Here’s what you’re missing with Ram Reallocator: you combine it with Quantum Tuner. With everything fully upgraded, tuner passively subtracts ~11 seconds from Reallocator’s 75 sec. cooldown, and lvl 20 intelligence subtracts 60 seconds. *This means that 30% of your RAM is restored every ~4 seconds.* *Importantly, this ~4 second cooldown doesn’t slow while scanning -* meaning you can drop into a room of 100 goons, immediately start scanning, then take your sweet time stacking cyberware malfunction and short circuit on everyone without ever running out of RAM or needing overclock. It’s honestly so, so broken but I love it
Also a huge note for #1 on this list. -8 RAM is for the standard, no "+" version. Upgrading once drops it to -6 RAM, upgrading again drops it to -4 RAM. This means that at Tier 5++ you only lose 4 RAM, which by the level you'll likely get this alongside with Overclock, this is utterly insignificant. The crits with synapse burnout iconic (which gets an absolutely colossal potential boost from spent RAM when in OC, I think the max is 600% damage increase), plus all your quickhack damage boosts, PLUS crit damage every single time with all of your crit boosts.... holy crap does it utterly destroy. I can overclock, sonic shock and synapse burnout about 4-5 enemies simultaneously, which is usually enough to clear a group, and EACH of them will take 40,000-45,000 damage roughly. I have decided to not use synapse burnout at all on bosses, on whom I only use overheat, static shock, and cyberware malfunction to at least give them a chance lol. It's not QUITE to the level of contagion while standing outside the building and everything literally instantly dies that was Cyberpunk 1.0 Netrunner, but it IS pretty wildly OP.
ram reallocator, axoltol & cox. Blood pump, biomonitor, second heart. just double jump air dash into the middle of wherever, sonic shock, synapse, reboot optics, system collapse. everythings dead as fast as you want it to be
Yep and some points in Tech for not just cyberware but also the third healing item means RAM on demand a third time in addition to all of the other benefits.
@@Gramstaal Netrunners needing to 'ware up as much as they do and burning their own brains to hack faster and longer, having a high body stat makes more sense roleplay wise now
this. I just played this kind of build. The extra regeneration is awesome, you really can go on a hacking rampage or just press overclock as last resort button for instant huge heal.
Note: You can get the axolotl before entering dog town, and even if you do not have the dlc. You get it as a reward for completing all of Regina’s gigs in the base game.
@@ikeaenthusiast7190that you get it from Regina, yes, but I think it is worth mentioning it’s the only non-os iconic you can get before (or without) the dlc.
@@feetyeet8538what is up with Christian’s doing this bullshit? Like no other religion is so annoying and pushy with spreading their beliefs EVERYWHERE like that’s wasn’t already done to death (literally) during the colonial period of western expansion… just like ask yourself why? And who cares? And if the answer has anything to do with your personal belief system and that’s not the topic at hand JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP oh sorry god pardon my language lol
I'm gonna defend my quantum tuner. Not only does it come from the most satisfying ending to the expansion, but it also provided my netrunner build a much needed boost. For a stealthy approach, having 3 uses of overclock back-to-back sped up clearing any area of enemies without being noticed to an extreme amount. It works so well in fact, that I have encountered progression-stopping bugs I've had no idea of beforehand. For a more direct approach, and especially for boss fights, it was a difference between timing a few dodges while the enemy health bar disintegrates and having to run like a headless chicken, taking panicked shots and monowire swings waiting for that godsdamned mode to be available again so that the fight could be finished.
and with my maxed out sandevistan build on the hardest difficulty, I imagine having two free charges and quicker charge overall is gonna be amazing. just completed the ending, waiting for song's call.
@@deathshop2172 The biggest and only problem I had with my sandevistan build was, again, bosses - not being able to extend the duration and lower the cooldown by dealing with weaker enemies (due to there not being any) made it so that sandy only gave me a small window to burst down the big guy. The window was almost never big enough, so the fights felt more tense and I never used as much cover in pre-2.0.. Granted, the build was a stealth/crit-revolver(if needed) one, so I've no clue how it would fare in melee.
Also it pairs extremely well with a lipstick cool opticamo build. It resetting opti allows you to continually stack bleeds on a single target or move around applying bleeds to multiple people.
@@Wladeex123 The throwing knives are excellent. I mostly also used optical camo to take myself out of the fight, along with high reflex/reinforced tendons to zoom around and escape detection.
Samothy Branthony, man of the people. Doing the hard work so we don’t have to. Sidebar: One of the best ways to get around, I’ve found, is instead of jump jump dash, hit the dash then jump a split second after. If you do it right, you’ll trigger your double jump from the dash and fly off like a rocket. It even has momentum, so when you land, you can bunny hop into another rocket jump. Idk how this would be done on PC, but it’s easy on PS5 because I just slide my thumb from O to X (B to A on Xbox) in one motion. It’s possible to move faster than cars on the highway with this.
Worth mentioning about Axolotl is that it reduces the cooldown on Blood Pump as well. So there are Berserk sets that make this incredibly overpowered, especially on Biodyne Berserk. Reason for this is that you can have Axolotl + Blood Pump + Biomonitor to repeatedly trigger Reflex Tuner to slow down time (if you run it), Biodyne Berserk to give you massive crit chance (20% by itself + 20% for having Reflex at Level 20) and improved up-time due to Axolotl, Blood Pump Biomonitor combo repeatedly triggering Adrenaline Rush for extra buffs as well as buffs from healing if invested in that area. It makes you an invincible monster even on Very Hard.
Wait, what? So basically if you use bloodpump as a healing item (and why the f**k should you not?) Axolotl speeds up your healing charges recharge time? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
Axolotl, second heart, and berserk is a really fun combo. And the stupid health regen buff saved me so many times in the Hansen fight because second heart would kick in after he did a finisher on me and the 200 percent regen would have me at half health by the end of the animation.
@@valeon7303 ah yes, "side with an NUS loyal doggie" version. Might try it next time. I was honestly torn when presented a choice to betray either Song or Reed, but something moved me towards her side. Despite how it all turned out in the end, I didn't regret my decision even for a second. Usually it's the other way around for me :)
The ram reallocator has a BEAUTIFUL synergy with the Axolotl when fighting enemies in mass. With an infinite ram loop, you can kill loads of enemies in only a few seconds. You can basically infinitely abuse the ram reallocator that way, giving you more ram after your overclock runs out and giving you more wiggle room when you’re being shot at in mass
The cooldown reduction on quantum tuner is a huge part of the power. It's a key component of permanent cyberware builds (so you can have permanent cyberware even when 1v1). The strongest case I've found is immortal berserk. It is hilarious because you can completely ignore any kind of survivability and just go ultra glass cannon melee build.
quantum tuner is the best piece of cyberware, he mistakenly says that once its used you have to wait for it to cooldown before its used again which isn't the case. it acts more like a bank, so if your cyberware has a 20 second cooldown and the quantum tuner is full (up to 60 seconds) it could refill your cyberware 3 times from one full charge. it can also be used at any level of charge as long as its bigger than your cyberware cooldown. This makes any Sandvistan/berserk build unstoppable
@@dirtyrabbit Exactly. It can be a bit confusing from the describtion but it works exactly as how you describe it where it "refils" your cyberware cool downs till it runs out of its resource rather than being a one-time use in combat. It's actually pretty usefull.
Militech Apogee and Qunatum Tumer is an awesome combo. Pretty sure you can throw some other things in there that make the cooldown on apogee even less so you pretty much constantly have sandy available, especially if you turn it off and on when you do and don’t need it.
Most importantly - Axlotl works with bloodpump. Aaaand with wrist launcher too. Honestly, I would put it #1 as it seems like a must in any build that is not hugging a wall on very hard.
Axolotl definitely is no #1 in this list - it's basically the only one of the iconics that fits basically ANY build especially considering the blood pump thing.
Better yet: It's possible to equip both the COX-2 _and_ Axolotl. While that does mean becoming relatively frail outside of Overclock, between Synapse Burnout and the effect of Axolotl (even now it's been nerfed to a max of just +7.5% instead of +12.5%) means that as long as there are enemies, you can remain in Overclock. The revamped Adam Smasher became the only fight I found remotely difficult after that broken cyberware combo.
Immovable Force is particularly good with a handful of extremely heavy weapons. The one I got it for in my build is Hypercritical, this thing hits like a truck, works well at all ranges because it's got iron sights instead of a long scope, but is unwieldy and kicks too hard to actually get proper use out of its full firerate ordinarily. Tossing on Immovable Force stabilizes the hell out of it, practically removes sway as a factor, and lets you have what's effectively a mini-rocket launcher for your Cool build.
I hear mentioning that the Hypcritical does a lot of damage, but I felt underwhelmed when testing it agiant the cyberpshycho Cedric Muller. It did like only 5% of it's health. I struggle to kill him with that weapon even with Sandi activated. This while my katana build kills him within 3-5 seconds, long before my Sandi expires. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but the dps doesn't seem that great against enemies with a large health pools. If we are talking about rocket launchers the Ba Xing Chong did way more damage, removing like 45% of Cedrics health bar with each shot. I did enjoy using Immovable Force with the Guillotine x-MOD2 and Firecracker, making it very accurate and also providing some respectable damage output.
@@saprone8885 You might be missing the Cool perks for Precision Rifles that basically make them laser rifles, doing insane damage, crits, no damage drop off at range, etc, etc. My Hypercritical, and any sniper rifle, will do 1k-2k per headshot in combat. Combining with net runner, Kereznikov, and some reflex perks, I can fry everyone, but usually fry half, or blind/stop/ping/force out of cover/ on everyone and then just pick them off with rifles/pistols/smart weapons.
@@6vitamin That seems like very low damage. Sparky is the best sniper rifle in the game right now, because it scales with % electric damage. I have made a video two months ago showing 5k-7k headshots with it. It could go even higher if I rerolled for more % electrical damage. If you really want to min-max Yinglong is by far the strongest ranged weapon in the game. It has by far the highest dps of any weapon in the game, because it scales with % electric damage and % explosive damage. I have uploaded a video a couple weeks ago killing Smasher within 45 seconds on very hard after he got reworked.
The problem i have with cyberpunk PL and had with the base game is that by the time youre even capable of equipping iconic gear, youre practically done with every main and side quest this is where coop or multiplayer could come in but well... maybe in cyberpunk 2
I realized that if you dash on foot, and time a jump correctly, you launch forward and the dash speed continues for the duration of the jump. Also, you can sometimes sneak in an additional dash while you're in the air. I've been zooming around the map so much faster now.
It's a shame that the worst PL endings have the best rewards, but I just can't bring myself to do them on the count of what happens to so mi, it's just so messed up.
Hansen's set are really the ones making me second guess lol. I find Erebus to be lackluster, after watching the video, I guess Canto+Hansen's set really tips the scale since Quantum Tuner and Pariah are the only practical leverage of King of Wands. Still I'm happy to welcome Murphy's Law as my non-lethal approach. I guess having a great Netrunner ally on the moon gives more hope for my Sun ending.
"Double-tapping 'space' then 'ctrl' while holding 'W'" flip it and instead do 'ctrl' for a dash/dodge then during mid-dash tap or double-tap 'space' and air dash if you'd like. In easier terms press 'space' mid-dash as if you're trying to activate kerenzikov. You keep the momentum from the dash/dodge as you jump and drastically increases your speed compared to just jumping and air dashing. Heck, you'd cover even more distance by just sticking to dashing then single jumping, forgoing the air dash. Works well enough that you'd be satisfied, even with dodging then single jumping with no leg cyberware.
ARMOR: You only get 1 point of damage mitigation for every 10 points of armor. Thus, even armor stacking will not help your defense to any noticeable degree(e.g. 49 points of legendary subdermal cyberware armor is actually only a pathetic 5 points of damage reduction/mitigation, and the 200 points you get from the Iconic Chitin armor will only mitigate 20 points of damage per attack). Therefore, offense has much greater effect on combat gameplay than defense. In any case, you absolutely CAN NOT get your armor stats high enough to noticeably mitigate damage that non-mob enemies do when enemies are at your level or higher. Stats-wise, 1400 armor may sound impressive, but against high-level enemies, ignoring skeleton and integumentary cyberware, and having high cyberware armor, will give you functionally identical results during actual gameplay. Therefore, while stacking armor stats from cyberware is not useless, it is weak, so it should not be your main focus when adding cyberware. Maintaining Stealth or hiding is really the only practical way to avoid being 3-shot killed, unless… you use Sandevistan time-dilation to avoid being hit entirely, or you use Berserk to make yourself invulnerable. The most effective tactic is to kill enemies before they get a chance to strike back. Conclusion: There is no realistic way to Tank in this game. NOTE: Despite this, melee builds are still viable even without Sandevistan and Berserk. You can use melee attacks against most enemy mobs because Blades, Blunt and Unarmed attacks will stun-lock them and make them unable to hit you back. Just make certain the mini-boss can’t shoot at you while you are engaged in melee.
There are lots of great quick to charge weapons to use with it, and he totally passed over the 20% boost to healing items. Plus running it on a build that’s not ever 20 tech, which you need for tech to work well while using some of the worst weapons to combo it with.
Adreno-trigger is a must with hammer builds. They are heavy weapons, weapon swapping and holstering is slow af, but with this you don't really even have to swap for short distance fighting. Obviously berserk stacks well with this.
I would argue that the Isometic Stabilizer is useful if you're going for the David build. Punching takes a nice chunk out of your stamina and considering you'll be punching near constant during a Sandi trigger, reducing that cost will do wonders for your now nuclear arms especially with gorilla arms.
Another MASSIVE personal annoyance with the Leroy Ligament System is that the flat speed boost effects walking speed, including during those walk-and-talk conversations you get in almost every main mission, meaning you're back to doing the start/stop/start/stop moving thing you had to do at launch in order to keep pace with the NPC's you're having a conversation with.
When it comes to utilizing the dash you definitely want to dash into your first jump. You will carry the momentum of the dash into the first jump if done right and allow the following double jump to carry you further than normal. You then of course add in your air dash at the height of your jump. It is also really fun to dash>jump>air dash>double jump just for sake of variety in your on foot travels!
If you use reinforced tendons with dash, you can jump as your dash is accelerating on the ground and still dash again after you double jump. Gives you insane movement speed. In close sprints it can even faster than hopping in a car
I do a stealth netrunner build. Optical camo with relic upgrades and crouch sprinting along with the militech canto with overclock in order to properly harness the full potential of the blackwall gateway in which I often use on targets from a distance to which even if I get traced, the relic upgrades for my camo allow me to rapidly evade combat. It’s a very fun build. Especially at higher levels. I play on very hard and it’s extremely fun.
Quantum Tuner is number one, it also affects Kerenzikov, which means that with Defenzikov you have about 2 minutes of Sandevistan-like time, and around 80% damage neglected. Usable only on guns build, but still.
The revulsor is really strong because if you have the perk borrowed time + adrenaline rush + pain gain And then the cyberware bloodpump + biomonitor + axolotl + second heart You literally wont flatline The biodyne beserker is perfect to mix this build with the revulsor because you wil be allowed to drop the health to 25% so u can have a type of sandy and beserk at the same time While being a literal God
You can bhop in this game, if you jump boost and then use your double jump, if you tap jump as soon as you land you keep your momentum so you don’t have to keep using all that stamina with the boost. Edit: I have caught up to cars with just one boost
I feel like there is a bit of misunderstanding with how the Quantum Tuner actually works here. Rather than thinking of it as a single extra use of your cyberware ability of choice, think of it as a sort of "tank" that holds up to 60 seconds of cooldown. Whenever you use cyberware that has a cooldown, as soon as you deactivate it, it will draw from the tank however many seconds it needs to be full again. So yeah, with a piece of cyberware that has 60 seconds of cooldown, you're only getting one extra use out of it. But if your cyberware only has, say, 25 seconds of cooldown, then you have at least two extra uses. And with the proper perks that further reduce cooldown, as well as the Tuner's own passive effect, you can get those 25 second cooldowns as low as 17.5 seconds, meaning the Quantum Tuner can hold up to *three extra back to back uses* for some of the strongest cyberware in the game. And with the changes to Sandevistans, and the nerf to Axolotl, I feel like the Quantum Tuner is a pretty excellent addition to any build that has you activating your cyberware frequently. Even when the tank is empty, an additional 15% cooldown reduction is nothing to sneeze at.
You're absolutely right. I went through the hassle of making a new build to fully capitalize on it and I must say it was more practical than Axolotl based off the 15% less cooldown effect. Add on Optical Camo and you can even recharge it. With that in mind I started to question his rank of Adreno-Trigger. You're essentially able to move faster through the whole fight and it stacks with other speed increases from Creeping Death and Finishers. Also you get more Mitigation the faster you move. In a balanced build it's definitely a game changer. It's like having a better Leeroy Ligament System that's strictly for combat.
The best netrunning loop to cast is Sonic Shock, Synapse Burnout and Double Request Backup in that order it is net positive on getting your ram back while in overclock mode, avoids detection because of sonic shock, nets you +5 seconds to overclock from Synapse Burnout and you use request backup because it nets you the most positive ram per cast when the enemy dies with them in the que still. Only certain bosses with health checkpoints can live a single crit Synapse Burnout even on Very Hard also because of this the best Cyberdeck for this setup is actually Arasaka because you dont need the extra damage from any of the other decks but the -2 cost for covert quickhacks adds to the ram efficiency letting you set up on more enemies at once.
If you eant to survive in very hard you need at least 2 of either, high armor, high health and strong healing, evasion, or mitigation chance and strength or being able to fight from far away. One alone doesn't cut it.
I've been using a chrome compressor and a full armor build. Turns out 1500 isn't the cap, right now I'm sitting just under 1600. With a few perks in body and cool for mitigation, and full pyromania/fully specced arm cannon, I can basically stand still and charge up the arm cannon 6-7 times in a row without dying. Lvl 60 on very hard as well.
Same bro, v hard, chrome compressor, 1600 armor, but with toxic gorilla arms. I use the Laika pistol, frag grenades or O’Five rifle when I need to make up for distance, and Sasquatch’s hammer when I need to take out enemies in one hit. Most fun I’ve ever had playing this game honestly. Oh, and I’m also using blood pump, axolotl, reflex tuner, and self ice (all tier 5++) i specced fully into blunt weapons, healing( since my cyberware capacity is fully maxed, lowering my health a good bit) and cyberware capacity, and currently branching into lmg/shotguns with the skill points I have left lol. I love when fury mode activates and V just starts laughing while everyone turns into mist🤣🤣
the Immovable force *build* he was talking about would probably be the best with the Umbra Xmod2. PS: if you are wondering where the Umbra Xmod2 is it is in the area where you first see a airdrop after leaving the hideout
I would argue Isometric Stabilizer is still better than clutch padding because it's attunement also reduces stamina use with reflexes. It's not a top pick but it's a 30% stamina reduction with 20 reflex. Still be best on melee but it would be pretty good on a hipfire smg build too.
you can actually get faster with the double jump + dash combo if you: jump air dash jump right after it conserves the momentum of the airdash and gives you more height, essentially going farther faster, you can either use the second jump right after the airdash or wait some miliseconds before the airdash loses speed to then use the second jump, the latter feels like it gives more airtime, though that could be just how I perceive it.
Deep Field Visual Interface is made more useless by the last Cool Perk which guarantees crits (and adds damage to them) during deadeye. You better save that points for something else on sniper build.
@@higgumanot really. You can stack 20% Headshot/Weakspot Damage on a few Cyberware pretty easily and get the same thing without stacking chance as well. I always stack Headshot Damage on everything, as much Regen as I can on some and the rest is Explosion and Melee with a little Damage Over Time.
Important note: Cybersomatic Optimizer debuff REDUCES when upgraded to Tier 5++! The -8 RAM become a more managable -4! (Sidenote, ripper also ger EXTRA RAM at T5++)
doing your speed jumping wrong. its ctrl for initial dash followed immediately by a jump, then hit your double jump and then air dash. 2 dashes, 2 jumps for one cycle and you'll get a giant speed boost from the first dash+jump (seems to lock your velocity at initial dash speed while in air). light tap on that first dash since you don't want to turn it into a slide. edit: data recycler is bugged when it comes to where your killing quickhack is in the queue. it only works when the killing one is queued in at 1 and 2 in the stack. if it's on 3 (and naturally 4, given how the synergies work), then you do NOT get ram back. 3 is always the most optimal place for a damage hack (2 cyberware malfunctions followed by a synaptic burnout and a followup covert quickhack, usually memory wipe to stack the damage and maximize ram return) so it really sucks that it's bugged this way.
@@SamBram keep in mind this is only for moving fast, I very much prefer your double jump then dash method while in combat on my mantis blades build. speed method has a serious problem with overshooting a target, which requires you to 180 your camera if you want to leap attack for the bonus damage.
Adreno-Trigger is a Core cyberware for basically any melee combat. With sandevistan its even more broken. Even when you dont use melee and instead just fire your way through enemies, its a real beast. I dont imagine going through gigs without it. Incredibly useful
I stand somewhat corrected as I have fell in love with this Cyberware. It's still not core in my eyes but being able to run faster than the Leeroy Ligament System for essentially a whole fight is a game changer. Al it takes is Optical Camo.
Not sure if Sam has already covered this in a later video as I'm still catching up. Dashing before a double jump is better than air dashing, obviously combining them all is best but i found myself covering way more distance with a "mid-dash double-jump" than any 2 dashes put together. With this I've been able to cross at least 2 lane streets in a single jump and in combat find myself more often than not jumping over my opponents when trying to approach them😂
Immovable Force should be higher on the list. If you use it with Unexposed, you increase your passive mitigation chance by 20% just for having a ranged weapon in hand. With Kinetic Frame, Spring Joints, and Neofiber equipped, you'll easily hit nearly 50% chance to mitigate 80% of any damage you take before any other bonuses.
Try 99% chance when aiming while crouched. And it works with throwing knives as well. I think there's a different gun or perk effect that activates behind cover as well.
I think it is fine that Netrunner builds are so OP because as far as I know in lore they are a terrifying enemy to deal with. Look at Bartmoss, dude literally destroyed most of the net for shits and giggles.
I used to talk down on the Quantum tuner but someone put me on to the fact that it synergizes with axolotl and newton module in a way it doesn't quite advertise. "12% cool down reduction" somehow applies to the cool down reduction of on-neutralize effects from the axolotl, increasing its effectiveness. This means your operating system will likely NEVER actually be on cool down
On top of that it synergizes with Optical Camo with this particular build. You can leave combat, turn on sand and kill while undetected to charge Quantum Tuner and Optical Camo. Just the 15% cooldown reduction is a game changer but adding the cool down tank and a way to refill it makes it top 2 in my opinion
Don't sleep on neofiber and other mitigation chance/strength cyberware and perks. Also, you can stack it with pain editor and damage reduction perk. It can make flimsy reflex build to feel really tanky.
I dont think a lot of people have touched on this. But if your moving fast enough or just recently climbed on something. You can airdash and double jump repeatedly mid air for potentially as often as you want. Sometimes if a bit of lag hits or you get to high and itll kill it, and you in the process, but you can use it to travel quickly on foot or to cross to buildings you normally couldn't reach. I find if you can do this consistently enough, you can go faster then some cars. And having the perk that makes air dashes not use stamina, makes it so you can do it as much as you like. In Dogtown I used it almost exclusively because of how rough and narrow the roads were. Just found it easier to hop around all the time.
Try dashing on the ground to build up speed, then jumping, then air jumping and finally another airdash. Cover huge distance + move around very quickly.
I feel like the cockatrice is absolutely INSANE with Juggler and throwing builds. with the crits you instantly return your knives pretty much every time you throw them, so you're getting insane amounts of value out of it. Also since throwing builds is based on Cool, which increases crit DAMAGE, you're critting bosses and such for thousands and thousands of damage
@@infrx1111ripperdocs should have it in their inventories from lvl 50 onwards. Also if you have PL there is a crate near the dogtown gate which has one of the iconics which the rippers sell in it. The Contents of that crate can be rerolled indefinitely as long as you don't take anything out, just get some distance and approach it again
The thing I get most from this video is that a lot of the Iconic Cyberware, which should be a Best-In-Slot for their dedicated Style, is too expensive, too niche, and underpowered. I hope we get a balance patch.
I feel like Deep-Field Visual Interface is a lot worse in practice even tho is seems strong on paper mainly due to it's redundancy. If you are going for a sniper build you'll no doubt have 20 Cool and Nerves of Tunsten Steel by the time you could pick up the cyberware and that perk already gives 100% crits when deadeye is activated which, with focus mode, is all the time. This perk also still gives full crits at close range so no need to be super far away (even if there is the slight dmg boost from the perk).
I don’t know if anyone else has had this happen, but I’ve actually gotten a lot of these pieces from the airdrops in Dogtown. I can’t use them because they actually hurt my build more than they help it, but it’s nice not having to spend the eddies on them regardless.
Happy to see i am not the only person obsessed with this game and everything it has to offer. My perfect build focuses on maxing our Intelligence and Technical, while being 15 in Cool, 4 in Reflexes and the remainder in Body. I love being stealthy while maxing out a cyberdeck over Sandvestine.
Another reason to combo double jump airdash. Is the airtime you get from the double jump resets your stamina spent from the initial grounded dash allowing it yo perform infinitely over large distances.
Note that it is important to consider the "attuned stats" on cyberwares. For me, they have equal impact on cyberware passives. For example @13:30 I'd rather pick Shock Absorber because it has a cool attuned while immovable force has no attuned stats.
The behind cover effect is the trade off. In my build I gain 20% mitigation while aiming and it works with throwing knives. There's another gun or perk with a behind cover effect so I'm sure there's a trade off there as well. And your only dropping at max 4% headshot and weak spot damage.
Revulsor also goes well with a gunrunner build bc you can use overlock to trigger it yourself then heal and use it as a sandevistan in a netrunner build
The deep field interface seems to like a noob trap. If you're a sniper you should have 20 and access to the nerves of tungsten steel perk that can already give you guaranteed Crits
Hope Orion has some visual cyberware options when it comes out eventually. Probably won't be for a few years but I'm more than willing to wait if it means another masterpiece like 2077. Just finished my 3rd playthrough of it as a net runner and the game never ceases to amaze me with the level of detail put into the environment and characters.
In this game as well as all shooters, I always put everything into offense when having to choose between defense or offense. I always play on maximum difficulty, and when you build a tank character and or play on an easy difficulty but claim to like the game, you're actually cheating yourself out of more quality playthrough. Being high damage but low health simultaneously forces you to play perfectly but also removes the annoyance of having to shoot something over and over and over before it finally dies. When the game's fun, it's worth it to have to redo a fun mission several times instead of getting it right on the first or second try. It's sort of like a stop and smell the roses thing. I promise, to really savor a game and appreciate it as well as develop the most muscle memory of it so that you can pay more attention to the minute details, you don't want to do some kind of health or tank build. The only challenge to that is running out of bullets sometimes because you're having to spend way more of them to kill bad guys who aren't really able to kill you
There's something both very satisfying and very disappointing about having done a play through and your choice in cyberwear turned out to adhere to this list. It's a relief to know you 'discovered' the best cybverwear on your own on the first playthrough, but it's also a shame to know there's not much to improve upon for your next playthrough.
On leg mods, I also give serious consideration to the stealth ones for builds that do not run air dash, such as a netrunner build. The low cost, relatively high armor, and surprisingly impactful fall damage reduction make it a decent choice before considering the sneak benefits. Though most builds absolutely should be running air dash with double jump since it's so damn useful. Also, I found that bunny hopping when you land with a standard jump, air dash, and repeat covers more horizontal distance than spamming double jump like you do. Not to mention you can save your double jump to redirect to avoid hitting a car or to redirect, and that maintaining the rhythm of the bunnyhop timing makes it more engaging and fun.
Another Netrunner build I'm currently running which can go infinite (as long as you have enemies around you) is using Biomonitor + Blood Pumps + Borrowed Time (Tech Ability Perk, instantly recharges your health item/cyberware on neutralizing an enemy while under 25% HP). If you use synapsis burnout with this your overclock never ends and you're constantly recharging huge amounts of HP. I'm playing on highest difficulty and basically cannot die. Another thing with this build I appreciate is that you need zero RAM recovery perks or RAM recovery cyberware which saves a lot of resources you can use elsewhere. Also the last benefit is your synapsis burnout does like max dmg everytime.
Optical camo is great for getting away max tac and lowering wanted level. I have only had max tac come in once and I saved before doing it just in case I got wrecked, but once they started wrecking me I used optical camo jumped off the bridge into an alley and hide until they stopped looking. With the perk that makes enemies exit combat when using OC, it’s actually pretty easy. It’s my go to for escaping cops.
I have managed to fill in all the slots for all 3 characters, beserk, sandy, and netrunner. I have Chitin for all 3 since that health regeneration and high armor comes in handy. Beserk: Axolotl, militech beserk, Chitin, Rara Avis. Has a total of 336 Cyberware capacity available and this is from the Edgerunners perk. Sandy: Axolotl, Falcon Sandy, Chitin. Has a total 337 cyberware capacity Netrunner: RAM reallocator, Chitin, Deep-field Visual Interface. Has a total of 337 Cyberware capacity.
I use the Leeroy Ligament System, I hate dash as dash while in stealth alarms enemies therefore even with 20 Reflexes I don't spend into the dash tree as I dashed accidentally at the wrong time in the wrong place too often. Also the Leeroy Ligament System + another version of the Adreno Trigger that gives + 28% movement over 120 secs makes you super insanely fast as long as you can enter combat.
As for context I run full body, reflex, engineering and am super tanky with tech shotguns just get into the face of everyone real quick and blast them the adreno trigger lasts far beyond most fights.
One very niche thing I've found about Immovable Force is that it could be potentially decent on Cool builds due to Blind Spot making it harder for enemies to spot you depending on your mitigation chance and Unexposed giving 20% mitigation change when behind cover
Maybe Optical camo 2.0 + relic needs consideration for some of these? Instantly drops you out of combat/wanted. I haven’t compared with faceplate, but I never use it as camo works Dropping out of combat enables stealth, stealth bonuses, and then back into combat and combat bonuses as/when I haven’t tested, but I am using camo more frequently.
So Chitin can be a great sensible pick for netrunning and doing something weird like going all out on throwing knives. In a build I went a bit overboard with speccing into Body where I ended up with Adrenaline Rush and Pain To Gain on a Reflexes 20, Intelligence 20 and Cool 18. I kinda suck at guns, but what the heck I just hack stuff and throw sharp objects. In a pinch I will monowire myself out of harms way
Big thing u miss with quantum tuner, it is the biggest game changer for a mele sandi build when u wanna stealth, pair it with the optical camo and omfg it is so ridiculously strong u can pop in and out of existance its awesome, add on the relic perk and it is the best combo hands down
It's actually bad combo with the optical camo because the optical camo's large cooldown will eat your quantum tuner charge up, resulting in a less reliable sandy. The solution to use both with less cooldown interference is to pick the skill that makes camo activate through sprinting. Or better, don't use that at all, most enemies can't even see you with sandy outside of combat 💀.
@@higgumayour wrong. Emergency Cloaking is the only way you can start the cool down for Quantum Tuner in combat without actually leaving. Also there's a whole synergy with Cyberware and Perks that makes Optical Camo broken. I'm talking Mitigation, Health, Stamina, Cooldown reduction, and Movement Speed. With the right set up and skill you shouldn't really ever run out of Optic Camo. Especially with Sandy and Kerinzikov.
Quantum tuner is a game changer the cherry on top of any build imo (3 uses of any operating system which makes it better for single enemy boss fights than the axolotl, infinite self ice aka complete immunity against enemy quickhacks, using kereznikov back to back with no cooldown plus 16% passive cooldown for any other cyberwares) you are sleeping on it ma man
If you want to get some real distance with the air dash and double jump, do one jump, airdash, and then right after do the second jump. It carries the momentum of the airdash and takes you pretty far.
The Ram Reallocator combined with axolotl is the key component to a crazy powerful hacker build focusing on end game use of synapse burn + blood daemon feedback loops.
Ram Reallocator actually helps if you want to get full cyberware to trigger edgerunner, at the begining you dont want to overweight cyberware, but to trigger edgerunner in a tech-int build you will need everything to help get to the border of full cyberware.
The face plate i think is cdpr are testing disguise system, they have many quests using this, so i think maybe we can see disguise system like hitman in sequel
One Important thing regarding COX-2 Cybersomatic optimizer. I noticed that without it installed the Legendary Synapse Burnout deals 239 damage. With it it deals 1802 damage. The text on the quickhack changes. Epic tier then deals 2033, but without the Overclock synergy. I found it few minutes ago, thanks to your video. I am using Arasaka Cyberdeck with COX-2, Ex-disk and T5++ RAM upgrade, with Blood Pump and Monitor. I just prefer boring sneaky way of netrunning but this is incredible.
even with my sandevistan build, the revulsor has saved my ass on very hard "eldenpunk" mode quite a lot, to be honest. and I'm stacking health regen over several magnitudes, have adrenaline boost, auto-injector, second heart for emergencies etc. etc. etc. it is very much a level 60 nearly max cyberware build though. Had to grind for it. So definitely not an early game build.
Man, definitely feels like very hard is a brutal filter for most things, with you being seemingly unable to take really any hits from a few bullets, which I guess properly fits for the description, but also makes it feel a bit less than enticing when it so massively limits you on your seeming strategies (or I guess some of these cyberware just suck that bad)
nah its all about planning and taking survivability into account. But i will admit, for cyberware atleast, theres clearly objectively good shit and also objectively trash cyberware lmao
@@theobell2002Only if you don't know what you're doing. Close range builds with shotguns or katanas are pretty strong and the game has gotten much easier from lv40 to the endgame. I do love the early game challenge - it makes you strategize and think.
Very Hard doesn't really impede any build from working. All it does is tell you 'find a way to retain 100% mit chance'. That's it, that's all it takes to destroy the game. Reflexes and Tech are unbelievably powerful for this reason, and I feel like any VH build should take one of the two (or find a way to chain-pop dorphhead from body), because Can't Touch This and Heat Shield fundamentally allow you to play hyper aggressive with little fear of dying.
@@Armisael4321 naw dude. Very hard forces you to rely on your OS much more. I have all that and I know how to use advanced sword tech. You can still get shit during a dash on Very Hard. I've been shot many times while dashing. Even with time slowed. It's so bad I have a clip of me dying tho I had a half bar of health plus Adrenaline.
4:45 there's actually faster travel with no leg cyberware. It's an "exploit" where you essentially just doge and jump at the same time. What happens is your dodge is an aggressively fast movement but if airborne that speed is continuing the whole duration. The dash boost will increase tge distance and speed with addition of adding a mid air boost... It's actually faster than cars and midair dash can prevent fall damage by resetting fall distance.
Question: Plenty of cyberware buffs are linked with "neutralizing" enemies....does the game refer"neutralize" as to non-lethal takedowns alone or can kills also be counted for it?
You’re not looking at the additional stamina returns for ppl that are 20 reflex. A fully upgraded “Isometric Stabilizer” gives 30% stamina. Idk 🤷🏽♂️ pretty worth it if you’re a high reflex build.
Overwatch silencer only works if you actually take out the opponent in one shot, similarly to throwing knives. You're not gonna stay hidden if the enemy who just got hit is still alive (and obviously looking where they got shot from)
On crit, did some testing and found that your "crit chance" has absolutely no impact on quickhacks whatsoever. It's either the 0%, 35%, or 100% on the piece giving you quickhack crit. Though if you're running something like smart guns or monowire, crit chance can still be useful.
To me,these are like Cherry on top after increasing chrome capacity from those shards fhat el cap gives you or you do glitch, I only exoect these would be useful to "Built different' class V. And even then it'd barely noticeable, more of using jt fkr the sake of using iconic, which I just do.except of course, ones at the top.
Here’s what you’re missing with Ram Reallocator: you combine it with Quantum Tuner. With everything fully upgraded, tuner passively subtracts ~11 seconds from Reallocator’s 75 sec. cooldown, and lvl 20 intelligence subtracts 60 seconds.
*This means that 30% of your RAM is restored every ~4 seconds.*
*Importantly, this ~4 second cooldown doesn’t slow while scanning -*
meaning you can drop into a room of 100 goons, immediately start scanning, then take your sweet time stacking cyberware malfunction and short circuit on everyone without ever running out of RAM or needing overclock. It’s honestly so, so broken but I love it
Also a huge note for #1 on this list. -8 RAM is for the standard, no "+" version. Upgrading once drops it to -6 RAM, upgrading again drops it to -4 RAM. This means that at Tier 5++ you only lose 4 RAM, which by the level you'll likely get this alongside with Overclock, this is utterly insignificant. The crits with synapse burnout iconic (which gets an absolutely colossal potential boost from spent RAM when in OC, I think the max is 600% damage increase), plus all your quickhack damage boosts, PLUS crit damage every single time with all of your crit boosts.... holy crap does it utterly destroy. I can overclock, sonic shock and synapse burnout about 4-5 enemies simultaneously, which is usually enough to clear a group, and EACH of them will take 40,000-45,000 damage roughly. I have decided to not use synapse burnout at all on bosses, on whom I only use overheat, static shock, and cyberware malfunction to at least give them a chance lol.
It's not QUITE to the level of contagion while standing outside the building and everything literally instantly dies that was Cyberpunk 1.0 Netrunner, but it IS pretty wildly OP.
plus the Axolot, which will decrease the cd when an enemy is killed
ram reallocator, axoltol & cox. Blood pump, biomonitor, second heart. just double jump air dash into the middle of wherever, sonic shock, synapse, reboot optics, system collapse. everythings dead as fast as you want it to be
doesn't the quantum tuner have a cooldown too?
@@Cutanayea but you only really use the tuner for the passive effect on other cooldown times
High body netrunner is definitely a build type now that can make good use of Chitin. Overclock means health is additional mana
Yep and some points in Tech for not just cyberware but also the third healing item means RAM on demand a third time in addition to all of the other benefits.
@@JB-xl2jc A body builder techie netrunner is one hell of a tanky god build.
@@Gramstaal Netrunners needing to 'ware up as much as they do and burning their own brains to hack faster and longer, having a high body stat makes more sense roleplay wise now
“Runners a runner” 😏
this. I just played this kind of build. The extra regeneration is awesome, you really can go on a hacking rampage or just press overclock as last resort button for instant huge heal.
Note: You can get the axolotl before entering dog town, and even if you do not have the dlc. You get it as a reward for completing all of Regina’s gigs in the base game.
didn't he mention that?
@@ikeaenthusiast7190that you get it from Regina, yes, but I think it is worth mentioning it’s the only non-os iconic you can get before (or without) the dlc.
He literally says that in the video...
@@feetyeet8538what is up with Christian’s doing this bullshit? Like no other religion is so annoying and pushy with spreading their beliefs EVERYWHERE like that’s wasn’t already done to death (literally) during the colonial period of western expansion… just like ask yourself why? And who cares? And if the answer has anything to do with your personal belief system and that’s not the topic at hand JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP oh sorry god pardon my language lol
@@feetyeet8538 If God know all things, does he know what it's like to have dick in the ass?
I'm gonna defend my quantum tuner. Not only does it come from the most satisfying ending to the expansion, but it also provided my netrunner build a much needed boost. For a stealthy approach, having 3 uses of overclock back-to-back sped up clearing any area of enemies without being noticed to an extreme amount. It works so well in fact, that I have encountered progression-stopping bugs I've had no idea of beforehand. For a more direct approach, and especially for boss fights, it was a difference between timing a few dodges while the enemy health bar disintegrates and having to run like a headless chicken, taking panicked shots and monowire swings waiting for that godsdamned mode to be available again so that the fight could be finished.
and with my maxed out sandevistan build on the hardest difficulty, I imagine having two free charges and quicker charge overall is gonna be amazing.
just completed the ending, waiting for song's call.
@@deathshop2172 The biggest and only problem I had with my sandevistan build was, again, bosses - not being able to extend the duration and lower the cooldown by dealing with weaker enemies (due to there not being any) made it so that sandy only gave me a small window to burst down the big guy. The window was almost never big enough, so the fights felt more tense and I never used as much cover in pre-2.0.. Granted, the build was a stealth/crit-revolver(if needed) one, so I've no clue how it would fare in melee.
Also it pairs extremely well with a lipstick cool opticamo build. It resetting opti allows you to continually stack bleeds on a single target or move around applying bleeds to multiple people.
@@Wladeex123 The throwing knives are excellent.
I mostly also used optical camo to take myself out of the fight, along with high reflex/reinforced tendons to zoom around and escape detection.
Maybe try the camo combo that instantly pulls you out of combat. I wanna try it in combo
Samothy Branthony, man of the people. Doing the hard work so we don’t have to.
Sidebar: One of the best ways to get around, I’ve found, is instead of jump jump dash, hit the dash then jump a split second after. If you do it right, you’ll trigger your double jump from the dash and fly off like a rocket. It even has momentum, so when you land, you can bunny hop into another rocket jump. Idk how this would be done on PC, but it’s easy on PS5 because I just slide my thumb from O to X (B to A on Xbox) in one motion. It’s possible to move faster than cars on the highway with this.
Worth mentioning about Axolotl is that it reduces the cooldown on Blood Pump as well. So there are Berserk sets that make this incredibly overpowered, especially on Biodyne Berserk. Reason for this is that you can have Axolotl + Blood Pump + Biomonitor to repeatedly trigger Reflex Tuner to slow down time (if you run it), Biodyne Berserk to give you massive crit chance (20% by itself + 20% for having Reflex at Level 20) and improved up-time due to Axolotl, Blood Pump Biomonitor combo repeatedly triggering Adrenaline Rush for extra buffs as well as buffs from healing if invested in that area. It makes you an invincible monster even on Very Hard.
I´m glad that Berserk went from "does it even do anything?" to "I´M FUCKING INVINCIBLE!"
Ya missed a chance to pull out the "I'M THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH!" :P @@SerpenTyx
@@SerpenTyx ""I´M FUCKING INVINCIBLE!"" *Has Golden Eye Flashback*
Wait, what?
So basically if you use bloodpump as a healing item (and why the f**k should you not?) Axolotl speeds up your healing charges recharge time?
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@s3eriousbl9ck26 Netrunners can use Blood Pump + Biomonitor for RAM in overclock too.
Axolotl, second heart, and berserk is a really fun combo. And the stupid health regen buff saved me so many times in the Hansen fight because second heart would kick in after he did a finisher on me and the 200 percent regen would have me at half health by the end of the animation.
How do you get to fight Hansen? In my playthrough, Alex killed him
@kikosawa ah its the version where you betray songbird vs going with her.
@@valeon7303 ah yes, "side with an NUS loyal doggie" version. Might try it next time. I was honestly torn when presented a choice to betray either Song or Reed, but something moved me towards her side. Despite how it all turned out in the end, I didn't regret my decision even for a second. Usually it's the other way around for me :)
The ram reallocator has a BEAUTIFUL synergy with the Axolotl when fighting enemies in mass. With an infinite ram loop, you can kill loads of enemies in only a few seconds. You can basically infinitely abuse the ram reallocator that way, giving you more ram after your overclock runs out and giving you more wiggle room when you’re being shot at in mass
The cooldown reduction on quantum tuner is a huge part of the power. It's a key component of permanent cyberware builds (so you can have permanent cyberware even when 1v1). The strongest case I've found is immortal berserk. It is hilarious because you can completely ignore any kind of survivability and just go ultra glass cannon melee build.
quantum tuner is the best piece of cyberware, he mistakenly says that once its used you have to wait for it to cooldown before its used again which isn't the case. it acts more like a bank, so if your cyberware has a 20 second cooldown and the quantum tuner is full (up to 60 seconds) it could refill your cyberware 3 times from one full charge. it can also be used at any level of charge as long as its bigger than your cyberware cooldown. This makes any Sandvistan/berserk build unstoppable
@@dirtyrabbit Exactly. It can be a bit confusing from the describtion but it works exactly as how you describe it where it "refils" your cyberware cool downs till it runs out of its resource rather than being a one-time use in combat. It's actually pretty usefull.
Militech Apogee and Qunatum Tumer is an awesome combo. Pretty sure you can throw some other things in there that make the cooldown on apogee even less so you pretty much constantly have sandy available, especially if you turn it off and on when you do and don’t need it.
Most importantly - Axlotl works with bloodpump. Aaaand with wrist launcher too. Honestly, I would put it #1 as it seems like a must in any build that is not hugging a wall on very hard.
Axolotl definitely is no #1 in this list - it's basically the only one of the iconics that fits basically ANY build especially considering the blood pump thing.
Better yet: It's possible to equip both the COX-2 _and_ Axolotl.
While that does mean becoming relatively frail outside of Overclock, between Synapse Burnout and the effect of Axolotl (even now it's been nerfed to a max of just +7.5% instead of +12.5%) means that as long as there are enemies, you can remain in Overclock.
The revamped Adam Smasher became the only fight I found remotely difficult after that broken cyberware combo.
Immovable Force is particularly good with a handful of extremely heavy weapons. The one I got it for in my build is Hypercritical, this thing hits like a truck, works well at all ranges because it's got iron sights instead of a long scope, but is unwieldy and kicks too hard to actually get proper use out of its full firerate ordinarily. Tossing on Immovable Force stabilizes the hell out of it, practically removes sway as a factor, and lets you have what's effectively a mini-rocket launcher for your Cool build.
I hear mentioning that the Hypcritical does a lot of damage, but I felt underwhelmed when testing it agiant the cyberpshycho Cedric Muller. It did like only 5% of it's health. I struggle to kill him with that weapon even with Sandi activated. This while my katana build kills him within 3-5 seconds, long before my Sandi expires. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but the dps doesn't seem that great against enemies with a large health pools. If we are talking about rocket launchers the Ba Xing Chong did way more damage, removing like 45% of Cedrics health bar with each shot. I did enjoy using Immovable Force with the Guillotine x-MOD2 and Firecracker, making it very accurate and also providing some respectable damage output.
@@saprone8885 You might be missing the Cool perks for Precision Rifles that basically make them laser rifles, doing insane damage, crits, no damage drop off at range, etc, etc.
My Hypercritical, and any sniper rifle, will do 1k-2k per headshot in combat. Combining with net runner, Kereznikov, and some reflex perks, I can fry everyone, but usually fry half, or blind/stop/ping/force out of cover/ on everyone and then just pick them off with rifles/pistols/smart weapons.
@@6vitamin That seems like very low damage. Sparky is the best sniper rifle in the game right now, because it scales with % electric damage. I have made a video two months ago showing 5k-7k headshots with it. It could go even higher if I rerolled for more % electrical damage.
If you really want to min-max Yinglong is by far the strongest ranged weapon in the game. It has by far the highest dps of any weapon in the game, because it scales with % electric damage and % explosive damage. I have uploaded a video a couple weeks ago killing Smasher within 45 seconds on very hard after he got reworked.
The problem i have with cyberpunk PL and had with the base game is that by the time youre even capable of equipping iconic gear, youre practically done with every main and side quest
this is where coop or multiplayer could come in but well... maybe in cyberpunk 2
The cybersomatic optimizer is what makes netrunning the strongest thing in the game even in 2.0
I mean until I come through with Sandi & Self Ice 😂 but yeah it’s broken
@@jesseb280also worth noting it's literally broken: it bumps quickhack damage by 50% per point instead of the stated.0.5%
@@jesseb280shit tbh just sandy😂 can't finish an upload if you're dead😂
@@MisterCynic18SHHHHH DONT TELL CDPR
Yeah, and its bugged, you can see +1000% script damage in your data window
I realized that if you dash on foot, and time a jump correctly, you launch forward and the dash speed continues for the duration of the jump. Also, you can sometimes sneak in an additional dash while you're in the air.
I've been zooming around the map so much faster now.
It's a shame that the worst PL endings have the best rewards, but I just can't bring myself to do them on the count of what happens to so mi, it's just so messed up.
As opposed to sending her to the moon to be the pawn of a secret organisation never to be free again?
have to give a reason for people to do them
Hansen's set are really the ones making me second guess lol.
I find Erebus to be lackluster, after watching the video, I guess Canto+Hansen's set really tips the scale since Quantum Tuner and Pariah are the only practical leverage of King of Wands. Still I'm happy to welcome Murphy's Law as my non-lethal approach.
I guess having a great Netrunner ally on the moon gives more hope for my Sun ending.
@@shojas5993sactly
@@beowulf_of_wall_st Did you factor in that she's cute in this calculation?
If you upgrade the faceplate it may reduce the cooldown but it becomes unusable in a vehicle, therefore completely useless
"Double-tapping 'space' then 'ctrl' while holding 'W'" flip it and instead do 'ctrl' for a dash/dodge then during mid-dash tap or double-tap 'space' and air dash if you'd like. In easier terms press 'space' mid-dash as if you're trying to activate kerenzikov. You keep the momentum from the dash/dodge as you jump and drastically increases your speed compared to just jumping and air dashing. Heck, you'd cover even more distance by just sticking to dashing then single jumping, forgoing the air dash. Works well enough that you'd be satisfied, even with dodging then single jumping with no leg cyberware.
ARMOR: You only get 1 point of damage mitigation for every 10 points of armor. Thus, even armor stacking will not help your defense to any noticeable degree(e.g. 49 points of legendary subdermal cyberware armor is actually only a pathetic 5 points of damage reduction/mitigation, and the 200 points you get from the Iconic Chitin armor will only mitigate 20 points of damage per attack). Therefore, offense has much greater effect on combat gameplay than defense.
In any case, you absolutely CAN NOT get your armor stats high enough to noticeably mitigate damage that non-mob enemies do when enemies are at your level or higher. Stats-wise, 1400 armor may sound impressive, but against high-level enemies, ignoring skeleton and integumentary cyberware, and having high cyberware armor, will give you functionally identical results during actual gameplay. Therefore, while stacking armor stats from cyberware is not useless, it is weak, so it should not be your main focus when adding cyberware.
Maintaining Stealth or hiding is really the only practical way to avoid being 3-shot killed, unless… you use Sandevistan time-dilation to avoid being hit entirely, or you use Berserk to make yourself invulnerable. The most effective tactic is to kill enemies before they get a chance to strike back.
Conclusion: There is no realistic way to Tank in this game.
NOTE: Despite this, melee builds are still viable even without Sandevistan and Berserk. You can use melee attacks against most enemy mobs because Blades, Blunt and Unarmed attacks will stun-lock them and make them unable to hit you back. Just make certain the mini-boss can’t shoot at you while you are engaged in melee.
Can't wait for more CP77 2.0 ranking. Keep them up Sam.
Electromag Recycler works great with Lizzie. Still pretty niche but combining it with Heal on Kill and Cellular Adapter seems to be the way to go.
There are lots of great quick to charge weapons to use with it, and he totally passed over the 20% boost to healing items.
Plus running it on a build that’s not ever 20 tech, which you need for tech to work well while using some of the worst weapons to combo it with.
Adreno-trigger is a must with hammer builds. They are heavy weapons, weapon swapping and holstering is slow af, but with this you don't really even have to swap for short distance fighting. Obviously berserk stacks well with this.
I would argue that the Isometic Stabilizer is useful if you're going for the David build. Punching takes a nice chunk out of your stamina and considering you'll be punching near constant during a Sandi trigger, reducing that cost will do wonders for your now nuclear arms especially with gorilla arms.
Another MASSIVE personal annoyance with the Leroy Ligament System is that the flat speed boost effects walking speed, including during those walk-and-talk conversations you get in almost every main mission, meaning you're back to doing the start/stop/start/stop moving thing you had to do at launch in order to keep pace with the NPC's you're having a conversation with.
Considering how impressed I was by NPCs moving at your pace in TW3, it's surprising that it's such an intermittent feature in this game
@@SamBram and It feels so goofy when you sprint and NPCs sprint after you, something about it just doesnt seem right lmao, it looks super clunky
@@goodnightjit's super good on following playthroughs like when walking with Placide during the voodoo boys missions. Get it over with lol
At Tier 5++ the COX-2 only removes 4 ram
1st piece of cyberware I got to 5++ then tetratronic
Yep. I was going to comment that as well.
When it comes to utilizing the dash you definitely want to dash into your first jump. You will carry the momentum of the dash into the first jump if done right and allow the following double jump to carry you further than normal. You then of course add in your air dash at the height of your jump. It is also really fun to dash>jump>air dash>double jump just for sake of variety in your on foot travels!
If you use reinforced tendons with dash, you can jump as your dash is accelerating on the ground and still dash again after you double jump. Gives you insane movement speed. In close sprints it can even faster than hopping in a car
I do a stealth netrunner build. Optical camo with relic upgrades and crouch sprinting along with the militech canto with overclock in order to properly harness the full potential of the blackwall gateway in which I often use on targets from a distance to which even if I get traced, the relic upgrades for my camo allow me to rapidly evade combat. It’s a very fun build. Especially at higher levels. I play on very hard and it’s extremely fun.
Quantum Tuner is number one, it also affects Kerenzikov, which means that with Defenzikov you have about 2 minutes of Sandevistan-like time, and around 80% damage neglected. Usable only on guns build, but still.
Knives as well. And if you throw as soon as you aim then you can have Kerinzikov active while using your sword.
The revulsor is really strong because if you have the perk
borrowed time + adrenaline rush + pain gain
And then the cyberware
bloodpump + biomonitor + axolotl + second heart
You literally wont flatline
The biodyne beserker is perfect to mix this build with the revulsor because you wil be allowed to drop the health to 25% so u can have a type of sandy and beserk at the same time
While being a literal God
Pls use this
You can bhop in this game, if you jump boost and then use your double jump, if you tap jump as soon as you land you keep your momentum so you don’t have to keep using all that stamina with the boost.
Edit: I have caught up to cars with just one boost
I feel like there is a bit of misunderstanding with how the Quantum Tuner actually works here. Rather than thinking of it as a single extra use of your cyberware ability of choice, think of it as a sort of "tank" that holds up to 60 seconds of cooldown. Whenever you use cyberware that has a cooldown, as soon as you deactivate it, it will draw from the tank however many seconds it needs to be full again. So yeah, with a piece of cyberware that has 60 seconds of cooldown, you're only getting one extra use out of it. But if your cyberware only has, say, 25 seconds of cooldown, then you have at least two extra uses. And with the proper perks that further reduce cooldown, as well as the Tuner's own passive effect, you can get those 25 second cooldowns as low as 17.5 seconds, meaning the Quantum Tuner can hold up to *three extra back to back uses* for some of the strongest cyberware in the game. And with the changes to Sandevistans, and the nerf to Axolotl, I feel like the Quantum Tuner is a pretty excellent addition to any build that has you activating your cyberware frequently. Even when the tank is empty, an additional 15% cooldown reduction is nothing to sneeze at.
You're absolutely right. I went through the hassle of making a new build to fully capitalize on it and I must say it was more practical than Axolotl based off the 15% less cooldown effect. Add on Optical Camo and you can even recharge it.
With that in mind I started to question his rank of Adreno-Trigger. You're essentially able to move faster through the whole fight and it stacks with other speed increases from Creeping Death and Finishers. Also you get more Mitigation the faster you move. In a balanced build it's definitely a game changer. It's like having a better Leeroy Ligament System that's strictly for combat.
The best netrunning loop to cast is Sonic Shock, Synapse Burnout and Double Request Backup in that order it is net positive on getting your ram back while in overclock mode, avoids detection because of sonic shock, nets you +5 seconds to overclock from Synapse Burnout and you use request backup because it nets you the most positive ram per cast when the enemy dies with them in the que still. Only certain bosses with health checkpoints can live a single crit Synapse Burnout even on Very Hard also because of this the best Cyberdeck for this setup is actually Arasaka because you dont need the extra damage from any of the other decks but the -2 cost for covert quickhacks adds to the ram efficiency letting you set up on more enemies at once.
How is request backup supposed to net back RAM.
If you eant to survive in very hard you need at least 2 of either, high armor, high health and strong healing, evasion, or mitigation chance and strength or being able to fight from far away. One alone doesn't cut it.
I've been using a chrome compressor and a full armor build. Turns out 1500 isn't the cap, right now I'm sitting just under 1600. With a few perks in body and cool for mitigation, and full pyromania/fully specced arm cannon, I can basically stand still and charge up the arm cannon 6-7 times in a row without dying. Lvl 60 on very hard as well.
Same bro, v hard, chrome compressor, 1600 armor, but with toxic gorilla arms. I use the Laika pistol, frag grenades or O’Five rifle when I need to make up for distance, and Sasquatch’s hammer when I need to take out enemies in one hit. Most fun I’ve ever had playing this game honestly. Oh, and I’m also using blood pump, axolotl, reflex tuner, and self ice (all tier 5++) i specced fully into blunt weapons, healing( since my cyberware capacity is fully maxed, lowering my health a good bit) and cyberware capacity, and currently branching into lmg/shotguns with the skill points I have left lol. I love when fury mode activates and V just starts laughing while everyone turns into mist🤣🤣
the Immovable force *build* he was talking about would probably be the best with the Umbra Xmod2. PS: if you are wondering where the Umbra Xmod2 is it is in the area where you first see a airdrop after leaving the hideout
I would argue Isometric Stabilizer is still better than clutch padding because it's attunement also reduces stamina use with reflexes. It's not a top pick but it's a 30% stamina reduction with 20 reflex. Still be best on melee but it would be pretty good on a hipfire smg build too.
you can actually get faster with the double jump + dash combo if you:
jump
air dash
jump right after
it conserves the momentum of the airdash and gives you more height, essentially going farther faster, you can either use the second jump right after the airdash or wait some miliseconds before the airdash loses speed to then use the second jump, the latter feels like it gives more airtime, though that could be just how I perceive it.
Deep Field Visual Interface is made more useless by the last Cool Perk which guarantees crits (and adds damage to them) during deadeye. You better save that points for something else on sniper build.
but the +20% crit damage
@@Nolzhanyup, that 20% alone makes worth using. Perk attributes are so overlooked.
@@higgumanot really. You can stack 20% Headshot/Weakspot Damage on a few Cyberware pretty easily and get the same thing without stacking chance as well. I always stack Headshot Damage on everything, as much Regen as I can on some and the rest is Explosion and Melee with a little Damage Over Time.
Important note: Cybersomatic Optimizer debuff REDUCES when upgraded to Tier 5++! The -8 RAM become a more managable -4! (Sidenote, ripper also ger EXTRA RAM at T5++)
doing your speed jumping wrong. its ctrl for initial dash followed immediately by a jump, then hit your double jump and then air dash. 2 dashes, 2 jumps for one cycle and you'll get a giant speed boost from the first dash+jump (seems to lock your velocity at initial dash speed while in air).
light tap on that first dash since you don't want to turn it into a slide.
edit: data recycler is bugged when it comes to where your killing quickhack is in the queue. it only works when the killing one is queued in at 1 and 2 in the stack. if it's on 3 (and naturally 4, given how the synergies work), then you do NOT get ram back. 3 is always the most optimal place for a damage hack (2 cyberware malfunctions followed by a synaptic burnout and a followup covert quickhack, usually memory wipe to stack the damage and maximize ram return) so it really sucks that it's bugged this way.
Seems you've just changed how I move (again!). Cheers 😁
@@SamBram keep in mind this is only for moving fast, I very much prefer your double jump then dash method while in combat on my mantis blades build. speed method has a serious problem with overshooting a target, which requires you to 180 your camera if you want to leap attack for the bonus damage.
Adreno-Trigger is a Core cyberware for basically any melee combat. With sandevistan its even more broken.
Even when you dont use melee and instead just fire your way through enemies, its a real beast.
I dont imagine going through gigs without it. Incredibly useful
I wouldn't say core but it can be useful. Dash, DJ, Airdash, Strong Attack covers a huge distance pretty fast.
I stand somewhat corrected as I have fell in love with this Cyberware. It's still not core in my eyes but being able to run faster than the Leeroy Ligament System for essentially a whole fight is a game changer. Al it takes is Optical Camo.
Not sure if Sam has already covered this in a later video as I'm still catching up.
Dashing before a double jump is better than air dashing, obviously combining them all is best but i found myself covering way more distance with a "mid-dash double-jump" than any 2 dashes put together. With this I've been able to cross at least 2 lane streets in a single jump and in combat find myself more often than not jumping over my opponents when trying to approach them😂
Immovable Force should be higher on the list. If you use it with Unexposed, you increase your passive mitigation chance by 20% just for having a ranged weapon in hand. With Kinetic Frame, Spring Joints, and Neofiber equipped, you'll easily hit nearly 50% chance to mitigate 80% of any damage you take before any other bonuses.
Try 99% chance when aiming while crouched. And it works with throwing knives as well. I think there's a different gun or perk effect that activates behind cover as well.
I think it is fine that Netrunner builds are so OP because as far as I know in lore they are a terrifying enemy to deal with. Look at Bartmoss, dude literally destroyed most of the net for shits and giggles.
I used to talk down on the Quantum tuner but someone put me on to the fact that it synergizes with axolotl and newton module in a way it doesn't quite advertise. "12% cool down reduction" somehow applies to the cool down reduction of on-neutralize effects from the axolotl, increasing its effectiveness. This means your operating system will likely NEVER actually be on cool down
On top of that it synergizes with Optical Camo with this particular build. You can leave combat, turn on sand and kill while undetected to charge Quantum Tuner and Optical Camo. Just the 15% cooldown reduction is a game changer but adding the cool down tank and a way to refill it makes it top 2 in my opinion
@@s3eriousbl9ck26 it's definitely a sleeper hit. On paper it looks very unimpressive.
apogee my beloved
Lol
Zweihander: How could you
Don't sleep on neofiber and other mitigation chance/strength cyberware and perks. Also, you can stack it with pain editor and damage reduction perk. It can make flimsy reflex build to feel really tanky.
I dont think a lot of people have touched on this. But if your moving fast enough or just recently climbed on something. You can airdash and double jump repeatedly mid air for potentially as often as you want. Sometimes if a bit of lag hits or you get to high and itll kill it, and you in the process, but you can use it to travel quickly on foot or to cross to buildings you normally couldn't reach.
I find if you can do this consistently enough, you can go faster then some cars. And having the perk that makes air dashes not use stamina, makes it so you can do it as much as you like. In Dogtown I used it almost exclusively because of how rough and narrow the roads were. Just found it easier to hop around all the time.
Try dashing on the ground to build up speed, then jumping, then air jumping and finally another airdash. Cover huge distance + move around very quickly.
there is a iconic weapon that is fully automatic in dog town, its called xmod umbra 2
I've found that if you use a combo of Dash -> double jump -> air dash -> repeat is a pretty fast way to move around through NC
I feel like the cockatrice is absolutely INSANE with Juggler and throwing builds. with the crits you instantly return your knives pretty much every time you throw them, so you're getting insane amounts of value out of it. Also since throwing builds is based on Cool, which increases crit DAMAGE, you're critting bosses and such for thousands and thousands of damage
How do you get it I can’t find it anywhere lol
@@infrx1111ripperdocs should have it in their inventories from lvl 50 onwards. Also if you have PL there is a crate near the dogtown gate which has one of the iconics which the rippers sell in it. The Contents of that crate can be rerolled indefinitely as long as you don't take anything out, just get some distance and approach it again
Chitin, Peripheral Inverse Nehan and Satori go brrr with Sandevistan, Isometric Stabilizer, and Stabber we also freakin'
The thing I get most from this video is that a lot of the Iconic Cyberware, which should be a Best-In-Slot for their dedicated Style, is too expensive, too niche, and underpowered. I hope we get a balance patch.
I feel like Deep-Field Visual Interface is a lot worse in practice even tho is seems strong on paper mainly due to it's redundancy.
If you are going for a sniper build you'll no doubt have 20 Cool and Nerves of Tunsten Steel by the time you could pick up the cyberware and that perk already gives 100% crits when deadeye is activated which, with focus mode, is all the time. This perk also still gives full crits at close range so no need to be super far away (even if there is the slight dmg boost from the perk).
And with Run n Gun you get infinite Deadeye while hip firing
I don’t know if anyone else has had this happen, but I’ve actually gotten a lot of these pieces from the airdrops in Dogtown. I can’t use them because they actually hurt my build more than they help it, but it’s nice not having to spend the eddies on them regardless.
Happy to see i am not the only person obsessed with this game and everything it has to offer. My perfect build focuses on maxing our Intelligence and Technical, while being 15 in Cool, 4 in Reflexes and the remainder in Body. I love being stealthy while maxing out a cyberdeck over Sandvestine.
Another reason to combo double jump airdash. Is the airtime you get from the double jump resets your stamina spent from the initial grounded dash allowing it yo perform infinitely over large distances.
Note that it is important to consider the "attuned stats" on cyberwares. For me, they have equal impact on cyberware passives. For example @13:30 I'd rather pick Shock Absorber because it has a cool attuned while immovable force has no attuned stats.
The behind cover effect is the trade off. In my build I gain 20% mitigation while aiming and it works with throwing knives. There's another gun or perk with a behind cover effect so I'm sure there's a trade off there as well. And your only dropping at max 4% headshot and weak spot damage.
Revulsor also goes well with a gunrunner build bc you can use overlock to trigger it yourself then heal and use it as a sandevistan in a netrunner build
The deep field interface seems to like a noob trap. If you're a sniper you should have 20 and access to the nerves of tungsten steel perk that can already give you guaranteed Crits
Hope Orion has some visual cyberware options when it comes out eventually. Probably won't be for a few years but I'm more than willing to wait if it means another masterpiece like 2077. Just finished my 3rd playthrough of it as a net runner and the game never ceases to amaze me with the level of detail put into the environment and characters.
Slide cancel running is insane with the lunge
In this game as well as all shooters, I always put everything into offense when having to choose between defense or offense. I always play on maximum difficulty, and when you build a tank character and or play on an easy difficulty but claim to like the game, you're actually cheating yourself out of more quality playthrough.
Being high damage but low health simultaneously forces you to play perfectly but also removes the annoyance of having to shoot something over and over and over before it finally dies.
When the game's fun, it's worth it to have to redo a fun mission several times instead of getting it right on the first or second try. It's sort of like a stop and smell the roses thing.
I promise, to really savor a game and appreciate it as well as develop the most muscle memory of it so that you can pay more attention to the minute details, you don't want to do some kind of health or tank build. The only challenge to that is running out of bullets sometimes because you're having to spend way more of them to kill bad guys who aren't really able to kill you
There's something both very satisfying and very disappointing about having done a play through and your choice in cyberwear turned out to adhere to this list. It's a relief to know you 'discovered' the best cybverwear on your own on the first playthrough, but it's also a shame to know there's not much to improve upon for your next playthrough.
On leg mods, I also give serious consideration to the stealth ones for builds that do not run air dash, such as a netrunner build. The low cost, relatively high armor, and surprisingly impactful fall damage reduction make it a decent choice before considering the sneak benefits. Though most builds absolutely should be running air dash with double jump since it's so damn useful. Also, I found that bunny hopping when you land with a standard jump, air dash, and repeat covers more horizontal distance than spamming double jump like you do. Not to mention you can save your double jump to redirect to avoid hitting a car or to redirect, and that maintaining the rhythm of the bunnyhop timing makes it more engaging and fun.
Quantum tuner synergizes with the active camo relic perk.
Popping camo in combat allows tuner to start cooling down
Another Netrunner build I'm currently running which can go infinite (as long as you have enemies around you) is using Biomonitor + Blood Pumps + Borrowed Time (Tech Ability Perk, instantly recharges your health item/cyberware on neutralizing an enemy while under 25% HP). If you use synapsis burnout with this your overclock never ends and you're constantly recharging huge amounts of HP. I'm playing on highest difficulty and basically cannot die. Another thing with this build I appreciate is that you need zero RAM recovery perks or RAM recovery cyberware which saves a lot of resources you can use elsewhere. Also the last benefit is your synapsis burnout does like max dmg everytime.
Optical camo is great for getting away max tac and lowering wanted level. I have only had max tac come in once and I saved before doing it just in case I got wrecked, but once they started wrecking me I used optical camo jumped off the bridge into an alley and hide until they stopped looking. With the perk that makes enemies exit combat when using OC, it’s actually pretty easy. It’s my go to for escaping cops.
I have managed to fill in all the slots for all 3 characters, beserk, sandy, and netrunner. I have Chitin for all 3 since that health regeneration and high armor comes in handy.
Beserk: Axolotl, militech beserk, Chitin, Rara Avis. Has a total of 336 Cyberware capacity available and this is from the Edgerunners perk.
Sandy: Axolotl, Falcon Sandy, Chitin. Has a total 337 cyberware capacity
Netrunner: RAM reallocator, Chitin, Deep-field Visual Interface. Has a total of 337 Cyberware capacity.
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I use the Leeroy Ligament System, I hate dash as dash while in stealth alarms enemies therefore even with 20 Reflexes I don't spend into the dash tree as I dashed accidentally at the wrong time in the wrong place too often. Also the Leeroy Ligament System + another version of the Adreno Trigger that gives + 28% movement over 120 secs makes you super insanely fast as long as you can enter combat.
As for context I run full body, reflex, engineering and am super tanky with tech shotguns just get into the face of everyone real quick and blast them the adreno trigger lasts far beyond most fights.
ik this is outdated, but the xmod umbra, ready steady, immovable force combo is absolutely insane, esp with the top tier assault rifle perk
One very niche thing I've found about Immovable Force is that it could be potentially decent on Cool builds due to Blind Spot making it harder for enemies to spot you depending on your mitigation chance and Unexposed giving 20% mitigation change when behind cover
I use both
@@s3eriousbl9ck26 fair enough
Maybe Optical camo 2.0 + relic needs consideration for some of these?
Instantly drops you out of combat/wanted. I haven’t compared with faceplate, but I never use it as camo works
Dropping out of combat enables stealth, stealth bonuses, and then back into combat and combat bonuses as/when
I haven’t tested, but I am using camo more frequently.
So Chitin can be a great sensible pick for netrunning and doing something weird like going all out on throwing knives. In a build I went a bit overboard with speccing into Body where I ended up with Adrenaline Rush and Pain To Gain on a Reflexes 20, Intelligence 20 and Cool 18. I kinda suck at guns, but what the heck I just hack stuff and throw sharp objects. In a pinch I will monowire myself out of harms way
Big thing u miss with quantum tuner, it is the biggest game changer for a mele sandi build when u wanna stealth, pair it with the optical camo and omfg it is so ridiculously strong u can pop in and out of existance its awesome, add on the relic perk and it is the best combo hands down
It's actually bad combo with the optical camo because the optical camo's large cooldown will eat your quantum tuner charge up, resulting in a less reliable sandy.
The solution to use both with less cooldown interference is to pick the skill that makes camo activate through sprinting. Or better, don't use that at all, most enemies can't even see you with sandy outside of combat 💀.
@@higgumayour wrong. Emergency Cloaking is the only way you can start the cool down for Quantum Tuner in combat without actually leaving. Also there's a whole synergy with Cyberware and Perks that makes Optical Camo broken. I'm talking Mitigation, Health, Stamina, Cooldown reduction, and Movement Speed. With the right set up and skill you shouldn't really ever run out of Optic Camo. Especially with Sandy and Kerinzikov.
There is an automatic iconic that can be modded, it’s the Umbara x mod 2. It’s honestly my favorite rifle iconic in the game right now
Quantum tuner is a game changer the cherry on top of any build imo (3 uses of any operating system which makes it better for single enemy boss fights than the axolotl, infinite self ice aka complete immunity against enemy quickhacks, using kereznikov back to back with no cooldown plus 16% passive cooldown for any other cyberwares) you are sleeping on it ma man
Peripheral inverse is definitely overrated here. If I have a melee weapon or a shotgun, anything that is 3m away from me is dead.
If you want to get some real distance with the air dash and double jump, do one jump, airdash, and then right after do the second jump. It carries the momentum of the airdash and takes you pretty far.
The Ram Reallocator combined with axolotl is the key component to a crazy powerful hacker build focusing on end game use of synapse burn + blood daemon feedback loops.
Ram Reallocator actually helps if you want to get full cyberware to trigger edgerunner, at the begining you dont want to overweight cyberware, but to trigger edgerunner in a tech-int build you will need everything to help get to the border of full cyberware.
The face plate i think is cdpr are testing disguise system, they have many quests using this, so i think maybe we can see disguise system like hitman in sequel
One Important thing regarding COX-2 Cybersomatic optimizer.
I noticed that without it installed the Legendary Synapse Burnout deals 239 damage. With it it deals 1802 damage. The text on the quickhack changes. Epic tier then deals 2033, but without the Overclock synergy.
I found it few minutes ago, thanks to your video. I am using Arasaka Cyberdeck with COX-2, Ex-disk and T5++ RAM upgrade, with Blood Pump and Monitor. I just prefer boring sneaky way of netrunning but this is incredible.
Tip for jump air dashing: do a single jump, then air dash and immediately double jump. You get a ton of distance this way and it's super fun.
even with my sandevistan build, the revulsor has saved my ass on very hard "eldenpunk" mode quite a lot, to be honest.
and I'm stacking health regen over several magnitudes, have adrenaline boost, auto-injector, second heart for emergencies etc. etc. etc.
it is very much a level 60 nearly max cyberware build though. Had to grind for it. So definitely not an early game build.
Cockatrice+Immovable force with the problem solver is a bullet hose that deletes enemies.
Eyy, glad you listened to the comments and figured out the totally cracked Netrunner build :)
Sam Bram: “Use only the cyberware you need.”
Me: *Pumps as much Iconic chrome in V as humanly possible because funny stat numbers go up*
Man, definitely feels like very hard is a brutal filter for most things, with you being seemingly unable to take really any hits from a few bullets, which I guess properly fits for the description, but also makes it feel a bit less than enticing when it so massively limits you on your seeming strategies (or I guess some of these cyberware just suck that bad)
nah its all about planning and taking survivability into account. But i will admit, for cyberware atleast, theres clearly objectively good shit and also objectively trash cyberware lmao
Very hard is incredibly unpleasant. Not only do enemies turn into sponges but the damage spikes are insane.
@@theobell2002Only if you don't know what you're doing. Close range builds with shotguns or katanas are pretty strong and the game has gotten much easier from lv40 to the endgame. I do love the early game challenge - it makes you strategize and think.
Very Hard doesn't really impede any build from working. All it does is tell you 'find a way to retain 100% mit chance'. That's it, that's all it takes to destroy the game. Reflexes and Tech are unbelievably powerful for this reason, and I feel like any VH build should take one of the two (or find a way to chain-pop dorphhead from body), because Can't Touch This and Heat Shield fundamentally allow you to play hyper aggressive with little fear of dying.
@@Armisael4321 naw dude. Very hard forces you to rely on your OS much more. I have all that and I know how to use advanced sword tech. You can still get shit during a dash on Very Hard. I've been shot many times while dashing. Even with time slowed. It's so bad I have a clip of me dying tho I had a half bar of health plus Adrenaline.
4:45 there's actually faster travel with no leg cyberware. It's an "exploit" where you essentially just doge and jump at the same time. What happens is your dodge is an aggressively fast movement but if airborne that speed is continuing the whole duration.
The dash boost will increase tge distance and speed with addition of adding a mid air boost... It's actually faster than cars and midair dash can prevent fall damage by resetting fall distance.
Question: Plenty of cyberware buffs are linked with "neutralizing" enemies....does the game refer"neutralize" as to non-lethal takedowns alone or can kills also be counted for it?
You’re not looking at the additional stamina returns for ppl that are 20 reflex. A fully upgraded “Isometric Stabilizer” gives 30% stamina. Idk 🤷🏽♂️ pretty worth it if you’re a high reflex build.
Axolotl + apogee + the new axe they added, or any throwing weapon with the throwing weapon perks keeps u in apogee for as long as you want
Overwatch silencer only works if you actually take out the opponent in one shot, similarly to throwing knives. You're not gonna stay hidden if the enemy who just got hit is still alive (and obviously looking where they got shot from)
Other legs parts are made kinda obsolete by the fact that dash-jumping, double jumping, and then air dashing clears city blocks
On crit, did some testing and found that your "crit chance" has absolutely no impact on quickhacks whatsoever. It's either the 0%, 35%, or 100% on the piece giving you quickhack crit. Though if you're running something like smart guns or monowire, crit chance can still be useful.
To me,these are like Cherry on top after increasing chrome capacity from those shards fhat el cap gives you or you do glitch, I only exoect these would be useful to "Built different' class V.
And even then it'd barely noticeable, more of using jt fkr the sake of using iconic, which I just do.except of course, ones at the top.
With full armour use blood pump and biomonitor. You can also try the cyberware that gives a second wind.