I went guns blazing after I stealthily killed the guard taunting Jasmine, but before freeing her. This method allowed me to shoot the receptionist as well.
One of the things I like about these various gigs, is how they can subtly inform us on the fixers as well. Like with Family Matters. El Capitan initially tells us about the gig related to the data, but if you pay attention, he asks us about Juliet first. He says "hey i got this contact Juliet who was supposed to get me some data, but she went dark. Check on her for me will ya? Oh and uh....don't forget the data." Which I find interesting. The objective is "find the data" but HE asks us to check on her first. This happens a lot with Capitan and also Dino, that the context of what they are asking you to do, illustrates that they are fairly empathetic dudes, who don't want to hurt people. The missions themselves are either fairly altruistic or they hint at a more human/empathetic motivation for the gig, like Family Matters. Or with the case of Dino, it's the fact that most of his gigs have the "don't cause a mess" optional objective to them. He is WAY happier with you, if you can get in and out of his jobs without making it a chaotic bloodbath. And there is an NCPD event where you find a data shard conversation between Dino and a guy (now sadly a corpse), that shows how generous Dino is. The guy is another runner for Dino, from a job that went bad, and he's asking Dino for help, because the corpos are now after him. And Dino gives him the coords for one of his safe houses to try and keep the guy alive, and even says "I OFFERED you some backup on this gig, but you declined." He didn't ask for money, or a reduction in the runner's cut for the gig. He just got the message the guy was in trouble, and risked exposing one of his safe houses to the corpos to try and save him. Which I think is just some really good storytelling for these npcs, making them more than just missions dispensaries.
Perhaps the dancing/drinking robots and the card-playing robots are proxies of some sort? Maybe some well-off people want to live out the "meet-up in a seedy motel" thing without actually endangering themselves. Also not unreasonable to think that someone may be playing with them for fun like one would with action figures.
But if they want proxies, why not use real people? If Hanako and rogue AI can control someone like a flesh puppet it stands to reason other people could too…
@@edgeIord Price and difficulty. Probably cheaper to slap together some robots out of scrap than to hire someone, and completely taking over someone unwilling is probably very difficult.
Funfact, in the witcher 3, one of the main quest in the early game is also call “Family matter” and one of the ending to that quest is Anna losing her mind same as Rose here
I agree, megabuildings are so cool and kinda underutilized in game, I hope we get some more missions in them with PL. Sometimes I just chill outside V's MB10 apartment and I just look across the chasm at all the doors and windows and imagine the stories happening behind each. I also love how it can be the middle of the afternoon yet inside the building it looks like night because they're so huge the block out the sun.
You could literally have an entire game take place within a mega building. Different floors have different levels of affluence, ones like V's place, with trash everywhere, people living in the corridors all the way up to the penthouses at the top. Gang wars, personal problems different, shops and services. Kind of a mix of 2077 and Dredd 2013.
I don't know if I agree with the sentiment that megabuildings are underutilized in this game. First, V lives in H10, so we get a pretty good look at what one floor of a megabuilding is like, with apartments, stores/cafes, a crime scene, even a gym (even if most of them are not interactable). Then we also have that entire Clouds sub-plot with multiple missions taking place in H8, which again gives us a good look at what kind of shady businesses can be found in a megabuilding. Finally, there are several gigs that take place in various megabuildings across the city. Yes, gigs are fairly small missions by nature, but still we get to explore a number of different locations inside the megabuildings, like apartments, server room, utility/maintenance room, the roof, the penthouse etc etc. If all of this content was set in a single megabuilding, it would've felt pretty well utilized imo. At the end of the day CDPR had to populate an entire city and spread content around the map, so I think they gave us a decent look at what life in megabuildings is like with resources they had. I think to explore a megabuilding fully we'd need an entire game set there, like others suggested. Or it could have been a pretty cool location for a DLC. It's just a shame CDPR decided to only release one expansion. At least we got Dogtown, so I can't complain.
During the gig cuckoo's nest, I went back into the hospital after doing it stealthily, and killed everyone with gorila arms. 10/10 gig definitely one of my favorites.
I genuinely didn't know Karl could die in the Nasty Hangover gig, I just always striaght up murdered the Kang Tao operatives xD! It was a super exciting series, thank you for making this. I truly hope there will be more to uncover when Phantom Liberry'll drop.
Something that popped out at me was, while in Booker Updike's room, there's a distinct delay between V's comment about the stench ("I'm gonna puke,") and Johnny's reaction "hey I know that smell" Later on (in my playthroughs) you can ask Johnny how he's adjusting to life in V's skin, one of his comments is a complaint about the delay between stimulus and response "When you bite into a pizza, it's ages before I feel you've burnt the roof of your mouth." I love the little bits like that, potentially showing the continuity of their world building.
This was a great series. It's really impressive how many connections they put in the game, and so is the amount of work you put into revealing them all. There was plenty in these videos I hadn't picked up on. Looking forward to 1.7 and Phantom Liberty. I'm taking a break from playing the game until they release, so I can go in for a fresh, full run through everything. Cheers!
Awesome work! I always felt like these things connect in a lot of ways, but my memory is terrible. Your videos have been awesome for helping putting the puzzle pieces together.
I've developed a theory that the Cuckoo's Nest gig has another reference that goes way over people's heads. I believe the Dr. Jacob Shipman is reference to English serial Killer Dr. Harold Shipman. Who like the quest was involved in drugs as well. He had a drug problem and was known to overdose his victims, and he mostly killed woman. So I find kinda fitting that your saving one.
this is possibly my favourite series of cyberpunk 2077 videos, so well researched and executed. this must've been a monster to edit together, well done. also, i would love a video covering some of the extended material coming out like all the comics and the upcoming novel
This series introduced me to your channel. Thank you for creating these videos man. I didn't know that some of these gigs are connected to ncpd hustlers and i missed a lot of story and lore but these videos really helped me understand the story of these gigs. Made me really appreciate the work of cdpr and how deep the lore can get. Looking forward to the new videos/series!
Man....your series really helped me appreciate the side quests more. I didn't pay attention to a lot of the shards so a lot of these details I really didn't know about o.o
NGL I'm kinda with Johnny in the whole needing the Old God to bring forth hell for 6th Street, considering how much they parade around like veteran saviors, yet are a menace to society.
I've noticed a theme with "El Capitan's" gigs: He almost never tells you the real reason your doing the job. He lies all the time, so much so he can't keep track of what lie's he has told you. That's why he has so many Dialog "inconsistencies".
Thank you for this awesome series. So many connections that never registered coz when I was actually doing the gigs the details would blur afterwards and I could never remember where exactly I’d heard a name that sounded vaguely familiar.
I gotta say, after the game launched so roughly and the story didn’t really go the way I hoped it would where we could totally wreck all the corporations like I wanted, I really didn’t enjoy the game that much. But after finding your channel I can finally say that I’ve fallen back in love with the game like I did when I first booted it up, when it had the most potential. Thank you for the incredible content and I can’t wait for the insane content that you’ll put out when phantom liberty launches!
A quick note on the Severence Package mission: Rereading the terminal entry, it's Cytech that wants to nix the neural safeguards and the updated drivers. The Corp seems to be set on cutting those options to "Prioritize a Competitive Market Price."
I love that these gigs show us that Night City is much bigger than V. The Witcher series had one protagonist that we got to experience a lot with. I’d love it if that trend continues with Cyberpunk. There’s so many plot lines with V that haven’t been fully explored.
It's a cool idea, but I seriously doubt it. Geralt is the main protagonist of the books, that's why he persisted throughout all the games. V is just a generic PC, he has a gender-neutral name, we can customize his appearance any way we want, he's basically the equivalent of Tav in BG3. So I'm 99% sure Cyberpunk 2 will have a different character. Likely another custom character with a new voice actor and a different letter of the alphabet for a name lol
Coincidence about the moral outcry of XBDs. Been awhile since I seen the series so may be misremembering. David sold those types of BDs to other students. At the very least, he was very familiar with JK's Edgerunner series. The opening scene is one of those XBDs.
The thing about illegal BDs is they allow you experience things as if you did them yourself. So while the gig might be a spoof on overprotective paents Speaking out against video games, Bootleg, raw BDs are more like drugs in schools rather than vidoegame violence activism.
I noticed something interesting about Desperate Measures gig. When the gig was first added to the game in the patch 1.6, I remember very clearly that it ended with V parking the car inside a workshop and there was even an e-mail on the PC inside from El Captain ordering the workers to dismantle it afterwards to remove evidence. However after one of the smaller patches, the ending was changed to V just simply leaving this car at the designated parking lot. I wonder what was the reason behind this change. Only thing that comes to mind is that they decided to use that workshop for something else in the Phantom Liberty update, maybe in relation to El Captain new services.
Never really cry in games, but Cuckoos nest really got to me for some reason, and I broke down when she was with her husband again. It made me so happy. Tw the song they used when Johnny died is forever what I think of when you use it and that made me cry to:(. Great vid ✌️
17:30 Wendy's responded to a tweet asking them to open a location near the original poster. They were out of uber's delivery range and Wendy's said to move closer lol.
That last gig hit different for me as my grandpa died of ALS, it was a painful reminder but I'm oddly glad to see that maybe in the future people will have some glimmer of hope against it.
Ik this has probably been said before, but it's finally awesome to see more in-depth videos about Cyberpunk 2077s lore/world I hope Phantom Liberty adds so much more to it
I got extremely mad at the mental hospital one... I thought it won't be that bad, so I took out the guards non-lethaly. But after reading the doctor's emails, I went back and cut everyone's heads off then let of a couple dozen grenades in the building
Re Desperate Measures; there are news stories that play in the background in various places that say that ALS is one of the few diseases that implants can't help with. It's a nerve problem that affects the brain, so replacing the rest of the body won't help. He's SOL in any case.
Both robot encounters could be references to Futurama. I mean I can see Bender sitting there with a hookerbot drinking a beer, and the poker game too. Especially with the failed str check causing one robot to run.
Fun fact with Cookoo's Nest. You can fail the mission after getting the target out of the ward. I got lost after leaving the back of the hospital and after a few minutes got a call from El Cap saying I failed.
Another reference from the cuckoo's nest gig could be Dr. Shipman's name. Harold Shipman was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 250 victims.
Dr John Shipman in Cuckoo's Nest is certainly a reference to Harold Shipman, the UK doctor who is one of the most prolific serial killers in history, with around 250 victims tied to him.
49:44 if ur a corpo u can say something for the receptionist that makes her walk away to check something.. I forget exactly what u say, but u can grab the key card like that also
In the Union strikes back you 100% can get the receptionist to move it’s a part of the dialogue with her and I did it in the last few weeks. I think the option is corpo tho.
Fun little thing in Watson in the 1st act near the quest location for welcome to America comrade under the bridge to right of the ramp/elevator there is a robot that you can activate with 5 technical and it will dance it has nothing to do with anything but it's kinda funny
Sam you are so right about "Hacking the hacker" When I first walked into the mega building I hoped it would be like a Dredd situation, locked down and fighting through levels to get to the bug bad, missed opportunity!!
46:58 You can also quickhack enemies to end vehicle combat abruptly, however this gig is glitched if you do that (at least for me). Taking out the first car using short circuit will end the car chase and put you in a driving loop. I don't know if anyone else had this issue but it was entertaining to witness
49:25 I'm pretty sure she's ok with you taking him out yourself, you just have to do so without knocking him out first so that Rouge doesn't send the car over
I never stopped to read the names, so I never knew how interconnected the game really was. These videos singlehandedly makes me want to replay the game a little slower.
@22:50 this reminds me of the crazy guy next to misty's and the voices in his head, i also remember the malstrom cyberpsycho in the icebath having similar hints and blue eyes all being linked possibly to the ppl trying to control the thoughts of the peralez's. i have been thinking of this for a long time its eaten at me plz help
I did that last one after unlocking the Relic Tree in PL and I just blasted the Kang Tao cars with a Projectile Launcher System barrage right when they arrived. Didn't even give them the chance to park lol.
Love your videos. Also if you have a decent netrunner build, apparently you can even quickhack Rose from the safety of the camera control interface in Family Matters. Just my 2 ennies.
24:25 If they had called MaxTac, her grave would have been dug with a date of death already in place on the tombstone. MaxTac is always sent to exterminate, and very VERY rarely do they recruit.
I initially completed the hospital gig stealthily. Afterwards i took off my cyberware that makes sure i dont kill anyone and i murdered every single last one of the guards in there
In the "Union Strikes Back" gig, there is a Corpo prompt with the secretary, about you being sent here to shred some files, prompting her to leave the area to find out more. However, all it does is allow you to swipe the token, which as you've pointed out, can be done just by distracting her.
4.5 hours long? I guess that would be cool to supercut them. Maybe after Phantom Liberty with all of them. Would be tempted to order it worst to best as well but that'll probably mean changing my narration to recontextualise each. Might do it somewhen though :)
Mentally bookmarking each time you go on a tangent about another storyline going within the storyline, then say "but I'll have to make a video on that later" because I am very much looking forward to all of those
Your work on the Cyberpunk videos hooked me, the fact that most of your videos are for some of my favorite games convinced me to subscribe. Keep up the good work. Can’t wait for Starfield. Thanks.
idk if anyone's mantioned it, but in severance package if you set the metal detector to friendly mode, you can walk right through it and the enemies will not be hostile to you. You can around like you own the place. Similar to Corpo V during Gimme Danger.
In the union strikes back if you picked the corpo life path you can say you're there for some files which will make the receptionist move to the closed off room behind her to look for said files
When I did Nasty Hangover for the first time recently I didn't even wait around for anything, I saw the car approaching and instantly started hitting everyone with Synapse Burnout.
49:45 if you play a corpo V, you have one of the best unique dialogue related to lifepath and I really love how CDPR scripted it for the player to grab the key shard.
39:15 I can't believe how visually nice this looks, like just resolution-wise, did you capture it differently? is it just ray tracing or whatever? (I'm an xbox user)
17:15 I've actually had that happen I ordered a pizza from domino's just for them to call me saying they cancelled my order due to my area being considered dangerous because of one of their drivers being robbed near my neighborhood
You can get rid of the Receptionist for the Vic Vega gig. You need to be a Corpo V though to get the option. You basically send her to the back for some files if I recall and can then freely take the access card while she gone. Thorin can also be killed by dropping, it's actually how I did it the first time. You have to do it off the small broken balcony that has the legendary clothing item and he will fall far enough to die from it. It sounds a bit sadistic but seeing as the Joanne Koch mission bugged out because I took the guards out before getting to her, the mission glitched out and the garbage transport never came. So I simply just dropped her off the side of the building to save time and ammo. The Rosie mission was not scary as I simply memory wiped her and choker her out in under 4 seconds. It as very anti climatic, enough that I don't use memory wipe any more as it also works on Smasher of all people lol.
Cuckoo's Nest is eerily similar to an episode of the show Tales from the Crypt. Where a woman sees a local doctor murder his wife, and is then committed to keep her quiet.
Really like the video and your other videos about Cyberpunk 2077, I don't know if you haven't mentioned it because its a bit obvious but the gig cuckoos nest is a reference to a movie with Jack Nicholson called One flew over the Cuckoo's nest which he actually got an Oscar for.
the robots remind me of the one we can encounter as a patron at the Afterlife. I guess this is what it would look like if a Synth was wandering around without paper mache skin or looking like a regular human.
For the Nasty Hangover gig, I actually picked the f you option with Kang Tao and when they got in the car, I pulled out a grenade and thats the end of that lol
I think a tiny detail you missed on the Cuckoo's Nest gig is that Dr. Jacob Shipman performing and overseeing these heinous acts is a very obvious real life reference to Dr. Harold Shipman who was a British medical doctor in the late 90s / early 2000s. He is estimated to have murdered up to 250 of his elderly patients while he was in practice, though in the end they only could solidly convict him on the murder of about 15 of them. One of the worst serial killers in British history. As a fellow Brit it surprises me you didn't make that connection, Sam.
I'm ashamed to say I haven't heard of the guy (may have been a little before my time, or I just live under a rock with certain things). I'll do some research :)
My favorite way to do For My Son is to use the secret entrance on the side of the animal’s gym, then use either overwatch or the suicide quickhack to take out Logan
The funny thing is, I never got any of the dialog options for the guys in the car in "Nasty Hangover". As soos as their car doors started to open, I just tossed a grenade, and killed everyone in the car.. And the other two guys show up, and I just shotgunned them. The one mission with the cyber psycho lady almost felt like it was out of Resident Evil. She even gave me a jump scare when she came at me.
Johnny also reacts when you jack into the TV at the guy running for mayor's house you both freak out for a seconds and he says something like "ahh wth was that?!"
1:27 I see this NPC everywhere, running all sorts of shops. I just realized...is this line of dialogue the in-universe explanation? Does she just cover for friends constantly? Lmao
36:30 I remember stealthing my way through the asylum, saving Jasmine then turning around going back in and eliminating all the employees inside.
How interesting, so did I. It's so easy to sneak in using the roof
I went guns blazing after I stealthily killed the guard taunting Jasmine, but before freeing her. This method allowed me to shoot the receptionist as well.
One of the things I like about these various gigs, is how they can subtly inform us on the fixers as well. Like with Family Matters. El Capitan initially tells us about the gig related to the data, but if you pay attention, he asks us about Juliet first. He says "hey i got this contact Juliet who was supposed to get me some data, but she went dark. Check on her for me will ya? Oh and uh....don't forget the data." Which I find interesting. The objective is "find the data" but HE asks us to check on her first. This happens a lot with Capitan and also Dino, that the context of what they are asking you to do, illustrates that they are fairly empathetic dudes, who don't want to hurt people. The missions themselves are either fairly altruistic or they hint at a more human/empathetic motivation for the gig, like Family Matters. Or with the case of Dino, it's the fact that most of his gigs have the "don't cause a mess" optional objective to them. He is WAY happier with you, if you can get in and out of his jobs without making it a chaotic bloodbath. And there is an NCPD event where you find a data shard conversation between Dino and a guy (now sadly a corpse), that shows how generous Dino is. The guy is another runner for Dino, from a job that went bad, and he's asking Dino for help, because the corpos are now after him. And Dino gives him the coords for one of his safe houses to try and keep the guy alive, and even says "I OFFERED you some backup on this gig, but you declined." He didn't ask for money, or a reduction in the runner's cut for the gig. He just got the message the guy was in trouble, and risked exposing one of his safe houses to the corpos to try and save him.
Which I think is just some really good storytelling for these npcs, making them more than just missions dispensaries.
I'd like to see the S tier gigs ranked among themselves for which one is best of the best
Noted. I'll wait for Phantom Liberty ones too then do a top whatever number of gigs in Cyberpunk 2077
@@SamBram Looking forward to it!
@@SamBram Would be funny if you titled it "Top Whatever Number of Gigs". :D
@@SamBram Nice. Look forward to seeing it in future.
Perhaps the dancing/drinking robots and the card-playing robots are proxies of some sort? Maybe some well-off people want to live out the "meet-up in a seedy motel" thing without actually endangering themselves. Also not unreasonable to think that someone may be playing with them for fun like one would with action figures.
I mean that's what I would do. The world would be a more surreal place if I was Elon Musk...
But if they want proxies, why not use real people? If Hanako and rogue AI can control someone like a flesh puppet it stands to reason other people could too…
I said they're "mechies" like a futuristic "furry" but it's a robot persona.
@@edgeIord Price and difficulty. Probably cheaper to slap together some robots out of scrap than to hire someone, and completely taking over someone unwilling is probably very difficult.
Oh like the movie Surrogate, you know, that Bruce Willis movie everyone forgot about
Funfact, in the witcher 3, one of the main quest in the early game is also call “Family matter” and one of the ending to that quest is Anna losing her mind same as Rose here
Sam you've outdone yourself man, an hour's content ?!
That's a lot of graft, and we appreciate it 👍🍻
Thanks man! I try to give these videos especially as long as I think they need to cover the details. Though this one was a grind 😅
I agree, megabuildings are so cool and kinda underutilized in game, I hope we get some more missions in them with PL. Sometimes I just chill outside V's MB10 apartment and I just look across the chasm at all the doors and windows and imagine the stories happening behind each. I also love how it can be the middle of the afternoon yet inside the building it looks like night because they're so huge the block out the sun.
You could literally have an entire game take place within a mega building. Different floors have different levels of affluence, ones like V's place, with trash everywhere, people living in the corridors all the way up to the penthouses at the top. Gang wars, personal problems different, shops and services. Kind of a mix of 2077 and Dredd 2013.
you would love the 2077 comic "blackout", there is a lot more street level vibe to it
Dredd
@@Blackmark7410 i could imagine a tarkov like extraction game where the main maps are the mega buildings. loot cyberwear and extract
I don't know if I agree with the sentiment that megabuildings are underutilized in this game. First, V lives in H10, so we get a pretty good look at what one floor of a megabuilding is like, with apartments, stores/cafes, a crime scene, even a gym (even if most of them are not interactable). Then we also have that entire Clouds sub-plot with multiple missions taking place in H8, which again gives us a good look at what kind of shady businesses can be found in a megabuilding. Finally, there are several gigs that take place in various megabuildings across the city. Yes, gigs are fairly small missions by nature, but still we get to explore a number of different locations inside the megabuildings, like apartments, server room, utility/maintenance room, the roof, the penthouse etc etc. If all of this content was set in a single megabuilding, it would've felt pretty well utilized imo.
At the end of the day CDPR had to populate an entire city and spread content around the map, so I think they gave us a decent look at what life in megabuildings is like with resources they had. I think to explore a megabuilding fully we'd need an entire game set there, like others suggested. Or it could have been a pretty cool location for a DLC. It's just a shame CDPR decided to only release one expansion. At least we got Dogtown, so I can't complain.
During the gig cuckoo's nest, I went back into the hospital after doing it stealthily, and killed everyone with gorila arms. 10/10 gig definitely one of my favorites.
I genuinely didn't know Karl could die in the Nasty Hangover gig, I just always striaght up murdered the Kang Tao operatives xD!
It was a super exciting series, thank you for making this. I truly hope there will be more to uncover when Phantom Liberry'll drop.
Something that popped out at me was, while in Booker Updike's room, there's a distinct delay between V's comment about the stench ("I'm gonna puke,") and Johnny's reaction "hey I know that smell"
Later on (in my playthroughs) you can ask Johnny how he's adjusting to life in V's skin, one of his comments is a complaint about the delay between stimulus and response "When you bite into a pizza, it's ages before I feel you've burnt the roof of your mouth."
I love the little bits like that, potentially showing the continuity of their world building.
huh, reminds me of how the human body can do that in real life. Usually ends up that we have some neuropathy or similar.
This was a great series. It's really impressive how many connections they put in the game, and so is the amount of work you put into revealing them all. There was plenty in these videos I hadn't picked up on.
Looking forward to 1.7 and Phantom Liberty. I'm taking a break from playing the game until they release, so I can go in for a fresh, full run through everything.
Cheers!
Awesome work! I always felt like these things connect in a lot of ways, but my memory is terrible. Your videos have been awesome for helping putting the puzzle pieces together.
I've developed a theory that the Cuckoo's Nest gig has another reference that goes way over people's heads. I believe the Dr. Jacob Shipman is reference to English serial Killer Dr. Harold Shipman. Who like the quest was involved in drugs as well. He had a drug problem and was known to overdose his victims, and he mostly killed woman. So I find kinda fitting that your saving one.
this is possibly my favourite series of cyberpunk 2077 videos, so well researched and executed. this must've been a monster to edit together, well done. also, i would love a video covering some of the extended material coming out like all the comics and the upcoming novel
David missed out on a lot.
Everyone does.
:(
@@planexshifter yes.
Totally blows that they killed him in the series 😒 would've been cool as hell to see him in the game.
@@nicktruesdell6825 yeah. But then again, it's Night city. In here, you don't get remembered by how you lived, but by how you die.
These are some of my favorite gigs personally, including my absolute favorite: Family Matters
Your thought to drop Lucius from the Mega Building gives off huge Dredd vibes
This series introduced me to your channel. Thank you for creating these videos man. I didn't know that some of these gigs are connected to ncpd hustlers and i missed a lot of story and lore but these videos really helped me understand the story of these gigs. Made me really appreciate the work of cdpr and how deep the lore can get. Looking forward to the new videos/series!
Man....your series really helped me appreciate the side quests more. I didn't pay attention to a lot of the shards so a lot of these details I really didn't know about o.o
please don't stop making content. I love ur stuff
NGL I'm kinda with Johnny in the whole needing the Old God to bring forth hell for 6th Street, considering how much they parade around like veteran saviors, yet are a menace to society.
I've noticed a theme with "El Capitan's" gigs: He almost never tells you the real reason your doing the job. He lies all the time, so much so he can't keep track of what lie's he has told you. That's why he has so many Dialog "inconsistencies".
El Capitan talks about being anti-corpo but most of his gigs are on behalf of corporations. By far the most corpo friendly fixer.
49:43 if you chose the corpo lifepath, you can also make her go to the room in the back momentarily to check if your name's on a list
Thank you for this awesome series. So many connections that never registered coz when I was actually doing the gigs the details would blur afterwards and I could never remember where exactly I’d heard a name that sounded vaguely familiar.
I gotta say, after the game launched so roughly and the story didn’t really go the way I hoped it would where we could totally wreck all the corporations like I wanted, I really didn’t enjoy the game that much. But after finding your channel I can finally say that I’ve fallen back in love with the game like I did when I first booted it up, when it had the most potential. Thank you for the incredible content and I can’t wait for the insane content that you’ll put out when phantom liberty launches!
I love the family matters gig so much, the way it was presented just really impressed me
A quick note on the Severence Package mission: Rereading the terminal entry, it's Cytech that wants to nix the neural safeguards and the updated drivers. The Corp seems to be set on cutting those options to "Prioritize a Competitive Market Price."
I love that these gigs show us that Night City is much bigger than V. The Witcher series had one protagonist that we got to experience a lot with. I’d love it if that trend continues with Cyberpunk. There’s so many plot lines with V that haven’t been fully explored.
It's a cool idea, but I seriously doubt it. Geralt is the main protagonist of the books, that's why he persisted throughout all the games. V is just a generic PC, he has a gender-neutral name, we can customize his appearance any way we want, he's basically the equivalent of Tav in BG3. So I'm 99% sure Cyberpunk 2 will have a different character. Likely another custom character with a new voice actor and a different letter of the alphabet for a name lol
Coincidence about the moral outcry of XBDs. Been awhile since I seen the series so may be misremembering. David sold those types of BDs to other students. At the very least, he was very familiar with JK's Edgerunner series. The opening scene is one of those XBDs.
The thing about illegal BDs is they allow you experience things as if you did them yourself. So while the gig might be a spoof on overprotective paents Speaking out against video games, Bootleg, raw BDs are more like drugs in schools rather than vidoegame violence activism.
I noticed something interesting about Desperate Measures gig. When the gig was first added to the game in the patch 1.6, I remember very clearly that it ended with V parking the car inside a workshop and there was even an e-mail on the PC inside from El Captain ordering the workers to dismantle it afterwards to remove evidence. However after one of the smaller patches, the ending was changed to V just simply leaving this car at the designated parking lot. I wonder what was the reason behind this change. Only thing that comes to mind is that they decided to use that workshop for something else in the Phantom Liberty update, maybe in relation to El Captain new services.
Thank you for an excellent series, 👍👍👍
Thank you John! Glad that you enjoyed it :)
Never really cry in games, but Cuckoos nest really got to me for some reason, and I broke down when she was with her husband again. It made me so happy. Tw the song they used when Johnny died is forever what I think of when you use it and that made me cry to:(. Great vid ✌️
17:30 Wendy's responded to a tweet asking them to open a location near the original poster. They were out of uber's delivery range and Wendy's said to move closer lol.
That last gig hit different for me as my grandpa died of ALS, it was a painful reminder but I'm oddly glad to see that maybe in the future people will have some glimmer of hope against it.
Ik this has probably been said before, but it's finally awesome to see more in-depth videos about Cyberpunk 2077s lore/world
I hope Phantom Liberty adds so much more to it
It’s cool to see I’m not the only one who called Reggie during Family Matters lol. Would’ve loved something outta that.
I got extremely mad at the mental hospital one... I thought it won't be that bad, so I took out the guards non-lethaly. But after reading the doctor's emails, I went back and cut everyone's heads off then let of a couple dozen grenades in the building
Really appreciate the wor you put into these videos. I wouldn't have pieced all of these details together. Thanks!
Re Desperate Measures; there are news stories that play in the background in various places that say that ALS is one of the few diseases that implants can't help with. It's a nerve problem that affects the brain, so replacing the rest of the body won't help. He's SOL in any case.
Love your videos. I truly enjoy how you explain those gigs ❤❤
Hacking the Hacker is one of my faves if only bc storming a megabuilding feels like Dredd, Esp when you break out the smart weapons
"The Comrade's Hammer, the single most powerful gun in the game prior to phantom liberty, although I don't imagine that it would be beaten"
Oh boy...
Both robot encounters could be references to Futurama. I mean I can see Bender sitting there with a hookerbot drinking a beer, and the poker game too. Especially with the failed str check causing one robot to run.
Fun fact with Cookoo's Nest. You can fail the mission after getting the target out of the ward. I got lost after leaving the back of the hospital and after a few minutes got a call from El Cap saying I failed.
You also have some robots at some point in the Afterlife nightclub. I don't remember the specifics but talking to them was real funny.
Can confirm you can Ma Ma the guy in hacking the hacker, it's a long way down.
Your videos have helped me quench my Cyberpunk 2077 thirst while I wait for Phantom Liberty.
Two months left long as the date holds
I like to think the two robots playing cards is a reference to chappie as in the end the human become robot too
Another reference from the cuckoo's nest gig could be Dr. Shipman's name.
Harold Shipman was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 250 victims.
Dr John Shipman in Cuckoo's Nest is certainly a reference to Harold Shipman, the UK doctor who is one of the most prolific serial killers in history, with around 250 victims tied to him.
It's crazy watching these videos and seeing V run around with a revolver that has a suppressor on it.
Really can't wait to see the content you dish out for Cyberpunk 2077 2.0
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Thanks!
Thank you Larry! Glad you enjoyed
@@SamBram Race to top is ez if u have 6 or 7 in tech theres side gate that needs that much to open go left turn off camera and go up the ladder
What a great video, regardless of metrics, you always produce entertaining informative vids.
Hey there Sam your content is genuine and thoughtfully put together man please continue your awesome work 😊🤘
49:44 if ur a corpo u can say something for the receptionist that makes her walk away to check something.. I forget exactly what u say, but u can grab the key card like that also
In the Union strikes back you 100% can get the receptionist to move it’s a part of the dialogue with her and I did it in the last few weeks. I think the option is corpo tho.
Fun little thing in Watson in the 1st act near the quest location for welcome to America comrade under the bridge to right of the ramp/elevator there is a robot that you can activate with 5 technical and it will dance it has nothing to do with anything but it's kinda funny
Sam you are so right about "Hacking the hacker"
When I first walked into the mega building I hoped it would be like a Dredd situation, locked down and fighting through levels to get to the bug bad, missed opportunity!!
46:58 You can also quickhack enemies to end vehicle combat abruptly, however this gig is glitched if you do that (at least for me). Taking out the first car using short circuit will end the car chase and put you in a driving loop. I don't know if anyone else had this issue but it was entertaining to witness
49:25 I'm pretty sure she's ok with you taking him out yourself, you just have to do so without knocking him out first so that Rouge doesn't send the car over
No her dialogue is very different if you deliver the dude alive and without killing anyone else.
@@pinnacleevolution1634 Uuuuhhhh, yeah... you're right... but I don't see how that invalidates what I said in any way...?
I honestly wish we could’ve called Regina to get her to help Juliet’s sister
Am I really going to watch nearly an hour of this? Yes.
KAAA BOOM!, Soy El MACHISTADOR @33:02
I never stopped to read the names, so I never knew how interconnected the game really was. These videos singlehandedly makes me want to replay the game a little slower.
@22:50 this reminds me of the crazy guy next to misty's and the voices in his head, i also remember the malstrom cyberpsycho in the icebath having similar hints and blue eyes all being linked possibly to the ppl trying to control the thoughts of the peralez's. i have been thinking of this for a long time its eaten at me plz help
I did that last one after unlocking the Relic Tree in PL and I just blasted the Kang Tao cars with a Projectile Launcher System barrage right when they arrived. Didn't even give them the chance to park lol.
Great job as usual Sam Bram!
Hey man, good to see you! Thanks, glad you enjoyed ☺️
Love your videos. Also if you have a decent netrunner build, apparently you can even quickhack Rose from the safety of the camera control interface in Family Matters. Just my 2 ennies.
24:25 If they had called MaxTac, her grave would have been dug with a date of death already in place on the tombstone. MaxTac is always sent to exterminate, and very VERY rarely do they recruit.
I initially completed the hospital gig stealthily. Afterwards i took off my cyberware that makes sure i dont kill anyone and i murdered every single last one of the guards in there
In the "Union Strikes Back" gig, there is a Corpo prompt with the secretary, about you being sent here to shred some files, prompting her to leave the area to find out more. However, all it does is allow you to swipe the token, which as you've pointed out, can be done just by distracting her.
Will be fun replaying after Phantom Liberty comes out.
You should make one long video compiling this entire series!
4.5 hours long? I guess that would be cool to supercut them. Maybe after Phantom Liberty with all of them. Would be tempted to order it worst to best as well but that'll probably mean changing my narration to recontextualise each. Might do it somewhen though :)
@@SamBrameither worst to best or by district would probably work
Mentally bookmarking each time you go on a tangent about another storyline going within the storyline, then say "but I'll have to make a video on that later" because I am very much looking forward to all of those
Your work on the Cyberpunk videos hooked me, the fact that most of your videos are for some of my favorite games convinced me to subscribe. Keep up the good work. Can’t wait for Starfield. Thanks.
In severance package gig. If you hack the security scanner gate to disable the scanner. You can walk in for free.
Santo Dominguo is the capital of Dominican Republic. Translates to "Saint Sunday". September 26 I'll be taking a trip there...can't wait.
idk if anyone's mantioned it, but in severance package if you set the metal detector to friendly mode, you can walk right through it and the enemies will not be hostile to you. You can around like you own the place. Similar to Corpo V during Gimme Danger.
In the union strikes back if you picked the corpo life path you can say you're there for some files which will make the receptionist move to the closed off room behind her to look for said files
When I did Nasty Hangover for the first time recently I didn't even wait around for anything, I saw the car approaching and instantly started hitting everyone with Synapse Burnout.
cool thing about Cuckoo Nest is there's also some cool info about cyberpsychoses and how it's not as tech related as previously thought
In Nasty Hangover I was a Netrunner. They all got quickhacked before they even got out of the car for me, lol I missed that entire convo 😂
17:52 Lucius actually dies if you throw him into a deeper place. Also: it sometimes takes a minute. I guess he has to bleed out or something.
49:45 if you play a corpo V, you have one of the best unique dialogue related to lifepath and I really love how CDPR scripted it for the player to grab the key shard.
To think that was the plan for the entire game if they hadn't rushed it out
39:15 I can't believe how visually nice this looks, like just resolution-wise, did you capture it differently? is it just ray tracing or whatever? (I'm an xbox user)
That's ray tracing overdrive for ya! Looks beautiful but turns my PC into a radiator. Luckily my case airflow is good 😂
@@SamBram someday, someday I will get a pc lol
17:15 I've actually had that happen I ordered a pizza from domino's just for them to call me saying they cancelled my order due to my area being considered dangerous because of one of their drivers being robbed near my neighborhood
You can get rid of the Receptionist for the Vic Vega gig. You need to be a Corpo V though to get the option. You basically send her to the back for some files if I recall and can then freely take the access card while she gone.
Thorin can also be killed by dropping, it's actually how I did it the first time. You have to do it off the small broken balcony that has the legendary clothing item and he will fall far enough to die from it. It sounds a bit sadistic but seeing as the Joanne Koch mission bugged out because I took the guards out before getting to her, the mission glitched out and the garbage transport never came. So I simply just dropped her off the side of the building to save time and ammo.
The Rosie mission was not scary as I simply memory wiped her and choker her out in under 4 seconds. It as very anti climatic, enough that I don't use memory wipe any more as it also works on Smasher of all people lol.
Cuckoo's Nest is eerily similar to an episode of the show Tales from the Crypt. Where a woman sees a local doctor murder his wife, and is then committed to keep her quiet.
Really like the video and your other videos about Cyberpunk 2077, I don't know if you haven't mentioned it because its a bit obvious but the gig cuckoos nest is a reference to a movie with Jack Nicholson called One flew over the Cuckoo's nest which he actually got an Oscar for.
Or it could be a reference to the novel the movie is based on
the robots remind me of the one we can encounter as a patron at the Afterlife. I guess this is what it would look like if a Synth was wandering around without paper mache skin or looking like a regular human.
For the Nasty Hangover gig, I actually picked the f you option with Kang Tao and when they got in the car, I pulled out a grenade and thats the end of that lol
I think a tiny detail you missed on the Cuckoo's Nest gig is that Dr. Jacob Shipman performing and overseeing these heinous acts is a very obvious real life reference to Dr. Harold Shipman who was a British medical doctor in the late 90s / early 2000s. He is estimated to have murdered up to 250 of his elderly patients while he was in practice, though in the end they only could solidly convict him on the murder of about 15 of them. One of the worst serial killers in British history. As a fellow Brit it surprises me you didn't make that connection, Sam.
I'm ashamed to say I haven't heard of the guy (may have been a little before my time, or I just live under a rock with certain things). I'll do some research :)
Brilliant mate!
My favorite way to do For My Son is to use the secret entrance on the side of the animal’s gym, then use either overwatch or the suicide quickhack to take out Logan
The funny thing is, I never got any of the dialog options for the guys in the car in "Nasty Hangover". As soos as their car doors started to open, I just tossed a grenade, and killed everyone in the car.. And the other two guys show up, and I just shotgunned them. The one mission with the cyber psycho lady almost felt like it was out of Resident Evil. She even gave me a jump scare when she came at me.
Johnny also reacts when you jack into the TV at the guy running for mayor's house you both freak out for a seconds and he says something like "ahh wth was that?!"
SamBram, when Cyberpunk Phantom liberty is coming I am going to watch the shit out of your channel
Thank you so much for this content.
1:27 I see this NPC everywhere, running all sorts of shops. I just realized...is this line of dialogue the in-universe explanation? Does she just cover for friends constantly? Lmao