There is still no straight answer for why he is not cyber-psycho
>>739896375Because he is.
>>739896375you can't lose your humanity if you never had any to start with, anon
>>739896375He has an unnatural high natural resistance. It was mentioned in the anime.
>>739896375he's just built different
>>739896375bill dipperly
>>739896375>There is still no straight answer for why he is not cyber-psychohe is, and it's his default mode. can't get worse than he actually is
Being a psychopath before you even started chroming up makes you immune to it
He was a psychopath long before he ever got any chrome at all.
>>739896375It was explained somewhere that he didn't go cyberpsycho because he's a naturally born Psychopath already. The neurons in his brain aren't wired to go deep into cyberpsychosis.
>>739896375His mind is far too different from the average human to be affected by it. Smasher is quite detached from what we call humanity.
>>739896375you do know there's ton of full borgs in the world in CP2020 - 2077, right? There's actually less Cyberpsychosis now in 2077 than there was in 2020. Full borgs do construction, underwater, police, and military work among other things. There's a shit ton of models but for some reason anime-onlies seem to think everyone gets cyberpsychosis (they don't). I don't even think the anime said that so I don't know where you guys got that from.
>>739896375why did he kill the fake loli? What was the point?
the anime briefly shows smashers real "persona"/"soul"/net avatar in cyberspace:he's basically a demon, or a full natural psycho in more mundane terms
>>739897184Mad Mike's radio show on Morro Rock actually touches on this. He said that Cyberpsychosis should more or less be a thing of the past by now, thanks to all the advancements in Augmentations, what we know about how it can effect the brain, proper countermeasures, etc. The fact that it still is happening (see the Psycho Killer side quest line) is enough to start conspiracy theories about it; planned obsolescence, targeted hits by Corpos, extreme stress by external factors triggering new reactions, etc.
>>739897184Counterintuitively I vaguely remember a rulebook saying that people who are a brain in a jar driving a robot are LESS likely to go cyberpsycho than people who have a bunch of patchwork amputations and augs
I hope he's not actually dead for any potential sequel, hell have him being put on an engram, imagine a small army of this guy
>>739897528even if V kills him at the end, it most likely wouldn't be the first time he "died"
>>739897528I'm very interested to see how they'll handle Mr. John Cyberpunk AKA Morgan Blackhand, he really needs good writing to be presented properly.Otherwise he's just cyberpunk batman
>>739897412if I remember right, the game straight up has notes which says that if they wanted, they could have cured it completely a long time ago. the reason it keeps happening is psychological factors and rushed implementations because many put the wrong chrome in their bodies (either by mistakes or due to people screwing people over)
>>739896375Isn’t the whole point of the cyberpscho quests that it isn’t fully understand, and that most of them just have a fucked up life, that you might expect in a cyberpunk world, or otherwise are just mentally ill people regardless. And also the companies making all the tech give zero fucks what it does to you anyways
>>739897528he's had a suite of replacement bodies in the tabletop for decades
>>739897696in a sense he's basically a blackwall entity in human form: completely alien thoughtprocesses and zero humanity, despite being from meat origins
>>739897472I'm reminded of that one guy from GITS SAC that was just an adorable boxy little quadruped, he was a CEO or some other VIP
>>739897472Could be something like uncanny valley. It's easier to process that you are now full inhuman robot than if you are trying to keep your humanity as you get more and more unnatural.
I was looking at DLC stats and I was really surprised at which ending were the most common picked by peopleFor now it'sWands>>>>>>Pentacle>>>sword>cup
>>739897238She was in the way, that's itFor David and his friends it was a surprise superboss battle the DM cruelly sprung on them resulting in a TPKFor Adam, it was a Tuesday
>>739897941>people falling for the Asian hacker waifunot really that surprising actuallyKinda sad to see Cups being so low, I honestly thought that was the best ending, storywise.
>>739897412No, it literally exists, they just made a fancy word for going postal.The only thing that I'd call "cyber psychosis" is the idea of too many augments at once will make you nuts, which is shown in game, but that could also just be "stress" from having surgery done to you so you go postal.
>>739898228>CupsSame.It requires the most painful-but-ultimately-right choices. So it's no wonder most people don't have the stomach and moral backbone for it.It's also the only ending that removes the gravest blackwall threat in existence.
>>739898624I went with her my first run because it was a 100% agree-with-Johnny runI want to do Reed, but I have never played a hacker and the super cool deck is locked behind picking her so I have to againIt's not like I think she's the right choice or anything
>>739897686as this guy said>>739897412Max Mike is the other character of the creator (his other TTG one being Blackhand) and so he says a lot of 'wink wink nod nod' stuff. One of the possibilities he mentions is planned obsolescence; every time there is an incident, arms and tactical cyberware sales go through the roof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMgLhFQGHcM4:30 for the segment
>>739898797It's not like you need that deckIsn't more like a sidegrade anyhow?
>>739899126practically speaking, it's strictly worse then another other Top Tier deckit does allow you do to this, however;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UHJJHyC04
>>739898797>agree-with-Johnny runHe actually says she's too unstable and dangerous too and don't actually is too pissed at V, or even somewhat agree with his choice even if it's a shit situation, though it might depend on how you played
>>739899213>>739899126it has fun abilities; the game is piss easy even after the hard mode buffs (twice now)
>>739899276I remember him saying you're an asshole if you sell her out, but I've been meaning to replay the DLC so I'll pay more attention
>>739896940It's better than that, he's a corporate sponsored cyberpsycho so it's okay!
Anyone know a mod that lets you swap male/female body purely cosmetically?
>>739899276I think the only DLC ending where Johnny straight gets mad at V is if you first side with Songbird and go to the Spaceport, but then surrender her to Reed. Everything else he's pretty understanding at least, although I will say he's probably the happiest if you send her to the Moon (Wands).
>>739896375Because cyberjunk fucking sucksCyberpunk try so hard to tell how horrible its world is yet i barely see any crime and violence in gameplay, streets are clean, everyone follow traffic law and "bright"city has 0 gang war
I'm the only one who likes the "V shoot himself/Herself" ending? it's a bit of a downer and you miss the final mission but it's also interesting how Johnny is cool with it and even somewhat finding some peace in it, more than in other endings. though you then see everyone else being either grieving or pissed.
>>739899543it is good until you listen to the messages, then the devs really let you know 'THING BAD' in their opinion with no room for ambiguity lol
>>739899665Yeah, it's also why it's the only ending which doesn't give you any achievement.I understand their message, but I think it's a little forced due to how the rest of the game is
why are maelstrom all so oddly pale, is their skin even "alive"?
>>739898008>surprise superboss battle the DM cruelly sprung on them resulting in a TPKThat pasta is so shit because in the actual pen and paper Adam gets creamed all the time
>>739896375He was already flesh psycho before he became cyber.
>>739899769>That pasta is so shit because in the actual pen and paper with shit spineless DM Adam gets creamed all the time
>>739899754With all the badly made surgeries they made to themselves and others, they probably don't care about their skins having permanent issuesSome try to make themselves insane on purpose.
>>739899754Fun fact they are based on skinheads which is why they used to have SS logos.
>>739896375It makes no sense why he has human skin stretched over his head. I mean they obviously did it because robocop, but he was designed to have a friendly image that the public could relate to. This guy is a straight up monster.
>>739899813Shit DM wipes a party for the lulz. Btw le no happy endings is a kurwa forced meme because they can't write to save their subhuman asses and think they're being deep.
>>739897472I can believe it. Patchworks are cheaper, broken down, meshwork. Brain in a jar is "clear".
>>739899940I think he's sexy and i wouldn't mind getting raped by xhim
>>739896375>People still think that cyber-psychocis is realThat anime really did irreparable damage to cyberpunk, most people just lack the media literacy to piece the truth together
You are FORCED to join a gang in night city, who do you join?>Scavs>Voodoo boys>Moxes>Tigger Claws>6th street>Malestrom>Animals>Wraiths>Valentinos>BarghestAldecaldos, Corpos and cops are not allowed to be picked here because it be too easy to pick them (even if it's still bad it's clearly not AS bad)
>>739899940that's a battlesuit. Adam has an Adonis that looks like Elvis, too.
>>739900075barghest is probably the safest bet since they basically got their own city state.
>>739896949Robocain still the absolute best mech/cyborg design
>>739900075Moxes and Valentinos at least have some loyalty to themselves and respect not only pure power/moneyBarghest are the kings of shit heap, which is still better than mostVoodoo Boys are super ethnocentric ("racist"), and their end goal is kinda insane, but at least they have in-group preference.The rest are objectively kinda nasty
>>739900268Yeah but they have to fight the regular police sometimes raiding and also their version of Voodoos and Scavs that are even more dangerous, and also NUSA agents from time to time.And they also live in a giant slum.
>>739900075Animals mudafugga, aint nutting but a peanut
>>7399000756th street. It has structure, rules and they will look after their own, and theyre mostly tolerated by the big corps. Functionally theyre like the old 70's biker gangs, full of ex military guys.
>>739899963>Shit DM wipes a party for the lulzagreed, and DM that cuddles the party and does not punish them for their arrogance is shit as well>no happy endings is a kurwa forced meme because they can't write to save their subhuman asses and think they're being deep.I'm still mad that there's no ending where V and Johnny fuze into a new being, seems pretty post-human and shit to me
Any recent comfy/lore vids?Think I'm all gameplay'd out unless they drop a surprise update/dlc, but still enjoy a video now and then.
>>739898478Cyber psychosis is basically your mind running out of empathy and reaching a stressful enough point, realizing that you're so beyond what a normal human being is capable of, that you just stop self-limiting yourself, so you go full power trip, cut loose and vent out all your pent-up frustrations at the world, or anyone/anything else in particular.It's always been that, which is why you could never get it, as long as you could keep yourself properly in touch with humanity. Mental therapy, sufficiently long breaks between cyberware upgrades or additions, steady lifestyle and you're golden. Hell, the bioware that's popular in Europe practically can't even get you into a cyber psychosis, unless you're literally some poor decade overworked sewage worker who got suddenly forced into an almost full-body bio- makeover, 'cause they're fundamentally designed to not be intrusive metal and electronics 'n shit.The other path is to fundamentally not have a "humanity"/empathy, a.k.a. be born a full psychopath, which is 100% Adam Smasher's case. He's not even that special, since the elite spec ops of not just corpos, but even what remains of the world's governments, are full of similar guys.
>>739900468They are nothing but a cum rag for militech, kinda like the claws are for arasaka
>>739896375"Cyberpsychosis" is just a loss of your sense of self. Adam Smasher is inviolate in his sense of self. He knows who and what he is, and no amount of chrome will change that.
literally right on your face
>>739900573Yeah, but the gangs are either>corpo bitches>various minority group that is insane>crackheadsAnd Im not the right skin color for the valentinos.
>>739896375why doesnt he replace his fleshy head too
>>739900075Voodoo boysmfw Placide picks you up in 2077
>>739901076You're not black enough for him.
>>739900919that's not his real head, I don't think his original body exists at all outside of what's in the pod
>>739901192the voodoo boys are all white with skin mods.>but it was retc-not canon.
>>739901659true, 2077 makes no continuity sense for 2020/RED world statesit's essentially a theme park on par with Fallout 3 to its setting
>>739896375He’s already a high functioning psychopath.
>>739901659you can cope all you want but Pondsmith wrote the lore for 2077. His word>>>>>>>>>>>yours, and that's just the way it is.
>>739897184>>739897472I read that people operating models like his have to be practically lobotomised during usage (they can go back to normal later) because they'll instantly snap otherwise.
>>739900075>ScavsNo real structure, hated by everyone>VDBsWon't let you in>MoxesDon't have any real power, only business is sex work>Tyger ClawsCorporate protection, good gear, very aggressive and their neighbours are maelstrom, so you're likely to be in danger>6th streetRelatively safe choice if you keep your head down>MaelstromGood choice if you're a complete sociopath>AnimalsOn one hand they'll help you get HUGE, on the other your balls will shrink, also they do a lot of dangerous merc work>WraithsAbsolute outcasts even among outcasts, probably the worst choice overall>ValentinosThe best choice, but you need to be latino>BarghestYou're basically joining an army with all the good and bad that brings, pretty safe but you have to live in dogtown.
>>739902204>The best choice, but you need to be latino>Inspired by Chicano culture, their expressive style makes them seem like something straight out of a Mexican barrio. But if you look closer, you'll see anyone can join the gang, no matter their background or ethnicity.
>>739901845NTA but he largely didn't he'd get flown in, check on the progress, give advice and leave because he was working on RED he famously told them not to touch Morgan Blackhand also he was himself surprised by what they did to Voodoo Boys but he said, and I'm paraphrasing, "I LOVE how the actual Haitians reclaimed the symbols of Voodoo and replaced the blackface gang, that was a genius decision"
>>739902204>>Maelstrom>Good choice if you're a complete sociopathYou're gonna have to fill your body with scrap tier chrome, right? They were also having a power struggle during the game.
>gazillion different faction>Not a single gang war in open worldDogshit game
>>739896375he had an extraordinarily low humanity stat which means he couldn't lose what he never had.
>>739896375Isn't he literally a brain in a vat kept somewhere in Japan that remote controls his bodies? Smasher killed in Cyberpunk 2077 isn't real one, its basically a robot controlled by him.
>>739902927Maelstrom initiation ritual is replacing your eyes with as prominent looking chrome as possible, no anasthesia.They do get their hands on advanced chrome, but they'll still be installing it in some basement with no regards to safety and compatibility.>>739903161Maelstrom and Tygers are having shootouts, but they're mostly scripted ones. Outside of Watson gang territory has too clear of a demarcation and a lot more security.
>>739896375He's got a shell built by a single corporation designed to work in tandem, and was put into it by trained engineers and cyberbiologists, rather than a bunch of shit from a variety of corporations attached to him via the back-alley doctor who sterilizes his equipment with cat piss and stares longingly at the wall where his medical lisence never was.That and the guy already has no respect for human life. Though it's honestly a shock that there aren't more of him: 1 in 4 people are Psychotic.
>>739903386no, his pod is in the borgs. There is latency involved with remote control
>>739896375Because cyberpsychosis is a result of mixing random second hand cyborg parts that weren't designed to work together while ignoring all the safety warnings and using 3rd party software to cobble it all together. Combined with the general hopelessness and loss of humanity that comes with living in a cyberpunk dystopia.Adam Smasher has the top Arasaka engineers taking care of him and he's rich and powerful.And he kinda IS a psycho.
>>739903161https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/10395
>>739897678>Otherwise he's just cyberpunk batmanThat's what he is in the TTRPG already, since he's Pondsmith's self-insert Solo.I'm honestly surprised they only had him Never Fade Away and just had Mike be a radio DJ.
>>739896375Because he was already a schizophrenic psychopath.
>>739896375"cyber psycho" is just a buzzword for corporate/government powers to distance themselves from the responsibility of maintaining a society that produces vast amounts of isolated, hopeless and mentally ill people.
>>739896375>not cyber-psycho
>>739896375I play for she
>>739900296agreed
>>739896375Because he’s an actual psycho
>>739896375He is, he just embraces it.
>>739905510I guess all of this website is already cyber-psycho
>>739896375>he is not cyber-psychoHe was already a psycho before he even chromed out.
>>739905510a cyberpsycho wouldn't be able to string that sentence together
>>739896949>nothing but 4 hydraulic rods holding up the entire fucking torsoNever noticed before.
>>739896375Isn't the whole idea that Cyberpsychosis is a load of old bollocks anyway, and it's a manufactured excuse for why so many people with implants who're stuck in a dystopia where even their own bodies are rented and come with terms of use decide there's nothing left to do but turn to crime or go out guns blazing?
>>739896375>why he is not cyber-psychouh....?
>>739896375Because he was already a regular psycho.
>>739896375as is common with most sadists, he had to have some kind of masochistic urge as well. the overload was pleasurable to him, and hence the brain accepts and adapts easier
>>739899665the reactions feel genuine
>>739900065Have you played the game? Cyberpschosis is explained in detail
>>739897528arasaka has probably made an engram of him already with or without his knowledge
>>739896375Cyberpsychosis is literally a coding kill switch. It’s enacted upon the user via virus. It’s literally an ingame daemon dude. Use your brain
>>739912620No, it's when you use too much chrome.
