29 GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER Cyberpunk 2077 Fresh Start Phantom Liberty Playthrough Let's Play

29 GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER Cyberpunk 2077 Fresh Start Phantom Liberty Playthrough Let's Play with Ultra Settings
Welcome to JT's Gaming Hijinx! Join me for a fresh start in Cyberpunk 2077 as I embark on the Phantom Liberty playthrough. Experience Night City in all its glory with ultra settings, maxed raytracing, and full path tracing. Watch as I master the Netrunner build, wield smart weapons, and dominate with the monowire. Don't miss out on this epic Let's Play adventure!
PC specs:
CPU I9 13900k
GPU RTX 4090
32GB DDR 5 6000
4th Gen SSD
Windows 11

[@St0neC0ldGaming]

12:37 You should have gone for the second option. In the end, Sampson's givin' you his ride after 7 days 🤩

[@derekwebb7577]

🤘As a bass player, I can tell you there's no better feeling than getting the band back together. Thanks for the vid JT, you rock brotha!

[@jtsgaminghijinx]

Thanks Derek! Follow your bliss my dude!

[@johnsimonson1207]

Doing this in multiple comments because I think it is too long for KZbin to accept for one comment. Part 1 Good choice on asking if she was sure it was murder in leading to keeping Sampson alive, Claire being free from the emptiness she will feel that she would have felt killing Sampson, and you getting Sampson's car for free. You did encounter him first race, he was the one trying to provoke her back in the first race how long she thought her new driver would stay alive. Saying that bastard won't finish race alive locks you into needing to kill Sampson during the race or her being upset at you and no longer serving you at the Afterlife. Not worthwhile to keep Sampson alive? If Sampson is killed, Claire thanks you for your assistance, but then feels empty and unresolved and guilty about what happened afterward. If you said Priority is Winning, but then during the race still help her face Sampson but manage to convince her to let him live, then not only do you get Claire's Beast and Sampson's Cthulhu for free, but Claire begins to feel at peace with her husband's passing and still considers you a friend. Of course, not letting her face Sampson at all will make her hate you. A few episodes back, I mentioned in the TTRPG Arasaka Tower mission where the tower is nuked by Blackhand and Silverhand, you encounter Smasher in two separate places (first about halfway down the tower where Silverhand went with Murphy to try to free Alt from Arasaka's network where Smasher appears, shoots Silverhand in half and Murphy applies Soulkiller to Silverhand's corpse and the 2nd time just as you reach back to the roof before the bomb goes off where Smasher determined you would try to escape by and you have to hold out against while the helicopters return to pick you up,) in two entirely different sets of armored cyberskeleton exo-suits, in far, far, far too short a time by far than you can swap out the exo-suits even with teams on hand more fully prepped and ready like you would find in today's NASCAR driving. Even with fully prepped teams it would take about 8 hours to swap out, and you encounter him in the 2nd place with the new armor about an hour after the first. This gives rise to the theory that Smasher may actually be a Construct being moved between different bodies (which WOULD make sense, if he had multiple bodies in storage equipped with different suits ready to be activated as necessary. This would also make Smasher's statement about David making an interesting construct also very interesting, as though Smasher considered Martinez worthy of sharing his fate because David was actually 'some fun afterall' which would be very high praise from Smasher indeed.) Also, in the TTRPG during that mission the last thing you see as you fly off in one of the helicopters is Smasher and Blackhand fighting it out on the roof of the tower as the tower is falling from the nuclear explosion in almost a 9/11 WTC kind of way. You would not expect someone to survive standing on a collapsing building, but both Blackhand and Smasher survived. And of course, if Smasher is now a Construct with multiple spare bodies, then destroying his body won't be enough to actually kill him. There are also rumors, urban stories of him being in multiple countries at once at Arasaka's behest, but those are considered to be just tall tales to increase his reputation as a boogeyman. Andrew 'Boa Boa' Weyland was a Solo or Merc who often tagged along with Blackhand, Rogue, Santiago, and Spyder Murphy and even Silverhand on occasion back in the 2020 era. He had some aspirations of becoming a Legend in Night City. Yes, Maelstrom did technically exist as a gang 50 years ago, but they did not become the borged out to the max gang we know of today until they merged with 3 other gangs (first Red Chrome Legion and Ironsights due to another gang {the Inquisitors} nearly successfully wiping the three gangs out, and then later on joining up with Slaughterhouse {a cyberpsycho gang that enjoyed cutting people up as though they were livestock while the people were still alive} when that gang finally started falling to the Inquisitors and the Sacred Blades. Inquisitors believed that cybernetics were Satanic and were the literal Mark of the Beast, and were actually doing a very good job at hunting down and painfully killing people who had cyberware, enough that gangs that used cyberware eventually needed to band together to hunt them down; and the Sacred Blades were a Native American gang which had grief against Slaughterhouse.) It looks like Grayson was also with the old crew, but was 'convinced' of the error of his ways and then turned on Rogue and the others after the tower fell. Not sure why he is wearing Militech while working for Arasaka now. It was Grayson she was out to get revenge on, with Smasher being a bonus if he was there. Also, glad you killed Grayson. If you had let Grayson live, I was going to tell you to visit the Columbarium and you will see Ruby's grave there (the Ruby who told Silverhand how to find Grayson.) Because you killed him, he does not find out who ratted him out, and Ruby gets to live. Key you got from Grayson's corpse. There is a theory that one of the gigs in the Cyberpunk Red TTRPG and also one of the Cyperpunk Red Novels actually deals with taking Silverhand's Corpse over to Spyder Murphy and Alt (who had a new body cloned for her) in Texas so that Silverhand's DNA could be used to make him a new Clone for his Engram to be put into. It does matter. Best response would have been 'Man who saved my life', but I think you still have earned enough points with Silverhand to do his ending if necessary. I believe (but am not 100% sure) that Rogue was also in the same room where she saw Silverhand blown in half by Smasher. Seeing that happen to a person in front of you would have an impact, even more so if it was someone you loved who was doing a mission for his love interest that was not you.

[@johnsimonson1207]

Part 2 In order to save Sampson's life and get both cars and Claire to be happy, you needed to ask if she was sure it was murder, state your focus on winning, and then during the text chat asking if she is still sure she wants to off Sampson rather than saying you will back her in killing him. That will open up the dialogue to have her spare his life during the race when you confront him, and he will send you the car as a thank you seven days after the race. Morro Bay, about 3-6 hours north of LA. He met Alt after he met Rogue. Cheated on Rogue with several of his groupies (juggling multiple chicks on the side, and even likely doing multiple chicks at the same time in drug and drink filled orgies.) After she 'broke up' with him (still falling for him and going back every time he placed a booty call) he then met Alt, who did manage to hold his interest longer and more deeply than the large following of groupies he had orbiting, though he was not really even faithful to Alt either. Don't forget, Johnny right now is also being influenced right now by you, as much as you were being influenced by him, and the Johnny now is trying to make right what he realized was a massive mess he left behind. Reason she says it is not fair is because she does technically have a kid with Santiago, and she and Santiago had been faithful to each other after all these years even if they are currently separated (Santiago actually leading and managing the Aldecaldo Nation because he could not stand living in Night City any more and she staying in Night City because she could not stand living the Nomad life outside Night City,) and she is now also a Grandma, who has her kid and grandkids visit (her son I think alternates between Nomad life and City life.) What's more, the city designer and those on the team to build night city also spent weeks in LA and San Diego to get a feel for the California urban style, because US cities are designed very differently from cities in Poland. They also tried to include as much as they could of the layout from the 2020 TTRPG manuals as well. That table looks like the same style table found in Arasaka Tower. Johnny did at times have sexual relations with men. When you go to a male stripper club Johnny mentions swinging both ways at various times in his life. Kerry was also Pansexual (even has a divorced wife and kids) though in this game he is only available to Male V. The purpose of having house that large and sparse is to host large parties with lots of drugs, beautiful women (and in Kerry's case, handsome men) to keep you company. He is trying to make it known that V is entirely a different kind of person than he is, so Kerry does not have the same expectations. If he said that we got along just fine, then that would say that V is the same kind of person as Silverhand is, and that would lead to him making false assumptions about us. Not so much a hint of disapproval as simply regaining full consciousness to having another broken nose and feeling the start of the hangover from Johnny again trying to make up for 50 years of forced sobriety again. Not helping that the first thing you see is a guy wearing nothing but a bathrobe standing over you, though that would be better than the alternative of him possibly being nude. Well, last playthrough you had freed Brick and killed Royce and Dum Dum, so Brick was in charge. And Dum Dum really did not like Jackie. Royce is the type of person who will kill you for disagreeing with him or saying something he does not like. No, this is not new. This is what happens when Bes Isis deals with Royce, who is not as secure about information that he wants to keep hidden, and so has orders that those who may potentially have information be scanned and then killed if they did find out more than they were supposed to. Brick was always able to run laps around Bes Isis, did not let her wander the club so she was never able to see what was really going on, so she feels that she wasted 3 days without getting the info she was following the lead on when dealing with him. Totentanz is a location where Maelstrom deals in kidnapping, and also store people they are about to involuntarily initiate into the Maelstrom gang (like they did to the Valentino cyberpsycho you took out several episodes back, or like they will do to one of the monks that you met in previous playthroughs.) You remember hearing the woman crying as you entered the building? Likely someone being taken to storage. The club itself is just a front, where they can grab people who need to learn more about the benefits of being chromed out. In the Edgerunner series, when David goes and rescues the girl and several others on a gig from Wakako (where the new member of the gang dies due to tripping a landmine,) that was this location. Because last playthrough you said different things to Bes in the car.