fights, it’s overall best. For this case I might have been able not to kill everyone*. But this illustrates that Sandevision is good to have as an option, but it’s slightly inconvienent as you need an operation to make the adjustment. I’ve wondered where they fit that CPU in you… 🤔😉
* But they all have bounties making them fair and legal targets for a sub contractor like myself.
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Besides the hard core **** going down in Dog Town, you have spare time. There's this quest, The Man Who Killed Jason Foreman, and 7 other people in a rage, beating Foreman to death. The killer is or was connected, the family wants justice for their dead sons. This guy Leon Rinder has a body guard, a large brick. You end up playing attack, hide and seek, in a run down apartment building. The katana, hurts him, but his heavy weapon will cut you in half before you'd ever win. Bullets, don't do that much to him, at least my bullets don't and the icing on the cake, he heals himself. I spent about 15 minutes attacking him, healing myself and he was. still at 70% health.
I was about to call this thing quits, I remembered my Bullet Deflect Skill using the Katana.
Holy crap, there is only one guy shooting at me, I put up my sword, with my reticle on him and his health started dropping precipitately as he fired at me. I was crouched which also gives my mitigation a boost. Maybe it did not compute in time to him, but he died.
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The Heist: This Could Have Gone Smoother
I Want Those Boots, the Car, and the Girl!
I was about to call this thing quits, I remembered my Bullet Deflect Skill using the Katana.
Holy crap, there is only one guy shooting at me, I put up my sword, with my reticle on him and his health started dropping precipitately as he fired at me. I was crouched which also gives my mitigation a boost. Maybe it did not compute in time to him, but he died.
Now Leon is bed ridden, a Ripper Doc did a number on him. I tell him I'm here to set things right and he gives me a song and dance about how messed up he is and he was having blackouts and this kid tried to rip in off. I told him I was sorry before putting a bullet in his head.
Unrelated:
I Want Those Boots, the Car, and the Girl!
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Question about Phantom Liberty DLC Finale:
I started my play session tonight, I found a way to save Alex, Reed, and Songbird. My move was to side with Songbird first, help her escape. We went to the spaceport so she could catch a flight to the Moon, and when we started my intent was to turn her over to Reed. Then all hell broke lose, and by the time I got to the moment of truth, I had my doubts.
Before when we were sneaking about, Reed and the President's forces were looking all over for us, we overhear a conversation where Meyers tells Reed to capture her at all cost, including killing her. She’s a walking WMD who can summon power from beyond the Black Wall and fry anything that stands in her way
Then a serious fire fight in the terminal breaks out and I'm embarrassed to say, I don't have a clue why. It was as if the President, via Federal Law Enforcement decided that Songbird was so dangerous, they decided to murder everyone in the terminal, passengers, civilians, to make sure they get her? There is technology that temporary changes your appearance so you can assume others identities. I’ve searched online for the reason there is a massacre, and it remains something I’m speculating about.
Late in this fight, Sonbird is damage and weak, we neural link as I carry her, I get this black wall power and nothing can stand against me when linked.
I was so pissed at President Myers for orchestrating this what appeared to me to be senseless slaughter, and even though Songbird used me and there was no cure waiting for me, I ended up saying **** it.
BTW, if I had turned her over, I could have gotten the “one time cure” in her place, but because of what I know about the “V is cured” ending, I decided against it. Don’t ask for or if offered, decline the cure. There’s a high price to be cured, imo.
First time- At the moment if truth, I turned her over to Reed who said he would take care of her. I do believe he cares for her, but she likely would remain a Guinea pig and prisoner for the rest of her life. I told him, I wanted nothing from him or Myers in return. This is one path that allows you to continue to the original ending. However, if you take the cure the game ends and the final mission of the original game is not available.
The flow chart I posted has 3 ways to make it to the original game endings.
Then I rolled it back and when Reed threatened, I killed him, and put her on the shuttle ideally to a place where she would be protected… maybe? 😳 I did not feel nearly as bad about killing Reed as I thought I would.
Somehow I got out of the space port, no one seems to be alive, but that is glossed over, as a morning after scene appears and I’m talking to Johnny about it. Clearly he is more happy that I sided with Songbird, but he did not hold it against me, when I turned her over to Reed, because she lied to me about the cure to save herself. There was an opportunity for me to be pissed about her lying to me, and a chance to call Reed and tell him, I was going to turn her over.
But in the end I killed him, and felt ok about it. 🤔
Before when we were sneaking about, Reed and the President's forces were looking all over for us, we overhear a conversation where Meyers tells Reed to capture her at all cost, including killing her. She’s a walking WMD who can summon power from beyond the Black Wall and fry anything that stands in her way
Then a serious fire fight in the terminal breaks out and I'm embarrassed to say, I don't have a clue why. It was as if the President, via Federal Law Enforcement decided that Songbird was so dangerous, they decided to murder everyone in the terminal, passengers, civilians, to make sure they get her? There is technology that temporary changes your appearance so you can assume others identities. I’ve searched online for the reason there is a massacre, and it remains something I’m speculating about.
Late in this fight, Sonbird is damage and weak, we neural link as I carry her, I get this black wall power and nothing can stand against me when linked.
I was so pissed at President Myers for orchestrating this what appeared to me to be senseless slaughter, and even though Songbird used me and there was no cure waiting for me, I ended up saying **** it.
BTW, if I had turned her over, I could have gotten the “one time cure” in her place, but because of what I know about the “V is cured” ending, I decided against it. Don’t ask for or if offered, decline the cure. There’s a high price to be cured, imo.
First time- At the moment if truth, I turned her over to Reed who said he would take care of her. I do believe he cares for her, but she likely would remain a Guinea pig and prisoner for the rest of her life. I told him, I wanted nothing from him or Myers in return. This is one path that allows you to continue to the original ending. However, if you take the cure the game ends and the final mission of the original game is not available.
The flow chart I posted has 3 ways to make it to the original game endings.
Then I rolled it back and when Reed threatened, I killed him, and put her on the shuttle ideally to a place where she would be protected… maybe? 😳 I did not feel nearly as bad about killing Reed as I thought I would.
Somehow I got out of the space port, no one seems to be alive, but that is glossed over, as a morning after scene appears and I’m talking to Johnny about it. Clearly he is more happy that I sided with Songbird, but he did not hold it against me, when I turned her over to Reed, because she lied to me about the cure to save herself. There was an opportunity for me to be pissed about her lying to me, and a chance to call Reed and tell him, I was going to turn her over.
But in the end I killed him, and felt ok about it. 🤔
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Well, I looked at this thread too much and bought the game and the DLC. Haven't got far into it, but it looks good on Steam Deck.
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I thought it might be due to my V murdering gang members, but maybe it’s just random targeting? 🤔
Did you change the color of your car? I know there is a brand that allow this, but I did not try it.
Along the Watch Tower Ending
IMO, there is no choice but to play the Phantom Liberty DLC in the middle of the game where it resides. They could have made it a prequel, but no Johnny, and it's not a prequel. If you go back and play it after the Original Story concludes that feels unnatural to me, because in the DLC you are sick and Songbird lures you with he promise of a cure.
I might suggest, first play through, just ignore Phantom Liberty. BTW I think I recall a mission in the original story also called Phantom Liberty, but that is a Gig, not the DLC, ok to do that. The DLC starts with a message to contact someone in Dog Town. Then when you know what is what, for play though 2 do the DLC sometime, or just before you're getting ready to visit Embers to meet Hanako Arasaka.
What's awkward about the situation is you are sick, running out of time, it does not seem logical to me, but you will have time to go help Songbird in Dog Town.
This story through osmosis pays tribute to the father of the Cyberpunk genre, William Gibson* (Neuromancer 1984), plus Blade Runner (Ridley Scott 1982), and Mike Pondsmith creator of the Cyberpunk tabletop game.
So now I’ll feel a little depressed, even though the game allows you to return to Night City after completion of the main quest, I’ve completed all the jobs so there really is not anything to do, maybe the street races are still there? And I don’t know if you guide yourself to the ‘cure ending’ option in Phantom Liberty, which short changes the final quest sequence of the original game, if it offers the same post conclusion return. 🤔
Anyway there is something to look forward to Cyberpunk 2077, Project Orion.
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Every Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel Project Orion Rumor and Leak So Far
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*William Gibson
Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"[4]—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Agebefore the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.[5] Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984).
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A Founding Father of Cyberpunk Isn't Surprised By Its Comeback
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Ok, a temporary car. 🙂I didn't. The car was high jacked
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I always struggle to choose an absolute favorite in basically anything, but it is absolutely in my Top 5! I played three times since Phanton Liberty release, once at original launch.
Three Things missed:
- No taking Rogue on a date.
- No Breaking into Kerry Eurodyne's Mansion.
- No performing a one night Gig with Samauri as Johnny, although as far as the audience goes, you're just a stand in performer. The image I posted of Kerry was from a previous play through.
Have you played with different endings? I'm tempted to take up Hanako's offer of a cure, just to see. One staggering outcome of the Along The Watchtower End:
Hanako Arasaka is reported to not have survived, heard it in a radio news report, was that supposed to be her abduction? Her brother had her killed.
I also almost laughed at the end with the credits rolling where characters are giving their farewells to V, Goro Takemura comes on and praises, then curses me. I guess it's because I did not help Hanako nail her rogue brother in combination with what is in the spoiler.
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Photo Albums
Photo Album 9
My V Outfit 4 with Aldecaldo Jacket (2024)
Holo Fish
V Outside Delamain's During Sand Storm
Hanako Arasaka at Embers
Aldecaldo Welcome To The Family
Leaving Night City with Judy and the Aldecaldos
Alex Needs to Dance (Phantom Liberty)
Songbird at the Space Port Looking For a Way Out (Phantom Liberty)
Johnny and the Lunar Express (Phantom Liberty)
Photo Album 9
My V Outfit 4 with Aldecaldo Jacket (2024)
Holo Fish
V Outside Delamain's During Sand Storm
Hanako Arasaka at Embers
Aldecaldo Welcome To The Family
Leaving Night City with Judy and the Aldecaldos
Alex Needs to Dance (Phantom Liberty)
Songbird at the Space Port Looking For a Way Out (Phantom Liberty)
Johnny and the Lunar Express (Phantom Liberty)
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I played three different endings across the four playthroughs - first one can't recall if it was 'Temperence' or 'The Star'
but basically let Johnny take control
Also played last year as a netrunner
using the Arasaka ending.
But my fave - so I repeated it in latest playthrough was The Star, with my femme V
romance Judy and we both join Panam and the Aldecaldos.
That has to the best ending and is my favorite too. There’s a lot of good vibes and closure. As a male V, I romanced PanAm before, but I don’t remember having much interaction with her as a girl friend. Maybe since the v2 patch, maybe she comes over to your pad to visit? I’d have to try it. 🤔
it’s possible, I did not get to romance Rogue because I did not do all her side quests, failed to call her? I did not see them. As a fixer I only did one or two of her gigs. If I had seen them, I would have done them.
Based on what I read, the Arasaka, ‘help Hanako’, ending sucks, get filed away into an AI repository or return to Earth to die in a couple of months. I assume the Aldecaldos have left, don’t know if Judy is still there or she leaves too. 🤔
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