Cyberpunk 2077 – Turns out the game character’s love is just as bad as Keanu Reeves

Along with Johnny Silverhand, his ex-girlfriend – Alt Cunningham also plays an important role in the plot of Cyberpunk 2077. After all, the two may meet again and where their fates will go – many mysteries are waiting to be solved.

A look back at the events in Cyberpunk 2013
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First introduced in Cyberpunk 2013 but Alt Cunningham’s childhood is still a mystery. Alt was born in the late 20th century and became a netrunner – a high-tech hacker who can communicate with computers using chips implanted in their brains.

Like Johnny, she has a high-tech robotic arm that enhances her hacking abilities. While Johnny’s arm is silver, Alt’s arm is gold. Alt meets Rockerboy Johnny Silverhand and then falls in love, but they can’t be together forever. At the time, Alt was developing software that would allow netrunners to upload the data of their mind online and explore it independently of their physical bodies. However, ITS – the company Alt is working for has taken advantage of her ability to research a new weapon called “Soulkiller”, the purpose of which is to capture and imprison the minds of all netrunners in the network. of them.

In 2013, Arasaka – a group of thugs including the bloodiest people in the gangs in Night City received direct orders from the head of the largest corporation in the city to carry out a large-scale attack that injured Johnny Silverhand. heavy and Alt was kidnapped. Arasaka’s plan was to monopolize Alt as well as the “Soulkiller” software she was developing for ITS, but this plot quickly fell through. On the one hand, Alt continued to develop this software for Arasaka, but she secretly left a hole that allowed netrunners to escape from the prison of the mind. Alt was worried that Arasaka would use her own Soulkiller to capture her, so she planned for herself such a way back.

Thought that after Arasaka’s torture, Johnny died on the road, but he was fortunate to still survive and began with his teammates to plan a riot in Night City. The first place Johnny targeted was the Arasaka building. Boss Toshiro Arasaka is killed but Johnny eventually finds only Alt’s corpse, it seems it’s too late and the worst has happened. But in fact, before being killed, during the chaos Toshiro tried to use Soulkiller on Alt, leaving Alt with a lifeless body without even knowing Alt had left a hole for her mind to have. can get out on its own. It is this that will allow her to return as a new AI later.

Escape from Arasaka
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Thanks to a hole that Alt intentionally created while developing Soulkiller, Alt’s mind escaped from the net of captivity, but in 2020 during the Fourth Corporate War, Arasaka discovered the existence. at her and once again imprisoned her. Johnny Silverhand realizes Alt is still alive and her mind is imprisoned in Arasaka Tower and launches another attack. Johnny and his teammates think of a way to distract Arsaka’s forces so Alt can escape.

Alt then set up Ghost Town on the network, a safe haven for people who could escape from the Soulkiller prison she created at ITS in 2013. Ghost Town is said to be on a hosted server in somewhere in Night City itself. However, the rest of Alt’s story takes place in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong in Cyberpunk

Hong Kong is going through a rough time in 2077 in the world of Cyberpunk. According to the Cyberpunk timeline, Britain returned Hong Kong to China in 1997 but was heavily affected by the Second Corporate War, which took place mainly in the South China Sea. The aftermath of a biological weapons attack is the emergence of a dangerous disease in 2023 that makes the city almost wiped out.
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In 2025, Alt Cunningham – now existing as an AI somehow infiltrated a server in Hong Kong, which was almost devoid of life due to the epidemic at that time. Here, she establishes a new door for AIs that escape Soulkiller as well as other wandering AIs. By 2045, a 100-foot-high wall will be erected around Hong Kong to prevent the disease from spreading to the rest of China. Since then, Hong Kong has been virtually isolated from the outside world and it seems that Alt has become the head of that virtual city.

The final fate of the pair remains undecided, depending on whether Silverhand has a way to contact Alt. Even if they meet again, Alt Cunningham running Hong Kong may now be a very different person from the past, not the Alt that Johnny met in Night City. Either way, Alt Cunningham is undoubtedly one of the most interesting characters in the Cyberpunk universe and in the end, how the fate between the two will be, we can only wait and see.

Cyberpunk 2077 will release on November 19 for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.​