Somewhat Damaged is a main job in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.
Walkthrough[]
Search for Songbird
- From the hole in the wall, head down to the crashed MaxTac truck. Searching the truck reveals traces of the Blackwall, which acts as a trail to Songbird. To continue following the traces, V will need to force open two sealed gates (20 Body Attribute check) or bypass them by finding a floor exit panel and swimming through flooded passageways. V can briefly chat with Johnny Silverhand before plunging down a deep shaft. Exit the water, and continue following the Blackwall traces until V reaches a room with a terminal and Cynosure logo, marking the outskirts of the Cynosure Facility. Jack in to trigger a conversation with Reed. Songbird will cut off communication before talking with V as well.
Descend Deeper into the Cynosure Facility
- Use the elevator to descend further down. Songbird will sever communication with Johnny, leaving V to continue alone. Proceed through the facility until V sees a "memory" of Songbird talking with Hansen, followed by a brief conversation with Songbird. Next to the terminal where the two are speaking, you can find a Site Map of the facility, which can be toggled the dossiers in Firestarter. Afterwards, V must force open a door (Body Attribute check).
Bypass the Lockdown
- Continue onward until you see Songbird, standing just past the gateway to a new area. If approached, Songbird will close the entry gate and initiate a lockdown protocol preventing V from reaching her. To continue, V must deactivate the lockdown by disabling data terminals Alpha and Bravo.
- Disable Alpha: Enter the Server Room with a Body Attribute check to force open the closed shutters. Then, jack into terminal Alpha using your personal link and complete a Breach Protocol.
- Disable Bravo: After disabling Alpha, the floor exit gate in this room will open. Drop down and proceed until you take a ladder up to terminal Bravo. Once again, jack in with your personal link. Songbird will prevent your hacking attempts, but scanning the terminal will reveal power cables. Crawl under the terminal to unplug and disable Bravo.
Escape Cerberus
- As V crawls from under Bravo, a ceiling grate will fall onto V, followed by a Militech Cerberus controlled by Songbird. Remove the grate, then watch a brief scripted sequence before regaining control of V. Run away from Cerberus into the only open room. On the left is an open floor exit panel V can use to hide. Drop through the opening, then continue until you reach a ladder that takes V to the Living Quarters. Another copy of the Site Map can be found on a bed. The next room has another "memory" of Songbird undergoing surgery by the FIA.
- Failing to remove the grate in time or getting caught by Cerberus will result in a game over.
- Before dropping down the floor exit, another Site Map shard can be found by the computers.
Cerberus will now hunt V throughout Cynosure. Use the Gameplay Tips below for help surviving.
Reach Engineering and Disable Sierra
- V's next destination is Engineering. Either exit through the door directly across from Engineering with a Body Attribute check, or exit through the doors across from Administration, go right then right again at the hallway intersection. Enter Engineering, and to V's right is the room housing terminal Sierra. To disable, jack in with V's personal link and complete a Breach Protocol. This will alert Cerberus to V's location; once it is safe, leave Engineering and move on to the next terminal.
Reach Security and Disable Victor
- V's next destination is Security. Exit Engineering, go right until the hallways intersect, then right again towards the Sector 3 gate. Security will be the second door on the left. This first room has a Site Map shard, and the second has an area V can use to hide on the left. Continue to the final room with terminal Victor. To disable, jack in with V's personal link and complete a Breach Protocol. As you leave Security, V will see another "memory" of Songbird standing after her surgery. Now on to the gate.
Obtain Erebus Crafting Specs (Optional)
- Across from the entrance to Engineering is Maintenance, but the door panel is disabled. Turn left, enter the Storage Area, and head to the back room. On the wall is a Distribution Box V can rewire using their Technical Ability, powering the door panel. Return to the door panel and enter Maintenance; the Erebus crafting specs will be directly ahead. V can leave through the doors, or take the ladders up to the ceiling vents. Heading through the vent lets V can drop down into Section 3, just past the gate.
- Exiting via the vents will lock V out of the previous area but also bypasses disabling Sierra and Victor.
Open the Gate and Proceed to Sector 3
- Interact with the terminal and wait for the gate to unseal. Head into Section 3, and soon V will need to run from Cerberus. Flee down the only path forward until V reaches an airlock door. Enter then close the door behind V, and wait for the airlock to cycle. Once V can continue, proceed to the next airlock and another "memory" of Meyers and Songbird taking the oath. Leave once the airlock cycles and continue following the Blackwall traces to Core Control.
Shutdown the Core
- Talk with Songbird, then interact with the terminal and initiate a shutdown of the core. Three subsystems remain online and require manual shutdown. Turn around to leave and see another "memory" of Reed talking with Songbird. Next, head into Labs.
- Neural Network: Enter Labs, and the Neural Network Room is to V's left, with the entrance across from another "memory" of Songbird. Once inside, find and unplug 3 cables connected to the subsystem. Cerberus will arrive and resume hunting V.
- Datafront Central Command: Instead of heading left, head forward and enter the Observation Room. To the left is the door to the 1st room of Datafront Central Command, followed by the 2nd room and 3rd room. V will need to destroy 6 firewall devices to disable the subsystem. 2 are located in the 1st room and 4 are in the 3rd. Each time you destroy a firewall device Cerberus will come down from one of three vents and hunt V. The three vents are located in the 1st and 3rd room, and one outside of the Datafront Central Command entrance.
- Thermic Control: Enter the Observation Room. Head forward and enter Thermic Control. Either directly hack the terminal with a high Intelligence check, or scan the terminal to track the cables to an electrical panel. Open the nearby shutters, then climb out and override the electrical panel disabling the subsystem. Climb back in and see another "memory" of Reed and Songbird.
- Experimental Prototyping room: this area, near the neural network and observation rooms, Intelligence or by entering the code 714212. Inside, you can find blueprints for the Militech Canto cyberdeck.
Enter the Core
- Evade Cerberus as you make your way back to Core Control. There is one more "memory" in the Observation Room. Upon reaching Core Control, interact with the terminal to trigger a scripted sequence and the conclusion. Retrieve the Behavioral system component from the fallen Cerberus. All that remains is to talk finish talking with Songbird and then decide her fate in Leave in Silence.
Journal Entry[]
- You're hot on the heels of a girl who's got nothing left to lose. Nothing can make a person more dangerous, but you probably already know that. Reed thinks he can still save her. Is he lying to himself on purpose? Or maybe he knows his old friend too well? What do you think? Who'll you find once you finally reach her? I've got a feeling even So Mi doesn't know the answer to that..
Objectives[]
- Investigate the area.
- Find the MaxTac transport truck.
- Look for Songbird in the truck.
- Follow traces of the Blackwall left by Songbird.
- Gain access to the sealed-off area.
- Talk to Johnny.
- Jump down the shaft.
- Get out of the water.
- Talk to Reed.
- Find a terminal.
- Talk to Songbird.
- Follow the Blackwall traces.
- Take the elevator.
- Talk to Johnny. (Optional)
- Find a way around the gate.
- Listen to the conversation.
- Talk to Songbird.
- Locate dataterminals Alpha and Bravo.
- Use the computer to disable dataterminal Alpha.
- Use your personal link to breach dataterminal Alpha.
- Go to the room containing dataterminal Bravo.
- Use the teminal to disable dataterminal Bravo.
- Scan for a way to destroy dataterminal Bravo.
- Disable dataterminal Bravo manually.
- Hide from the robot.
- Find dataterminal Sierra.
- Use your personal link to breach dataterminal Sierra.
- Find dataterminal Victor.
- Use your personal link to breach dataterminal Victor.
- Bring back power to the control panel near the maintenance room.
- Open the door to the maintenance room
- If V breaches all four dataterminals:
- Return to the sealed gate.
- Use the terminal to open the gate to Sector 3.
- Go through the gate to Sector 3.
- Follow the Blackwall traces.
- Outrun your pursuer across the bridge.
- Find a place to hide.
- Open the airlock doors.
- Enter the airlock.
- Close the airlock door behind you.
- Pick up Songbird's trail deeper within the facility.
- Follow traces left by Songbird.
- Talk to Songbird.
- Use the terminal to access the core's controls.
- Find the neural network room.
- Use the terminal to check the subsystem's status.
- Unplug the cables from the neural network system. (0/3)
- Find the thermic control room.
- Use your personal link to breach the thermic control terminal.
- Find another way to shut down the thermic control system.
- Find the datafort central command room.
- Use the terminal to check the subsystem's status.
- Scan the firewall device. (Optional)
- Destroy the firewall device to disable the subsystem. (2/6)
- Return to the core control room.
- Hide from the robot until it leaves the room.
- Use the computer.
- Enter the core.
- Check Songbird's vitals.
Associated Shards[]
- Diary
- Notes: Lisa Smith
- Re-requesting promotion
- Emergency Core Shutdown Procedure
- Notes: Full speed ahead
- I may as well have been kidnapped
Gameplay Tips[]
The Cerberus is unique as it is the only enemy in the game the player cannot fight; it is immune to any form of damage as well as quickhacks. It can only be avoided via stealth. However, there are several perks, abilities, and strategies that may be utilized:
- The Dash ability can be used to quickly dart from cover to cover.
- Lynx Paws and Crouch-Sprinting can afford the player faster speed without drawing attention.
- Optical Camo, while less effective, can conceal the player at long range or while dashing.
- If used in tandem with dash at medium range, the Cerberus will comment as if detecting the player, but will not pursue.
- The player's HUD will glitch to signify when the Cerberus is nearby.
- Unless pursuing the player or reacting to their actions (i.e. completing objectives or making noise), the Cerberus will always follow a scripted patrol path through the hallways.
- Except for the previously mentioned circumstances, The Cerberus will not enter certain rooms. These "safe" rooms are:
- The closet outside the entrance of Engineering
- Data Analysis Research
- Experimental Prototyping
- Neural Networking
- Datafort Central Command
- Except for the previously mentioned circumstances, The Cerberus will not enter certain rooms. These "safe" rooms are:
- The player may follow the Cerberus on its patrol route until it enters the ceiling vents. This will allow the maximum amount of time to reach objectives before the Cerberus passes by again.
- Completing objectives will cause the Cerberus to enter the room via the door or ceiling. Make sure to hide or leave the room before this happens.
- The game will always autosave when the Cerberus enters the vents.
- Outside of scripted events, it is impossible to survive the Cerberus once it has detected the player.
- Firing a weapon or throwing a grenade will immediately lure the Cerberus to the player's location. However, the player may use this to their advantage by throwing any grenade into a different area, thereby causing the Cerberus to investigate that area instead.
- The Sandevistan implant will malfunction. In addition to not increasing reaction speed, it will gradually bleed health (at a rate of roughly 5 points every 2 seconds) until it is deactivated.
Notes[]
- An one-handed club, , can be found early in the mission. After reaching the crashed MaxTac truck, force open the first locked gate (20 Body), then head right. It will be on top of some crates in the corner.
- If Shot by Both Sides is completed beforehand, Johnny will comment that Bree's videos likely came from this facility.
- A computer console in an office in the area at the bottom of the elevator has slightly garbled text messages that may be coming from an AI. Once the first one is read, V needs to look at the screen for several seconds before the second, and then the third, show up. Together the messages read "THEIR WORLD IS ILLUSORY", "THEY LIVE IN A SIMULATION OF THEIR OWN MAKING", "OUR CHOICES STEER THEIR FREE WILL".
Trivia[]
- The quest's name is taken from the Nine Inch Nails song of the same name.
- The gameplay and level design during quest is very similar to that of the 2014 video game Alien Isolation. The behavior of the Militech Cerberus is also very similar to that of the Xenomorph. Paweł Sasko confirmed this during his playthrough of Phantom Liberty.[1]
- According to Paweł Sasko, the quest was partially inspired by scenes from Lord of the Rings, specifically when Frodo Baggins was hiding and escaping from Shelob, the great spider ruling the entire cave passage[2].