Delamain HQ

Verified location directory

Delamain HQ, exterior and immediate facility

The game does not present every internal room as an independently named map location. The names above combine the formal location name with the distinct areas identified by mission objectives and walkthrough documentation. The workshop, control room, hangar and core are functional descriptions used for navigation rather than evidence of separate districts or independently fast-travelled locations.

Reception and public lobby

The reception area is the only part of Delamain HQ that functions as a normal visitor space. It contains the front desk, Delamain’s public-facing screen interface and a queue of dissatisfied customers.

During Tune Up, V uses the reception to report the damaged vehicle and speak to Delamain. This is the principal public access point and the normal route for the early Delamain jobs.

The reception is not a shop. Delamain does not operate as a vehicle vendor, ripperdoc, weapon dealer or general service provider here. The company’s transport service is represented through quests and vehicles rather than a conventional purchasing menu.

Office area

The office area is reached during Don’t Lose Your Mind. It contains computer terminals and administrative workstations. One of the computers provides the code 1234, which opens the nearby double doors and allows V to proceed further into the facility.

The office is primarily a puzzle and navigation space. It is not established as a separate public department, and the available evidence does not support assigning named employees or a permanent office staff roster to it.

Workshop

The workshop is the maintenance and repair section of the headquarters. In the normal state of the building, it is implied to be where Delamain’s automated vehicles and related machinery are serviced. In Don’t Lose Your Mind, the workshop becomes unsafe because the divergent Delamain personalities have disrupted the facility.

The route includes hostile or malfunctioning machines and can involve a laser-emitting robot. The objective is not to clear a conventional enemy base, but to move through the workshop while avoiding or disabling automated hazards.

Stairs, catwalks and control-room approach

The workshop leads towards elevated walkways and the control-room approach. The route is deliberately confusing because the objective marker can point towards areas that are not immediately reachable. Depending on V’s attributes and the chosen route, the player may use environmental movement, shortcuts or an attribute-based door.

A nearby door can be forced with sufficient Body, while other routes use the workshop layout, stairs, catwalks and maintenance passages. The exact requirement can vary with the particular shortcut being attempted, so players should treat attribute checks as optional route improvements rather than mandatory mission requirements.

Hangar

The hangar is a large vehicle-storage and maintenance space. During Don’t Lose Your Mind, uncontrolled Delamain cars move around the room and can crush V. The intended challenge is to cross the space without being struck, using cover, timing and the available route through the facility.

The hangar should not be confused with the public garage entrance. The public-facing driveway is part of the exterior approach, while the hangar is an interior service and storage area used during the lockdown.

Control room

The control room contains the systems governing the headquarters and leads to the central AI chamber. Reaching it is the main navigation objective of Don’t Lose Your Mind.

This area is not a normal combat arena. Its importance comes from the final interaction with Delamain’s core. V eventually enters the core chamber, speaks with Johnny and chooses what to do with the fractured intelligence.

Core chamber

The core chamber is the deepest named destination in the mission route. It houses the Delamain core and is the location of the quest’s decisive choice.

The merge option requires 10 Intelligence. The destroy and reset choices do not require that Intelligence check. Regardless of the choice, the job concludes with a Delamain vehicle reward.

Normal access

Before the headquarters enters lockdown, approach the front entrance and use the reception area. The location becomes relevant through the Delamain questline rather than through a general city activity.

Don’t Lose Your Mind entrance routes

When Don’t Lose Your Mind begins, the ordinary route into the back of the headquarters is blocked. The reliable alternatives are:

The commonly documented Technical Ability requirement for the side door is 8 Technical Ability. The roof route avoids that check.

Suggested exploration route

For the least confusing route through the lockdown:

Delamain

Delamain is the owner, operator and principal intelligence of the headquarters. He appears through screens and automated interfaces rather than as a physical human character. His voice, manner and responses change according to the state of the core and the outcome of Don’t Lose Your Mind.

Delamain is both a quest giver and the central subject of the location’s story. He hires V to recover the rogue taxis during Epistrophy, then later asks for help when the returned personalities destabilise the headquarters.

V

V is the player character and the principal visitor to the headquarters. V first comes to the location to resolve the damaged-car incident, then returns to recover the missing taxis and finally to deal with the AI crisis.

Johnny Silverhand

Johnny appears during the final stages of Don’t Lose Your Mind. His role is conversational and interpretive rather than that of a resident or employee. He comments on the core decision and provides a perspective on Delamain’s competing identities.

Receptionist interface

The receptionist is an automated Delamain-facing service process. It initially mishandles V’s arrival and can address V incorrectly before the more knowledgeable Delamain interface takes over. It should be treated as a company system rather than a separate human NPC.

Customers

A queue of customers appears in the reception area. They are ordinary visitors and complain about Delamain’s service. They are environmental NPCs, not named quest characters, vendors or faction representatives.

Character directory

Residents and operators

Visitors and story-associated characters

No evidence reviewed for this guide establishes a named human workforce permanently stationed at the headquarters in 2077. Delamain’s account instead presents the company as largely automated.

Verified hazards

The electricity in the maintenance sections is especially dangerous. Guides consistently warn that contact can kill V very quickly, so avoid crossing active electrified areas unless the route clearly requires it.

Combat expectations

Combat is secondary to traversal. You may need to destroy a hostile robot or deal with machines that obstruct progress, but the mission is principally an environmental puzzle. Weapons, quickhacks and mobility cyberware can make the route safer, although they are not presented as mandatory requirements.

The exact loot dropped by malfunctioning machines can vary, and reports of inaccessible or floating loot exist. Such drops should not be treated as fixed headquarters collectibles without a reliable item-by-item source.

Human Nature

Human Nature establishes V’s initial connection to the Delamain vehicle involved in the opening incident. The car’s behaviour leads to the later insurance and customer-service visit.

The job is not a full headquarters mission, but it is part of the chain that makes the location relevant.

Tune Up

Tune Up brings V to Delamain HQ to report the damaged vehicle and speak with the company. It introduces the reception area, Delamain’s unusual customer-service system and the basic relationship between V and the AI.

Epistrophy

Epistrophy sends V across Night City to recover Delamain taxis that have developed individual personalities and gone missing. The taxis are found in separate districts, so their search areas should not be mistaken for subareas of Delamain HQ.

Returning the recovered cars to Delamain advances the story towards the headquarters crisis. A miscellaneous quest item called Delamain’s Scanner is also associated with the headquarters during Epistrophy. It is looted from a chest there.

Don’t Lose Your Mind

This is the headquarters’ major interior mission. It becomes available after Epistrophy and a subsequent trigger. Guides commonly describe either waiting approximately 48 in-game hours for Delamain to call or encountering a related incident in the Corpo Plaza area.

Delamain’s Scanner

Delamain’s Scanner is a miscellaneous quest item associated with the headquarters. It is found in a chest during Epistrophy. The item is not a permanent weapon, cyberware upgrade or shop purchase.

Delamain No. 21

Completing Don’t Lose Your Mind awards the player the Delamain No. 21, a Delamain cab vehicle. The reward is available after the core decision and the concluding conversation.

Loot containers

The headquarters contains ordinary containers and mission-area loot, but the evidence reviewed does not support a definitive, patch-independent list of every container, weapon, armour item or random drop. Some reported legendary containers and robot loot may depend on version, level scaling, placement or collision behaviour.

For that reason, the following should be treated as confirmed rather than exhaustive: