They also reveal the existence of an abandoned nuclear missile base that can be used to strike Xenon. The Technomancers agree to provide the network bandwidth necessary to launch the massive DDoS attack, but they insist that Xenon must be destroyed, not merely disabled, so that humans cannot reactivate him. In Satnajoskull, Nathan meets with the Technomancers and shares the Blade's plan for the assault on Xenon. By retracing the steps of a digital archaeologist who had earlier searched for the source code, Nathan is able to find and retrieve it. The Cypher Master informs Nathan that he no longer possesses the source code to the permanent reality firmware, having sold it in his youth to the company that created Xenon, but he secretly made a copy and arranged to have it hidden in a location unknown even to himself. After learning that the Cypher Master has used technology to ascend to a higher plane of existence, Nathan eats a psychotropic fruit in order to commune with him. Nathan travels to the jungle settlement of Nuwaka to contact the Cypher Master, the reclusive programmer who created the permanent reality firmware. Nathan is selected to carry out these tasks because his lack of a permanent reality implant means that he will be difficult, if not impossible, for Xenon and the authorities to track. The Blade devise a multi-part plan to disable the VirtuaVerse: contact the Technomancers in-person in the town of Satnajoskull and request their help obtain a copy of the source code for the permanent reality chip's firmware in order to find a vulnerability in the VirtuaVerse and create a malware program to exploit it use that exploit to seize control of every permanent reality chip on the planet and harness them into an enormous botnet that will flood Xenon with data in a distributed denial-of-service attack and, while Xenon is distracted by the DDoS, board the ISS and shut him down. The Technomancers offer their assistance to prevent this from happening, but registration for the BBS they use to communicate is closed, leaving the Blade unable to access it. The message warns that the VirtuaVerse is nothing more than a distraction and will eventually rob people of the ability to perceive reality outside of AVR, threatening the survival of humanity. A floppy disk that Jay received from a contact at the nightclub contains a message from the Technomancers, an artificial intelligence collective. He traces her to a nightclub and discovers that she has been carrying out missions for "the Blade," a secretive hacker group. Nathan wakes up one day to find that his girlfriend, Jay, has gone missing. The AVR headset is needed to solve certain kinds of puzzles. Later in the game, the player can toggle Nathan's AVR headset, which allows them to see the augmented virtual reality, revealing different hotspots in the game's world. The player takes control of Nathan and has to collect items, talk to NPCs, and solve puzzles in order to advance in the story. While permanent reality is marketed as a way to "optimize the user experience," the game's protagonist, Nathan, a computer engineer and enthusiast for retro hardware, considers it to be a form of surveillance and an invasion of privacy, eschewing the implant in favor of an old-fashioned, over-the-ear AVR headset. A recent advancement in AVR is "permanent reality," a brain implant that allows people to interact with a worldwide, persistent AVR environment – the titular "VirtuaVerse" – that is administered by Xenon, an artificial intelligence housed aboard the International Space Station. The dominant form of entertainment is "augmented virtual reality" (AVR), a hybrid of augmented reality and virtual reality that allows users to perceive holographic projections that are used for a variety of purposes, including omnipresent advertisements and graffiti. Among hackers and those operating outside the law, older "retro" technologies like telephone modems and magnetic hard drives are prized because while the abandoned infrastructure to support this obsolete tech still exists, they are effectively "off the grid" and cannot be easily tracked, making them ideal tools for smuggling and piracy. Advanced technologies, such as cybernetic enhancements, hovercars, and sex robots are commonplace however, society has also become hyper-commercialized, and consumer demand for these resource-intensive technological innovations has brought planet Earth to the brink of ecological collapse. VirtuaVerse is set at an indeterminate point in the future in a cyberpunk dystopia. On Octoit was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. It was released on on the online platforms Steam and GOG. The game is set in the future and features science fiction and cyberpunk elements. VirtuaVerse is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Theta Division Games and published by Blood Music for Windows and Mac.
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