>>737110687
no one knows who this mental illness walking cum dumpster is nor what shit depression quest game you are talking about faggot.

>>737110992
not enough buzzwords

>>737110992
I know what it is though

>>737110992
It's written in the filename.

>>737110687
What possessed her to become a doll, was being a regular hooker with rich clients not enough?

>>737110992
>everyone, look how retarded I am

>>737111286
She only returns to Clouds after the heist. I imagine she did it to protect herself

>>737110687
everything involving this character is confusing.
still don't know why she wants the relic and why she got raped and kidnapped.

>>737111546
Have you tried not being retarded?
She got hired by the Voodo Boys to help them steal the relic. She thought the plan was great so decided to copy it, but cut the Voodoo Boys out. In order to escape from all the people she scammed who are now trying to kill her after getting the relic, she would sell it to Netwatch who would put her in protective custody and she would get away with everything.

>>737110992
trying too hard lurk more

>>737111765
>she would sell it to Netwatch who would put her in protective custody and she would get away with everything.
this is new information for me, when does it get explained?

>>737111546
That hacker gang contacted her and offered one gorillion euroburger coins if she managed to steal the relic from her sugar daddy (yes, the hackers are also retarded. It's CP77, everyone has brain damage).
The same hackers also fucked her brain with hacker magic while she was in doll mode at the Clouds because she failed to get the relic, so her brain turned off and she turned into a glorified onahole, and everyone loves onaholes so she was sold and kidnapped and obviously used multiple times.

>>737111907
Encoded message on the computer in the room with the Netwatch Agent.

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Bryce_Mosley/Computers

>>737110687
Felt bad for her, classic case of a desperate person getting knee deep in shit with things they don't understand
Fuck her for causing the plot, but also feel kinda bad for her.

>>737110687
The silliest thing about the whole heist situation is that Arasaka pinned Saburo's murder on V, Bug and Jackie and then didn't bother to go after V because he was just a tool in a greater scheme and let him continue to operate in the city without giving a fuck. This is a Megacorp who owns the world and Saburo was basically considered a living god; why in the fuck wouldn't they immediately tie up any loose ends and ice the person they say murdered him?

>>737112815
Arasaka did not even want to find V lol. Yorinobu took over, if V was ever actually caught he would have to suicide him so word doesn't get out to the rest of the top brass about who really killed Saburo. It's why they did such a half-assed job going after him.

>>737112815
they failed to stop us from stealing top girl at arasaka, their patrol vehicle, I passed that thing while arriving at the location goro messaged me
message, like a phone sms, I guess arasaka is too retarded to hack my phone baka baka

>>737112953
Exactly. It would be in Yorinobu's best interest to find and kill V ASAP as the only one who knew what actually happened in the hotel room. No one would have raised an eyebrow at Yorinobu sending every Arasaka death squad available to locate and kill V after the Heist, easily played off as a grieving son wanting revenge for his slain father.

>>737113004
Phones aren't really a thing in Cyberpunk. You just call people with the chip in your head.

>>737110992
I do tho

>>737113164
No because they would have to drag V in for interrogation to find out who ordered the hit on Saburo. If V then just conveniently died it would be extremely sus for Yorinobu. The best solution was to just not find V.

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>>737113173
holocalls are chipped I guess
but sms is still with this thing I assume, it has a phone icon, also explain this!

>>737112815
Because if Saburo used even 10% of Arasawa's power to kill V the game would've ended one day after the heist
>Why didn't Arasawa bomb the entire Megabuilding H10 while V was sleeping in his apartment?

>>737110992
I know who she is, but yes she is a mental illness walking cum dumpster in a shit depression quest game.

>>737113442
That's modded. SMS are literally stored inside your head's drive iirc. The interface you see is what V sees.

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>>737113779
no, only mod is hair color choices
I assume you don't have the game and can't just check the selfie pose in the photomode?

>>737113270
It'd be trivial to make up a story that he fought back when they came to detain him and had to be murked.

>>737114043
Is that canon? It was added in photomode patch after release and it's a single meme pose mimicking selfies

>>737114237
you even called it modded, not its not canon
make up your damn mind, lying bastard

>>737112815
They sent Takemura and Yorinobu murdering Saburo was probably a public secret.

>>737112815
This isn't well explained in game but Yorinobu changed his mind and pretended that he didn't know who killed his father, because it was more politically useful that way - he could act like maybe one of the other corps did it

>>737115398
He wanted to pin it on Militech so he could start another corpo world war to destroy Arasaka from the inside

>>737112338
>simping for whores

>>737110992
>taking pride in ignorance
what causes this

>>737112815
everyone at Arasaka already knew Yorinobu killed Saburo, Hanako says as much.
Board members are just biding their time to see whether supporting Yorinobu is in their interest.

>>737115609
I blame her for what she did, I just feel bad when a person fucks up so hard that they end up killing themselves.
Simping has nothing to do with it.

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Parker! I need engrams! Engrams of Johnny Silverhand!

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>>737116739
is he gay for j?

Theory: Saburo is coming back.
The whole relic project was his baby, he tested it to perfection 70 years before the events of the game.
Yorinobu has a relic with Saburo on it.
You kill Yorinobu, starting the relic's process.

The Emperor is always multiple ply ahead.

>>737117667
Except it's a copy of him and not really Saburo.

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>>737119354
well this goes to the whole discussion of Star Trek teleports actually disintegrating you and then rebuilding an exact clone on the target location with your memories is it you? Well, yes and no.

>>737115698
lack of intelligence

>>737110687
and it almost worked

>>737113779
>>737113173
multiple npcs make actual phone calls all the time.

>>737119705
no they literally say you die and a new copy is made. and that the copy isn't even 100% either.

>>737110687
She was smart enough to scam the fixer though. It's literally all Dex's fault, even if the heist went off without a hitch they were never going to get paid and that's his fucking job.

>>737110687
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>>737111286
There are some lines from Judy about how a doll implant is hard to use and only really top end escorts can handle them or something.

>>737111541
Yes, a plot hole IMO. The moment the heist failed, or at least when /v/ disappeared (to Evelyn), she should've fled Night City as fast as possible.

>>737112338
She's also a brainlet for thinking she'll scam Dex (which maybe she could get away with), the VDBs (which she could absolutely not get away with), and possibly you (the safest bet ironically, since you're just a jobber merc by that point).

>>737113173
Several characters have physical phones, but yeah, most calls are done through the holo.

>>737120398
Maybe they're like people today without smartphones

>>737120269
No it didn't. Even if V did agree to cut Dex out and go with her, how the fuck was she gonna get the relic off him? She had no money to pay and the Netwatch deal was a one person ticket.

>>737110687
Nah the voodoo boys were always gonna fuck everything up and so would yorinobu and saburo.
Things would have been even worse if the heist didnt happen though, cause saburo would have the relic tech back intact without a protagonist there to keep it away from him. Yorinobu wouldn't have won the fight he started.

>>737121349
In its original plan, I think /v/ was supposed to deliver the Relic to Dex, who would hold it until Evelyn brokered a deal with Netwatch. Then they'd all meet, hand over the Relic, get their eddies, and V gets his/her share some time later.

After the heist gets fucked up, Evelyn and Dex would've differed, with Evelyn probably trying to take V to a ripperdoc to get the Relic out and sell it herself, while Dex would just want V and Evelyn dead to distance himself and not get killed when Arasaka comes after everyone.

>>737121529
>the VDBs were always gonna fuck everything up
Yes, the moment Evelyn thought she was smarter than them, everyone tied up in the heist, excluding Dex probably, would just have mysterious 'net accidents' (VDB cooking them remotely). The entire VDB storyline you do in Pacifica is them just fucking you over repeatedly and then being surprised you made it out alive and pretending they didn't try to fuck you over. It's always morally correct to kill every single one of them.

>>737120558
Consciousness is kept from start to finish of the transportation. If there's no break in consciousness then can you really say it was death? The corporal body may be different but the string of thought stays unbroken.

>>737121687
She was always going to try and scam Dex and V from the start.

>>737121795
Dex certainly, because she even approaches you with the offer to do so right after the meeting at Judy's. I don't think she'd scam V, at least not before the heist went bad, but she definitely didn't give a fuck about Dex.

I'm playing the game right now, just unlocked the DLC. This game cucks you out of opportunity for revenge so many times, but at least I was able to eventually behead every single VDB in Pacifica.
I kind of regret going Melee Blades + Throwing Weapons though. The latter on its own is fun enough that I don't need the former. What could I replace it with though?

>>737115553
Yori wanted to destroy every corp by using nukes.

>>737110687
sounds like an accurately written female

>>737122007
Throwing weapons are stealth mostly (for headshots), but you can turn them into a meme machine with a Sandevistan. I did a throwing weapons only build and it was so-so. Bladed melee + sandevistan is basically cheat mode, too.

>>737110992
First post worst post, seriously if you are this retarded its better to remain silent.

>>737121762
we're not talking about star trek man

>>737121762
The buffer is a lie. Remember when the two Rikers thing happened? Where did the consciousness for the second Riker come from?

>>737110992
Summertime Saga, if you’re interested

>>737117667
you missed the "blink and you'll miss it," moment in the "devil" ending. right after you defeat yori and start descending to the basement with Anders, you'll see Hanako lifting Yori while also inserting Saboro's relic into her brother. that bitch sacrificed her brother to bring back her father.

>>737110687
she looks my trans mom

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>>737110687
>>737111546
>>737111765
>>737111907
I thought the plan to steal it and sell it to NetWatch was the initial plan.
What do the negroo boys want with it anyway?
Not like they would ever listen to rock music, anyway.

>>737110992
Imagine bragging about being ignorant

>>737111281
>CP77
What does it mean?

Only reason VoodooNigs and Netwatched wanted the relic was because Johnny was on it and that he fucked one of the most important AI while she was still flesh. They don't know the truth and probably think it's bigger than that, I wonder how disapointed they would have been when either party noticed it's just some ai ex-lover that might get them to meet her once at best.

>>737127751
I think the general plan with the Relic was this:
>VDBs know Johnny Silvehand's engram is on it
>VDBs know the Blackwall is cracking and it's only a matter of time before the rogue AIs spill out and fuck over everyone
>VDBs want to get on the 'good side' of the rogue AIs before this happens, so they want to talk to Alt Cunningham's engram (who lives on the other side of the Blackwall)
>VDBs need Johnny's engram to find Alt and make contact

And after that, the VDBs presumably think they can make a deal with Alt or get her protection/favor somehow, so they survive when the AI apocalypse happens.

>>737127751
>What do the negroo boys want with it anyway?
They wanna contact Alt, so they thought offering her ex boyfriend's personality construct would get her to stop ghosting them.

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>>737128442
>>737128713
That makes sense. But why do they want to fuck V over with the virus they uploaded (according to the glownigger from NetWatch)?
Just to tie up a loose end?

t. brainlet

>>737112121
>fandom link
Kill yourself

>>737129387
It's literally a transcribed shard from the game

>>737129193
>why do they want to fuck V over with the virus they uploaded
They're aholes like that. There's a reason everyone warns you not to try and deal with them.

>>737125441
>that bitch sacrificed her brother to bring back her father.
Given her brother murdered her father, that's not bitchiness, that's poetic justice.

>>737114173
It would be even more trivial for the most powerful man in the world to just quietly kill V without the rest of Arasaka ever finding out.

The real truth is that it's a plot hole due to the game being obviously chopped apart and stitched back together, reworked, rewritten, and changed direction and story who knows how many times.

>>737129193
They're total assholes. IIRC the term they use for outside help literally translates to "a used rag".

>>737129193
because they're scum and the netwatch agent is completely in the right.

>>737128442
>VDBs know the Blackwall is cracking and it's only a matter of time before the rogue AIs spill out and fuck over everyone
90% of this is because THEY'RE THE ONES BREAKING IT!

>>737130719
Dogshit

>>737120721
The inconsistency of Arasaka's ability to track people down bothers me. When the plot wants them to find you, they're the boogeyman and can find anyone, anytime
Meanwhile, V can just traipse into their HQ and massacre a few hundred of their employees and just take a bus out of town after buying a kid a million dollar guitar.

>>737131286
The game's shoddily written, that's really all it is.

>>737121687
>It's always morally correct to kill every single one of them.
Fucking this. Once I can understand; I'm an unknown quantity. At any point after that, their hostility is a death sentence for the entire faction.
Ironic that they're killed by a roving cyberzombie Samedi analog.

>all the black people are selfish pieces of shit except the chocolate qt you can romance
CD Projekt Red more like CD Projekt Chud

>>737127993
amerimutts are like dat, it's pretty funny.

>>737129193
VDBs are just the worst gang in the city, worse than Scavs even because at least scavs never tried to pretend to be your friends

>>737131580
I love massacring the voodooniggers, surprised CDPR lets us do it

>>737131702
Every time I replay the game, I decide to finally not side with Netwatch this time and see the other turnout of the quest, but when the moment comes, I'm always swayed by the promise of all these smug VDB cunts getting fucking grilled horribly, before I put a bullet into the big dude's gorilla face.

>>737131825
My first playthrough I wasn't paying attention and sided with VDB's. Guess what? You can just massacre them all anyway after the meetup with Alt.

>>737129974
>t. glowie

>>737132048
This might actually be better, to give it the personal touch. I assumed there'd be some sort of fallout, because their shitty virus would still be in V.

>>737132172
The netwatch guy wasn't telling you the whole story but at least he didn't plant a suicide cyberbomb in you

>>737110687
You obtuse nigger... You don't know shit

>>737130719
Kinda reminds me to prime Dana DeArmond™

>>737132185
No it's kinda retarded actually. The virus just fails to kill V for no reason.

>>737132530
Wasn't it because of Johnny and the Relic?

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What was the reason for why out of all of the personality constructs Arasaka kept stashed in the Mikoshi they picked fucking Johnny Silverhand to put into their priceless Relic prototype?
This probably got explained at some point, but I honestly don't remember
>>737110687
Well, it turned out as expected for her, but in a way it's inspiring how much havoc and power shift a literal nobody could cause for half of major players in the city by just fucking around

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>>737132263
Ha I'm just joking, I also sided with them because of... reasons.

>>737132667
That's the standard 2077 deus ex machina

>>737132943
It was a prototype and they were planning to kill Johnny either way.
Maybe they assumed that turning him into a computer chip would allow them to "read" his memories and figure out who gave him those nukes.

I helped netwatch because to be honest, i dont like niggers

>>737133613
I shot the netwatch nerd and then I got cyberbomb'd and then I killed mama bridge and plastice

>>737129193
I believe it's because of this:
>the job the VDBs hire V to do (through talking with Hands) is to go into the GYM to neutralize the Netwatch asshole
>the Netwatch asshole has the VDB's subnet, called 'Rezo Agwae', locked down
>Maman Bridgitte (the VDB boss) is trapped in the VDB subnet (by the Netwatch guy) and can't talk or get out
>Placide, the VDB dickhead who hires you, has no idea about the Relic or anything (this is mentioned later by Maman Bridgitte herself)
>because Placide doesn't know about the Relic, he's content to send you on a suicide mission into the GIM because VDBs view everyone who isn't a VDB as disposable (this is the 'ranyon' comment about being a 'rag you throw away')
>but V does the GIM job and survives and gets to meet Maman Bridgitte
>Maman B realizes 'holy shit, the Relic is what we wanted and this retard has it' and that's why you do the cyberspace thing to let them get in touch with Alt

I always murder those VDB cocksuckers the moment I'm out of the ice bath, unless you side with the Netwatch guy, in which case I think Alt blows their heads up (the VDBs) when Netwatch springs their trap

>>737130916
Partially. The whole 'muh impenetrable blackwall' thing is also a marketing meme from Netwatch to sell their services. The rogue AIs and whatevers on the other side are continually evolving and sneaking past/through the Blackwall already. It's just a matter of time before the dam breaks.

>>737132943
Nothing about the Relic is consistent or makes any sense at all. In the Devil ending they say the Relic target body needs to be genetically compatible (parent-and-child level of compatible) for it to work, but Johnny has no problem taking over V's body who has no relation to him at all...unless V is somehow his secret grandkid or something equally as retarded as that.

women, amIright lads?

>>737133856
Johnny('s engram) doesn't have a choice about taking over V because it's just something the Relic does automatically.

What happens in the Devil ending is Arasaka tries to disentangle Johnny from V (more or less what Alt does in the other endings), but with leaving V's body intact and safe from the Relic trying to overwrite it on a nano-cellular level. Arasaka can't manage to do it, so V has degradation and memory loss and whatever else, which is why Arasaka says 'Hey, you're dying anyway, so why not let us put you in Mikoshi as an engram?'

The Relic works for Saburo because Hanako kills Yorinobu, then puts in the Relic (with Saburo's engram). In V's case, the Relic starts the takeover process after Dex kills you (Robocop style), but then V wakes up and has the 'I'm losing my body to Johnny' storyline. The main fuckup seems to have been V putting the relic in his/her head while he/she was still alive, which I guess starts the takeover process, but minorly at first, and then it kicked into high gear once you get shot by Dex, and the Relic thinks 'Oh, the host body is dead. Time to really take this bitch over.'

>>737134157
That's not what I meant. When Takemura (or Hellman, though I've never seen that one because who the fuck does Devil with dead Takemura) shows up, he tells V Hanako is willing to sign him for Secure Your Soul shit (where V's engram will eventually get uploaded to a Relic and inserted into someone's body) but it might be a while before he gets a compatible body, and when V asks why didn't Saburo have to wait, Takemura says it's because Yorinobu was genetically compatible with Saburo. But V didn't need to be genetically compatible with Johnny for the Relic to overwrite his body unlike Yorinobu with Saburo or V with his potential host body, so why is this compatibility aspect of the Relic that was never mentioned before (and will never be mentioned again anywhere else) suddenly introduced in the epilogue?

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>>737127751
The relic would allow them to make contact with Alt because of her connection with Johnny, which is what you do when you go to see them. Everything actually makes more sense after you play Phantom Liberty because SoMi has exactly the power that the Voodoo Boys are after. She's the only character who can arbitrarily control all kinds of shit like you would imagine a super hacker should be able to. Netrunners basically always need boots on the ground to get the signal in to do their work but SoMi is basically omnipotent. Not to mention, the AIs that exist beyond the blackwall are incredibly powerful and could be used or copied or brokered with, similar to how the AI you uncover is able to heal you & SoMi.