Unironically what got me to ace this mission on my first try with a super-similar attribute build, even though I went with Berserk and favored blunt weapons instead.
@@High_Rate136 Well, the whole start is definitely a reference to the beginning of the original Matrix lobby shootout scene with Neo + Trinity. The rest though...yeah, not as much.
That line was one of many that made me nod at the screen in agreement. My wife, who was croquetting next to me on the couch and who was pretty much backseat gaming with me throughout the course of the playthru, grit her teeth AUDIBLY when Silverhand said that. Need that on a plaque or a tattoo
Honestly, if this V is canon, both Arasaka and the NUSA can just pack up and leave. Imagine you're the worlds largest and most powerful security and weapons corporation, with the strongest security guards in history, and you just get solo'd by some unknown mercenary with a talking tumor. Best ending by far, for everyone involved. V doesnt have any companions on their conscious and gets to live for 6 months with enough funds to likely obtain proper treatment. Yorinobu can continue to sabotage Arasaka, having been unintentionally helped by V. Takemura doesn't end up back at Arasaka, meaning he's forced to live on his own, even if he doesn't like it. Knowing how this game isn't supposed to have good endings, this one is the best compromise one can hope for.
@@Dominic-wh9qkI like to think that V got some immunity from going full cyberpsycho because of The Relic. So, he went and got full chromed out, buying and finding the most expensive cyberware. Our V can have 3 different types of skin AND skeleton implants equipped, along with Sandevidtans, two hearts, super legs, the punch strength of the Hulk, two hand implants…. all of this while also having his natural talent. Let’s not forget that V was not just surviving in Night City but was respected even before meeting Johnny. I think it’s real possible V went down in history as the legend of all Mercs
Byakko builds post 2.0 update in a nutshell. The original Byakko was fine enough but was more or less just the leaping ability of mantis blades without needing to sacrifice other arm cyberware. Now, it’s a blender, and I love it.
David had ambition and drive just not the body and brain to handle all of it. Give him a relic and see how powerful he'd be too. That's a fair comparison.
i like to think that when johnny grabs your hand, that's the moment when johnny and V's minds, which have been subconsciously fighting each other up until this point, finally unite. no pills necessary, just sheer willpower giving way to a miracle. enough time to give V one last boost to become a legend and storm mikoshi.
In computing, there's a term for this: Handshake. It means (taken from CSRC): Protocol dialogue between two systems for identifying and authenticating themselves to each other, or for synchronizing their operations with each other. So in a way, yeah, they are uniting.
This is definitely my head canon. He tells you "you finally learned what it takes to become a legend in this city," grabs your hand and finally gives in to allowing himself to become one with you.
A fully-chromed choom going nuts in Arasaka tower, murdering everyone in his path while talking to a voice in his head Yes, cyberpsychosis at its finest.
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.
for all the advancements in technology, especially combat-related ones, in 2077, the most powerful and engaging style of combat is still the various applications of 'pointy stick'
Man, when I first did this ending, it was a trip and a half. Hit a bug where I got tagged with cripple movement and it never wore off. I didnt notice, just assumed it was part of the relic killing V. I was a netrunner so I dragged myself through all the remaining battles and Smasher limping like my leg was broken, and still made it to Mikoshi. Felt like a badass, and this has been the only cannon ending I will accept ever since.
@@zee9762Corpo, still my favorite and especially for a netrunner v. really feels like you have seen all sides of the city and made a choice to stick it to the system you were once a part of.
6:39 This. This was the moment during my playthrough when I got chills. What's got to have been the beefiest and the most sophisticated ICE system on the planet... Obliterated in what, a second? Until then, it was just some blissful combat rush. But for a few seconds, I couldn't help but think: 'What have i done?!'
made even more terrifying when you realize the long run consequences of what you have just done. Alt is an AI capable of doing all of this in seconds, not a human with meaty bits who can fry or catch a bullet and be stopped, an AI. If she were human still there would always be the chance of medical issues, someone getting lucky, her having to sleep, whatever. Alt is more than likely capable of devouring the entirety of the Old Net beyond the blackwall and then doing quite literally whatever she wants afterwards. 'Gaze upon my works ye mighty and despair' indeed.
If this ending is canon the implications for the lore are fucking insane, V, a lone merc with a brain tumor(chip) a psycotic streak and a taste for vengance, goes into ARASAKA tower TROUGH THE FRONT DOOR and starts blastig away ELITE soldier at their fullest capaccity and health, like, and then V just, injects the towers system with the most powerfull human/AI EVER and kills everything(Including one of the most feared mercs of all time A D A M SMASHER) .... For then to come out, A L I V E and even more healty than before is 99% crazy, but V succedes anyway.
Previously Alt said she is unable to pierce the ICE on Mikoshi so had to rely on V plugging her directly into the mainframe. It's like running a virus when you already have admin control, way easier than hacking your way to that admin control.
@@kerbodynamicx472the reason she can't get through Mikoshi's ice is because it's all built specifically to stop her. she says that it "has her name on it" lmao
I did this pre-2.0, Johhny took down Arasaka with ONE low-yield nuclear-powered device. My V took down Arasaka with HUNDREDS of high yield grenades (invented by a clown).
I just want to emphasize here that they had absolutely no forwarning that this was coming. And, outside the Sandy, the way everyone else was experiencing it? It took just under 5 minutes after you entered the door to puree every single thing in your way and thrash the hell out of Smasher while he was still finishing his opening taunts. 5 minutes for all of Arasaka to go from "situation normal, all clear" to completely beaten. Johnny's raid was very impressive. But someday people might forget it. No one will ever forget this one.
My Fan Theory: Everyone lied to V at the end, even Alt. She wanted a new life for Johnny, but she knew Johnny would never agree if he knew that V will survive if he gets his body back. Hanako obviously lied to him, just to entrap him in Mikoshi for later use. NUSA could save V, but decided to carve away the parts that make him use cybernetics after Myers saw with her own eyes how powerful V was. If you choose to simply take your body back, you think you're dying and the Blue Eyes capitalizes on this fear to push the further AI Domination plan. If V leave with Nomads... he magically starts to recover. He was never in danger, they all lied to V and tried to stop him from becoming too scary of a Wild Card.
@@michaeledmunds7056 Yes, at the beginning. Read again, after you deal with the Relic eating your brain and leave, it's not impossible that V will just live on with Nomads, wondering what exactly was responsible for him not dying after a few months. Just a theory tho.
I like this theory since the calls from people at the end are supposed to be at least 2 months after the ending, as people havent seen V in some time. And yet misty’s tarot stuff says V has a good life ahead of him/her in the badlands
@@Kerath Nah bruh, V will eventually succumb to the Relic in the Nomad ending, there is no big conspiracy that "the construct isn't all that dangerous to V after all". All of the spitting blood, relic malfunction errors, passing out and feeling like you're dying aren't there just for shits and giggles. This means that you will eventually be leaving Panam in all her grief as V suffers their last relic malfunction. Even in the most happiest of endings it still isn't truly happy, V doesn't get a traditional happy ever after no matter what the player does. It's exactly how Johnny comments on about happy endings: "Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people."
Just imagine being a security guard in the tower having dinner and being informed that a cyberpycho is attacking the looby just to discover that is chick that use yo work in counter intel and and your buddies are falling dead in a blink of a eye
Squish Arasaka solo, give body, second chance and second life to Johny, and go to the net with Alt like a true netrunner - not such a bad ending after all.
@@andrewstanley yeah... it's so depressing, without any cyberware in NC you'll likely end up with a bullet in your head on the first corner. No one likes you, you've lost 2 years of life and for what? Living like an NPC?
I´m with you on that but the new ending does a "full circle" to the question that dex asks you at the beginning of the game: "Would you rather live in peace as Mr. Nobody, die ripe, old and smellin' slightly of urine? Or go down for all times in a glaze of glory, smellin' near like posies, 'thout seein' your thirtieth?".. this would be option number one.. so it fits.. even when it´s all too bittersweet @@andrewstanley
Did my reaper ending with pretty much same build, katana, knives and SMG. It was such an absolute fun power fantasy. Flying through the air landing knife throws, popping sandy and blending up 4 dudes in half a second. Kinda felt like the doom slayer.
The most raw part of this now is when you're going psycho and just hear V laughing hysterically as you massacre Arasaka troops/Smasher and hear their fear.
kinda sad though, allat to be outdone by some dying insanely op crackhead hopping around and just hitting smasher like really hard and in some timelines completely by themselves
When you really think about it, imagine how terrifying it would be to face V. You and 6 others are each sliced a half dozen times by a katana before you can even react. Just blood mist and a trail of body parts let's you know which direction V travels
Other than the Panam option I loved the fact that the game literally gives you a choice to go yourself with no one except Johnny in tow and it’s just V vs arasaka and at least Johnny is fully conscious and able to see smasher go down for good
Kinda got a feeling this is the canon ending, everyone lives and sets up for more tbh succeeds in making a legend, but we’re more involved in something else. Food for thought
i think one of the best things about this ending, is that as soon as you decide to invade Arasaka tower, you're on one life to solo the entire facility and dying gets you the end credits and calls from your chooms as if you shot yourself on the rooftop, everyone you know thinking that both paths are just pointless deaths.
Holy shit at 1:00, that relic effect, this time it's different. Usually when you get that visual effect it means that the relic is malfunctioning. But this time the sound and the visual effect are different, it feels like you finaly have syncronized perfectly with Johnny, and became one for this last one gig
I did this ending my first PL run using projectile launch, order shotgun, rasetsu sniper and had SO much fun. technical went from being useful only for crafting to arguably the funnest attribute
this ending and giving johnny the body is definitely my favorite. im my eyes v should have died from the moment dexter shot him, and johnny saved him. plus, if johnny is going to get to use the body for longer than v, then he should be the one to keep it. i just felt bad that all the people i had made friends with thought v was still alive when it was johnny, except for rogue who basically told johnny he manipulated v.
@@nineball8193 in the nusa ending V ends up in a coma for 2 whole years most people would assume you probably died after a while and never hearing from V
I hope I managed to get this ending, having to pick some random dialogue options instead of just being able to suicide run into Arasaka at any point, and holding Yorinobu hostage is kind of annoying. I wanted to fight my way into Dogtown too, but I eventually gave up and looked up that even if you kill everyone there you can't just go in...
You should be able to, you trigger the suicide run by waiting when given that final choice, after a bit then Johnny speaks up about going solo and gives you the option but you need a high enough affinity with him i believe
@@joaquimcallahan5274 according to the wiki you need to say 3 specific lines, and then they changed the waiting to something else in 2.0, but this whole method is just kind of dumb, and really wish they had made the secret less of a secret...
also why hold yori hostage? my mans a G! Revealed in the Devil ending: SPOILERS for prolouge, Devil ending, Some of the RPG and a few optional shards. . . . . . . . He was actively attempted to kill arasaka from the inside. then start a war with millitech and have it end quickly with arasaka toppling. He actually was outside arasaka trying to take it down Silverhand style. (ie jackies dialoge about his gang the Steel Dragons. He was literally a rockerboy until 2023. after the nuke, and seeing how little it actually did, he realized that he had to take action from the inside. He also realized that his father had the goal of using his body to become immortal. He was going to use his own engram on Yori. So his plan was to engram himself with silverhand, then storm it from the inside. This failed and he instead killed Saboru and blamed it on you. He was aware of V and Jackie due to Smasher detecting you in the begining. I.E. Yori is actually a good guy trying to long con arasaka and bring it to it's knees. he will start another corpo war to do it. but in the end, Arasaka down.
4:20 Honestly, I think you should have waited abit in this part to show where the Soldiers coming in here are just overwhelmed with fear and disbelief (and just trembling) :P
@@dpsknight4512 u must've had a bad build cause there was almost no challenge at all at this point in the game in the previous updates, 2.0's way harder imo they still hit like a truck on very hard and can easily fuck you up unless you're jusdt running like a 24/7 sandevistan
@@fortieznoshortiezi agree, the overhaul to combat made the game way harder. The only reason this was a little easy is because of the sandy without it they would melt me before I could get to them
@@ParadoxEnforcer yee lmao sandy makes everything a breeze, its still fun to play with though. i usually use berserker so i can have it for those "oh fuck if i dont pop im dead" moments to save myself but still keep it pretty hard if i fuck up
That one guy, "Why the hell are you here beatch!?" What he got is personal! 🤣 When I played this part as a Netrunner, I walked in hacking the very first dude, turned him Cyberpsycho and we both started fighting the others while I'm just walking straight like a hacking goddes! 🤣
Wanted this ending but i did the aldecaldos route. My v has always been a nomad destined to roam the badlands with his family. Was so touching when i became a full fledged aldecaldo and got given my new nomad jacket. Way i see it V has basically always been alone ever since night city. Jackie cared too much about his fame and making it to the top which landed you being stuck with the chip. Everyone else was out to manipulate you, but when you find the nomads again they are the few characters that have a sort of family code thats actually legitamate away from all the liars and manipulators in the city. So what better send off then to storm arasaka with your peoole (who chose to fight with you themselves) and at least gain 6 months of freedom to live how you choose. Get cured properly and everyone forgets you, let johnny take over and you are resigning your own autonamy and control. Selling your soul to arasaka speaks for its self. At least if you join the nomads its open ended and at least in my playthrough v still went in to the sunset with panam and the aldecaldos to search for any new possibilities. My version of v never gives up and would rather of lived on his terms than johnnys
i did that for my first ending as my "canon" ending because i liked the idea of v spending his last few months among his family, but for my most recent vergil playthrough i did this and hot damn it felt good becoming a living blender with a katana
Its sad that other than this and the phantom liberty ending there really are no more challenging battles late game. Nothing to really test you and let you really let loose.
This is like the independent ending of New Vegas for me or the destroy ending of Mass Effect 3. I go into every playthrough promising myself I wont do the exact same ending, then I always end up doing the exact same ending and enjoying just as much as I did before. "Let's party like it's 2023!"
what i think don't quite add up for me in devil ending arasaka successfully allows V to keep cybernetics BUT tells that V will die in phantom liberty ending after coma v is unable to have cybernetics at all but seems to stay alive? in both cases his neural system was replaced, why in one v got to keep ability to use cybernetics and in other v didn't? so here lays my theory damage from bullet was the reason (yes sounds funny but seems about right) since how dexter landed the shot it should have passed through core of brain, and ninates changed that core, that why johnny was able to take over for a time.. arasaka simply bypassed it, but fact of extremely damanged brain persisted nusa did everything they could to fully recover V, however because of that connections for cybernetics was impossible (?) i still think vic could figure out something..
Nah, before the release of PL, cdpr did say the ending isn't much different than Devil ending. My best bet is NUSC either 1) Turn V into a sleeper agents with hidden implants and give her a permanent netrunner build like SO MI. or 2) Took out all the implants deliberately cause of the danger V poses to Myers. one way or another, the NUSC has V in their clutches with the new ending.
bro I gota say dude when you pulled out that wrench I was fuckin dying laughing for a hot minute. As a dude who usually sees my malorian arms come out when i enter that building idk why but that shit got me gooood. Good stuff choom.
The only thing that would make the suicide run more epic is if you had to drive to Saka Tower and the radio comes on and it's playing Choke Hold on the ride over.
@@Makedeth Damn I feel sorry man. It's so stupid that it is tied to those options. It isn't even obvious, you'd think the option where you tell Johnny he fucked up his relationship with you too would be the wrong thing to say, but it isn't lol.
@@Makedethif you're on pc you can use the cheat console to enable this ending. It's just a flag you have to set for Johny to be "friend" Game.GetQuestsSystem():SetFactStr("sq032_johnny_friend", 1)
V is really built different here. Like... Adam when he fight David : "You think you are special? Don't let me laugh!" *Tear David's exoskeleton in pieces* But when Adam fight V : "Back up! I need back up!" and even with all back up he got, He still got his ass beaten by V and say "Is this pain?"
My head canon is this is the true ending *but then* V disappears with Panam and the nomads as a legend of night city living the rest of his days in quiet infamy
Fighting him without Sandevistan was a fucking nightmare. He one shots, once one of the missile hit then you are pretty much donzo, Arazaka snipers were annoying to deal with.
The trick is to stay close. That makes him go for melee way more and thats pretty easy to airdash out of. Going to the other side of the room makes him pull out that bs laser or missile one shot
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Literal deaths by thousand (katana) cuts
Took the Errata and Johnny's piece myself after watching this, good stuff 👍
"Just focus - you're better than them."
-Johnny
Line is so simple, badass, and supportive all wrapped into one. Thanks Johnny.
Unironically what got me to ace this mission on my first try with a super-similar attribute build, even though I went with Berserk and favored blunt weapons instead.
I feel like this is a call back to the matrix as well, but I can't put my finger on why or when.
@@High_Rate136
Well, the whole start is definitely a reference to the beginning of the original Matrix lobby shootout scene with Neo + Trinity. The rest though...yeah, not as much.
Then you get one shotted😂
That line was one of many that made me nod at the screen in agreement.
My wife, who was croquetting next to me on the couch and who was pretty much backseat gaming with me throughout the course of the playthru, grit her teeth AUDIBLY when Silverhand said that.
Need that on a plaque or a tattoo
Honestly, if this V is canon, both Arasaka and the NUSA can just pack up and leave. Imagine you're the worlds largest and most powerful security and weapons corporation, with the strongest security guards in history, and you just get solo'd by some unknown mercenary with a talking tumor.
Best ending by far, for everyone involved. V doesnt have any companions on their conscious and gets to live for 6 months with enough funds to likely obtain proper treatment. Yorinobu can continue to sabotage Arasaka, having been unintentionally helped by V. Takemura doesn't end up back at Arasaka, meaning he's forced to live on his own, even if he doesn't like it.
Knowing how this game isn't supposed to have good endings, this one is the best compromise one can hope for.
During the mission some of the arasaka goons are in disbelief that they are getting taken down by a solo merc lol
Theory is just that in fact V is going cyberpsycho in some place slaughtering everyone meanwhile he thinks is in arasaka tower.
@@Dominic-wh9qkI like to think that V got some immunity from going full cyberpsycho because of The Relic. So, he went and got full chromed out, buying and finding the most expensive cyberware. Our V can have 3 different types of skin AND skeleton implants equipped, along with Sandevidtans, two hearts, super legs, the punch strength of the Hulk, two hand implants…. all of this while also having his natural talent. Let’s not forget that V was not just surviving in Night City but was respected even before meeting Johnny. I think it’s real possible V went down in history as the legend of all Mercs
Not really the best if you don’t give a f bout sum of the characters and romances
Banging Panam is pretty good ending for me ngl
Bro's playing metal gear rising revengeance
pretty wicked how many different combat styles u can do in this game lol
Byakko builds post 2.0 update in a nutshell. The original Byakko was fine enough but was more or less just the leaping ability of mantis blades without needing to sacrifice other arm cyberware. Now, it’s a blender, and I love it.
And it will cum
*activates Red Sun*
V: Johnny, turn off my pain exhibitors.
Johnny: but V that's madness!
V: DO IT!
Watching this would make David Martinez realise what “built different” actually looks like.
agreed
David is a pipsqueak compared to V
david would absolutely crumble facing v
@@m_ridian he'd fold instant.
David had ambition and drive just not the body and brain to handle all of it.
Give him a relic and see how powerful he'd be too.
That's a fair comparison.
i like to think that when johnny grabs your hand, that's the moment when johnny and V's minds, which have been subconsciously fighting each other up until this point, finally unite. no pills necessary, just sheer willpower giving way to a miracle. enough time to give V one last boost to become a legend and storm mikoshi.
Funny to see that from an outsiders point of view. V is grabbing air and lifting himself up.
In computing, there's a term for this: Handshake. It means (taken from CSRC): Protocol dialogue between two systems for identifying and authenticating themselves to each other, or for synchronizing their operations with each other. So in a way, yeah, they are uniting.
@@killer25014a two way handshake so to speak
I LOVE THIS
This is definitely my head canon. He tells you "you finally learned what it takes to become a legend in this city," grabs your hand and finally gives in to allowing himself to become one with you.
2:29 “why the hell are you here bixch” was personal 😭😭😭
Love how this is easily the most excited Johnny gets for any part of the game
The way the guards get increasingly more terrified of the fact that V is SOLO was such a huge ego boost when I first played this ending.
A fully-chromed choom going nuts in Arasaka tower, murdering everyone in his path while talking to a voice in his head
Yes, cyberpsychosis at its finest.
To any outside observer. Especially Arasaka. In truth, this is just a badass solo who wants to live longer.
V be like: i dont have cyberpsychosis. Right? Johnny silverhand? The voice in my head who died years ago.
jesus this makes so much sense
Also the Corpo background too so it looks like V triple dipped going postal (first the emperor, possibly hanako, now the tower)
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.
So it's like Master Chief and Cortana?
@@Mariodash23 Yeah exactly. Johnny is basically a version of cortana.
"Johnny, handle the defense"
Bro Is Backseat Gaming 🙏
@@flare3000parasyte reference located
This is the only ending that makes sense to me
V being like 'Fuck this shit, if I'm gonna die, I'll do it in style. Ain't gonna risk anyone's lives. Let's fucking go'.
Same.
Ya it’s mess up to drag everyone into it just to save V life only to learn it was meaningless so for V to go in it alone makes sense.
@@Zeroknight34that’s the beautiful thing tho he was never alone Johnny in the most fucked up but true way is his ride or die
(RIP AND TEAR INTENSIFIES)
for all the advancements in technology, especially combat-related ones, in 2077, the most powerful and engaging style of combat is still the various applications of 'pointy stick'
As long as you're faster than bullets lol
“They must have amnesia, they forgot that I’m him.”
Man, when I first did this ending, it was a trip and a half. Hit a bug where I got tagged with cripple movement and it never wore off. I didnt notice, just assumed it was part of the relic killing V. I was a netrunner so I dragged myself through all the remaining battles and Smasher limping like my leg was broken, and still made it to Mikoshi. Felt like a badass, and this has been the only cannon ending I will accept ever since.
thats so badass. ur V was a pure netrunner half dying while fighting smasher and his goons. which lifepath u choose?
@@zee9762Corpo, still my favorite and especially for a netrunner v. really feels like you have seen all sides of the city and made a choice to stick it to the system you were once a part of.
For very similliar reasons I'm choosing streetkid
Not gonna lie the fighting just doesn't feel right without Johnny t-posing while you have a blast slashing everybody
6:39 This. This was the moment during my playthrough when I got chills. What's got to have been the beefiest and the most sophisticated ICE system on the planet... Obliterated in what, a second?
Until then, it was just some blissful combat rush. But for a few seconds, I couldn't help but think:
'What have i done?!'
made even more terrifying when you realize the long run consequences of what you have just done.
Alt is an AI capable of doing all of this in seconds, not a human with meaty bits who can fry or catch a bullet and be stopped, an AI. If she were human still there would always be the chance of medical issues, someone getting lucky, her having to sleep, whatever.
Alt is more than likely capable of devouring the entirety of the Old Net beyond the blackwall and then doing quite literally whatever she wants afterwards.
'Gaze upon my works ye mighty and despair' indeed.
If this ending is canon the implications for the lore are fucking insane, V, a lone merc with a brain tumor(chip) a psycotic streak and a taste for vengance, goes into ARASAKA tower TROUGH THE FRONT DOOR and starts blastig away ELITE soldier at their fullest capaccity and health, like, and then V just, injects the towers system with the most powerfull human/AI EVER and kills everything(Including one of the most feared mercs of all time A D A M SMASHER) .... For then to come out, A L I V E and even more healty than before is 99% crazy, but V succedes anyway.
Previously Alt said she is unable to pierce the ICE on Mikoshi so had to rely on V plugging her directly into the mainframe. It's like running a virus when you already have admin control, way easier than hacking your way to that admin control.
@@kerbodynamicx472the reason she can't get through Mikoshi's ice is because it's all built specifically to stop her. she says that it "has her name on it" lmao
I like the 5:06 more. Gate opens 8 mechs coming out. Gate isn't even completely open, mechs dead...
"Time to party like it's 2023"
Man... this catchphrase aged well 😂
Can’t wait to use it someday
I did this pre-2.0, Johhny took down Arasaka with ONE low-yield nuclear-powered device. My V took down Arasaka with HUNDREDS of high yield grenades (invented by a clown).
Hearing Johnny say “time to party like it’s 2023” on new years is actually so funny
I just want to emphasize here that they had absolutely no forwarning that this was coming.
And, outside the Sandy, the way everyone else was experiencing it? It took just under 5 minutes after you entered the door to puree every single thing in your way and thrash the hell out of Smasher while he was still finishing his opening taunts. 5 minutes for all of Arasaka to go from "situation normal, all clear" to completely beaten.
Johnny's raid was very impressive. But someday people might forget it. No one will ever forget this one.
I can see random data shards talking about this ending in the Project Orion sequel already.
I got to admit I LOVE this ending. It just feels so right
My Fan Theory: Everyone lied to V at the end, even Alt. She wanted a new life for Johnny, but she knew Johnny would never agree if he knew that V will survive if he gets his body back. Hanako obviously lied to him, just to entrap him in Mikoshi for later use. NUSA could save V, but decided to carve away the parts that make him use cybernetics after Myers saw with her own eyes how powerful V was.
If you choose to simply take your body back, you think you're dying and the Blue Eyes capitalizes on this fear to push the further AI Domination plan. If V leave with Nomads... he magically starts to recover. He was never in danger, they all lied to V and tried to stop him from becoming too scary of a Wild Card.
Dude, even Viktor tells you you're dying. He's the first to tell you.
@@michaeledmunds7056 Yes, at the beginning. Read again, after you deal with the Relic eating your brain and leave, it's not impossible that V will just live on with Nomads, wondering what exactly was responsible for him not dying after a few months. Just a theory tho.
I like this theory since the calls from people at the end are supposed to be at least 2 months after the ending, as people havent seen V in some time. And yet misty’s tarot stuff says V has a good life ahead of him/her in the badlands
@@Kerath Nah bruh, V will eventually succumb to the Relic in the Nomad ending, there is no big conspiracy that "the construct isn't all that dangerous to V after all". All of the spitting blood, relic malfunction errors, passing out and feeling like you're dying aren't there just for shits and giggles. This means that you will eventually be leaving Panam in all her grief as V suffers their last relic malfunction. Even in the most happiest of endings it still isn't truly happy, V doesn't get a traditional happy ever after no matter what the player does.
It's exactly how Johnny comments on about happy endings:
"Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people."
I agree about Alt's lie, she helps just for Jhonny
Just imagine being a security guard in the tower having dinner and being informed that a cyberpycho is attacking the looby just to discover that is chick that use yo work in counter intel and and your buddies are falling dead in a blink of a eye
Squish Arasaka solo, give body, second chance and second life to Johny, and go to the net with Alt like a true netrunner - not such a bad ending after all.
When you say it like that, I kinda like that ending... lol
This and rocket ending for Songbird, my favorite
WAY BETTER than the new phantom liberty remove-engram ending, man
@@andrewstanley yeah... it's so depressing, without any cyberware in NC you'll likely end up with a bullet in your head on the first corner. No one likes you, you've lost 2 years of life and for what? Living like an NPC?
I´m with you on that but the new ending does a "full circle" to the question that dex asks you at the beginning of the game: "Would you rather live in peace as Mr. Nobody, die ripe, old and smellin' slightly of urine? Or go down for all times in a glaze of glory, smellin' near like posies, 'thout seein' your thirtieth?".. this would be option number one.. so it fits.. even when it´s all too bittersweet @@andrewstanley
Johnny saying time to party like it’s 2023 while playing in 2023 is something else
i tried this ending a while back and died immediately at the first guard 😂
How did you get to this point just to die there? 👀
@@TheFlyingPilgrim i tried to upload a quickhack to the first guard but it uploaded too slow
@@Stadpad the irony lmao
@@Stadpad"Alright, I'm just going to go in as a stealthy hacker like I always do." *Gets gunned down in the elevator* 😂
you need full legendary chrome and max lv to handle this ending
Did my reaper ending with pretty much same build, katana, knives and SMG. It was such an absolute fun power fantasy. Flying through the air landing knife throws, popping sandy and blending up 4 dudes in half a second. Kinda felt like the doom slayer.
The most raw part of this now is when you're going psycho and just hear V laughing hysterically as you massacre Arasaka troops/Smasher and hear their fear.
V is something David could never reach even in his sweetest dreams
V is the definition of "Built Different"
V has Johnny(the relic) basically making him/her immune to cyberpsychosis
kinda sad though, allat to be outdone by some dying insanely op crackhead hopping around and just hitting smasher like really hard and in some timelines completely by themselves
1:30 I bet Johnny thought "did you reqlly just throw a wrench"
POV: You're Anakin Skywalker upon seeing a youngling.
Local cyberpsycho assaults Arasaka HQ.
I wonder what the news was really like on that day lmao
more news at 11
When you really think about it, imagine how terrifying it would be to face V. You and 6 others are each sliced a half dozen times by a katana before you can even react. Just blood mist and a trail of body parts let's you know which direction V travels
My favorite ending still. Forming the friendship with Johnny and stormin saka tower is great.
Other than the Panam option I loved the fact that the game literally gives you a choice to go yourself with no one except Johnny in tow and it’s just V vs arasaka and at least Johnny is fully conscious and able to see smasher go down for good
I’m glad that it’s pretty easy to make this game into “CyberGear Revengeance 2077”
Kinda got a feeling this is the canon ending, everyone lives and sets up for more tbh succeeds in making a legend, but we’re more involved in something else. Food for thought
Have you ever seen a walking industrial shredder? Now you have!
i think one of the best things about this ending, is that as soon as you decide to invade Arasaka tower, you're on one life to solo the entire facility and dying gets you the end credits and calls from your chooms as if you shot yourself on the rooftop, everyone you know thinking that both paths are just pointless deaths.
Holy shit at 1:00, that relic effect, this time it's different. Usually when you get that visual effect it means that the relic is malfunctioning. But this time the sound and the visual effect are different, it feels like you finaly have syncronized perfectly with Johnny, and became one for this last one gig
"Time to party like its 2023" is the hardest line ever
I did this ending my first PL run using projectile launch, order shotgun, rasetsu sniper and had SO much fun. technical went from being useful only for crafting to arguably the funnest attribute
this ending and giving johnny the body is definitely my favorite. im my eyes v should have died from the moment dexter shot him, and johnny saved him. plus, if johnny is going to get to use the body for longer than v, then he should be the one to keep it.
i just felt bad that all the people i had made friends with thought v was still alive when it was johnny, except for rogue who basically told johnny he manipulated v.
after nusa ending i dont think so about so called friends with V, they ditched V as soon as you`re at your lowest
@nineball8193 you disappear for 2 years. They thought you ditched them first
@@nineball8193 in the nusa ending V ends up in a coma for 2 whole years most people would assume you probably died after a while and never hearing from V
I had to wait 15 minutes for Johnny to unlock this ending for me.
Weird because normally it’s only 5 minutes. I’ve done this ending a few times and it’s never been that long.
@@Nightc1tyronin maybe i'm just impatient and it felt slower than it was
Not fighting for just yourself. But also for Johnny, Alt, and David. Everyone Arasaka either killed or is responsible for killing
v biblically canonical
I hope I managed to get this ending, having to pick some random dialogue options instead of just being able to suicide run into Arasaka at any point, and holding Yorinobu hostage is kind of annoying.
I wanted to fight my way into Dogtown too, but I eventually gave up and looked up that even if you kill everyone there you can't just go in...
Literally this ^
You should be able to, you trigger the suicide run by waiting when given that final choice, after a bit then Johnny speaks up about going solo and gives you the option but you need a high enough affinity with him i believe
@@joaquimcallahan5274 according to the wiki you need to say 3 specific lines, and then they changed the waiting to something else in 2.0, but this whole method is just kind of dumb, and really wish they had made the secret less of a secret...
You need to pick the right dialogue during the "Chippin In" quest
also why hold yori hostage? my mans a G!
Revealed in the Devil ending:
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He was actively attempted to kill arasaka from the inside. then start a war with millitech and have it end quickly with arasaka toppling. He actually was outside arasaka trying to take it down Silverhand style. (ie jackies dialoge about his gang the Steel Dragons. He was literally a rockerboy until 2023. after the nuke, and seeing how little it actually did, he realized that he had to take action from the inside. He also realized that his father had the goal of using his body to become immortal. He was going to use his own engram on Yori. So his plan was to engram himself with silverhand, then storm it from the inside. This failed and he instead killed Saboru and blamed it on you. He was aware of V and Jackie due to Smasher detecting you in the begining.
I.E. Yori is actually a good guy trying to long con arasaka and bring it to it's knees. he will start another corpo war to do it. but in the end, Arasaka down.
Damn that shit was clean
4:20 Honestly, I think you should have waited abit in this part to show where the Soldiers coming in here are just overwhelmed with fear and disbelief (and just trembling) :P
This is what the canon street kid ending should be
The John Wick ending
I love this simple front entrance. Pure gigachad
Except that...
You treated Adam Smasher like a little bitch.
That’s beyond gigachad though. Adam Smasher faced Adam Smasher 2.0
Hell yeah. Nice job! This is my preferred ending too.
the fact V is going full on cyber psycho meanwhile he's Seizuring astonishes me
YOU JUST DISCOVERED WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME A LEGEND
johnny: time to party like its 2023
me: but it is 2023!
Time to party like it is 2023
You know the Rules of Nature, I see.
The canon ending
Am I the only that when "The Rebel Path" kicks in (0:55), the volume get cranked up to 11?
Bro you chopin in
Doing this with the new level cap is so much more fun
The challenge of the previous update made the ending just that much more special though
@@dpsknight4512 u must've had a bad build cause there was almost no challenge at all at this point in the game in the previous updates, 2.0's way harder imo they still hit like a truck on very hard and can easily fuck you up unless you're jusdt running like a 24/7 sandevistan
@@fortieznoshortiezi agree, the overhaul to combat made the game way harder. The only reason this was a little easy is because of the sandy without it they would melt me before I could get to them
@@ParadoxEnforcer yee lmao sandy makes everything a breeze, its still fun to play with though. i usually use berserker so i can have it for those "oh fuck if i dont pop im dead" moments to save myself but still keep it pretty hard if i fuck up
Brodie it isn't that deep@@fortieznoshortiez
"If I gotta die, rather fall into my grave gun in hand and on fire"
“Huh you just discovered what it takes to become a legend” something bout hits different coming from keanu
Feels like I'm gonna get cyber pschosis just by watching this video.
That one guy, "Why the hell are you here beatch!?" What he got is personal! 🤣
When I played this part as a Netrunner, I walked in hacking the very first dude, turned him Cyberpsycho and we both started fighting the others while I'm just walking straight like a hacking goddes! 🤣
"time to party like it's 2023"
I find it super funny that you miss your throwing knives and you're like that's fine they're dead anyway.
"Lets party like its 2023!"
Best ending no doubt
ahh the best ending of cyberpunk 2077
when Johnny says time to party, I pop sandy and just fucking go
Wanted this ending but i did the aldecaldos route. My v has always been a nomad destined to roam the badlands with his family. Was so touching when i became a full fledged aldecaldo and got given my new nomad jacket. Way i see it V has basically always been alone ever since night city. Jackie cared too much about his fame and making it to the top which landed you being stuck with the chip. Everyone else was out to manipulate you, but when you find the nomads again they are the few characters that have a sort of family code thats actually legitamate away from all the liars and manipulators in the city. So what better send off then to storm arasaka with your peoole (who chose to fight with you themselves) and at least gain 6 months of freedom to live how you choose. Get cured properly and everyone forgets you, let johnny take over and you are resigning your own autonamy and control. Selling your soul to arasaka speaks for its self. At least if you join the nomads its open ended and at least in my playthrough v still went in to the sunset with panam and the aldecaldos to search for any new possibilities. My version of v never gives up and would rather of lived on his terms than johnnys
i did that for my first ending as my "canon" ending because i liked the idea of v spending his last few months among his family, but for my most recent vergil playthrough i did this and hot damn it felt good becoming a living blender with a katana
Its sad that other than this and the phantom liberty ending there really are no more challenging battles late game. Nothing to really test you and let you really let loose.
you deserve to rest the game if you beat this ending in my opinion. you can't get stronger than that.
"Time to party like its 2023" the last year was boring af
This is like the independent ending of New Vegas for me or the destroy ending of Mass Effect 3. I go into every playthrough promising myself I wont do the exact same ending, then I always end up doing the exact same ending and enjoying just as much as I did before.
"Let's party like it's 2023!"
respect for doing this on a controller, I tried playing on my steam deck and I could not aim to save my life
It's 2023. Let's Party
what i think don't quite add up for me
in devil ending arasaka successfully allows V to keep cybernetics BUT tells that V will die
in phantom liberty ending after coma v is unable to have cybernetics at all but seems to stay alive?
in both cases his neural system was replaced, why in one v got to keep ability to use cybernetics and in other v didn't?
so here lays my theory
damage from bullet was the reason (yes sounds funny but seems about right) since how dexter landed the shot it should have passed through core of brain, and ninates changed that core, that why johnny was able to take over for a time..
arasaka simply bypassed it, but fact of extremely damanged brain persisted
nusa did everything they could to fully recover V, however because of that connections for cybernetics was impossible (?)
i still think vic could figure out something..
Nah, before the release of PL, cdpr did say the ending isn't much different than Devil ending. My best bet is NUSC either 1) Turn V into a sleeper agents with hidden implants and give her a permanent netrunner build like SO MI. or 2) Took out all the implants deliberately cause of the danger V poses to Myers. one way or another, the NUSC has V in their clutches with the new ending.
Deshawn used Plan B pistol and short of eddies that's why it didn't kill V haha.
@@gDiscovery95 yeah LOL
@@mohdshahariar5833 but that doesn't explain the appearing incompatibility with implants.
@@ndjdndnsnsj-ig5do it is on purpose by NUSA for sure, they are not gonna let a wild card like that go with strong implants
bro I gota say dude when you pulled out that wrench I was fuckin dying laughing for a hot minute. As a dude who usually sees my malorian arms come out when i enter that building idk why but that shit got me gooood. Good stuff choom.
In my eyes, this will always be my canon ending
4:37 that part was cinematic asf
The only thing that would make the suicide run more epic is if you had to drive to Saka Tower and the radio comes on and it's playing Choke Hold on the ride over.
Playing Dont Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult while watching this and it just hits different
BEST BD EVER!
First time i finished my game i did this ending using only a malorian lmao
70 hours in and i missed this ending because of a few dialogue choices. fucking hell
That sucks, they should make it be tied to your relationship with Johnny as a whole not just 3 dialogue choices
@@ParadoxEnforcer yeah, i got 85% relationship with him but still no dice
i built my whole character to take on arasaka on my own but i didnt know i had to select precise options at one quest. i am pretty pissed NGL
@@Makedeth Damn I feel sorry man. It's so stupid that it is tied to those options. It isn't even obvious, you'd think the option where you tell Johnny he fucked up his relationship with you too would be the wrong thing to say, but it isn't lol.
@@Makedethif you're on pc you can use the cheat console to enable this ending. It's just a flag you have to set for Johny to be "friend"
Game.GetQuestsSystem():SetFactStr("sq032_johnny_friend", 1)
I really wish blue oyster cult played in this mission.
Great work man! Not easy
Thanks a lot!
I really like it on patch 2.0
Arasaka Tower. Just me, Johnny, Sandy and my bare hands.
V: "No one leaves the slaughterhouse!"
V is really built different here. Like...
Adam when he fight David : "You think you are special? Don't let me laugh!" *Tear David's exoskeleton in pieces*
But when Adam fight V : "Back up! I need back up!" and even with all back up he got, He still got his ass beaten by V and say "Is this pain?"
Byakko, Agaou, and Projectile Launcher? I see you’re a man of culture as well
Can’t fucking wait choom, I’m coming for Arasaka tower myself
My head canon is this is the true ending *but then* V disappears with Panam and the nomads as a legend of night city living the rest of his days in quiet infamy
This and the sewycide ending is perfect
This V makes Adam smasher flinch
This is even easier with a pistol build as you just Sandevistan and 2 shot every non-mech enemy. Being prepared does wonders
Murkman agrees.
Those missile one shot me so many time on very hard because I didn't know the boss pattern.
Fighting him without Sandevistan was a fucking nightmare. He one shots, once one of the missile hit then you are pretty much donzo, Arazaka snipers were annoying to deal with.
The trick is to stay close. That makes him go for melee way more and thats pretty easy to airdash out of. Going to the other side of the room makes him pull out that bs laser or missile one shot