The Nomad

The Nomad is a main job in Cyberpunk 2077. It is one of the three possible starting jobs, and is only available to players who chose the Nomad Lifepath. V grew up in the Badlands in a nomad clan and leaves it, hoping to make it big in Night City. To get into the city, V takes on a risky job: smuggling a very hot item.

Walkthrough

V starts in a mechanic's garage in the small town of Yucca, just southwest of the Border Crossing to Night City. While looking into a mirror, V removes the patch of their old nomad clan. While V is removing the patch, a mechanic is trying to repair their car, but needs a part that he doesn't have in stock. V turns to face the mechanic, and moves the mechanic out of the way. They make a short-term workaround that should last long enough to reach Night City. V leaves the garage, but before they can continue, V is hassled by the local sheriff, who asks pointed questions about their presence in his town and makes it clear that nomads, with or without a clan, are unwelcome.

V needs to meet up with their contact, Jackie Welles, to pick up the package they will both be smuggling into Night City. V slips past the patrolling sheriff, and heads south, towards the radio tower. At the radio tower, V climbs the radio tower and contacts Willie McCoy to receive Jackie's location, which turns out to be an abandoned farm close to the border. V drives to the abandoned farm. After making introductions, Jackie retrieves the package and places it in the trunk of V's car, and they both head out towards the border crossing.

At the Border Crossing, V and Jackie are stopped by the border guards and ordered to report for an inspection. V tells Jackie to stay with the car, and they enter the Border Crossing building. V steps into the room with the papers declaring their cargo to be "lost on arrival" - along with a sufficient bribe to "encourage" the guards not to look too closely. The guard accepts the bribe, but V gets a bad feeling that the guard knows more than he is letting on. V returns to their car, where they have Jackie take the wheel and get out of there as soon as possible; as they think something is definitely going on and V doesn't want to stick around. As they leave the crossing, V and Jackie are cut off by Arasaka security, who demands that they halt and hand over the corporate property that they are smuggling, revealing that they were set up. V tells Jackie to gun it, and lead the security team on a chase through the Biotechnica Protein Farm on the city's outskirts, eventually shaking them successfully and hiding in a nearby garage, where V's car finally breaks down for good. Inside the garage, V opens up the package to see what caused all the trouble: a genuine, live iguana. After discussing what to do next, Jackie, deciding he likes V, offers his hand and friendship and partnership as the iguana looks on, leading into the Night City introduction montage.

Journal Entry

Yo, V, every story's gotta start somewhere, right? Even if it means that "somewhere" is in the middle of nowhere and the most nova place to hang is a dusty-ass fuel stop. You abandoned your nomad family to come find the dude who hired you, to smuggle something for him 'cross the border. This guy will change your life, chica/mano.

A good kid from Heywood with stolen corporate cargo in hand, border guards breathing down your neck and a brutal heat haze melting the horizon. This is what freedom looks like. And if smuggling's what it takes to live it, then smuggling it is. But if that's not motivation enough, there's a fat stack of eddies waiting at the end of it too. All that needs doin' is moving the package from A to B. Simple.

Objectives

• Talk to the mechanic.
• Fix the engine.
• Get in the car.
• Start the engine.
• Connect to the telecom tower.
• Talk to the sheriff.
• Leave the garage.
• Go to the telecom tower.
• Climb the telecom tower and locate the control box.
• Connect your sat phone to the telecom tower.
• Talk to McCoy.
• Return to the car.
• Head to the meeting place.
• Get out of the car.
• Meet Jackie Welles.
• Talk to Jackie.
• Follow Jackie.
• Open the trunk.
• Get in the car.
• Drive to the border.
• Drive into the checkpoint.
• Talk to Jackie while waiting for the security check to finish.
• Get out of the car.
• Enter the border security building.
• Deposit weapons at front desk.
• Head to room 2.
• Sit.
• Talk to the border guard.
• Collect your weapons at the front desk.
• Return to the car.
• Fight off your pursuers.
• Get out of the car.
• Talk to Jackie.

Shards

• The Unification War... for Gonks! - In the back of the Yucca Car Repair Shop on top of a table.
• In the Shadows of Megabuildings - On the desk in the garage office after exiting out of the car.
• Relive.it - Braindance Quarterly - On a barricade behind some trailers in Yucca.
• Nomads for the Thick-Skinned- Inside a burned car in Yucca.
• Arasaka and Ornithology: Three Japanese Words to Know - On a dumpster near a trailer in Yucca.
• Excerpts from "A History of the Nomads" by B.B. Pires - Near the bed in Dry Creek's farm, where you meet Jackie Welles.
• The Wall - On the counter at the South California Border Crossing, where you place your weapon.
• Cyberware Controversy in Football? - Behind Yucca Car Repair Shop, next to tent with camouflage pattern.
• GLAM NOW! - The mag for those who love this for themselves - Under the 'No Vacancy' sign on the building by the main road, next to a group of people practicing boxing.
• Looking for a career change? Join NetWatch! - On a wooden shelf next to a white-blue building in Yucca.

Computers

• Yucca Car Repair Shop

Notes

• Completing this quest will award the player with a car model memorabilia on the desk of V's Apartment.
• When discovering the iguana, Jackie will mention that he "always wanted a pet", despite the fact that in the quest Heroes, it is revealed that he once owned a dwarf shark.

Gallery

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  V driving through the Badlands
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  The smuggled iguana
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  Concept art: Nomad V fixing her car in the mechanic's garage