It's especially wild since the Lobby is arguably the harder part of the mission, with less cover and tougher more plentiful enemies. For V to be in that R and D lab, they had to Kill at least 20 Arasaka Special forces units and 2 heavy mechs ALONE. They were likely aware the upper floor was being attacked, but that kind of absolute carnage committed against the Night City's most powerful megacorp would seem like an impossibility for one person alone. Then their panic likely only deepens when said madperson decides to plug a Rogue AI from beyond the wall directly into their server, killing hundreds (including innocents) instantaneously. There may even be a glimmer of hope for some of them when they realize THE Smasher is coming to personally handle the pro-- AAAAND he's gone, all gone. Poof! 😂😂.
It feels so nice, you tend to forget how hard early cp2077 on very hard was. Like a small group of 3-4 valentinos or 6th street felt like the hardest fight before getting a proper build so this line is like a 'oh shit, i really made it.'
@@mrfancyshmancy it also makes the ending all the more bittersweet. All because V didn't even actually survive, they died the second they plugged into Mikoshi's access point where a very flawed copy of V's personality based on what little of their undamaged and unaltered brain tissue is made and disentangled from the other personality construct so that the copy of V can live for 6 months in their place. It feels like a kick to the mouth, V just did the impossible, they rose from the dead and took the world's most powerful corporation head on by themselves and not even a chrome laden champion, a literal night city legend who survived a nuke; could do anything to stop them. All of that just for ChatGP.V to walk out of the building in V's body 😭
@@mrfancyshmancy all along the watchtower V is still also only a copy, a better quality copy if they didn't ever relinquish control to Johnny (thus probably why they don't seem as physically worn in this ending vs the PoG ending) but a copy nonetheless. It makes the Star ending VERY dark with surrounding context. V sacrificed 3 family members one of which being the leader of their friend/lover's clan and her father figure and that's not to mention any unnamed Aldecaldos who died during the raid. Then V got probably a thousand Arasaka employees killed, some of which were innocent because AIAlt didn't discriminate with the slaughter, and then they handed over a massive amount of processing power as well as the information of all the engrams stored in Mikoshi (all of which being hyper influential people in life, or highly skilled netrunners) to a Rogue AI who has explicitly said on multiple occasions that it's NOT Alt, that it only looks and behaves like Alt to V because it consumed her engram and Johnny's mind is seeing Alt as a defense mechanism, remember the Net is raw data and what humans see inside it is all perception. Alt says as much at the start of the star ending as well "you lose nothing, it's your perception of cyberspace that changes, the longer you stay, the more your mind's defenses gradually fade away." Idk how often the Eldritch entity needs to tell people it's an Eldritch entity before they realize it's an Eldritch entity and not the actual ghost of Alt Cunningham.
@bruhurb848 my headcanon is Militech offered him tremendous sum of money and a quite life afterwards and he took it, went missing.. So essentially he is retired now.
@@plasticelephant1969I don’t think he’s retired, since there’s a rumor in cp2077 that a man with a black cyber arm killed corpo soldiers in Japan town, that’s gotta be Morgan backhand
Dude idk why but I’ve done the don’t fear the reaper ending a few times recently and he’s been t posing every time. Crazy glitch I got my own clips of his ass tweakin
My favorite bit of this is Johnny's line of "Startin' to think this plan wasn't batshit crazy after all!" It just sums up the mood of this ending so well. He pitches the Reaper ending as basically a suicide, but one where you don't take any of your friends with you. That is literally his selling point to V, to try and convince them to choose it. "We're going to die...soon...why take our loved ones with us? When we can die on our own, in a blaze of glory?" So he really doesn't think you'll pull it off. But then you clear the first floor with minimal effort and he's like "...holy shit, this might work!" And you can just kind of picture his face being like 😮😃😃😃
@@TheGeekGamer2023there was something that people call a GLITCH happening, you might not understand but that's what it was. He dealt a ton of damage to smasher in that remaining time, but for whatever reason it was broken
Bro camo with electric monowire instantly disabling robots and hitting the mechsuits with the unalive hack must be some of their worst nightmares. Even wiping Smasher's memory. Came into the room like that time you go looking for your keys or something but then you forgot what you were looking for in the first place. And that special "Cyberdeck" you pulled on Smasher at the end. Netrunners are scary.
My head canon is that since johnny can see everything V does and control his body, while V is actively in control, johnny will influence his actions to things V see's but doesnt fully process. So with groups of enemies, V has his mind focused on 1 person, while Johnny is focused on everything else and will take control to handle the other threat. So they literally fighting as one.
Joining the party late and this is my first time seeing this ending. Definitely glad I got to see it this way first. I only wish they had programmed in more NPC and character responses for when V is being “Lore accurate”.
Congrats on 100K Ben! You're amazing bro! I love how you elevated your gameplay once again with the newer mechanics compared to your first "dont fear the reaper" run. Seeing you utilize this turret at 2:37 feels like a reference to the first reaper vid in which you used that. I enjoyed the confused moment at 5:01 when things didn't go your way for a split second. I also like the game interface edit at 8:39 and the confetti edit 9:05 The ending was dope as if everything you went through was all a dream. This was an amazing gameplay showcasing your growth as gamer and a creator. I can finally say that I saw you jump from 2.7k to 100K. I think that was around the time you posted your super duper aggressive gameplay vol. 1 Same time I saw your tiktok vid that led me to your channel. I fell in love with your gameplay and was the type of content I wanted to create. I'll be here when you hit 1 million subs!
All the vanilla game bosses can either be avoided (Sasquatch, Royce) or be taken down from stealth (Oda, Smasher). They fucked it up for phantom liberty tho since there are several encounters that dont have stealth solutions
Yup. I played this on ps4 fat(1.6) on just hard difficulty. Died several times because my guns didnt do any damage even though i was level 50 with maxed out guns so i just used katana with sandevistan and sliced my way through
It doesn't matter how many youtubers i see doing this mission especially after having the privilege of completing it myself. I love this. And you using the monowire is even more hype cuz thats what im currently running on my 6th playthrough ❤💯 awesomeness bro
I'm pretty sure when you did the second finisher on smasher, you did *so* much damage that the integer storing his health data overflowed - rendering him immortal.
Only ending I play (especially after PL Johnnys % is way up by the time you go to the Oil fields) but I cant compethe with this! You're obviously a dev who's neuralinked to your PC 😅
Not being hyperbolic, being completely serious, there is no match to this game. This is the greatest game of well since games first started being made. Only a sequel could possibly even come close. Kind of nervous that they're switching game engines for Orion. This game really saved me from some deep dark shit. No other video game could have possibly done what this one did for me
Kind of looks odd, there are some hits that should've registered on you. The only thing possibly missing some hits are either due to mods, or using the movement perks don't really wanna bother looking into it sooo. Grats on the subs
Hey Ben, do you use M+K or a Controller for Cyberpunk? I've been going back and forth between them. I can't aim with controller, but OTOH I like the PS5 controller adaptive triggers effects.
Forgive me as I play the vanilla game, but what was the screen you pulled up for General Actions and selected All *’Unalive’*? Was Smasher glitched or something?
It is an unwritten rule that you must always use the malorian in this ending
It ain’t even the best weapon anymore for most builds and yet it’ll still be used.
the final hit to adam smasher… only one weapon for the job
@@NukeHunter6303 Style over substance, choom
@@NukeHunter6303 They even buffed it for 2.1 and it's still difficult for me to use outside this mission.
Yes...yes it is as well as GUTS...
"A single merc, alone?! No fucking way!!!" Best line in the game right there.
It's especially wild since the Lobby is arguably the harder part of the mission, with less cover and tougher more plentiful enemies. For V to be in that R and D lab, they had to Kill at least 20 Arasaka Special forces units and 2 heavy mechs ALONE. They were likely aware the upper floor was being attacked, but that kind of absolute carnage committed against the Night City's most powerful megacorp would seem like an impossibility for one person alone. Then their panic likely only deepens when said madperson decides to plug a Rogue AI from beyond the wall directly into their server, killing hundreds (including innocents) instantaneously. There may even be a glimmer of hope for some of them when they realize THE Smasher is coming to personally handle the pro-- AAAAND he's gone, all gone. Poof! 😂😂.
It feels so nice, you tend to forget how hard early cp2077 on very hard was. Like a small group of 3-4 valentinos or 6th street felt like the hardest fight before getting a proper build so this line is like a 'oh shit, i really made it.'
@@mrfancyshmancy it also makes the ending all the more bittersweet. All because V didn't even actually survive, they died the second they plugged into Mikoshi's access point where a very flawed copy of V's personality based on what little of their undamaged and unaltered brain tissue is made and disentangled from the other personality construct so that the copy of V can live for 6 months in their place. It feels like a kick to the mouth, V just did the impossible, they rose from the dead and took the world's most powerful corporation head on by themselves and not even a chrome laden champion, a literal night city legend who survived a nuke; could do anything to stop them. All of that just for ChatGP.V to walk out of the building in V's body 😭
@clarencewalters338 didn't even think abt that, but it does make sense for the path to glory V to only be a reconstruction of V's personality
@@mrfancyshmancy all along the watchtower V is still also only a copy, a better quality copy if they didn't ever relinquish control to Johnny (thus probably why they don't seem as physically worn in this ending vs the PoG ending) but a copy nonetheless. It makes the Star ending VERY dark with surrounding context. V sacrificed 3 family members one of which being the leader of their friend/lover's clan and her father figure and that's not to mention any unnamed Aldecaldos who died during the raid. Then V got probably a thousand Arasaka employees killed, some of which were innocent because AIAlt didn't discriminate with the slaughter, and then they handed over a massive amount of processing power as well as the information of all the engrams stored in Mikoshi (all of which being hyper influential people in life, or highly skilled netrunners) to a Rogue AI who has explicitly said on multiple occasions that it's NOT Alt, that it only looks and behaves like Alt to V because it consumed her engram and Johnny's mind is seeing Alt as a defense mechanism, remember the Net is raw data and what humans see inside it is all perception. Alt says as much at the start of the star ending as well "you lose nothing, it's your perception of cyberspace that changes, the longer you stay, the more your mind's defenses gradually fade away." Idk how often the Eldritch entity needs to tell people it's an Eldritch entity before they realize it's an Eldritch entity and not the actual ghost of Alt Cunningham.
The music was timed so perfectly with “just focus, you’re better than them”
Morgan Blackhand has been really quiet since this.
Actually, what happened to Blackhand after fighting Smasher in the Arasaka tower? All I've read is that he went missing after.
@bruhurb848 my headcanon is Militech offered him tremendous sum of money and a quite life afterwards and he took it, went missing..
So essentially he is retired now.
@@plasticelephant1969I don’t think he’s retired, since there’s a rumor in cp2077 that a man with a black cyber arm killed corpo soldiers in Japan town, that’s gotta be Morgan backhand
@@sayidmartinez7347 he's retired. Word of God himself. He said the "Logan" movie is a pretty much how Blackhand is atm.
@@sayidmartinez7347 ngl that sounds like being retired for someone like Blackhand
4:31 Quickhack: T-Pose Colapse 😮
lol
Dude idk why but I’ve done the don’t fear the reaper ending a few times recently and he’s been t posing every time. Crazy glitch I got my own clips of his ass tweakin
Lol he was going HAM 💯
My favorite bit of this is Johnny's line of "Startin' to think this plan wasn't batshit crazy after all!" It just sums up the mood of this ending so well. He pitches the Reaper ending as basically a suicide, but one where you don't take any of your friends with you. That is literally his selling point to V, to try and convince them to choose it. "We're going to die...soon...why take our loved ones with us? When we can die on our own, in a blaze of glory?" So he really doesn't think you'll pull it off. But then you clear the first floor with minimal effort and he's like "...holy shit, this might work!" And you can just kind of picture his face being like 😮😃😃😃
That last 5% is a bitch, lol. Congrats on the 100K Ben, well earned.
Thanks!!
he is using cheat to kill Adam Smasher what a joke
@@TheGeekGamer2023mods had his damage bugged, if you watch none of his hits we’re doing any damage.
@@TheGeekGamer2023fuckin brain dead
@@TheGeekGamer2023there was something that people call a GLITCH happening, you might not understand but that's what it was. He dealt a ton of damage to smasher in that remaining time, but for whatever reason it was broken
4:32 LMAO that TPose fucking got me. Arasaka is really trying everything.
Bro camo with electric monowire instantly disabling robots and hitting the mechsuits with the unalive hack must be some of their worst nightmares. Even wiping Smasher's memory. Came into the room like that time you go looking for your keys or something but then you forgot what you were looking for in the first place. And that special "Cyberdeck" you pulled on Smasher at the end. Netrunners are scary.
Unalive hack?
@@HoraceInkling not using the specific term helps with the algorithm; or so they say
2:27 music timed incredibly well
10/10
9:02 the ultimate quickhack
This is better marketing for Cyberpunk than any of the trailers I've seen
When you reach 2077 hours in Cyberpunk 🗿🍷
I’m no halo veteran but I do know that the Survive objective is one thing even those who did not play reach knows what it’s about.
Biblically accurate V is fucking terrifying
there is no bible accurate of v just v being loreful
My head canon is that since johnny can see everything V does and control his body, while V is actively in control, johnny will influence his actions to things V see's but doesnt fully process. So with groups of enemies, V has his mind focused on 1 person, while Johnny is focused on everything else and will take control to handle the other threat.
So they literally fighting as one.
Why is bro sweating against A.I. 💀
😂 no joke tho I hate this take. Long as you're having fun, sweating is good!
'Cause screw Arasaka!
He’s not sweating, hes just literally John cyberpunk
As the old Unreal addage goes, "Bots make good target practice."
I love how none of you saw that the OP commented this lol
this is just pure art... amazing work buddy and congrats on 100k subs!
9:30 it was a dream 😂
@6:55 "You must hurry. An elite security unit is following you"
Smasher: "Here's Jhonny!!!"
This makes me scream without the s
that’s what your dad does
@@christopherwray4788my dad left when I was 5
Spin?
arasakas worse nightmare
1:22 "We're getting hacked"
yeah, quite literally
Incredible gameplay, hilarious ending
Lore accurate V.
Joining the party late and this is my first time seeing this ending. Definitely glad I got to see it this way first. I only wish they had programmed in more NPC and character responses for when V is being “Lore accurate”.
Me too. I wish V talked as much as Harley Quinn in Arkham Knight.
Congrats on 100K Ben! You're amazing bro!
I love how you elevated your gameplay once again with the newer mechanics compared to your first "dont fear the reaper" run.
Seeing you utilize this turret at 2:37 feels like a reference to the first reaper vid in which you used that.
I enjoyed the confused moment at 5:01 when things didn't go your way for a split second.
I also like the game interface edit at 8:39 and the confetti edit 9:05
The ending was dope as if everything you went through was all a dream.
This was an amazing gameplay showcasing your growth as gamer and a creator. I can finally say that I saw you jump from 2.7k to 100K. I think that was around the time you posted your super duper aggressive gameplay vol. 1 Same time I saw your tiktok vid that led me to your channel. I fell in love with your gameplay and was the type of content I wanted to create.
I'll be here when you hit 1 million subs!
wait, you can stealth attack adam smasher?
Yeah it's ez
All the vanilla game bosses can either be avoided (Sasquatch, Royce) or be taken down from stealth (Oda, Smasher). They fucked it up for phantom liberty tho since there are several encounters that dont have stealth solutions
4:33 the White Guy just showed his Dominance
2:20 that beat drop though
So THAT's how V canonically raided Arasaka...
4:33 V killed employee #47 so hard he just had to T-Pose lmao
My choom hit 100k? Lets gooooo
Daamn that build looks op and cool af
You create so much kinetic energy that not you, but the guy suddenly self-combusts 😂 @5:00
4:33 he tried to assert dominance but failed
It seems like a fully specced out engineer V with bolt tech rifles quickly dispatch that lingering 5% in my experience.
People need to play this ending themselves to realize how ridiculously difficult it is
Yup. I played this on ps4 fat(1.6) on just hard difficulty. Died several times because my guns didnt do any damage even though i was level 50 with maxed out guns so i just used katana with sandevistan and sliced my way through
@@bayonetta9395So why do his guns do damage?
@@bayonetta9395 we are subscribed to some of the same people
great as always, also grats on your 100k!
Thanks!!!
It doesn't matter how many youtubers i see doing this mission especially after having the privilege of completing it myself. I love this. And you using the monowire is even more hype cuz thats what im currently running on my 6th playthrough ❤💯 awesomeness bro
Turns out the what was beyond the blackwall was a whole different world... Skyrim
5:01 da question marks killlleedddd me 😂😂😂
That double sneak takewodn on smasher is just an absolute humiliation for real
Halo theme at the end was just the cherry on top lol
4:56
That one npc who's able to keep up with the mc
HOLY SHIT i didn't know you could do that with smasher, sick work
I'm pretty sure when you did the second finisher on smasher, you did *so* much damage that the integer storing his health data overflowed - rendering him immortal.
Got this on my first playthrough. Awesome and best ending!
The soundtrack for this game is so sick
Congrats on the sub achievement! Great vid
Brother this was fucking amazing
4:32 "Fire!" *t-poses*
Don't want to sound like a bootlicker, but you're my go-to guy for cool Cyberpunk vids.
4:31 dude got hit so hard he needed to T pose and verify his existence
The cyberpunk god hits 100k well done choomba! 🔥 🥶
Congrats bro
100k
Hi from Brasil 🇧🇷
Just saw that you hit 100K, congratulations mate!
4:31 Bro got so hurt he T-posed
Nevermind 2 people already commented this
the Legend is back
congratz on 100k ben
Congrats on 100K, man.
Well done on 100k dude!
congrats on 100k!
Let’s gooo 100K! What katana are you using btw?
2:29 the timing was on point
that's v playing as benjamin winters
4:32 bro go hit so hard he T-posed
Excellently done!
100k …amazing work man 🤝
The Irony of that Halo theme hitting right as I was pulling up halot to play after Starting the Video 😂
Congrats on 100k choom 🎉
Only ending I play (especially after PL Johnnys % is way up by the time you go to the Oil fields) but I cant compethe with this! You're obviously a dev who's neuralinked to your PC 😅
Mano, you’ve really done it
Bro, it's surely a hard one to pull off, but you know you want it and you know we want it: Please do The Killing Moon No Damage.
Hey . Awesome build . This is int and cool build without body points ? I see you have optical cammo .
If you stealth attack Smasher a 3rd time he should die-or maybe that would've bugged too, who knows lmao
Not being hyperbolic, being completely serious, there is no match to this game. This is the greatest game of well since games first started being made. Only a sequel could possibly even come close. Kind of nervous that they're switching game engines for Orion.
This game really saved me from some deep dark shit. No other video game could have possibly done what this one did for me
incredible!
Kind of looks odd, there are some hits that should've registered on you. The only thing possibly missing some hits are either due to mods, or using the movement perks don't really wanna bother looking into it sooo. Grats on the subs
4:30
The Him
In white
4:30 (the white armored dude) ahhh cyberpunk. Completely bug free fame 💯
if there was ever anyone who could do this, it was you
It wouldnt be a Cyberpunk video with a buggy ending XD
this can't hold a candle to your previous reaper video
Funny editing man👍👍
congrats for 100k subscrubers
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In the sequel I hope we either still get Johnny or v honestly
I don't think Johnny understands the story of Ozymandias...
Hey Ben, do you use M+K or a Controller for Cyberpunk? I've been going back and forth between them. I can't aim with controller, but OTOH I like the PS5 controller adaptive triggers effects.
i like men
me too
unfortunate situation
Schlatt needs his billboard
What the hell happened at the end? A different game starting or some crazy cyberpunk alternative universe
6:57 cut haha
which cyberware setup do you have? and how can it be so easy? how?
did you had any mods during this ? And also what mods would you recommend ?
Legend!!
Using halo music is a masterpiece because that something master chief will do
Forgive me as I play the vanilla game, but what was the screen you pulled up for General Actions and selected All *’Unalive’*? Was Smasher glitched or something?
It’s a tool from the Appearance Mod Menu, and yeah Smasher glitched, he was invincible for me for whatever reason
Awesome, what build is that?
E P I C N E S S 😎