Could The Witcher 3’s newest Cyberpunk 2077 easter egg solve its greatest mystery?

Detective Geralt might have found a critical clue in the game’s newest update

Marco Wutz | Dec 16, 2022

Could The Witcher 3’s newest Cyberpunk 2077 easter egg solve its greatest mystery? /

The extensive update for The Witcher 3, which was just recently released for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X, had different things in tail for different groups of players: In view of the technical problems on this platform, it has mainly been a headache for PC players so far, but all other hobby witchers are happy about the exciting hunt for Henry Cavill's armor from the Netflix series as part of a new quest. Another group is not missing out: the hunters of Easter Eggs.

YouTuber xLetalis (thanks, IGN) discovered a reference to one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of Cyberpunk 2077 – another CD Projekt game – in the newly polished world of The Witcher 3.

The mystery, commonly known as FF:06:B5, revolves around the eponymous sequence that can be found on several statues in Night City, in front of which monks often pray. An entire community has taken it upon themselves to solve this mystery – so far without success.

Could the fresh discovery provide a critical clue? The reference in question can be found in a new area in the south of Velen, where three ruins were added in the update. Each structure contains a lever, the activation of which opens a portal. This teleports players to a nearby mountain, from where they can reach a strange room.

This room contains the Easter Egg – a symbol painted on the wall with the pairs of letters FF, VQ, BZ, KW, and GB on the outer sides of a circle and the sequences FP, OVE, and YAR on the inside. The symbol itself clearly resembles the icons known from Cyberpunk 2077. The numbers, Mason, what do they mean?

Whether there is actually a valuable clue there or not, this sure isn't the first crossover between CD Projekt's two hits: Cyberpunk 2077 features a magazine with The Witcher protagonist Ciri on the cover, who herself reports visiting a parallel world during the events of The Witcher 3 that clearly sounds like the world of Cyberpunk. Makes your head spin a bit, doesn't it?

Published Dec 16, 2022

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg