Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 705 - 227: New Year Event Preview

"New Year Event!!!"

The real New Year was approaching, and everyone was speculating whether there would be any New Year-related events in the game. But there was no news. When they tried to get information from the BOSS, nothing valuable came up. They thought the game officials were looking for excuses to slack off and let them go home for the New Year. Unexpectedly, a New Year event was rolled out before the year's end.

But this event...

It's almost like they don't consider us human beings.

[Celebrate the New Year, Event Warm-up]

[Production Team: Dear players, you have made an indelible contribution to Night City over the past year, and you're considered the model citizens of Night City. On behalf of the citizens of Night City and the production team, I thank you for your efforts.]

[First, some statistics: Since the game opened, players have killed 9,641 criminals, arrested 2,965 criminals, seized and destroyed 1.98 tons of various drugs, demolished 73 hideouts, and searched military weapons and prosthetics worth 74.65 million (excluding outside the city), with a total of 2,428 times players died.]

Seeing the statistics shocked Lin Miao a bit. Since players entered the city, the daily deaths soared. The number reported in the Stanley Early News rarely dipped below three digits, and only recently has there been a declining trend. Each one is like the King of the Great West.

[Recovered 27,000 tons of metal, 9,700 tons of various plastics, 23 tons of electronic waste, and 329 tons of other garbage. Environmental protection is everyone's responsibility.]

[Total player assets (including company and personal assets) amount to 230 million Orokin, with "Niuma Construction" ranking first, with assets worth 12 million Orokin...]

The extensive data pretty much recorded all the players' achievements from version 0.1 to now, including the highest KD ratio by [Assassin is Impossible, that's Brother Ni], and the MVPs of various past dungeons, the banners, medals, and thank you notes received by players, etc.

Seeing these, all players, whether they participated in previous version activities or not, shared a sense of pride—especially those who saw their names or company names listed.

[Red Barrel: I told you, civil engineering is the version's answer! See? Our company is number one!]

[Jing Luo Angrily: Right, so when will the salary increase?]

[Jing Luo Tears: With the capitalist at the helm, is there a bonus for being number one?]

[Red Barrel: I don't decide the salary. Finding me is useless. You should go find the officials.]

[Jianxue: What's there to brag about? You only got there riding the construction event boon. The future belongs to our Thunder Chemical Plant, you know. Once we synthesize the anion explosives, military tech will have to bow to us and call us daddy.]

[Red Barrel: In your dreams.]

No matter which company players join, the system-assigned daily salary is not much higher than that of NPC employees. Income mainly depends on the total mission completed by their company and their individual contribution ratio. The system calculates and distributes it without going through a second party. In theory, the better one performs, the more they earn. Slacking only earns you the minimum guarantee—you can live and eat well, but it doesn't turn into combat power, and cashing out isn't possible.

[Event Content: New Year, new attire, new weather. From January 27 to February 11, all employees have a two-week synchronized vacation. Players can design new year decorations for Horizon Corporation's relevant buildings and NPCs and organize New Year events in teams. After determining the event content, funds can be applied for from the company, inviting other players or NPCs to participate and vote. The top five in cumulative votes will receive collective rewards, while others can check-in at the event location and repost on the official forum. Each different event location allows one lucky draw chance, and logging into the game on New Year's Eve grants a ten-draw chance.]

[Event Locations: Watson District, Taiping Continent, Haywood, Santo Domingo, Westbrook, Stone Ridge Mountain Town, Big Sur]

[New Year Card Pool Content: Two golden prosthetics, five MT-3 sets, ten multi-function transport platforms, ten multi-function military robots, and a large number of blue prosthetics or new weaponry.]

There are again golden prosthetics and the newly introduced exoskeletons and robots. The rewards are no less than the previous large battleground prize pools.

For players, these items are far more valuable than luxury cars or cash. They use cars as consumables, too expensive aren't worth it.

Although the duplicate unwanted prosthetics they draw eventually either get traded to other players or sold back to Lin Miao.

Most new prosthetics in the prize pool are technical products from the Kangtao partnership factory. Lin Miao hasn't ventured into hardware tech in the prosthetics market yet, focusing instead on software, firewall design, and partial supply of materials. It's just like Zeta Technology back in the day, with a fifty-fifty revenue share afterward.

Selling them as standard equipment in the official store suits players well, at least they won't have to use multi-branded prosthetics anymore.

After reading the event content, players feel both happy and annoyed. Happy because they can celebrate the Spring Festival in Night City, annoyed because this game's New Year event is entirely different from others.

"Where's my New Year outfit? My New Year costume? Hurry and put it on sale! Shut up! Take my money!"

"Why can't I find the recharging interface? Take all my money, please open the recharging channel!"

"When on earth will this game launch its open beta?"

Even though they know many aspects of this game are odd, closely resembling reality, players still don't believe it's a real world.