If V thought they had seen it all in Night City's neon-drenched, chrome-plated hellscape, they were catastrophically, monumentally wrong. The 2026 gaming landscape still reverberates with the definitive cyberpunk experience, the one and only Cyberpunk 2077, and its earth-shattering Phantom Liberty expansion. Within this digital odyssey lies a final, soul-crushing choice—a decision so pivotal it can gift you the power to rewrite reality itself, or condemn you to the wistful memory of what could have been. We're talking about the unholy trinity: the Blackwall Quickhack, the Erebus weapon blueprint, and the player's very soul hanging in the balance. Are you ready to sell your digital conscience for ultimate power? The Cynosure Facility awaits.
👿 The Deal With the Devil: Locking In the Path to Power
The journey to these god-tier artifacts isn't for the faint of heart. It begins with a single, treacherous decision that echoes through the rest of the DLC's narrative. During the pivotal "Firestarter" mission, you must do the unthinkable: betray Songbird and hand her over to the relentless agent, Solomon Reed. This is the only key that unlocks the door to the "Somewhat Damaged" mission. Any shred of mercy shown to Songbird, any attempt to help her flee, slams that door shut forever. You'll be locked into a different, arguably more humane ending, but your arsenal will forever lack the two most destructive tools Night City has ever seen. So, the question isn't just about power; it's about what kind of monster V is willing to become. Will you be the savior of one soul, or the master of a thousand deaths?
👾 Surviving the Digital Labyrinth: The "Somewhat Damaged" Gauntlet
The "Somewhat Damaged" mission is less of a quest and more of a survival-horror masterpiece, set within the steel-and-concrete bowels of a high-security MaxTac facility. This is no ordinary corporate tower; it's a prison for rogue AIs and a tomb for the curious.
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🚫 The Instant-Death Guardian: Forget about Adam Smasher; the real terror here is Cerberus, a gargantuan security robot that patrols the halls with a single-minded purpose: eradication. If its sensors lock onto you, forget about reloading a save. This is an instant, unforgiving death, forcing you to restart the entire nerve-wracking infiltration. Silence and paranoia are your only allies.
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🧩 The Hacking Challenge: Your first objective is to infiltrate the facility's core by hacking four critical terminals. Their names should be etched into your memory: Sierra, Alpha, Victor, and Bravo. Success here grants you the ghost of a chance.
| Terminal Name | Location Hint | Primary Threat Nearby |
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| Sierra | Upper-level control room | Frequent Cerberus patrols |
| Alpha | Lower maintenance corridor | Automated turret cluster |
| Victor | Central server hub | Sound-sensitive laser grid |
| Bravo | Restricted research wing | MaxTac Ambush Squad |
🔫 Forging the Erebus: A Submachine Gun of Pure Hatred
Once you've wrestled control from the four terminals, the real puzzle begins. Your next objective is to manipulate the facility's ancient power grid.
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Locate the decrepit power station in the main dining hall.
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Reroute the main power supply to the long-abandoned storage systems.
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A previously sealed maintenance hatch will groan open, revealing a small, cluttered room.
And there it lies, glowing with malevolent promise: the Erebus weapon blueprint, resting innocently on a dusty table.
But what does this blueprint create? Nothing less than a Power Submachine Gun that spits concentrated Blackwall corruption. Its stats are the stuff of legend:
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➕ +100% Headshot Damage: One well-placed burst can turn a cyberpsycho into a fine red mist.
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➡️ +25% Armor Penetration: Militech's finest body armor? Merely a suggestion.
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💀 Blackwall Infusion: The true terror. This weapon doesn't just kill; it corrupts, dealing exponentially increasing damage to weakened foes as dark energy consumes them from within. It is, without question, the perfect tool for the merc who prefers to solve every problem with a storm of lead and shadow.
🧠 Seizing the Blackwall Quickhack: The Ultimate System Crash
The Erebus's sister in annihilation lies just a few terror-filled steps away, in the Experimental Prototyping room. But this door doesn't open with a simple hack. No, it demands a toll or a display of supreme skill.
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Option A (The Sneaky Way): Find a hidden datashard with the door's unique passcode, scattered somewhere in the facility's earlier sections.
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Option B (The Brilliant Way): Show off your chrome. If V has a Technical Ability attribute of 15 or higher, you can brute-force the lock with a complex hack. This is the way of the true Netrunner.
Inside, bathed in the yellow glow of a quarantine field, sits a suitcase. Open it, and you claim the blueprint for the Militech Canto Mk.6 Cyberdeck, the vessel for the Blackwall Gateway Quickhack. This isn't just another program; it's a digital apocalypse.
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🧩 A Daunting Cost: It consumes four quickhack slots in your cyberdeck operating system, a massive investment.
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⚡ 12 RAM to Initiate: But once cast, for a cost of 12 RAM, it unleashes hell.
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💥 The System-Kill Effect: Within a 20-meter radius, every piece of hostile tech—turrets, drones, mechs—shorts out and dies. Up to five human enemies have their neural systems and cyberware fried on the spot. It is the ultimate "off switch" for any encounter, leaving behind only smoking husks and eerie silence.
⚖️ The Corrosion Choice: One Component, Two Destinies
After surviving the Cynosure nightmare, you'll think the hard part is over. You'd be wrong. Back in your apartment, a message from the enigmatic Yoko at the Edgenet shop in Kabuki Market summons you for the "The Corrosion" mission. She decrypts the core component retrieved from the facility and hands you the singular Behavioral Circuit. And here is the cruelest twist: you only get one.
You must now make an agonizing, permanent choice:
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The Path of the Shadow: Use the circuit to craft the Blackwall Gateway Quickhack, becoming the ghost in the machine, the netrunner who ends fights before they begin.
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The Path of the Storm: Forge the Erebus SMG, embracing chaos and aggression, painting the walls of Night City with Blackwall-tainted ballistic artistry.
This choice defines your endgame. The stealth master versus the berserker. The silent wipe versus the loud, messy triumph.
🕹️ Bending the Rules: Dupes, Cheats, and Console Commands
But wait! This is the lawless digital frontier of 2026. Do the rules of mere mortals apply? Some enterprising edgerunners have, over the years, sought loopholes.
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The Duplication Glitch: Methods to clone the precious Behavioral Circuit have surfaced and been patched out in a constant cat-and-mouse game with CD Projekt Red. As of the latest patches in late 2025, all known duplication exploits have been sealed. Trying to find a new one is like hunting a ghost in the Net.
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The PC Player's Advantage (Console Commands): For those on PC who embrace their inner cheater, there is a path of absolute power. By using tools like CyberEngineTweaks, you can open the console and simply will these items into existence:
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Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Borg4a_HauntedGun",1)- Spawns the Erebus. -
Game.AddToInventory("Items.HauntedCyberdeck_Legendary",1)- Spawns the Militech Canto Mk.6 Cyberdeck.
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But ask yourself: does power earned through a line of code taste as sweet as power seized from the jaws of a robotic hellhound?
💀 The Price of Power: The Blackwall Whispers Back
Make no mistake, this power comes with a voice. A corrosive, alien consciousness from beyond the Blackwall now lives within your gear—and by extension, within you. Wield the Erebus, and its corruption will subtly spread to V. Use the Quickhack, and watch its RAM cost balloon with each use as the entity hungers for more.
The consequences? Mostly psychological. V will hear voices—subtle, threatening whispers from the Blackwall, questioning your humanity and promising an end for all mankind. It's a small price for godhood, or is it the first step to becoming the very monster you hunt?
Whether you choose the screaming fury of the Erebus or the silent, system-wide death of the Blackwall Quickhack, one truth remains: by claiming these artifacts, you have touched the untouchable and wielded the forbidden. You are no longer just another merc in Night City. You are a force of nature, a living legend whose name is whispered in fear and awe through every dark alley and corpo boardroom from here to 2026 and beyond. The only question left is, what will you do with all that beautiful, terrible power?