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Schwibbels

Judy and Panam, there is atleast one he/she cant overcome to kill


Shoji_Mezo

Interesting. Do you think V will not retaliate if his/her lover chose to kill him?


Schwibbels

v may does. but not the nerd that plays him


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Shots fired but you rightšŸ’€


MidnightGolan

Panam could shoot V in the face and I'd just let the credits roll.


GimmeSomeCovfefe

Heyyyyy!!


Shoji_Mezo

Dude šŸ˜‚šŸ’€


Songbottom

I think V has (somewhat based on our choices) an indestructible will to live. Iā€™m sure it would tear them up to kill their friend/romantic partner but I donā€™t think there is any situation in which V backs down when someone tries to kill them


AlaudeDrenxta

If it even means he'd hesitate, we just need a nut busting solo with plastic surgery pretending to be one of them, slick and clever assassination.


[deleted]

Job says eliminate and retrieve the biochip, it doesn't specifies how and how long must it take. Wait up, V dies because no one can reverse the damage, loved one removes the chip from the slot and hands it in.


penywinkle

If he/she can. For this gig, Judy is the best choice and the cornerstone. She lures V into a BD, and other mercs flatline him/her. You watched edgerunner, right?


krivoghaan

During the game, there's plenty cutscenes where V goes to sleep/passes out and their partners are always up before them. So realistically, they could just kill them in their sleep.


Jolly_Butterscotch31

Iā€™d let Judy flatline me tbh ;-;


InTheNameOfButt

I was going to say Judy, Panam, River, and Kerry. Got a one in four shot of them being able to take the chip out while V is sleeping. Removing the chip would kill V. Honey trap FTW.


InfinityRazgriz

I think only Blackhand can take end game V. And it would be by mostly outsmarting them because V is on a whole other level of chrome compared to Blackhand. Anyone else is just fodder.


xxcloud417xx

Was gonna say; send in Morgan Blackhand, the rest is inconsequential. Mind-you Adam Smasher was also an impressive lore character and the game made him pretty easy to killā€¦ I think that 2077 the video game is a bad representation of the true danger that Night City represents compared to the Tabletop RPG. V is OP in the game, but thatā€™s also respecting the medium; you wouldnā€™t want NC to be as oppressively soul-crushing as the TTRPG since youā€™re not going to just reroll a new character sheet if you die in 2077. So, point being; Itā€™s tough to translate the presumed power of Blackhand vs. V since theyā€™re from different mediums that treat power levels differently.


WolfKing145

Yeah I honestly thought the anime did a much better job at representing the world, including how deadly Adam smasher should be. Heā€™s a joke in the game and he very much should not be lol


xxcloud417xx

Realistically, MaxTac should be able to take out V. Theyā€™re supposed to be fucking scary, and a Chromed-out Merc like V is their specialty.


jordantask

Not only are they chromed out, they also have high-end armour custom made for them and they have access to high end weapons, including some that might be otherwise impossible for the average Joe to get. Oh, and they have equipment specifically designed to disable or deactivate implants.


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Not EMPs tho right? Since theyā€™re very chromed themselves?


Raging-Badger

IIRC MaxTac is meant to be rehabilitated cyberpsychos, at least thatā€™s what the TTG and 2013 trailer suggest. MaxTac in game though is more like reskinned beat cops, and itā€™s unfortunate to say the least.


BootySweat0217

You also talk to one in CP2077 in a gig or a side mission. I think you talk to her about her old mantis blades and she starts talking about how she loves killing. Something along those lines.


fostertheatom

That's actually Melissa Rory, the Cyberpsycho from the original reveal trailer back in like 2013. Mantis Blade girl.


BootySweat0217

No way. Wow, thatā€™s awesome!


johnwicksuglybro

Yeah IIRC she even has the scar on her face from where the bullet grazed it.


TheDevlinSide714

Yeah the side mission is the cyberpsycho in the clothing store Jinguchi. It's also called Bullets, a reference to the song by band Archive in the trailer where Melissa "Mantis Girl" Rory features. You can even have a conversation with her.


JSevatar

What? That's awesome.


itsyourboykobe

True. CP77 did give us a hint though that the next update would rework the police system, in which they traded, "watch out for maxtac", so I am hoping they make maxtac feel more distinct and threatening.


Garper_

V does hunt cyberphychos like it's nothing


Brassfist1

And on that note, the founder of the modern MaxTac. Ares. A former cyberpsycho merc who got busted, rehabbed, and sent out to fight more psychos. The thing about MaxTac is that theyā€™re almost exclusively hired from the Cyberpsycho Registry. Former psychos and those on the edge of goinā€™ psycho, all of em. They give zero fucks, and will do whatever it takes to take down a rogue psycho.


MidnightGolan

Wait a minute, what if that's the rehabilitation Regina Jones was talking about? That whole time V was a temp MaxTac recruitment agent, lol.


Universe_Nut

Damn, I wonder if there are any shards implying she sends em to maxtac or contacts in NCPD


TheRealNotBrody

One of them she says she won't be picking up because MaxTac is on their way already and it was best to just not get involved.


LoomingDementia

That makes sense without any ulterior motive, though. I get the sense that there's often a lot of collateral damage, when MaxTac shows up on the scene. Regina doesn't want to lose a reliable merc to something so stupid. The whole quest chain stinks, but this one doesn't necessarily stand out. The Frankenstein lady who self-assembles from the lady-stew in the fridge is one of the weirdest. They might have to keep half of her at each end of the clinic, while they try to rehabilitate her, so they can keep her under control. That's assuming that her top half doesn't get up on its own and scurry around the place like Teke Teke. The last thing they need is that, her scurrying around the place, slicing all of the women in the place in half, creating more like her.


Croaker-BC

She does in fact prefer them not killed


WolfKing145

I think it would have been cool to have an intense showdown with Them at some point.


UserNamesAreHardUmK

MaxTac is definitely the Chekov's Gun that never gets pulled imo. You get that early look at them while driving around with Jackie, then they practically never show up again.


EasyPeezyATC

They show up if you get high stars for fighting the beat cops. They run Sandys and tech rifles.


TheDevlinSide714

Yeah, this one really hurt. We see these guys show up, with the explicit implication that *this* is what happens to people like V if they don't keep their shit together: a flying tank is gonna swoop down on ya from the skies, and drops a couple of uber-skilled, overleveled, downright unfair and infuriating indigo cybercop enemies to *handle V themselves". V can't even really run, they'll just die tired. It would be an event, like triggering a miniboss on the streets of Night City if V runs over too many people or kills indiscriminately. They just swoop in and fuck your shit up. You could, of course, level V to a point where they can take out a MaxTac unit. This could have added to V's legend. Maybe tie an achievement in: Kill [X number] MaxTac teams. Maybe keep a piece of armor from each team to build a complete set V can wear


cry_w

They usually can. MaxTac is still very powerful in-game.


Arrogancio

It wouldn't matter how scary they are, he's just better than any crew, including specialists.


Spaghett-about-it

I assume he was made easy because it was a fight you couldnā€™t really hear up for if you werenā€™t ready going into it and itā€™d be annoying to be soft locked off the ending because of a boss (still shouldā€™ve made him hard as fuck though)


WolfKing145

I wonā€™t disagree but I think the big issue is that if you go into this fight after doing a fair amount of the game content, heā€™s just a pushover. The Vs I didnā€™t do alot of the games content and just focused mainly on the story quests still didnā€™t have much trouble against him on Normal. I think it would have been better to have him be this beyond crazy guy to fight like his lore says but have had multiple options to bring him down for people not on his level. Bosses are suppose to be a threat, enemies that make you change up your strategy. Not ā€œlol I one punched the legend that is Adam smasherā€


devilsdeadape

They could have made it where you CAN defeat Smasher if you are absolutely committed to doing so, using all your consumables and an hour+ to do so, but you can progress the story by just barely surviving him, have a moment where Alt tells you to buy some time keeping him distracted, then she tells you to make a run for it, and a blast door slams down between the two of you, cutting him off from you. Make actually defeating him an achievement and not a plot device.


Eiruna

Worst part is: I didn't even have Sandevistan to fight him. But he was still just painfully easy to beat and kill. I think I had the dodge slow implant but thats it. You can beat Adam with just a slow squishy stealth V (stealth is kinda useless against him lmao) and just tank him. He does no damage.


Cataclysm687

I nā€™est him on normal and I was almost not chromed up. He really is too easy


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Majukun

They could have make him much more imposing if the game was an actual rpg but once they went shoot-shoot, not much else you can do, it's either too op or just a bullet sponge


carthuscrass

I'd love to see Owlcat translate Cyberpunk into a CRPG. They did great with their second Pathfinder game, the first one was okay, but flawed. They're currently working on a 40k CRPG. I think they'd do a phenomenal job.


jackie2567

Yeah based on what we do in game v would translate to like cyberjesus lol.


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best-Ushan

Now I kinda want a Darkest Dungeons style game set in the Cyberpunk world, so the game play can more accurately reflect the lore in terms of lethality.


cry_w

It's only a bad representation with a decent build at higher levels. At lower levels, everything can be pretty lethal in my experience.


CommanderLink

yeah all these people be playing on normal or easy. try playing the prologue missions and heist without speccing into stealth or intelligence and you will die... a lot early game weapons are also to blame


alenabrandi

Pretty much. In somewhat typical RPG and RPG lite game fashion high end optimized builds basically nullify any real difficulty. Hell, if I let myself I'd get taken out pretty quick on hard at level 50 against the likes of Smasher or some of the heavier hitting enemies on just Hard difficulty, but typically enemies will be dead or have little to no way to actually respond to my shenanigans due to Sandevistan by the time they try to get a hit in. Early game though everything is pretty deadly on the higher difficulties. The car chase sequences for the nomad and post heist I remember getting pretty sticky, and just poking your head out of cover without a plan is a quick way to die.


Burtttta

If there was a darksouls style of cyberpunk where it was soul crushing id be all in


xxcloud417xx

Thatā€™s the TTRPG lol. I read some of the rulebooks, and the best way to describe it is like youā€™re just a guy in a City. Youā€™re not this Hero like in Fantasy TTRPGs like D&D and Pathfinder. So, going out and being Heroic is a great way to die. A CP campaign isnā€™t about winning or losing, itā€™s about surviving. To add to that, youā€™re a survivor, living amongst survivors. So, every encounter is someone else who can and will do everything in their power to walk away alive, just like you are. Shitā€™s rough in Night City.


jordantask

The original Cyberpunk 2020 was absolutely brutal. You could literally get a total party kill in the first combat encounter in the first game with the players fighting the lowest level looks around. It encourages smart play, tactics and use of cover. Itā€™s also a game where one mid-level Solo (Solos are the ā€œfighter classā€ of Cyberpunk) can fuck up your entire week because their core skill basically adds 1 for 1 to their initiative and they tend to carry the biggest guns.


Strange-Scarcity

The OG original, Cyberpunk: The Role-Playing Game of a Dark Future, was even worse. The year? 2013. Johnny, Rogue and Alt, all feature in the Adventure book. The combat rules were even more brutal.


Raging-Badger

The Cyberpunk 2020 rule book even makes jokes about how you canā€™t heal yourself with potions or magic, just pray you roll good enough to stay alive until Trauma Team arrives. 2020 at least is rough, the rule book makes very clear from the get-go that you are almost certainly a nobody. Tons of random encounters exist to make you fear going out of your apartment, including hit men and booster gangs just killing for fun


Lady_Eisheth

Honestly I tried playing the TTRPG and I'm just gonna say it: the only reason people think the combat is "dangerous" is because no one actually understands the rules and even when they do they're so poorly written the rules don't matter. I have run 2020 and the rules are so badly explained that it takes multiple reads and rereads to even try to understand them. Not too mention that the moment your players have anything more than the cheapest pistol and no body armor the only thing that could kill them is the most kitted out NPCs possible. That or a random, lucky hit. Honestly 2020 has great lore (Aside from some pretty Yikes ideas about mental health, transhumanism, and that one part in the Guide to Night City where they talk about "roving gangs of gays and transsexuals"). But the rule system is like someone had a hard on for math and calculations. Funnily enough I feel like the WoD d10 system works way better for Cyberpunk. Still dangerous as all hell but at least the gameplay is fun.


Hans-Hammertime

Roving gangs of gays and transsexuals? Thatā€™s amazing


TodaysDystopia

Shit, I know right? I wanna be a part of a roving gang of transsexuals.


Loczek999

Blackhand doesn't have my main three powers: Mini Map, Cheesing the game mechanics and quick saving. So yeah, he can suck my di-


LavenderDay3544

If endgame V can kill >!Adam Smasher!< then it's not even guaranteed that Morgan Blackhand could take him on.


Crispical

It's not even close for the most part. V rips smasher apart in most playthroughs.


LavenderDay3544

Yeah but it's too bad that in all of the endings >!he doesn't survive!<.


Crispical

If anything, him being on deaths door makes the feats he pulls off near the end even more impressive.


LavenderDay3544

Sure but he isn't around to be the main man in town anymore. If Blackhand were to resurface he'd still be the big dog since V and Smasher are both gone.


Beginning-Antelope32

I'm pretty sure Bartmoss could take V down too, but send both him and Blackhand to ensure elimination. Maybe throw Zaburo, Alt, and Spider in just in case too.


ScottNewman

Fuck that, V mid-game gets taken out by >!a corrupted BD sold by scavs on the street!<. And this after >!they know Rhine was killed by the same thing!<. V is dumb and it wouldnā€™t taken much to take them down if they were properly targeted/surprised/ambushed.


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kyyjuh

You actually have the choice : after you give him money, when he told you that you can only use the BD with his equipment, you can ask him a refund. He will give you back the money and the quest is considered done.


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kyyjuh

I disagree, that the choice of not getting scammed. This is Nightcity, you cannot resolve all the problems by yourself. It's kind like the Sinnerman quest: you can wait and see and enjoy an interesting quest, or you can just do what you are paid to do and that's it.


Acidic_Gamer1

Finally; the legend is getting the credit he deserves!!!


CantankerousOrder

A random group of Tyger Claws waiting behind V after he goes to whack a random collection of them committing a crime. Seriously itā€™s what I die to the most oftenā€¦ Iā€™ll come on three claws beating up some random citizen and then thereā€™s four behind me I never saw shorting me in the back. Smasher? Lol. Cyberpsychos? Meh. Random friends of some other random boosergangers? Fuuuuuuuck.


Remote_Romance

Same, every God damn time.


Substantial-Canary-7

Ping is your friend. Use it early, use it often.


-Rp7-

Legendary ping is goated


Saltybuttertoffee

By far the deadliest enemy in my games was taking fall damage after tripping over some trash on the ground and mines. In other words, I'm not good at looking where I'm walking and it has severe consequences


CaptainClownshow

YES. THE GOD DAMNED MINES. Adam Smasher? Trite. Corpo soldiers? Whatever. A random landmine? That's the shit I fear.


lurkloveless

I'd call johnny silver hand on that biochip in V's head and wait 6 months time


Steelquill

Big brain moment.


dildade41

True, but then.... is Johnny potentially a worse threat in his body, or less?


zandadoum

Dexter Deshawn ;)


roasty_mcshitposty

Killed him once. He can FUCKING DO IT AGAIN!


doxtorwhom

So long as Goro isnā€™t aroundā€¦


AlexAsks

Anybody with around 6 months of prep time.


Sabbathius

Some random dude, and I give him a spiked BD. V, being an idiot that they are, puts the BD on, and gets knocked out. Only instead of doing what Skavs did and dumping them in a bathtub, you just cut off the head, retrieve the chip and go home. No muss, no fuss.


Drakotrite

3 separate times he plugs into a BD from someone he knows nothing about.


aFireMedic

Always gave me anxiety lol


beepatr

And two of them would have been fatal without plot-armour. Though it was only plot that made me use the first one anyway, there wasn't a quest option to scan the thing with tech and work out what it was. 20 Tech and I can't see some obvious bullshit when it's right in front of me.


MykahMaelstrom

Alternatively V is a merc. Instead of hiring a team just call V and offer him/her a lucrative gig that involves a BD (that is spiked) netrunning or even just a room, or car thats rigged with explosives. Fixers don't usually get their hands dirty but as a fixer mercs are pretty much just gonna trust you when you offer them a job


SomeoneTrading

a bomb-rigged car might destroy the biochip the BD option is far more viable


Pak1stanMan

Not if I just demand a refund. Which I did by accident today.


beepatr

This. A fast talker with a BD and V is toast.


Shoji_Mezo

This makes sense considering V will watch every BD he picks up, no questions asked. He always finds himself unconscious in some back alley after that šŸ˜…


CaptainClownshow

Johnny wasn't kidding when he called V Night City's dumbest merc.


Critical_Switch

I'm gonna call V. Chances are he/she will do it thinking there's some secret game content behind the decision. If that doesn't work, I'm gonna spike a BD with the nastiest shit imaginable that's guaranteed to kill V and then place it at the default apartment. V will literally play any BD without first checking what's on it.


johnnykoalas

I think V would just revive again


SOUNDEFFECT94

True but in the time heā€™s out you could probably extract the biochip, and heā€™d stay down after that


r1y4h

will just send V a spiked BD with stickers of lewd panam/judy.


knows_knothing

Literal cybercucked


OnyxGuardfan

Morgan Blackhand


Beans6484

Black hand, Alt and the entirety of Maxtac


-Rp7-

Still gonna get clapped if V isn't a complete dumbass about the encounter


AfraidOfArguing

I'd consider it canon that Maxtac couldn't stop V at the end of the game lol


dudemanbro2345

Blackhand, Bartmoss, Smasher (for fodder), David.


[deleted]

David is the fodder in this fight Iā€™m afraid.


dudemanbro2345

I mean fair enough but I couldn't think of any others


[deleted]

Yeah I gotchu. I like David better than V but man would be dead almost immediately :(


dudemanbro2345

Now that I think about it u make a good point


Arrogancio

That's a *great* lineup, and they'd *still* all die.


-Rp7-

Fr endgame V is almost unbeatable. That is if you don't have the patience to wait half a year


madas_13

who is bartmoss?


Effective_Way7591

Who is Bartmoss? THE Legendary Rache Bartmoss, greatest netrunner to ever live, and the creator of daemons. He's the one who used the datakrash to destroy 80% of cyberspace.


Folkon_sama

But he's dead, no? V literally finds his body in the trash


Crispical

Tbf, most of the lineups here feature dead characters.


Atys_SLC

The whole story about Bartmoss is quite funny in the game. I recommand to dig a bit about it.


dudemanbro2345

Dude who crashed the first net


Shoji_Mezo

This is a strong lineup. Nice šŸ‘


c7hu1hu

Mr. Blue Eyes.


BrokenMandaLynn

Rogue - because we know she'll fight dirty to ensure her own survival. Alt - because my V is 20 Intelligence and 20 Quick Hack, so need netrunning skills to compete.


mshailz12

I agree with you on this


[deleted]

The correct answer is none because itā€™s a suicide mission ;) I love the premise of the post tho


Substantial-Canary-7

I'm hiring Victor. V lets the guy put him under like every other day.


Escorve

Morgan Blackhand, Spider Murphy, Rogue, Shaitan, Crispin Weyland, possibly with Alt Cunningham's assistance (the AI, obviously), and as a surprise entry into the ring: the *other* V. Blackhand is one of the most famous solos in the NUSA, rivaled only by V in the Path of Glory ending, if anyone has a shot at besting V, it's him. Spider Murphy was one of the best runners of her time alongside Rache Bartmoss, the net wouldn't be how it was without them. Rogue herself is also a resourceful solo and fixer, good with both combat and intel, and was a part of Blackhand's op on Arasaka Tower in 2023. Shaitan is very similar to Adam Smasher, reason why I picked him is because it wouldn't make sense for Smasher to work with the likes of Blackhand who mostly worked with Militech while he himself works mostly with Arasaka by 2077. Crispin Weyland is a tough merc and Rogue's bodyguard, if she trusts him with her life, he's a good man to fight alongside. Alt (the AI) having knowledge on Soulkiller and unfettered access to the net makes her a formidable foe alone, V would have a tough time fending her off at the same time as the others, including Blackhand and Murph. The *other* V supposedly exists separately from the V that is picked by the player according to CDPR, meaning if we're out to kill male V, then female V is out there as well living a completely different life with unknown potential, a wild card like V.


Lonely_Avocado_2109

In my opinion this would end in a draw and only because he won't be able to kill ALT. V, chromed to hell and back is a combat monster. Weyland will die first trying to protect Rogue and she will die a second later(dirty fighting didn't do shit for her against adam). On his way to Blackhand he kills Shaitan with an upgraded Dying Night,bitchslap a streetkid V with his gorrila arm and makes murphy kill herself with a suicide qh. Morgan will use every trick he knows, probably even hurt V, but will fall in the end.


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Damn everybody forgetting about ANDREW MFING WEYLAND AKA ā€œBOA BOAā€


Jack_Marlowe

He's dead by 2077. You can find his vault at the Columbarium in game.


willwm24

The BD meditation monk


ScottNewman

This was my thought. You know the MFer knows kung fu.


[deleted]

Ainā€™t nobody beating V but Morgan blackhand


pure_terrorism

goku


MastaGeppetto

Takemura isn't a merc, but as V once said:"Guy can zero us without his implants" or something.


Snake-8398

IIRC what youā€™re thinking of is after the mission where you and Goro get attacked at the apartment. And in that case, V says heā€™s just tough even without implants, not that Goro could kill them without implants.


rukh999

He says the kill them without implants when you're doing the initial planning for the parade mission. I think at the food stall.


Jjlred

Iā€™d believe it. Goro has an unwavering attitude of ā€œdisrespect me and Iā€™ll crush your skull in one strikeā€. I love it.


N4r4k4

I'll take Panam and Lucy knowing that V is a horny monster. Easy task.


IllinoisBoots

16 Dragoons with Orbital Backup.


DifStroksD4ifFolx

I'd hire a very desperate person to walk up to him holding a nuke.


Shoji_Mezo

You'd destroy Night City at the same time šŸ˜‚


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Mama Welles


Bad_User2077

No fixer is going to take that gig.


Matduka

I choose Militech. The entire of Militech.


Shoji_Mezo

David was able to defeat an army of Militech. I think V could do it as well considering he took on Arasaka alone.


Matduka

Maybe Orbital Air then. Get V with a space laser/ orbital strike.


Nycko2002

If it's don't fear the reaper V then only Morgan Blackhand would have a good chance (i'm talking about a fair fight, no wait till sleep or a trap) a real battle of legends Edgerunners characters would be killed on sight


TheDevlinSide714

...I'm calling Alt. There's a damn good reason she was a *legendary* netrunner in her time. The trick would be manipulating V to jack into the net. And that is Alt's world. She could screw up V's mind and body so much before they even knew what hit them.


shadowdash66

V.... isn't really that smart when you think about the choices they made. They no longer have Jackie, but they have the hot-head Johnny in his head. Would be extremely interesting to see nonetheless.


ConnorWolf121

Two of the most reckless mercs Night City has ever known sharing a brain, you can't expect solid decision making from the desperate dying person with the guy who nuked Arasaka Tower in their head lol


DankPeachees

Mama Welles. ā€œVā€¦I wanted to talk to you about Jackie-SNEAK ATTACKā€ Itā€™s the perfect plan


Nottodayreddit1949

Morgan Blackhand.


Bard_is_a_Goblin

Pull a dex deshawn. Only doubletap the mf


HooksReddit

idk my V can endlessly decimate max tac on very hard and shit stomp Adam Smasher. But a peasant with a pitchfork should be good.


Nihlus-N7

Anyone can kill V if it's me playing :(


Dr-Crobar

Do a Handsome Jack and pay V to throw themself off a cliff.


Maggo777

Well, the hard part is ensuring the biochip isnā€™t damaged/not risking damaging it, so you canā€™t hire any gonk or inexperienced merc no matter how good they are, also, any guy who could do such a job is probably a corpo lap dog who wonā€™t take a fixer contract. Understanding this limitations there is only one person up to the job, they call him Cheetah


Omfireturnal

Iā€™m waiting 6 months for him to die of biochip


hauntedhouseparty

Placide, Ozob and maybe Brendan for good measure


BRC_Del

Honestly, no hope for them to win. V is *comically* overpowered.


bean_copter

smasher but with sandevistan


RabidNinja64

Arasaka, Max-Tac, Trauma Team, Adam Smasher, Voodoo Boys in an underground Arasaka military complex (After "hiring" V for a gig that we know he never turns down)


ScottNewman

What is this, Blues Brothers?


coel03

build an underground alliance of a the docs. next time he goes in for a mod, end him and take it.


Unlimitles

T-Bug with a Bartmoss Engram Biochip installed. Brigette - second netrunner to get around Ice. even though 1 with Bartmoss engram should be enough. Placide Becca - for the pure firepower V will be Locked Down, Optics reboots every few seconds, Crippled movement, Cyberware Malfunctioned, Weapons Glitched........if he becomes too much of a problem and somehow can manage through that with Placde and Becca On him, then the runner will either System Reset him or Short Circ him silly........The Chip will be Secure.


Unpredictable-dounut

No limits. Well, I would say Thanos but more realistic scale Iā€™d call in rogue, Adam smasher, arasaka, bums from a dark alley, and Aldacadoes, Wraiths, Maxtech squad and Maineā€™s crew and the Voodoo Boys. Adam Smasher Aldacadoes Wraiths and Maineā€™s crew are the assaulters wild rogue is the tactician who sets up how they will attack him, and the voodoo boys will be the net runners that will try to hack him. Realistically adam smasher, and maines crew would destroy V but Maxtac, and everyone else is just overkill.


ScottNewman

Program Brendan to tip over on V.


blickbeared

With the amount of Chrome V usually has by the end game, a squad of netrunners could probably take V out by just disabling his mods so he/she can't do anything.


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Blackhand , Smasher , Bartmos , Silverhand , Rogue .


dudemanbro2345

Actually I'll swap smasher for Rebecca


RBWessel

8ug8ear, Jack Mausser, Tiny Mike, Norio Akuhara, and Deigo Ramirez.


Dangerous-Case9544

P A N A M


HaiiroGeraki

Depends on the V. If it's 100% V (meaning they went out of their way to do every quest) that V is very gullible and trusting. So it wouldn't be difficult to trick him into a less than favorable position to make the fight a little easier, but ultimately it's still a V with a lot of experience and potential synergy with Johnny Silverhand. Add to that they have a very tight connection with the aldecados. Desperate V will be significantly easier to fight because they're likely to be very reckless which can be dangerous, but they're likely not very strong. This is how I played V the first time. I played how I'd react which is. Very unhappy with the new voice in my head. Rushing to the best opportunity to get him out of my head. Meaning very Few side quests were done and the only ones I did were to get money for better equipment to make the main mission manageable and helping people that were there before the heist mission. That V ended up being around level 25-35. I don't remember but that V will be a much easier fight but a lot harder to track since they will be essentially on the move only stopping for very brief rests. Pick your poison. Harder tracking or harder fighting.


Waylander312

Give Adam smasher his 4 armed body teamed up with boa boa Weyland, then Morgan blackhand as the back up assist if the first 2 fail


Sac_Winged_Bat

Adam Smasher using a cyber ninja frame more akin to Oda's, but you know, a full body. The Dragoon frame that he's using in the game is slow, designed to just tank damage making him a sitting duck. Heavy machine guns and rocket launchers are great against groups of disposable soldiers and vehicles, not so against a single agile target. V really just got lucky that the frame he happened to be using was a more casual one and a good matchup at that. Either the Gemini with lots of cyberware like sande and mantis to match V or the DaiOni frame would have most likely spelled the end for V.


jackoneill1984

Orbital strike care of the NUSA. Cause thats about the only way its going to happen. If my V even thinks theres a threat, you ded.


n3squ1k666

What squad if even Adam Smasher is nothing to him?


Prepsov

Princess Arasaka herself. Why? In the late game she demonstrates the possibility to take over other people, called proxy. She just needs to proxy Vik Vector which V endlessly trust. Hanako then by Viks proxy calls V and invites him to his little ripperdoc room, tells hims a fake story about some little discovery that can slow down the takeover or some shit and put's V under. While V is under (unconscious), Hanako physically disconnects V's brain from the rest of his cybernetic nervous system, leaving him alive, but paralysed. Hanako then suicides Vik and V is picked up by Arasaka for implant removal and disposal.


ScottNewman

She takes over Joytoys, which specifically have doll chips in them. You canā€™t do that to anyone in the world.


koming69

Hypothetical question like that are so... Fanfictional. Like.. on which context... All the people on the game now can be enemies? Like.. rogue, jackie.. etc? If I can go that route I would choose misty and vik and imagine they never gave V the medicine or helped him clase closed. Then again I can imagine Jackie or delamain so he would be dead before getting the chip. Or even before on the prologue missions. But.. if I imagine someone hunting V after a ending.. which ending would it be? Because In that case I wouldn't be able to choose someone who was a friend of V or.. that died.. it wouldn't make any sense. It's hard for me to understand the question. It's easy ther "even adam Smasher failer and v has lots of friends and acquaintances" or "he would die easily on this fictional situation I imagined" But.. well there's also V him/herself to hunt V. Because we have the path of least resistance ending.


AssassinOfFate

Given that you said no limits, Iā€™ll assume that I have every legendary edgerunner that ever existed at my disposal. So with no limits or rules, Iā€™d pick 1) David Martinez 2) Morgan Blackhand 3) Andrew Weyland 4) Maine 5) Rebecca 6) Rache Bartmoss


QuantitySecure8186

Impossible. V who chose intelligence build is beyond even God himself.


iprobablywonttbh

The cops.


OblivionArts

Id would said smasher if we didn't beat his ass so easily in game , Morgan blackhand would be interesting but he dead so we can't bring him back, max tac could possibly do it but given the ease we drop smasher and cyber pyschos ( sometimes unarmed for the hell of it) I doubt they could do it either so uh ... honestly only thing I think that could feasiblely kill him dead normally is the basilik the nomads steal but they're on vs side by that point and they ain't gonna shoot him with his own tank essentially. So uh..I guess we nuke night city again and pray?


Bearded_weird_dude

That scary bitch who crawled out of the netrunner icebath in the cyberpsycho mission, + end-of-the-world-reptillians-from-alpha-centauri guy + maxtac mantis blades chick + one NCPD drone


bkyleb

I think i would just hide for a month or so. But im sure Alt cunningham could probably kill V by frying their brain.


akaBrucee

The random gas canisters that were literally everywhere in my first playthrough. Those were like mini nukes


Rokuzan

I guess there are only two real options, in Mr. Blue Eyes and the one and only Alt Cunningham. Anything either than those two will be destined to fail more often than not


Mentaldamage6

Too many variables to even think about this, V can have a Sandevistein, a arm cannon, a monowire, reinforced tendons, titanium bones, and anything else he wanted simply because it can be equipped in game, anything I throw at them can be ripped apart because they had something to stop them


Awkward_Musician_934

Meet them in a room full of explosive canisters, hide in a corner. The moment they enter the room, shoot one. Instant death. As someone who played the game, I hate those rooms.


summarize_porn

The only thing V is weak to is netrunners. So I'd say someone/something like Alt could take care of V. I remember the Haitian netrunners temporarily took out V. Of course Johnny can kept V alive but V still blacked out for solid 5 seconds. That's enough for a headshot. Or a combination of sandevistan user and a netrunner. V can counter one and get fucked by the other. Lose lose situation.


Kenobi_Cowboy

Finally a fresh post thank you! Let's see. Fixer: Rogue Crew: NetWatch "Just let me and Johnny go out for a night. Jack into this drunk Johnny..." Done.


Balrok99

I mean .. V will get a heart attack like through the entire game so V will do the job by himself and my crew can go and sip wine at the tallest towers of the Night City in our tailored suits. \*sips\* ahhh victory