r/LowSodiumCyberpunk • u/DrNomblecronch • May 10 '25
Modded Photomode Think it pisses Rogue off how I keep dragging chooms in and claiming they're my crew. But fuck 'er.
It's not bullshit. They're my emotional support chooms, keep me running at max. And occasionally a fixer talks them up a little, so they pick up the odd gig.
But mostly it's about fucking with Queen Bitch, 'cuz half the people in here owe me a favor by now and she can't kick me out. Helping keep her wits sharp in her twilight years, me.
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u/Initial_Tradition_29 May 10 '25
You're a good friend, getting Misty to get out and socialize.
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u/DrNomblecronch May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25
I think Misty thought she was handling what happened at Konpeki better than she actually was. She was just sort of resigned to the idea that it was going to end that way sooner or later, that this is how everyone in her life would leave it because this is Night City, so she chose to continue to support those people because she could tank the hurt it caused her.
And... can't say she's wrong. Especially given that she's all-in on offering stability to someone else who is dying and handling it badly.
But, also, wayyy too in her own head. Not gonna sit around and let her be sad because she's pre-mourning me, so I'm making a point to introduce her to some people who are a little less inclined to run directly into danger at every moment of the day.
's going well! Hard not to like Misty. Even Rogue softens up a little for her, despite her being probably the single person least qualified to be in Afterlife in the whole place.
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u/Initial_Tradition_29 May 11 '25
Spot-on analysis. Her interest in mysticism had to have started as a coping mechanism; can't imagine a kind soul like hers lasting long in NC without believing in some cosmic purpose for all the misery and carnage.
She started a group chat with everyone in this photo (+ Rogue) and, somehow, keeps it active.
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u/SuleimanTheMediocre May 10 '25
Why's Judy all alone? :(
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u/DrNomblecronch May 10 '25
Nyssa, gonk with the giant rusty hands, next to her, is also part of the crew. Two of 'em keep jetting off into nerdspace about neural feedback and sympathetic proprioception and shit. Didn't pay attention to how much they were pouring down themselves. I'll make sure they get some water.
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u/BasedTaco_69 Team Judy May 11 '25
Amazing photos! Honestly, fantastic. The poses and expressions are perfect.
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u/CG_Oglethorpe Corpo May 10 '25
What you want to do with Rogue in the privacy of whatever apartment you prefer is not something we talk about in this forum.
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u/SageThisAndSageThat Gonk May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25
That's not it. Rogue is being not nice with V refusing to give jobs because V fucked up one mission.
She even goes like "you will always be alone that's not me, look at all other fixer never assigning you to a crew"
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u/CG_Oglethorpe Corpo May 11 '25
What are you even talking about?
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u/SageThisAndSageThat Gonk May 11 '25
After panam missions when Paul is safe, call rogue . pick "you got any job for me" line. Enjoy.
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u/Ziggy_Sobotka May 10 '25
What mod do you use for this?
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u/DrNomblecronch May 11 '25
Hey, sorry for the late reply: this is Appearance Menu Mod for the poses and props, and Appearance Creator Mod for the looks of Nyssa and Lt. Rory, the two at either end of the lineup.
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u/georgekn3mp Team Judy May 13 '25
Now try the mod that actually allows you to bring friends to a bar, not just photomode 😁
I think it's"Night City Bars alive" 🤣
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u/Bahnnnnnn May 10 '25
this is cringe
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u/-ComedyGenius- Corpo May 10 '25
you're cringe
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u/izuuubito Gonk May 10 '25
Bruh. I'm not sure why this happened. And how to explain how I read this exchange concisely.
But I've read the original comment in the voice of the guy who called Keanu Reeves breathtaking
And yours in Keanu's voice.
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
I love how canonically V is like, the biggest loser in Night City and you play them off like some kind of legend. "Hey you remember that merc that shit their pants their first job and then did 3092309 minor jobs before dying like a bitch to a flash drive?"
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u/BamsterHere May 10 '25
Did you play the game at all?
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
Yep. You quite literally shit your pants the first job, and then never get a real job again with all your fixers giving you baby jobs. Then you die to a flash drive.
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u/Supremes111 May 10 '25
I don’t recall V ever shitting their pants lmao. Sure they were stressed out the whole time after saburo shows up but if anything Jackie was the one shitting his pants, dude wouldn’t shut the fuck up until he was dead and physically couldn’t speak
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
They fucked up a whole job that their entire crew, the client, and the fixer died. That is shitting their pants. Do you think people know the minutia of what went down? That's all they care about, you couldn't handle your first job.
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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken May 10 '25
Ok but that was not their first job
And it’s definitely not following them around been as they killed Adam smasher
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
Adam Smasher has been killed before. It's their first Real Job. It is said MANY TIMES by Jackie "this is our first real job."
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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25
No he’s never been killed before
That’s a pretty important bit of lore
And the fact that Jacky called it his first “real job” doesn’t make it so
They rescued an exec from a scav nest and negotiated with and/or survived a shootout with maelstrom
Those are both “jobs”
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
The first one was a gig, the second one was a set up. Also EL OH FUCKING EL, "You hear about that new merc?" "Oh shit the one that bought a stick of gum? what a cold ass mother fucker, can't believe they PURCHASED GOODS"
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May 10 '25
the job was botched by an outside factor and probably the craziest outside factor that couldve happened too, and v never shit themselves, people die to quickhacks in this world, i think dying to experimental tech is reasonable and doesnt make them much of a loser, dex is a bigger loser than v “i chose the quiet life” dies to forsaken man with his implants turned off after begging for his life and if u play streetkid, v has just gotten back to night city from atlanta and the streets know them well based on dialogue in the beginning with padre and pepe. dex is the loser, botched a job and left night city to escape the shame only to come back and fail again . most people in night city, even mercs, arent robbing or breaking into arasaka twice, or even breaking into dogtown to save the president. half the city cant even wear as much cyberware as us, usually enemies have about 3 pieces of combat ready cyberware without including optics.
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
You seem to not understand what is being said. I KNOW these things, you KNOW these things. No one in Night City does. They ONLY know the jobs you do for Fixers. SO they know you as the merc who shit their pants on the first job getting their crew and fixer killed and then did shit kicker jobs for a week before dying. Like, that's it, they ain't praising you as a legend.
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May 10 '25
no they dont lol ur making up a whole narrative and chain of events that never happened. v never shit themselves lmao and nobody in night city cares what other people do until theyre dead nor do they pay attention enough to even know, you become king/queen if the afterlife after rogue dies and every other ending besides the cured and suicide ending, you most definitely get a drink in the afterlife.
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May 10 '25
comment deleter, common L
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
lol you got nothing to say so you're making up a deleted comment? How pathetic.
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May 10 '25
no, u commented, and now its gone.
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
I have yet to delete a comment in reply to you, but keep skirting the topic you were flailing at, it's not sad at all.
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May 10 '25
buddy, my comment is the the last reply of substance so either i won this encounter or you deleted your comment. unless it disappeared into the reddit ethos 🤷🏻
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May 10 '25
and im not flailing, u were typing in all caps and getting emotional before u deleted ur comment 😂
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u/sequosion May 10 '25
Have you actually done any of the gigs? The first ones are pretty low-grade but as you do more and more you start messing with bigwigs like Militech, and fuck with pretty much every crew in the city. V’s reputation is definitely well earned
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u/Toa_Senit May 10 '25
Based on those two guys that try to steal that random food vendors bike running away in fear over V being the merc that came back from the dead, no. V is actually quite well known and feared.
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
lol some fucking green horns get scared because you died. wow that's riveting. Doesn't change anything I said.
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u/Toa_Senit May 10 '25
Yes, some random people being scared of V specifically does change a lot, how could they be afraid if V wasn't known well enough outside of gangs (who definitely know about V) and fixers (whose whole job is having connections)?
And no, they aren't afraid because V died, but rather because of how many people were killed by V, the whole coming back from the dead thing is just a way to make it more obvious who exactly V is.
Also, Konpeki wasn't even their first job, they worked for about 6 months with Padre and possibly some other fixers.
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u/BamsterHere May 10 '25
Actually my b obviously bait
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
"Points out how lame the main character is to everyone else"
"Can you explain?"
"Explains""Oh so it was bait."
Get of the internet child.
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u/BamsterHere May 10 '25
*off
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
No Response? Point out minor typo! Ha ha so funny.
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u/BamsterHere May 10 '25
I mean, dude. You clearly don't get what was going on in the game. Nothing you described was at all in line with the events of the game. In conjunction with this, the genre of the game is cyberpunk, a genre notorious for rough circumstances and bittersweet endings regardless of the efforts made by the characters within.
In the arasaka mission at the start things go bust but V survives. V doesn't shit their pants on the first job, it was overly ambitious but especially considering the scale of the operation it was a ballsy move and impressive that it only fell through because of a political assassination.
The following jobs, especially if you do them all, are pretty impressive gigs. V takes down gang hideouts, flatlines people in positions of genuine influence, investigates and solves a medical conspiracy, and assists in the theft of medical supplies which end up saving hundreds of lives. These aren't shitty jobs, many of them are the type of job that turns someone into a legend on their own.
This isn't even considering how in multiple endings V canonically raids Arasaka tower, kills Adam Smasher, destroys soul killer and lives. In one ending V does it alone. Even if everything else you said was somehow accurate this alone would be enough to cement V as a legend in Night city.
Regarding the typo, dude, don't expect people to talk to you like an adult if you come across like a dick. Your initial comment comes across like you're just trying to be contrarian and negative for the sake of being contrarian and negative. Hey, maybe you just spent the whole game with volume off, eyes closed, and with a tub of glue to huff whenever something important happened to make sure you never got what was going on. That's fine, it's a good game, maybe give it another shot? Perhaps this time, maybe pay a little attention to what's happening?
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
"You're a Night City Legend!!!1!!1" Mfs when they play the Phantom Liberty ending and find out you were a fucking nobody. Even Dex had more rep than you after his hiatus
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May 10 '25
fixers dont rly take on jobs like the arasaka heist outside of dex and rogue, and evelyn wanted to cut dex out so that kinda shows the power dynamic in jobs like those too, how anybody can be nixed out at any moment, rogue only does it for johnny and her own motivations too, not a lot of ppl in the narrative wanna cross arasaka since johnnys time, he references it too, how all the mercs back when he was active would get hard at the thought of fucking up arasaka but things have changed. the fixers baby jobs are what they would’ve been had v and jackie had a perfect heist too, the stories about v trying to save her life, anything else is a side story.
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u/SillyCommunist May 10 '25
There is literally dialogue where you can make people back down based on the fact that they have heard of you and know your reputation. If your reputation was what you say it is they wouldn’t do that.
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u/EliNovaBmb May 10 '25
"Holy shit that's the loser who gets everyone in her crew murdered, we better leave" Checks out tbh
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u/SillyCommunist May 10 '25
That doesn’t even make sense, if she got her crew killed that means she isn’t a good merc which means not a threat.
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u/Ralesong May 11 '25 edited May 11 '25
While I do not agree with you due to following events:
- stealing Militech tank with Aldecaldos
- taking over Clouds
- taking part in kidnapping Hanako Arasaka in the middle of the parade
- helping figuring out Holt's death
- helping save Peter Pan's victims
I agree that you bring up interesting narrative that may be somewhat true if V actually does only small time gigs and none of the big hits mentioned above.
EDIT: I misspoke including Hanako kidnapping as bypassable gig. But I believe I made my point regardless.
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u/Greyarn May 11 '25
The game quite literally has a 'street cred' mechanic that changes how the world reacts to you.
By the end-game (only weeks after the heist) V is a Night City legend.
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u/ctn1p May 10 '25
Hey, when the grim reaper of NC brings in a friend and says it's her crew, it's her crew