Large statues broadcasting a mysterious code, monks telling me to open my throat chakra, an ominous image added to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and now: a laptop computer displaying historical Slavic textual content dropped right into a center of a landfill and a Johnny Silverhand-themed Wolfenstein 3D clone that unlocks a secret server farm. It is a facet of Cyberpunk 2077 I by no means knew existed, FF:06:B5.
the FF:06:B5 subreddit and Kotaku each have in-depth breakdowns of this saga, however the fundamental info from earlier than Cyberpunk’s large 2.0 replace are as follows: there is a handful of enormous, stylized statues scattered throughout Cyberpunk 2077’s world map, a few of whom have a readout with the code FF:06:B5 on their base. Monks close to one of many statues warn that gamers’ “throat chakra is blocked,” and that they need to “activate the meridians on the roof of [their] mouth.”
Disconcerting stuff, and it is spawned years of investigation and idea crafting by followers. CDPR’s solely added extra gas to the hearth, just like the inclusion of mini variations of the offending statue (full with code) in among the 1.5 replace’s new participant residences. In response to a query about FF:06:B5 from his Twitch chat in 2021, Cyberpunk 2077 quest director Paweł Sasko said: “In fact there is a which means [to the code]… Some issues should be troublesome to uncover.”
Over on the almost 23k-member FF:06:B5 subreddit, digital gumshoes turned to the whole lot from numerology to Cyberpunk lore to studying coded messages from characters tapping their fingers to try to make sense of all of it. If it is not obvious already, for each legit FF:06:B5 clue, there’s been a ton of Pepe Silvia-style conspiracy digressions, and that is all a part of the appeal.
On the legit facet, final yr Witcher 3-focused YouTuber xLetalis found an FF:06:B5 easter egg added to the sport in its subsequent gen replace. Behind a portal in a distant bastion, the YouTuber discovered an ouroboros image with the equal to the letters FF, VQ, and B2 written throughout the highest in Glagolitic script, the oldest identified Slavic alphabet, and the principle one utilized by CDPR for the Witcher collection’ in-game textual content.
Under is an in-game screenshot of the image taken by FaultyDrive on the FF:06:B5 subreddit. Lest that appear like a tenuous connection, FF:06:B5 is a hex code for a vibrant magenta coloration much like (if not precisely the one utilized in) the triangle on the middle of the image. Mom of god.
FF:06:B5:2.0
This submit from Til_W on the FF:06:B5 subreddit outlines all the brand new clues present in replace 2.0 to date. Gamers can now discover plenty of in-game messages between “TyRo//aNtA” and “Polyhistor” concerning the code and what it means, marking the second express in-game look of the code apart from the statues.
Certainly one of Tyro’s final messages mentions placing out with simply his laptop computer, which is presumably the one added in 2.0 you can now discover in Night time Metropolis’s japanese landfill. The laptop computer exhibits off that very same ouroboros image from The Witcher 3, in addition to a grid of Glagolitic script, presumably a key or in any other case associated to the image in The Witcher 3.
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Fellow traveler Tyro mentions being floored by a imaginative and prescient of the FF:06:B5 code in a videogame “over 60 years previous.” Whereas seemingly partially a sly reference to The Witcher 3 (whose 2015 launch is over 60 years previously from 2077), it truly appears to be referring to Arasaka Tower 3D, a brand new arcade cupboard secretly added by the two.0 replace. It enables you to play a Wolfenstein 3D-style demake of Johnny Silverhand’s assault on Arasaka Tower depicted within the unique recreation, and might solely be discovered at an deserted church within the farthest reaches of 2077’s recreation world.
The church appears to be Polyhistor’s hideout, judging by his private laptop with messages to Tyro and different hackers being situated there, and it additionally incorporates a set of ominous, big server towers. Arasaka Tower 3D itself not solely incorporates one other a type of rattling statues hidden in its third stage, it additionally has a secret “-10” maze stage, completion of which unlocks keypads on the server mainframes again within the church. Oh, and the bottom rating on the sport’s leaderboard, held by Polyhistor? FF06B5. God rattling it.
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And that is so far as anybody’s gotten with respectable means. A gaggle of gamers appears to have datamined the codes to the servers and proceeded to a subsequent step within the quest, however the story remains to be removed from over. The lead moderator of the FF:06:B5 subreddit, leprotravel, claims to keep in touch with CDPR builders who disapprove of those strategies: “[The video] couldn’t escape the eyes of the CDPR devs. Immediately we had lengthy negotiations about the potential of posting an in depth information devoted to the strategies utilized by dataminers…
“…Nevertheless, we acquired a refusal from the CDPR staff. However in a really pleasant method, since they admire the diligence of gamers in discovering secrets and techniques of their video games, whatever the strategies they use.”
The video with the datamined resolution will be discovered on the FF:06:B5 subreddit, however along with the developer disavowal, it does not precisely tie a bow on the whole lot simply but (although what they discover may be very cool and peculiar, if cryptic). The total objective and use of the Glagolitic laptop computer is but to be found, and there are seemingly much more secrets and techniques to be present in Phantom Liberty when it releases tomorrow. We’re totally in schoolyard Triforce rumor, NieR Automata secret church territory right here, and I can not wait to see the way it all shakes out.
