Board 8 > I'm starting Cyberpunk soon, what do I need to know?

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Decided to take a chance on the game. I am sooo lost with these controls. God, I hope this starts to make sense later, but I'm almost 3 hours in and this plays like a Bethesda game where the command inputs are all wrong. Also, how am I supposed to be able to do this?

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A1 -> A3 -> C3

Basically you don't have to start the chain immediately.

Oh. That's weird. And utterly fantastic for a literal tutorial when they don't tell you crap.

Thank you.

FWIW, I was not terribly into the game this time last week. I was stumbling over the controls and angry over the middle mouse button crap, but then the story and the gameplay both picked up, and I'm now at like 25 hours played.

Definitely the Cyberpunk experience. Takes a bit to click, but when it pops it pops.

Might have to hop on this train after I finish Signalis

I've been real busy all week but I am planning on being degenerate this weekend and doing nothing but play this

FFDragon posted...

I've been real busy all week but I am planning on being degenerate this weekend and doing nothing but play this

That's how I play games too nowadays.

FFDragon posted...

A1 -> A3 -> C3

Basically you don't have to start the chain immediately.

I want to say that better gear (cyberdecks, specifically) gets you more buffer space, and buffer space is basically your set of chances to chain the combinations together. When you inevitably reach the terminals that give you three options, look for ways that the options can lead into each other.

With all of that said, vehicle combat kind of sucks. Maybe GTA and Saints Row games spoiled me by letting me aim my damn guns.

Well...that was...an ending. Maybe I should have completed more sidequests first. And good lord, can I get an achievement for sitting through those credits? I feel like I earned one.

I love the game's endings, personally. Especially the unhappiest ones

I have no idea if I'm safe to click on that spoiler or not. I did the World ending.

Ah, I'd say that's one of the weaker ones, personally.

Just finally wandering into Corpo Plaza again.

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Game is pretty,

lmao just fought car GLaDOS

So my general game plan right now is rolling up to a fight, putting contagion onto as many people as possible, letting it spread for a few seconds then slamming overdrive for auto locking and shooting everyone with my fire bullet smg to ignite the contagion and nuke a whole building.

If anyone survives the opening salvo, overdrive is still up so synapse collapses for everyone.

Those are certainly words.

I just stab shit.

I can honestly say that I've yet to equip a melee weapon.

Melee started off slow. It was much safer to fire a pistol in the beginning. But now it's easy to just run around chopping stuff up. I didn't even spend my points. Just a matter of raw levels and gear.

If I play through again, I'll probably try netrunning as the focus instead.

Melee gets absolutely bonkers the moment you put a Sandevistan in your head. The ability to actually do the "anime samurai runs past all the bad guys, swings once, and they all fall over dead" is one of my favorite parts of CP2077.

That does not speak to me.

Netrunning in this game is everything I've wanted ever since I read Neuromancer back in the day.

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for no reason whatsoever

I am about to go on a scorched earth revenge tour against the Voodoo Boys.

They done fucked up.

I did that too. My V generally leaned non-lethal, except for those guys, they consistently got butchered as a message.

Don't. Fuck. With. V.

FFDragon posted...

I am about to go on a scorched earth revenge tour against the Voodoo Boys.

They done fucked up.

The only canon choice imo. Trusting Bryce makes sense but it deprives you of one of the most cathartic sequences the game has.

azuarc posted...

I have no idea if I'm safe to click on that spoiler or not. I did the World ending.

There is no World ending, on purpose. The endings are (name spoilers) The Devil, Temperance, The Sun, The Star and (Don't Fear) The Reaper. If you just got the first I truly recommend going back to get at least one more. It's devastatingly bad because it's not meant to be a satisfying ending, even if it is a valid one.

Also re: gameplay talk, both sandevistan.and hacking are an actual platinum standard for their respective niches. Deeply, deeply satisfying.

KanzarisKelshen posted...

There is no World ending, on purpose. The endings are ... If you just got the first I truly recommend going back to get at least one more. It's devastatingly bad because it's not meant to be a satisfying ending, even if it is a valid one.

The ending I got involved siding with the Arasaka sister. After we fought our way to the brother, dad gets implanted into his body and the Arasaka techs tried to help, but V is stuck on a space station for a good long while until I finally decided enough of this already and demanded to be returned to earth.

In any event, I did do another ending this weekend. I'm spacing them out. This time, I accepted Silverhand's help and went in with Rogue to blow shit up. I'm not really clear on what happened at the end with Alt, because I had to make some sort of choice at the end and I intended to let V have the body, but it sounded like I had somehow picked Johnny instead from V's reaction. And then I'm back in Night City, seemingly large and in charge of Afterlife, but going on some mission into space.

So, uh, that's cool, I guess? I'm assuming I know how to get at least two of the other endings, but I'll save that for next weekend. Or whenever I decide I'm done running side gigs.

azuarc posted...

The ending I got involved siding with the Arasaka sister. After we fought our way to the brother, dad gets implanted into his body and the Arasaka techs tried to help, but V is stuck on a space station for a good long while until I finally decided enough of this already and demanded to be returned to earth.

I actually loved this ending. It's so fucking depressing. Really tells you that you made the wrong choice.

When the daily pattern started repeating, I was expecting something more to happen. But no, it just sends you on your way.

azuarc posted...

When the daily pattern started repeating, I was expecting something more to happen. But no, it just sends you on your way.

What, the moment the cube breaks didn't get you? That was one powerful swerve as far as I was concerned.

That was The Sun, by the way. It's a good ending, though IMO there is an even better version of it to be found. You miiiight have gotten a nonconfirmed bug that swaps the dialog tracks. I think I recall this happening to me the first time I played through and not the second.

KanzarisKelshen posted...

What, the moment the cube breaks didn't get you? That was one powerful swerve as far as I was concerned.

Considering that was a vision rather than reality, no. It represented the start of what I expected, but there was no follow-up. Instead, they just offered me a chance to be made into an engram. There was potential for some serious mindfuckery there.

Which is exactly why it needed to go further.

I'll have to take your word for it. I knew nothing about any of that -- and still really don't -- as of the time I reached that first ending.

Yeah this game really really really wants you to do the sidequests. Some of them make this very unsubtle. I wouldn't say they're the meat of the game at all, but it's one where the rabbit hole runs pretty deep all told.

I mean, I'm over 50 hours in at this point, and I've done every gig I could find in 3 districts, as well as tons of general sidequests. I'm just not good at understanding and recognizing themes. I'm able to think of occasional moments that relate to what you've described, but it's not something I would have ever concluded for myself, nor do I see enough of it to feel like it reaches the level of "thematic."

I will ignore all this ending talk and throw an update:

I kinda figured the netwatch guy was being more truthful than not, but I really wanted to talk to Brigette so I just stuck with the devil that brought me. I didn't realize that that the Voodoo Boys were going to try and fry me AND half of Netwatch. I was insignificant collateral damage. I was pissed. That was where I had saved.

Last night I booted up and was ready to go to absolute war. I stepped outside the mall and the two VDB goons almost shit themselves when I stepped out. They said they could take me to see Placide if I wanted to talk it out. Oh yes, please do. We need to have... "words."

I get there and Placide about craps himself too and I was ready to go full rambo, but Brigette stepped in and basically forced my hand into helping them again. She also gave reassurances that I'd be protected. I had reservations, but it seemed like I had no other option.

The sequence that followed was amazing and one of my favorite in gaming in a long time. The whole Alt story was fantastic, but lo and behold, the VDB once again tried to use me as a tool and discard me. FUCK. THAT.

I got out of the ice bath and Brigette had the balls to tell me that Alt could protect me in cyberspace, but in the chapel I was on their turf so I should just walk away. And I could have. That was the first option...

...but I chose the second one. Which was to shoulder check Brigette and pull out my gun, to which I then proceeded to fry her brain and melt the VDB leadership. And I was sad that it didn't seem like Placide was there... until I found him guarding the exit of the chapel in what was a very exciting and cathartic boss fight. (Sweet trenchcoat from it as well) The convo after with Johnny seems to be setting up the endgame, and I also got a call from a Songbird which I think is actually the DLC now.

Productive night. Very rewarding. Game is good. Still haven't even called Panam lmao

Yep, that is indeed the entryway to the dlc. I feel it leads very directly to endgame so I'd go talk to Panam first before jumping in, but I kinda love that that's how you unlock it. it feels completely earned to get contacted right after wiping the VDBs off the face of the fucking planet. Who wouldn't sit up and take notice?

azuarc posted...

I mean, I'm over 50 hours in at this point, and I've done every gig I could find in 3 districts, as well as tons of general sidequests. I'm just not good at understanding and recognizing themes. I'm able to think of occasional moments that relate to what you've described, but it's not something I would have ever concluded for myself, nor do I see enough of it to feel like it reaches the level of "thematic."

Did you find the zen master? That's maybe the most obvious hint, I feel.

Umm, nope. Dunno who that is.

weekly bump to say I started talking to Panam and we absolutely eviscerated her old partner, which I think Rogue was not happy about one bit.

Also I finished up the Zen Master questline

Helping someone else's scorched earth revenge tour, good times

No comment on the Zen Master line...yet. Just noting it's very good you did it because there will be more to say about it down the line. It's not an important questline in terms of in-game lore but I think it does a lot to elaborate on the themes of the game.

also regina FUCKING KILLED SKIPPY WHAT THE HELL

legit gasped

Oh, I should probably update that I did a third ending this weekend, involving The Aldacaldos. I've got a lot of gigs to get caught up on, though. I've barely touched Center City, Heywood, or Pacifica so far, except when a larger quest sent me there.

See my problem(?) is I'm just floating from area to area, picking up quests as I go. I have no direction. I am Night City Batman. Except I kill (lots of) people.

Panam revenge tour 2.0 with the Hellman run. She is basically weaponized chaos at this point.

Saved right before interrogating Hellman, assuming Takemura will show up soon.

Good tasty loredump incoming. Assuming you finished Goro's path alongside the VDB path, it should be time to go do PL afterward. Hypehypehypehype

I legitimately could not figure out what PL stood for and had to look it up.

Can't speak for FFD, but I only bought the base game. =x

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Sucks to be her, I guess.