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Mindblast posted:Got my new run into act 2. From what I get I could immediately jump into PL but there's some extra stuff if I make friends with Panam, Judy, Kerry and River.
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Actually there's a bit early on in PL with Johnny that I find very interesting. Johnny is talking to you and someone puts a gun to your back, eyes forward. You can ask Johnny what the person looks like and despite talking and looking straight at you Johnny says "I don't fuckin' know, I only see what you see." It adds a new layer to the V/Johnny dynamic and calls back to the question of who is guiding who inside V's body. If Johnny can only see what V sees then anytime Johnny offers up an insight or observes something you might have missed on a scan it calls into question if V is truly in control of themselves and if Johnny is just a visual manifestation of your (drunken drug addled angry) conscience or if the construct is unconsciously affecting your judgement and guiding you along.
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Arc Hammer posted:Actually there's a bit early on in PL with Johnny that I find very interesting. Johnny is talking to you and someone puts a gun to your back, eyes forward. You can ask Johnny what the person looks like and despite talking and looking straight at you Johnny says "I don't fuckin' know, I only see what you see." But you don't have eyes in the back of your head.
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Oct 2, 2023 15:54
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Nessus posted:But you don't have eyes in the back of your head. Oddly, not available as cyberware.
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Oct 2, 2023 15:57
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Regarding the dynamic duo responses:  The more I play this expansion the less I trust anyone involved and would probably rather just kill them all. Especially if it is true Reed killed those 2 bros  . Also, I cannot give up the Divided We Stand. It might not be "as good" as the Ying, but just covering the battlefield with a giant poison cloud is just so satisfying.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:00
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Tirranek posted:Just did the Songbird ending. Still emotionally scooped out after that, but drat that was powerful. One of the things that really surprised me was how genuinely unsettling it was during the big fight at the control tower. You're getting swarmed by mega-goons left and right but when they start bashing at the windows to try and stop you you realise they're desperate and terrified. It honestly felt like something out of Evangelion. I also thought it was cool that you could play V as being the one to lean on during a crisis. After playing the main story through so many times, where V is doing whatever they can to look for help, it's kind of awesome to be Songbird's Panam for a change, even if the circumstances surrounding it are messed up. That was the route I took. It was disturbing to unleash Blackwall at people and watch them writhe around, it was the first doubt I had that I had taken the right path, like maybe I shouldn't just be letting this woman be free.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:02
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Mindblast posted:Got my new run into act 2. From what I get I could immediately jump into PL but there's some extra stuff if I make friends with Panam, Judy, Kerry and River. River puts tomatoes in Jambalaya, he cannot be trusted.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:04
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Mindblast posted:Got my new run into act 2. From what I get I could immediately jump into PL but there's some extra stuff if I make friends with Panam, Judy, Kerry and River. ok, the best, kerry who????, cop
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Oct 2, 2023 16:05
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Kerry is hilarious on multiple levels, definitely do him
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Oct 2, 2023 16:12
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Nucular Carmul posted:That was the route I took. It was disturbing to unleash Blackwall at people and watch them writhe around, it was the first doubt I had that I had taken the right path, like maybe I shouldn't just be letting this woman be free. Yeah, unsettling as far as Gravity Gun moments go. But it was one of those moments where it felt like I was past the point of no return, even when the game explicitly gives you chances to back out. Really impressive stuff, I thought.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:15
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Horace Kinch posted:River puts tomatoes in Jambalaya, he cannot be trusted. If you go to his room you can see that his "old Ward family recipe" is something he pulled up from a search on his laptop. If you're playing a Male V it's just funny, if you're playing a Fem V it's funny and also kinda cringey which falls in line with his rather embarrassing attempts to flirt and impress.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:20
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Rinkles posted:Oddly, not available as cyberware.
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Nucular Carmul posted:That was the route I took. It was disturbing to unleash Blackwall at people and watch them writhe around, it was the first doubt I had that I had taken the right path, like maybe I shouldn't just be letting this woman be free. Yeah shes a monster tbh. Also, a liar!
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Oct 2, 2023 16:29
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Dandywalken posted:Yeah shes a monster tbh. Also, a liar! Yeah. like I totally get why she's a self interested person willing to kill everyone and anyone if it means she gets what she wants, and I like that about the character but it is funny seeing how many people seemed to get suckered in by her and think she was ever going to help V.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:32
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i havent gotten to the big reveal yet but seems pretty clear to me from the jump songbird's an engram, an ai, or both
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Oct 2, 2023 16:33
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Yeah. like I totally get why she's a self interested person willing to kill everyone and anyone if it means she gets what she wants, and I like that about the character but it is funny seeing how many people seemed to get suckered in by her and think she was ever going to help V. I really like how when that's revealed, the game let's you decide not only what you want to do but also how you take it. There's a lot of room for expression there.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:37
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Yeah. like I totally get why she's a self interested person willing to kill everyone and anyone if it means she gets what she wants, and I like that about the character but it is funny seeing how many people seemed to get suckered in by her and think she was ever going to help V. One of the lines V can say if you send her to the moon is V commenting on how many people had to die to save a single life and whether that cost was too high. That's a question V has to grapple with themselves when it comes to the endings for the game. Is saving your own life worth destroying others in the process and can you justify every awful sin you commit for the sake of survival? It's a great moral conundrum and one of the best parts of the DLC because it puts V in the same shoes that your allies fill in the basegame endings. If it's still worth it to save Songbird after all she did and what it cost, is it the same for V? If V is the disposable piece in Songbird's game, what does that make Panam, or Rogue, or even Goro? What does that make Johnny? Is any of it worth the price.
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Horace Kinch posted:River puts tomatoes in Jambalaya, he cannot be trusted. That's just creole jamb, not that weird.
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Mindblast posted:Got my new run into act 2. From what I get I could immediately jump into PL but there's some extra stuff if I make friends with Panam, Judy, Kerry and River. Yeah, I have the same question. I just started the post-Jacob and Taylor portion of PL, is it too late to get the fun reactivity with these NPCs or other quests?
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Oct 2, 2023 16:42
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Rinkles posted:Blue tier Sonic Shock works too and you don’t need to queue the follow-ups. Everything will be untraceable on that person afterwards. It might be unintentional, because it’s cheaper than Memory Wipe. Purple tier Sonic Shock making it so people next to you don't notice you go down with a serious combat hack attack is way beyond OP and kinda fucks up my ~fragile immersion~. It's like the whistle ability in Horizon ZD. Aimed whistling that lets you pull anyone to you, even if they're on the other side of 10 enemies. Game was much more fun when I restricted myself to throwing rocks which have an actual sound propagation simulation because loving up meant you had to go loud and deal with the chaos. Bait and Memory Wipe in this game feel more reasonable than Sonic Shock, which last I think exists as an option to balance out the difficulty some.
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Sonic shock should make it so that the affected person doesn't notice others going down, not that it isolates them from the network.
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Yeah, that would be cooler.
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I'm guessing Sonic Shock working the way it does is an oversight, because there's no reason to have two hacks with very similar functionality except one is considerably cheaper.
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sean10mm posted:I feel like I don't quite "get" the hacking perks. Other than taking the central ones that unlock all the other ones on that tier, which ones actually have the most bang for the buck? They mostly seem like either trivial bonuses or oddly specific poo poo. Are some of them stronger than they look or am I missing something else? Left tree is mostly to get more queue depth and then bonuses to various combos of quickhacks. In general, quickhacks are all about combos and sequencing now - much more active than pre-2.0. The left is only really useful if you're going very combat hack/pure netrunner. I took the first 2 perks in the smart weapons build, for the detect access points feature and because it's convenient to be able to queue 2 hacks instead of microing and tracking each live hack for when you can do another. The middle tree is quite cool if you're doing smart weapons. Overclock is a cool idea with obvious perk synergy with smart weapons in the cap abilities, but also for what it can do for your healing. There's a perk that makes RAM regen also regen health, so when I'm in the thick of combat I'm motivated to dump RAM by doing control quickhacks and then go into Overclock for faster smart weapon locks, but also for much faster healing. Any quickhack perks that restore ram now restore your health - read that it's 10 health per RAM slot. I've maxed the middle and right trees, though not taking all of the sub-perks attached to each level.
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Chopstick Dystopia posted:I'm 2k posts behind but dropping in to say 2 important things before I reset my readcount. Which cyberware can you get in the 10-20 range that you can't get in the 40's? I'm there now so might just grab it incase I want to fit it into my build later. Also, does anyone know which mod breaks down junk you get below a certain value automatically? Or all junk even. I saw someone mention it earlier but I can't find one for 2.0
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Arc Hammer posted:how the hell are you supposed to beat Hansen? I think I may abandon this replay and just do the So Mi goes to the Moon ending. Wait you're fighting him? Is that what happens if you(PL spoilers) choose Reed over So Mi?
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theblackw0lf posted:Wait you're fighting him? Is that what happens if you(PL spoilers) choose Reed over So Mi? Yep!
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I'm NC's greatest netrunner Scrub-Niggurath posted:You can ask Reed and he gives a vaguely ominous "they're taken care of, don't worry" response Yes, that can be read very ambiguously. Hammerstein fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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Rinkles posted:Blue tier Sonic Shock works too and you don’t need to queue the follow-ups. Everything will be untraceable on that person afterwards. It might be unintentional, because it’s cheaper than Memory Wipe. That's good to know. I think you tend to find it before you get Memory Wipe too, but that might just be RNG.
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Anyone figured out what causes this silvery sheen in very specific circumstances? I don't have path tracing on or ray reconstruction hacked in (3080).
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Did anyone else run into a bug where Reed has his pistol in his hand at all times. Took me a while to notice it wasn't intentional since it isn't properly fixed into his palm when he does hand movements for cutscenes lol.
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Black Griffon posted:Anyone figured out what causes this silvery sheen in very specific circumstances? I don't have path tracing on or ray reconstruction hacked in (3080). It's been a bug since patch 1.63 and only appears in certain lighting conditions around dawn or sunset. Not sure if CDPR has mentioned it in any patch notes.
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I had it during that same mission yesterday, yeah it's weird and intermittent
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It comes from ray traced reflections, so you can turn that off if you want to get rid of it during those moments
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Nucular Carmul posted:That was the route I took. It was disturbing to unleash Blackwall at people and watch them writhe around, it was the first doubt I had that I had taken the right path, like maybe I shouldn't just be letting this woman be free. Funny, I did the other route and the thing I took away from it is I just handed her back to the NUS where they're gonna keep using her to gently caress around with the blackwall and honestly that's probably even worse than letting her go free. I really appreciate how they give you this rather sympathetic introduction to myers when you're both Escaping from DogTown but when you see her again it is immediately obvious how slimy she and the NUS are Hammerstein posted:I was wondering the same and I would not be surprised if Reed or the FIA simply murdered them off screen. Maybe we find their corpses in some locker, like Arnold found the other candidates in Running Man. Lmao, funny that I had a shocked negative reaction to (end of DLC stuff) Reed and Alex wasting the twins immediately right before I go on the next op where I obliterate 500 BARGHEST. I guess it's because Aurore was a pretty lady and I'm shallow
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Did anyone else run into a bug where Reed has his pistol in his hand at all times. Took me a while to notice it wasn't intentional since it isn't properly fixed into his palm when he does hand movements for cutscenes lol. had it happen for jackie but not reed yet
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i spent more time last weekend modding, as in attempting to write mods for, not installing. youd be better off waiting a month or so because 2.0 not only broke all the mods but all the mods those mods were dependent on. that said it seems you could crack this drat thing wide open if you wanted. is there any interest in a cyberpunk modding thread for both installing mods and making them?
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UP AND ADAM posted:It comes from ray traced reflections, so you can turn that off if you want to get rid of it during those moments And get a big FPS boost in the process. But the RT reflections look incredible elsewhere and screenspace reflections don't hold a candle to them so it's a tough choice. Al! posted:is there any interest in a cyberpunk modding thread for both installing mods and making them? I'd be interested in a modding thread. It's not as extensive as some of the crazier Gamebryo modding adventures I've been on but Cyberpunk is surprisingly mod-friendly for how big and detailed it is.
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