Unlock gigs and other quests outside Watson without completing Act 1?

[Cornelius Edgerton]

Is there a way to do that? Just wanna roam about and play as a random merc in NC without a brain bomb ticking in the head.

[Gonzo850]

No

[Cornelius Edgerton]

Originally posted by Gonzo850:

No

Alright. What about after completing the main quest? Can I roam about without Johnny in my head?

At the end of my last playthrough, the game just send me back to my last save before the point of no return, still with the biochip in head.

[Cornelius Edgerton]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

That's the way the game works. End of game will always throw you back before that last mission so you can run and around and do whatever you like. You won't ever die in the game from having the Relic in your head. That sense of urgency is just not real.

Ok, so there is literally no point in the game when I can have access to the whole city but without the chip and Johnny Silverhand in my head?

[Mr Long]

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

That's the way the game works. End of game will always throw you back before that last mission so you can run and around and do whatever you like. You won't ever die in the game from having the Relic in your head. That sense of urgency is just not real.

Ok, so there is literally no point in the game when I can have access to the whole city but without the chip and Johnny Silverhand in my head?

yea point ?? lockdown extending into virtual ???

[Diablerie]

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

That's the way the game works. End of game will always throw you back before that last mission so you can run and around and do whatever you like. You won't ever die in the game from having the Relic in your head. That sense of urgency is just not real.

Ok, so there is literally no point in the game when I can have access to the whole city but without the chip and Johnny Silverhand in my head?

Unfortunately no, you're locked into watson until you finish the biochip heist at which point is is stuck in ya head.

[Cornelius Edgerton]

Originally posted by Diablerie:

Unfortunately no, you're locked into watson until you finish the biochip heist at which point is is stuck in ya head.

Who came up with this kind of гetarded idea? Totally destroys the purpose of being open world and RPG. I'm V and I just wanna be a merc doing low-profile gig jobs, not messing with no 'Saka chip, and you just can't do that in this game. Look at Skyrim, 20 minutes of prologue and the world is your oyster.

[silentgameplays]

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

Is there a way to do that? Just wanna roam about and play as a random merc in NC without a brain bomb ticking in the head.

Dude its scripted,as long as you don't touch the main story you will be fine,there is no "ticking bomb" only annoying Keanu,you need to avoid talking to Takemura if you want to finish all the side stuff,you get 50 street cred as soon as a lot of gigs are complete and if you want to complete them all for act 2 etc you need to do it before even talking to the dude and starting the STORY TIME crap,just ignore him until you do everything same with act 1 ignore main quest as long as you complete all side quests/gigs and so on,just avoid the on-rails STORY TIME MODE which is annoying for a looter/shooter like this.Once you are OP'd enough this game pretty much becomes easy af. Endings don't change,side quests are just fillers for XP bar and Street Cred bar.

[Cornelius Edgerton]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

That's the way the game works. End of game will always throw you back before that last mission so you can run and around and do whatever you like. You won't ever die in the game from having the Relic in your head. That sense of urgency is just not real.

Yeah I know. It's not the fake sense of urgency that bothers me. I just want to play the game without Johnny Silverhand constantly nagging and making stupid comments in every freaking side quest.

[silentgameplays]

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

That's the way the game works. End of game will always throw you back before that last mission so you can run and around and do whatever you like. You won't ever die in the game from having the Relic in your head. That sense of urgency is just not real.

Yeah I know. It's not the fake sense of urgency that bothers me. I just want to play the game without Johnny Silverhand constantly nagging and making stupid comments in every freaking side quest.

Yeah,same but we can't he is part of a game mechanic,annoying.Think of him as a hologram of a fixer of sorts,annoying but unavoidable.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

Yeah I know. It's not the fake sense of urgency that bothers me. I just want to play the game without Johnny Silverhand constantly nagging and making stupid comments in every freaking side quest.

And that is why you can't access those areas - He's there, as part of the script for so many gigs.

Duh.

[Darkz0r]

If you glitch/cheat you can probably access the areas but I`m not sure if quests will show up. I just finished everything you can do pre act 2 and I`m around lvl 14 with 25ish street cred lol

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Darkz0r:

If you glitch/cheat you can probably access the areas but I`m not sure if quests will show up. I just finished everything you can do pre act 2 and I`m around lvl 14 with 25ish street cred lol

Death zones - And even if you somehow manage to sequence break yourself out there... Johnny will obviously still appear anywhere he would normally, because the script expects him to be there.

[silentgameplays]

Originally posted by Darkz0r:

If you glitch/cheat you can probably access the areas but I`m not sure if quests will show up. I just finished everything you can do pre act 2 and I`m around lvl 14 with 25ish street cred lol

All gigs/police missions unlock when you achieve 50 street cred, no? Thats the max. Story related side-quests are a different beast tied to the main scripted story line.

[karasielvenlied]

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

Is there a way to do that? Just wanna roam about and play as a random merc in NC without a brain bomb ticking in the head.

Did that in act1. Looted NCPD GIG body in Santo Domingo and rendered linked achievement softlocked.

[Augustus Gloop]

Originally posted by gimalaji_blake:

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

Is there a way to do that? Just wanna roam about and play as a random merc in NC without a brain bomb ticking in the head.

Dude its scripted,as long as you don't touch the main story you will be fine,there is no "ticking bomb" only annoying Keanu,you need to avoid talking to Takemura if you want to finish all the side stuff,you get 50 street cred as soon as a lot of gigs are complete and if you want to complete them all for act 2 etc you need to do it before even talking to the dude and starting the STORY TIME crap,just ignore him until you do everything same with act 1 ignore main quest as long as you complete all side quests/gigs and so on,just avoid the on-rails STORY TIME MODE which is annoying for a looter/shooter like this.Once you are OP'd enough this game pretty much becomes easy af. Endings don't change,side quests are just fillers for XP bar and Street Cred bar.

Does this also apply to the Pan Am and Judy missions? I haven't talked to Taka yet because I want to free roam awhile but does this mean I also have to avoid their missions as well?