What the Hell Does This Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 Secret Even Mean? | Push Square

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Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving, throwing further fuel on a mystery that's been perplexing the community for years. Known as FF:06:B5, it spans both Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, and a dedicated subreddit has sprung up to solve the various esoteric threads that comprise it.

It all began with a statue in Night City, which bore an ominous string of numbers and text, and that some monks frequented. It was discovered there were six such statues in the game (with two smaller ones being added in a later patch), appearing to be identical from the waist up, but with only two bearing the mysterious text, which didn't appear to be linked to anything else in the game. CDPR's lead quest designer Pawel Sasko confirmed in a stream that these things were connected, and so the search continued.

Goomba Stomp do a fantastic job of detailing the tale in full, but in the interest of brevity, the next major breakthrough came with The Witcher 3's Next-Gen Update. You know, the one that added that horrifying armour from the Netflix show.

In the fields of Velen (post-patch), activating a trio of switches would now spawn a golem which, once dispatched, would activate a portal and send Geralt to the top of a tower. Descending to its depths, a number of unkillable wraiths guard two pillars, and there you will find an oddly familiar mural etched on the far wall. Wouldn't you know it, the strange symbols bear the same circuitry motif as the statues in Cyberpunk.

With the release of Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update, further clues were quickly uncovered. An in-game message, at long last, referencing the text FF06B5 appeared (detailed in Synth Potato's thread below). Still more clues led to a Wolfenstein-style