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Cyberpunk 2077 Lore – The Net, Netrunning Gear & Rache Bartmoss!

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All about Netrunning, the state of The Net, the latest gear to traverse cyberspace and the mastermind hacker Rache Bartmoss will be dissected in today’s Cyberpunk 2077 lore video!

Before the 4th Corporate War, The Net was a robust global communication network that was able to transmit and store all kinds of data. Net access via a traditional computer or cybermodem and interface were the methods in which you could access the Net and it’s infinite potential. A cybermodem allowed you to view the net in 3 dimensions, and accelerated data transfer rates for virtually no latency from brain to machine.

The Net was divided and fragmented after the events of the 4th Corporate War, largely due to one of the most brilliant and paranoid Netrunners of all time, Rache Bartmoss. He likely created the Demon and Hound series of programs, both with the ability to track and kill netrunners.

There are many rumors circulating on Rache’s death, but there is no debate on how his demise triggered one of the most cataclysmic events for the net. In the moment Rache died, his life-support system ceased sending delay codes, unleashing a flurry of advanced programs, namely the RABIDs into the net, corrupting data, damaging files, scattering them across the Net & frying all netrunners that were connected to the Net at the time. These RABIDs of Roving Autonomous Bartmoss Interface Drones were sleeper programs that when awakened were designed to create as much havoc in the net destroying as much data as possible, leading to a net wide DataKrash. Distributed randomly through cyberspace, this meant that any hope to combat it relied on an airtight emergency protocol. No such protocol existed and by the time one did, it was much too late and the net was irreparably damaged.

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Cyberpunk 2077 News – Senior Quest Designer CLARIFIES Misinformation, New Characters & New Song!

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Clearing up some misconceptions about a Q&A Podcast from German Magazine GameStar where there were alleged information on Cyberspace combat, a detail about Night City’s thousands of NPCs, the revamped melee system and more, Cyberpunk 2077’s ratings in the middle east, a new song by samurai, and the Cyberpunk 2077 Limited Edition Console and an awesome add on it comes with all in todays Cyberpunk 2077 News!

First up we have a reddit post which got a ton of traction online and that we actually covered in the past Cyberpunk 2077 Community Podcast. In it the original poster had translated what appeared to be a new GameStar+ podcast featuring Miles Tost and Philipp Weber.

Now GameStar+ is premium paywalled content, and so non-members actually didn’t have access to it, and additionally it was all in German. It was mistranslated, but not before it was picked up by a ton of people including big media outlets.

Now the stand out points from the article were that Cyberspace Netrunning battles would involve summoning RPG-esque creatures, and programs, that thousands of NPCs had daily routines and that the melee system had received a big overhaul. What most people didn’t see however, was Senior Quest designer Philip Weber addressing this information on reddit and twitter as being mistranslated. In a response to a VG247 article containing the misinformation he responded specifically to the Cyberspace battle part as information based on a mistranslation and that it is not correct.

The reddit user directly apologized to Weber to which he responded with no problem at all, just wanted to make sure to clarify so the proper info is out there. I can’t go into detail how these systems actually work, but I am sure there will be more news about Cyberpunk soon with the Night City Wire. SO essentially take all this information from this thread with a grain of salt.
I know we were pretty excited about this info on the last podcast even though we did mention that it wasn’t confirmed, but hopefully battles in cyberspace, npc routines and the melee system are still going to impress however CDPR chooses to implement it.

Moving on we have some updates via the IMDB page for Cyberpunk 2077 on potential new characters. We’ve talked about updates to the IMDB page a couple of times before with characters like Vazquez and Doctor Paradox popping up on the page, but this time we have what seems to be an Asian woman named Wakako Okada played by Ren Hanami as well as Mateo played by Antonio Alvarez. Obviously not much to note about these characters other than they have appeared on the page and may be in the game and that there is quite the cultural diversity so far, which is on par with the diversity we’ve seen so far in 2077 footage.

Moving on we have a brand-new song release from Samurai, Johnny Silverhand’s band in Cyberpunk 2077. This is still as far as I know unlisted on the Cyberpunk 2077 youtube channel, and is named the Ballad of Bucky Rogers? Here’s a snippet of this brand-new rock song by the REFUSED who are creating the music for the fictional in game band.

Next we have a new rating board giving Cyberpunk 2077 the go ahead to be released. The UAE who have historically been pretty harsh when it comes to games ratings did not ban Cyberpunk 2077 from being released their, so for my middle eastern friends you won’t have to jump through hoops to get your cyberpunk fix. This is coming off the heels of the middle east banning the last of us 2. We’ll leave the speculations on why to the community and chalk it up as a win for CDPR’s upcoming title.

Next up we have some news about Stadia. Cyberpunk 2077 will not launch on Stadia, on September 17th and has been pushed back till an unknown date at the end of the year. There doesn’t seem to be an explanation from google either, so if you are a stadia player, that’s a definite bummer. Stadia has been a pretty big failure on google’s end, and I don’t really have faith in the product. If you do own only a stadia but want to play 2077 on release on a budget consider getting a cheap console.

Segwaying nicely here we have the release of the Xbox One limited edition Cyberpunk console that was just released. Not only does it look high tech, but there’s also a ton of easter eggs on the console itself when its under a UV light. Not only does the console look great, but it also comes with a free expansion. Some outlets were mentioning free DLC, but DLC is free for all, so yes the first Cyberpunk expansion that drops will be yours free of cost if you end up picking up this console. Stock seems to be going quickly, so if you get the chance to grab one it might be a good idea.

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Cyberpunk 2077 – Netwatch, Cybersecurity & The Blackwall! (Lore!)

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Netwatch, Cybersecurity, The Net, Rache Bartmoss and the Black Wall will be the topic of todays Cyberpunk 2077 lore video. Well unpack Netwatch’s role in 2013 and 2020 and move onto what they have transitioned into doing in 2077 with some theorizing to go with it.

Netwatch is a policing organization, which was initially a private entity heavily sponsored by corporations. Founded in 2013 in a joint US & Eurotheatre treaty, NNetwatch is tasked with patrolling the Net in search for illegal activity, rogue hackers and general computer crime. NetCop netrunners work in tandem with corporations, the government and large organizations in this attempt to protect all the beats of the net. These beats have expanded far and wide and cover cities, regions and continents. Arresting anyone associated in illegal activity on the Net is the role of Netwatch, but they are also known to use black programs and malicious software to main their opposition if necessary.

Netwatch operators are paid a base salary but collect bounties on felons captured while on duty. They do have specific titles to distinguish their efficacy including Wolves, Weasels & Icemen. Operating anonymously is important for operators and thus each of their icons are the same within the Net.

Ops typically run in packs of 2-3. If a NetCop is running by himself, he is either very good or very cocky. Just as an aside, Bryce Mosely, the NetCop from the deep dive demo seems to be operating with only the help of The Animals to stop the Voodooboys from breaching the Net, and he also seems to be a Wolf based off of some comments from these gang members.

The job description of Netwatch operators are to immobilize net criminals by involving the local police or sometimes corporate security to go pick them up for arrest after they’ve been tracked down. NetCops can use programs that can freeze a netrunners cyberdeck in a loop, making him or her unable to jack out until the program allows for it. This is the digital equivalent to handcuffs and makes arrests far easier.

When things do not go as smoothly as this, “Net show downs “occur where black ice and malicious programs are traded like gunfire between ops and other Netrunners.

Rache Bartmoss was a particular thorn in the side of Netwatch in 2020, who was coined as one of the greatest hackers in the world and who invented the Demon and Hound series of programs. Rache was a mastermind netrunner and was keen in adding his own digital footprint into the net by creating backdoors and entrances in locations only he knew about so he could traverse the net with covert chaos.

Knowing how risky this was, he set up a deadman switch just incase he got flatlined, that would in tern release a virus known as the Rabbids, a program which released self-replicating rogue AIs into the net. 2 weeks after Rache was actually killed in the early 2020s the switch triggered and the DataKrash occurred.

Whilst AIs can be fairly docile, the Malware unleashed by Rache was far from it and by 2022 78.2% of the net was infected by the DataKrash Virus. Naturally this was a huge security concern for NetWatch and the corporations who had interests in protecting their data and secrets, and although NetWatch attempted to quarantine areas of the net and contain the ability for this virus to spread, By 2045 they had lost the battle. The net is fully sectioned off by 2077 where America now relies on subnets constructed in the 2030s in reclaimed cities. These CitiNets are far more secure than the old net.

Moving on we also have the Blackwall. The Blackwall is a wall of ICE or counter intrusion software enacted to keep the AIs unleashed by Bartmoss isolated within the net.

In 2025 Alt Cunningham, Johnny Silverhand’s ex-girlfriend established what is called the Ghost World in the ruins of Hong Kong, which the Chinese government put a 100 foot-wall around to keep isolated. Last we know about Alt was that her consciousness was absorbed by The Soulkiller, a black program developed by Arasaka to imprison netrunners in oddly the same year NetWatch was founded in 2013.

This is where it gets interesting. By 2026 AIs start to ocassionally creep out of the old net to seek out other AIs to join this “ghost world”. It may seem that leading up to 2077, AIs have been looking to pull other sentient AIs into the ghost world which presumably lies behind the Blackwall for a particular reason. What’s even more intriguing is that at the end of the Cyberpunk 2077 2019 demo, Alt Cunningham herself is trying to breach the Blackwall to meet with Silverhand, V and the Voodooboys.

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Cyberpunk 2077 – 8 Things You Missed In The Gameplay Sneak Peek Trailer!

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In today’s Cyberpunk 2077 video we are going over 8 Things you missed in the Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Sneak peek trailer. If you guys haven’t seen it yet it is an unlisted video on the Cyberpunk 2077 channel, but we did see it live at E3 prior to the release date reveal.

First we have a look at what could be lootable books in the world of Night City. It seems like paperback books have not ceased to exist in the dark future, and in the character creation hybrid scene for the demo, we see a stack of 3 books and another book cover as the view pans to male V. Now we could have books here because the area is in Pacifica which is a poverty-stricken gang infested district, and it could lack more technological innovations and chips previously seen but that’s just my speculation. The books we see is Sayonara station, rewiring synaptic pathways, the chronicles of titania and the maxtac way. Sayonara means goodbye and is borrowed from Japanese. The maxtac way is likely an interesting book on the methodologies of the Psycho squad who are also referred to as the maxtac. These are the scariest law enforcement group in Night City who focus on hunting down and killing Cyberpsychos who are on murderous rampages under the grip of Cyberpsychosis. Next we have the chronicles of titania, again not really sure what this would be about, Although Titania is the name of a character in Shakespeares play a midsummers night dream. At the top we have rewiring synaptic pathways, which as someone who loves psychology intrugies me. Rewiring neural pathways is a pretty common practice in rehabilitative psychology. Again this might have something to do with Cyberpsychosis as cyberpsychos usually need braindance as a rehabilitative method, which is essentially reqiring your neural pathways using hyper realistic VR.

Next up we have a sports arena in the background of this shot somewhere in Pacifica. In a couple of frames we see that there is a athlete wearing what looks like Football gear, and we know that combat sports are a part of the lore of Cyberpunk. We also see the teams which seems to be the corsairs versus a team whose logo is a dragon in the shape of an S which seems to represent San Diego, but regardless this seems to be confirmation that there will be sports other than boxing in the world. Now Pacifica is pretty run down so it’s also possible the advertisements has just been left there unchanged for a long period of time and sports were a big thing in this district BEFORE it turned into a hellhole.

Next up we have a little placeholder from the movie theatre scene where you are holding up NetWatch agent Bryce Mosely. If you guys remember the E3 2018 art for Cyberpunk 2077s on site booth, youll remember that this was exactly what they had inside. The theatre is projecting the same image, and I’m going to assume it’s a placeholder and there will be a legit movie playing when we get in the game. Obviusly there seems to be a ton of movie posters in the world, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

Next we have an audio snippet during the trailer when meeting Placide. Male V can be heard saying Mr. Hand sent me am I right for the job. Now this got me thinking as to which Hand V is referring to. It would be obvious to assume Johnny Silverhand, who is the digital ghost AI attached to the immortality chip in Male V’s brain, but we also recently got an image where the possibility of Morgan Blackhand was questioned. If this scene in the screenshot is before our expedition to Pacifica, maybe Morgan Blackhand is part of the story and is sending us on a mission of some sort.

Next we have the hacking sequence where Male V jacks int the panel. If you look very closely, this panel belongs to Petrochem one of the biggest megacorporations in Night City that have yet to be confirmed in Cyberpunk 2077, although it is implied with the use of CHOOH2 in our super cars. Petrochem is an Agircorp, and the worlds largest producer of CHOOH2 in Cyberpunk 2020. There’s also some intriguing data on the side, one being the name of Valerie Sutnar writing the program or code for this panel. And the little code at the bottom that resembles steam wallet codes or digital content codes you guys can use to redeem for something online. I tried this on GOG already, although I did notice it a while ago so it’s probably been used if it is a code. Regardless, you can try and test your luck or decipher if that’s what it actually is.

Next we have the BIGGEST revelation of all, the fact that they still use toiler bowl cleaner in Night city.

Finally at the end, we have what looks like the Militech logo as we are netrunning into the deep web with Brigitte and some of the voodooboys. It will be interesting to see if Militech owns a lot of these servers, or if they are funding the Voodooboys and Militech’s involvement into netrunning if any.

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Cyberpunk 2077 – The Dangers Of Night City!

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In todays Cyberpunk 2077 & Cyberpunk video Today we are talking about All the dangers in the treacherous world of Night City. These are some of the people, places and things you have to be incredibly weary of when you are trying to make your way around the city, because they are each in itself uniquely deadly. From drugs and braindance to megacorporations to issues with cyberware and cyberpsychos you always have to watch your back on the streets of Night City.

First up we have some of the drugs and substances that are peddled on the Night City streets. The futuristic drugs in Night City are all designed to be addictive and are all toxic by nature.

While drugs like synthcoke a futuristic variant of cocaine are present in the world of Night City, this is on the bottom of the ladder when it comes to lethality and detrimental side effects.

Smash is the Cyberpunk equivalent to alcohol and is yellow and foamy, comes in cans, and has many of the same effects as our modern day liquor.

At the top of the spectrum are drugs like Dorph and Black Lace.

Dorph is a painkiller which counteracts the effects of stress, pain and stun or shock effects.

Black lace is a high powered version of dorph, and gives the user invulnerability to pain, adrenal rush, and an increased level of poise and composure under stress.

Braindance is futuristic form of VR entertainment and can also have debilitating effects on your life as well. The addiction to these sensory experiences is so powerful that users forget about reality and spend increasing amounts of time living out their wildest fantasies within a braindance recording.

Next we have Cyberware and issues with augmenting the body using a Ripperdoc. Choosing the right ripperdoc is as important as choosing the right type of cybernetic. Illegal ripperdocs have dodgy morals and business practices and lesser known ripperdocs can botch procedures. Things like cyber-rejection, infection, scarring and operation failure exists in the world of installing Cybernetics and is a risk you might have to take when 2077 rolls around. EMP type damage can also short circuit Cybernetics and EMP damage is one of the 4 types in 2077.

Another big danger involved in Cyberware and cybernetics is the potential to install too much. By installing too much, you start to lose your humanity and are at the risk of becoming Cyberpsychotic. CYberpsychos have little to no control of their being and generally turn into murderous overly augmented individuals.

Next we have The Net and just how dangerous it is to be a netrunner. Netrunning is a way of plugging into a 3D interface using a cybermodem and using your digitally assembled icon to traverse cyberspace. Netrunning is usually meant as a way to expose and divulge government and corporate secrets by breaking into heavily firewalled data fortresses to steal these secrets. The deadly part of the Net is that its chock full of hostile netrunners, demon series programs and cyberassassins present in the Net that patrol their specific online areas.

Flatlines, poison flatlines, krash and the Hound series of programs are all used in anti-system or seek and destroy uses and are meant to eliminate and fry personal cybermodems and decks.
Heftier viruses like Black Ice and Soulkiller programs are much more devastating and can leave your consciousness trapped floating in Cyberspace as your body back in the real world decays.

Next we have the gangs of Night City.

Some of the deadliest gangs in Night City are ones who are on the edge of Cyberpsychosis after augmenting themselves too much.

The bozos, a group of killer clowns, have biosculpted their bodies to look like clowns and murder people for their own entertainment. They enjoy torturing people and playing on their anxieties

The maelstrom are a combat gang reliant on pain suppressors, reflex boosters and street modifications including the Red Eye front Optic mount. .

The braniacs are a thinking mans booster gang and prefer skill-chips over clumsier cybernetics. Some of their members are so advanced that they are essentially walking super computers almost in the grip of cerebreal cyberpsychosis.

The Slaughterhouse is one of the worst if not the worst gangs you can come across in Night City. Specilaizing in any body modifications that are sharp, like rippers and vampires.

Finally we have the Megacorporations. In the world of Cyberpunk 2077 these corporations are the law and they call the shots, no matter what district you are in. They aim to get ahead by any means necessary and routinely use methods of sabotage, bribery, blackmail and assassination to get ahead. Manufacturing, tech, agricorps and media corporations are the most powerful in the world of Cyberpunk. Militech, Arasaka, BioTechnica and Media 54 news are some of the strongest Megacorporations, with the dodgiest morals.

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Cyberpunk 2077 – The Net & Netrunning! (Lore Explained!)

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Today we are going to explore The Net and Netrunning and learning about Programs, AI, Data Fortresses, Regions, Cyberdecks, And How The Net Works. This video also highlights how Netrunning works in the Net and how to make your way through The Net safely according to Cyberpunk 2020 and 2077 lore and information.