Pitols because it's the fastest to just kill every niglet

>>737616358
Health health health and then mote health. Which is handy because it's also blunt melee. And you need that because you can't aim at 30fps but cyberpunk only looks good at 30fps on console.

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STR/INT

>>737616358
Uninstall wizard.

>>737616358
Knives or swords because I like hacking people up

Every playthrough (d)evolved into me using shotguns and grenades and going really really fast.
Sneaking is a pain in the ass and hacking feels too gimmicky and melee is always a meme when guns are available

>>737616358
no point in builds in a game like this. it's piss easy even on hard and there are no roadblocks anywhere.

>build

you max 3 out of 5 trees at max level, what's the point

>>737616790
That's why I play on very hard.

>>737616358
Grenade spamming, railgun abusing nomad.

>>737616913
bullet sponge enemies, literally no other difference

Can I play through this game like it's Deus Ex

>>737616358
Gorilla arms with militec berserk. Get charged or double jump for the slam down. Stack a shit ton of armor like epimorphic skeleton and dense marrow. Shock-and-awe for AOE and Axolotl for cooldowns. You'll be basically Hulk, played throughout the game 4 times and that was easily the most fun build I've ever done

>>737617267
I got shilled into playing a netrunner but that is a lot more fun and should be the default suggestion

>>737616975
Maybe if you build for a ton of health, otherwise it's hard to stay alive.

>>737617340
netrunner is really boring

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>>737616358
Blades + Sandevistan

>>737617505
It has some cool hacks like making npcs kill themselves but that's about it

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>>737617936
Yes, it's a cool but very shallow power fantasy.

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I only did one playthrough and I just went full sandevistan to get the anime experience.

Currently doing a second playthrough where I'm going full hackerman mode but am still early on.

Guns

>>737617993
Also, it's just too slow. I could've cleared the entire room with my pistol by the time i decided what hacks to use.

Playing with a controller is the most miserable thing.

>>737618564
>he doesn't use gyro

>>737616358
ninja bunny hopping netrunner

>>737618694
It doesn't't have gyro.

>>737618904
Consider getting a controller with gyro
Or idk if how it works if you play on console. On steamdeck the built in gyro just works

I went stealth/hacking and had a good time, had some trouble with certain bosses though. This was before 2.0, I went back and couldn't make sense of the talent tree in relation to the old one so I dropped it.

>>737619119
also who else besides panam is worth romancing in a second playthrough? how do you stop yourself from going for her after catching a glimpse of her ass?

>>737616358
Monoblades + deflection perk
Everything else is just flavour

Explosions shotgun, slow mo and rocket launcher
Boom boom niggers

>>737619214
There's literally only Kerry unless you're troon and play as a femV

>>737619214
>he doesnt know
You can only romance oanam and the hag in the beginning as a straight male

>>737619328
You can get topped by ward too

>>737616358
Panams Ass

Throwing knives
Max cool
The reflexes and tech
ACTIVATE SANDY

>>737616913
Very hard is only hard early game.

Its very unbalanced mid to late game

>>737616684
Shotguns feel so satisfying in this game man.

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>>737618026
Still on my first playthough but this pretty much my plan too.

Stealth hackerman is how it's meant to be played

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I enjoy making "Johnny and V make goofy faces at situation" photos.

>>737619397
Nope he's straight, he'll no way fag you if you try to go for a kiss

I play randomly with builds

>>737619772
My bad, didn't know ward knows ball like that, i only saw the option and assumed
I have to rethink my relationship with him because i thought he wanted to ravage my boypussy

Throwing knives and speedy stealth

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>>737616358
The dildo build. I also run civilians over on my way to gigs. This game does NOT deserve to be taken seriously. High school tier kurwa plot.

>>737616358
By the end of my playthrough, I was using shotguns, pistols, the hand-held missile cybernetic, and the lightning throwing axe.
Shotguns are just so fucking fun. It was nice to max out and take advantage of maxing out like three full skill trees too. Finding a way to fit capstone perks into the build isn't always easy.

it's a story game
just do what you want

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Id like Gorilla Arns if you could actually do Kung fu or wrestling style shit like picking someone up and backbreaking them or chokeslaming.

Instead of just throwing left and right hooks and hammer punches.

Mantis blades should have unique kill options in dialogue since they are literally concealed knives and thats their entire gimmick.

So melee there is no reason to not just get a katana or bat and just cut people up with sandy like MGR Raiden

Smart guns fucking suck and look ugly

Netrunning is fucking boring. Its essentially glorified console commands that are
>click to make NPC do this
Its infuriating when you see fucking songbird do cool shit and thats how a high build netrunner should be.

Guns are hit and miss. LMGs fucking suck HMGs cant be stored and aside from a wrist mounted grenade launcher you cant borg the fuck out and become a walking weapons platform with missles, shoulder cannon, and one arm that has a gbuilt in flamethrower and the other arm a built in grappling hook to hurl enemy's towards you.

Idk why there isnt unique takedowns for knives and other small melee weapons so stealth is very boring seeing the same sleeper hold and neck snap

Can't duel wield pistols even though Jackie can..so no equilibrium gunkata build

At least they got shot guns right with them being meaty

And SMGs are just UMP 45s and P90s
ARs are fucking boring.

Theres only 2 precision rifles one of which is a boring DMR and the other a 3 round burst.

And the worst is kereznikov being just a weaker version of sandy despite seeing enemies who have it being able to dodge bullets like Neo from the Matrix

And enemies are just as boring. You'll see them have a plethora of abilities scanning but they hardly use em and just act like fps mooks. Sure they can sometimes dash around, but they wont hop around vertically or climb on walls or use any gadgets other than nades. And enemy netrunners apparently only have dial up speed and are nonexistent.

Good game, could b better

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>>737619705
At least 1/3rd of my time in this game is spent in photo mode

>>737616358
Netrunner, 20 Int / 20 Body / 20 Tech

>>737616358
The "not playing this dumpster fire" build.

>>737616358
Camwhore and E-thot build.

1st playthrogh. Whatever flowed. High movement cybernetics being able to climb ontop of roofs, whichever weapon is best I have on (usually assult rifle and pistol/shotgun), some hacking.
I don't do builds on a first run.

Katana + Sandevistan is the GOAT. FUCK guns.

>>737620924
there is nothing more satisfying than blasting your shotgun, having your camera shoot up to the fucking ceiling from the kickback, and far be it from merely taking the full amount of their health bar as damage, simply getting instagibbed

>>737620924
Good reminder. Any game with a katana in it is shit. I should not have bought it.

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>>737620924
This. Guns in this game are flaccid shite. NO idea what the fuck's up with the shotgun propaganda ITT.

>>737616358
I was going to do a Motoko Kusanagi hybrid jack of all trades build that was very very cool and relied on a precise set of armor modules, upgrades, perk progressions, etc. but that was 1.6 that made it all blend together brilliantly.
Like run and gun stealth, gorilla arms, SMGs, hacking, etc. and it just flowed together perfect.

You literally CAN'T do that in 2.0 quite the same because they made it less stat oriented and more all about reaching the apex of a skill tree for some major attribute defining perk of all perks
they made the perk system more flashy at the cost of ACTUAL underrated build variety
I tried fucking with a build calculator and literally couldn't figure out how to spend my shit...

>>737617340
>>737617505
>>737617936
>>737617993
>mod the game to remove time dilation during scanning ENTIRELY or make it resource based
>add hotkey quickhack mod
Netrunning is fixed and now very very fun as part of actual shooty run and gun builds.

>>737619328
If you don't play as Fem V you're a retarded faggot (my Fem V doesn't fuck or get fucked by anyone).

>>737617505
Depends on the mission, sometimes you can hack a camera and watch a guy kill himself while his friends get mowed down by their own turret.

>>737624292
>if you see your own V in the camera your face is digitally mosaic'd out live, on the fly, like some Laughing Man shit from Ghost in the Shell
very cool honestly, I like that a lot

>>737621709
Yeah the 2.0 talent system is what's putting me off from doing another playthrough

>>737619214
get male v judy romance mod, she also has the best leitmotif

>>737624473
I actually genuinely love this game even post 2.0 but man the 2.0 perk system is truly, truly overrated. Like it added the kind of janky Quake bunny hop air dash shit, which basically feels mandatory in most builds just because it's fun. But it also totally trivializes shit... And *it feels mandatory in builds*. And the new system is streamlined simplified style over substance because making numbers go up (and then intelligently utilizing those numbers to make a variety of builds possible) doesn't excite normies.

2.0 did a lot of good stuff but... I know that within the next decade there will emerge an entire group of 1.6 purists.

Nothing bullet sponges in this game suck

just download the hardcore22 mod

>>737624859
What else did 2.0 even change besides the DLC zone and the talent system revamp?

>>737624959
As an immediate example:
In the original game, Ripperdocs all had unique Cyberware inventories. Fingers, the character you are given the option to punch in the main story, becomes permanently unavailable as a vendor to you if you do so, which causes the consequence of missing out on some potentially valuable unique Cyberware.
Also, Armor values were completely removed from 99% of clothing, as were clothing mod slots. Armor was changed entirely to Cyberware related, and they added the new Cyberware capacity system that is capped based on factors and can be directly massively increased with perk trees.

Also, they changed the healing items from entirely inventory based to recharge and cooldown based. Same with the grenades.

>>737624957
on one hand I find it totally justified for there to be bullet sponges running around given a lot of us are made out of fucking reinforced metal shells and subdermal plating and shit now

..... on the other hand, shouldn't weaponry have compensated for this over time?

>>737617574
this is literally the only fun way to play the game

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I love Cyberpunk. I love my V.

>>737618564
Turn on aim assist and use throwing knives, easy headshots.

>>737616358
Problem solver smg with all the slowmo cyberwares

>Playing as a female

lmao

You faggots are worthless.

>>737617045
in what way

you can stealth and do most quest objectives
you can stealth/hack everything to death but that is timeconsuming and tedious
so you just run up to the biggest guy and shotgun him in the face, much more efficient

think of it more like far cry 3+ with a separate hacking section

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>>737628714
>female V, defa
eww

>female V, japanese voice + Unironin mod
based

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>>737628714
I know your male V doesn't look like this and probably looks like some dysgenic rat, so who are you to talk

>>737629810
Actually that DOES look like the average Farquaad character.

>>737616358
Tech maxed out and everything else at 15. I like being able to swap around builds in the fly and except for the melee ones the capstone abilities aren't typically as useful to a build as having all relevant Cyberware.

I wish Projectile Launcher felt better to use. It's implementation felt very clunky. Instead of an Ace in the Hole on a timer it's a very unwieldy piece of gear you need to spam to make work.

>>737630691
1. Do you have Phantom Liberty? It adds the Relic system which specifically improves the PLS (and other cyberarm functionality).
2. Are you on PC?

Tracking fix:
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/11007/

Numbers tweaked:
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/19125/

Entirely optional mod to mesh both gorilla arms and PLS together if you use Cyberware-EX to use both:
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/26767/

Cool custom lightning version of the PLS:
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/12591/

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>>737616358
I did Tech felt OP whole game long

>>737632892
The relic stuff in PL only adds to the spamming element. The perks just up yhe amount of spam shots available. More so than it's lack of power the PLS is just unfun to use and doesn't supply a meaningful niche in combat that isn't better served by just sticking to any of your guns or high tier grenades.

>>737620152
The only fun thing to do in it is farm maxtac. Its so fucking barely even a game its like smoking the vidya equivalent of ultralight cigarettes. Even the dungeons they added in the expansion are incredibly tiny and not repeatable so it just feels like 'Planned Obsolescence: The Game, get excited for next product!'

>>737616358
I built my character for shotguns but I'm using an iconic revolver instead which is more effective

Maxing health is too smart not to do.
That comes with non lethal melee and machine guns. Which seem usefull/the best. MGs are the best guns in other games.

I would have liked to use assault rifles but not worth less health. And less health regen.

I haven't installed and cyberwar yet. Which was a mistake as they had good perks and then the store changed. I thought they were too good to be true like double jumping would just be token. Or more health regen. But apparently cyberwar is OP with no downsides and selling guns is easy cash that can pay for them no problem.

Hoarding cash is too attractive. Even though you can't buy anything with it.

Probably should be like Shenmue 2 or something where you're just scraping by if you collect and sell everything. Or support others with your money. Then not using anything would be smart instead of ruining the game for yourself for no reason.

Claire sucks

>>737616358
cyberjunk

>>737616358
That run is mantis/netrunner. I manage the crowd at a distance first then finish by hands.

>>737616358
i don't play this shitty game

>>737616358
Sneeki-breeki netrunner.

>>737616358
sandevistan shotgun with dash spamming is all I did both times I played it

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>>737616358
sandy cyberninja

>>737643259
how 90% of the Vs calling you a tranny for playing a female V look

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>>737616358
Netrunner / smart weapon build with dashing abilities. I like stacking hacks then cutting everyone down with smart bullets while dodging any melee niggaa that dare step up to me

>>737644815
like a total badass who fits the setting very well? correct, tranny

>>737645123
that's a mad max character who sells his asshole for cockroach milk

>>737644985
see this sounds fucking sick

except I don't want the fucking game to aim for me

Another game with supposedly hightech exotic firearms that act like normal boring guns. Iron sights and their repercussions have been a disaster for gaming. Guns in this game should be hip fired with with secondary fire options. You have fancy robot eyes and palm implants that directly feed information about your gun into your brain. Why would you use sights?

>>737645282
Eh it just makes aiming less important, you still need to aim the weapon in the general area and arent actually guaranteed hits depending on how the NPC's move, and smart weapons dont solve all issues. I still use regular non smart sniper rifles for different scenarios. Smart weapons just stack really well with quick hacks especially after you get that perk which gives you RAM for smart weapon kills , then you combine that with overclock and some health perks and youre an unstoppable cyber warrior mowing just about anyone down

>>737645591
None of the cool shit from the PnP made it in, it's honestly sad.

>>737645591
>ricochet guns and smart weapons that track enemies arent futuristic
Bruh

>>737616358
Pondsmith uses a default male V with a netrunner build and a street kid background, so that’s the canon build.
He doesn’t use Valerie because she looks and sounds like his daughter.

>>737645793
Corpo background V makes the most sense though considering how OP he gets

>>737645705
Both systems are implemented awfully. For both you completely abandon any precedent of actually trying or even thinking about aiming. You just shoot the ground or the air nowhere near the enemy, so it ricochets into a perfect headshot or hops over their cover into headshots. It looks retarded and feels bad to play. Tech is the only satisfying weapon type because it rewards timing and actual precision.

>>737646005
I'm early in the game but right now it is literally 10x harder for me to line up a ricochet so the line indicator goes green for me than it is to just fucking aim at their heads

>>737645858
No background makes sense for how strong V gets.

>>737646091
Yeah, that's part of why it's a bad mechanic, You either don't invest in it in which case it's meaningless and Power guns are essentially just normal guns, or you do invest some weapon slots into buffing it and it becomes a meme where you're actively incentivized to not actually aim at people.

>>737616358
I've done most builds and my favorite is probably just punching people. Later you can pick people up and throw them as an execute, just extra fun.

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>>737616358
This is the build I have the most fun with. It basically turned V into an electrified wrecking ball. And with Byakko as my melee weapon I can perform infinite accelerated attacks whenever Berserk is active.

Link to the character builder if anyone wants it.
https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/build-planner?a=33333&b=&r=&i=&t=&c=&e=

>trying to play netrunner
>build completely sucks ass the entire game
>hit 40 and start getting the orange tier hacks
>synapse overload instantly one shotting literally everything including most bosses and allowing for infinite overdrive duration
they didn't even try to balance this shit

>>737616358
Pistol crit and blade arms for cqc

>>737646005
>You just shoot the ground or the air nowhere near the enemy, so it ricochets into a perfect headshot or hops over their cover into headshots.
Anon thats how it works in lore. A part of your software automatically tracks where your enemies are and aims the bullets hooked up to the gun integrated into your cyborg body automatically. If you don't like how it feels thats fine but thats about as futuristic of a weapons system as you can ask for unless you go full blown science fantasy

>>737645123
Like a Terminator cosplayer.

>>737646519
It does have a strength curve but I wouldn't say it's shit for that long. It's only really bad at Grey, becomes serviceable at Green, Good at Blue, and then Purple and Orange tiers are busted.

>They didn't even try to balance this
And that's a good thing.

>>737646519
>they didn't even try to balance this shit
They reworked how this slop is played like 3 times in 4 years. And it's still ass.

>>737624292
Hacking the camera systems and instakilling random npcs you can see on the network while they try to track where you are is like half the fun of a netrunner build , then once they find where you are you just go full cyber wizard and start quick hacking anyone who tries to mess with you and execute them with a high powered gun or melee when they get to quarter health.

Its not an all out assault kind of build where you charge into groups of enemies and murder them, its very subtle and assholish which i like. Slowly picking off an entire group of people then just looking at the last dude alive and forcing him to kill himself is hilarious

>>737646610
No it's not. In the lore most combat is way more grounded and lethal. Smartguns are balanced out by the good ones being expensive, needing extensive implants to work effectively and still only boosting accuracy and slightly correcting a shot. It's not supposed to be taking hard right turns around a pillar into someones face. They reliably and incrementally increase accuracy provided you're still actually shooting on target.

Appealling to the lore for 2077 is stupid. It breaks so many rules to turn the game into essentially Borderlands.

>>737647050
>go full cyber wizard and start quick hacking anyone who tries to mess with you and execute them with a high powered gun or melee
>Its not an all out assault kind of build where you charge into groups of enemies and murder them
With the new perks and relic system a full Netrunner can go Monowire and do it that way. Monowire automatically uploads quickhacks for you.

>>737647331
I mean they could've added lower vs higher quality smart weapons in game just like in the pnp but the way they function is literally the same in game and in lore
>It's not supposed to be taking hard right turns around a pillar into someones face.
They dont, they curve and you arent guaranteed a hit with smart weapons in game even if the accuracy level of the system is guaranteed regardless of which gun youre using.

>It breaks so many rules to turn the game into essentially Borderlands.
Well yeah its not the original game system, and the loot system it uses isnt something unique to borderlands

>>737647739
Most smart weapons give you a massive box and you'll hit any enemy in that box. Some even "Split" the bullets allowing you to hit multiple enemies with the same "Bullet". There are perks that make the marks persist even after the enemy leave the box, which make it absolutely possible to hit enemy that are behind cover or even out of line of sight.

In actual Cyberpunk lore, Smartguns are just any weapon built or converted to use Smart ammo and implants, which slightly alter the path of an already good shot. In Cyberpunk had proper smart guns there would be no lock on system. You'd just have a normal reticle and your bullets would do more damage as they correct their trajectory to turning near misses into hits.

>>737616358
I am on my first playthrough. Currently running a build around intelligence, tech ability and body.
Just walking into a group of enemies, making their cars and grenades explode followed up by making them commit suicide, turn cyberpsycho, kill each other and melting their brains all while they are shooting me and not doing any damage is pretty entertaining.
Most fun is the netrunner shit. Terrorizing a gangs operations inside a building and killing everything inside through one camera that happens to hang outside is hilarious.

>>737648340
>and you'll hit any enemy in that box.
Not really. You still get misses depending on the movement of the npc. Theyre far more blatant with the accuracy manipulation factor in the game vs the pnp dont get me wrong but the system itself still works the same in game and in lore, its just a lot more extreme in game where every smart weapon in game sould be considered almost impossibly accurate in the pnp

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>>737616358
First playthrough was high intelligence netrunner. It's genuinely fun for stealth builds, but hits a point later on where it's ridiculously overpowered and you can basically turn off an entire group of enemies with a single hack.

Second playthrough was focused more on athletics using knives and swords with an occasional switch-up to a sniper rifle. Less optimal, but a lot more fun in moment-to-moment combat. Just having high level armor and turning yourself into a high-speed blender with sandevistan is pretty easy to break the game too though.

>>737647340
Interesting, I never looked into monowire builds

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>>737616358
Tried every build. End up hating it. Its way too shallow, repetitive and AI is too dumb to put out the fight.
>Take melee
>Expect parry kino
>Very few melee enemies in the game and even then its easier to just spam attack
>
>Take hacking
>No counterhackers, enemy hackers literally only know 2 hacks.
>Bottlenecked at the max level, gameplay is VERY repetitive of you spamming the same buttons every time
>
>Take sniping
>All of encounters are close range so theres no good feel of sniping someone
>end up wall piercing cheesing everything
>
>Take stealth
>Hacking is also mandatory to have so no other powers
>overall very passable stealth gameplay actually
>but again enemies are powerless against you
>
>take guns blazing build
>the game plays as every other shooter

Hot take, gameplay was better on launch. You had more mobility options, guns were crazier, hacking wasnt this nerfed and crafting mattered.

>>737649635
used to scale with blade perks and was really fun in melee builds, just crowd whipping faggots across the room

now it's just a netrunner shit and not even worth it without PL perks

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>>737650226
>>Take melee
>>Expect parry kino
Sekiro ruined an entire generation of men.

>>737650543
More like any game with melee in it. Even Killing Floor did it better.

>>737616358
stealth corpo fem v is the canon way

>>737616358
Uninstall build

>>737624898
Not even death can keep Jackie from appreciating a fine booty.

Where is Orion gonna be set?