Is V a Cyberpsycho?

[Minty]

https://youtu.be/XoBrhuKpTNs
So, I love watching gameplay like this. Even though I approach things a bit differently (I prefer breach debuffs and quickhacks combined with smart weapons), while watching this last night it struck me that V is a total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cyberpsycho.

Our characters basically murder their way across Night City. Sure V is a merc, but holy everloving ♥♥♥♥ do we liquidate human begins like they were common vermin. And none of this affects V at all. In fact, this game goes to great lengths to paint V as this conflicted person who's sitting on the bed next to Misty at the start of Act 2, sobbing about the Keanu cancer in their brain... after potentially exterminating a packed auditorium worth of people.

Is V a cyberpsycho? Is that the big Shyamalan twist that never makes it into the actual story while we're busy getting a girlfriend or boyfriend, building a car collection, and having casual conversations with all the people who routinely hire us?

FYI, it's not my video, but my god is the person playing smooth as hell.

[Sneakimus]

Cyberpsychosis is characterized by uncontrolled aggressive behavior.

V is in charge of their actions. Are they a psychophat/sociopath/delusional? It's possible, but they are definitely not a cyberpsycho.

[Minty]

Publicado originalmente por Master:

Cyberpsychosis is characterized by uncontrolled aggressive behavior.

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they are definitely not a cyberpsycho.

Alright, time to drop this bad boy, straight from the lore:

"Not all cyberpsychos are physically violent. Some have fragmented personalities, some are kleptomaniacs, others are compulsive liars. But violence towards living things, especially people, is most common."

Feel free to read it yourself.[cyberpunk.fandom.com]

As it turns out, the symptoms are also gradual. As more cybernetics are installed, the cyberpsycho begins to lose touch with reality. Eventually they might lose it. Or they might end up like Adam Smasher; doped up and on a leash.

[talemore]

What I seen of CyberPsychosis in game cyberpunk 2077 , they seem to be "confused" at best. But the thing still remain that V is almost never in charge of V's body.
We are most of the time in charge of the body and if V would awaken from the CyberPsychosis , V would be very confused

[HNTR]

Actually it's up to you who V is. Sure, not everyone has a fleshed out backstory and headcanons and stuff like that but some of us do. I think it's actually really nice that we do not know exactly everything about the main character like their past for example. It leaves a lot of creative space for stuff I previously mentioned.

[Don Costro]

Most action games have the protagonist slaughter humans by the hundreds, and while few of them reflect on this fact in some way, the killing always feels kind of detached from the game's canon. i think it would be a good idea in CP to incorporate some kind of consequences to whether you kill or not the enemies, since the game already gives you a choice, which is a wasted opportunity to enhance the RPG element of the game, it could be woven somehow into the cyberpsychosis theme, and affect V's reputation and the ending you get.

[Submissive and breedable]

Not really, there's a clear motive behind most of V's murders. What makes someone a cyberpsycho is killing for fun imo

[talemore]

Publicado originalmente por HNTR:

Actually it's up to you who V is. Sure, not everyone has a fleshed out backstory and headcanons and stuff like that but some of us do. I think it's actually really nice that we do not know exactly everything about the main character like their past for example. It leaves a lot of creative space for stuff I previously mentioned.

I know who V is .

V is Vincent or Valerie. None of these names are my name

[ULTRA]

It's already pointed out in the game that baloperidol does nothing and no one knows the cure for cyberpsychosis. People like Adam Smasher and V can replace their entire bodies except for their frontal lobes and behave exactly the same before and after. Cyberpsychosis doesn't exist. Read the logs for all the cyberpsychos. They either had a material reason for their desperation or were psychopathic before implants.

[FieldTech]

Publicado originalmente por Dundi ♿:

Not really, there's a clear motive behind most of V's murders. What makes someone a cyberpsycho is killing for fun imo

Killing civilians on occasion isn't ( always fun ) :p but fighting / evading the NCPD is.

[AscendedViking7]

"Is V a Cyberpsycho?"

No, this is just a very bad case of ludonarrative dissonance.

[Meru The Succubus]

Publicado originalmente por ʟǟֆȶʟɨʋɨռɢքօɛȶ:

Publicado originalmente por Good Whiskey:

Those afflicted with cyberpsychosis are known as cyberpsychos, those who have existing psychopathic tendencies, enhanced by cybernetics, and as a result have lost their sense of identity as a person, either to themselves or others. They come to view regular people and other living things as weak and inferior. With their enhanced physical abilities and complete disregard for life, Cyberpsychos are extremely dangerous.

Sounds like V to me.

Cyberpsychos kill their own squad.

V doesn't turn on her allies.

wow look at me replying to a 2 year old responce but... IDK Cyberpsychosis is a weird topic in the lore, and by the admitance of the tabletop and 2077 is kinda barely understood in universe. that said, Killing their own squad/not being able to distingush friend or Foe seems like its not a decieding factor in whether someone is cyber Psycho or not.

Case and Point Edgerunners (SPOILERS), while I would argue that in the finale David slips in and out of Cyber Psychosis and is actually "sane" when he dies, he at no points targets team mates or former allies. I think its more that Cyber Psychos hyperfixate on one thing, to a point of violence. For Some its revenge or just pure violence, but there are a few Cases where its very clear that the afflicted is focused on one thing and one thing only.

In the case of David its Lucy. If he wasnt Built Different AND had help from lucy, and wasnt able to regain sanity from cyberpsychosis like i mentioned, I reckon he probably would have continue to tear arisaka appart. Despite this, and him visibly being out of it in the final episode, seemingly thinking his mum is still alive, David Never attacks Falco or rebecca, even though they are right there with him and, at that point, he is clearly in a Cyberpsycho state.

In the game as well theres Diego Ramirez, the Cyberpsycho on the pacifica peir, who seems to only be activly aiming to attack the scavs who kidnapped his daughter. while he does, obviously, attack V, I think that can be marked up to them feeling threatened.

IDK, just my 2 cents on the topic. I dont think V is cyberpsycho, they dont hyperfixate on any specific group or goal and commit violence in the name of that, they dont exhibit any symptoms. I think by all rights they *should* be, they go from near no chrome to all chrome in the span of only weeks, less depending on how you play the game, but IDK, it can maybe be excused because of Johnny in their head, who while not *confirmed* to be cyberpsycho himself, the writters of the TTRPG have acnowledged the idea and stated its possible.

[damion.ord]

V isn't a cyberpsycho but when I play her I am. I am the voice in her head that makes her kick in the Sandy and start flinging Ozob's Nose grenades like an artillery barrage. I am the seductive whisper of high speed slicey dicey. I am the lingering kiss of death that makes heads explode with just a thought. I am the last thing you never see.

[nephets]

Definitely not a cyberpsycho , some players probably don’t bother chroming up, even with hella chrome V seems to have a resistance to cyberpsychosis matching David’s. Whether V is a pyscho is up to the player though.

[[TSC] TheHolyDarkness]

My original netrunner corpo male V is not a cyberpsycho. He's a professional mercenary who concerns himself with stealth, subtly, and minimizing casualties like a good soldier.

My female slicey dicey sandy V is totally a high functioning cyberpyscho lol. Or at least a normal psycho?

It's hard to tell in my head if she's like David Martinez or simply an incredibly sadistic, selfish, and evil Azula type with a bad addiction to adrenaline.

Like many, the first playthrough was the "good" playthrough. Gorilla arms, non lethal modes, lots of safe strumming if I failed to be stealth.


The second is a "bad" playthough. They are meat fodder for my amusement. Mantis Blades for days. Why do I even bother with stealth takedowns when it's the slicey dicey tornado part that I'm looking forward to?

[DocBravo]

I remember reading/hearing something that V is NOT a CP.
He's "immune" to it somehow and explains why his HP takes a hit when you go over.
Night City alone is is more than F'd up to mess with people making them psychotic.