Essential Build Tips & Hidden Mechanics - Cyberpunk 2077 

Best cyberpunk build tutorial. I was waiting for this video for quite sometime and it's worth the wait. Can't wait to see your content for 1.7 and Phantom Liberty.

As a new player just starting out this is overwhelming af

After discovering that you could save scum for the new double shot quasar in severance package, I was buying and selling weapons for shits and gigs and discovered the hidden mechanic from weapon vendors about a week ago. I'm glad someone has finally made a video on this. Do keep in mind these weapons become super expensive when you reload your save to get those white text rolls. And also, if you are wanting to collect them all, they can fill up a lot of space in your inventory, especially the snipers. White text rolls that I found that can significantly make your build better: -eliminating vertical recoil on any AR or Sub (masamune vertical recoil +countermass +supressor = sexy sniper time, so goddamn satisfying) -fires double shot on any tech pistol (the omaha can be as good, if not better than lizzies with this roll) -ricochet engine on pulsar (without it, it's pretty much one of the most dogshit weapons for ricochet. with this roll, it becomes one of the best, as it effectively makes each shot ricochet 100% of the time. This paired with the perk that adds ricochet count makes for some really satisfying and unexpected angles if you’re going for a ricochet one shot build) -increases charge time by 75% for nekomata (can easily hit 300k crit on headshots under the right circumstances) -faster projectile velocity by 50% for ashura for far distance sniping -reduce lock on by 50% for chao and ashura. Have fast reload and u will feel like deadshot Ricochet engine and "does not require smart cyberware to use" opens up a lot of hybrid build possibilities as well :))

Finally a RU-vidr that understands the game and knows the power of throwing knives. I gotta say those Ricochet builds are insane, are you planning on making a tutorial on ricochet builds?

The Kiroshi Optics are really good for controlling mid air trajectory, especially with double jump via reinforced tendons. Slow down time mid air, to line up hidden dragon stealth kills with perfect accuracy. Just land on their head/shoulders and the knockout animation happens automatically.

My first clear of the game was (don't fear) the reaper done with an annihilation build, an epic Defender, rare MA70, and a legendary Headsman, with Johnny's full outfit and armadillo in every slot except for the shoes with low drag, stacked with like 3 death saves from second heart, biomonitor, and cold blood, and I just walked through the entirety of arasaka tower It was fucking amazing

This vid was EXACTLY what i was looking for! Just booted the game up for the first time since it came out and this is gonna help tunnel my in game choices.

im 9 minutes into the video and i can say this is the most complete and comprehensive guide of cyberpunk there is... in 9 minutes i learned more than in hours of watching other guides... like sometimes they would pass above something so basic as explaining how the lvl affects weapons and your lvl vs npc lvl... my god it costed a lot of time to find a guide that explained it wtf

Excellent in depth analysis of all things Cyberpunk play. Mods have become real touch and go as of late. Especially when you start stacking mods. So been of late playing no mods and actually having a real world challenge and very good consistency of expectations with game mechanics. You got a new subscriber.

Thank you so much for this guide. One of the most frustrating things about this game is the sheer number of mechanics that are not explained ingame. Without tutorials like this I would not have nearly as much fun!

I did NOT know that time-slow tech also slowed the Optical Camo! That detail right there makes this video worth it!

I just updated my install to check out all the new stuff. I haven't played since 1.3, so this guide was *huge* help. Thanks a bunch.

Currently on my first “very hard” playthrough so this guide is super helpful. Thanks so much! I’ll keep an eye out for ur post Phantom Liberty guide :)

By far the best explanation of mechanics and items I could find on YT. Thank you for this.

This is huge amount of work man,realy cool.

Just downloaded the game today.. this tutorial is so thorough and concise, you have earned a long time sub my friend 👍🏽

Going full Blackhand in this tutorial video. Impressive. I'm always pleased to see videos of those running it on it's hardest difficulty setting and actively using the systems in place to gain an edge. It is so close to playing the original Pondsmith era pencils and dice CP2020 RP that the nostalgia hits hard. (It's also a good indicator of if the person is a candidate for actually joining a CP2020 campaign sometime...)

I’ve watched 4 beginner videos and this was by far the best one. Thank you

Super great & useful video. Loved every second of it. Keep it up man

Incredible effort! Bookmarked for my current new run, thanks so much :)

A real Night City legend!

Thx man, my first V I am playing right now because I just started my first playthrough is a skill mess but I play on normal and it kinda works out. I started with Pistols and crafting lol and later changed to blades and quickhacks because basicly I wanted to try out everything the game has to offer. So my next run will be a preplanned build on hard difficulty and you video cleared many things up for me, thanks.

Wait, I didn't think gorilla arms body increase qualified for weapons. I need to look into that again. Could have sworn I checked it with the most recent patch. Love your work BTW. Nobody is this detailed and concise with how this game works and your videos have been incredibly helpful.

The legendary short-circuit passive explains why I was occasionally dealing 40k damage on my netrunner/problem solver build

I've been looking for Recent info on the updates since playing at launch. This was well covered.

Hands down best CP 2077 guide out there covers a lot of information others do not. You get a sub from me!

Probably the most informative Cyberpunk video I've ever seen

I learned fast to quicksave before every fight. Playing on Very Hard early can be tricky and saved me alot of time from the autosave.

Thanks my dude, very informative contend you have here

This is well made. As a new player building a netrunner, this tips and tricks are superb.

Excellent video, super useful for even advanced players.

thank you for sharing; a lot of this is really useful information man. cheers.

really good! i wish we could get some of the iconic weapon mods more than once!

You did such a good job explaining!!! Could you do a video about movement speed!? I want to create a build around maxing speed after 1.6

Double shot on senkoh sounds insane though. Only been seeing purple ones that say "reduce charge weapon time by 50%" and i've spent hours re rerolling at Jinguji lol

My lord. I platted the game when it first came out. I’ve come back to do other builds and it’s changed so much. Cheers for this vid.

Ty for the video, as a beginner this really helped my to understand more of the game.

This is probably the most useful video about builds in cyberpunk out there. I rewatched this countless times. However i dont think you can savescum vendors for the bonus effects anymore

Thank you for the video man.

imo, maxing only 2 attributes and distributing the rest evenly gives you the most survivable and versatile build for the end game, with very little difficulty even on very hard mode. Focusing into too many specializations just gives you too many that go unused, along with too many vulnerabilities.

Great content! I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on Berserk deck builds next, and if there are any fun niches they might fill too

We need those build videos!

I’m not that big into RPGs, I’ve hardly played them, much less completed one, so I played through this game like I would’ve played through any other open-world story-based game. Big mistake. As such, I found the game itself to be a bit shallow if not for the amazing story and memorable characters. In fact, it‘a in my top 3 favorite games just based off of that. It’s only after watching some of your content that I realize I’ve actually missed out on very crucial elements of the game and just how far I could’ve gone. I don’t know why it took me watching RU-vid videos to actually realize that the RPG game I’m playing could actually be played like an RPG, but that’s what it took. Now I feel like replaying it 100x over.

For anyone just finding this: be VERY careful with that rerolled line on the DB2 Satara "50% reduced charge time". On paper, this is by far the best, however, if you spec fully into the engineering tree, it becomes literally useless. This is because on any build that is actually putting points into the tech tree and taking perks to boost tech weapons, this will result a charge time that is actually less than 0 seconds. When this occurs, the game bugs, and the charge time of the gun defaults to it's baseline charge time, literally negating this line entirely. In my testing, you MUST avoid taking both points in Lickety Split (the charge time reduction perk). This is because leveling up your engineering skill nets you 15% reduced charge time total simply by leveling the skill (no perk investment). If you take 1 point in Lickety Split, the charge time on a level 50 satara will literally no longer be listed on the weapon card, because it is 0.0 seconds. But if you take both point in that perk, the charge time will be -0.20 seconds, and this simply negates the special line. So, if you plan to do this, you are technically hurting your ability to use other tech weapons by a small amount (10% charge time). Probably not that big a deal, but definitely something to consider. The 40% bonus charge damage functionally guarantees a 1-shot on any mob enemy at mid - close range.

Fafafafirst... my biggest end game struggle is finding non-story loot boxes. After the randomized loot change, I've gone through many old videos looking for these random loot box locations.

Been waiting for this for ages! very excited to try it out. How can I stack crit? is it done via reflex and armor mods?

Great list. I'd like to add a quick tip. While grappling a red skull enemy does not work you can still take them out with the Hidden Dragon perk arial takedown. Get to jumping and using vertically chooms!

Well done. Ty

For builds with at least 15 Reflex, Quaint Mk 4 Sandy can be bought in Japantown from Finn at SC 27 for around 28,000 eddies. It has the shortest cooldown of 15 seconds. If you combine 3 heatsink mods you can get this down to as low as 3 seconds of cooldown (3 Uncommon heatsinks can be bought but that only reduces cooldown to 7.5 seconds, need 3 legendary heat sinks to reduce to 3 sec but requires you to have legendary crafting or get lucky looting). But even with 7.5 second cooldown you will dominate encounters no matter your build... With 3 legendary heat sinks you will bullet time entire combats at will.

now i just wanna see a build for that Tech Handgun build you mentioned

I played a lot during launch. One frustration I have with the leveling system is how iconic legendary weapons are essential locked behind crafting skills. I wanted to do a max reflex/hacking/cool build for my next play through but legendary weapons and quick hacks seem to be locked behind crafting. I kind of get needing to invest something but if I'm putting in all those attributes just for crafting and not picking anything else up its a bit of a waste. Idk, haven't played in forever so I could be wrong. I heavily implemented the kerenzikov speed glitch into my play style. Jumping over cars flying over enemies heads. Dashing around, lots of fun. But patch 1.2 made it not practical to do consistently much less in the middle of combat. That was the most fun I had with cyberpunk and until a mod brings it back I don't think I can play on anything but patch 1.1. But I've already finished most of the content there lmao.

Excellent video. I learnt alot.

Nice, thx👍

Good video thank you

Would be awesome to have your spreadsheets in a google doc along with notes for highlighted things such as when to reroll and what to keep. etc

An excellent job sir.

My current build is pistols, katana and mantis blades,i just use smart guns, i played a more general build before, and had issues with sasquatch, this build i blew through sasquatch with my katana, all the coldblood stacks from killing other Animals meant i basically turned her into mist! Everyone was dead before i realized i was even fighting sasquatch.

Only one word describes this video: Perfect! Just perfect!

Great video, thx for tips. I always assumed that Armor mods like 1.5x armor level is not working. Did you test it, can you tell us if it is working? Keep posting.

I wouldn't say quickhacks don't need attributes. Intelligence got a massive buff in patch 1.5 as it now gives 10% quickhack damage per point instead of 0.5% in pre-1.5. You also want these buffs as a netrunner to mitigate the Contagion base damage nerf and the struggle to stack global crit chance that applies to quickhacks after the crit chance nerfs.

you making me wanna play this game again

Funny you said the basic pistol legendary variants are rare drops. I had one from 1.3 but never used it. Got another just 2 days ago and that Nue is pretty decent. For a good change of pace even if not as efficient as other pistols.

You Continue to be the absolute best cyberpunk RU-vidr out there! Thank you so much for those videos, straight up, non bullshit info about the game mechanics. That’s some nova content choom.

Okay so I am definitely investing in optical camo and sandevistan now, screw mantis blade, it cancels sandevistan as far as I know.

You should start doing build guides in general! There isnt really any dedicated 2077 channels uploading builds that go thru the whole journey. Most only show the end result and u truly understand the game ur guides would be so much better than the current comp

You’ve answered so many questions that I couldn’t figure out how to word in google.

This help soo much cause I prefer a guns of blaze type build

Does it make sense to save completing the gigs for last to get better loot? Level up the character through ncpd hustles, missions or farming. And after hitting level 32 return to the gigs for a higher chance of legendary loot from containers.

Love the video man! Just wondering, how are people getting this insane movement speed? I’ve gone through 2 play throughs but Ive never been a huge RPG guy so it’s overwhelming sometimes. I generally go for pistol/SMG builds so having a fast speed would pair really nicely with that

Hi O.D, Have a great 2023, 👍👍👍. Take care mate.

Me after watching this Video: You Savescum for better Loot. I Savescum for better Dialogue options. We are not the same.

Wow!!! I've been playing this game since release on xbox one and when that console up and died on me (thank you Microsoft for the amazing build quality) I had no choice but to purchase an Xbox x series and at least the quality upgrade on visuals alone seems worth it. I've lost count on how many videos I've watched, hoping to help my playthroughs....and your one video beats them ALL. How I haven't clicked on one of your videos by chance alone is beyond me, but a subscriber I immediately became. Thank you for taking the time to even make the videos in the first place.

I´m like 9 hours in on my first playthrough as Streetkid. probbaly to early to consider what im doing a real build but I´m trying to play as stealthy as possible, break as many necks as possible and if I get caught I oneshot with knife headshots. I love how balanced it feels that I have a rather strong stealth game and strong asf knife throws but lack proper hacking abilities, open door ability etc. this game is so awesome and finally a game I dont get bored of after 2 hours

I appreciate the effort you show in this video, but have you ever played Borderlands 2? It's a game designed expressly to construct builds, based on skill trees and legendary weapons

So what I gather from this is that cdpr nerfed the absolute shit out of alot of things

Do you plan on making an updated version of this video for Patch 2.0 and Phantom Liberty?

It is possible to sneak the boss out of the gym during the mission. as long as no one sees you with the body you are golden.

I am trying to find a GOOD LIEK stealth style tutorial just starting the game and seems overwhelming :D from looks of it you can do a bit of like Hitman style gameplay ( probably need to invest into hacking ) Do you have any good tutorial suggestion cause I heard u mentioned that some of the popular ones out there .. not perfectly accurate or hard to achive in some ways. I could't see one of yours upload here but I see you have buid like that. Ty in advance.

Damn, and I thought I know plenty about this game. Good video tho!

finally got to merciless (+50) at lvl 28, jeez its insane. you literally transform into john wick, if you manage to hit all headshots that is.

My only gripe is even at very hard difficulty, min-maxing is overkill. They need to add late game content aswell as Nightmare difficulty so there's a point for going more damage other than seeing high numbers. Bosses can't be oneshotted anyway since they patched the maximum damage they can take. A good example is Monster Hunter World. With fatalis gear, the base monsters become easy, but there are still 3-4 late game monsters that are challenging and actually need those gear to feel fair.

Is Technical, Body, and Reflexes good for very hard mode for the 1.61 patch? I was thinking on a Malorian Arms build, this will be my 3rd play through

Which is the maximum of ram you got it? ( With 3 of points ) and, which system of hack is better? Sorry for my bad English

That dude makes top tier content. We are not worthy

I just finished my first playthrough, and did all of the side missions/gigs/crimes in progress, and still don’t have any combat skills at 20. Athletics in particular seems like a horrendous grind, as I’m only at lvl 8 or so after hunting down every door to rip open and turret to rip off. My perk point total is like 84 or something, and I found most, if not all of the perk shards. Am I doing something wrong?

Alright here's a question I have wondered for a little while Why does it feel like (if you aren't going to clothing shops obviously) that the "Lifepath outfit" for V can carry you for a least a few XP levels better than some clothing drops in the game? Like no joke I can generally go to at least level 4 or 5 before I get a clothing drop that beats any or all of my starter equipment? This is something I've wondered for a while and if you can help me understand this that would be wonderful (also if you need me to explain this better I can do that) Edit: Also at 20:25 when the bullet point about "Enemy Detection" is discussed I was always curious about that one (for lower difficulties) because before Patch 1.3 a player could basically clear out a room just using quickhacks (I used Short Circuit A LOT) but as of 1.3 and up it felt like they added the "uploading position" or something like that after you zapped 2 of the enemies with it. My question is this then: Is that the "Enemy Detection Bar" and thus the difficulty is the speed it goes up or is it because I might have zapped an enemy while another one was in "Caution" (let's go with that) phase? You'd think I would understand this after 2 years but sometimes the wording confuses me so any help would be great

As a player returning to the game for a fresh run where best bar the 3 INT is it to stack perk points into for early game?

Ok so as far as leveling up with the new skill tree to get more attributes & skill points how long does it take now cause I’m at level 44 & it looks like it’s taking forever to earn more attributes & skill points, so how long is it suppose to take now??

Those skill trees that unlock bonuses are the most annoying, never got to reach 20 in any of these for the extra perk

Hey, I just wanted to ask; The jacket you're wearing at 16:04, I managed to get it. (Playing on Xbox One S.) But it's nameless and has that distortion effect. Any way around it? I really like the jacket.

You can never one shot Red skull enemies no matter the damage and you can't grapple them. But the leaping takedown works

I use the bed and shower but don’t see the buffs. Is that something that happens later in the story? Just started the game, literally.

I have a question about what you said about salvaging mods - is it necessary to have a Nexus mod for this or is it a perk that I need to be able to salvage it?

Hey One Dragon, I know you probably don’t do lore vids of Cyberpunk anymore but I have a request I dont see any youtubers point out about the game’s lore and it’s the music, mainly the radio music, and not background ost. Most songs with lyrics seem to echo plot points and characters and one (Truama by Rubicon) seems to even mention V, by name. Also the guy who(allegedly) wrote the lyrics to Sustain/Decay told me that the lyrics to Finis (another game song he wrote the lyrics to as well) also has a lyrically hidden secret that applies to the game. I don’t know any other RU-vidr who deep dives into lore about the games story as much as you do I was hoping you could at least give it a look? Even if you don’t it means a lot to know you at least considered it!

Seems like Freddie Mercury secured his soul 4:34

Sadly how CP77 resumes to dealing more damage if you aim to the wall or to the ground first or if you throw a fucking little knife... not to mention silenced/supressed revolvers.

I must be doing something wrong, upgraded blue satori to max (dps is 1242.6), then I crafted purple, can only upgrade once and the dps is now 1425.9 and it should be maxed at 1516.9

I love the game so far but there's definitely a learning curve to some of the systems. Good video.

The legendary clothing sets are not at the locations they're supposed to be in my game. I haven't updated it yet tho so maybe it's a bug...

How do you get to crit cap as a netrun/intelligence builds?