Did nun but main quest my first play through but because of how buggy it was I just focused on story ps I got it when it first came out it’s great now lol 😂
The Jackie thing hits even harder if you send his body to Vik and then do the ending where Alt destroys mikoshi. V will meet Jackie's engram one last time in cyberspace on a reconstruction of the rooftop of Misty's shop. What makes this hit harder is that while in this ending the Jackie engram is obviously still corrupted, there's little hints here and there that he actually understands the situation more than you'd think and is on some level self aware, and that he's trying to say goodbye to V. It's a real gut punch.
But it ain't him or even a decent copy. He was hours dead when they snapshot his braindead ass. Its just an AI with a personality 'construct" overlaid so who cares.
This is the ending im currently trying to get. My first one was the Aldecaldos with every side character having a good ending and saying goodbye to a V that left Nightcity and only has 9 months to live. Best ending imo
The most effecient thing to do is sell low level guns and scrap high level guns. Low level guns keep comming, so the eddies keep coming. High level components are more rare.
Yup, this. Lvl 5 upgrade components are super useful and u need a lot. Once at that level (I think 40?) u can sell everything that grants lvl 4 components or below.
And given how I end up sitting on several MILLION eddies near the end of the game, because there really isn't all that much to spend money on, I find it a non-issue
Brother the Arasaka ending was my 1st ending do I regret it. Kind of the other endings actually felt like happy endings I felt like I was getting hit with a truck. Tbh I wanted to be realistic with the company helping but yeah. Will say raging at Johnny came out nowhere. But I will say Jhonny ending is least satisfying. I ain’t giving up my house. Don’t fear the reaper for the win.
theres a mod for new game plus i use it every time i play, the only downside to it is that it makes you get attacked half the times you enter a vehicle to balance it out.
My newest and likely final playthrough i dedicated to this. Making my own new game+. Before doing heist i went farm looting disassemble and sell point CRAZY. Entire point was to level up as much as i can without doing main things. I grinded hard af for about 4-5 days straight, periodically doing certain things (lots before the heist which opens the rest of the map, after that i turned to very hard (did hard for intro), almost no gigs or yellow things, kept most ncpd and assault in progress, etc). I think at game log 50hrs i had all my cyberware 5++ (including 4 iconics), body/reflex/tech at 20 and 75% of relic points chosen, and all but netrunner at lvl 60, street cred and character also max. Main things i did at this point: panam is gf now, just finished saving president, and have not even SCOUTED arasaka yet with Takemura! I have minimum 40hrs left to play and a fully maxd character and tbh, this BY FAR my most favorite and fun play through because i dedicated this to be a "new game+" version. Fun fact, i have way more perk points than any other playthrough because they added them to secret loot and regular looting beaides earning from leveling up, so i hace more perks now than any other playthrough (I'd say maybe 10 more). I learned running into enemies (blunt weapon perk, even fists) and ground slam are SUPER OP for the boxing fights... all of them! The first 4-5 day grind of farming respawn areas (velntinos in alleys in the citry, pacifica has a great route to circle, etc) was super tedious but so worth it. I have sooooooo much left to do in the game and max level charcter/cyberware/weapons/etc to do it.
DONT SELL UR GUNS!!!! break them down for parts. After 2.0 the best way to upgrade ur guns and chrome is to get as many components as u can. Only sell the common and uncommon guns that are worth more than like 700ish which will be later on in the game when the gun prices scale to ur level, regardless of the weapons rarity they can be worth a lot. Always break the purple and gold guns for epic and legendary components. I know it seems counter intuitive but since the update, this is how the economy works. Besides all u should be using are the iconic weapons which u can only upgrade and not destroy
It depends. Early on sure but after tier 3 only breakdown stuff for your current tier. When you are a tier 5 its better to sell yout tier 4 and bellow guns to buy cheap tier 5 accessories to dismantle instead of upgrading your components.
I... never sold any guns. Everything that could be broke down, I broke down. Keep only the stuff you are actually gonna use. A lot of the best stuff in the game can be gotten for free anyway. You can convert lower grade mats to higher grade mats. And if you aren't wasting money, there is plenty to get what you need for your build- whatever that build is.
For me early on in the game I sell majority of my low level weapons. I do a good amount of side jobs and sell. After the heist then yeah money starts to come pretty easily. I then keep the weapons and break them down. But that's how I play though.
Me too. And since Misty is the most annoying main character in the game I'm okay with not having to spend any more time with her. Got Jackie's bike anyway.
I sent him to Vic.... Because I didn't think his Family would be able to handle it if Arasaka came knocking. I figured that since Vic is basically operating illegally *anyway*, that's he'd know how to deal with him descreetly. I mean, it was Obvious he was dead. resuscitation pretty much has to be started immediately or serious brain damage is a given, and there is no way he'd get to vic in time. Also, I didn't doubt for a moment that Arasaka was still looking for us- super experimental flagship product? a product that the emperor himself showed up to retrieve? The emperor we're taking the heat for offing? I figured that it would be weeks or months before V would be able to poke his head out of whatever hole he/she hid themselves in without Arasaka trying to shoot it off. And given what we see in game? it was about a month. Which is still pretty short, all things considered, but still.
Yeah I have ADHD so sometimes I’ll focus on the main story a lot more but I’ve never outright skipped side quests lmao. And I usually have a second play-through where I do every side quest. I do like 25-50% of them in every game I play for the first time but yeah I try not to get to lost with the main story. Also some games side quests just suck so I get it but in Cyberpunk it makes no sense the side quest are some of the best I’ve ever played outside of, well, the Witcher 3.
it honestly made me phisically ill when he said some people skip over these quest and just do the main story, the whole point of cyberpunk is getting immersed in the world
I really loved that River questline. Mostly because it's very clearly an homage to the movie The Cell, an actually good JLopez film. But I also love that they factored in the fact that V might actually GO to that farm from just random exploration, before doing the mission. And if you do, V just recognizes the farm, and says so. You don't have to hack the information or have enough Intelligence to suss it out. Just "Hey...River, I know that place, I've been there!" and boom, you have the location. Nice attention to detail there.
Very first time I played the game (at launch) I ended up the farm and thought it looked weird. And when I saw the outside I was ready to go. But V automatically said it! I was shocked
Scraping weapons ain’t that bad, I just sell the lower tiers and just scrap the highest tier I can obtain, when I do the math it takes twice the amount of material to make a tier five weapon from scraping tier four then just selling it compared to selling a tier five, so that’s how I just do it and it worked for me Now I have two million eddies but in need of components so if you aren’t desperate for eddies just scrap your guns and upgrade your cyberware and iconic guns💪
Post-2.0 Attributes can be reset, once. The main reason you break down weapons is for the components to either build new ones, upgrade Iconics, or upgrade cyberware. You only spend eddies on building Iconics, like Buzzsaw or Comrade's Hammer. You can easily upgrade your weapons by keeping the best from what you loot. Until you are level 10, selling guns lets you pay off Vik and makes up for the lousy payouts you get for gigs early. Past 10, stop selling them, keep them for upgrading Iconics and cyberware. You're going to be making enough from gigs and looting eddies from bodies and safes, and since you can't buy components anymore it's an easy way to stock up. The "sidequests" are not just there for filler. They're ways to gain XP and eddies, Iconic weapons and cyberware, and your choices in them can effect your endgame choices.
Hey dan, I have a tip for a video for you, but it may be a hard undertaking: Theres a sense of urgency in cb2077 due to v's condition with the chip. It would be nice to get a list of an optimal order to tackle main quests and sidequests from a storytelling perspective. I personally like to do the watson district as a whole before doing the heist so you can justify V fooling around less, but later on there are other things you need to consider, like the proper moment to do phantom liberty etc.
One thing i fou d really annoying was how locked gates and door felt really inconsistent. Like a rusty taped together metal sheet gate taking the pinnacle of technical ability to bust open. Like really?
On the Breaking guns vs Selling Guns, I have a middle(ish) ground. White and (later) green guns are scrapped for parts while the higher quality get sold off. There's enough common guns and they sell low enough to not put that much of an impact to credit balance. Also, once your build is set, you can just sell everything anyways.
1:05 i think sending Jackie into Vik's clinic not a bad choice, I mean at the end of the Arasaka ending we can see him, ended up like how Silverhand ended up, i think this is the only good way Jackie still will be with us, at least his print, and probably able to convert back into a people as a biochip, so i guess Arasaka saved him, even if it feels like they not.
Doing gigs and scanner hustles are far more lucrative than they were before, including cyberpsycho missions. This was likely done to make up for other ways to make eddies.
Friend - Meh, I don't bother with the side quests, I don't have time for that. I just want to play through the main story. Me - One does not simply meet Hanako at Embers!
My cousin did the same thing as your friend. Underleveled, no options for endings, low-tier guns, and finished the game before me. But we went back when he learned of Panam.😂
I like this channel. I always find what you do is very intricate and detailed, and then I wondered like "dam I didn't know about this." What else could I have missed
Also you forgot: Breaking down/selling weapon mods. Weapon mods are rare to come by, especially the higher tier ones. The only reliable way to get a tier 5 weapon mod is to craft it, and for that you need 2 of its previous tier versions. So a tier 5 weapon mod needs 2 of its tier 4 versions, 4 of its tier 3 versions, 8 of its tier 2 versions etc. When you progress high enough, you’ll realize that lower tier mods stop spawning, which bottlenecks your crafting and limits you to waiting for its tier 4/5 version, which are extremely rare if you’re not at least level 50. It’s best to just save all your weapon mods to craft them for the future, they don’t sell for much anyways and takes up 0 weight.
I think the biggest mistake is that the game skips through V's time with jackie much too fast. I'm not that bothered by him dying in the Arasaka heist, but I do feel that they could have done so much more with the dynamics between V and Jackie instead of doing just a few jobs and some flashbacks. But then I believe the developers left a lot on the table that they could have explored much better, like using the three different characters to create three different play-throughs. Maybe they'll do better with the sequel.
The worst mistake is not playing all the endings with at least the first time you play it throuhg. The game literallly throws you to the point where you can start new ending. Not all endings are available? Then just go play those quests that unlock them and play them then. I've done this on over 10 playthroughs.
Don't be a gonk, don't sell your weapons. You need loads of mats to upgrade your Cyberware. Never sold weapons, still got over 2 million from doing Side Missions and GIGs.
@@animegamergeek1427 I was thinking about romance. It is a hit on the ol' romance meter, though not a game stopper if you do everything else correctly.
@@arthuralford Alright so you can still get Pyramid Song but after the "swim" does Judy cry about the rest of the team get killed off or it change a bit of narrative there?
Breaking down weapons for parts is okay if you have saved enough eddies, especially toward the middle of your playthrough. If you take the time to do all the side quests and complete the NCPD scanner hustles, you'll earn more eddies than you need. Getting parts for upgrading your cyberware or getting your favorite iconic weapons to tier 5++ requires components you can only get sparingly in random drops or breaking down unneeded weapons. Trust me, you'll get more weapon drops than upgrade components in this game.
Little fun fact... you can dial up jacky after he died. Found that very emotional. Besides of that, beating up Adam Smasher to pulp WITHOUT USING THE DILDO ONLY from Meredith is NOT CANON. 4 Rebecca!
In the latest Cyberpunk version, breaking equipment for components is basically the only correct choice. Gigs give more than enough scratch, and you need a ton of components to upgrade your chrome. If you buy new chrome every time a new tier unlocks - you won't have any extras with or without extra scratch from selling guns, because chrome of high tier is all expensive af. Much better to buy it as you play, and then just upgrade
Selling guns is the gonk move. As long as you aren't being stupid and splashing eddies every time you get the chance, money will NEVER be an issue. My first Corpo playthrough, after Phantom Liberty, I ended with 2M in the bank (no luck finding the cyberware I needed in the world, so I HAD to buy it, plus bought a few cars), my Nomad playthrough, low cyberware, no bought vehicles... 4M came easy.
Even splashing money around isn't an issue. I can maybe understand for people who only do main quests, but i do a lot of side contents so money is never an issue. I was playing corpo and buying every fancy looking car, buying cyberware instead of upgrading it except for tier 5+ and 5++, and overall never really caring about money, usually paying people for information and left the boxer guy with his car and money because i didn't need it. Materials on the other hand are much more time consuming to get, so i would only sell guns if i really wanted to buy domething at that exact time
I love crafting, since you can upgrade the iconic weapons, and they are, most of them, the best guns in the game, so the very much so are worth upgrading. But at some point when your guns are higher quality, you really don't need to disassemble them, the grays, greens and mostly blues, so those are worth to sell after some point. And at some point you start getting so much money, that I don't what to use it for anymore.
Clearly you have to buy all the cars and appartments since that's just crucial to completing the game or something..? I don't know I'll just have fun with my Tier 5++ cyberware and iconic weapons instead.
@@jarrodbright5231even buying most of the cars and apartments i was still finding myself with more money than i ever needed. I only sold guns from time to time to keep the balance afloat if i bought a lot of stuff (i bought all my cyberware, only upgrading for tier 5+ and 5++)
Never have understood why they told Jackie's story this way. If they were able to find Jackie's body this easily, why did they not take out Mama Wells like they did Dex? Why no-hit squads or NCPDs warrants for V's arrest? Maybe that was cut content or a huge hole in the storyline.
Think its a good idea to disassemble weapons for components in the early game to upgrade iconics and cyberware. I used to always just sell everything but honestly you dont need that much money in this game. By the time your level 40 youll have plenty from gigs and jobs. Unless you wanna buy every single vehicle (which is really doable) no need to sell everything
you can actually max out everything if you have phantom liberty. The dropships sometimes have perks and attributes shards. Also if you cycle all vendors and ncpd drops you will have alot more attribute and perk points than your lvls would have granted you. If you hundred percent the game and grind the drop points, it will take you about 20 hours after reaching max level to max out everything.
I've been scrapping everything since i started and im still swimming in ED's while also being able to upgrade equipment ahead of my actual level/what was available at the ripper docs. :P
Hmm, selling unwanted guns? I dunno what you'd need that cash for. If you do gigs and simply play the game you'll have enough. More than enough to buy anything you want. Crafting components on the other hand are way more important but you will reach a stage where those are superfluous too but that's much much later. So out of curiosity, what do you use your eddies on so you feel you are in dire need of them over crafting materials?
Don't care if this is comment spam, it deserves its own space. Other people have said this but I'm gonna take it a step further. NOT breaking down trash weapons is the mistake. Money is easy to come by if you just play the game. You're clearly committing another biggest mistake. Ignoring Gigs and side hustles. Get these done and you'll have more than enough money. You NEED those components for upgrading. On behalf of everyone else who has called you out on this one I'd like to request a re-up with that part edited out. Even if you personally believed it a mistake, calling it a "big mistake that can ruin your play through" is taking it way too far.
What I do is I complete the main story up until the point of no return, while completing any missable objectives, and then I go through all the side quests. It definitely helps with the attribute checks in side quests
engi path perks is worth more than the few eddies. who greeds for money anyway unless on an unlock-all run? I'd say "check your junk for jewlery before scrapping it all" is the better tip
I have found on my current playthrough that selling weapons above Common works well. I scrap the common stuff and the clothes and junk and at level 30 I have like half a million eddies.
10:20 . If you aren't a "super crafter", you are nerfing yourself. Most of the best stuff in the game is crafted. Upgrading stuff is essential. Tech is used in all kinds of ways throught the game and makes a lot of the game much simpler. The mistake isn't breaking down guns. It's not taking crafting.
My previous playthrough I was trying to investigate poorly with River to geo to the wrong farm, but I "accidently" investigated properly :(. I also wanted to do the secret ending with that character and didn't select the right stuff but I got the Kerry questline for the first time after 4 characters🤔
I'm gonna be honest for the new players.. if you're into cyberware, which of course you are, do what I did. As I played, I picked up everything and when I became over-encumbered, I stock-piled it into my stash. Hundreds if not over a thousand weapons were in my stash before I dismantled them. Why did I do this? Because although you can sell your weapons, you need a ridiculous amount of components to max out your upgraded cyberware. So after a while, check out your stash and just dismantle away. Obviously, sell your low-tier gear for a quick payout, but always dismantle the higher-level items. If you want money, play the game. Do gigs, side missions and start the DLC so you can access the car grab missions which will give you a good bit of cash each time, and the discounts for new cars. So yeah. Good luck.
I always finish johnny and panam mission I like the nomad ending plus I break down my guns and melee BECAUSE u need the components for cyberware upgrades
Literally just started playing cyberpunk for the first time and I gave Jackie's body to Viktor and I'm too far in to go back and redo it again....whoops :( We'll get it next play-through 😭
Don’t sweat it, this game has so much to offer. I thought I’d only play it once and put the game down but I am doing another character choosing different choices. Enjoy it :)
Jackie dies and his cold dead body is stolen. But in the end all the "engram" is is a copy of what ever had yet to rot by Arasaca. No major change to story. You get his bike with less work have a vehicle to hold till your car is fixed.
The only thing Iwill disagree on is the breaking down weapons. You will make more then enough Eddies just by doing the side jobs, gihs, and police crime to do anything you will ever want to do in the game. So breaking down or not doesn't really matter. I would ho further and say you should never sell the Orange gear. Because that is the fastest way to build up the tear 5 crafting components. Oh and more more thing. One of the attributes you should always have at 20 is Tech.
And depending on your build, breaking down funs and crafting stuff will be your only way to level up the crafter improvement tree which does give some very noticeable upgrades to all cyberware
I think limiting playstyle by not allowing attribute respecs is a mistake. They want you to spend more time on another playthrough I imagine, but they could have made a NG+. I ended up maxing all attributes with mods
first time playing through I sent jackie to Viktor boy did I regret that one highly. one play through I did side with maiko over judy I felt terrible for betraying her but to be fair I was playing corpo and focusing on big payouts.
When I played, and I haven't played it in a long while; I always usually skipped Johnny's quest. I never skipped Panam's though, because the best ending out of all of them, is the Nomad ending, with a female V, and Judy as a 'love interest'. But Johnny.... I just hate that SoB. Always have, always will.
I played through once. Never looked up a walkthrough or guide or anything. And somehow I managed to make all the right choices to get the secret ending. Didn't even find out it WAS secret until a couple months later.
The River thing lowkey got me sad, can you imagine going through all that and a FREAK tells you on your face that these KIDS that were hooked up like cows had it coming? I'd do the same thing, he looks so damn sad and pathetic in that last call too.
You should always break down stuff that's at the max lvl of component you can get/need. Everything else gets sold. Money is less important than component, and I got enough by just playing the game normally and following this strat to buy pretty much everything in the game, every vehicle included. Maybe later on you can be satisfied with selling even lvl 5 guns and buying lvl 5 clothes with the money, it can give you the same components for a bit less money but it's not that much worth worrying about.
Jackie must’ve died during the transfer or died in the car. His brain unable to receive oxygen. Meaning what ever engram of Jackie that was created wasn’t whole. Corrupted and somewhat sentient.
Judy is best girl. Glad someone else thinks so. I think Panam is a bit bitchy and uppity. Doesn't mean she's wrong about Saul, but her way about going about handling him could have been done with a much cooler head. Honestly, I think Panam is more chaotic and more likely to jump out a window and be surprised it hurt than Judy is.
Panam is the only reprieve you get after losing Jackie. The problem is that most people see her as some piece of ass, but she has the most fun missions and the best chemistry with V, especially with female V, since male v and panam mostly drool on one another instead of bantering and exchanging quips. Also she has brilliant ideas, can handle a rifle... With panam you go through some shit. You get her car back, kill some raffen scum, unload an EMP on the city down an AV, kidnap a corporat, commit great train robbery, commit grand theft tank, drink beer around a camp fire... Panam will go through hell and back for you, put her family at risk she is ride or die. With Judy you watch some snuff movies and go for a leisurely swim and then she ditches you.
Meanwhile Judy is an uptight, naive girl who truly believes there's a happy ending to be had anywhere in Night City, or anywhere within reach of corps. People have flaws, how surprising.
I didn't save Takemura because Johnny made me think he was dead. I'm on my first playthrough and completed the main story and I'm still upset about it. I sent Jackie to Victor because I thought he might be able to revive him in some way. I was right in the worst way.
Not sure how many others realized this, but Arasaka would’ve never known Jackie was at Vik’s if you hadn’t led them there after Takemura and V kill the ninjas on the highway.
I have tried hard to mess up the River quest to get to choose the wrong farm and after several attempts I haven't been able to. It doesn't let me leave the braindace before I have checked all the necessarly clues. Some guides to this say which clues to ignore but it hasn't worker for me as it just simple doesn't let me leave.
what are u talking about cant reset attribute points`? u can absolutely do that, i play on 2.12 and always had the option to reset them once lol aside from that: wow, i wasnt aware u could f up Rivers quest at all, didnt think it possible tbh lol
The 7th biggest mistake is romancing River. Judy and Panam send a message by the time River sends his 10th message to flirt. So, it's either being bombarded by a message from that guy every 5 minutes or having a permanent notification on your phone.
I disagree that scrapping your weapons insetead of selling them will ruin your gameplay. I agree that the story points are fail chances. You get more than enough weapons to sell/scrap. And besides, you get a crap load of legendaries that you need materials to upgrade to keep them relevant.
Selling guns is kinda useless. I've never not had enough money in this game, granted I don't buy apartments and cars. However ive always been lacking on legendary parts so to the scrapyard they go
Disassembling guns? hell naw, i love my juicy crafting components. ;p I literally loot everything i can see, even when just driving by and a box pops up...ill get out and get it. it's just how i play, ill sniff out every inch for loot like a police dog. ;p Besides gold comes massively from gigs and those police objectives, usually by the time in my lvl 30s, 40s and 50s...i'm sitting constantly at like 500--800k eddies. Couldn't spend it all if i wanted to. Well, you could by buying guns...but you get better ones in the world anyway so that's a waste of money.
Most logical answer i've seen. If you do enough side content you don't really need to sell them that much, but if you need a quick big payout, it's a good idea to sell them to get what you're missing. Tho most of the time i would just break the for materials
Man skipping Johnny & Panam is almost half the game right there
Did nun but main quest my first play through but because of how buggy it was I just focused on story ps I got it when it first came out it’s great now lol 😂
The Jackie thing hits even harder if you send his body to Vik and then do the ending where Alt destroys mikoshi. V will meet Jackie's engram one last time in cyberspace on a reconstruction of the rooftop of Misty's shop. What makes this hit harder is that while in this ending the Jackie engram is obviously still corrupted, there's little hints here and there that he actually understands the situation more than you'd think and is on some level self aware, and that he's trying to say goodbye to V. It's a real gut punch.
But it ain't him or even a decent copy. He was hours dead when they snapshot his braindead ass. Its just an AI with a personality 'construct" overlaid so who cares.
This is the ending im currently trying to get. My first one was the Aldecaldos with every side character having a good ending and saying goodbye to a V that left Nightcity and only has 9 months to live.
Best ending imo
It is just a poor copy of his hours dead brain transplanted onto an AI. It is like Vik Valentine in Fallout with the memories of a long dead cop.
@@Landorcan Nick Valentine if Nick Valentine was basically mentally disabled.
@@mannysikariohow do I get that ending
Recycling guns isn't that bad idea.
You need a lot of components to upgrade cyberware.
The most effecient thing to do is sell low level guns and scrap high level guns. Low level guns keep comming, so the eddies keep coming. High level components are more rare.
Hard agree. You still get millions with access points and side hustles so scrapping guns is way better than selling them. You should go...
Yup, this. Lvl 5 upgrade components are super useful and u need a lot. Once at that level (I think 40?) u can sell everything that grants lvl 4 components or below.
And given how I end up sitting on several MILLION eddies near the end of the game, because there really isn't all that much to spend money on, I find it a non-issue
Doing side content will give you plenty of eddies. I scrap weps until I’ve fully upgraded everything. Money was never a problem
Worst mistake you can make is picking the arasaka ending
Butt why
You sign away your soul
The best answer to this comment..
Don't fear the reaper is the best ending
Noooo
Brother the Arasaka ending was my 1st ending do I regret it. Kind of the other endings actually felt like happy endings I felt like I was getting hit with a truck. Tbh I wanted to be realistic with the company helping but yeah. Will say raging at Johnny came out nowhere. But I will say Jhonny ending is least satisfying. I ain’t giving up my house. Don’t fear the reaper for the win.
I wish this game had new game plus this game is still my favorite
theres a mod for new game plus i use it every time i play, the only downside to it is that it makes you get attacked half the times you enter a vehicle to balance it out.
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@@TheOliveboy93same but it’s true
My newest and likely final playthrough i dedicated to this. Making my own new game+. Before doing heist i went farm looting disassemble and sell point CRAZY. Entire point was to level up as much as i can without doing main things. I grinded hard af for about 4-5 days straight, periodically doing certain things (lots before the heist which opens the rest of the map, after that i turned to very hard (did hard for intro), almost no gigs or yellow things, kept most ncpd and assault in progress, etc). I think at game log 50hrs i had all my cyberware 5++ (including 4 iconics), body/reflex/tech at 20 and 75% of relic points chosen, and all but netrunner at lvl 60, street cred and character also max. Main things i did at this point: panam is gf now, just finished saving president, and have not even SCOUTED arasaka yet with Takemura!
I have minimum 40hrs left to play and a fully maxd character and tbh, this BY FAR my most favorite and fun play through because i dedicated this to be a "new game+" version.
Fun fact, i have way more perk points than any other playthrough because they added them to secret loot and regular looting beaides earning from leveling up, so i hace more perks now than any other playthrough (I'd say maybe 10 more). I learned running into enemies (blunt weapon perk, even fists) and ground slam are SUPER OP for the boxing fights... all of them!
The first 4-5 day grind of farming respawn areas (velntinos in alleys in the citry, pacifica has a great route to circle, etc) was super tedious but so worth it. I have sooooooo much left to do in the game and max level charcter/cyberware/weapons/etc to do it.
DONT SELL UR GUNS!!!! break them down for parts. After 2.0 the best way to upgrade ur guns and chrome is to get as many components as u can. Only sell the common and uncommon guns that are worth more than like 700ish which will be later on in the game when the gun prices scale to ur level, regardless of the weapons rarity they can be worth a lot. Always break the purple and gold guns for epic and legendary components. I know it seems counter intuitive but since the update, this is how the economy works. Besides all u should be using are the iconic weapons which u can only upgrade and not destroy
It depends. Early on sure but after tier 3 only breakdown stuff for your current tier. When you are a tier 5 its better to sell yout tier 4 and bellow guns to buy cheap tier 5 accessories to dismantle instead of upgrading your components.
Break down all tier guns.
Tier 1,2,3, and 4 components can be used too craft tier 5 components
@@sif-cd3du right, it's like people don't even know the game mechanics...lol
I... never sold any guns. Everything that could be broke down, I broke down. Keep only the stuff you are actually gonna use. A lot of the best stuff in the game can be gotten for free anyway.
You can convert lower grade mats to higher grade mats.
And if you aren't wasting money, there is plenty to get what you need for your build- whatever that build is.
You can break down tier 3 items to craft tier 4 components. @@IamAlterEggo
"Afterlife, see you there" is the only moment of clarity of Jackie's "engram" since it's more of cobbled up random memories of Jackie.
Advising to sell guns is crazy, money comes pretty quickly without selling a single item and components are key to upgrading iconic weapons.
And cyberware.
Specially upgrading iconics from 5+ to 5++ is super expensive on mats.
For me early on in the game I sell majority of my low level weapons. I do a good amount of side jobs and sell. After the heist then yeah money starts to come pretty easily. I then keep the weapons and break them down. But that's how I play though.
Really? I sold all of the weapons and still had plenty of mats to upgrade. Granted, I didn't upgrade all my weapons, only the few that I actively use.
@Syberz have you tried to upgrade all your cyberware to tier 5++? You'll realise quickly just how many mats you need
In my first playthrough, I sent Jackie's body to Vik's clinic, thinking that there could be a chance to save Jackie.
same...
Yeah. Also did the same thing
Me too. And since Misty is the most annoying main character in the game I'm okay with not having to spend any more time with her. Got Jackie's bike anyway.
I sent him to Vic.... Because I didn't think his Family would be able to handle it if Arasaka came knocking. I figured that since Vic is basically operating illegally *anyway*, that's he'd know how to deal with him descreetly.
I mean, it was Obvious he was dead. resuscitation pretty much has to be started immediately or serious brain damage is a given, and there is no way he'd get to vic in time. Also, I didn't doubt for a moment that Arasaka was still looking for us- super experimental flagship product? a product that the emperor himself showed up to retrieve? The emperor we're taking the heat for offing?
I figured that it would be weeks or months before V would be able to poke his head out of whatever hole he/she hid themselves in without Arasaka trying to shoot it off. And given what we see in game? it was about a month. Which is still pretty short, all things considered, but still.
I'll NEVER understand gamers who avoid side quest.
Lock them up in a psyche ward cuz that's crazy talk...
Facts
Yeah I have ADHD so sometimes I’ll focus on the main story a lot more but I’ve never outright skipped side quests lmao. And I usually have a second play-through where I do every side quest. I do like 25-50% of them in every game I play for the first time but yeah I try not to get to lost with the main story. Also some games side quests just suck so I get it but in Cyberpunk it makes no sense the side quest are some of the best I’ve ever played outside of, well, the Witcher 3.
fuck side quests boring
it honestly made me phisically ill when he said some people skip over these quest and just do the main story, the whole point of cyberpunk is getting immersed in the world
Always complete every side quest possible then do main until more sides show. that's the way games are meant to be played.
I really loved that River questline. Mostly because it's very clearly an homage to the movie The Cell, an actually good JLopez film. But I also love that they factored in the fact that V might actually GO to that farm from just random exploration, before doing the mission. And if you do, V just recognizes the farm, and says so. You don't have to hack the information or have enough Intelligence to suss it out. Just "Hey...River, I know that place, I've been there!" and boom, you have the location. Nice attention to detail there.
Very first time I played the game (at launch) I ended up the farm and thought it looked weird. And when I saw the outside I was ready to go. But V automatically said it! I was shocked
Scraping weapons ain’t that bad, I just sell the lower tiers and just scrap the highest tier I can obtain, when I do the math it takes twice the amount of material to make a tier five weapon from scraping tier four then just selling it compared to selling a tier five, so that’s how I just do it and it worked for me
Now I have two million eddies but in need of components so if you aren’t desperate for eddies just scrap your guns and upgrade your cyberware and iconic guns💪
Post-2.0 Attributes can be reset, once. The main reason you break down weapons is for the components to either build new ones, upgrade Iconics, or upgrade cyberware. You only spend eddies on building Iconics, like Buzzsaw or Comrade's Hammer. You can easily upgrade your weapons by keeping the best from what you loot. Until you are level 10, selling guns lets you pay off Vik and makes up for the lousy payouts you get for gigs early. Past 10, stop selling them, keep them for upgrading Iconics and cyberware. You're going to be making enough from gigs and looting eddies from bodies and safes, and since you can't buy components anymore it's an easy way to stock up. The "sidequests" are not just there for filler. They're ways to gain XP and eddies, Iconic weapons and cyberware, and your choices in them can effect your endgame choices.
If you do enough NCPD gigs, you don’t even need to sell guns before level 10, fighting crime is the most time-efficient way to earn cash.
Hey dan, I have a tip for a video for you, but it may be a hard undertaking:
Theres a sense of urgency in cb2077 due to v's condition with the chip. It would be nice to get a list of an optimal order to tackle main quests and sidequests from a storytelling perspective.
I personally like to do the watson district as a whole before doing the heist so you can justify V fooling around less, but later on there are other things you need to consider, like the proper moment to do phantom liberty etc.
One thing i fou d really annoying was how locked gates and door felt really inconsistent. Like a rusty taped together metal sheet gate taking the pinnacle of technical ability to bust open. Like really?
On the Breaking guns vs Selling Guns, I have a middle(ish) ground. White and (later) green guns are scrapped for parts while the higher quality get sold off. There's enough common guns and they sell low enough to not put that much of an impact to credit balance. Also, once your build is set, you can just sell everything anyways.
1:05 i think sending Jackie into Vik's clinic not a bad choice, I mean at the end of the Arasaka ending we can see him, ended up like how Silverhand ended up, i think this is the only good way Jackie still will be with us, at least his print, and probably able to convert back into a people as a biochip, so i guess Arasaka saved him, even if it feels like they not.
Meanwhile im here scrapping my guns and still never feeling strapped for cash
Doing gigs and scanner hustles are far more lucrative than they were before, including cyberpsycho missions. This was likely done to make up for other ways to make eddies.
I took Jackie to Vic in hopes he might save him...
Good to see the Cyberpunk 2077 comtent back
This game is still one of my favourites of all time.
Friend - Meh, I don't bother with the side quests, I don't have time for that. I just want to play through the main story.
Me - One does not simply meet Hanako at Embers!
Friend needs to visit a psychward
My cousin did the same thing as your friend. Underleveled, no options for endings, low-tier guns, and finished the game before me. But we went back when he learned of Panam.😂
I like this channel. I always find what you do is very intricate and detailed, and then I wondered like "dam I didn't know about this." What else could I have missed
Also you forgot: Breaking down/selling weapon mods. Weapon mods are rare to come by, especially the higher tier ones.
The only reliable way to get a tier 5 weapon mod is to craft it, and for that you need 2 of its previous tier versions.
So a tier 5 weapon mod needs 2 of its tier 4 versions, 4 of its tier 3 versions, 8 of its tier 2 versions etc.
When you progress high enough, you’ll realize that lower tier mods stop spawning, which bottlenecks your crafting and limits you to waiting for its tier 4/5 version, which are extremely rare if you’re not at least level 50. It’s best to just save all your weapon mods to craft them for the future, they don’t sell for much anyways and takes up 0 weight.
any thing cyberpunk.....i here for
Biggest Mistake Cyberpunk Does, IS LETTING JACKIE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!
No happy endings in Night City they let you know from the jump
Jackie is a playable character in the 2077 board game. I assume that means we get to see what would have happened if Jackie had survived The Heist.
I think the biggest mistake is that the game skips through V's time with jackie much too fast. I'm not that bothered by him dying in the Arasaka heist, but I do feel that they could have done so much more with the dynamics between V and Jackie instead of doing just a few jobs and some flashbacks.
But then I believe the developers left a lot on the table that they could have explored much better, like using the three different characters to create three different play-throughs. Maybe they'll do better with the sequel.
The worst mistake is not playing all the endings with at least the first time you play it throuhg. The game literallly throws you to the point where you can start new ending. Not all endings are available? Then just go play those quests that unlock them and play them then. I've done this on over 10 playthroughs.
Don't be a gonk, don't sell your weapons. You need loads of mats to upgrade your Cyberware.
Never sold weapons, still got over 2 million from doing Side Missions and GIGs.
I like how someone described engram!Jackie as "ChatGPT Jackie".
How about siding with Maiko and NOT taking her money. That works out OK(unless you are playing a Female V).
Works well for female V, too
@@animegamergeek1427 I was thinking about romance. It is a hit on the ol' romance meter, though not a game stopper if you do everything else correctly.
@@Zayphar yeah, I meant romance, too. U can still romance her, as long as u don't take the eddies
Judy gets mad at you, and she leaves upset, but she'll be okay later and you can still romance her
@@arthuralford Alright so you can still get Pyramid Song but after the "swim" does Judy cry about the rest of the team get killed off or it change a bit of narrative there?
Breaking down weapons for parts is okay if you have saved enough eddies, especially toward the middle of your playthrough. If you take the time to do all the side quests and complete the NCPD scanner hustles, you'll earn more eddies than you need. Getting parts for upgrading your cyberware or getting your favorite iconic weapons to tier 5++ requires components you can only get sparingly in random drops or breaking down unneeded weapons. Trust me, you'll get more weapon drops than upgrade components in this game.
Little fun fact... you can dial up jacky after he died. Found that very emotional.
Besides of that, beating up Adam Smasher to pulp WITHOUT USING THE DILDO ONLY from Meredith is NOT CANON.
4 Rebecca!
True, I also heard if you do that too much, you get a rather nasty surprise.
What are you talking about? What happens?
@@armandomarchan7888 some feeaky-ass horror shit featuring your ol' pal Jackie
In the latest Cyberpunk version, breaking equipment for components is basically the only correct choice. Gigs give more than enough scratch, and you need a ton of components to upgrade your chrome. If you buy new chrome every time a new tier unlocks - you won't have any extras with or without extra scratch from selling guns, because chrome of high tier is all expensive af. Much better to buy it as you play, and then just upgrade
Doing my 2nd run.
Decided to send Jackie to Viktor.... Knew it was a bad idea, but it's a purposeful decision.
Selling guns is the gonk move. As long as you aren't being stupid and splashing eddies every time you get the chance, money will NEVER be an issue. My first Corpo playthrough, after Phantom Liberty, I ended with 2M in the bank (no luck finding the cyberware I needed in the world, so I HAD to buy it, plus bought a few cars), my Nomad playthrough, low cyberware, no bought vehicles... 4M came easy.
Even splashing money around isn't an issue. I can maybe understand for people who only do main quests, but i do a lot of side contents so money is never an issue. I was playing corpo and buying every fancy looking car, buying cyberware instead of upgrading it except for tier 5+ and 5++, and overall never really caring about money, usually paying people for information and left the boxer guy with his car and money because i didn't need it.
Materials on the other hand are much more time consuming to get, so i would only sell guns if i really wanted to buy domething at that exact time
Oh my God, I didn't know about Jackie being soul killed. I'm so glad I've never sent him to vic, that was absolutely heartbreaking.
always happy to se a new upload from you!!
Right on time Big Dan..just started a new playthrough last night..went with a normal size **nis this time
Glad to see more cyberpunk content to watch.
Saves made after 2.0 can also respec once per playthrough.
I love crafting, since you can upgrade the iconic weapons, and they are, most of them, the best guns in the game, so the very much so are worth upgrading. But at some point when your guns are higher quality, you really don't need to disassemble them, the grays, greens and mostly blues, so those are worth to sell after some point. And at some point you start getting so much money, that I don't what to use it for anymore.
Clearly you have to buy all the cars and appartments since that's just crucial to completing the game or something..? I don't know I'll just have fun with my Tier 5++ cyberware and iconic weapons instead.
@@jarrodbright5231even buying most of the cars and apartments i was still finding myself with more money than i ever needed. I only sold guns from time to time to keep the balance afloat if i bought a lot of stuff (i bought all my cyberware, only upgrading for tier 5+ and 5++)
Never have understood why they told Jackie's story this way. If they were able to find Jackie's body this easily, why did they not take out Mama Wells like they did Dex? Why no-hit squads or NCPDs warrants for V's arrest? Maybe that was cut content or a huge hole in the storyline.
So much cut content.
Never tell Judy that what happened between you two was a one night stand. She'll block you and leave town. So either romance her or don't.
Think its a good idea to disassemble weapons for components in the early game to upgrade iconics and cyberware. I used to always just sell everything but honestly you dont need that much money in this game. By the time your level 40 youll have plenty from gigs and jobs. Unless you wanna buy every single vehicle (which is really doable) no need to sell everything
you can actually max out everything if you have phantom liberty. The dropships sometimes have perks and attributes shards. Also if you cycle all vendors and ncpd drops you will have alot more attribute and perk points than your lvls would have granted you. If you hundred percent the game and grind the drop points, it will take you about 20 hours after reaching max level to max out everything.
Dan we need more Cyberpunk2077 content choom
I've been scrapping everything since i started and im still swimming in ED's while also being able to upgrade equipment ahead of my actual level/what was available at the ripper docs. :P
Hmm, selling unwanted guns? I dunno what you'd need that cash for. If you do gigs and simply play the game you'll have enough. More than enough to buy anything you want. Crafting components on the other hand are way more important but you will reach a stage where those are superfluous too but that's much much later.
So out of curiosity, what do you use your eddies on so you feel you are in dire need of them over crafting materials?
The “soul killer” we see of Jackie is nothing more than memories on replay
Don't care if this is comment spam, it deserves its own space. Other people have said this but I'm gonna take it a step further. NOT breaking down trash weapons is the mistake. Money is easy to come by if you just play the game. You're clearly committing another biggest mistake. Ignoring Gigs and side hustles. Get these done and you'll have more than enough money. You NEED those components for upgrading.
On behalf of everyone else who has called you out on this one I'd like to request a re-up with that part edited out. Even if you personally believed it a mistake, calling it a "big mistake that can ruin your play through" is taking it way too far.
What I do is I complete the main story up until the point of no return, while completing any missable objectives, and then I go through all the side quests. It definitely helps with the attribute checks in side quests
engi path perks is worth more than the few eddies. who greeds for money anyway unless on an unlock-all run?
I'd say "check your junk for jewlery before scrapping it all" is the better tip
I have found on my current playthrough that selling weapons above Common works well. I scrap the common stuff and the clothes and junk and at level 30 I have like half a million eddies.
10:20 .
If you aren't a "super crafter", you are nerfing yourself. Most of the best stuff in the game is crafted. Upgrading stuff is essential. Tech is used in all kinds of ways throught the game and makes a lot of the game much simpler.
The mistake isn't breaking down guns. It's not taking crafting.
If you skip Panam mission i don’t want to talk you plus leaving with Panam is the best ending
I knew you were going to make one of Jackie since you did the one as to why not to save that one dude hahahaha
My previous playthrough I was trying to investigate poorly with River to geo to the wrong farm, but I "accidently" investigated properly :(. I also wanted to do the secret ending with that character and didn't select the right stuff but I got the Kerry questline for the first time after 4 characters🤔
I'm gonna be honest for the new players.. if you're into cyberware, which of course you are, do what I did.
As I played, I picked up everything and when I became over-encumbered, I stock-piled it into my stash. Hundreds if not over a thousand weapons were in my stash before I dismantled them. Why did I do this? Because although you can sell your weapons, you need a ridiculous amount of components to max out your upgraded cyberware. So after a while, check out your stash and just dismantle away. Obviously, sell your low-tier gear for a quick payout, but always dismantle the higher-level items. If you want money, play the game. Do gigs, side missions and start the DLC so you can access the car grab missions which will give you a good bit of cash each time, and the discounts for new cars. So yeah. Good luck.
None of these really ruin the platthrough. The closest is maybe Jackie since you miss out on his bike and pistol and a few side missions.
I have done so many playthroughs and I am actually using a guide this time to make a proper netrunner build
Big Dan my guy!! Your videos are awesome dude
I always finish johnny and panam mission I like the nomad ending plus I break down my guns and melee BECAUSE u need the components for cyberware upgrades
Literally just started playing cyberpunk for the first time and I gave Jackie's body to Viktor and I'm too far in to go back and redo it again....whoops :( We'll get it next play-through 😭
Don’t sweat it, this game has so much to offer. I thought I’d only play it once and put the game down but I am doing another character choosing different choices. Enjoy it :)
it doesn't really matter, you actually get more content with Jackie now
Jackie dies and his cold dead body is stolen. But in the end all the "engram" is is a copy of what ever had yet to rot by Arasaca. No major change to story. You get his bike with less work have a vehicle to hold till your car is fixed.
Buying the ps4 version could also count
Skipping all the ''main'' side quests is a sin, at that point you did not even play Cyberpunk.
The only thing Iwill disagree on is the breaking down weapons. You will make more then enough Eddies just by doing the side jobs, gihs, and police crime to do anything you will ever want to do in the game. So breaking down or not doesn't really matter. I would ho further and say you should never sell the Orange gear. Because that is the fastest way to build up the tear 5 crafting components. Oh and more more thing. One of the attributes you should always have at 20 is Tech.
And depending on your build, breaking down funs and crafting stuff will be your only way to level up the crafter improvement tree which does give some very noticeable upgrades to all cyberware
I think limiting playstyle by not allowing attribute respecs is a mistake. They want you to spend more time on another playthrough I imagine, but they could have made a NG+. I ended up maxing all attributes with mods
How can u say Judy best when Panam literally exists T-T
first time playing through I sent jackie to Viktor boy did I regret that one highly. one play through I did side with maiko over judy I felt terrible for betraying her but to be fair I was playing corpo and focusing on big payouts.
When I played, and I haven't played it in a long while; I always usually skipped Johnny's quest. I never skipped Panam's though, because the best ending out of all of them, is the Nomad ending, with a female V, and Judy as a 'love interest'.
But Johnny.... I just hate that SoB. Always have, always will.
I played through once. Never looked up a walkthrough or guide or anything. And somehow I managed to make all the right choices to get the secret ending. Didn't even find out it WAS secret until a couple months later.
You should've included picking the wrong dialogue options in the oilfield and getting locked out of Johnny's ending
The River thing lowkey got me sad, can you imagine going through all that and a FREAK tells you on your face that these KIDS that were hooked up like cows had it coming? I'd do the same thing, he looks so damn sad and pathetic in that last call too.
(Judy is not best girl)
With Jackie, I think that was him, but he could only respond certain ways. But if you listen to the responses, you can tell what he was saying.
You should always break down stuff that's at the max lvl of component you can get/need. Everything else gets sold. Money is less important than component, and I got enough by just playing the game normally and following this strat to buy pretty much everything in the game, every vehicle included. Maybe later on you can be satisfied with selling even lvl 5 guns and buying lvl 5 clothes with the money, it can give you the same components for a bit less money but it's not that much worth worrying about.
Jackie must’ve died during the transfer or died in the car. His brain unable to receive oxygen.
Meaning what ever engram of Jackie that was created wasn’t whole. Corrupted and somewhat sentient.
Judy is best girl. Glad someone else thinks so. I think Panam is a bit bitchy and uppity. Doesn't mean she's wrong about Saul, but her way about going about handling him could have been done with a much cooler head. Honestly, I think Panam is more chaotic and more likely to jump out a window and be surprised it hurt than Judy is.
Panam is the only reprieve you get after losing Jackie. The problem is that most people see her as some piece of ass, but she has the most fun missions and the best chemistry with V, especially with female V, since male v and panam mostly drool on one another instead of bantering and exchanging quips. Also she has brilliant ideas, can handle a rifle... With panam you go through some shit. You get her car back, kill some raffen scum, unload an EMP on the city down an AV, kidnap a corporat, commit great train robbery, commit grand theft tank, drink beer around a camp fire... Panam will go through hell and back for you, put her family at risk she is ride or die. With Judy you watch some snuff movies and go for a leisurely swim and then she ditches you.
Meanwhile Judy is an uptight, naive girl who truly believes there's a happy ending to be had anywhere in Night City, or anywhere within reach of corps. People have flaws, how surprising.
During 'The Hunt' mission, I didn't get the choice to choose one of the farms. The game itself chose the farm and boy am I glad it was the right one.
great video!
Im pretty sure youve been able to reset attribute points for a while now.
I didn't save Takemura because Johnny made me think he was dead. I'm on my first playthrough and completed the main story and I'm still upset about it.
I sent Jackie to Victor because I thought he might be able to revive him in some way. I was right in the worst way.
Not sure how many others realized this, but Arasaka would’ve never known Jackie was at Vik’s if you hadn’t led them there after Takemura and V kill the ninjas on the highway.
I have tried hard to mess up the River quest to get to choose the wrong farm and after several attempts I haven't been able to. It doesn't let me leave the braindace before I have checked all the necessarly clues. Some guides to this say which clues to ignore but it hasn't worker for me as it just simple doesn't let me leave.
I sent jackie back home. Bro was a real homie. Stuck with us to the very end 😢 I'll miss you hombrè
what are u talking about cant reset attribute points`? u can absolutely do that, i play on 2.12 and always had the option to reset them once lol
aside from that: wow, i wasnt aware u could f up Rivers quest at all, didnt think it possible tbh lol
I swear I sent Jackie to Vic with the best of intentions 😭🙏
The 7th biggest mistake is romancing River.
Judy and Panam send a message by the time River sends his 10th message to flirt. So, it's either being bombarded by a message from that guy every 5 minutes or having a permanent notification on your phone.
I'm praying for AMD to release FSR 3.0 within the gpu driver, so I can use to play Cyberpunk with RT On
I disagree that scrapping your weapons insetead of selling them will ruin your gameplay. I agree that the story points are fail chances. You get more than enough weapons to sell/scrap. And besides, you get a crap load of legendaries that you need materials to upgrade to keep them relevant.
I can almost imagine Johnny & Panam skippers being upset that the game has not much to offer and it's too short...
my first play through i never smelt the roses, got the devil ending lmaoo
Scrapping weapons is one of the best ways to get crafting components. I'd rather have a stronger iconic weapon than a couple thousand eddies
Selling guns is kinda useless. I've never not had enough money in this game, granted I don't buy apartments and cars. However ive always been lacking on legendary parts so to the scrapyard they go
Thanks for the video
I can't think of a better fate than rivers in this. It's the best choice
Disassembling guns? hell naw, i love my juicy crafting components. ;p I literally loot everything i can see, even when just driving by and a box pops up...ill get out and get it. it's just how i play, ill sniff out every inch for loot like a police dog. ;p Besides gold comes massively from gigs and those police objectives, usually by the time in my lvl 30s, 40s and 50s...i'm sitting constantly at like 500--800k eddies. Couldn't spend it all if i wanted to. Well, you could by buying guns...but you get better ones in the world anyway so that's a waste of money.
Subscribe guys or Arasaka will engram you
Imo you should both break down guns and sell them. Because you need components to upgrade stuff. So tactically choose what to break down or sell.
Most logical answer i've seen. If you do enough side content you don't really need to sell them that much, but if you need a quick big payout, it's a good idea to sell them to get what you're missing. Tho most of the time i would just break the for materials