What are the 3 icons with percentage on the menu labeled Edgerunner, Synergy, and Respite?

[A]

Like when you press Journal or open the Map and press escape, you're taken to another menu.

Without spoiling too much:

What are the three icons at the top for? What's their progression about? I thought they're about particular "main" quests in the game, but I can't be this close if they read 90%, 40%, and 48%.

I tried looking this up, but I see Edgerunner stuff first on my results lol.

[Iskander]

The left icon is V's legend (general story progress), the middle is your relationship with Johnny (making decisions he agrees with makes it go up), the one on the right is your Relic deterioration (not sure if it actually has a direct in-game tie in beyond the number of malfunctions you experience).

[A]

Originally posted by Iskander:

The left icon is V's legend (general story progress), the middle is your relationship with Johnny (making decisions he agrees with makes it go up), the one on the right is your Relic deterioration (not sure if it actually has a direct in-game tie in beyond the number of malfunctions you experience).

I can't be THIS close to the ending if I'm at 90%? I reckon Phantom Liberty is separte, but I've only met Hanako's bodyguard and gotten the plans for the parade.

[Iskander]

Its not completely clear how those numbers change and what *exactly* they represent. Especially that first one is a bit wonky, as it doesn't measure main story line only, but seems to measure a few other things as well. So no: I wouldn't say you are 90% done with the main story line after meeting her bodyguard.

Incidentally: it doesn't appear to go above 90% (not until you actually do the final mission)
(Also note: my first post was a copy/paste from a reddit answer I found. Those are not my own words, but that answer is generally in line with what I believe those percentages represent)

[EricHVela]

It was my understanding that the left is completing sidequest arcs but not related to how close the player is to the end of V's story, the middle is Johnny's relationship which affects a secret ending, and the right is a weirdly-paced progression to the V's finale (seems to me to bump when certain events happen directly related to dealing with solving the Relic problem).

Did you do a slew of side missions?

[A]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Did you do a slew of side missions?

Yes, I did. So side quests with long questlines aren't plentiful it seems?

[Omen3608]

Except for your relationship with Johnny (only if you want to go for the secret ending) none of the numbers really matter from a direct gameplay perspective.

The first one is a visualization of your reputation as a merc in Night City. It slowly rises to 90% whenever you do Missions, Gigs, etc. It then rises to 100% after doing the final mission (not sure about all endings though) giving V legendary status.

The second describes your relationship with Johnny. It does not mean you have to be nice to him all the time though. There are certain conversations where it rises if you are being a ♥♥♥♥ as well. Depends on Johnny's mood. ;)

The third shows you how far the Relic has progressed in killing V. This stat is directly tied to the main quests, but as it obviously can't go below a certain threshhold it's not really a good indicator on how far you have progressed in the story either.

Think of it more like a role-playing helper. The text changes along your journey and gives you an idea of where you're at.

[Hidden Gunman]

I got the impression the middle one was an indicator of how V and J are blending together, rather than whether he agrees with your decision or not. The distinction, as I see it, is because J is an asshat, so you being an asshat back at him would actually be in line with his personality.

While the in game consensus is J will swallow your inner self up, and you become J, he actually goes through something of a metorphosis himself, and at times displays unjohnny like introspection.

Not sure it was a glitch or not, but one of my playthrough near endings had a very weird argument between the two of them. The more I thought about it, the less it seemed a glitch. It was weird because it was so out of place for both their characters, based on my gameplay.

[Omen3608]

You're definitely correct with that observation. It shifts from describing their relationship to them merging into one personality.