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@@Takintomori yeah I've almost 100% the game but it's always so fascinating reading theories and stuff when it comes to this game bc most of them all sound viable and true to the game compared to most other games
I love how the militech and arasaka buildings are in front of each other I imagine a lot of workers just opening the window time to time just to jells some indirect insults to the other building Like that episode of the Simpsons when they go to New York
Militech is a fascinating company in 2077, hell even in cyberpunk red (table top rpg). Their essentially a non company company, state owned yet also trying to do their own thing to advance their own income. Yet this would also mean that the NUSA is extremely dependant on Militech, if their stock's crash then NUSA is going with it. Their gear is awesome though! Always loved their more simplicity first gun designs. And their troops in 2077 look cool as heck xD
That’s what happened when the NUSA pumps like more than half of its budget into funding militech But also the black ops operatives in the killing moon mission look so cool
Militech will probably win against Arasaka at least in North America. I can't help but think that if a bunch of Nations outside the NUSA got involved in supporting Arasaka it would probably be like WW3 eventually.
The feud between Militech and Saka is always so interesting. Great video as always! Btw if anyone wants more cyberpunk 2077 content and you are a reader, a new novel recently released named “No coincidence”. Looks like a good read!
Other parts of the world would most likely be protein farming / refineries on the fringe, if not complete trash heaps - or barren, with minor correlations to the main story. Now if we could explore beyond the Black Wall, or other planets / stations, that would be neat.
Honestly it amazes me that no one in the company decide to get rid of Donald Lundy, since all he’s doing is getting rid of any business opportunities they can have with other companion and making a lot of enemies that will try to sabotage their business and going to war with arasaka doesn’t benefit militech.🐱
Militech is ideologically driven to support the NUSA government. At the end of the day those enemies are enemies of the fascists in charge. They've proven they can keep growing despite the challenge.
Business isn’t about making friends and working nice with your competitors. Arasaka is their biggest rival, eliminating or hindering them, making them look inferior and potentially stealing their customers is what lead to much of their success. Militech becoming the de facto company in the west was largely because of Lundy being such a vicious businessman
if memory serves, Mekton Zeta has a setting option which is set in the far future of the Cyberpunk universe and in it Militech is still around, producing giant robots and weapons galore. Militech will outlive us all.
I was curious (also I don’t know if I’m doing this right), but I really find the corporations interesting and unfortunately I don’t see many videos going over the small corporations inside the Cyberpunk universe. Would that be a possibility for couture videos?
@@Senth99 yeah , the irony that America's most succesfull corporation is owned by the state . You know , since America prides itself on it's capitalist sistem
Nahhh, US would have spent millions on the development of those rifles, then realize they can just upgrade their current rifles with better attachments and small changes again
I don't know, considering they're moving to a higher caliber to deal with body Armour I can imagine they'd need to make similar changes to deal with subdermal Armour.
The US in that universe is having the bad times we are currently having back in the 90s. We didn’t get the “win” over the Soviets by their entire system of government collapsing and the EU wasn’t as big as the Cyberpunk one, that’s why Euros aren’t the trade currency for petrol and dollars are.
@@nielsmichiels1939 I figured. Besides, the only real Italian gun brand I know is either Beretta or Beneli. FN made the Fal, P90, technically made the Browning Hi-Power (because Browning died before he finished it), and probably a few others I'm forgetting. (FNC)
@@nielsmichiels1939 I figured. Besides, the only real Italian gun brand I know is either Beretta or Beneli. FN made the Fal, P90, technically made the Browning Hi-Power (because Browning died before he finished it), and probably a few others I'm forgetting. (FNC)
another amazing video! i love these in-depth videos into the corporations. sometimes watching these just makes me think how dark the cyberpunk world actually is
It's always a good idea that your prime minister or even defense minister its also the CEO of a weapons corporation. If you add also energy minister that is working at the same on a private energetic company you have either Night city or Spain I live in one of those I will let you know guess.
@@crimsonbaron4418 well living here its not that bad BUT if you have any kind of expectancies in a "future" things get a bit messed: For example: maybe you like in a lot of countries in europe or in north América or even in some countries of south América like México or even in east europe like in russia you want to create your own work, your own little corporation and grow step by step.... Well that is impossible here because the goverment Pulls out from their ass taxes for the taxes so you could pay taxes while you pay taxes to have mire taxes and in return the govement instead of fixing some Roads they dedicate this money to the ancient past time of spain: Corruption. The thing is my country has a lot of autonomous communities (keep I mind that texas or Yakutia in Russia its almost twice as us) But apparently we need those divisións of powers both in the goverment and both in the autonomous communities. Wich are quite small, then add that each single autonomous communities had thousands of "funcionarios" (people that work for the state) wich are redundant and all the money your taxes generate instead of going to a health care, defense, Imvestigations or tech development end on the pockets of this funcionaries, some of this funcionaries are essential: Police, army, firefighters, medics, teachers... etc you know But then each single autonomous community has political representatives of the main political parties and their own invented stuff... wich get their money obv through taxes. Ok that's the first problem. The second is that (this come from far away in our past): the dictatorship we had either bad or good depending to who you ask at least created a strong socioeconomical state with independence of energy, weapons, and some heavy machinery (ships, cars, trucks... etc). But after the transition in the 70s/80s and then the entering of Spain in Europe in the 90s, politicians behind this big movements do pretty questionable stuff: Like accepting quite weird acceptance rules to enter in the EU, it was supposed that Spain should be a touristic destination and power, but for that was also not necessary our industries at full working capacity. So the old state owned factories and firms began to collapse, or began to be buyer by other companies or directly disappeared: We had seat and pegaso manufacturers of cars wich actually buyed licenses to other countries like Italy, but then they be buyer by Volkswagen and Iveco. We had the state owned weapon manufacturers of Santa Barbara and CETME (centro de estudios especiales..... yadayada yada) they respectively created army vehicles and hardware and light weapons: santa Barbara collapsed and was buyed by general dynamics and cetme collapsed totally after the goverment asked for impossible stuff: Basically asked for cheaper redesigned from 0 assault rifles rechambered to 5,56 wich killed the project and the company doing this weapons because they had to use poor and cheap materials wich literally brake on your hands. A good example it's the futuristic looking Ameli light machine gun: Good idea, but the production suffered spontaneous combustion if you looked bad at them. And país Vasco had inmense forges to make metal stuff like ship hulls heavy machinery etc but some of this metal works collapsed . It was the fault of Europe? It was the fault of América? NOP it was the fault of our politicians wanting to emulate the soviet state of the 90s instead the one of the 50s while wanting to simulate América... and absolutely being corrupt tot he core. Because both for again The good and the bad: Soviet system, and the american system had worked (yep I know how the soviet one ended) but the thing is: when your politicians role-playing to be Robert Henry House from new vegas actually had nothing to back their actions aka: Politicians that had studied how to be politicians, not politicians wich had serve the nation somewhat like American or soviet ones: Army, secret services anything related to serve to their nation... Yep you could have a bad president here and there but at least he had sacrifice something for his nation. On the other hand when your politicians come from universities that teach them "How to" you end having malleable politicians, Or tools wich end in positions of power selling parts of your country that your predecessors build... Wich end in making that your country had any kind of heavy representation, or had any autonomy because you have to pay a debt wich is impossible to repay because your country's politicians had no interest on reactivate or create industries or allow new entrepreneurs, that could generate that income. The thing is: Any system creates corruption, and corrupted people sooner or later. But the thing is: If the corrupted people at least likes your country and had some respect for it, because they sacrificed something for it, its less probable that they end selling their own mothers. On the other hand a corrupted person that hates you and where you live because he sees it not as a tool to create money=independence but as a resource to exploit will end selling everything you love to dubious people, just for the sake of making money. One of the reasons the ancient Spanish people had that Obsession with the word: Honour, its the fact that is the only thing that everyone has but could brake or loose easily if you trade that. And it's true the only thing a person has its his word and what that person do with that, if you fail your people with fake promises, you end some day offering this same people fake bread and fake water... and there is when you have a serious problem. But! We also have sun and good food.
Hiya! Just caught this on Spotify on my way home from work. I really enjoyed it! Thanks for your hard work in putting these together. It makes my hour commute enjoyable and less as tedious.
I would like more involvement with the other corporations in Cyberpunk 2. Biotechnica, Zetatech, Kang Tao, and Militech. There's so much lore they can delve into this dense world of Cyberpunk that I'm kind of looking forward to what they can create next. It would also be fun to have side missions as part of the Trauma Team or even MaxTac.
i like all these parallels and paradoxes: Arasaka WAS going to detonate the nuke in their NC HQ, but Millitech beat them to it. They were going to unleash Soulkiller to go wild, while Millitech had Cynosure (nuff said). Millitech blamed Arasaka for the Holocaust, when they themselves caused it.
Considering that Most of the endings of 2077 involve Yorinobu dismantling arasaka internally and regrouping to asia, i wouldn't be surprised if Militech are the primary antagonists of future games. They'd fill the vaccume left by arasaka commiting corporate seppuku and solidify their place as the global corporate hegemon, kinda like america in the 90s when the soviets collapsed. Side effects would likely include the western US states, now lacking an outside benefactor to keep them more autonomous, being completely incorporated into the NUSA proper, with NC probably following suit while Militech appropriates Arasakas american and non western holdings. You kinda get a taste of this in the tower ending, with Militech practically plastering every surface with ads and zetatech largely working at their discretion. This could also be the way Cyberpunk reintroduces Morgan Blackhand in the games, who could play a role like adam smasher did (i.e. borged up enforcer)
I personally feel like the games are leaning toward some sort of A.I threat in the future you have Alt Cunningham being Beyond shady with never explaining what she actually plans to do with the Mikoshi Constructs. You have Delamane's rouge personalities with atleast one implying some future Event and big poppa D pissing off passed the black wall if you fuse them. As well as Netwatch just seeming Very Very on edge in general and even phantom liberty showing us what a true unshackled A.I is capable of when it takes over that spider robot. I could see a Army of Rouge A.I trained by alt bolstered by mikoshi taking over other Robotic weapons platforms or more horrific Taking over people remmber Alt Knows how to delete someones psyche and replace it now
Yorinoby didn't destroy Arasaka. And Japan is by far more powerful than NUSA. It is stated in those endings, that Arasaka is rebuilding. Also, NUSA is bound to finally collapse sooner or later. The autonomous states and Texas are just waiting for another war. The time of the US hegemony is long past and that is one of the stronger constants in the Cyberpunk universe. For the US, since 1990s it's only going worse and it can only go worse. So Militech is fucked either way. It will fall into obscurity along with the ever weakening country.
Came back to Cyberpunk 2.0 and it’s amazing now. From the recommendations i found your channel and cannot stop watching these cyberpunk lore videos. Amazingly done i hope you get many many more subscribers
Given the real life collusion between Government, shadow gov., corporations, & the military industrial complex, I’m more & more convinced that this isn’t fiction but a glimpse of the future.
4:22 it’s funny because in the real life future weapons trials, they had all kinds of fancy upgrades, and what the army took was “m16/m4 but with an optic” That new m5 sig spear thing is probably not going to see widespread adoption like the scar before it.
Love these videos. Did my second playthrough and a second run on phantom liberty and gave been soaking in all your cyberpunk Lore videos while I'm working. Finally subscribed because I thought I already did lol. Great work
For effectively being the NUSA's military, I have to wonder why their troops in Cyberpunk 2077 use forest camo in a mostly-desert and urban environment, especially when they have those glowing-filament-things on their uniforms. Although, I guess since optical cyberware's fairly advanced, color-and-pattern camouflage is basically useless, so that's probably why.
I'd like to suggest a bit of proofreading, as the wording might suggest a different narrative (for example "and due to the recovery of the US economy thanks to the crash" has conflicting wording, plus makes deciphering meaning necessary i.e. there is no real recovery if they're forced yet again to go with the cheap option, or the recovery is insufficient) Just my two cents, good video nonetheless, thank you.
Closes to arasaka would be Daewoo or Samsung they are included in many military production and in Korea high level management in this corporations are almost untouchable to the law
Please please tell me you will do an arasaka lore vid in the near future and also an obscure company maybe delamain cabs run by an AI could be an interesting vid
What baffles me is if corporations are way stronger than governments then how does laws on incorporation still work? Stocks would just be non existent as whoever was in control (in a political way) can just deny the shareholders.
All of this can be summed up by " Oh, they were military contractors for the US. " - the same way you could make a Russian company sound bad just by going " Oh, they're Russian military contractors. " lol.
Funny how Johny in Cyberpunk 2077 is full anti corpa, but he was hired by Militech to blow up tower. Sad that cannot argue with him on that point in game.
That's on-theme for Cyberpunk though. Unless you don't want to turn to nomadism, thus completely abandoning 'the system', then you'll only ever be able to choose between the lesser of the presented evils in order to even begin breaking down and reforming said system.
@@michakasprzak6869 Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Johnny had a bone to pick with Arasaka because they represent the coprorate colonialism. He saw them as bunch of foreign entity encroaching on his home and elsewhere in the world. Militech has always been there, since they are an American corporate. They just provided Johnny and his anarchy terrorists "hijack" their convoy with a nuke so they can use it on Arasaka. Militech basically used Johnny as a proxy to wage war against Arasaka and it worked.
Cyberpunk red lore is different from Johnny recollections in 2077, which in iirc Reddit AMA was told as the engram ISNT an accurate Johnny. In Red, Johnny had a secret agenda as he wished to save his former girlfriend Aria, who he accidentally sealed into the web when he disconnected her neural link (her body was dying), trapping her engram in the net. Militech wanted to destroy the Relic, which contained database of uncorrupted software n info from the virus attacks on the Net/Black wall, Johnny signed on to the team but secretly wanted to save Aria. That was why he went further in to insert that shard. However, the team got hit by Adam Smasher and in an attempt to save Rogue, he would attack Smasher and die in the process, chewed in half while spewing his SMG, defiant to the end. Spider would use the Soulkiller program on Johnny to save his engram in Red. 2077 had Arasaka torture and use the Soulkiller to copy Johnny, even though Rogue/Spider goal was to destroy Soulkiller. We never found out who detonated the nuke though. Morgan blackhand, Saitan, Arasaka by detonating their nuke or militech nuke....
Militech does offer an interesting contrast with Arasaka. Arasaka is a corporation that dominates its home country but Japan is at least officially independent of Arasaka. They might pull the string and be central to the economy, but the country of Japan is not Arasaka. On the other side, Militech is the NUSA and vise versa. They are intrinsically linked with Militech functioning as the NUSA military and their executives routinely hold public office. One corporation has grown to dominate their home country, while the other *is* their home country.
No. It was founded by an Italian , that emigrated to the U.S, named Antonio Lucessi. The company was founded in 1996 and was originally called Armatech Luccessi. When Lucessi stepped down and handed the reins to Lundee, the company was renamed militech. Militech was always american.
I've only started playing Cyberpunk 2077 after it has been in my Steam Library for a few years. Sadly I feel like the game isn't doing a great job of introducing me into this world, I keep walking past major factions not understanding there important in the over all world.
This is accurate. Cyberpunk 2077 does do a shoddy job of introducing you to factions, aside from Maelstrom, Arasaka, and the Voodoo Boys. Other Factions aren’t necessary to know for this specific plot, and aren’t in your face. I found that doing all the Gigs in a set section before moving on to the next introduced me to the world fairly well, but it was tedious, as it practically barred me from exploring the rest of the map.
You should consider playing Deus ex. It's just like Cyberpunk 2077 but much more sophisticated and immersirve Cyberpunk rpg. The first Deus ex is if not, one of the best games of the time it was released. It has great replay ability. If graphics isn't a problem to you, you'll love this game.
@@icarus387or they could just spend some time learning the lore around 2077 and the cyberpunk franchise in general. People are so fuckin lazy these days.
>Game has nuance and doesn't immediately tell you everything about everyone and makes you actually have to seek out the information like real life >City has 50 layers of grime and conspiracies some of which are lies and others that are true, again just like real life. >The game provides more than enough information from background and hidden sources that you need to seek out yourself which is literally the point of the radio hosts, shards you find in the city, some of the TV programs, etc. >Every source of information in the game increases immersion because there are no massive dialogue exposition dumps or explanatory cutscenes, and it is totally up to the player if they wish to discover the truth to the information and hints they are given. >"Muh bad game design" Fallout 4 or Starfield might be more your speed, no offense.
@@modiixx I'm a narrative structure buff. There are a shit tone of ways to convey information to your audience without directly stating. I just saw a lot of missed opportunities to convey the weight of the situation, but that's common with video game narratives All this has nothing not do with good or bad games design, it's a completely disconnected element. Lets not antagonise each other, I'm just an extreme nerd for this kind of thing. Bottom line you enjoy what you enjoy, narrative quality isn't everything, video games have multiple ways to engage there audience.
Yeah. Just make things worse for everyone everywhere just cause. Sorry i will take our "boring" dystopia where we still have Wildlife and a ecosystem and Real Meat not "synth" meat or Nuclear detonations in major Civilian populations :p
