For anyone looking for the Adam Smasher part, it's at 05:07 (go a few seconds before that if you also want to see how I did it) My games discount link: www.instant-gaming.com/en/?igr=khrazegaming

David: Not even the most powerful cybernetic suit could kill Adam Smasher! V: Did you try bonking his head?

Adam is the perfect lackie. He minds his own business until he's pointed in a direction.

For David... For Rebecca...

9:47 Bro, are you just going around flashing Night City with Fem-V's hoo-hah? LMAO

Considering that one of the quickhacks is ping that reveals enemy locations, it's not a stretch to imagine that Adam knew V and Jackie were hidden, but didn't say anything as it would interrupt the assassination and hostile takeover of Arasaka, and counter hacking to reveal location exists. Besides, he knew where you were going to escape judging by the fact that he explodes out of the building to smash into your car. He likely figured he could destroy you at leisure and didn't factor in Delamain.

The real reason he can see you probably has nothing to do with his character, cyberwear, or story. The real reason is probably because he's the only one in the room who's an actual enemy character model that you fight later, and that model is being used in a scripted event. Sounds like two seperate systems interfering with each other and causing weird things to happen

The threat detector is probably red because Adam Smasher is hard coded to always know the player's location for the purposes of the boss fight.

My boy just casually playing the game with his character pants less

To be fair Adam “detecting” you is just as likely to be a mistake in the engine as it is to be a design choice

In the old Baldur´s Gate games there was "Biff the Understudy" who came in and played the role for essential characters that got killed off by a bug or cheat. That would be great for Adam Smasher too. Instead of that war cyborg there is a small actor who says the line and has to fulfill the final battle at Arasaka.

I just did the scene again and only focused on Smasher with zoom even the whole time...Smasher is standing ALWAYS facing you the ENTIRE TIME, never taking his eyes off you. Even when he leaves he looks over his shoulder at you. He never faces his employer, Saburo or Takashi. He only ever... looks... at... YOU. ...implant says so too. It would be an absurd coincidence if the implant saying he has detected you is a bug AND the devs just happening to have his body and head be facing you and only you in two instances.

Adam knows you're there, that's why the response team finds you so quickly, and knows to look for you and Jackie. Takemura didn't "fold", he was smart to play it the way he did. The father was already dead, feigning allegiance gave him time to gather intel, find you, make a plan, and most importantly not get killed by Adam.

Smasher is probably coded that way to always see you, since he's later used for a boss battle where he's always able to detect you and know where you are, they've already had that written in in this cutscene.

For those curious, it's because all bosses in the game have a script attached to their AI that automatically detects you so all of them have that red overlay. That said it's likely Adam can 100% see us anyways, it's just that the red overlay in gameplay is because of the script, even bosses that aren't aware of you show up as red. In the story however Smasher likely doesn't do anything about us because he hasn't been told to do anything about us yet, he only attacks Del because Yorinobu probably told him to stop us. He gets shit done and if he hasn't been paid to do something boring (like killing 2 bit-part runners) he won't do it, likewise if he wants to do something you really need to keep him on a leash somehow, whether it be cash or new tech he wants.

6:27 that's not adam smasher, that's his cousin, adam smashed

I’m level 50 with everything maxed out and clipping through walls. “I’m cheating a little bit” 🤦🏻‍♂️

It'd be the biggest Easter egg that Adam knew you were there all along and was colluding to kill the old man. It'd make so much sense - let you get "caught" by the MedTac team, and then have the excuse to kill you and Jackie as the scapegoat.

Lmao Lucy who was at the top of netrunners couldn't penetrate adam's cybernetics. Glad V took care of him at the end. RIP Becca!

this hits better after watching Edgerunners

Theory: Smasher wants you to get away with Silverhand so he can kill him properly

*Smasher enters the room. Skippy: "Head goes brrrrrrr......"

Given how loaded Adam's current cyborg suit is... (the IEC Dragoon) I think with all the sensory tech that comes on that thing stock, Adam most definitely knows you're there. Oversight or not, the Dragoon full-body suit is like a one-man army.

As far as Adam is concerned, you being there is perfect timing for what’s coming next. Between him and Takemura you pose no threat to his boss, but will make the perfect fall guy

Title should be: "I've glitched Adam Smasher"

I'm frankly amazed AS wasn't immortal during that whole sequence. Like, he even had a health bar pop up.

Speedrunners After Watching Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Be Like: This Is For Rebecca And David!

adam just made tons of enemies after edgerunners

“Poisoned ....with strangle marks”. Lol

if you don’t hide when Yorinobu is coming up the elevator, Adam will run out n attack you

Adam Smasher: “you look like a jolly good fellow, are you?”

Here after Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

The bodyguard doesn't detect you because his boss distracts him mid-scan. The game actually says unauthorized scanning in progress when the bodyguard is in front of you

"ARE YOU BUILD TO ENDURE?!" * katana goes shing shing shing *

Post Edgerunner runs be like

Justice for Becca! And David too, I guess

V : This guy is a crook, he can't even detect us Adam "Reigen" "arataka" smasher : it s just to weak for me to see it

video starts at 4:54, also you need a PC mod to do it

David Martinez swinging his fist in the air watching this video 💀

I like how 09:47 is the most replayed part of the video. Hope it doesnt demonitize xD

TBF to Takemura if he'd pressed his suspicions about Old Sabu's cause of death his chances of leaving the room alive would have very rapidly converged on zero...

Finish the game to see if he doesn't pop up again when he's supposed to.

everyone watched cyberpunk edgerunner, and they download the game to get revenge for david and rebecca

All my homies hate adam smasher 😡

Takemura doesn't detect you because he uses the same implants as you, and he is stopped by Saburo before the scan is complete. He even mentions it. It's right there in the dialogue.

If you have to use clipping to even get this, do you really even need to get the access card? Can’t you just clip through the boat door?

good thing i got recommended this after watching egderunners what a coincidence

I've heard that the Threat Detector is really just highlighting Adam Smasher because there is a game script that causes all bosses to be instantly aware of the player's presence and they never fixed it so that in the rare instance when the player is hiding from the boss, that boss wouldn't be highlighted by the Treat Detector. Perhaps they decided to leave it in the game BECAUSE of all the unverified theories that it has caused, thereby enhancing the mystery aspect of the game.

POV: *You just watched Cyberpunk Edgerunners and now you want to destroy the ever living shit out of Adam Smasher* (Edit: Stop commenting on my thread y'all or it'll be too much for me to leave a thumbs up to every single one of them)

I think Adam definitely did detect you. Takamura almost did but got distracted. If you follow what the game says, Adam is using military implants, and is basically 2% human. With V's low level implants, you can tell how dangerous someone actually is. Im sure Adam detected you but him being red isnt a glitch. That far along in the game, you arent supposed to be that high of a level, with those abilities. So i think thats why Adam just stood staring at you, its to demonstrate he does see you. I actually never noticed him staring until this video. Him staring could mean he was trying to determine your threat level. He probably would of reacted if Jackie did something extra because Jackie is a Valentino, so he's kinda tough, nothing close to Adam tho. With the type of weapons Adam has, he wouldnt be able to attack you without literally blowing up the room with yorinobu in it. So my assumption is he watched you because he chose not to try and do anything and being that deep in Arasaka Tower, means you'd probably get killed anyway. Especially with Takamura there, Takamura alone could of actually killed V and Jackie. He has to have very high level implants since he mentioned being faster than Oda.(Youll find out who that is later on) This puts the whole story into a different perspective i think

9:47 for some hot fashion

Damn could kill him for us pretty quick that would save David Martinez and Rebecca

After watching edgerunner I came here for revenge

Every wallhack youtuber ever: What happens if I just...break the game? OMG It breaks!!!1111

I thought why Adam didn’t say anything when he saw you. I think it bcs he knew about the whole scenario of killing Saburo and V with Jackie weren’t any threat. If Smasher said anything, Saburo would be evacuated and the whole plan was going to fail. So he took the risk and he was just staring at you. He just wanted to be sure you didn’t try anything. That kinda makes sense to me.

Depression is real

Rip David

Adam doesn't say anything as he sees V and Jackie as the perfect excuse to cover up the assassination of Saburo by Yorinobu

I'm pretty sure takamura knew you were behind that wall. When his red eyes look in your direction, it says "unauthorized scan detected."

ME here just wanting to revenge Rebecca as fast as possible

Who's here after watching the cyber punk anime

Damn it's super creepy how he just stares at you the whole time.

So what happens at the end of the game where you fight him? Is he dead or does he spawn miraculously and you have to kill him again?

all david wanted to do was go to the moon with lucy . i hate it here

I actually met him because I didn't hide when T-Bug tells you to. He came out of the elevator and I used short circuit on him and he died. Then the game killed me, despite me having been around ten feet away from Smasher. I'd spent around 12 hours on that save and maxed out intelligence. It would have been interesting if you were able to off him then and there.

Uh, if you glitch through the garage gate to kill Smasher and then get the access token to his stash ... you can just glitch through that door on his ship, no? But sure, it's kinda interesting to see what happens when you run into Smasher outside the scripted interaction.

See if he pops up in the end game or does it get soft locked.

Looking at him getting destroyed after watching Edgerunners 👀

After watching netrunner......I wish David and his team can see this!!!

There's no way smasher didn't detect you two behind the wall. He must have a reason to not do or say anything. Maybe the plan was to frame V all along?

My man was missing his pants in the end 👀

Playing through this, I literally could just tell Adam Smasher had to know I was there it looked like he was staring right at me

Everyone rushing here after seeing the anime to learn how to beat this man 😂 Get just for our crew, amigos~

I don't think Adam detecting you is a bug. At the tabletop game, he was always the kind of edgerunner that didn't gave a shit. He have no respect towards Saburo nor Yorinobu, so if they die, he would not give a dam. There is always someone willing to pay top eddies for a legendary solo like him. Also, he is probably tired of this spoiled kid anyway, and, as V, os not a concern for him. Pretty cool detail.

1:34 That's abit terrifying I must say

What a day to post this content lol

For David and Becca!!

This is an interesting find. My theory on why Adam Smasher didn't say anything about him knowing that V is inside the the column is because he knows about the plan where Yorinobu will kill his father. So alerting the security at that time would mean Yorinobu will not get the chance to kill his father and his plan will fail. The reason why he didn't say anything the second time around when Yorinobu did kill his father is because Yorinobu's story about his father being poisoned will look sus since the killers are hiding their in the column and might even get to extract the truth. So he let it play out till the opportunity came to kill them off without raising any suspicions. This will be my take on it.

Who's here after the series

Me after Edgerunners:

Does he turn up at the end though? That'd be really interesting!

I mean, if you're gonna cheat you might as well just spawn the weapon in.

seeing u kill adam like this pisses me off after watching the anime

You can tell this video was before edgerunners, because he didn't unload 3 magazines in Adam Smashers lifeless corpse

Side note: I think the short circuit passive also works when hitting pedestrians with your car, because when I use it they always burst into balls of electricity and writhe around on the sidewalk.

It makes sense if Yorinobu planned to kill his dad all along. In that case it is all part of the plan - Smasher notices you but dose nothing, because Yorinobu needs someone to take the blame for his fathers death.

Then they could have made it to the moon together

well this really underminds the end of edgerunners...

OR you just clip into the storage and loot everything.

I just played that mission. They say "it's Adam Smasher" while they are in reverse. On your clip after you destroyed him. He still crashes the car but they didn't acknowledge Adam at all.

The funniest thing is that in the anime Adam smasher has amazing protection against hacking yet in the game he has the worst protection out of any NPC

The anime for this is hella sad

My Question to this: Does Saul still die in the end if you go with Panam or will he stay alive because Adam is dead???

- Can you kill Adam Smasher during the prologue? - If you cheat... such a pointless video

Still too late to save Rebecca

it's so eerie watching him just stand there and stare through the glass at you. My theory is the reason he doesn't say anything isn't because he doesn't see you as a threat it's because Saburo probably told him at some point what he knew was going to happen, Saburo never trusted Yorinobu after his initial rebellion so he kept his enemies close and waited for Yorinobu to get anxious and make a move. The whole time Saburo was developing a consumer safe version of soul killer to live forever. At the end of the day smasher doesn't care what happens as long as he's being paid and allowed to drop anyone who crosses him.

Hey Khraze, you can also noclip into the CCTV rooms at konpeki and kill Mayor rhyne and Mayor Holt. You can do this anytime after the heist even if Rhyne has already died, their npcs will still be in that room and you can kill them without repercussions, they don't fight back and don't class as civilians so no notoriety. Kill the others though and you'll be wanted

The highlight on detection could be a “glitch” because there isn’t a clear wall between you and him so he could theoretically detect you, I don’t think he sees you I think it’s just a by product of the games engine

After killing him early. You should of tested what would of happen when you had to fight him at the end. My guess he would be there still, maybe invisible.

It would be interesting to see if Adam Smasher turns up again after you kill him like this at the start