Cyberpunk 2077 Builds

Since I liked hacking so much with my last playthrough buuut split leveling 50/50 with stealth so I only really got into legendary quickhacks when the map was mostly cleared I think I'm gonna reroll, focus entirely on intelligence first and try and grind out level 15 in the starting area. It's Watson right? Don't know if there's enough xp there but it do be the goal. After that I'll expand into cool again because I want the poison upgrades and I watched a video that made cold blood make sense.

Quickhacks (all legendaries):

- ping
- contagion
- overheat
- suicide
- weapon glitch
- reboot optics

Probably going to go for the deck that's suited for ultimates but I'm not sure it's worthwhile, might try another cyberdeck (open to suggestions). Gonna go largely weaponless except for the monowhip since you can find a legendary in the starting area for free and I found a place that sells the 50% damage upgrade. Also I still like it's aesthetics. Legendary weapon glitch and reboot optics come with daemons, don't actually know what the weapon jammer daemon does but by the name and analogous to what I read reboot optics does (makes people blind when they spot you) it presumably stops people from being able to shoot you when they see you. Might be redundant if they can't see me anyway buuuut.

So my V will basically be like an old testament angel who turns people blind, sets them afire, spreads plague, makes them commit suicide or just drop dead from just being seen.

Is it me of the Tech +5% to armor every point doesn't work? Or is it tied to the armor mod you can craft only?

Because I checked before/after increasing Tech and my armor total stat didn't change.

I find two things annoying when doing a guns build.

1. You can't save when "in combat", something that happens every time you use something that make a lots of noise near enemies. While you can save when you stealth around and doesn't cause the "in combat" status to show up. Die while fighting with guns and you last save might be a long time ago.

2. I've seen a revolver with a Body requirement despite being governed by Reflexes. So if you got Ref, Int and Tech like me, you can't use those. *sad panda*

I've been checking online to see how Engineering can be increased and some website claims shooting through "walls" or using tech weapons does it, but it doesn't seems to work all the time for me. The best way to increase the skill is to abuse the minefield in the Badlands.

Saying that, the tech sniper rifle (Nekomata) can shoot things through entire buildings + vending machine and still score an insta-kill headshot. That thing is OP. I cleared an entire NCPD crime zone area (the blue skull icon) while sitting behind a building. Super useful to deal with netrunners hacking you via camera too.

Downside, V can only have 100 sniper rifles bullets...

I think I talked about my experience on this a while back. Shooting stuff through walls does increase Engineering, it's just slow. Best Engi exp is from turning off cameras and turrets manually - you can do it even if you hacked them already. And of course - using grenades, although it's as slow as the wall shooting.

Craft your bullets 😁 I was doing it for my Legendary shotgun which ate two shells with one shot.

Currently trying out Tech weapons on a char aiming at 20 Technical for crafting. The start is pretty slow, regular weapons are much better. Don't like the Nekomata Tech Sniper (wobble while charged is annoying), and the chargable Satara Tech Shotgun is just much much worse compared to the Crusher. The Chao pistol starts dropping around level 13ish, it's the first autoaim weapon that works really well. Currently level 21 with the "Divided we stand" legendary, upgraded like 8 times to 520dps. Oh boy. F*** everybody in that general direction, lol. Playing on Hard (saving Legendary for New Game+), but shouldn't make any difference in effectiveness. You don't really take damage anymore anyways.

I am not 100% sure, but either 1.05 or 1.06 added a lot of additional crafting recipes to vendors (for Crusher, for instance).

Man... I've been playing my Tech character for 90 hours now, and I just realized that Tech weapons and Smart weapons are indeed not the same. I was somehow under the impression that Smart weapons count as Tech weapons too. But they don't. This limits the options to run a 100% crit build. For non-tech weapons it is still possible, just not as trivial (Engineering has an additional +10% crit on Tech weapons as skill progression bonus, and has a +10% crit chance perk). Assault also works, but forces you to use cover (perk for +20% crit chance in cover).

On a related note, apart from armor mods (Armadillo), no other clothing mods stack.

Weapon mods do stack, though.

Serious question, how in the hell do you guys get Athleticism XP (apart from running and jumping)?

I started doing nothing but stabbing people with my powerful murder knife. Shotgun? Haha knife go shivvvv

Level 19 here. Athletics just made level 2 last session, lol. No melee done though.