Cyberpunk’s Brutal Corporate Wars | FULL Cyberpunk Lore 

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Wait, are those the Media Offline segments? I thought they were intentional haha

@@user-oj1zr7wx9z I thought he added them to look like actual footage from the corporate wars where it got cut off because there's a war going on. I've seen a lot of lore youtubers occasionally add stuff like that to make it look like segments of their video or narration is actually a part of the universe itself.

what GPU are you using? My game looks nothing like this on my 4060ti between NVIDIA and the gaming situation this days I dont think ill be a gamer much longer. Literally just boght a new system and my games look like dogshit. Ty Nvidia. Ty CD PJ red. Ill be saving my money from now on.

@@sergiohenrique2411 PEBCAK much? Blaming Nvidia and everyone else and overexpecting from a meagre 4060Ti? Did you really think you could go full Pathtracing with it? Do you really think, that this wasnt recorded with maybe even having some effects added or mods like LUTs ENB or Reshade used? And even if not, the 4060Ti is what a 3070? And which version is it you're using, is it just the crappy 8Gig version? Or did you have the bwains and got the 16gig version, as CP2077 especially with RT enabled, uses lots of VRAM and would certainly overpower the 8gig card, either leading to auto reduced details as it overflows into system RAM and losing performance with it or maybe even crashes the game eventually?! So its at best a valid midrange GPU, that could enable you to play CP2077 with RT Ultra setting, using DLSS3 *Quality* (try not to go lower than that) and maybe even add Framegen combined with Nvidia Reflex to it. Look after your settings dude, some auto activate AMD FSR, which you should never use and could make the game look worse, if you can use DLSS! DLSS is vastly superior, especially in FHD or QHD Resolutions, which are the 4060ti's playground, this card is for sure no UHD (falsy marketing blabla called 4K) card. And the other question is: what CPU are u using? This game, as well as some others have very high CPU demands! I'm running this game with an Ryzen 7 5800X3D and 32Gigs of DDR4 3600CL16 and this CPU gets almost fully loaded on each core and thread, powering my RTX 3080 12GB Aorus Master to run this Game with DLSS 3.5 on Quality with active Ray Reconstruction on RT Ultra, with 60-75FPS in QHD Resolution (Dell S2721DGFA) and it pretty much looks like this video, while i'm also using "Nova Lut 2.0" by theCyanideX along with added preem water and preem rain and others by the same author. Pathracing aka "RT Overdrive" would look even better, but this would only run on DLSS performance for me and this introduces a poor picture quality and heavy ghosting, so it's a NoGo and as it cvan even bring a 4090 to its knees, especially in UHD...there is no way you can run it on a 4060Ti either without making some compromises.

Not gonna lie, pretty sure he’s actually a time traveler, or a visitor for another dimension merely telling their story 😂

Had quite the free time

If I’m not mistaken, he laid a lot of the groundwork with multiple authors filling in gaps over the years. Not trying to diminish his substantial role in the history of cyberpunk. Just saying it’s not solely his work.

The truly scary thing is how plausible the world of Cyberpunk is. It's the same but different.

​@@BrandonJXN2 its what im thinking. Maybe minus the tech, but the power shift and capitalism being unchecked.

M Militech and Arasaka? You put them in your eyes. Many of his internal wars caused the decline of NC, pollution and the constant disappearance of people. Takemura is blinded by Saburo’s good treatment.

What about team fortress

armored core pretty much lmao

Didn't this basically happen between fruit companies not too long ago? I'm pretty sure that's where the phrase "banana republic" comes from. And the companies involved are companies we still buy fruit products from now.

Borderlands had something similar of companies waging wars with each other but on a galactic scale. In Borderlands 3, a company called Maliwan had been conducting a "corporate merger" with another company, Atlas. In reality, Maliwan is literally invading an entire planet to wipe out the Atlas mercenaries and gain any Atlas R&D intel to become a bigger company and compete with other major companies. You're literally living through an ongoing corporate war, and there had been others in the past. Unfortunately, there's not much lore about the various corporate wars, and Borderlands focus more on comedy than dystopian compared to Cyberpunk

Yeah the old net seems really interesting. The whole rogue AI & all that

Yeaaaaaah

Really it's probably just poor unfortunate souls coming across a site backup of FurAffinity

Cyberpunk 2013 (1st Edition) gives you the insight you seek.

BARTMOSS simple install into root systems of net 3.0 - specific AI evolution protocols. That's AI Rabbies. That's one part of his "dead heand". Data crash is whole another story - it's fundamental "mother of data corruption exploits" powered by big backdoor of net 3.0. "Zero day" error BARTMOSS obtain root order of net 3.0. He doesn't off his deck when was global update and obtain main Structiral data of protocol systems. He search for backdoor and find it then obtain root main access.

I would argue companies build armies and go to war for long term gain and the complete annihilation and dispersal of the enemy companies. Seizing their assets and whatever future plans, idea, and current research on revolutionary tech. You don’t have to pay anyone for copyright laws when their no one alive to accept the payment( unless you find something that says you do 😮) or shotgun signing contracts.

Well alot of countries did, its mentioned that the EU, Soviet Union and China all essentially cracked down heavily on fighting within their borders its only really in the third world like Africa parts of Asia and the Americas were the goverments were to unstable and already barely functioning to intervene. I mean at that point in the timeline the USA was in a near complete state of anarchy with states having seceeded and the federal goverment still recovering after half a dozen coups and counter coups.

Fiction mirrors reality.

Capitalism and the corruption gives a shit about wars and the dead’s of civilian people. You can already know it because of the Ucrania vs Russia war.

@@dantrog Exactly. This is a socio-political criticism that reflects what will happen to us if we continue to allow governors as mediocre as them.

becouse it actually did. look into the banana republics, countries that had their infrastructure built by doyle and united fruit company.

Could have? More like will eventually.

All I want is some new knees and a new left eye, a wee bit of chrome

@@gergokerekes4550 not really, those are rich business owners exploiting their government connections to obtain resources on the cheap (the Marines being forged mostly in this interventionist role). 2077 world instead has corporations duking it out with each other with their own private armies to weaken the other. You might say they're the same, but there is significant difference. Corporate wars are more like (British) East India Company fighting Dutch East India Company and even then, these respective corporations were still held on a leash by their respective governments and was more another arm of their government than a completely separate entity..

​@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022either way that's the direction we're heading.

In reality though, most corporations if given the ability, would never wage war. War is not profitable, and is a foolish move unless your forced into it. Even throughout history with corporations that ruled colonies and such, the last thing they want is war. I think its worthy to note that alot of these wars werent genocides or useless wars. They actually had material gain. Fastfoward today, we have men dying in Vietnam, Iraq, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, all over wars waged over ideology. And if it aint ideology, its some vague ass reason that not even the government can coherently define. Is it better to die for actual resources or to incompetence? Id like to think of Google, Exxon, Amazon, and Alibaba ran the world, we would definitely have some rights stripped away. But we would be managed with efficiency unparalleled to anything else. Really we could do some ancap shit if we had a proper union to represent the working class.

@@honkhonk8009wars are extremely profitable, provided you sell weapons. Militech is basically the modern american military-industrial complex if it dropped the facade and merged with the government.

@@jazaniac This is called Fascism, emphasis on last bit about dropping the facade.

Seems like a great way to get yourself shot.

Fixers are going to fix.

​@@VidelxSpopovichMore like a spectacular way

I bet the greatest deal negotiator in that said universes have very high tolerance for shitty events. The kind where a nuclear explosion happens in the background and their first response to it was, "ah, just on schedule."

we're gonna be heading towards a corporate dystopia either way, it's just gonna look cool like in cyberpunk 2077 or, which is much more likely, it's gonna look boring like the inside of a whole foods market.

@@wontonschannelit kinda looks cool if you like the grimey feel of big American cities like LA Austin and New York

@@wontonschannel I hate this reality so much. All the negatives of a corporate dystopia and none of the neon

Cringe

There is nothing cringe, maybe the person who is cringe is you​@@kingt0295

Easy?🤔

@@lil__shmeat it was pretty easy for them wasn't it?

Have you fallen into the rabbit hole that is Warhammer 40,000 yet?

@@quarkedbutt3957 I see where you’re at. Warhammer has…ALOT of lore. But like most of it is just random and obviously grimdark. Like just dark because why not.

​@@Sydlxia Want something more light hearted? I can then recommend the Gav And Bob stories voiced by "A Vox in the Void". That shit made me cry.

​@@quarkedbutt3957 You mean the Dune knock-off? 😏

@@LordofSyn yeah, I noticed that but I love both series

People complain that our world is a clown world. Imagine living in the cyberpunk world itself. These anti woke crybabies wouldn’t last a day or so in night city. Or even in the badlands

No if you're not in the US apparently.

@@elperrodelautumo7511 millions if not billions will die

Ghost in the Shell, SAC and SAC 2nd gig particularly, seem like the least terrible option to live in, imo. Still, even with the crud they deal with (and reapers) Mass Effects more utopian scifi looks way, way nicer to live in...

On the one hand, yes, but on the other hand, no.

The AHQ bombing being a spitting Parraell of 911 since the previous world trade center were twin towers and the Old Arasaka HQ pre 2023 were also a twin set

The only clear difference being that instead of Terrorism and Islamic religious fundamentasim its the War on drugs and the gang of four using war to maintain the economy and by the 2020s they don't have to worry about stupid nonsense like pronouns or people identifying as pansexual wolves or idiot parents taking their kids to drag shows. Instead they have to worry about the corporations dominating all life, the collapse of the environment and the standards of living for the average Jane and Joe drop so ya win some ya lose some

The US did cause lots of wars in Central America in the 80's.

Ehhhhh not really. The Central American Wars were written before the U.S. pivoted to the Middle East, and we’re based more on an escalation of Operation Condor into a hot war for US control of the region (remember, the original game was released in 1988) The U.S. crash was more an extreme example of the collaspe of the British Empire at that time and the economic woes of the UK under Thatcher. The economic liberalization of the Soviet Union was already underway under Gorbachev when the game was released, it just wasn’t expected by anyone at that time that the Soviet Union would actually collaspe if it decommunized. It was expected the USSR was to become like China today, still under the communist party and with large state-owned enterprises but with an otherwise free market economy. Silverhand I think was more influenced by the Troubles than any other terrorist event.

One thing though, without US protection, China would've reclaimed Taiwan and annihilated Japan. Although China was rather technologically backward in the 90s, they are ideologically hardcore during that period, and would've gladly accepted the millions of losses.

That’s the most unrealistic part but nice try

@@The_king567that’s legit what goes on in todays world lmao

@@javierdejesus2420 that has literally never happened but nice try crazy how delusional you people are

@@The_king567 it is public knowledge at this point why do you think cyberpunk lore even reference it..... how ignorant are you

@@The_king567 actually braindead

Plenty of gear from the 4th corporate way laying around in 2077. Old helmets, vest and uniforms from various companies are in stores and loot drops alongside new stuff. Technically Silverhand's pistol is an artifact from a corporate war.

I almost don't want to banish you to the warp after that comment

You need to get Panam’s ending and that Edgerunners pain will no longer exist.

@@TipoIrritable why?

Probably a mix of "The enemy of my enemy", him being pissed at the whole Altman kidnapping, and maybe because he might see Militech as an easier opponent to deal later. That, and they probably told him about the nuke, and he went "You son of a b-tch, I'm in"

@@strikeforce1500 I'm like 99% certain that it was the second one. Johnny heard "drop a nuke on Arasaka" and his eyes lit up. That, and, well... Johnny wasn't the brightest fellow. He wasn't exactly aware of how he was being used. Alt saw that they were both being used by the corps, and I think Rogue and Spider might have seen it too. Rogue just decided to play ball with them, but Alt and Spider tried to find a way out for both of them and Johnny.

Johnny's memory isn't reliable. It's been stated many, many times that Morgan Blackhand was the one to drop the bomb on Arasaka tower. Silverhand was apart of the operation, but not the one who finished Arasaka.

Well, Militech probably had a hand in it. Silverhand in the game and Silverhand in the actual lore are two very different people. First, 50 years of pent up narcissism created his interpretation of the events to be much more self-centered. To the point that he just forgets the most important pieces of the puzzle; Morgan Blackhand and Militech (And Alt). During the Fourth Corporate War, Militech in its infinite wisdom lacked the well-trained fighting force that Arasaka had at its disposal (Arasaka could tap into gangs it funded for troops and even pull forces from the JSDF. Militech couldn't do the same even with its ties to the US Government.) So, Militech had a massive campaign to hire Edgerunners of different varieties. That created the situation where Militech hires (the greatest Solo) Morgan Blackhand, who then hires Silverhand (a military veteran who had already infiltrated Arasaka once). Johnny didn't give a shit about Militech at all. The only reasons he took the job was because of Morgan Blackhand offering the job and the slightest possibility to find Alt Cunningham. At the time he still believed he could find her there. I'd have to brush up on my sourcebooks but the chances of that happening were pretty much zero.

He didn't know, he was recruited by Morgan Blackhand who was working with militech and didn't say anything to johnny

I would imagine Tesla and the german Rheinmetall to go to war instead of Amazon, the shopping company.

@@TheSsandman472 Amazon is nowhere near the stage of becoming a global military superpower, but they're not really that behind Tesla in that regard. War, if nothing else, is an exercise in logistics, to feed, clothe, supply thousands of soldiers is extremely complex task that a car company which struggles to establish service centers would not be able to perform. Amazon is arguably the best company in the world for logitstics performance, they have one of the largest cargo plane fleets and they can deliver inside much of the US inside 1-2 days. It'd be much easier to crank out a competent army from this than Tesla.

​@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022all that military training, but still no bathroom breaks, cmon Jeff all cock but no balls

In game one of the news stations does a brief report on the UK but it was mostly about the conflict between the Nomads and the people who live in cities getting worse. More than likely everything outside of corporate control has collapsed into anarchy.

Here’s your synthetic meat now with 1% less plastic cause we are nice

Indeed I do! Going to cover all of them in the future

I was thinking about the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline.

Corporations are powerful for sure, but they're nowhere near the stage of wielding private military forces to attack their rivals. People point out Blackwater, but they're explicitly a mercenary group for the express purpose of war against insurgent forces. The US government will heavily restrict their usage to their own national security. Amazon can't just hire Blackwater to nuke Ebay headquarters. It's a warning story for sure, but our world has a very long way to go before we reach that stage.

Tbf this is decades of tabletop lore crunched into a half hour video, it's hard to work all of it naturally into a single game

Euro Corp vs Militech? Aspari vs Arasaka?

Indeed

That day is approaching, hemorrhaging.

You know that’s not true at all

@@cjclark1208it’s not

From what I understand, Arasaka and Militech are end-to-end military companies. Countries in the Cyberpunk world likely outsource their military/security matters to these companies so they can focus on governing. For these corporations, they’re likely accepting contracts at a price that would allow them to be profitable while fighting other people’s battles. War is bad for business, unless war is your business

A real life example of a company having a military would be the east india company, who at their peak had a military force that rivaled the british empire. Corpos Having a military makes sense if we live in a dystopia where corporations had very little consequences to their actions so they could just invade and subjugate entire populations to use. Arasaka gained Night City through a show of force after all.

Not really. A private army would let them protect assets, "acquire" assets, offer services, and literally destroy competitors. There is even a historical precedent in the East India companies of Britain and the Netherlands, and the King Leopold's ownership of the Congo Free State come to mind.

lol while your heart is in the right place, and i'm sure it made sense in your head once you brought up finances; but this was a bad take. Massive corporations often depend on private military companies, and or their own security forces to protect assets while out at sea. Piracy is a real thing, and massive. Like.. Pepsi had an entire naval fleet because of how bad piracy is.

Well it would start with a business needing security for their assets, also sly as the threat increases they need to increase security. Eventually it becomes a military in everything but name. They may look like the army but their job is the same: the protection of corporate assets.