Can i Save Joshua from getting crucified?

[Spada]

Hi i Talk about the side quest where Joshua this Religious Person wants to get crucified for a braindance or something and it always ends up with Rachel getting angry in the Dinner and they leave.

[galadon3]

You will get a phone call from her some time later wich starts the second part of the quest

[Bjørn]

This mission chain is very sensitive to your dialogue choices. It can fail at any time, basically.

Here is one 'walkthrough' for it:

https://www.powerpyx.com/cyberpunk-2077-sinnerman-walkthrough/


... or this is the link directly to the mission in the diner / restaurant:

https://www.powerpyx.com/cyberpunk-2077-there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out-walkthrough/

It mentions this:

Here is where the final choice that matters for this job is. The first response where you talk to either Rachel or Joshua doesn’t matter, but the second one does:

“Can we please stop talking about faith?” > BAD
“What’s your part in all this?” > GOOD

After that the rest of the responses don’t matter, then the group will leave and this side job will end. Rachel will call you after at least 12 in-game hours have passed to start the side job “They Won’t Go When I Go”.

(This thread should probably have a spoiler warning, btw )

[Spada]

So i did nothing wrong and was keep reloading the last save for no reason lol

[Notoshy]

Alternatively... you kill him at the first possible Moment... because that is the initial Mission of our Client - to kill a murderer.
Joshua wants to make himself a martyr, the new Jesus. Does this City really needs a religious uprising? Would be just more mess in a whole Lake full of mess.

He wants to die anyway, so why not fulfill his Wish right there? Just dont kill the Police officer... made that error once..... caused Maxtac to hunt me down XD

If you want to change his Fate, thats up to you. But if someone wants to end this quickly.... you cant attack him in the Sequence... but as soon he is in the Car, he is open to Quickhacks.

[Bjørn]

It is indeed a pretty weird mission chain. Can be interesting and entertaining to 'play along' for the story, at least

[galadon3]

Its not exactly an action-mission its like some sidejobs way more worldbuilding and storytelling and of those sinnerman is one of the best and most cyberpunk the game has.

[Ender's games]

Publicado originalmente por Notoshy:

Alternatively... you kill him at the first possible Moment... because that is the initial Mission of our Client - to kill a murderer.
Joshua wants to make himself a martyr, the new Jesus. Does this City really needs a religious uprising? Would be just more mess in a whole Lake full of mess.

He wants to die anyway, so why not fulfill his Wish right there? Just dont kill the Police officer... made that error once..... caused Maxtac to hunt me down XD

If you want to change his Fate, thats up to you. But if someone wants to end this quickly.... you cant attack him in the Sequence... but as soon he is in the Car, he is open to Quickhacks.

I think nowadays this option is no longer very doable as the policeman will attack you and he kills you in 1-2 shots.

I think CDPR actually wants you to follow through the story.

[Notoshy]

Publicado originalmente por Ender's games:

Publicado originalmente por Notoshy:

Alternatively... you kill him at the first possible Moment... because that is the initial Mission of our Client - to kill a murderer.
Joshua wants to make himself a martyr, the new Jesus. Does this City really needs a religious uprising? Would be just more mess in a whole Lake full of mess.

He wants to die anyway, so why not fulfill his Wish right there? Just dont kill the Police officer... made that error once..... caused Maxtac to hunt me down XD

If you want to change his Fate, thats up to you. But if someone wants to end this quickly.... you cant attack him in the Sequence... but as soon he is in the Car, he is open to Quickhacks.

I think nowadays this option is no longer very doable as the policeman will attack you and he kills you in 1-2 shots.

I think CDPR actually wants you to follow through the story.

Didnt do that Side-Mission in my current Game yet. Will try and report, when iam at this Task. Im curious if they changed it.

Update: finally doing that sidemission. Yeeeeah... quickhacking him is no longer possible, but you can still kill him. The Policeman will kill the Customer no matter what... but it doesnt really stop you from killing the target the direct Way. But this Mission seems really buggy^^
If you dont follow the Steps to the Letter (following Bill) the Mission breaks. If you run towards the Car, Bill gets killed and then the NPCs stop moving.... no matter if you attack them or not.
Sadly, its not possible to save before testing different scenarios and i dont want to do the "follow the car" over and over again.

I think i will follow the Quest ...for now. Dont think pseudo-jesus will get his time in the Spotlight.
(edit: nope, cant stand that Guy and the Mission easily gets buggy. Sad that the Customer had to die, but the Contract is done)

[Max Gripe 1982]

In patch 2.2, I did the following:

1. I caught up the police car together with the client.
   
2. I waited for the cop to shoot the client.
   
3. I waited for Joshua to get out of the car.
   
4. I waited for that dumb braindance lady to open the car door.
   
5. I shot the braindance lady.
   
6. I killed the cop (he’s pretty tough).
   
7. I escaped the police on foot, hid, and waited until the chase ended.
   
8. Joshua was saved, but I still had an active quest to kill him. So I left the area.
   
9. The quest failed, but Joshua is alive.

[EricHVela]

Publicado originalmente por Max Gripe 1982:

In patch 2.2, I did the following:

1. I caught up the police car together with the client.
   
2. I waited for the cop to shoot the client.
   
3. I waited for Joshua to get out of the car.
   
4. I waited for that dumb braindance lady to open the car door.
   
5. I shot the braindance lady.
   
6. I killed the cop (he’s pretty tough).
   
7. I escaped the police on foot, hid, and waited until the chase ended.
   
8. Joshua was saved, but I still had an active quest to kill him. So I left the area.
   
9. The quest failed, but Joshua is alive.

iirc, the advertisements about this crucifixion BD still appear, meaning he probably still goes through with it just without V's help.

[Amanoob105]

In my last play though I managed to stop Joshua from getting crucified.

How?

When we first caught up with the vehicle and while the guy that hired me in the first place got his head evaporated I ran around to the other side of the vehicle he was in and used my rifle to drill him a new nostril.
And thus it was made so that he would never suffer upon the crucifix to the deviant delight of whatever gonk would want to buy that.

Also that cop that was with him was harder to kill than frigging Adam Smasher.

Publicado originalmente por EricHVela:

iirc, the advertisements about this crucifixion BD still appear, meaning he probably still goes through with it just without V's help.

A funny thing is that those advertisements can be found around the city long before you ever meet him.
They'd payed to get the hype going in advance.