CYBERPUNK 2077 Alt + Blackwall Theme | Ambient Soundtrack
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2021
- Welcome to Cyberpunk 2077's Night City! Come out beyond the Blackwall to contact Alt Cunningham in cyberspace. This video features 1 hour of the Alt / Blackwall theme, cut together with a few other ambient pieces that play during the main quest Transmission surrounding Alt's story and her fate.
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Cyberpunk 2077 OST
Alt | Blackwall Theme
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Alt is so tragic character. Her fate is even worst than death.
Turned her into a child of the net but she was superior in every way. Johnny tried to save her because he thought they'd kidnapped her because she was HIS output but he was too self-centered to see that she was a heavyweight in their relationship. Alt was the legendary 'runner who found something interesting and fun in Johnny. She was the one with the plan to jump back into her own body and save herself. Didn't need a rescue from her loud, brash input. It's so fucking tragic. From all sides.
@@adlibby6448 damn so it's entirely johnny's fault, that's fucking sad for him to realize it later
She is hacker goals. In the the year 2045 we be can like her. Digital immortality is a thing scientists and programmers are working on. I'm sort of preparing myself for this life in the future.
@@melissajade7717 "Life" ? You wannabe some imprisoned data in a server ?
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Imprisoned Data? She counts as a AI/Techno Godess at this point. She could probably just download herself in a new body is she somehow manages to modify it enough
I do so love the characters in this game! Adam Smasher is terrifying, inhuman robot; Saburo is an amoral monster - and then there's Alt, an utterly unfathomable, alien... what? Cyber-demigod? Meeting with her, and agreeing to an alliance always felt like a Faustian bargain of the worst sort. She's like Gaunter o'Dimm from the Witcher 3, only even more inscrutable and dangerous. Damn, but CDPR knocked this story out of the park!
You think that maybe Alt knew Johnny would yank her jack in out and ruin her plan? That was a look of defeat.
Here is a question, is she Alt? Really the real human Alt? Does humanity exist as part of the digital, or was she used to give birth to something far more dangerous, an AI construct, with all that made Alt great as it's core programing. There are some rather terrifying implications and I like how Alt hints at this, but they never fully confirm this leaving everybody to speculate, saburo, johnny, Alt... are they ghosts in the machine? bodyless human minds transcended into the digital framework of the net, or rogue Ai's constructed from their drives, memories, personality of those sacrificed through soul killer to create a truly self aware and autonomous rogue Ai that can't be stopped?
I still remember that pang of dread when I'd plugged her into Mikoshi mainframe and she obliterated its defences in less than a second.
Not dragging out the hacking process makes sense gamedesign-wise, of course, since it happened right after our fight with Smasher. Still, I just couldn't help but think - 'Oh God. What have I done?!'
And Johnny tapped that
@@HTWW my first thought was "Oh shit, did I just nuke the afterlife?"
The motif that starts at 4:16 perfectly conveys the human tragedy of the situation. Not just the situation V is in, but the reality of the entire setting. The mournful cello brings to mind Nikola Tesla "You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension." It's easy to get caught up in the attractive and cool parts of Cyberpunk's setting but deep down it almost feels like a dark prophecy of the beast that consumerism and technology may some day create.
I think that's what's scary about Cyberpunk; How appealing it makes it's world seem on the surface. The neon lights, the fast cars, the thrilling gunfights. The game told me that no matter what, if you got a gun, some augments and the right connections, you can pull yourself up from the dirt and become something great. Hell, once I really started picking up steam in the game I started to think this life was maybe something I wanted. Only when I finished the game was I like "Holy shit, I just fell for that."
Already created unfortunately, we already are in a cyberpunk world, just with no cool implants or flying cars, but the dystopian dark future is already here, people brainwashed by social media and mindless consumerism, corporations exploiting people without repercussion, its fucked up that by 2077 day to day life is probably going to be similar to the actual game
Nah, don't worry, we all gonna die in the flames of WW3. Survivors will be eaten by nature, leaving the planet for other species to become apex predators.
There's no happy endings for a samurai.
my favorite song out of the whole game (: - it gives me dreary/intimidating/fear of unknown vibes
It also seems really cold and calculating, as well as reflecting the tragedy of how her previous life ended.
Alt...😔 during the quest where Johnny tries to save her- If you peer through the door before defeating the Arasaka guards she looks over at you it’s really heartbreaking. No scene screams “a little too late” like that one damn
Johnny did his best. Maybe he s got a point after all. Even if he had managed to crumble Arasaka chances are he would have gone after Militech next. Maybe then the next and the next. Tiresome, but probably necessary.
@@samuelbishop3316 he did really did... they call anyone who is actually fighting for freedom a terrorist. So sad we are all at the whims of corporations if we don’t stop their power trip. No human should ever have that kind of power.
@@angelfire9094 Cyberpunks corporations act like nations and empires, because they are. Arasaka practically owns Japan, Militech and the NUSA are practically the same thing, Kang Tao is an extension of the Chinese Government. They all get up to horrific things. Even Kiroshi optics who sends hit squads against people who leave the company.
Biotechnica might be the closest to moral out of all.
@@samuelbishop3316 Biotechnica does questionable experiments in their secret labs and gives little to no access to media, only whatever they want to show, you can gather that from the radio talk show. I’m sure there’s lots more to this, but at least one gig I just did last night (or was it a crime in progress location? Don’t remember) that has a former Biotechnica employee blackmailing another one in order to get her job back, because she lost it due to disagreement with the person being blackmailing, who did some inhuman experiments she definitely wouldn’t want the public to know; only the blackmailer acted not so well-prepared, as you find the shard on her dead body, probably offed by hired merch
@@funfnir3646 I never said they were moral. Just that they seemed to be the least questionable. I am aware that they killed a bunch of nomads for experimentation and you're sent after the project head for a gig.
Come to think of it, despite thier rough nature Trauma Team are probably the most straight forward, moral Corp (still pretty fast and loose when it comes to violence). They enjoy trust from the public and pretty much everyone else.
Goddess of Cyberspace, heiress of Bartmoss, all hail Lillith! (im 99% sure that "Alt" is really Lillith, rogue SI leader)
Interesting theory tbh!
I can see it but tbh and it makes sense if you work with Lilith.
Actually Lillith and Alt are 2 Separate characters
Alts full name is actually "Altiera Cunningham" where as lilith is a separate entity (lilith is almost like a clone of Alt but shes not Alt Cunningham)
Nah lillith is the wall itself, i mean decent theory for 3 years ago, but yeah lillith is what separates the old and new net, we know this due to the fact of what maelstrom say about her that she concealed the 10th circle of hell meaning the old net, concealing like a wall put two and two together she is the wall furthermore carpe nochtem is the night corp operation meaning seize the night which in a shard describes about how they wanna learn about the potential of controlling people via ai’s seize the night or seize night city, thats why they wanted song bird to know more about how she can easily bypass lillith or the wall, if you want further evidence sam bram does a great job tying it all together from maelstrom, carpe noctem, sandra dorsett, mr b eyes lillith alt etc its a really good video
I...know you.
You...know me?
Like lines of code.
the music in this game was TOP NOTCH. some mission were elevated by the music emotionally.
This game took me far beyond any other form of art did before. This game is pure love❤️❤️. The effect it has on you, the impact that continues after you have finished the game...
It was good but I liked nier automata
when i first played cyberpunk it felt so surreal. Like my life felt like i was in the universe of cyberpunk somehow
That string instrument and those notes ALWAYS send a chill down my spine. The foreboding nature of them is immaculate.
Spoilers for multiple endings: Alt is a force to be reckoned with. In the "rogue" ending pulling a satellite out of orbit and dropping it on earth is literally childs play. Never fuck with an A.I.
Yeah and during the ending w/ Panam.
She takes control of all the drones and other automated security and slaughters everyone, even those who werent armed.
@@grubbie8614 Aye. Even just downloading her program to the chip freaks Dakota out. "Get that /Thing/ away from me"
And she's just one AI. Imagine the absolute mayhem that would ensue if the rogue AIs broke through the Blackwall.
Arcian true but she is said to be the most powerful one
@@Arcian Tbh i believe Alt is the strongest AI behind the blackwall and was kinda moderating other Ais outside the blackwall.
Send your thanks to Josh Groban for requesting this one! Thank you also for all the work you did searching for other variants of this theme. I actually ended up recording too many to all fit neatly in one video. I’ve kept this one as an extended Blackwall theme, but I may also do a more Alt centered video with the rest of the music (Johnny finding Alt, V speaking with him about it etc.)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this one!
I missed this song during gameplay because of a stupid bug where the metal guitar rif kept repeating, so I had to turn down the music volume (not knowing at the time reloading the autosave point would stop the guitar rif). So in my next playthrough I will hopefully enjoy this scene a lot more.
SAME AHAHAHA
Yeah, i had the same bug. I thought this can´t be right, so i loaded a savegame from earlier.
Yep, I had the same bug while filming this. It's such a shame that it ruins such a moving scene, too. At least it's a great riff!
@@SlowWalkthroughs Not after 20 minutes of hearing it :P
CDPR really knows how to use those strings
It's so good I googled the instrument that made OST even better (it's Cello)
Electric cello to be more precise. Thank Tina Guo for that. She did Wonder Woman's theme too. One of my favorite tracks, if not my most favorite, in this game is the electric cello version of The Rebel Path.
I think it was probably autocorrect but Tina Guo is right! She's such a force, if you're interested in more check her out playing at Coachella with Hans Zimmer. And the cello version of Rebel Path is just insane!
@@SlowWalkthroughs Oops lol yea it's Tina. Autocorrect changes the weirdest words sometimes.
Listened to this whilst reading The World of Cyberpunk 2077 book.. now i just stick this on when im reading in general. Love it soo much!
I love this game so much
If you examine everything in the game (side quest and reading messages) could say everything evolves around Alt and the "unknown" rogue AI. Johnny and V to just means to get things done.
Meeting Alt was CP77’s ultimate moment… similar to meeting Vigil in Mass Effect. It added a larger scale to the game - made it less of a generic shooter or rehashed video game into a cinematic masterpiece with a really large scale. At this moment I knew that it’s no longer corps that are a threat, nor is it gangs, or mercs. V’s life is irrelevant… instead there lies a threat beyond the Blackwall that is far greater and dangerous that it has the potential to wipe out the human race
the music in this game is unmatched
Listening to this, I know, something ends tonight. Sometimes, you just know it...
i get how you feel. the mood feels..empty? the more i think about it, i realize that life will end eventually, and that we’ll fade away into nothing, and whenever we get forgotten…like johnny. all things must come to an end.
@@riversideradiationif you think long enough about it its not that terrible
Cool ambients playing on enemy territory.
This mix helps me get in my scripting mood. Sort of feel like I'm Alt, writing code, it and motivates me to keep going.
these parts of the soundtrack hit so much harder then the energetic ones. ominous and haunting.
Thanks so much again, my favorite theme in the game, you have a great account
You're welcome, it's a great pick for a favourite too!
29:03 really touched my soul with the rebel life path guitar play.
Every time I hear this it gives me a sort of automatic response, like fight or flight. Where I feel as though everything that I know, love, hate, crave, believe, etc. etc. it’s all pointless. And then Alt comes swooping in to confirm my conclusion. And then I get pulled out and everything becomes normal again, like nothing ever happened. Is that… strange?
Panam best girl :)
It is not strange. Everything in this theme builds tension - similar technique to Interstellar's theme. A lot of ambient sounds that give you a feeling of expansion/having a lot of space. This feeling, we interpret as 'awe' or that everything we fought for before was meaningless in comparison since we do not hear anything like it elsewhere in the game (except perhaps, on the rooftop). When it hits, it is particularly heartbreaking since it coincides with the revelation of V's inevitable mortality.
Your channel is awesome
You're a legend 🙌🏻
I remember you giving some suggestions for this video that I ended up putting in the Mikoshi mix, but I hope you enjoyed this one too!
@@SlowWalkthroughs I sure did!!
The legend of afterlife.
Memories of the past oh lord it wrings my heart.
Oooh I like this one ;)
The videos you have made are really great, thank you for them. It will take a while to listen through all of them, which is a good thing.
One request that I have is one of Kerry's ambient themes. The song plays when you first get to Kerry's residence and enter the building after dodging the robots, before meeting Kerry while exploring his apartment. The song was really great and similar to the rooftop song, but somewhat cleaner without anything else. The backdrop could be his house with golden sunlight all over the place, as was my experience (the sun glitters nicely on the gold surface). Thank you!
Thank you, and I'm glad you've got a fair stack of videos lined up to get through! And yes, someone actually requested that one recently! I'm looking forward to making it, I remember that entire ambience just being so beautiful, it should be up relatively soon
@@SlowWalkthroughs Thank you choom, as a fellow ambient soundtracker, this work that you do is really important to many people it would seem :)
@@Dominator131 Oh that's awesome! You and me we gotta keep providing the ambience for the people!
@@SlowWalkthroughs Hey, I've been trying to comment here but I think youtube keeps auto-deleting my comments. I have a video suggestion if you would like to do it. The violin / cello melody that is playing in this video between 03.06-03.40 and 04.14-04.47 could make it into a separate video. And in the Alt Cunningham video 04.14-04.40 and in the Mikoshi mix video between 01.13-01.30 and 02.49-04.44.
Those types of melodies mixed together would sound quite good. And also there should be other melodies with the same violin / cello that you could include in the mix. This is if you have the energy or the inspiration to do that kind of video. Also you could take some liberties with the melody, so its just not only violin :)
Alt felt very Lovecraftian to me.
Not just only alt. All the deep net,the black wall, rogue ai,... in cyberpunk 2077 felt very lovecraftian like: untangible undicible dangerous threats, who planned like a damocles sword above the people, whose are ignorant of this threats.
@@gabrielt9841 Makes you think what's worse- the corpo-world and netwatch, or whatever things lie beyond the blackwall?
I love this game so much.
I see your profile picture. My start for cyberpunk games was Perfect Dark. That game changed my life, and started me off who I became today. Now I'm a programmer, learning to work in artificial intelligence.
Listening to this while converting game assets to Alternity1998 rules for my D&D group to play something other than medieval fantasy.
Never Fade Away
Goodbye V, fight to the end
… 💊💀
it represents very well cyberspace as the dead digital environment that it is. something that not many understand is that when you put an engram in a body, it is the equivalent of putting an AI in a robot
I love this sadder johnny silverhand cello theme more than the original.
My life to Cyberpunk.
I don't get why some of you think this song sounds scary, foreboding, alien or intimidating. It sounds beautiful? It sounds like curiosity being turned into discovery. It sounds like talking to a being out of legend. It's awe-inspiring; you're talking to an AI! Alt cunningham DIED, like you, like johnny, and the three of you are having a conversation! It's incredible! This whole scene was so cool! And she teams up with you after this, and doesn't like, double cross you or anything either? She's just super powerful and super cool, you know, like a free AI? I listen to this track to relax sometimes; ALT's probably my favorite character in this game.
This theme is both beautiful and terrible. It is pretty heartbreaking when it hits, because it coincides with the revelation of V's inevitable mortality. That aside, in general... The feeling of awe is just one step away from terror to be honest. Depending on the nature of the creature - Alt is pretty alien in the way she thinks, so this makes it extra subject to interpretation. In the Panam ending for example, she doesn't have any compassion for noncombatants. You get the feeling that she would obliterate you as easily as snuffing out bugs and feel very little remorse either way. Which is par for the course of any being (AI) that is above human level intelligence/capable of self-improvement/has achieved the Singularity yet lacks a 'soul' or human feelings like compassion.
@@deyraga I just completely disagree. V is talking to 2 people who already cheated death. There’s nothing less “inevitable mortality” than that. People have an anti-AI bias and don’t look at them objectively, made worse with a fundamental misunderstanding of how a true AI would behave(which is to say, perfectly logically, and thus, extremely pragmatically. A logic based entity is a powerful force for good in a world ruled by insanity). Plus it’s literally crazy to say a “SOUL” is what causes morality to arise. Every evil scumbag in the world has a “soul”, if they exist, which cannot be proven. Emotions are not where morality comes from either. Jealousy, envy, greed, hate, lust, bigotry. Plenty of emotions can drive people to commit unspeakable acts. Morality comes from understanding, and superintelligences would have no problem with understanding. Alt isn’t even “alien” because soulkiller makes AI based on human brain scans. Delamain would be an example of a more “alien” AI, and he still helps V just to help them. Alt was made out of a human brain, and her motivation are not unknowable. She wants to tear down Arasaka. Calling her cold/scary/evil for that is so out of place, bc this is not a world of sunshine and rainbows, it’s a dark unforgiving gritty world. If your primary goal is destroying the most evil company in the world, that means you’re doing more effective “good” than most people. Sacrifices in pursuit of that goal are acceptable if you believe the ends justify the means. Even if you don’t, taking any action against arasaka has a super high chance of body count; it just comes with the territory. It’s almost an inevitability. If you’re agreeing to set sail, you can’t bemoan getting wet, without hypocrisy. Alt is a force for good in the world. Talking to her is an awesome experience. Fearing her is foolish, unless you fear all powerful people. She at least uses her power far more ethically and responsibly than most people in The Dark Future of Cyberpunk 2077.
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You might refer to the following explanation of the Ship of Theseus paradox: If you replace every part of a ship with new parts, is it still the same ship? If I measure and make copies of every part of the original ship and assemble these, are there now two original ships? Clearly not. There is the original, and the replica. What if I were to scrap the original, and christen the replica with the same name as the original ship, is it now the original? Gets murky but I think not. Similarly, if I were to make a copy of myself as an engram, is that entity me? It is not. I still die eventually, the engram that looks, acts and thinks like me will live on. But it is not me, in the same fashion the reconstructed ship is not the original. You can't beat mortality via engrams, the original "You" still dies.
If you study literature, you would know to be extremely cautious dealing with powerful people. A well known saying is that power corrupts, afterall. But that aside, in general, you have to be precise and careful simply because any misstep could have dire consequences simply because of the amount of power involved. If you deal with the powerful, you have to be very careful of the deal you're cutting - the devil's in the details. We have never seen anything like Alt in our world. In theory, an AGI or ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) like Alt has more power than the most powerful kings in our history. She would literally be a God. Wouldn't you be careful? Dealing with an ASI, your life could end in an instant, and you can't stop it no matter what you do. I would scrutinise the terms of any contract made more thoroughly than I would any real-life legal contract. It is the blindspots that get you.
That aside, are you a programmer, have you tried interacting with ChatGPT? Alt is leagues beyond that but the point still stands, if you don't specify your prompt carefully, AI may act in a way you don't want. For example, V in this case didn't specify to spare noncombatants and so the AI kills all of them - what a blunt tool that cuts an undistinguishing swathe. Granted, humans can be equally callous but we can be assured that they to an extent have the same underlying biological programming. Under the same scenario, humans may decide to spare them since the noncombatants are no threat. To an extent, humans are more predictable because humans generally think alike. This is also why we are cautious of psychopaths since they lack that same underlying programming. When dealing with AI, you can't be sure about the blindspots in their logic, the little contingencies that you did not expect. They think in an entirely alien fashion, even if the result is to emulate the logic used by us humans. I like to use the following analogy:
1. I ask the AI to solve global warming. The AI concludes that humans are the root cause of global warming. The AI then proceeds to enact genocide on us humans to solve global warming. This is actually similar to what Alt did.
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2. I ask Alt to help us destroy Arasaka. She proceeds to exterminate all Arasaka employees in the building. Do you see the similarity?
That aside, how certain are you that Alt was copied exactly by Soulkiller? Iirc Alt herself said that the process of copying a consciousness tends to leave you altered in a fashion, which is V's concern. See Johnny for an example, the game hints that he is different from he was in life, some memories could be altered in the process of copying; other are copied less than 100%. The lore around the Secure your soul programme indicates that it is at best, an imperfect copy.
I'm with you on logic being a force of good. But you must bear in mind that AI is a tool like any other. It doesn't have any desires to do good in this world unless it was imbued in the process of creating that AI. You musn't anthropomorphise AI, even if it were modeled after an actual human. It is a very, very blunt tool. You can't be certain that it will behave the way you expect. An engram generally behaves how it thinks it's original self would have behaved. But the interpretation of that directive, that has a miniscule chance of being very, very off. When you have all the power in the world, that could mean millions dead. I do not think the original Alt Cunningham would be willing to slaughter noncombatants, for example - she strikes me as no Adam Smasher. That she does suggests she is altered in some manner by the process of becoming an AI or her experiences beyond the Blackwall.
@@deyraga The Ship of Theseus is incredibly irrelevant in the context of V's digital immortality in Cyberpunk 2077, because in the finale, you are literally killed and replaced with your soulkilled engram, and you continue on unaffected. You've been replaced by your engram. That's not the -game over- screen, it's a blip before the story continues. You still have V's memories, desires, feelings, opinions. Besides, a comatose patient may be "alive" but they don't resemble themselves. There has been no replacement for them, they just stop "being" themselves, living as themselves. They're still alive, but it feels to the world like they're dead. If you have a digital recreation of yourself, that has a body and agency, then it doesn't feel to the world like you've died. A person with your name and personality is still out there, living and making decisions that you would make. The dynamic pattern that is "you" is still dynamic. Johnny is a prime example of this. He died long ago, and yet he continues to influence the world. Reconnect with his old friends in ways only Johnny could. His dynamic pattern has re-entered the world, and effects the world like Johnny did. It's also not relevant in the context of copy vs original's decisions, because EVERYTHING that's not static changes. It doesn't take soulkiller to change a person. Identical twins with the same DNA born in the same minute will become different people if they have different experiences. If you were to make an identical clone of someone, and then place the perfect clone in a grueling prison camp for 30 years, it would be a different person than the original because of it's different life experiences. No digital backup required. I'm not arguing that an engram doesn't change from it's progenitor, I'm arguing that calling a brainscan-clone of a human "an alien" is false.
If you used literature to grow your understanding of the world, you'd know that power doesn't actually corrupt, power merely reveals latent corruption. A non-corrupt person given power will use that power responsibly, a corrupt person given power will use that power corruptly. Alt Cunningham's inner state is not known to us, but I agree that it doesn't seem like she's similar to Adam Smasher. So, why would she become corrupt out of nowhere? V also just...isn't afraid of her. Many *players* of the game are, but V's voice isn't trembling talking to her, their hands don't shake, they don't turn and run away and never speak to her again, yet many people who played the game feel that way. There's a disconnect between Alt's reality and many gamers interpretation of Alt, going back again to how you are misunderstanding AI. You’re comparing chatbots and unrelated software that we call “AI” in our world to a true, sentient being. Alt is not a digital assistant who receives a task and completes it to the best interpretation of their abilities, Alt is a sentient being. She is not beholden to instructions or demands. You say Alt is more intelligent than a human, but you don't actually believe that. This is made even more clear by your analogy: That is a stupid interpretation of that request. Alt is *SMARTER than a human*. So she wouldn't interpret that request in a stupid way, or else she would be *STUPIDER than a human*.
As far as the Arasaka tower assault, there's no not-dark way to discuss this, but how would you destroy a company? Would you physically destroy it's headquarters? That clearly doesn't work; Arasaka tower was rebuilt and actually gained sympathy from the people for that. A company is a group of workers, and if you kill every worker, you destroy the company. If there are no employees, workers, bosses, managers, janitorial staff, filing clerks, or CEO's, that company no longer exists. And every employee of Arasaka is complicit in it's crimes, to extremely varying degrees of course, but working at Evil Inc. is not a morally neutral action. Arasaka is one of the worst threats to humanity and earth that has ever existed, and destroying it would be benevolent. I'm not saying a scorched earth approach to destroying them is morally incorrigible, but I do think it would be effective. Being scared of Alt because she's powerful is fine, but only if you're scared of everyone in the game who's powerful. Are you scared of Viktor Vektor? He could easily have killed V several times over. But you're not scared of him, even though he has total control over whether V lives or dies multiple times. Alt similarly has total control over whether V dies, multiple times. Neither of them kill you. Neither of them harm you. Neither of them have goals that would encourage them to harm V. They are both *allies* of V. If you want to justify a fear, you have to prove that it's a valid interpretation of risk. Is being afraid of the Sun valid? Is being afraid of a car valid? Is being afraid of a gun valid? Is V a person who is afraid of *any* of these things that could easily kill them? Alt is not evil, Alt is not an actionable threat to V, and being terrified of her is based on misunderstanding her.
@@DannyWakahisa these are all valid points, and I welcome the discussion. On engrams in context of Cyberpunk 2077, whether the player's engram is actually still the player is conveniently ignored so as not mar the sense of closure in the ending. It's sensible writing not to have the player look too closely at that little blip. Because having players recognise that your character actually dies no matter what is a terrible end for their efforts in trying to survive. The writing also makes the same choice to treat Johnny's engram as though it were for all intents and purposes Johnny himself. That said, once or twice V reminds him that he is in fact dead and just an engram. So it is relevant, but not the focus of the writing. We can be reasonably certain from Johnny's reactions that engrams still behave fairly human-like still.
We definitely can't say that same for Alt. Iirc in game, Alt admits that she isn't the same person anymore. We can't actually be sure how she thinks at all, as a matter of fact. It could be the same as in life. Or it could be drastically different due to engram-ification or her experiences beyond the Blackwall. Nevertheless the fact that she slaughtered all those people without metaphorically blinking should make anybody wary. Actually whether she is still human or not is moot, capacity for mass slaughter is always concerning. But then again, most characters in game, including V, are hardly paragons of virtue either. But I wager most people here are not killers in real life so it unsettles us players.
Let's expand further: On concentration of power, let's consider government structure: checks and balances exist precisely because the consequences of a malevolent power vastly outweigh the boons of a benevolent one. So latent corruption or not, check and balances should be in place just in case. Who is the balance for the power displayed by Alt in our Arasaka assault scenario, if she decides it were in her best interests to kill everybody off like she did the Voodoo Boys? Perhaps Netwatch, if they act in time. But it is highly likely by the time they do, everyone in that tower would be dead. So yes, the point here is that callousness is not something we'd like to see in an entity with absolute power in that scenario. It's not about whether they choose to exercise it, the potential for abuse is clearly there. Who could realistically stop her? She demonstrated multiple feats of unparalleled power. On the topic of risk, I'd be afraid of all of these. I think any sensible person would. Risk is about potential, not intent.
How would you destroy a company? I'm usually on the same side as you, but for the sake of argument, I do not believe the ends justify the means here. For Alt it should be trivial having breached the network to siphon off all Arasaka funding, delete or destroy company data or something similar that would completely cripple its operations without violating the general directive of avoiding unnecessary slaughter. But I don't know, it's just my opinion. We can agree to disagree.
This game of the A.I reminds me of Hekate in Cyberpunk 2077 version at the ending with Vi or Johnny Silverhand
Not everyone will be into Gantz and it can be pretty bad in the beginning due to the mc, but his character development is done extremely well. If someone does happen to want to read it, I’d recommend playing this while reading from Chapter 122 and up. It really goes well Gantz in general, during and after that chapter.
reminds me of the Black Ops 2 Theme, they would probably go along well in a mix
Lol top comments are how Alt's fate is bad or her becoming terrifying. As if the reality of the city is not terrifying and shitty enough to want to try venture into the unknown becoming something else and possessing powers akin to Alt's, exploring the endless world of cyberspace which borders on magical.
Alt became what humans are searching for, digital immortality. I think she achieved the ultimate power honestly. This what Arasaka was trying to do. Johnny killed her by mistake, but in truth he released her from the binds of mortality. She survived what no one else could, living beyond the blackwall. She easy just transfer herself to robot shell if she ever had the desire to return to realspace. But why would she even want to. Endless knowledge exists in cyberspace. She is definitely what I'd consider a cybergoddes.
I love this debate to be honest. At its core, both those ideas come from the concept that in the process of becoming an engram, you lose something precious.. yourself. With all your humanity and biological impulses. Your soul, your compassion. Your identity. Her comments to V are as much - the engram is not exactly you. Sure there is code to simulate emotions and your prior values and what not, but you can't deny that the original biological and hormonal underpinnings are forever gone. The engram is basically a simulacrum, acting on your behalf per how it thinks you will act, believing itself to be you. So there is no escaping mortality in the literal sense. You die. Something based on you is then born. It's more than possessing special powers, you die all the same no matter whether you choose to be incarnated as an engram or face death as a human. I believe that digital immortality doesn't actually exist. It's very much like having a digital child in your image. That entity might think exactly like you, but it is not you.
We know that Alt is no longer actually Alt Cunningham, but something else now. Alien. We can see this from the Panam ending where she slaughters noncombatants without any remorse. So she's no longer really human, does not have compassion anymore. She assists you not because she likes you, but only to consume the souls in Mikoshi. Previously during interaction, her responses to V are also pretty cold, all things considered, a rather alien-like manner. So we have no idea how she thinks at all, and fear of the unknown is a very real thing. As you should be, dealing with what is, for all intents and purposes, a sentient, unfeeling all-powerful cyberspace goddess.
me replying to a 2 year old comment , hah, in my opinion, this isn’t Alt anymore, it’s a rogue AI wandering cyberspace feeding on more codes. it’s a true daemon. and in that sense i think Alt towers over anything in Night City.
I played this while coding, and now I accidentally created a fully sentient AI algorithm
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Have they released the various Radio Station tracks for this game. I'd love to have each station on individual CD's to play in my car on my way to work and back - just need that NC vibe 24/7. Does this mean I have a problem? Damn! I'm an addict!
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That piano
The game stays true to the dark
Future in every way no happy ending just more darkness in all of Johnny’s attempt to save here recruiting the best edge runners in the city and still failed by a mile
To save her a tale as old as time in NC
could I request the song during the quest "Dream on" part of the Paralezes quest line that introduces you to river ward?
dunno if it has a specific soundtrack really but i played it yesterdays and the vibes it gave me combined with the quest were the literall personification of a dark cyberpunk for me.
Oh interesting, I'm working through picking out some of the Peralez music now. Can you suggest any specific point where it plays so I can check it out, or is it a few different pieces?
@@SlowWalkthroughs I can't remember really at what point the music was best sorry. I would suggest a quick run through of the quest to make sure but my mind is deeply thinking of either A somewhere during the pent house investigation or B when you are at the truck DataBank with the perezes data. A third potential scene would be around the time of the anonymous call pre meeting Jeff to conclude the quest.
@@SlowWalkthroughs watched a quick walk through of the quest. Think at the scenes I mentioned before it only plays normal tension/investigation music. The unique piece is I think when you confront the wife in the noodle restaurant. Or might have been the same theme as when investing but cought just the most intense part at that quest moment by coincidence in the walk-through I watched to refresh my memory.
@@Venator-2070 Okay well thank you so much for the investigating! I'm playing through the quest at the moment, so I'll definitely make note of the points you've mentioned. Here's hoping it's a relatively easy video to put together and I can get it up soon for you!
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Alt and f4 🤔
I will be careful because I have to measure my words, one by one; freedom of speech in this world is a pipe dream now.
I was a woman hacker, I went to jail for that [...]
I am still convinced that the net, what I call "Infranet", real virtual world exists. when I did my best hack, I used a "loophole" in the system, a big flaw in fact. I still have my source codes, my "magic keys" in order to enter a complex and autonomous cybernetic system; these datas are in my mind, my brain. No more secret now for me.
Matrix is a film, a fiction. The reality in this area is... troubling.
at the question; did you meet Alt? => No!
this sounds like a song out of black ops 2
Yeah
Rare Earth Elements
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please can you help me find the ambient that plays on the roof (and not only) of an Advocet Hotel, in Vista Del Rey (city center) where there is a reference to blade runner
I've been asked to do a video with this! I can let you know when that's ready if you'd like?
11:26 phantom liberty trailer moment🤔
Can you do the soundtrack that plays when you load in the game simulation with river and the kids if you can?
Yes, sure! I try to space these videos out evenly in terms of content and I haven't done a River one recently, so look for it some time soon hopefully!
@@SlowWalkthroughs thank you have a good night/day.
Here it is! Hope you enjoy ruclips.net/video/yYban9DUjLo/видео.html
Could you please upload the song that plays in the background when you have 4 stars
the chill you feel when you find out Samsung is literally Arasaka of Korea
Alt is the smartest AI. but doesnt know how to save V?
It pains me how good the OST is when the radio stations are so subpar imo.
Yeah only good one is pacific dreams
idk each song on the radio is a banger to me
I thought that at the beginning, but I found quite a few I like.
Sounds like radio in real life lol
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