Should I destroy or free Delamain core if I want to interact with Del after this quest?

[KDA Seraphine]

It says that I can get different version of Del car depends on my choice.
I don't have enough intelligence to merge them.
Should I destroy or free Delamain core if I want a interactable version of Del?

[Fake]

Make a choice and accept the end result of your decision.

[Ballistic Drop]

Originally posted by Fake:

Make a choice and accept the end result of your decision.

Playing the dialog options in an effort to min/max the game takes the story element out of your gameplay. Choose the one that lines up with how you think your character would act and roll with it.

[Simple Man]

The car stops interacting with you, so like much of the game, your choice does not matter, once you leave that garage either del or excelsior just go mute and you get a car to drive around in, thats it.

[DOOM THE PRIME EVIL]

free Delamain give you a cool car i have no idea what the other one das

[CrumbleCat]

If you want to make keanu reeves happy, then shoot the core. Also, shooting the core doesn't destroy the AI.

[Weaver]

Originally posted by STP:

The car stops interacting with you, so like much of the game, your choice does not matter, once you leave that garage either del or excelsior just go mute and you get a car to drive around in, thats it.

This is incorrect. The version you get from doing what Del ask you to (reboot his core) will talk to you from time to time, mostly asking V questions about Night City and human behavior.

The quest involving Brandon also answers the question as if the individual cars are actual AI or just partial personality constructs, as the quest makes it quite clear something the size of a car is simply too small to have the processing power to contain a true AI. Even Del isn't a top tier AI unless you have the Intelligence to merge him into a whole, at which point he becomes a top end AI, which is why he leaves Night City, there simply isn't enough space at his HQ for him anymore, and he's no longer focused only on a single specific task.

[Lapo]

Originally posted by STP:

The car stops interacting with you, so like much of the game, your choice does not matter, once you leave that garage either del or excelsior just go mute and you get a car to drive around in, thats it.

That was a bug. It was intermittently working before and has been fixed in 1.5

[Vela Darney]

Well, I did want to merge the different personalities but my intelligence was too low so I reset it since I thought that was the only other option. Only found out you can also shoot the core now, so if I were in the same place again and my intelligence again too low to merge the personalities, I'd definitely go for shooting the core this time.

[Lapo]

Originally posted by Harrier Du Bois:

It says that I can get different version of Del car depends on my choice.
I don't have enough intelligence to merge them.
Should I destroy or free Delamain core if I want a interactable version of Del?

Resetting Delamain will yield the most talkative car, because instead of talking with the car AI you are talking with the whole AI network.
Merging or Destroying Del will give you a car with a local AI and a different personality. You get "comments" from the car but not "talks".

[Northwold]

Originally posted by Weaver:

Originally posted by STP:

The car stops interacting with you, so like much of the game, your choice does not matter, once you leave that garage either del or excelsior just go mute and you get a car to drive around in, thats it.

This is incorrect. The version you get from doing what Del ask you to (reboot his core) will talk to you from time to time, mostly asking V questions about Night City and human behavior.

The quest involving Brandon also answers the question as if the individual cars are actual AI or just partial personality constructs, as the quest makes it quite clear something the size of a car is simply too small to have the processing power to contain a true AI. Even Del isn't a top tier AI unless you have the Intelligence to merge him into a whole, at which point he becomes a top end AI, which is why he leaves Night City, there simply isn't enough space at his HQ for him anymore, and he's no longer focused only on a single specific task.

On your comments in the spoiler, I'm not sure the other quest you refer to makes anything at all clear. Indeed, I rather think that was the point of that quest -- whatever anyone else may tell you, it's fundamentally up to you to decide what you believe. I think therefore I am, after all, was devised because it is the only answer anyone can give to a question that cannot be answered.

[Swayze]

let the man play how he like. If he wants to look stuff up to make the story turn out exactly how he wants who are you to interfere

[Gustuv Wynd]

What? Del will interact with you after you complete the gig and get the car? I have never once had that happen. Oh, do you have to be in first person mode in the car? I never drive like that.

I just thought it was just a normal car...kind of ugly, but seems a bit more sturdy.

[Weaver]

Originally posted by Northwold:

On your comments in the spoiler, I'm not sure the other quest you refer to makes anything at all clear. Indeed, I rather think that was the point of that quest -- whatever anyone else may tell you, it's fundamentally up to you to decide what you believe. I think therefore I am, after all, was devised because it is the only answer anyone can give to a question that cannot be answered.

If you have high enough tech (13) you have a detailed conversation that makes things 100% clear, as your character has the expertise to know what is and is not possible.

[Northwold]

Originally posted by Weaver:

Originally posted by Northwold:

On your comments in the spoiler, I'm not sure the other quest you refer to makes anything at all clear. Indeed, I rather think that was the point of that quest -- whatever anyone else may tell you, it's fundamentally up to you to decide what you believe. I think therefore I am, after all, was devised because it is the only answer anyone can give to a question that cannot be answered.

If you have high enough tech (13) you have a detailed conversation that makes things 100% clear, as your character has the expertise to know what is and is not possible.

I really don't think that's what the game is trying to do. Cf the monks and alt, who also have completely divergent views. Every character in the game who talks to you about what a soul is, what consciousness is, has a different view that they know is right.