OK, so I get that the world of Cyberpunk is grim and dark ("in the grim darkness of the dark grim future" of WH.. I mean Cyberpunk)... but I want my happy ending.
So here's how I see it: (SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED PHANTOM LIBERTY)
I finished Phantom Liberty by sending Songbird to the Moon. It is the right thing to do, in my opinion. Thing is, that leaves you still deep in the s***, Relic-wise. So my ideea for a new - BETTER - ending would be this:
- you send Song to the Moon.
- several days later, you receive a message from her, telling you that the procedure was a success and that she dug up some Militech/NUS archive and has a sollution for your problem.
- you then get a quest to go to the Cynosure Facility's Experimental Prototyping lab to get the specs for the CANTO Mk 6 operating system, that contains an AI from beyond the BlackWall, that can fix your issues.
- you then get to craft the CANTO, and when installed, you get two prompts: one to remove the Relic entirely and to repair the damage done to your brain, (in which case no more Relic malfunctions, no more interactions with Johnny, etc), or to keep the Relic, repair your brain and create an interface between your brain and the relic (in order to continue talking to Johnny, and do quests involving him - but again, no more Relic malfunctions, no more dying).
- you then can continue with the main quest of Cyberpunk - help Takemura, eliminate Smasher, etc- with the option that - when plugging into the Mikoshi terminal and talking to Alt, you get the following options:
- if you chose to keep Johnny around:
* Johnny leaves with Alt.
* Johnny stays with you.
* you leave with Alt and Johnny gets your body (this option for those of you who want to have this ending).
- if you chose to get rid of the Relic entirely:
* you simply connect to the terminal, upload whatever Alt put into your head, and that's it. No dialog with Alt, no nothing.
No more "Alt disentangles you from Johnny by killing you and uploading a copy of your mind into your body" (effectively saying that you are no longer you, in my opinion). Just the options above.
It would be great if anyone could make this happen.
Thank you.