Cyberpank 2077 Walkthrough Mission The Pickup Life Path Guide
0This is the walkthrough for The Pickup, one of two missions you can do immediately after The Ride.
The Pickup - Main Job Details
Recommended Level 3
Attribute Levels You'll Encounter in this Level -
Rewards
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To kick off this mission you need to choose if you want to call the Militech Agent or approach this encounter without her help. Your choices here do have repercussions in the future. You can read about them in Choices and Consequences.
If you already know what you want to do, here are some quick links to key points in this walkthrough for The Pickup:
Going in Guns Blazing
Meet with the Militech Agent
Decrypting the Shard
Meeting Jackie to Meet Militech
Shard Cleared, Siding with Maelstrom
Shard Cleared, Siding with Militech
Here's what happens if you choose to take on Maelstorm yourself:
This is the guns blazing method. No phone calls, no niceties.
You can bypass conversations and instead go in as aggressively as possible by destroying the turrets and blowing up the mines at the entrance of the Militech base. Instead of having any sort of sit down meeting you can start the combat right away. You’ll still get the case with the Flathead so you can absolutely complete the mission this way if you want to spice up the fighting and tone down the dialogue.
When you reach the end you can fight Royce or stealth around him to the exit.
Here's what happens if you work with Meredith Stout:
Call Meredith. She's already pissed when you call her, and her attitude doesn't improve much when you tell her you want a meeting. She'll set the place: under an overpass in Watson, not far from where you're supposed to meet Jackie. Hop in your car and drive.
There, Meredith will be even more aggressive. A body guard throws a swing on her command, but V explains they just want to talk. A bodyguard will plug in and hold a gun to V while Meredith asks questions. They'll know if you lie.
During this conversation you'll be able to use responses based on your lifepath, though they likely won't amount to much.
All Meredith wants is for you to pay for the bot with a Militech Datashard. Be suspicious. It's encrypted, so why don't we take care of that first?
How to Decrypt the Militech Credit Chip
Open your menu and go to the Shards menu in your journal. Close all the Shard sections and you'll see the Militech Datashard at the very bottom. You'll also see three strings of code matrices:
00000 - 50 72 6F 70 65 72 74 79 20 6F 66 20 4D 69 6C 69 74 65 63 68 2E 20 55 6E 0000A - 61 75 74 68 6F 72 69 7A 65 64 20 61 63 63 65 73 73 20 69 73 20 73 74 72 00014 - 69 63 74 6C 79 20 70 72 6F 68 69 62 69 74 65 64 2E
You don't actually need those codes for anything, though.
We recommend doing a manual save before attempting this, just in case you mess up. There's a chance you'll lock yourself out of the chip with only partial information. However, if you start seeing the data go wrong, you can back out of the menu with no consequence and try again.
The goal in decrypting the chip is to not only copy the daemon, but to also clean the money.
To do this, solve the bottom code first (BD BD FF 55) followed by the top sequence (55 1C E9). You need to do this perfectly in order to get both rewards. The last number in the first code, 55, is also the start of the second sequence, which is how it's possible to get both.
So, you'll be working toward this code: BD BD FF 55 1C E9.
If you're having trouble with it, here's the hacking sequence we used:
There are multiple ways to get to the solution too, though!
Once you've input that you'll not only have neutralized the malware, you'll also get a new Quickhack for free.
V will give a verbal confirmation that the Shard is clean and you'll find the new Quickhack in your Cyberdeck called Synapse Burnout. In case you haven't checked that in a minute, you can find the Cyberdeck menu on the bottom right of the Inventory screen.
Meet with Jackie
Jackie is waiting for you on the side of the road. The most important thing here is to talk to him about Maelstrom, though you can strike up other conversations. As shown below, if you're a Nomad, you can talk to him about his motorcycle, and depending on your attributes, you can even comment on how it's built. Once you're done with the small talk, choose the Maelstrom option.
Jackie isn't thrilled about Maelstrom and wants to know if you have a plan to deal with them. You can say...
Doubt this'll go smoothly (implying a fight)
We'll pay again, but with Militech cred. (use the Militech Datashard)
$10000 We'll buy it off 'em. (You'll need to have this amount in order to, you know, buy it.)
Choose your option, then, if you're ready to take on the mission, follow Jackie across the street to the All Foods gate.
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