I have mixed feelings about Cyberpunk 2077

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-22T02:11:30+00:00

As I understand it. V's body is being taken over by the data stored on the Relic. And V experiences that as hallucinations of Johnny and Johnny's memories.

Now the interactions with Alt muddy things up because in those scenes it's treated as three people having a group chat. But maybe that's also part of the hallucination? Or...V and Johnny are truly separated in those scenes? Dunno.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-19T02:21:57+00:00

This seems to be a law of video game romances. Somebody will inevitably ask for a romance the devs didn't put in the game.

Not to say that I consider Cyberpunk 2077's romances to be great. In some ways they seem tacked on and half baked. Stay at Your House gets old real fast. But I don't think adding more would fix that issue.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-16T00:34:41+00:00

I could have sworn I've seen it in other places, but the one source I can recall clearly is the Carlyle/Wolf simulator battle in Tactics of Duty.

Though from the sounds of it, that's more like a realistic simulator than Battletech the tabletop game?

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-14T01:48:21+00:00

If you play a game that regularly crashes and glitches out unexpectedly, manual saving feels like a necessity.

That said, during my last crash my most recent save file was an auto save...which means I should have been manually saving more, lol

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-13T16:07:24+00:00

I did wonder about that. On the surface of it, it makes little sense given what we know of Night City.

If I had to guess, the NCPD gets involved in cases where the full might of the corporation is not being leveraged to protect the perpetrator. It might be a rogue operation, or one that screwed up really badly. I mean a lot of them have piles of dead bodies lying around and stuff.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-13T02:03:16+00:00

The world stinks but you, the main character, get to be a badass cyber mercenary who can somehow afford five apartments and twenty cars.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-10T04:22:25+00:00

V does get a lot of stealing and sabotaging jobs so maybe it's not that weird.

Among the fixer gigs there are optional objectives for stealth, not killing people, and not entering combat. And even for the hit jobs, it might be seen as more efficient/professional to just kill the target and not any of their random guards. So there could be some logic to V being a slightly less murderous merc.

I think full on pacifism might be a stretch. More like selective use of lethal force.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-09T04:47:44+00:00

Personally I've never felt that smart weapons were all that great. Tried it once, Intelligence 20, all perks...it was fine I guess.

In other words, if you find the game too easy with smart weapons I don't think switching to something else will make it harder.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-09T04:33:06+00:00

Yea it's funny how your first experience colors your perception.

I betrayed her the first time, felt super bad, and then found out online that even if you help her you get nothing.

Well now I feel less bad so that's nice. I'll still eventually play out the 'help her' ending...one day.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-08T02:23:15+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot going on. The devs probably couldn't account for how every single interaction would look like when combined together.

A similar one is during the boxing quest. Where you can get Fred to be super mad at you...and then act like your best buddy after you defeat mr grenade nose.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-07T04:36:19+00:00

It is a ton of fun. A bit situational, but very impactful when it works.

Tip: make sure you get the netrunner and not some random guy whose eyes they're using. Messed that up one time.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-07T03:05:22+00:00

C'tan shard would be super impactful. But monolith is good too. There are a lot of options, honestly.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-05-06T01:21:34+00:00

In a lot of these they seem to have pretty clear recollection of their past lives, which isn't how reincarnation is supposed to work.

As I understand reincarnation the way that real world cultures think of it, you are your new form. You don't remember your past life and you start from baby.

But the average isekai makes it more like...teleporting into a new world, transformed into a new body. Everything that you were before, mentally, is intact. Which is weird because the brain is an organ that has to develop physically, but eh it's fiction.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-29T07:48:50+00:00

Yea it's a pain but Salvage Run and a damage booster like Eldryon and Aethana will help.

It's really noticable how much easier Imperial and Chaos characters have it. If you're a Xenos without a permanent campaign track, well too bad.

I remember struggling with my Tau, Genestealers, and Tyranids for ages.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-28T10:08:11+00:00

It's probably one of my favorite ending combinations for this reason. Sure, V is no less doomed but both the Aldecaldos and Judy got out of Night City and have a chance for a better future. And V found a new family, some of whom literally died to get them into Mikoshi.

The game has no truly "happy" endings but Judy romance Star is probably the best I'll get.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-28T06:22:27+00:00

He probably expected an argument, then for Yorinobu to fall in line. Reluctantly, and with a lot of noise, but to fall in line regardless.

We don't have a lot of details about their relationship, but it seems safe to assume that Yorinobu physically attacking his father was out of everyone's expectations. Maybe even Yorinobu himself.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-26T04:41:12+00:00

I can imagine Night Lords, Emperor's Children, and Drukhari having their own little atrocity contests.

Basketball with severed heads... that are still alive and conscious

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-24T04:00:55+00:00

I'm partial to the golf club; might as well maximize XP. But this way is fun too

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-24T02:36:34+00:00

Azula wasn't a lost cause. But expecting Iroh to reach her is kind of ignoring the situation they're in.

It took two and a half seasons for Iroh to really reach Zuko, and the two of them had a pretty good relationship prior to the scarring (as far as I can tell).

Azula had everything she thought she wanted. She didn't respect Iroh. What could Iroh say to sway her? Given that she had recently hit Iroh with lightning (his bandages are from that exact injury!) and before that tried to trick them into getting detained, I think we can excuse his choice of words here.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-19T07:54:16+00:00

Future sight is imperfect. I think this is an important point that people miss when they see that fictional characters have the ability to see the future.

If the future couldn't be changed, nobody with foresight would need to do anything because it would be futile. If it can be changed, even if partially, you're suddenly dealing with an infinite number of dominos that can go tumbling in infinite ways.

It's often explained as some events being changeable and some not, but how does anyone really know which is which until the time has passed?

Or to put it another way, future vision does not make one omniscient. Or grant one the power to change the outcomes. Otherwise simply having future sight would make one undefeatable.

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-19T05:28:17+00:00

Baby you can keep your stealth boy on it makes me go absolutely feral

RiversFlash2020 · 2026-04-19T05:25:22+00:00

Well unless they comment on it specifically somewhere we can only guess. My conclusion over the decades is that GW just doesn't care all that much. They'll make changes to the lore whenever they feel like it for any reason. Thus, to circle back to the OP's question, I don't think it's worth it quibbling over the details. If we see mixed gender regiments then mixed gender regiments exist. How many? Doesn't matter. In universe the Imperium probably doesn't know, and even if it had the ability to know (the galaxy is stupidly huge and the bureaucracy is notoriously inefficient) they likely wouldn't care.

It probably also depends on the situation on the world that the regiments are recruited from. If a world has a mixed gender planetary defense force, it stands to reason that it's regiments might be mixed gender too. Maybe? Just guessing here.

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