Edit: There is a greater untapped potential with the Microcyber and Tetratronic Rippler which I don't fully delve into here. I felt personally that playing a pure-runner with Overclock all the time left you very vulnerable. That is still true. However, it seems there are specific methods here that CAN work frighteningly well! I want to do better by both of these decks and I will, in dedicated build videos, as well as possibly a new quickhack ranking, which shows off some of the most broken new combinations we can use! Thanks for watching Choombas and thanks for Chippin' In with your suggestions as always. Your comments often help me steer the direction of this channel and figure out which videos are most helpful and ought to be made next!
Personally, I think the mistake you make is that you have an image of ''what a Netrunner should be'' to much stuck in your head. In your head a Netrunner is someone only using smart pistols and monowire doing stealthy stuff. But I'd say netrunning isn't as dedicated, even compared to 1.6. Even if monowire or smart pistols are considered being part of netrunner fantasy, why can't a bulky meathead with a crowbar and a LMG not be a very strong netrunner? I think CDPR really wanted both to expand on stealthy netrunning fantasy while also providing tons of options for guns-blazing netrunning. The Microcyber is honestly more something for a John Wick Netrunner, being a Netrunner that goes in gun blazing trough the frontdoor with like a LMG/Shotgun and tanks everything while hacking multiple enemies with combat QH and seeing his enemies burn into a crisp by combat quickhacks. So a build mainly specced into body and intelligence. and just a walking force of destruction with combat and Ultimate QH. The Rippler is more something for marksman kind of build focussing on a silenced pistol. Upload combat QH > keeping Ping up > when target is low HP instantly kill with silenced pistol > cloak. In a way this Cyberdeck reminds me of the Infiltrator role in Mass Effect, in which you're just walking around in the fight cloaked, find a spot and shoot with a sniper. Biotech is mainly for builds that have problems taking on bulky targets or out-of-reach targets, and I'd say Katana builds with monowire support, full monowire or some shotgun builds. These builds for example can use QH's to deal with snipers and use monowire for bulky tier 3 enemies you want to deal with quickly without wasting tons of stamina. Netdriver is for really classic netrunning. Basically the goal is playing chess inside bases. You mainly wanna use cars detonations and turrets to create as much chaos inside a base as possible and weaken them like blowing up a lot of goons with car detonation, take over turrets and use things like Cyberpychosis before you even enter (or just kill them completely), alternatively you can kill key targets, I'd say it also works really well with snipers, as even if they hear you and are alerted, you're so far away nobody sees you or can touch you (and no, it is not boring at all). Canto: are for netrunners that have mainly specced into overclock and kinda wanna make their own fun. This cyberdeck adds nothing special but a very OP cool quickhack. Make your own fun with this one. Paraline: a cyberdeck that is basically the default ''cosplay as Netrunner Cyberdeck'' with support for smart weapons and monowire. So if you're really into that fantasy of a Netrunner always using smart weapons and monowire this is the deck for you. Just like the Canto it is also very versatile, but does not offer a lot of bonuses for either stealth or guns-blazing. Also unlike the others the 10% QH damage is kinda flat, so also the perfect cyberdeck for people who want to use netrunning as an ''addition'' rather than Arasaka as you describe, secret agent stealthy guy, but if you get detected you're basically dead. I'd personally rank them as follows: 7) Biotech: Might be very weird to use, and it is somewhat confusing what kind of build it is really going for, as there are better ways to deal with bulky targets. 6) Arasaka: Very good deck for stealth, but feels very boom/burst. Covert QH aren't that expansive anyway. 5) Rippler, you need to get the feel for this one, but it mainly focusses on you taking down targets with pistols and keeping Ping up, and reposition with cloaking. 4) Paraline: the most ''simple'' cyberdeck for peeps who really want that Netrunner fantasy, it is also very versatile. 3) Canto, very versatile as well, as long you invest in intelligence you can do whatever you want with it, but with full hacking commitment in Overclock if you wanna use Blackwall effectively. 2) Microcyber: Speccing full body, going in gun-blazing, churning out QH's and see all fools die around you. 1) Netdriver: You kinda have to hack in a new way, you're either far off with some sniper or are sneaking around doing takedowns/knive throwing, use vehicles and turrets to create as much chaos in a base as possible and just enjoy all the chaos around you as you walk towards the objective like it's nobodies business. But honestly, with the exception of the Biotech all of them are very close to each other. If you're good with being a Marksman the Rippler will be your nr1.
Netrunning is not nerf, it is much stronger than in 1.0 due to Overclock. If you have high HP regen, high health item regens and cyberware recharge, you reach a point where Overclocking all the time actually works in your favor because every enemy killed regains health and increase cyberware use time (and recharge), which means more Overclock hacks. Though this means some high end Phantom Liberty Cyberware like Camillo Ram Manager and Axolotl. But the result is amazing: The more you kill in Overclock, the more you heal, and the longer you stay in Overclock and rinse and repeat. Overclock literally does not end until everything in your sight is dead, or you get hit by a lucky stray bullet (which happens a lot on Very Hard regardless of builds) Stealth is niche in 2.0 because quickhacks and 5 points in Reflex for the Dash ability completely negates the need for stealth. For pure Netrunner I think Reflex and Cool is absolutely useless, Body and Tech is the way to go. Tech allows you to have extra health item charges, heal % and recharge, plus more cyberware room.
Not sure if others suggested this already but Rippler + Cybersomatic Optimizer might be the highest single target damage you can do in this game. Synapse Bournout + any Controll hack should 1 shot pretty much anything in Overclock. With enough health regen you can throw in in Sonic Shock to go stealthy and synpase bournout should keep overclock running until all enemies are dead.
Rippler gives u +12 RAM when fully upgraded which kind of compensating you those additional spending on 3rd hack if u even need it, counting on a fact that sonic shock iconic version costs a whopping 2ram and implant malfunction cost another whopping 4ram with dis 2 hacks its no problem of reaping all benefits of the rippler, but yeah i am personally playing 2 smart SMGs that u never need to reload(tnx devs for Submachine fun) so when enemy notices me(somehow) that i am here i am immediately going battle mod with overclock + optics reboot (+40% head dmg ) + implant malfunction (+15% dmg, multiple instances if enemy is extra thick) and in between those 2 u can slap overheat for its full buffed dmg and +20% of thermal bonus dmg to your weapon dmg bcuz of the fact how overheat works now, and as u understand with 2 smart SMG that never need to be reloaded u can start shot your enemies from around a corner non-stop with such speed that they will be not able even move their finger XD
My humble opinion. With the raven deck, most effective way I’ve used it so far is sonic shock, contagion, overheat, and then detonate grenade. Also, its usually easier to get the ram cost down for detonate because explosives are usually always around and you can turn enemies into explosives. Can also just let the dots end em too if you all the top tier gear, but for lower levels using a tier three, or purple contagion along with a tier one overheat is a mean and neat combo. Things just corrode, burn, and by your choose explode.
Just FYI, the Tetratonic Rippler MK.5 Tier 5++ version (from Phantom Liberty) gives you 12 extra ram instead of the 5 extra ram you get from the base tier 5, which in my opinion makes it better than all the others
It's not pointless when you can do the same thing you're doing with overclock but not consuming health or using overclock to do it. Not everyone is OK with dipping into their health pools to quickhack, me being one who has gotten through the entire game on very hard difficulty using this exact cyber deck without needing overclock at all. 45 total ram with a Ram jolt is pretty beastly.
The raven mk3 is my absolute favorite. It allows me to spread contagion and then queue up over heat on everyone for a massive nove of explosions. Paired with the new iconic explosive pistol things go from stealth to everyone explodes into a million pieces simultaneously. Note the 5++ version gives you +100% spread distance
Try Synapse Burnout + the Iconic Bioconductor. Synapse Burnout extends Overclock with each kill, the Optimizer guarnatees crits, the damage scales off RAM used and scales double in overclock, up to 800% extra damage in Overclock, which then is also a guaranteed Crit, that extends Overclock. Synapse Burnout deals between 7k-70k+ per hit with this. Heal on Kill implant + Blood Pump (activates instantly) + Body tree to go infinite. Only downside is it trivializes combat, even on Very Hard, but it's a fun power fantasy.
@@scirrhia_kruden Ok, I've tried it, and you are absolutely right, this is insanely broken. The Raven 5++ is the absolute best deck for this by the way, because with overclock it has a 65% chance to double or triple the amount of Synapse Burnouts across vast distances. The cyberware investment is absolutely brutal of course, because you need 20 for the Raven, 50 for the Iconic Optimizer, then you need to stack memory boost, ram recoup, ex-disk so that your RAM amount isnt completely trashed by the -8 RAM from the Optimizer, which means 41 for those. Then blood bump, biomonitor, heal on kill is another 40. That is a shitton of cyberware points, but oh boy is it worth it. Synapse burnouts just keeps your overlock going forever, and with the amount of HP you recover from blood pump, a few points into body for regen, a few points into tech for better heal item charges, etc. What's more, the more Synapse kills, the less it costs, so you truly have infinite RAM. I tested this on Very Hard and kept murdering the cops at maximum heat for 10 minutes until I got bored. It blows up mechs in one hack, it does 20k base damage on anything it touches.
A little tip, if you use sonic shock before the blackwall, the blackwall isn’t counted as activated allowing you to queue it to another enemy. You can clear an entire base if you upload 3-4 blackwall to 4 different corner in the group.
Also sonic shock also loads the hack faster for me, but without blood pump bio monitor I gotta work out the best method to stay immortal during my cyberpsyco moods
@@arcadealchemist Queue some expensive quick after Blackwall, like Sunnyside or psyChosis, you get the ram back because of skills and whatnot and monowire siphons RAM in AoE during oerclock
It's kinda unfortunate tho to think that this isn't anymore the case apparently, with another unnecessary nerf coming from these butthurt assholes working for CDRP, clearly deadset to make the stealthy netrunner playstyle as much frustrating and unplayable as possible for some really stupid and questionable reasons, with the aggravating of being a god damn single player rpg game. With the tier 4 of Memory Wipe being now the only viable option for a pure stealth netrunner build, and considering how much expensive it is to use in queue on multiple enemies, they made lowkey impossible to stealth by any means with Blackwall Gateway. Thus making by fact the Tetratonic Rippler mk.5 the only reasonable and useful cyberdeck to main. That is unless you like even to use your guns every now and then. In this case, the Paraline is another top tier option.
I have to say I just love the camera playstyle. In my first playthrough I played a brute that just went into every building guns blazing. Now in my second playthrough I’m playing the camera Netrunner, which feels so great to me. Whipping an entire building without every entering it just feels so amazing to me.
It was even more amazing when the game first came out. Back when the top tier ping quick hack let you hack through walls. I felt like a true god. Taking enemies out without even entering a building is so satisfying. : )
100% agreed. Particularly from an RP perspective if you really get into the character/build nothing feels cooler than wiping out the interior of a building/exterior guards then walking in to loot them after standing idly on a street corner 😊
It's really hard to rank them properly because of how they cater to different styles. Personally, I've found the Tetratronic Rippler Mk. 5 to be the best for a pure netrunner build that doesn't really use other weapons.
Arasaka in the otherhand is quite viable of youre using the tracing system,while the tracing is 80% slower using the t4 memory wipe or just takedown to reduce cost for system collapse making it almost always 4 ram My fave combo is system shock into reboot optic kunai headshots Certainly give the ninja netrunner vibe for role-playing
@@tangahkoncek6841 Main problem with the Arasaka is that Sonic Shock at blue tier or higher makes your hacks untraceable. It's so easy to just queue that up first that once you get to that point there's really no reason you should ever have to interact with the tracing system ever again. Slower tracing is a cool idea in concept but it's just objectively worse than not getting traced in the first place.
Been looking forward to this one. So nice to have simple guides explaining options rather than just doing a "best build". Sounds like the game is now geared for owning multiple cyber decks and switching to the one you need for each situation.
It’s rather what style you want to roll out. You can get the same gig done using any Cyberdeck, if V’s properly tuned and controlled. So far, I feel, Raven Mk.3+Prototype: Shingen is the most mindless combination. Wipe out trash pulls so fast with so little control input. I play on very hard.
@@0ff_13lvck4if you play on PC, there's this mod called RippedDeck that will allow you to do so. Here's the nexus mod link: www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/9302
The Raven Microcyber deck is my personal favorite for its ability to upload Contagion to all enemies within spread distance at once. Combined with incendiary grenades (guarantees Burn within range) to detonate Contagion (at Tier 5) and the Warning: Explosion Hazard perk (which massively increases explosion damage against enemies affected by quickhacks), you have an amazing "oh shit" move in case you get overwhelmed. Best case, you can hit Overclock, then do Contagion on 15+ enemies and then detonate all of them using incendiary grenades. If you have the Pyromania and Burn This City perks (from the Tech tree), you can potentially do this in an infinite loop, since Contagion affects up to 5 enemies at once, and Burn This City replenishes a grenade charge after 5 explosion hits. Enemies affected by Contagion are obviously already close together, and they don't move much while they're affected, so if you aim well, you can hit all 5 with one explosion and immediately get that grenade charge back. If you don't hit all of them with the explosion, you temporarily gain a lot of Mitigation Chance, which greatly reduces the damage you take in case the enemies you missed survive Contagion and start attacking again.
I love the explosion perk because of the large amount of tanks and whatnot you can make explode, one shotting the random enemy walking past one of those never gets old.
Body is probably the better companion for Netrunner builds now instead of Cool. Adrenaline rush gives a nice safety net when going hard on OC, and makes the Bloodpump a better Ram Manager. You are probably going deep into Tech anyway for the Cyberware perks, so you can easily grab the healing item bonuses. With high level Synapse extending OC on kills, its almost like playing with a Sandi/Berserk. Pop OC and you can clear entire buildings without ever alerting anyone as long as you lead with Sonic Shock. For all the changes with Netrunner, it still has a similar progression curve as pre-2.0. It takes a little strategy early, but once you get T4/5 hacks you have all the tools you need to decimate any encounter before they even know you are there. You can invest into Cool/Dex for all the mobility, stealth speed, and Camo shenanigans, or just brute force hack with body and kill everyone before they even have a chance to start noticing you. Doesn't hurt that Adam's Smart Shotgun is rad as hell in 2.0.
Healing item bonuses? Why not the ram on neutralize stuff since. Overclock makes health = Ram. 1 point of ram = 10-9 points of health. Good cyberware rolls give you 0.19-0.33 points of ram per neutralize on each piece. Overclock has perks which make health stuff and ram stuff affect your health. On top of that, it’ll give you ram even if you use a quick hack or not. Which in overclock means you get more health on each kill than you do normally.
@@nunumusslulu i ended up going 20int 20 body 20 tech, 15 reflex and rest cool, once you use air dash its hard to go back, even if you get busted, i find it as a good escape option
Rippler is the best for my build: A Combat Netrunner. I don't use hacks to sneak like a undetected ninja, but to weaken enemies and finish them all with a single strike.
It is indeed pretty damn satisfying to damage a skull level enemy heavily with short circuit and cyberware malfunction, then weaken him to headshots with reboot optics, before delivering the killing blow with a silenced Nue shot, all within 3 seconds. I also like combining cyberware malfunction, reboot optics, weapon glitch, and cripple movement on multiple enemies, then unloading on them with yinglong or some other smart weapon as they helplessly flail and fumble with their jammed guns and blinded optics.
You did amazing job with this. You’re right on how it’s hard to rank them now with all the changes to them in 2.0. Personally I use the Tetratonic Rippler MK.5. While I do mainly do stealth, I also like doing open combat and the Tetratonic seems like a nice balance for both with all the sweet RAM space. Can’t wait to see the rankings for pistols and submachine guns.
Tetratronic rippler is amazing and here's why! When you reach endgame you can go infinite with ram by using the perk that gives back 80% of the ram cost of queued up hacks, here's how it works: u start with sonic shock, then your choice of damaging hack, then a cheap control/covert (I use the tier 2 reboot optics) then the most costly hack u can upload. The last one is going to be half cost but the 80% recover is based on the full cost and, since the damage hack boosted by the rippler is gonna make the kill i go even on ram, or even positive! The extra ram is also nice cause the full combo is infinite only if you have enough to fully upload it and it can be costly! In my experience no other cyberdeck could even come close in late game, it feels like I'm stronger than 1.7
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I play on very hard and don't care about being traced. With the rippler just sandwich short circuit or synapse burnout in between control quickhacks and you'll destroy everything. That +40% damage is no joke.
This. The 40% extra damage just from putting a cheap control quickhack right after in the queue alone already makes the Rippler my absolute favorite. The extra ram and more damage with smart weapons is just the glazing on top.
I’m really loving the Tetratonic. Really need to use the synergy with other quickhacks and Cyberware though. For example go sonic shock tier 4 > short circuit tier 5/iconic > reboot optics tier 2 than followed by synapse burnout or even an ultimate quickhack will get you all your RAM back since then enemy will die typically at the short circuit and you get 80% of the last thing in the queue back which is already discounted so you spend 10-15 but get 20-25 back. If the enemy doesn’t die and you hit him with an ultimate you’ll get 50K+ crit damage (since it’s multiplicative) and at that point nothing is going to live through that (thought I saw Krazegaming getting 100k crits I haven’t pulled that off yet granted overkill). Meanwhile you haven’t even been detected everyone is dead and your RAM and health are full. Again requires a lot of synergy. I guess the only fault I see, although a bit of a nitpick is you need kill one enemy at a time so you get all your RAM back. I’m betting you’ll see a zero damage play through using this deck (minus forced damage of course).
I was using the Tetra first, but switched to the Paraline at legendary, as the bonuses had more synergy with my build. The Tetra is great though. I just love the auto upload of reboot and disarm when you pop overclock. What kind of build is the Tetra best suited to, do you think please? I'd like to get some more use from it.
@@D00M3R_MAVS e.g. Builds that don't use any +RAM cyberware but use monowire and/or guns/melee. You focus all your damage multipliers on the elites, spam some contagion on the trash mobs, pop overclock and then go ham with constant monowire finishers for full RAM refund. Trace ? What's that lol. Everything is frozen in place and puking. I am using biotech on my hammer/netrunner build. Spam all the DOTs while spamming blood pump for max adrenaline, overclock, spam more till hp is at 25% which refunds blood pump. Then wrecking ball through them, quake in the middle and start flinging fools. It's glorious. I get DOTs ticking for thousands while blood pump/adrenaline is always up.
@@rhodan74 nice. I might watch the movie "hackers" I've never seen it before, and they have an aesthetic in that movie, that is really close to cyberpunk. I was joking the other day, that my Runner looked like an extra from "hackers" :D
Honestly it sucks the game doesn't have a proper NG+, it'd benefit and compliment the game massively, allowing you to make different choices for different resolutions and rewards. Be fun going through everything again with a Militech Canto, killing everyone with horrific daemons that tear their nervous systems to shreds.
@@newnamesameperson397how so, of the 4 endings, this route has the 2 worst of the dlc, either you kill so mi, dont get a cure, reed is trapped working for the FIA, or you dont kill so mi she is "cured", but reduced to a crippled blackwall access point as her mind has been torn to sherds by malevolent AI, little to no memories or autonomy left, you literally wipe johnnys engram, alex dies as well, reed is once again duty bound to the fia, AND worst of all you become a husk of your former self, no cyberware, no friends, no legend.... The alternative to this is, alex is in monte carlo free of her duties, reed dies but is set free, you fuck over the bitch president, so mi is actually cured, johnnys engram is savable, night city doesnt abandon you and you are free to seek other avenues od being cured.
@@newnamesameperson397 As a long as inevitably ending as some kind of braindead sack of meat with your personality being erased and overwritten by a bunch rogue AI, falling for the rest of your life both slave of the Blackwall and Myers temper tantrums enters in your personal sphere of "freedom" then yeah, no one can actually argue with your logic.
Good list, though as you say it's harder to definitively rank these now as they each have strengths and weaknesses for different areas, like the bonuses to the Monowire for CQ or hacking through devices.
If you pair axotolt with Militech Paraline Mk4 with Ying Long you get infinite Overclock since every kill reset the countdown for Overclock making Ying Long to autolock on every enemy it has it sight on and the electricity damage just shred with Ying Long have a chance to proc EMP blast. It shred enemy on hard difficulty.
Tetratronic is top tier on a COOL headshot build. Remember that when you reboot optics you get 15% weapon damage + 15% headshot bonus. Add to that stealth/headshot bonuses and stealth+slowmo chrome. Who needs sandy when you have access to control quickhacks, camo and kerenzikov? It’s effective even with low INT and slaps all content on very hard. Allows you to max COOL first and then level tech/reflex/int as needed. I just dominated Sandayu Oda with the silenced Kongou on very hard. Reboot optics and bling bling bling.
Love your 2.0 coverage Sam, I was trying not to spoil myself watching your excellent videos. However I was able to finish one playthrough of Phantom Liberty this weekend. And I went full monkey mode with berserk and found it really fun. And was looking to go through as a stealthy nethacker my next run and well you release this video. Kudos and good health and continued growth and prosperity.
For me as a full stealth netrunner the Tetratronic Rippler is the best. Upgraded to T5++ it gives +12 RAM and Combat Quickhacks get +40% damage if you throw in a cheap T2 Reboot Optics for 2 RAM into the queue after them. With it you can fully clear small groups without tracing in one go without need to activate Overclock mode. It also automatically applies Reboot Optics and Weapon Glitch when entering Overclock mode. This can be a good thing as in addition to the quickhack effects you instantly get the +60% quickhack damage buff from your perks, but it can also be a bad thing as it can causes tracing to start, so you have to check your distance when you activate Overclock mode in case you want to avoid tracing. In early game I used the Arasaka deck for some time, but on the long run its just bad as it does not has any useful stats: Longer tracing is irrelavant if you never get traced. Less RAM cost is also not useful if the only covert quickhack you use is Sonic Shock which is already at 2 RAM minimum cost in its iconic form and even without this the increased RAM costs is fully mitigated by the extra RAM of the Tetratronic Rippler. RAM after takedown is only useful if you actually use melee takedowns. The Overclock ability is not very good as it does not prevent tracing and you want to use another quickhack before your combat quickhack anyway to get the +60% damage buff, so you can just open a queue with Sonic Shock which works in and out of Overclock mode and fully avoids tracing. The Militech Canto is a meme cyberdeck. It's cool, but you actually don't want to use it. It does not has any extra stats and only has four quickhack slots. It's main selling point the Blackwall Gateway has very slow upload speed and can get quite expensive. You can achieve the same damage with other quickhacks much quicker. The Netwatch Netdriver can be nice if you need the extra +15% damage to take out an enemy, but once you have the cyberware with 100% crit for quickhacks I never had this situation. It's main use for me is farming car stealing activities as the -50% RAM cost is very useful for blowing up enemy cars chasing you. I haven't used the remaining cyberdecks much as they didn't offer anything useful for my playstyle.
I really like the raven. In combination with a fire damagin weapon their is often a chain reaction between enemies when contagion is going on, clearing multiple enemies at once with 5 bullets.
Try Synapse Burnout + the Iconic Bioconductor. Synapse Burnout extends Overclock with each kill, the Optimizer guarnatees crits, the damage scales off RAM used and scales double in overclock, up to 800% extra damage in Overclock, which then is also a guaranteed Crit, that extends Overclock. Heal on Kill implant + Blood Pump (activates instantly) + Body tree to go infinite. Only downside is it trivializes combat, even on Very Hard, but it's a fun power fantasy.
Contagion and psalm 11 6 or the metel revolver with firecracker on it or even ogou smart pistol are a recipe for mass explosions with the raven. Im going to switch to it when i get home.
I use tetratronic rippler . With the following pattern. Sonic Shock (t3) Short circuit (t5) Reboot optics (t1) Synapse burnout (t5) Iconics on t5 if possible So with the reduction of cost with last hack in queue and 80% return of unreduced cost you can just constantly upload this combo to weaker enemies. If they are strong enough to survive the short circ crit then the crit from synapse burnout ends them.
@bluger711 it's more why spend ram you don't have too you don't need the effects of t5 sonic shock and reboot is only there to give the 40% boost to short circuit with tetratronic why pay for them. The bonus damage on synapse is already enough that if short circuit doesn't end them it does. Makes you more able to spam it without overclock and keeps you healthier when In overclock
Tetratronic rippler is the best cyberdeck for endgame. Using a overclock body build with the cox-2 co you can cast unlimited hacks which Crit for 80-90k. This is achieved by uploading sonic shock then synapse burnout followed by two tier 2/ iconic reboot optics. Sonic shock prevents tracing, synapse burnout has increased damage the lower you ram max 400% for tier 5 600% if iconic, following this with reboot optics give the 40% damage increase from tetra and adding another reboot locks the queue adding another 15% damage. Add on top all the other damage boosts from Int tree and one from the body tree you will basically one shot anyone and be able to upload this onto 5-6+ people and once they die you can cast it again on more people thanks to health regen. Plus synapse burnout increases how long you can use overclock, add on top the axolotl. I've been able to do XP, money and cyberware capacity farm without dropping overclock once. Tetra is OP.
Should be noted, this video seems to be ranking from the perspective of a mostly stealth oriented playstyle. For example, if you're more of a run and gun style, Raven deck + Shingen Mark V prototype clear entire rooms with one contagion and a few burst fire rounds. Nothing else even comes close. And for this playstyle, trace doesn't matter because everything dies in seconds even on Very Hard.
I love the Biotechnica deck with the "extra dmg per hack type", "ram generated on monowire hit", and "ram regenerated applies to health during Overclock" perks. It turns a monowire build into a lifestealer melee class with crowd control and stealth nukes. The extra dot dmg and duration from the deck means a Sonic Shock and Overheat combo is overkill for low tier enemies. For mid-tier tanky enemies, add in a cyberware malfunction to the combo finish them off. But for bosses: weapon glitch to keep them close range, a full stack of cyberware malfunction for the massive burst dmg and permanent electric dot, overheats as availble, and finally a thermal monowire (more dots) while using Overclock. The thermal dot from the monowore gets boosted, and the ram regained from monowire hits heals any damage received. Adding in Adrenaline from the Body tree and you become a lifestealing tank.
Seems early on I caught onto the fact that the new arasaka was gonna be great, with even its baseline having that 40% tracing (Although I've mostly once again gone with sande/biodyne beserk in my corpo rn, but nomad and making use of like shingen prototype/genjiroh seems also like a fun idea)
The best thing about arasaka is once overclock, you can going ham spreading daemon and it will not increase the trace meter like others, and the combo of covert into damage daemon is very cheap
I love the overclock mechanic, I have yet to run into a group in either a stand up fight or a stealth situation that I could not utterly demolish in one short overclock use. It's just divine to run into a big angry boi mech then tear him apart from the inside out. lol
Sam, if you are using Tier 5 cyberdecks, then you are missing a key difference between the cyberdecks: the max RAM on the Tetratronic Rippler scales with 5+ and 5++. A tier 5++ rippler has the stat line "+12 Max RAM", for a total of 20 base RAM. No other cyberdeck scales well with ++ levels. It is honestly better in all situations than all other cyberdecks as a result (once you have Iconic Sonic Shock, which costs only 2 RAM).
The Militek canto while I know Blackwall gateway isn’t optimal there is just something so fun when you get it to run perfectly. And I generally only ran memory wipe/ping, short circuit, synapse burnout, and sonic shock before getting it so I’m not that hurt by only having 4 slots.
I still use netwatch. Old habits die hard. My ram regen is very similar to pre 2.0, its probably because my netrunning skill is nearly maxed. Legendary synapse only costs 8 ram after using a single legendary malfunction that only costs 4. Netrunning for sure isnt dead
I f****** love this guy...... His videos always help me out so much..... I love cyberpunk but sometimes it's hard to understand what I'm upgrading and this guy breaks it down easily. Thanks for being one of the best RU-vid channels man.
Great ranking, some very good pointers on combo play. None of the decks perform optimally for what I've tried to build (Net-slinging pistol/revolver and quickhack V) but the Firecracker mod on a silenced pistol combo'd with the Raven has gotten me close ...and given me a few absolutely spectacular group fights.
Tetratonic allows you to do damn near everything fairly well. I actually use smart guns a lot, so the extra quickhack damage and gun damage is pretty nice. But I can stealth a mission if I wanted to, depending on if I wanted to kill them or not (also due to the netrunning branch in general). But this deck has the ability to do the most damage out of all of the other decks. It especially shines on boss battles.
NetRunner isn’t my primary build anymore, it’s just there to take out Snipers and enemy NetRunners. My primary DPS comes from Erebus, and it kills everything. The way it makes enemies scream is truly evil, and I love it.
Rippler may still be the best depending on your play style. Extra ram allows you to potentially upload contagion 3 times. Start a fight by uploading it once into each group of enemies (usually there's not more than 3 groups), then use thermal dmg (Shingen Mark V smart smg works best) to explode contagion - kills everyone on Very Hard and is fastest clear for groups of enemies as a netrunner.
I have a rippler and a paraline. I use the paraline for my general build, but the rippler I seen potential in, so have one anyway. I'm not quite sure what to do with it in terms of builds, but the extra RAM is certainly nice. also the auto upload of reboot and the disarm hack to all targets within 8 meters, when you pop overclock, that just sounds awesome. Not sure if it works in practice yet, but it sounds great.
Contagion only uploads 3 times with the iconic version, it has nothing to do with the cyberdeck you use. Contagion damage caps at 2 stacks, unless you have the iconic tier 5, regardless of the deck
With the Tetratonic Rippler you can play completely just with your quickhacks and not need to touch a weapon for hours on end. I use the queue combo of Sonic Shock->Short Circuit-> Cyber Malfunction->Synapse Burnout. Usually you will kill the enemy just with the Short Circuit and get 80% of the RAM from the Synapse Burnout refunded. Add to this Cyberware that adds extra RAM if you fall bellow 20% of total RAM (there is even an Iconic version of such cyberware) and you will be able to clear fast entire groups with this single combo, not get detected at all and do not need to activate Overclock. I also use cyberware that allows quickhacks to crit, using the iconic version means that all your quickhacks will crit. Short Circuit should kill in 90% of the cases on a crit if placed within such a combo. :) Moreover, if you add System Collapse in your cyberdeck and do one or two stealth takedowns, you will also trigger the two stacks of this Quickhack and have a -24 RAM on its cost. You can have a very cheap Ultimate in reserve and everytime you use it, you will still get one stack of System Collapse (-12 cost). This combined with your complete stealth approach can make you the ultimate Shadowrunner. The extra ram from the deck (up to 12 total RAM at tier 5++) pairs well with the Precision Subroutines perk (+2% accuracy per Max RAM with Smart weapons). It is easy to reach at least 40 Max RAM with this deck (you can go up to 50 with some consumables) and have some very precise smart weapons. Hitting your enemy is better than the extra damage some other decks give you. Having 80 to 100% additional accuracy makes you the equivalent of Baba Yaga from John Wick, especially if you have some of the Reflex perks that allow you to shoot and reload while moving.
I use the Raven deck. I use it for Contagion, followed by overheat to make an explosion. It's great when enemies are close together. I did have a tough time choosing though. Self Ice definitely helps.
I find it somewhat funny that I sticked to the Paraline from the start, and now I realise it's one of the best cyberdecks of the game. I really like the fact that it's very versatile.
One thing to note about the Rippler is how the 40% damage buff synergizes with Blood Daemon, Queue Mastery, and Data Recycler. Blood Daemon gives 40 HP back for each queued hack on kill. If your buffed up second quickhack kills and you have a locked queue of 4 hacks, you get 80 HP back, the equivalent of 8 RAM if you're overclocked. Data Recycler refunds 80% of the quickhack cost of queued hacks on kill. This seems to be calculated before the 50% discount from Queue Mastery, so you effectively gain 30% of the RAM cost of the last hack in the queue as long as it doesn't upload. So with a queue like T3/4 Sonic Shock + T5 Synapse Burnout + T2 Reboot Optics + T5 Synapse Burnout, the first Synapse Burnout gets the 60% extra damage from Embedded Exploit, 40% from Rippler, and 15% from Queue Mastery. The 80 HP from 2 Blood Daemon triggers should fully cover the cost of T2 Reboot Optics after quickhack resistances against non-netrunners, and the 80% refund of the second Synapse Burnout should fully cover its own (reduced) cost and effectively give you a 30% discount on the first Synapse Burnout.
I love the Arasaka deck simply because I love doing stealth and oftentimes do more takedowns than hacking, so I'm refreshing my RAM very often. With the bug of System Collapse stacks lasting infinitely, it synergizes amazingly
Rippler is still great if combined with Synapse Burnout (Damage increases by 10% for each RAM unit currently spent (max. +400%) as fully upgraded gives +12 Ram combined with obnoxious frontal Icon Cortex 100% crit on Hacks, gives numbers without even uploading more than obscene numbers, combined with slow on each deck like a sandy while you pick and choose, makes it lethal plus extra fun doing it by running in and spreading the 8 m joy of glitching and not seeing. Again, depends on playstyle but 2.0 encourages and many scenarios demand adapting to range of foe or foes. Edited: rushed in to say about rippler as tested decks myself and I didn't leave a comment on how much I appreciate your efforts to do a subjective list. Thank you.
Heh! Watching this makes me feel validated. :D I chose the Arasaka Deck for precisely the reasons you mention, and it has been awesome. Thanks for such a clear, informative video, btw. I enjoy how, unlike many RU-vidrs who focus on gameplay, you cut through the repetition, chaff and hyperbole (do they get paid by the word?), and just deliver all the important information.
Just a heads up, I don't know if you already know, but it wasn't covered in the video, so I thought I'd add a tip. Suicide quickhack grants health, so when used with overclock, you essentially have infinite ram. I get chunks back with synapse as well. Pretty cool tbh.
Tetatronic Rippler gives you +12 RAM, it's the best deck for hybrid builds and pure runners hands down. All those leggie quickhack passives have you spamming detonate/psychosis/burnout etc non-stop with insane cost reductions. If you happen to get spotted (not traced) just activate overclock and spam those disables. Trace is a non-existant "problem" at higher levels, there are dozens of ways to circumvent it completely (mem wipe/reboot/sonic) without touching any enemy.
I've been waiting for this video. I use the Biotech cyberdeck, with my only physical weapon being the monowire. Damn thing slaughters when overheat + control hacks have been uploaded. I've specced into tech, body and reflexes, allowing me to fly all around each combat encounter like a deranged hyena while letting loose with the wire and hacks. Absolutely love this playstyle.
I went from despising the Arasaka cyberdeck before 2.0, because it felt so selective like I had to play only one way, now it’s my main cyberdeck because I can play with a mix of quickhacks, stealth takedowns, and guns. Previously I was using a legendary silenced Nue, but now I wanna spec into Smart weapons to better compliment quickhacks in combat, don’t wanna do the end of the game for the smart weapon in Adam Smasher’s secret room, so I’m gonna do Stadium Love and get that weapon.
Little tip for anyone using the Canto: get the perk which allows you to hack an enemy netrunner which then spreads to nearby enemies if you don't have the ram to spread it as intended
Was about to write this same comment. It even is thematically appropriate for this quickhack to be used this way - a parallel to hubris of net-runners who delve past blackwall only to be consumed by those who wait in the dark. Enemy netrunner literally opens a gateway to their death trying to trace ya.
Tetratronic Rippler is soooo broken. This should always be your first deck, before you start reaching higher levels and don't need the extra 12 Ram anymore. The +40% damage on just following any combat quick hack with any old 2 Ram costing control hack is such a nice Ram saver. Instead of queuing up 3 short circuit, just que 2 and have 2 cheap controlls after, does WAY more damage for less cost (due to synergies on perks AND deck). I tried the Raven... which whould be my favorite, if the spreading was consistent on Contagion... which I found it was not. Sometimes is spreads to 3 guys around a car and a guy across the street. sometimes I just hits 2 of the guys around the car... feels very buggy :_:
Tetratonic, like everyone else has said, is really the most op vs practically everything so far. I one shotted every cyberpsycho in very hard with the combo of sonic shock->short circuit->reboot optics->synapse burnout. The damage is just that high.
This take on the Tetratronic Rippler is real bad. It's likely the strongest cyberdeck in the game for pure damage, due to its synergy with Synapse Burnout. It gives +40% damage and a huge chunk of max RAM to facilitate the maximum damage bonus of +800% in Overclock, or 1200% with the iconic quickhack. Take the Blood Daemon and Data Recycler perks, upload Sonic Shock > Synapse Burnout > two non-combats of choice and deal well over 2k damage even without the autocrit cyberware, then gain a huge chunk of health and RAM while adding 5 seconds onto Overclock uptime per kill. As long as the targets have 2500ish HP or less, which covers most enemies in the game even on max difficulty, it's an infinite loop of Synapse Burnouts.
Something that works with the rippler is there are non combat quickhacks that deal really good damagw like cyberware malfunction. So do sonic shock -> short circuit -> cyberware malfunction will one shot a ton of stuff
I posted this as a reply to a comment below, but I thought to repost it upfront so more people might see it. "The balancing act is to weigh the cost of the RAM/Health expended vs the damage done. You want the 3rd hack on the chain to be as low a RAM cost as possible. It is not the effect of the quickhacks itself, it is the +40% to Short Circuit damage(from Tetratronic Rippler) that is what you are looking for. If you are so focused on additional damage, you could replace Reboot Optics with a green Cyberware Malfunction. If your target is a boss it might take another round of the chain to finish them off, and in that case the second stack of CM will increase the damage by 10%. This is my chain(requires Overclock): 1) Ping(Covert; 12 sec) -> 2) Sonic Shock(Covert/Control; 2 sec) or Cyberware Malfunction(Control; 10 sec; for solo targets) -> 3) Short Circuit(Combat; instant; Ebedded Exploit x2.56 damage) -> 4) Cyberware Malfunction(Control; 10 sec; 2 stacks; Rippler +40% damage); follow this up with Overheat(Combat; 2 sec) NOTE: This will usually 1-hit anything. Adding Ping to the start of the chain doublestacks the damage bonus you get from Embedded Exploit(x2.56 damage)."
The Biotech deck would work incredibly well if you can focus your cyberware upgrades to get as many Crit vs Burning bonuses as possible. Overheat + Thermal Damage Monowire + Crit vs Burning + Cripple on Monowire would absolutely melt bosses. Contagion should be a secondary thought with that deck.
When you use all the quick hack damage buffs you can with the 100% quickhack crit you can achieve some truly disgusting critical hits of upto 75,ooo damage (my personal best so far)
I one shotted Hansen using the Tetratronic Rippler. 40% extra damage with a combat hack along with the iconic cybersomatic optimizer (that gives 100% crits for quickhacks) melts enemies. I think I queued up cyberware malfunction, short circuit, reboot optics and finally synapse burnout and one shotted the Phantom Liberty boss.
I think you'll find that the arasaka one is one of the best for open combat as well. Using ICEPick and the one that reduces cost for every unique type of quickhack in combination with tier 3 sonic shock (you arent using it to stay stealthy) it becomes literally free to use, it costs 2 and cheapens things by 2 Using this with "embedded exploit" means you are not only adding 1 to your queue to benefit from queue locking and acceleration, but you get 60% extra damage on ALL quickhacks. Due to this, you can also use blood daemon by doing major overkill in overclock, for example sonic shock + 3 short circs, from my experience on very hard the first one will kill and you will be healed for 80 hp, 40 if it takes the second one to kill. This is essentially gaining 8 RAM for spending about 7 to 9. You get infinite quickhacks and infinite health, in combination with the queue refunding you essentially get given RAM for free as it recovers your health and refunds you the ram you did not spend.
One point on the Rippler I think is easily missed...your perks reward you for filling up your queue, even if the later hacks will never get used. Data Recycler restores 80% of RAM of hacks later in the queue, and this is *before* any discounts. This means you can do, say, Sonic Shock (6 RAM) -> Synapse Burnout (14 RAM) -> Cyberware Malfunction (3 RAM) -> Synapse Burnout (8 RAM), which is 31 RAM total, and since the first SB will usually kill the target, you get back 80% of 4 and 16, or 16 RAM returned, costing 15 RAM total...less than the cost of the first 2 hacks. And this doesn't change as SB stacks, so when your first SB is down to 10 RAM initially and the last is 5 RAM, the entire pattern is 24 RAM and returns 15, which means you can kill enemies silently for a mere 9 RAM/9 health. This gets even better with Overclock and Blood Daemon. A total of 9 RAM in Overclock is 90 health (you get health back with Sublimation) and Blood Daemon gives back 40 health per remaining hack in the queue, which will usually be 2 for +80 health. Making the whole combo in OC after the third enemy neutralized a mere 10 health cost. When combined with the massive health regen bonuses from Feedback Loop and Speculation, I find that I'm continually *gaining* health as I use this combo while OC'd, basically letting me chain it indefinitely, and since SB kills also add 5 seconds to OC, enemies just keep dying even on Very Hard (I think the COX 100% crit effect cyberware is bugged as the crits seem WAY too high in damage). The Axolotl also seems to both reduce OC cooldown and extend duration, too. I've tried to use the other decks multiple times but I keep coming back to the Rippler on Very Hard. It's just insanely strong when combined with certain cortex iconics.
You are sleeping on the power of the ripper. That 40% extra damage...added to the guaranteed crit of the Cox Optimizer, Ram Allocator, and Axolotl when used with a Biomon and Blood Pump, means you one shot everything and never run out ram or health. 200k damage is easily the best damage in the game. Cyberware Malfunction, then Synapse (which will also give you 5 more seconds of overclock when the target dies), then double stack System Collapse. This means you get 800% extra damage on the Synapse, 40% from the Ripper, and 1000% damage from the Cox. If your perks are right, you get 80% of the collapse ram back, plus 80 health every time something dies. Which is everytime you stack someone due to the massive damage they get from the synapse. Blood pump will fire off everytime you get low, and its' cooldown it less than ten seconds with the axolotl reducing it every time something dies, and it stacks with the allocator to give you a chunk of ram too. Stack until you can't, release the scan for two seconds for the heads to pop, then repeat. Target dies, you recover most of your ram and nearly all your health, take on the next group. All without ever being detected if you want. Maybe one could argue that the ripper isn't needed for this...but I disagree. That 40% makes for big crits. But hey, you do you do.
My go-to is the Raven, dumping loads of contagions and using that iconic prototype arasaka smg makes them explode and also makes detonate grenade dirt cheap too. Also works very well with synapse burnout.
Raven is fantastic IMO, simply because at T5++ the spread is distance is +100% giving Contagion massive AoE spread potential. Then switch to the Shingen Mark V, fire a few round and watch as everyone explodes, especially if enemies are close to each other for chain reactions. Getting traced is fairly irrelevant if everyone is already dead by the time they start firing at you. Combine it with Overclock + Synapse spam and you pretty much kill everything 2 seconds into the fight. I find the Canto as one of the worst, actually, simply because the RAM costs are insane, and you might as well overload and spam Suicide. It's cool for the lore aspect, but having only 4 slots is crippling for any serious netrunning build.
After a (long !) deliberation, I finally went with the Tetratronic. First of all, it has the highest ram. Then, against "bosses" such as cyberpsychos, the +40% is soooooooo helpfull in higher difficulties ! With more crowded locations, being stealthy is often possible without a dedicated cyberdeck. And if you need to take down multiple ennemies at once, the extra ram is a huge help.
Rippler review wa so bizarre. Its not for mixed play. Its for dropping up to 6 enemies at once, in the space of 1 to 2 seconds. The Ram boost is the hint. Forget sonic shock, if you're getting a drop point, hit OC , then put an synapse burnout on each enemy. Do this as time stops when you scan. Turn OC off 'before' you turn scan off. All enemies will drop dead, and your OC will instantly be ready to use again. Its the equivalent of the sande 'turn on/off'. Bar the (arguably) best canto deck, its the joint second with the netdriver
I would move the Tetratronic Rippler up to #2. Adding a relatively low RAM cost non-combat quickhack such as Reboot Optics to you hacking queue is not a significant drawback combarred to doing an additional +40% damage. Sonic Shock->Short Circuit->Reboot Optics is a killer chain. With particular tough enemies you might have to add an Overheat to the end of the chain, but it is usually not required.
@@RicochetForce The balancing act is to weigh the cost of the RAM/Health expended vs the damage done. You want the 3rd hack on the chain to be as low a RAM cost as possible. It is not the effect of the quickhacks itself, it is the +40% to Short Circuit damage that is what you are looking for. If you are so focused on additional damage, you could replace Reboot Optics with a green Cyberware Malfunction. If your target is a boss it might take another round of the chain to finish them off, and in that case the second stack of CM will increase the damage by 10%. This is my chain(requires Overclock): 1) Ping(Covert; 12 sec) -> 2) Sonic Shock(Covert/Control; 2 sec) or Cyberware Malfunction(Control; 10 sec; for solo targets) -> 3) Short Circuit(Combat; instant; Ebedded Exploit x2.56 damage) -> 4) Cyberware Malfunction(Control; 10 sec; 2 stacks; Rippler +40% damage); follow this up with Overheat(Combat; 2 sec) NOTE: This will usually 1-hit anything. Adding Ping to the start of the chain doublestacks the damage bonus you get from Embedded Exploit(x2.56 damage).
I don't really understand your reasoning for putting the Canto at two when you concede that you can really only run Blackwall on it, and Blackwall will chew up your health/ram in any combat situation. By contract Tetratonic gives you more RAM at the top tier, more slots for different quickhacks, and if you follow the damage patterns easily takes out enemies large and small to the point where you don't even need some of the damage it does. I feel like it makes sense to swap their positions. Plus you don't have to do betray songbird to use the Rippler.
I just got to level 30 on my second playthrough, having only been playing for about three weeks, and I only now realized how lucky I was to find the Paraline on the first run. I don't have a preferred playstyle, I try everything, and that one is perfect for flexibility.
tetatronic is the goat when it comes to the strongest build, the infinite synapse burnout build, IMO, simply due to the extra ram, and being the biggest potential damage buff for the skill. You already 1 shot 99% of the game, and dropping a bunch of burnouts in the queue and finishing it with a low lvl reboot optics for the massive 40% bonus obliterates anything tougher. There isn't really anything hyper specialized for the playstyle but it's already so broken anyway, tetatronic is kinda just the only option that you can really get something out of.
The Netwatch one halving the cost of vehicle quickhacks isn’t just useful for car chases. It’s also gloriously fun on rampages against the civilian populace, where you can Overclock and then just self-destruct like seven cars at once from a hiding spot. Is it niche and not particularly useful? Yes. Is it fun as hell to hide somewhere and cause an epidemic of spontaneously exploding cars before vanishing into the city, terrorizing the populace of Night City? Also yes. It’s freaking glorious.
Contagion now is not only poisonous, but also explosive - spread contagion across a group of enemies, shoot one with a weapon that gives burn or lob an incendary grenade or queue overheat and the detonation of the first group member will hit all others and set off their detonations, the ripple effect producing enough damage to kill them. I killed half a dozen Barghests with just Contagion and one salvo from my Psalm. There are also other Combos that have powerful effects, it's now more important than ever to carefully read the secondary quickhack effects.
I may not agree on all these placements, but the video does a good job of explaining what each different deck does well, and I think that’s more important
Something that may not be immediately obvious for netrunner builds is that the double barrel smart shotgun shoots 16 pellets, and the mech core smart weapon mod gives 5% chance of a quickhack. Which, yes, means every shot has an effective 80% chance, provided all the pellets hit a target. Definitely an interesting weapon to keep in your back pocket for close ranged encounters.
I'm actually really into the Tetratronic Rippler right now. First I was playing an SMG "solo"; heavy investment in tech for the armor and extra cyber, body for the health and regen, and reflexes for the SMG skills. So what OS do you get? Sandy and Berserk are both useless - so a deck it is. What can you do with 4 intelligence? Well, get a rippler, load it with green quality hacks, and upload low level controls on EVERYONE, leaving them utterly handicapped and taking 15% bonus damage. Grab a Fenrir and watch the emp procs rip them apart in a shower of sparks. Win. Now I'm doing a proper in-yo-face netrunner with smartguns. This is medium range build, no stealth or melee. I'm not sure what I'll be using at a higher level - but again the rippler comes online at a low level, and does an amazing job progressing up the levels.
Militech canto is definition of insanity - just find enemie netrunner: and make his "secret wish" come true by - establish connection to blackwall. Express ticket to hell for all his teammates as bonus.
Unrelated, but in my current playthrough I have noticed just how prominent "No Future" is throughout the entire game. It shows up before a tragic/awful event as if it is the games tragic punchline. Some of the places I have spotted it is on the side of the vertibird Johnny boards in his intro mission (Kinda hard to see, but it is there). It is etched onto the elevator door in the mission where you save the woman from being harvested for cyberware. It is painted onto the box containing a man hunted by the Tygers. Its visible in the background in the mission sinnerman when you are visiting the diner. There probably is a lot more instances of this that I have not noticed.
Thanks for this. I was curious to see your recommendations compared to what I did. Most were the same although I did still like a few boosts to allow me some katana play. Your views are certainly different from others - I think the Rippler got many votes as the best - not to my taste. I have to admit I was old fashioned and just picked up my beloved Raven as soon as possible and then the Netwatch when I was able. Rarely used the Netwatch through the cameras and totally useless in the big running fights you get into at the end of Phantom Liberty trying to get Songbird to the Orbital Air shuttle but it still worked for me. (that took 2 attempts - you are not wrong about the one shot kill on Lvl 40 -50 Netrunner builds). However now that I have finished PL (and boy the "good" ending left me determined to go out in a blaze of glory rather than live as ... well spoliers - although starting all over again is a V speciality so ... and I still had my 2mil eddies to keep me company).
For anyone that is curious and able to mod the game, there’s a mod that lets you use the black wall Daemon quick hack on any cyber deck by adding it as a ordinary hack. Still functions the same.
I agree with the assessment of the Arasaka deck (although the ranking, as you said, is to be taken with a grain of salt); In my first playthrough, I ran a Super Stealthy build which relies on not getting caught ever, plinking baddies in the head with silenced bullets or just using takedowns, and then stuffing their bodies into convenient corners and boxes. The Arasaka deck is built for this, and it is glorious to behold when I've snuck into a base and then got out without a single enemy ever knowing I was there. A surprising amount of the game has special outcomes and bonuses for stealth runs, and it can get rather lucrative despite the extra effort.
The arasaka deck with the right perks and the one iconic cyberware that makes quickhacks guarantee crits can basically give you infinite overclock with just synapses burnout while also being a 1 shot to all non boss enemies without any other quickhacks in a que
I'm AMAZED you put Raven last. It's by far the best for run and gun combat. Pair the Raven Mk3 with the Cybersomatic Optimizer (Iconic Bioconductor) for GUARANTEED crits, then spam Synapse Burnout in Overclock mode. Synapse Burnout EXTENDS Overclock with each kill it gets, and scales based on used RAM, with the scalar doubled in Overclock, and I think the scalar operates at max if you've used all your RAM even if you keep using health for quickhacks. The build I use is Raven + Optimizer + Synapse Burnout + Heal on Kill + Blood Pump + body tree for Adrenaline. You one-shot everything except cyberpsychos, which you instead 2-4 shot. The least amount of damage I ever do is around 8000, if I have full health and RAM, but it scales all the way up to 70k+ per Synapse Burnout. It's so busted that when I got the Canto, I was so disappointed, because it was such a massive downgrade, like day and night. I kinda want to use the Canto just for the AI dialogue, but I'm not willing to nerf my build by as much as it does just to unlock that dialogue. EDIT: Also, as someone else pointed out, the Tier 5++ gives +100% spread distance. Nothing comes even close when it comes to clearing enemies, no matter which enemies, on Very Hard. I killed Hansen in 2 Synapse Burnouts. I hadn't even realized it was Hansen until I checked the corpses, I just killed everyone as they came through the door, the only notable thing being that one of the enemies took a second Burnout.
I have since changed my mind from the Paraline to the Raven Micro. Cox-2 Cybersomatic Optimizer and Synapse Burnout is all you need during overclock and you can wipe everything in minutes. Synapse can spread and it often will causing multiple enemies to go down giving you infinite overclock
Something you seem to have missed about contagion is that it has a synergy with Overheat/thermal damage, causing the enemy to explode dealing massive damage to itself and those around it. Making Contagion much more viable.
they may have nerfed my Nurgle contagion build, but the trade off for the new talent tree is worth it. I still feel like a good netrunner build can walk into a room and kill everything in seconds without needing to take a step.
Im not gonna lie the ripler is still king it gives you so much damage and extra ram that with overclock active and some healthback perks you can litarly kill every single one of the enemies before trace even reaches 50%
One of the biggest "Oh shit" moments in 2.0 was when I hit Intelligence 20 and could spread Suicide. Combined with Overclock and some decent Perks, you could make an entire encounter off itself in under a minute.
As a pure Netrunner, I just run with the Tetratronic Rippler MK5. It's done me good and I do carry a pistol just incase things don't work out with Hacking lol
Hi sam! Love your vids, help out so much 😊. I was working on the best ways to make the Canto more practical and I think I’m onto something. Four things 1.) Biomonitor 2.) Blood Pump 3.) Tier 5 synapse burnout 4.) Sublimation perk Tier 5 synapse extends overclock if it kills an enemy. The idea here is to pop overclock, apply Blackwall to the furthest target and go nuts spamming synapse burnout on targets not being hit with blackwall. As you spend your health and ram, you start to get both back overtime as long as overclock is active AND biomonitor will keep your health in check as you hack. But then it gets extra stupid because thanks to synapse’s extending effect, you’ll make back most of your resources as blackwall keeps going, it’s especially useful since blackwall’s upload starts so slow. But let’s say you mess up and blackwall ends early, no biggie, spam again and again. If you wanna get EVEN MORE STUPID. Adrenaline Rush, Ticking Time Bomb, and Spillover makes overclocking feel godlike. Now granted, you can do all these same things with a different cyber deck and just synapse. That’s where I start to get stumped, making canto do something actually unique with this idea. But at least you can use Canto without it being too…disappointing
Wait! @Jay-bz8zo cracked it! If you use blackwall as a queued hack instead then you can continue uploading blackwall to several different targets effectively making use of all the ram you’re getting during overclock. Combine this with my own strat and BEHOLD devastation.
The Raven Microcyber works best when paired with the Iconic Smart Submachine Gun Prototype: Shingen Mark V. Since this gun fires exploding shots that inflict Thermal damage in an AoE and a chance to cause a Burn on each enemy they hit, you will very quickly detonate the Contagions on a large group of enemies in a chain. At max level with the COX-2 Cybersomatic implant you can put points into Tech and Body to increase your bonus healing, pop Overclock at the start of the fight and just Synapse Burnout on enemies. It deals massive damage with low RAM and guaranteed Crit with a chance to spread will quickly eliminate enemies, each of which will increase your Overclock duration by two seconds for essentially infinite duration. Doing the occasional System Collapse will help keep your trace progress low and if you take the Shadowrunner perk an occasional stealth Takedown will reset it entirely (Optical Camo implant greatly assists with stealth Takedowns in combat). And finally, if you take the Counter-a-hack and Copy-Paste perks, any time are targeted by an enemy Netrunner, you can immediately hit them with a single System Collapse that will spread to their entire squad, eliminating huge groups of enemies at once with a single upload.
Though I don't agree with your conclusions and rankings, I really like the summarizations and considerations. Thanks to you I found the best cyberdeck for my playstyle!
On reflection, the ones at the bottom also have great abilities that I simply didn't fully understand when making this video. I agree with your take, they're good summaries but there's more I can develop here. Might do a 7in1 build video somewhen of the optimum build for each deck
Ripper is low-key insane for a katana build, actually Added pseudo Sandi (activates when somebody spots me, so every fight), so you simple dash in, murder someone in slow mo, overclock to blind them and dash away, leaving synaptic presents in their pretty head on a way out. Arasaka is the shit tho, since max lvl version of sonic shot costs exactly 2 ram, uploading it to everyone for free seems op, even if a tad bit repetitive
@@TylerKadle don't remember how is it called tbh The proc just states that the time is getting slowed upon being detected That along with the ability to just open scan midair to put things on pause to plant your next move and upload some cripple movements works for me Also slotted in suicide quickhack, since you gonna do tons of finishers with katana on cripple movement'ed peeps which in turn reduces ram cost for suicide by quite a lot
There's a perk that gives 60% more quickhack damage to targets affected by covert and controls hacks first. Do a Ping before Contagion and Raven deck will take down a huge number of enemies very quickly. With tier 4 Contagion + the perk that gives more quickhack explosion damage, you can add Overheat to the combo to really put the hurt on enemies. Tracing isn't as much of an existential crisis as people think. There are two Relic perks that allow you to exit combat mode which means they have to complete three whole traces before they're allowed to fight you. By the time they complete the second trace, the first perk is off cooldown so you pretty much never have to fight, traced or not.
