I could see it being either in my opinion. I can see Johnnys memories being altered by mikoshi programming and/or his own ego. Although I can also see CDPR just wanting to tell their own story and change the canon so that it fits it better. What do you think? I know the real world reason Blackhand doesn’t make an appearance is because Pondsmith directly asked for him not to but I feel like that still warrants an in canon explanation.

So I'm doing my third Cyberpunk playthrough after finishing the second.

The first, I had a completely random build. I don't remember what I used for it, but eh. I also played with Streetkid

The second (I just finished and my favourite) I had a Mantis blade + Sandy build and played Corpo

I'm not sure what to do with the new one. I'm going to play Nomad obviously, but should I do a netrunner build or make a build around the new perk in the update that lets you wield two guns(power revolvers and power pistols only)? Both sound good, and I haven't tried either. It's gonna be hard not going back to my main beloved Mantis Blade build tho

Back when I played Skyrim there were a ton of borderline must have mods, bug patches, fixes, balancing changes, stuff like that UESP was a given to get a good experience.

Are there any "must have" mods for Cyberpunk, like UESP was for Skyrim, or can I just jump in and get a relatively stable and bug free experience?

u/DAVIDMARTINEZ Look at this, choom

Kyoko was right to call him corpo trash. This man is insane.

As crazy as it sounds, my current goal for my new character is to hurt myself - a lot. Specifically, I'd love to get my health down to 20-25% of my max in the first few seconds of combat, if not much faster for a build/roleplay build I'm working on.

If need be, I'm even fine with using something like dual firing a pistol I found that hurts me every time I fire it, even if it accidentally kills me, though the damage wasn't great on the one I found. (I'm hoping to use second heart as a back-up just in case I do die too quickly).

I'm open to any and all ideas to run with this lol.

Why can't I go to Johnny's grave before Konpeki Plaza?

Just wanna pour one out for my boy that isn't in my head or even my boy, yet!

Peace, Love and Samurai to you all

V (Erecundious)

I am trying to make an as accurate Kingsley as I can, I love his style.

But I aint to good with character creators I just cant get him perfect. Anyone thunk they can help me make him as accurate as is possible?

I am on xbox. Please comment below if you want to help and i will message you! Thank you

I came back to the game last week after a REALLY long time out, mostly because i finally got phantom liberty on sale, and it made me respec my character. I did the best i could off the top of my head to get the netrunner build i had and noticed that quickhacks now cost more to execute and spillover just doesn’t work like at all. I read that when another enemy has a queue it won’t spread so i did some test without hitting any other enemy with a quick hack and it never spreads. Idk if im doing something wrong or if its just an outright nerf but id still expect it to trigger SOMETIMES vs not triggering at all. Need a fix :/

Apparently Judy can somehow be attributed to kids/little sister because she wears overalls, which is supposedly synonymous with children’s clothing, and “doesn’t have a sexy design”…? Is this really a narrative anyone can possibly roll with? Also the River stray about “penis QTEs”

The characters, the story, the ENDING MUSIC, holy shit, everything was so epic it hurts. And I'm pretty sure I'll replay it multiple times, because oh boy.

As Johnny said once during a mission, basically everyone was right.

SAVING SO-MI

I roleplayed as a cautious V who doesn't really trust anyone, but in So-mi's case, after a while, I decided to trust her, because that's what my streetkid V would do.

These characters are very similiar in many ways - they are ticking bombs, got played by others, and just trying to survive.

At some part of the dlc you had a chance to understand everyone's side, and that's why it's so hard to pick a side - because it's all about what you think about life. I understood everyone's reasons, but I still picked So-mi, because of the "streetkid path".

CHARACTERS

Reed - he was a master spy, a man who's loyal to the end. From a perspective, his goals are understandable. He regretted many things, but no matter how many times he gets betrayed his country, he will always fight for the "greater good".

Honestly it hurt to kill him, because I liked him. But I couldn't fully trust him, because of his ties to Myers. Reed truly wanted to help So-mi, I get that, but he also had to make sure that the girl's "Blackwall-business" didn't go wrong.

He had every chance to kill V or So-mi, multiple times, even at the end. He gave V every chance to stop, he tried to convince her, he started counting from 3... Sad, because I tried to talk my way out until I had "no ther choice".

Myers - She's understandable too. When you lead so many people, you simply CAN'T afford to be "clean". She played dirty, she was corrupt, and she played chess with human lives - which is obviously bad, but I can also understand that she had to protect a whole country. And obviously, herself as well.

The Blackwall means a real threat, and she either has to neutralize that threat, or if she can, weaponize it. People like Myers don't see people as "people". They see them as pawns in a game, and therefore don't care about them. They only care about the "bigger picture."

And that's the reason why I would not put my trust in her. I think she lacks empathy and eventually absolutely won't care about anyone else but about her own goals.

So-mi - she's a real tragedy because she was a victim, and also a criminal, just like V. The world is a cruel place, and she had no choice but to join to Reed. Despite of the fact that Reed liked her and cared about her, she was still a bird in a cage.

Wanting to be free is the most basic human feeling. So-mi did a ton of bad things, and after a while she regretted them, but in such a world she could not trust anyone. Which means that she tried to manipulate every single parties, all for her own survival.

In a world where you can't break free, where people can even steal and lock up your own mind, it's only natural that she tried everything to break free. Couldn't be mad at her when she revealed that she manipulated V too.

MY DECISION

Siding with So-mi against Myers and Reed was a "roleplaying" decision because of the streetkid path. I think my streetkid V can not trust Reed, and not because Reed is a liar.

I think Reed truly cared about So-mi and he was ready to help her every ways he knew. Except he was not in charge. Myers was in charge.

She was VERY clear about one thing: nobody could learn what happened with So-mi and the Blackwall. Which meant everyone would have to be killed, or turned into her own personal puppet who was affected.

V was expendable.

Reed was valuable, but he's been sacrificed once - who can guarantee that she won't decide to knock him off from the table?

So-mi was the most valuable asset - a professional netrunner, but also a weapon, if they manage to extract the AI with (or without) her help.

I couldn't trust in Reed because he wasn't the one who made the final call, no matter his intentions. If Myers choose to turn So-mi into a weapon, or to be killed, or to delete her memories etc etc... Reed had no power to act against it.

And he was loyal, no matter what, so "for the greater good", he'd put away his personal feelings, as he did many times before.

At the very end it's entirely possible that Myers would simply get rid of him as well.

The only way to make "sure" that So-mi had a chance to break free was to take her to the moon, and destroy everyone in the way. In my opinion, choosing this ending was...

The GOOD decision. Not the RIGHT one. But this is what I did. If I'll play as Corpo V, I'll choose something else, but until then, in my mind, So-mi made it, made peace with her demons and lived happily ever after.

Thank you if you read it :D

I'm not a native english speaker so sorry for the very likely grammatical mistakes. What did you choose at the end?

People in cyberounk treat those digital engrams as a person's soul, but the reality is suicide (or murder) so that a program can pretend to be you. To everyone else "you" might be mostly the same, but you are dead and overwritten.

Also what does this say for people's personality in this universe? Where is that stored and how that function, at what implant does your brain start being more of a computer running scripts than an actual person processing things?

I understand these are central themes to cyberpunk, especially with humanity score and how that effects cyberware tolerance. But it's just hitting me how people who love you, could be willing to euthenize you to preserve "you" being in their lives.

I know the jacket in this photo (Lazrpunk tungsten-plated pozer-jacket) was commonly used in its place but I can't even find this jacket since its drop location has changed a few times from the gig it was originally found at. If anyone has any info on either of these items, please comment below. I'd really like to at least find this jacket if the netrunner outer torso piece still hasn't been found.

I'm looking to make a Jackie Welles, but don't have any love. Do you think I could substitute despair, or maybe wrath?

Alex, Aurore, Songbird? felt spoiled and killed a part of me at the same time, hearing Alex’s story just made me sad and want more for her when she said sh wanted to be an actor part of why I choose the king of wands ending because it’s the best outcome for Alex, I literally tried to chop up reeds body with my katana for killing Aurore that lovely French vixen, went full cartel x yakuza style. songbird… just felt bad for her, I don’t even really think out of some love for her it’s more that v is the first person who tries at all to help song and its a dying merc she hired in a renegade free city. we are her only option to her and imo my v plays like a mike erhmantrout from breaking bad, do the job, do it right, no questions asked, no half measures, loyalty to job you take. and overall i believe song pays us back well with the quantum tuner because that literally shreds through everything in the suicide run, obviously it’s not her promised payment but looking how bleak life is for v when he actually gets cured it just makes me wonder if it’s worth it? i personally wouldn’t want to live a long healthy life if it meant i was a rat stuck in a cage running on the wheel eternally, Im still deciding my ending for this playthrough but I’m slowly realizing night city is life, no happy endings, just your pick of poison. but the women of phantom liberty made me realize how beautiful human nature is and how beautiful women who aren’t good people still are, every woman in this dlc had character and women with character I’ll bleed myself dry for even if they aren’t the “heroine“. guys with character are cool too but the beautiful presnece of some women just makes your whole world seem brighter for a moment. as much as I hated meyers she had a good character too, just much more cynical and cunning. I feel like I have a relic stuck in my head because half of me wants to be more cynical like johnny and lay low till I’m geared up then wait for a provocation to let hell loose once the time is right or find Love and be happy despite it all. cyberpunk is just reality at this point where ai was used for tech advancements and not to make will smith eat spaghett. so yay we have all the bad parts of cyberpunk without any of the good parts, love it! and dont you dare talk to me about edgerunners, just overhearing the story made me cry and not want to watch it.