Cyberpunk Timeline: 2020-2045

[@mikealangeloy]

I love how extememly important and unbelievably necessary Nomads are. Night City would NOT be where it is now without them

[@Aristocrat1cs]

Yup. Which makes the universe feel even more like a hellscape dystopia when you see News reels on random TVs throughout the city painting the nomads as world's biggest evil.

[@DankMemer42013]

@@Aristocrat1cs that’s in our real life society as well

[@koolestkman5945]

Looking deep into the lore, they apparently carried the entire US

[@_hi_pwr]

Nomad for life

[@TimmyDisorder]

I particularly like how much more important the nomad families become after the fall of Arasaka Tower. I wish RTG would put together an official sourcebook for Chicago, since it was apparently rebuilt by nomad contractors. Night City is a great setting, but imagine how a rebuilt Chicago would be a bastion of trade in the remains of the NUSA.

[@tireswing4836]

9:34 with captions on. Alt Cunningham offers refuge to rogue gay eyes. I cant breathe

[@decus9544]

The UK only slightly less post-apocalyptic than in our current timeline I see.

[@MrPolicekarim]

Too true mate!

[@spillmymilk6966]

There was no change needed.

[@hawkevick9184]

@@MrPolicekarim you people. Stop saying m**e it's annoying

[@MrPolicekarim]

@@hawkevick9184 I am British!

[@hawkevick9184]

@@MrPolicekarim you're annoying

[@GLlTCI-IVVIZ3RD]

has the perfect monotone AI sounding voice that takes the video to the next level

[@GLlTCI-IVVIZ3RD]

dude needs to narrate audiobooks

[@ooooBrianGriffinoooo]

Learning all the backstory is making the immersion into 2077 soooo much better

[@basedsketch4133]

Game has a hell of a backstory right! Hideo Kojima is a fan imagine if he got on the next project in Cyberpunk series. That would be a heck of a partner as well

[@brianstiles1701]

Cyberpunk worldbuilding has always been top shelf. Playing 2077 after playing the TTRPG decades ago felt like being in a city I'd only ever seen in my imagination.

[@Degamk619]

@@brianstiles1701 it's strange, I played 2077 first and then a year later got really into the lore after reading the sourcebook for RED and at that point i felt like 2077 was pretty lackluster in its execution after seeing Pondsmith's rendition, even though i loved the game at launch.

[@Mizzle420420]

Yup and the Anime is a great addition

[@Mizzle420420]

Ive been wanting to get the game since it was announced but when it launched I was going through some financial troubles so I just watched, read, and listened to everything lore related I could get my hands on and then just finally got the game last week and im in heaven. I spent a week playing and only just last night did the arasaka hiest and got Johnny in my head. It's so fuckin awesome every second of it, I could just wander the streets for days on end. I found a npc who plays guitar and they fully animated him playing it down to the fingerling of the chords and picking the right strings. He plays a electronic guitar unplugged with no amp and the audio track is played on a electric guitar with no amp. It's so accurately animated that I was able to pick up my real guitar and follow along with him, spent like 4 hours jamming with this guy and he's a no name npc that 99.9% of people will miss. If anyone wants to see him he is at the kabuki arena where you fight the twins during Beat on the Brat. So damn amazing 💜🖤💜

[@relaxedsack1263]

Soulkiller is so strong, the ability to both lethally engage a target and than still get all the intel from the target.

[@TimmyDisorder]

Which is why the narrative nerf (Alt and Soulkiller becoming an AI and then fucking off into the Net) is perfect and absolutely effective.

[@cyberbeep5187]

really puts into prospective some of the story elements of 2077. Interested to see more.

[@brainrot4919]

These videos are underrated. They've added alot more context to the world of the game I've been really invested in and addicted to for the past few weeks, making my playthrough even more enjoyable, so thanks for that and you did good work on these. Your really good at conveying the lore and your voice really suits the Cyberpunk vibe aswell btw.

[@chadhardt6136]

>economically strong argentina. truly, a dark future ahead.

[@qhethacoalspitter8935]

Not really, considering that Argentina went back again toward the martial law, which the argentinian ambassador had to sell *everything* so he can go into Hiding, which it's the reason why you get the most expensive in-lore car in the world by cheap in the in-game lol

[@Krubarax]

Hey man! I just found your channel and I had a few pints, so I feel inclined to say a few words. First of all - love your work - I watch a lot of lore videos from many different franchises One thing though many have in common, is that you guys apolegize for making "long videos" I can tall you right now - no one comes in to a Lore video and expect to hear "these are the bad guys and these are the good guys. that's it, thanks for watching" I would LOVE these videos to be 1.5 hours PLUS! Give it all you got man! Keep it up! Personally I rarely watch any lore videos of any franchise, whatever it might be, that are less that 40 minutes long. It's just not enough time to go itno the details and soak up the background stories. If I got to make a wish > I would love to listen to a 1 hour video of KANG TAO corporation and a deep dive into their different weapons! Again - great work! Hoping for a real deep-dive the next time! o/

[@ElementalAlchemy]

100%, this. I love long form lore videos.

[@justanoldsnufkin9747]

Thanks for making it ❤ your videos on the Cyberpunk lore are the best

[@TheLemartes]

Well the story of Arasaka tower ties in to the story in game, this would imply however that Silverhand was working with the US Gov, I wonder if we get to see that connection in upcoming expansion to the game.

[@xinniethep00h]

That’s kind of the ironic thing in the Johnny Silverhand story. He hates corporations, specifically Arasaka so much he was willing to do whatever to bring them down. Militech took advantage of this and gave him the tools needed to complete his plan in bombing Arasaka. In the end Johnny was really just being used as a pawn by the corporations he so despised to do their bidding. Plus it is said in the game that what you see through Silverhands eyes during those missions isn’t exactly the truth of how things went down.

[@ct9564]

@@xinniethep00h Yes, it was the far cooler and badass Morgan Blackhand who was in the team (Teams A & B) that had the bomb. He was also the one who had an epic fight with Adam Smasher (Blackhand is mostly meat) and after the dust settled Smasher came out and Blackhands whereabouts or state is unknown. Its seems as though Smasher killed him, though theyve squared off before with Blackhand able to escape/elude him.

[@oldylad]

@@ct9564heard this theory and it makes the most sense to me. Basically, Johnny was caught and had his soul ripped. Afterwards (and what we see in game) Blackhand is caught by smasher, and everything after is him. Basically, Johnny was put onto the chip and some of Blackhand memories got mixed in. Reason they aren’t both present in memories prior is because they were both there. The relic can only effectively hold the one engram, but black hands memories being on there as well would explain things and fit the lore

[@TimmyDisorder]

In the source stories Johnny is cut in half by Smasher without so much as a sneeze. Don’t believe the engram. The only one who thought that everything was about Johnny Silverhand was Johnny Silverhand.

[@danielhogan6255]

Johnny got shotgun blasted in two, lore states he had a shocked face on him when he got split in half...and spider murphys last moments with him are eerily similar to hanako's last moments with yorinobu. My hypothesis flies in the face of popular opinion, but i reckon spider soulkilled a near braindead johnny, and used that as a bargaining chip to get in with arasaka so she could piece alts code back together and free A.I Alt from mikoshi.

[@The_PaleHorseman]

I like cyberpunk even if everyone else dogs on it. Like these lore videos too.

[@snailcorepistolwhippits9488]

Dude really digging these lore videos. Seems like the games a bunk representation of the lore. Def wanna play the tabletop.

[@WatchmanGamingLore]

Yeah, the game is kind of a weird island in the lore, where by 2077 a lot of things have actually sort of reverted to what they were like in the 2020 setting. Cyberpunk Red wasn’t released until last fall, so there probably wasn’t that much they could do about it, but still I think the 2045 setting sounds a lot more interesting.

[@raoul404]

I suggest trying the game! It really is a great vessel for the lore I promise

[@JFIn42]

The way cdpr approaches lore is consistent within their various game's designs. It's there if you want to seek it out and spend hours reading instead of playing the game. 😂

[@xTraexEdge]

I feel like I'm watching The History Channel in the best way possible. All this lore is pretty cool.

[@JaycodaJr]

thanks for this alternate timeline history lesson.

[@bgabrielgrimes8847]

Thank you for this lore deep dive!

[@Metalner]

I only wish more attention was paid to space in the videogame. Space Africa just sounds so cool.

[@foreverdirt1107]

Thank you 4 this amazing content

[@OCMOOO]

If CD Projeckt had budget and sense they should work with Trigger again for a prequel series

[@FashionEnemy]

You got 4K today. Keep going. 🕊

[@HCG]

This series is really well done, nice job. No idea why your channel doesn’t have more views.

[@pseudoleviathan5923]

Love the content . You have a kofi or something?

[@Becks670]

Top quality content!

[@Shepardyte]

Looking forward to your vid on the 4th Corporate War.

[@halloweye4613]

Hey choomba quality content! Thanks! Though I have a question to ask you. I'm building my own Cyberdeck here in the real. I live in colorado springs a city the was hit in an orbital strike during the first Orbital War, as you know. I was wondering if you know of any lore for the war. Like any pictures of the gear they used or anything. I'm almost desperate. 😂 reguardless thanks for the preem content!

[@WatchmanGamingLore]

Glad you enjoyed it! Basically the war was fought all in orbit, mostly between the Americans and Soviets. I couldn’t find any images for it specifically, but if you want to see what the spaceships look like roughly you might look for scans of the Deep Space sourcebook. That has the best images of ships and space gear for the 2020 setting.

[@halloweye4613]

@@WatchmanGamingLore yea that's about all that I have found so far. If I get brave enough to post a video about my deck I will send you a shout out. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@jacpas2012]

Dome Dwellers losing contact with the outside sounds normal to me. But if I heard a speech about “being entitled to the sweat on your own brow” I can guess what happened.

[@paulustrucenus]

1:39 OOF I don't know who came up with that name for the french company, but that person was NOT french. Unless the French language from the cyberpunk universe is different from how it is in our universe.

[@MrLittlePredator]

Why is that? There's no corporation equivalent in french?

[@paulustrucenus]

@@MrLittlePredator Because they use a word that is similar to a real word except it's very badly written. Not because of a typo, but because of someone trying to make an adjective out of a noun but failing. It may not be very clear so here's an example : imagine a company that has in its name "gamation" instead of "gaming".

[@danielhogan6255]

@@paulustrucenus ooof indeed.

[@dimmacommunication]

Since cyberpunk is a really old tought , back then Japan had the best tecnology with USA so I get it now why Arasaka is top tier military tecnology

[@danielhogan6255]

yeah there ya go! Its retro/future instead of future/retro vis a vis fallout... Picture 80's fashion, wearable cassette tapes, cyberware...and the ominous red sky over a desert road leading away from a city seemingly made of broken neon signs flickering in the distance..

[@nickh3205]

Hey I was wondering? What happened to the rest of Canada? I know BC joins the Pacific confederation, but what about the other provinces and territories?

[@xTheUnderscorex]

It's great how Night City is one of the less interesting parts of the setting

[@Stalker6622]

Visiting the remnants of the old arasaka building under the memorial 👍

[@ShadowOfDeath33]

Where?

[@iforget_2780]

7 Hour war. half life 2 lore reference moment?

[@puffpuffpass3214]

I was having flashbacks to unforseen consequences

[@formulatheprod2659]

Nope

[@sicko990]

Here after watching Cyberpunk edgeruner

[@dimmacommunication]

and 2045 to 2077 ?

[@WatchmanGamingLore]

Planning on it. I’ve been hesitant since there is actually very little information. The game and the 2077 world book really only give insight about things happening in Night City and the United States, and only from 2060s onward.

[@warkito]

very entertaining

[@SusCalvin]

The UK had a counter-revolution to its military junta, with a return of the royal family.

[@ideaalted1554]

Wait, since they have Wells in soulkiller killed doesn’t arasaka know exactly what you have done since the heist?

[@mongolhorde5827]

What

[@danielhogan6255]

jackies engram wasnt complete, badly damaged from putting in, then removing the chip i think. As a result hes currently a low priority engram in mikoshi. Only repeats certain phrases from previous memories.. Like out of sync random stuff.. The engram isnt exactly as interactive as johnny's because of this. Heck brendan the s.c.s.m is more interactive than jackie welles' engram.. Another reason to do the sun ending. Saka got it coming. For Johnny. For Jackie. For David. For the Craic.

[@smitty2752]

Song in the background?

[@ShadowOfDeath33]

The soundtrack

[@m1sz3lpl24]

Night City by REL, intro and outro song (also sometimes in background) is part of the soundtrack from Mass Effect 3 Citadel

[@mikethetooth]

why no 2024?

[@therealnmg]

Man, the Philippines sucks around that time eh.

[@McKronenberg]

where is Part 3 ?

[@WatchmanGamingLore]

The thought was to wait until DLC to see if we got more details, that took a lot longer than I thought… now I hear Mike Pondsmith wants to put out a 2077 sourcebook at some point… Not sure yet tbh

[@gibby3767]

@@WatchmanGamingLore need more videos on cyberpunk

[@fffrrraannkk]

@@gibby3767 For sure. The world of Cyberpunk is awesome. Pondsmith did a great job. I'm glad it's become so popular because the guy deserves it.

[@gibby3767]

@@fffrrraannkk he really did, i had to get the games source book just to read, i wish i had friends who didnt think shit like ttrpgs are cringe and would play cyberpunk 2020 or red with me

[@gibby3767]

@@fffrrraannkk but yea this game and lore made me check out more cyberpunk media, which led me to neuromancer which cemented my love for cyberpunk, and theres a 4hr long series on the cyberpunl genre by indigo gaming and its so good ive listened to it like 10 times while doing things and playing the game

[@ericcastro1600]

So v is……canadian?!?

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

With 2077 was more a rpg!

[@alasdairbell4354]

It would be so cool if the legacy of most of the people sent to space being African appears in Highrider culture, like would they have Afro-Futuristic architecture n shit?

[@bigbrotherboo8077]

Hell yea Africa

[@The29Dave]

those polish hacks really botched the whole thing all of this cool shit and you get nothing of it in-game

[@matthewkudray4840]

You get some from datashards, of course they’re not gonna be as in depth as a video but the lore is there if you’re willing to look

[@Asimoori]

Nah I’ve found a lot of this lore through shards 😂 so it’s there just not in the way you like it to be

[@darthvoltaius]

What does the fact that they’re polish have anything to do with it?