[4: Daily Account Distribution +10]

[We can welcome more players to join our ranks]

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[Brother Dao: I take back what I said earlier, this version is definitely not for us to chill. Damn it's even grindier than 0.7. They opened up the US transport line + Cuba map + old network major update all at once. Is the dev team trying to ascend to heaven or what? Man, your programmers must have only a few hairs left!]

[Resident: Guys, to be honest, I guessed this Cuba thing a week ago from a post by some pros, but I didn't dare to say it.]

[Brother Ni: ??? What do you mean you guessed it? Spill the info channel you had!]

[Resident: A while back I told Swordfish that the charity meds weren't cutting it. They gave a bad idea, like if you don't have money for meds, just rob them, and if robbing meds isn't enough, go rob the production line... Somehow we ended up talking about robbing drug traffickers' production line, then we reported this to Mentor Gloria...]

[Wildman: 666, I said why the building was mysteriously emptied yesterday, the bar shut down and even Nina and her crew didn't come to work. Turns out the boss is just putting on a show with the US President!]

[Brother Ni: Dark, this is too damn dark. Is our boss really that twisted inside? How come I didn't notice before?] 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

[Tutu: Could it be that the boss was always nasty, just never let us see it?]

[Cop: As they say, corrupt officials are crafty, honest ones need to be even craftier, right? Otherwise, how would you expect honest folks to get rich?]

[Truth Department: I bet the drug traffickers never dreamed the reason for their downfall would be some desperate dude saying he doesn't have money to cure patients, and they got the boss's attention. If the ghosts of Cuba come to Night City for revenge later, you're mainly responsible.]

[Resident: Revenge, revenge, bring it! My life's nothing valuable, what's there to fear? Anyway, I can revive, as long as there are affordable meds for my patients, that's the real deal.]

[Propaganda Department: Ah!! So dazzling! Is this the legendary Jesus Christ? More like General Bulashit reincarnated!]

Everyone knows that netizens are like vampires. They find dark, ironic stuff on the web and snicker from the shadows, but when faced with light they'll scream and burn away.

Learning the true cause of the Cuba drug traffickers' demise, players sent out loud mockery, feeling these guys were super unlucky, yet not a single player sympathized with that crew.

From the moment they touched drugs, in players' eyes, they were as good as dead, disqualified even for the Dragon Field. The only channel left for survival might be a piston engine servant in a Sex Doll clubhouse atoning for their past.

[Truth Department: @Steamed Bun, @Jianxue, next version we might head to Cuba, can you get some good stuff for the brothers?]

Until recently, the MT-3 was just starting to be equipped on a large scale for players. FPV drones were fierce, but single-use. Yet among players who've witnessed Chimeras, tanks, IFVs, even missiles, such small things couldn't satisfy them.

Adding to that, these things might be fine against Netherworld Dogs in the city, but once on their turf, with all kinds of radar jamming deployed, these little drones really don't cut it.

Most importantly, I've already watched a day's worth of parades, with so many tempting things, if the game doesn't give us new stuff for the brothers, does that make sense?

On this note, players began to complain about the official side, such an important day, yet you're unwilling even to send players a single tank? Isn't that a bit stingy?

[Wildman: I don't care I don't care, I want the big black stick, I want a tank, I want the J35, if you don't give me I'm gonna make a fuss (rolling on the ground)]

[Steamed Bun: You look just like a big black stick (rolling eyes)]

[Jianxue: New stuff? I've got tons, whatever you dare to ask for, I dare to give (image) latest developed solid-state Chun Er high-pressure flamethrower, range 150M, just a tiny bit risky, as long as you dare use it, guaranteed zero negative reviews.]

[Wildman: Forget your stuff, save them for the Mongolian Toplaner guys, we'll go find Steamed Bun for something safer]

The things from Jianxue have been tested in battle, other stuff might not be guaranteed, but definitely blows stuff up with a lot of force.

After all, they're a chemical plant, focused only on how to make these things even more powerful, as for how to safely use them, that's not in their consideration.

[Steamed Bun: Alright alright, there's some stuff. We put together Chimera and Great Mount Pill, fixed it a bit, should be operational. We have three tanks, all inherited from Netherworld Dogs, Raider drone production line has started mass production, and weaponized door frame robots, transport platforms, Hellhounds, all can now be officially deployed in battles.

Of course, there's also the stuff from the bottom of the box, you remember the hazardous Wanderers, right?]

Who wouldn't remember?

After all, Nina and the girls wore those in the bar for months.

Sadly, those two Power Armors were modified from Huangban D Power Armor, Horizon Corporation couldn't reproduce them, only leaving them for the maids to wear as mascots.

[Wildman: Production? No way, right?]

[Steamed Bun: True, production is not possible, tech gap's too big. However, we've done some new stuff, only usable by mechanics and players with AI assistance (image)]

The picture shows a bipedal mech over four meters tall, like a headless person, body quite bulky, right arm a triple-barrel rotary machine gun, shoulder mounted with a 75mm caliber gun, waist hangs a large-caliber grenade launcher, revealing internals similar to cybernetic limbs.

Thanks to this world's ridiculous cybernetic and power armor tech trees, humanoid mechanical devices are cheap and more widespread than tanks.

[Steamed Bun: I truly don't know how Huang Ban managed to cram so many mechanical devices into such a tiny Power Armor, so ultimately I took an alternative approach. If we can't make it smaller, then make it bigger, and hang bigger, stronger weapons like a tank.]

[Wildman: So why shouldn't I choose a tank then?]

[Steamed Bun: 1, We can't make tanks, 2, Are tanks cooler than bipedal mechs? 3, This thing is more maneuverable than a tank, can even use Sianweistan.]

Tanks are easy to make, tractor chassis + metal shell + a cannon, becomes a tank. But on the battlefield, outdated tanks are merely moving coffins.

The tanks truly keeping up with the era require extremely high cost, technology, industrial chain standards, by 2025, there are fewer than five countries capable of producing frontline tanks worldwide.

Whereas large bipedal mechs are much simpler, according to Steamed Bun's design, they're oversized full-body cybernetic limbs, and players become the brain inside. However, a human brain under normal conditions can't bear the extensive calculations, digital brain zones or AI are required.

Because even a player's brain can't handle such a large Sianweistan, spending just one second will cause the brain to fry dead due to overload.

Most, most importantly,

[Wildman: You're right, this thing is actually cooler than tanks]

Coolness is everything!

Oligei!