Adam Smasher, the final boss of Cyberpunk 2077, is killable in the very beginning of the game, and as a result, this player discovered that revenge is a dish that can be microwaved in thirty seconds at 800W, instead of slow-cooked for 60 hours at 180 degrees.
Obviously, late game spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077 will follow, so tread carefully if you've not completed the game yet.
Adam Smasher (most likely not his legal name) was a member of a New York gang in the early 2000s, until a shootout left him critically injured. The doctors expected that he wouldn't be able to live the same life that he had, until Arasaka approached him with an offer that he couldn't refuse. Adam was reborn in a metal body and awoke with a cold fervor for violence. Notorious for his careless destruction and total lack of a moral compass, he was the one that killed Johnny Silverhand in the Fourth Corporate War, and so, he is the target of V, Rogue and Johnny's mission to reignite the rebellion against the megacorporation.
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Now, rather than spend hours upon hours gallivanting around Night City and grinding out experience in various weapons and skills, YouTuber KhrazeGaming chose to skip all of that and go after Adam Smasher from the get-go. In the prologue to Cyberpunk 2077, a mission titled The Heist involves V and Jackie creeping into Konpeki Plaza to steal an experimental biochip from Yorinobu Arasaka. However, the two witness Yorinobu kill his father in the presence of Adam Smasher, who then attempts to chase them down and eliminate them. Thanks to a cheat, KhrazeGaming doesn't run away from the hulking cyborg, and decides to meet their destiny a little earlier than expected.
Firstly, KhrazeGaming clips through the door that the getaway car would have crashed through in the duo's escape. Then, they stroll through the hallway and meet Adam Smasher in the flesh (and metal and circuitry and wiring). Though his reputation precedes him, the YouTuber makes short work of the enemy, using a combination of breach protocol and a single Contagion cyberhack. One boon in this "combat" encounter is that Adam Smasher won't attack first, which is likely due to the fact that the player isn't intended to be in this area at this point at all.
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Looting Adam Smasher's body gets the player access to a stash which includes the blueprint for the Ba Xing Chong shotgun, a legendary gun that is only available towards the latter end of Cyberpunk 2077. Then, events play out as planned, though it is clearly missing a terrifying and terrifyingly giant cyborg man hunting you down like a dog. It's not a proper ending, yet it is an interesting exploration of what could have been, if V had the courage of a certain Rockerboy.
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