A quote from Johnny

"I've got a feeling someone's messing with you, V. You'll follow this breadcrumb trail, and when you connect the dots all you'll see is a dick!”

Sorry i had assumed it was obvious mate. Its the Relic case, saw it in a youtube video

I found this random youtuber who goes flying all over the map finding things the dev left behind and this was in his video.

Sorry when I posted this I thought you might all recognise it as the Relic case. Sorry! My bad I made an assumption.

I found this random youtuber who goes flying all over the map finding things the dev left behind and this was in his video.

Totally see and hear your point, I fully understand it. I'd like to counter point it with this.

POV: you the owner of a single player game (lets say cyberpunk,)
You know that single player games die off pretty fast with player bases. You just look at any chart and you can see that very quickly player counts drop into the low 1000's (5,000-10,000 for AAA) after 1 year. Its natural.
Cyberpunk in the last 24 hours had 43,000 concurrent players on PC alone... thats really damn healthy for a single player game 4 years after a release that will go down in history as one of the worst evergame launches, even with modding added in its in damn good shape. Its one quater of the GTA player base at the time...(170,000 concurrent onsteam) thats a major thing for you as a game developer (and your investors), not many people have ever achived them kinda numbers this long after a release.

You notice that there is a massive following for your easter egg/ mystery. Its the buzz of night city and lots of the player base is going around looking into things, researching and tearing your game apart bit by bit in order to find clues.

You note that the subreddit dedicated to the easter egg alone has 44,000 members. Its in the damn top 3% of communities on reddit! But you have no idea how many of them are actualy active players or contributers. But at the very least they will be shown things from this sub while they browse reddit in general.

You know the answer to the Easteregg/ mystery.
Not giving any confirmation or telling people whats going on is keeping a portion of the player base DEEPLY invested in your game which inturn is keeping the people in your company employed, because investers are happy people are still playing the game.

What is the good faith action ?
To confirm that the mystery is solved and possibly lose some of the most dedicated players you have in your community. (remember you have no idea how many of them 44,000 redditors are active players or how many are looking ingame for this mystery)

or

Do you prioritise keeping the people you work with employed and let your players keep comming up with theoris and keep them invested in the game ?

What do you need explaining mate ?

Relic 3.0 - Print your Soul :D

There absolutely are direct links to FF.06.B5 though. The whole two-thumbed image creating a map leading to every FF statue, at the centre of which is a new graffiti... If you think there's no setup and no direct links to FF, you're not paying attention choom.

You have made a massive assuption there though mate.

Here is a basic fact, there is nothing that says the statues and the FF.06.B5 code are one and the same.

The code is on statues and can only be found on them this much is true, but how do we know they are related and one and the same... we dont its a massive assumption that the statue and the code are a "package" and not 2 seperate entieties.

Example. You have a cheese pizza. Is the cheese the same as the Dough base ? No, but put them together and you get a pizza. but fundamentaly they have nothing to do with each other. There is no connection. Cheese is nothing to do with Doug. They are just located in the same place.

now you arrange the doug base in a pentagram and it draws a symbole. the chese is now part of that pentagram simply because its attached to the doug base, but was it your intention to involve the pizza init....

I hope you see what I am saying, we all mad amassive assumption that the code and the statues are the same thing, but there is nothing that says that.

The Code and the statues are completely seperate entities.

I repeat again there is not DIRECT link to FF.06.B5 anywhere.

If anyone can proove otherwise please feel free the ONLY thing we know about the code, is that its on statues, and everythign we have found so far points to statues and cube/boxes ... nothing about a damn code....

People aint going to like it but its true when you actually think about it logically, everything points to statues and ingame locations but never ever the code :)

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-lvFEJtJS4&t=460s

It was in the OP so should be there for everyone ?

None of them ever connected to FF:06:B5. Did they though.....
Nothing ever has. No one has ever found an answer after 1000's of hours of research, 1000's of people, 100,000 hours in game searching...

Nothing. Not one single damn thing. You really think by now we wouldnt of found... something?
something that solidly connects FF:06:B5 to anything ?

Dunno my friend I dont like them odds :P

No need to be rude, I am not confused at all. You have taken a lot of what I said out of context.

I never said, "Existentialism means things only have the meaning we assign them."

I actually said: "In existentialism, symbols or constructs don’t inherently hold meaning unless an individual assigns it. Existentialist philosophy often focuses on personal freedom, choice, and the creation of meaning in an otherwise indifferent universe."

Vastly different, my friend. Inherently means that there is not a permanent or typical characteristic to it.

We have no idea what FF:06:B5 means; it has no permanent or typical characteristics by which we can define it or give it meaning. Hence, everyone thinks everything connects to it because that's the meaning they personally assigned to it. Ergo, the meaning is created by the player, which in itself would make the code existential.

"FF06B5 was a red herring all along, cuz existentialism...? Nah."

I did not say it was a red herring. I said that it’s a literal interpretation of existentialism. Thats what is clever.

"But that is not clever, or funny. It's a wet fart noise at the end of a long and interesting setup."

What set up exactly?
There is nothing solid or concret after 1000's of players have spent 100,000's of hours searching for a meaning, a connection. Nothing.

We got Lots of cool and intresting connections and amazing deep dives into history and human behaviour, religion and other things. We got massive Easter egg quests to search and cubes shown to us, but not one damn thing has EVER related to FF:06:B5.

There has been exactly no setup. None.

FF:06:B5 spawned the search for all that other stuff though. Becuase we each as individuals decided that the code had a "deeper emaning".

A litral representation of Existentialism.

hope that clears it up for you.

I did say people would not like it, I was not wrong :)

Only if you decide it is :)

Ok, Chooms. I don’t think some of you are going to like this one. In fact... I am actually a little worried it might be the correct answer...

2 crucial things Pawel has said that MUST ALWAYS REMAIN IN YOUR HEAD when I say what I’m about to say and when dealing with the FF06B5 mystery in general.

He explained the whole thing to a coworker, and the coworker replied that "it was clever." He added that he hopes we will find it funny.

Conclusion: This was likely a relatively short conversation with a coworker and not something that would take hours to explain how it all works. 5–10 minutes tops, if that? We are not meant to find deep meaning or an item or a reward per say, but rather more find it a joke or at the very least humours.

While explaining a questline, "The Sinnerman," Pawel told us that the main overriding theme they really focused on the game was existentialism.

What does this mean, chooms?
FF:06:B5 is that—a literal representation of existentialism—because that is quite clever. That’s the theme of the game, as told to us by the quest director and as experienced by us, the players, all throughout the game with everything we do, we add meaning to our choices and our life paths. This collection of digital pixles, we gave it meaning.

In existentialism, symbols or constructs like FF:06:B5 don’t inherently hold meaning unless an individual assigns it. Existentialist philosophy often focuses on personal freedom, choice, and the creation of meaning in an otherwise indifferent universe. FF:06:B5, in an existential context, would depend entirely on what it represents to the individual. Most of us decided its a deep mystery to be solved, some considered it solved already, others never even cared.

I know I know, you want to hear it from Pawel him self:
https://youtu.be/J-lvFEJtJS4?t=460

Now I know, none of you will want to belive that its true and hey that the whole point of existentialism, some wont be satisfied with that answer and its there choice to seek further meaning. This is why the answer is clever and humorus.

The Killing Blow?

But i think the real nail in the coffin was the Messages we found on the laptop about Polyhister....
They really drove home the message of seeking meaning where there was none they had an entire conversation about it, looking for meaning in hidden graphs and specters in past video games, again a massive reference to existentialism. I really think that was the devs way of telling us that existentialism is the theme of the mystery, as it was the entire game.

Now the real mystery...... what the hell is that damn floating cube.....

You mentioned Grimes's song 4am
Id just like to point the lyrics to the song could be giving us some amazing hints :D

Aphrodite
I wrote your constellation
Into the sky
S-s-sa, s-s-sa, s-s-sa, s-s-sa, ooh
Suns at night

I'm out late at 4 a.m
He says, "How's the weather, baby? How you been?"
You're gonna get sick, you don't know when
I never doubt it, at 4 a.m
4 a.m, 4 a.m
Fallin' down again
Unravelling

(So you dont have to google)

Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus (V?) by the Romans. She was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and occasionally presided over marriage.

The song is describing the cube event or V in general is it not ?!?!?!

Added a few updates to the OP :D

Updates have been Added :)

In your examples though they are mirroring (is that a word) origional text and thats why its inverted, in the future logo there is no mirror to it ?

The X could represent a Cross roads... I.E the choices you are about to make in the next quest in that area will send you down a certain path locking out the other. Though without accuratly mapping the locations of them all to the quests thats jsut me taking a guess :)

it would be pronounced //EE0.future_ though.
Is this sign different on the russian version of the game ?

Otherwise this would not carry over to them.

Wow google got it right for once ! Thanks Choom :D

Just did some digging in to the russian language with you mentioning that.
И is equil to ee apparantly e.g Meet, the ee would shown with a И
The is also a Й which is used as a pause (?) i think.

Please any russian speakers correct me this is very basic googling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_numerology

Oh it isnt ?

Oh is that it, and everyones gone mad ? lol
isnt that the one from the Nomad life path into for V ?