Best Cyberpunk 2077 Pickup choices with Meredith Stout and Royce (2024)

Best Cyberpunk 2077 Pickup choices with Meredith Stout and Royce (1)

The Pickup mission in Cyberpunk 2077 gives you a few choices: meet Meredith Stout, hack a chip, or pay Royce the Scavenger. Your endgoal in the mission is to get a Militech drone recently stolen from the Maelstrom gang, but there's multiple ways to reach it and they're not all as good as each other.

To abbreviate, the best thing you can do is to call Meredith Stout, as immediately that opens up all sorts of options available to you, having her advice and resources available. If you want to know what those outcomes all lead to and which you should be going for, here's all the best choices and what you should do in the Pickup in Cyberpunk 2077.

Cyberpunk 2077 The Pickup - Should you call Meredith Stout?

Best Cyberpunk 2077 Pickup choices with Meredith Stout and Royce (2)

Your main objective starting The Pickup is to meet Jackie, but you have an optional choice to call Meredith Stout, a Militech agent. We recommend doing this, because it opens up more options for the mission.

Call her and she'll arrange a meeting where you'll be punched in the face and end up with a gun to the head. When you talk your way out of it by insisting you don't know who Gilchrist is, she'll offer you a credchip with tracking software on it to use in the deal. Using it would mean you can now pay off Royce to buy the drone without using your own cash.

Once you have the chip you can choose to decrypt it and remove the tracking software before you meet Maelstrom. Militech will notice this when the gang takes the money though and storm the building, meaning you'll need to fight your way out against Militech agents. But, if you don't remove the malware, Royce will detect it when he scans the chip and attack you instead. The latter is the only path you can take if you want to sleep with Meredith as a Cyberpunk 2077 Romance option later on. Either way, you have to fight your way out.

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Meet and talk to Jackie, then enter All Foods via the intercom and walk through the surprisingly fortified factory, before meeting a character called Dum Dum at the top of the elevator. He gets somewhat aggressive when Jackie refuses to sit down and offers you a puff on some good ol' drugs, which you can turn down or accept with little consequence.

When he brings the robot out, both dialogue options involve taking it but after explaining that Brick has already been paid, Royce will storm out and stick a gun in your face, because he's the new boss now after Brick is out of the picture.

Cyberpunk 2077 The Pickup - Pay Royce or refuse?

Best Cyberpunk 2077 Pickup choices with Meredith Stout and Royce (3)

Note: No matter which option you pick, you'll have the opportunity to rescue the old Maelstrom leader which can help you out much later in the game. Check out our guide on how to free Brick in Cyberpunk 2077 for more.

Whether or not to pay Royce or refuse is the main decision you'll now need to make, which determines how the rest of the mission goes. If you took the credchip from Meredith – or you've got 10k eddies banked already – you can pay Royce for the robot. If you use the chip,Royce will scan it - if you've decrypted it and removed the tracking software he's satisfied and lets you leave. However, right as you're about to go, Militech starts rolling into the factory to take control and wipe out Maelstrom. You need to fight your way out against Militech, with Maelstrom helping you. When you leave a character called Gilchrist will be at the exit to greet you, and you'll need to explain why you've just killed loads of Militech agents.

Alternatively, if you don't decrypt the credchip, Royce will discover the malware when he uses it, and you'll need to fight your way out against Maelstrom instead of Militech. This has two effects; the first is that Royce will now be a boss fight at the end of the mission because you didn't kill him in the room at the start. The other effect is that Meredith will be waiting for you at the exit instead. If you didn't hack the chip and went along with her plan to pay Royce with it, she'll suggest working together again in the future, which can eventually lead to a the romance option we mentioned.

There is a third option which is, when you're given the option to draw your gun against Royce in the room with the robot, you can kill him there and then. Of course, you'll have a lot of Maelstrom enemies to kill, but that way you do get to keep both your cash and the robot. This is the only option other than paying for the robot with your own cash if you don't go and meet Meredith in the first place, because you won't have the credchip.

There's basically no way to finish The Pickup peacefully in Cyberpunk 2077, but you can at least choose who to side with.

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Best Cyberpunk 2077 Pickup choices with Meredith Stout and Royce (4)

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Best Cyberpunk 2077 Pickup choices with Meredith Stout and Royce (2024)

FAQs

Who should I side with in the pickup cyberpunk? ›

Ultimately, the choice is yours. However, you get more out of the content later in the game if you side with the Maelstrom. There is a side job later on that involves them, so you're missing out if you don't pick their side.

Should you take the chip from Meredith? ›

It is therefore ideal to leave the chip be until after the mission, then copy the malware for the quickhack, and finally remove it for the extra money.

How to do the pickup peacefully? ›

For the peaceful scenario, V and Jackie basically walk out of the warehouse without the need to fight against Militech or the Maelstrom. To achieve this, you need to purchase the Flathead with your own money during the negotiation scene with Dum Dum and Royce.

Should I finish off Royce? ›

There is a third option which is, when you're given the option to draw your gun against Royce in the room with the robot, you can kill him there and then. Of course, you'll have a lot of Maelstrom enemies to kill, but that way you do get to keep both your cash and the robot.

What happens if you let Royce live? ›

Essentially, if you take the chip and don't use it or shoot Royce, you will end up needing to face off against Militech with the Maelstrom as your allies, and Militech will bring two mechs to the fight, but Royce and Dum Dum will take them down easily.

Can you sleep with Meredith in cyberpunk? ›

While there are a number of Cyberpunk 2077 romance options to pick from in Night City, the ice queen herself isn't among them. Thankfully, along with the four main romance arcs, there are some minor romances available for V, Meredith among them. You'll just have to make sure you make all the right choices for them.

Can you take down Royce or draw your weapon? ›

If you have level 6 Body, you can take down Royce. You can also draw your weapon. Or, you can do nothing. You can choose to draw your weapon and still get out clean.

Can you get the money off the Militech datashard? ›

When V calls Dex, he'll tell Dex that he's keeping the money for himself. Then you can decrypt it, and when you're done you're gonna see a whole Transferring Funds UI pop up in the middle of the screen and you get 10,000.

What happens if you remove the virus from Meredith's chip? ›

You can freely hack the chip and remove the virus to get 10k E$, before even getting to Maelstrom as it doesn't affect Meredith. The only thing that affects her fate is finding out who the mole is. If you don't find out who the mole is, she will die.

What happens if you decrypt the Militech chip? ›

The encrypted version is a Hex dump of the decrypted version. Decrypting the chip will yield the following rewards: Copy Malware: Synapse Burnout quickhack (only if done BEFORE Neutralize Malware)

What happens to Meredith Stout? ›

Meredith was tortured, bound and then thrown into the Watson waterfront with concrete shoes. Her body can be found right off a pier in a specific location after Act 1.

What should you do with Royce? ›

Shoot the orange box on the back of Royce's mech to deal damage. Then use grenades to slow him down and focus-fire on his head to whittle down his health. After beating Royce, retrieve the Chaos Tech Pistol, his Spiked Maelstrom short-sleeve jacket, and some Eurodollars.

Should I take the inhaler from dum dum? ›

That inhaler contains a drug known as Black Lace in the in-game universe. And it's lethal; use it too much and it will flatline you. Personally, I find it fine to just be one available.

Should I side with Denny or Henry Cyberpunk? ›

Denny claims that Henry is a drunk and will ruin the gig, just as he did her garden. Meanwhile, Henry claims that Denny is stuck up and should learn to have more fun. Whichever you pick will not deeply affect the questline, but you should choose the character you feel is in the right.

Who should you side with in cyberpunk? ›

Siding with Reed is the only way to keep everyone alive, and unlocks the "Face in the Crowd" ending to the base game, but it requires completing two extra challenging missions.

Should I side with Dex or Evelyn cyberpunk? ›

Should Players Side With Dex or Evelyn in Cyberpunk 2077? It doesn't seem to matter which party V chooses to side with. Because of the way the events of the heist go down, V and Jackie won't get paid, and Dex will stab V in the back regardless, likely for more money in his pocket.

Is it worth betraying Dex in cyberpunk? ›

So it's all a bit of decoy decision that feels like it has an impact but ultimately has no real effect whatsoever. Whatever you say things will play out in exactly the same way and you'll reach the same point later, so don't lose sleep over this one.

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