Cyberpunk 2077’s greatest thriller has unravelled even additional in Replace 2.0 and the Phantom Liberty growth, with some followers who received too near the reality being (politely) silenced by developer CD Projekt Crimson.
A sequence of unusual letters and symbols has been on the centre of the weird thriller, which even seeped past Cyberpunk 2077 and into CD Projekt Crimson’s different franchise with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The discharge of the game-changing Replace 2.0 consists of much more clues, nonetheless, and the incoming Phantom Liberty growth possible has much more.
The thriller, generally known as FF:06:B5, started when gamers found the code on a statue worshipped by monks in Cyberpunk 2077’s Evening Metropolis (under). A sequence of different numbers hidden all through town attracted much more consideration, and a Reddit web page devoted to FF:06:B5 now has greater than 24,000 members.
So there’s some insane new thriller in Cyberpunk 2077 added with 2.0 that appears to be tied to The Witcher, Unusual languages, a server room, and a QR code that is being revealed by secrets and techniques in a brand new arcade sport, r/FF06B5 is dropping their minds over it attempting to decipher it ?… pic.twitter.com/f7MmlcqBfb
— Synth Potato (Ameer) ? (@SynthPotato) September 24, 2023
Cyberpunk 2077 quest director Paweł Sasko confirmed there’s a answer to the thriller, however the clues dropped in The Witcher 3 (which included portals, abandoned towers, ouroboros symbols, and weirder numbers) weren’t sufficient to unravel it.
Now, with what would be the last main addition to Cyberpunk 2077 in Replace 2.0 and the next Phantom Liberty growth, followers have seemingly received a lot nearer to the reply. A publish from Til_W on the FF:06:B5 subreddit outlines a number of new elements to the thriller alongside some controversy surrounding datamining and an settlement reached between the neighborhood and CD Projekt Crimson.
The subsequent steps to the thriller start in Replace 2.0 with a laptop computer dumped in a landfill outdoors Evening Metropolis. Gamers can learn a dialog between in-game characters TyRo//aNtA and Polyhistor which talks a couple of reference to FF:06:B5 inside a retro online game “over 60 years previous”.
Given The Witcher 3 does exist as a online game inside Cyberpunk 2077, having appeared in-game on the duvet of Retro Gaming, and would have launched simply over 60 years earlier than 2077 in 2015, followers first assumed this was a reference to its FF:06:B5 secret.
Different connections counsel this too, with the laptop computer that includes the identical letters as featured in The Witcher 3’s clue alongside the ouroboros image. Whereas followers are presently dissecting, translating, and analysing these symbols, no clear solutions have been discovered but.
Including to the thriller, the retro sport talked about might be one thing else totally: Arasaka Tower 3D. This arcade sport added in Replace 2.0 lets gamers play as Johnny Silverhand by the Arasaka Tower terror assault of 2023 in a Wolfenstein-esque shooter. This is not to be confused with the precise Arasaka Tower assault that gamers expertise whereas taking part in as Johnny, however is a twisted retelling of that occasion in video-game kind playable by the characters of Cyberpunk 2077. Our brains are melting too.
The Arasaka Tower 3D arcade sport is absolutely playable however lies inside a secret room inside a church belonging to, await it, Polyhistor, one of many two characters speaking concerning the retro sport beforehand. Confirming all of that is completely linked, one degree of Arasaka Tower 3D encompasses a hidden room with none aside from a low-poly mannequin of the statue that began this complete thriller.
The hidden doorways themselves are additionally a vibrant magenta color that match the image present in The Witcher 3, and uncoincidentally, the hex code for FF:06:B5 is similar pink color. Coming to the top of Arasaka Tower 3D additionally reveals an inventory of excessive scores, the bottom being set by Polyhistor (as PLHSTR) at FF06B5.
It is one other a part of the arcade sport that basically strikes issues alongside, nonetheless, due to a secret maze degree that when accomplished offers gamers (within the Cyberpunk 2077 world) entry to keypads in a server room again in Polyhistor’s church.
As for what to enter on these keypads, no person is aware of but — at the least not by official means. Developing with no concrete leads, dataminers delved into the sport’s information and really found some codes, however regardless of this being very Cyberpunk, CD Projekt Crimson has requested them to not reveal the key.
“As you already know the datamining workforce managed to realize one thing attention-grabbing,” wrote lead member leprotravel on the FF:06:B5 subreddit. “After all, this might not escape the eyes of [CD Projekt Red]. At the moment we had lengthy negotiations about the potential of posting an in depth information devoted to the strategies utilized by dataminers and the way they precisely achieved the required consequence. This was alleged to be a complete, structured publish masking many hours of labor.
“Nevertheless, we acquired a refusal from the [CD Projekt Red] workforce. However in a really pleasant approach, since they admire the diligence of gamers in discovering secrets and techniques of their video games, whatever the strategies they use.”
CD Projekt Crimson defined, maybe pretty, that datamining to progress the thriller is dishonest, and so they’d like gamers to be affected person and uncover the following steps and last secrets and techniques correctly. Even with the datamined secrets and techniques, nonetheless, the FF:06:B5 sleuths assured the thriller shouldn’t be full and there’s nonetheless extra to seek out.
These subsequent secrets and techniques will maybe arrive when Phantom Liberty launches on September 26 or, simply as clues appeared in The Witcher 3, this might be a thriller spanning CD Projekt Crimson video games for years to return.
In our 9/10 evaluation of Phantom Liberty, which admittedly would not think about the quantity of cryptic clues and theories, IGN mentioned: “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty completes an immense turnaround for CD Projekt Crimson’s future RPG kickstarted with the anime spin-off, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and its newest 2.0 Replace.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.