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Given that Cyberpunk 2077 got here out almost two years in the past, you may suppose there’s little left to find and doc forward of the sport’s first and solely deliberate DLC, Phantom Liberty. But proper within the coronary heart of Night City lies the start of a riddle that has left followers scrambling to unravel the thriller because the hunt started in 2020. It all begins with a single statue and a six-digit alphanumeric sequence: FF:06:B5.
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Cyberpunk 2077 gamers caught on to the FF:06:B5 thriller early on within the sport’s life, however the reply has remained frustratingly out of attain regardless of many elaborate theories. The mysterious six-character sequence is discovered on a statue the place monks can usually be seen praying or meditating. The search has concerned rigorous number-crunching based mostly on the preliminary trace, maps that chart the situation of repeat situations of the identical statue, and deep dives into religious ideas and actual world historical past, amongst different makes an attempt to search out the answer. Following the path is dizzying to say the least. But each step of it’s intriguing, even in the event you’re unsure you’re on a path to start with.
Few concrete, plain information and trails have surfaced outdoors of preliminary observations, chunk of that are documented on r/FF06B5, a subreddit devoted to cracking the titular thriller (in addition to different secrets and techniques present in Cyberpunk 2077). Theories and hypothesis go over the deep finish actual quick with this thriller, so if you end up struggling to maintain your head on straight, you’re not alone. As is alleged within the “Newcomer Sticky” of FF:06:B5’s subreddit, “Without concrete proof that one [theory] is more viable than another, it’s difficult to give this community and newcomers a direction to look.”
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No one is definite what the answer is, or if any of the proposed theories and documentation are even heading in the right direction. If you wish to get a have a look at the origin of the thriller for your self, you will discover the primary and solely actually confirmed “hint” proper in Corpo Plaza. Located northwest of the large roundabout and close to the Corpo Plaza house, is a statue identified to FF:06:B5 thriller hunters as FF:06:B5 Prime “D3.” A multi-armed statue holding a large sword with two fingers, and a sphere in one among its left fingers, it has the six-character sequence in daring throughout the entrance. It additionally has a wierd forking image that many suspect both pertains to V’s lifepaths, the branching nature of the sport’s story, and even historic numbering programs. This statue will be present in a number of places within the metropolis, although not all have the alphanumerical sequence. Miniature variations of the statue, full with the sequence, additionally seem within the sport’s recently-added flats which are up on the market.
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Despite the thriller, just a few dependable observations and certain beginning factors have been established by the group:
FF:06:B5, when used as an HTML hex shade code, interprets to “shocking pink,” or because the group refers to it (and sometimes the thriller itself) “magenta.” The sequence appears to be like like a portion of a MAC tackle and/or matches different kinds of code sequences discovered elsewhere within the sport. Multiple statues an identical and related in form seem all through the sport. Some even do bizarre issues, like emit sparks when shot, or just maintain orbs which are suspiciously coloured pink. NPC monks collect in entrance of the D3 “Prime” statue. They will be heard chanting in addition to repeating one significantly intriguing line of dialog: “My apprentice! Your throat chakra is blocked! Activate the meridians on the roof of your mouth.”Paweł Sasko, Cyberpunk’s lead quest designer, confirmed that this isn’t a case of smoke the place there’s no fireplace. He acknowledges that it’s certainly a thriller price trying into, possible with a selected which means and answer—and one he has turned down each alternative to make clear, even when requested immediately. Advertisement
There’s additionally considerably of a sixth reality to think about: After replace 1.5, the textual content on D3 “Prime” modified from crimson to yellow. What that might probably imply is anybody’s guess.
All theories roughly sprout from these confirmable observations. What follows relies upon which avenue you select to pursue and the way misplaced within the weeds you’re keen to get. You can take a look at a number of the related threads locally’s thoughts map, which traces not solely connections inside the sport but in addition connections to works of popular culture and religious ideas that exist outdoors of the sport. Anything that may have a quantity, shade, or thematic idea hooked up to it appears to be up for exploration. Trips via Reddit threads and Discord conversations level to any variety of prospects. Everything from advanced readings into spiritually to matching the code to Windings fonts, of all issues.
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One instance of the rabbit gap that may ensue from following a possible lead contains trying to attach the mysterious “Zen Master” facet jobs to FF:06:B5. Given the presence of monks on the D3 prime statue, the monk’s meditation quests seem to be a pure place to look. These facet jobs contain assembly a lone monk who takes you thru a meditative mind dance. When pulled aside for clues, issues get a little bit fascinating.
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As charted out within the thoughts map, gamers have discovered that the quantity you’ll be able to select to donate to the monk after every meditation session will increase so as of the Fibonnaci sequence beginning on the twelfth place. Not solely that, however every quest is known as after particular artworks resembling John Lennon’s track “Imagine,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” Rūmī’s “Poem of the Atoms,” and “Meetings Along the Edge,” the title of a chunk that seems on the collaborative recording challenge between composers Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. These have their very own numbers to contribute with launch dates, track size, and extra. Trailing units of numbers and thematic relationships appear to be a typical finish results of many theories and the sport is more than pleased to supply such speculative fodder.
Occurrences just like the Zen Master and the bizarre math hidden within the particulars have develop into the meat and potatoes of intense hypothesis that blends quantity crunching with ideas of spirituality with the sport’s personal lore and references to popular culture. It’s exhausting to maintain observe of all of it. Does it immediately relate to the principle FF:06:B5 thriller? Another thriller altogether? Or none in any respect? While some trains of thought appear extra convincing than others, the sport is crammed with dozens of alternatives to hint traces the place there won’t have been any within the first place. Yet, it all the time looks like sure clues are too exhausting to disregard. Why does one placing in-game advert particularly appear to not promote a selected product (or include different variations of it as all different adverts do, confirmed through datamining)? I discovered myself questioning why stated advert appears to bear some resemblance to the mysterious image on the D3 Prime statue and on the jewellery worn by the monks who meet in entrance of D3 on the identical time of day, daily. Am I seeing issues or am I on to one thing?
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The scope of the town, the frequent themes of identification and actuality woven all through the sport, all of it creates a spiral of doable options to a bizarre statute that has been proof against probably the most audacious efforts to crack it.
Given the clear esoteric nature of the thriller, others have turned to investigating Misty, her store, the sport’s tarot playing cards, and all different appearances of spiritual and religious ideas and iconography. The glyph present in Misty’s store accommodates strings of numbers and letters that may be related to kind a bigger sequence, damaged up into pairs much like FF:06:B5. It additionally bears resemblance to graffiti discovered close to the ultimate Zen Master quest.
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The NPC monk line regarding the “throat chakra” appears to even be considerably promising, as some speculate that the reply to the thriller lies in following the request to “activate the meridians on the roof of your mouth.” A few latest posts to the thriller’s subreddit are following patterns of blue, based mostly on the normal shade of the throat chakra and the way that matches the large blue round glass “roof” that covers a portion of the highway in Corpo Plaza.
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Despite the impressiveness of the documentation that’s been gathered in pursuit of this thriller, it’s exhausting to not get discouraged by what number of result in useless ends. And when each little factor within the sport can seemingly be associated by some extension, it’s simple to begin getting paranoid.
Every time I felt like I used to be prepared to surrender on one of many doable theories or speculations, there’d be a small connection I’d battle to dismiss, or documentation of alleged clues that drew traces to different oddities within the sport, such because the fixed repetition of the “no future” graffiti. But after sifting via so many lengthy strings of hypothesis and principle, it’s exhausting to not deny the enjoyable to find one thing tucked away in Cyberpunk 2077 that nobody’s pieced collectively but.
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Hopefully it’ll be a satisfying reveal when somebody does determine it out, as a result of speculating over why an NPC could be tapping a bar desk a sure variety of occasions is sufficient to drive one into cyber psychosis.