With the Phantom Liberty agree to Reeds deal or kill Reed choice, you need to decide if you'll try and make amends with Reed and the NUSA, or see Songbird's journey through to the end. It's a complicated choice that presents itself at the end of one of the expansions story paths, especially due to Reed's dedication to his mission and what Songbird reveals just before, changing the whole context of V's journey through Phantom Liberty. Whichever option you decide on will determine the ending you get for the expansion too, and might even let you reach the new ending for the main Cyberpunk 2077 story. Here are the consequences of choosing to either call Reed and accept his deal or kill Reed and save Songbird in Phantom Liberty.
Obviously, big spoilers below as this is the final choice in the Help Songbird path of Phantom Liberty!
If you choose to help Songbird in the Firestarter mission, you will help her get through the spaceport terminal to reach the train that leads to the Moon rocket. During the train journey, So Mi will reveal that shes been lying to you the whole time and that the Neural Matrix can be used only once. This leads into the first choice of this Phantom Liberty ending deciding whether to call Reed. After that, youll be confronted by Reed while carrying Songbird and will need to decide how youll deal with them both, ending Phantom Libertys story.
When the train pulls into the rocket launch area, youll have to choose whether youll simply pick up Songbird and carry her to the rocket or call Reed to strike a deal to get the Neural Matrix cure. Choosing to pick up Songbird just means you can walk straight to the rocket pod and face Reed you are not locked out of any of the endings by not calling him.
If you do call Reed, hell ask that you give up Songbird and in return, youll get the cure you were promised. Youre then faced with these responses to Reed:
So, however you get through this choice, youll always carry Songbird over to the rocket pod where Reed will emerge and face you on the walkway. You must put Songbird down, otherwise Reed will eventually just shoot you and youll have to reload your checkpoint.
The option to kill Reed, or draw weapon, isnt available to you straight away, so you need to talk to Reed a bit first. If you did not call Reed or rejected his deal when calling him, V will draw a revolver after putting Songbird down and youll be presented with some dialogue options. Choose either Songs dyin or cant let you take her, and youll then get more dialogue options after some chatter, with one of them being draw weapon. You can keep talking with Reed and this option will keep coming up, but eventually youll get to a point where you can only holster or draw your weapon.
Choosing to draw your weapon causes the game to slow down and you need to shoot Reed in the head before he does the same to you. With Reed dead, you can pick up Songbird and place her in the rocket, then watch it blast off while you chat with Johnny Silverhand. After this, the credits roll and then youll be looking at the spaceport the next morning while talking to Johnny. There are no missions after this, and Phantom Libertys story is over if you get this ending.
There are a few ways you can reach this ending in Phantom Liberty. The easiest method is to call Reed on the train and agree to the deal as mentioned, you are locked into this ending once you do this. Alternatively, if you did not call Reed, or rejected his deal, make sure you choose the holster weapon when available to deescalate and strike a deal with Reed.
Once you agree to the deal, Reed takes So Mi, then the credits roll. Afterwards, youll speak to Johnny and then youll get a call from Reed. This eventually leads into a mission called Through Pain To Heaven, where youll have one final talk with Reed at a gas station, then hell give you details on the new Cyberpunk 2077 ending for the main story.
If you decided to agree to Reeds deal but refuse anything in return (this can be done when calling Reed or after holstering your weapon), you wont be permanently locked out of the new story ending either. After the credits, Reed will message you and youll get one last chance to either accept or reject the promised surgery. Based on my testing, rejecting the cure here seems to permanently lock you out of this ending while accepting leads you into the Through Pain To Heaven mission like normal.
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