Removing cyberware?

[sinsorrow1]

I know it is a game. I know logic does not apply as in the real world. That said how do you get back your bodyparts when you remove cyberware? For example you install your first eye implant, does the ripper put your eyes in LN2 in case you want them back? Or you get gorilla arms, then later decide you want your own arms back. How does it work?

[Unlucky]

You seen those chunks of meat and big trash bins all over some of the rippers' clinics?

Yep. That's how it works.

[Bogmore]

Hypercloning.

[Balekai]

Originally posted by Bogmore:

Hypercloning.

This is basically what I think as well. Especially in the new ending when V basically needs to restore all his/her original bodyparts).

[Unlucky]

In case my point wasn't clear in my last post.... People who aren't extremely wealthy do NOT get their body parts 'back'.
People who are extremely wealthy and may want to preserve or grow new body parts may have a way to do so, but you never really get to play as any of these people in any of the Cyberpunk games so talking about it is just speculation and stuff...

And so, typically when it comes to such topics niche obscurity and the associated extreme wealth... as you can see with much of the snippets of "books" you read in the game, or brief news updates (like the cure for MS), or the whole 'Gary the Prophet' storyline... It is pretty much just 'whatever goes' as long as it seems to make some 'realistic' amount of sense and doesn't conflict with any established lore. Rich people do what they want and if the technology doesn't exist yet then they pay someone else to create it specifically for them (and only them)... because humanity is pretty much at that point.

I'll also point out that there is even a talk show episode in 2077 about how a worker was pushed by his employers to replace his real-life arms to keep up with the pace of the new robots they purchased. Then they let him go and he was no longer able to afford the monthly payments on his arms so they took his arms away and he could no longer find work because he had no arms.... Then the talk show guy gave him fancy new cyber arms.
This sums up just about everything relating to this topic, honestly...

If you could get your 'original arms back' just like that, then situations like those would NOT be issues. But these sort of scenarios are referenced heavily throughout 2077, many times, as one of the motivating forces for workers to hate all the corporations. Because it's literally not like you can get your arms back if you replace them. Once they are gone they are gone. The rippers throw them away.
That is grim premise is supposed to be implied by all of the blood and guts just laying around the Rippers' offices. But I personally think that it's done in such a... casual way? It seems the vast majority of players just don't catch it or put it together and say stuff like, "OH, those are HUMAN body parts from people who just got stuff REPLACED.... just like ME!", "Haha, he threw away my legs................ I wonder what I taste like...? O_o", "So if someone is getting a Mr. Stud, does that mean they.......?", and etc. etc.

[Tankfriend]

Originally posted by Unlucky:

I'll also point out that there is even a talk show episode in 2077 about how a worker was pushed by his employers to replace his real-life arms to keep up with the pace of the new robots they purchased. Then they let him go and he was no longer able to afford the monthly payments on his arms so they took his arms away and he could no longer find work because he had no arms.... Then the talk show guy gave him fancy new cyber arms.
This sums up just about everything relating to this topic, honestly...

Something like this also pops up in a gig in Phantom Liberty, only it happens to kids.
Basically, it's a "special training camp" for children to become sports stars. Only they get their high-powered implants and replacements far too early, before their bodies can adequately adjust to them. Kids that do adjust can become successful, but all the others are just handed back to their parents. They get to keep their implants, but have no way to maintain them, so either they will get their implants removed without replacement (which can potentially kill them since vital organs are also replaced), or they will die a slow and agonizing death. Obviously the percentage of kids who do adjust to the implants is really low. What happens with them? They get pawned off on an international sports black market.

[DeVeers]

wait till you play phantom liberty where they literally cut your face off for the new implant

[Lora Grim]

I borderline wish that your "original" eyes, the ones you start with, weren't mechanical to begin with... so when you get your eye implant, you actually need to get your eyeballs scooped out... with one of those "spoons"...

Bet that would give a lot of people an upset tummy.