Search and Destroy Walkthrough - Cyberpunk 2077 Guide - IGN (2024)

This page is part of IGN's Cyberpunk 2077 Wiki guide and details a complete walkthrough for the Search and Destroy Main Job, along with every major choice and consequence that's available during the mission.

Following the completion of Playing it Safe, make your way from Japantown to Takemura's hideout, where he is keeping Hanako Arasaka.

Meet Takemura at the Hideout

Once you reach the abandoned apartment building, head inside and follow the waypoint marker up the stairwell until you reach Takemura's hideout in room 303. As you reach the door, it is important that you knock four times, otherwise the door will explode.

Now that Takemura has let you inside, speak with Takemura. The option that you choose during this conversation will have no effect on the following events.

Speak with Hanako Arasaka

After your conversation, head over to Hanako Arasaka and recount the events that took place during The Heist, proving that you are not responsible for Saburo Arasaka's death.

Half way through your conversation with Hanako, you will hear a noise coming from outside the room. As you open the door, you will be ambushed by Arasaka's Assault Squad. Just as you're about to be shot by the soldiers, a grenade will go off nearby, causing the floor the give out.

Escape the Building

Having fallen to the ground floor, Johnny will appear and pursue V to get up and escape the building. V will object, showing concern for Takemura as he has been left to fend for himself back in room 303.

While the option to rescue Takemura will not appear straight away, V will have two options to approach the second half of this mission. These choices can be seen below.

Major Search and DestroyChoice - Rescuing Takemura

Choice: Optional Objective: Rescue Takemura.

Note: The optional objective to rescue Takemura will not appear immediately on your objectives list and will instead only be triggered once you have found a somewhat hidden stairwell that leads back to his hideout in room 303. For more on saving Takemura, click the links below to find a complete walkthrough.

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Rescue Takemura and Escape the Building

If you decide to save Takemura, continue down the hallway until you reach the room with the large blue cross hanging on the wall.

Turn left and look for the small hole that can be found in the wall and squeeze through it. Once you're inside the room, hide behind the pile of crates.

Here you will find up to five enemies as they scout the area, looking for V.

Using Stealth through this area will be tricky and given the events that will follow, it is recommended to simply take out the soldiers with a gun fight.

With the area cleared, look for the stairwell that can be found in the top right corner of the room, by the elevators. As you begin climbing the stairwell, you will trigger the Optional objective for saving Takemura.

As you follow the waypoint to the hallway of Takemura's floor, you will be ambushed by a large group of Arasaka soldiers. Fight your way through these soldiers until you have cleared them all out.

During this encounter, the incoming soldiers had brightly shining lights that would often make it difficult to see their exact location - whether this is simply a visual error or an intentional feature, we are unsure.

If you're struggling to pass this particular encounter, we highly recommend using a weapon with a night vision/thermal scope such as a SPT32 Grad Power Sniper Rifle and E305 Prospecta Scope.

Now that you have cleared the area, head inside room 303 and help Takemura's defeat the remaining Arasaka soldiers in the room.

Thanking you for your help, lead Takemura outside of the room.

TIP: Before leaving the room, be sure to pick up all of the supplies, shards, weapons, and clothing! You'll find plenty of high rated weapons!

As you reach the hallway, you will once again be ambushed from both paths of the hallway. With Takemura's help, clear the hallway of all the Arasaka soldiers.

Now that the soldiers are taken care of, follow the hallway right and open the door that can be found at the end of the path.

Head inside the room and you will find a large hole in the floor.

Jump down through the hole and continue following the stairs down to the ground floor, where you will find the exit nearby.

As you exit the building, V will collapse to the ground and Takemura will urge you to get up and escape the area.

Escape the Building Without Saving Takemura

Should you opt to leave Takemura behind, continue down the hallway until you reach the room with the large blue cross hanging on the wall. From here, V can escape the building through two different routes - Route 1 is the shortest, whereas Route 2 is slightly longer and more dangerous.

Route 1: Turn left and squeeze through the small hole in the wall. Once you're inside the room, hide behind the pile of crates. Here you will find up to five enemies, as they scout the area for V.

You can opt to distract the enemies with the lights that can be found through the room in order to sneak past them, or you can decide to take them all out with a gun fight - do note this will cause the soldiers in the previous room to draw their attention to your location.

Route 2: Turn right and follow the waypoint marker towards the exit. As you enter each room, you'll encounter several of Arasaka soldiers.

Using stealth to reach the exit will be the most ideal situation, however doing so will be extremely difficult as the soldiers move about very frequently and you will find very little cover to protect you from their view.

Unable to use stealth during our playthrough, we opted for the run and gun method. Staying behind to loot their corpses will prove useful as you'll find plenty of high level weapons and clothing to pick up.

It is worth mentioning, you can simply opt to make a break for it and run straight to the closet exit that is marked by a waypoint. No matter which path you take, a cutscene will appear as soon as you reach the exit.

The cutscene that appears will differ very slightly to those that decided to rescue Takemura, as when you reach the exit V will collapse to the ground as the relic begins to malfunction again, causing Johnny to appear, who urges V to get up and escape the city.

Speak with Johnny

V and Johnny have escaped to the Sunset Motel, which can be found on the outskirts of the city. Scared that you have been followed, V will sit on the bed, watching the door with a loaded shotgun.

V and Johnny will begin to argue about their situation and you will be free to select any dialogue from now to the end of the mission, as it will not effect the outcome of the story.

After several minutes have gone by, a car can be heard arriving outside your room. Despite Johnny's warning, V will open the door for the stranger. As it turns out, the stranger is actually a Proxy doll that has been sent by Hanako Arasaka.

The Proxy doll will reveal that Hanako believes V's story and wants to seek justice for her fathers murder. Once the doll has finished reading Hanako's message, she will leave the room.

Following a short conversation with Johnny, V will get up and leave the room, ending the mission.

Click or tap the following links to continue to your next mission, I Walk the Line.

• I Walk the Line Walkthrough