I've owned like 50 pairs now and the only ones I like anymore all look ridiculous haha. Ones that sit right over your head SUCK for anything besides casual 30 minute sessions.
Pro Tip: All Legendary clothing/armor has 3 or 4 slots on them as their max. Save right before you pick up a legendary item and reload until you get one with the max slots in it, as the number of slots as well as the upgrades will be random each time.
Straight up. Makes you almost God mode. I got a Swordsman build and he takes like 1 damage a bullet. I have like 3K armor. Only thing that can hurt me is getting slashed at.
LoL - The last game I was playing before getting C2077 was - you guessed it - Skyrim. I thought this would be a good pallette cleanser. You know - Something DIFFERENT. Still dig it, tho.
Also, craft Bounce Back mk.1 to get common and uncommon parts. Edit: doing both of these will allow you to have infinite resources (except legendary. Gonna have to cough up the creds for those), but it will be a time consumer. I’ve spent the past 2 days focusing on my crafting. Only gone up 2 lvls in that time, but I have almost complete legendary gear with great mods. That includes my cyber gear.
I'm barely getting my feet wet with crafting, it started to take my interest too. Thank you bro, I didn't even know there was a skill tree dedicated to crafting. lol
Now i don't know where i got it but if you find schematic for grenade called "Gash Antipersonnel Grenade" its insanely good way to get blue and epic quality materials when deconstructed and what makes is pretty OP is the fact it costs 1+1 uncommon items to craft and it gives you 3+3 blue materials and 1+3 epic materials. It also gives 6xp so when you "farm" deconstruct materials you also get decent amount of exp at the same time so its kinda win-win :D
all the purple grenades does that. so any of them will do. and if you need the base mats to build them just crating bounce back mk.1 and taking them apart will give you 3x items. at least when you got the crafting upgrades
You get it from a backyard. When you get to Delemains side quest where you're collecting the cars, there's one that has you destroy flamingos. It'll bring you to the backyard where the grenade is, in a chest. At least that's how I found it.
Excellent video. With all its bugs, etc, this game is a blast - I'm on PC. The bottom line for any game is the fun factor, which is completely subjective. If it's fun, I play it; if it ain't, I don't. Subbed and belled. Cheers, Harry.
8:50 - my dude just go to upgrades and upgrade some random white items - they double their XP value every time you upgrade them. Sucks you didn't realize that upgrading your gear and shit gives THOUSANDS Of XP all at once and if you just lvl up some random white items it only costs the green components that you can farm!!
A lot of the crafting system in this game is structured very similar to the system in Witcher 3. The stepwise progression for each weapon is very similar. The Witcher didn't have so much overhead just to unlock those tiers apart from having the crafting diagrams and the previous tiers item. So to craft the next level of Witcher gear you needed the previous level's gear item and the blueprint and components for the next level. And the money, since you couldn't craft on your own. You had to do it at a smith. Also another thing, I'd recommend that you should make sure to buy all of the crafting diagrams. Buying lower-tier item diagrams removes them from the loot pool and allows you to get higher tier diagrams from vendors and drops.
One of the key skills for increasing your crafting ability is the skill that automatically converts junk because every time you pick up a piece of junk from then on you'll automatically deconstruct it and it increases your crafting skill little by little
You don't need to open locked doors. I'm not specd into body or engineering and every single Gig I've done always had another way to get into a building without getting noticed.
@@venheartzeil3070 clearly you’ve never touched a single side quest. The main story is great, but once you start delving into side quests it’s a different ballpark. Lots of interesting characters and stories and developments happen and it makes you realize how big the game is.
@@dakotamaiden4331 Gonna also disagree with you there then. Even with the bugs, story is great. Side missions keep giving me interesting and different scenarios. Many agree, many disagree. No one is right or wrong just personal preference. Game isn't for everyone.
Something that has my head hitting the desk every time I watch one of these videos that references crafting... nobody uses the filter tabs at the top and spend a lot of time scrolling through the entire list.. the only stuff that doesn't show up in one of the other tabs is Ammo.. every thing else has its own tab that greatly cuts down on the scrolling.
I'm doing a Crafting/Submachine Gun playthrough at the moment, and crafting is super powerful. My V is presently lvl 15 and just started Act 2, and all his Weapons and Armor are Legendary Quality and I didn't spend an Eddy on a single thing other than buying my Cyberware and a grenade crafting spec. Not to mention that the Tech tree boosts your armor a ton. My V at lvl 15 has over 1500 armor. I expect to have well over 5,000 armor by the time I hit lvl 30. I found the best way to get materials is to craft/disassemble blue frag grenades and green health pots. It's a major click fest and the crafting xp gain is slow, but in both cases you get more components back when you disassemble than it took to create the item. I too really hope they add bulk crafting option at some point. All that clicking is gonna make my carpal tunnel start acting up again. :)
Very good information. Thanks for covering this. One question: Why can a family of four fit between the top of your head and the top of your headphones?
Once you hit level 50 and made every single thing, you can Respec to allocate those points into the Tech tree to make the ultimate Lizzy build which dominates in Don’t Fear The Reaper Ending.
For my build I went 18 body, 16 reflex, 18 tech, 16 intel, and 3 cool. For a level 50 this is quite broken. Can craft anything you want, have either legendary or epic cyber ware, handle yourself in all for combats, or have epic level quick hacks and melt your by breaching and using the security cameras to melt all down while you stand outside across the street.
I am glad to see a build that focuses on attributes instead of two or three. This helps me see I wouldn't be spreading myself too thin on levels for stats.
A tip - there's a perpetuum mobile there, if you got perks(extra mats with dissassemble, chance of free creation) - spam white modes willl give you free greens, blues, etc on dissassmbling. Like +200 blues + 300-500 greens for NO COST AT ALL. Well, timecostly and grindy tbh.
Any game that has crafting in it you will find the crafting is extremely useful. I don't even have this game yet, but as soon as I saw it included crafting I knew what I would be spending 99% of my in game time doing when I get around to buying it for my PC. :)
Not sure if you'll see this but it is possible to change the craft and dismantle times in the config files if on pc. Location being game install/r6/config/inputContexts.xml
Best spot for this is at arasaka tower. stock up on 1 type of can ( I use the nicola fire) until you have over 1k. Go to your inventory and disassemble 1 can at a time and it gives you crafting xp as if you disassembled them all at once. more cans=more xp. Can also drop a save and reload to reset the vending machines to buy more.
@@UnofficialSno nice,Thanks.had it glitch and wont disassemble the fire anymore as I was going too fast.switched out to the blue and jumped from lvl 9 to 16 in about 15mins..
@@UnofficialSno Don’t forget about upgrading your gear. That’ll give you tons of xp. I’d advise doing it for gear you plan on keeping for a long time or the rest of that gameplay, cause it’s gonna suck up a ton of resources after a certain point.
Craft levels are the easiest of all, no resources necessary. You can Study items to get a fraction of the crafting exp you would get from disassembly. Just use Disassemble with the item Selected, and it won't consume it, but will still give a small amount of craft exp. You could technically go from 0 to 20 crafting w/o using any resources if you were willing to invest the time. (tip, try it with a very large stack of grenades and see how much xp you get)
Ran into that crafting issue. Run a macro on your mouse if you can. Click and hold for 2 seconds, release for .5. Set that bad boy to repeat and check back every 15 minutes. Easy crafting.
LITSTEN, if you get 500 sodas and take them apart one at a time it thinks you've done the whole bunch every time, 500x500x500 etc. Reach crafting level 20 in 5mins
@@TarisTargeted yes it still works... but keep in mind it has to be equipped for it to work... so just equipt a consumable you have a ton of... then salvage it 1 at a time and it will think your salvaging the whole stack even when your not.
Little late but hopefully this get read. Buying Stim pack blueprints from a med vendor. You make the purple with minimal green components and they disassemble into multiple tiered components. Much better than upgrading weapons for 100 EXP per 20 common and 15 uncommon parts. You get 56 exp per purple stim pack. theyre 14 common and 7 uncommon so slightly more expensive BUT they disassemble into 4 common, 3 uncommon, 3 of each of the blue tier and 1 epic item and 3 epic upgrade components. Also if people are really struggling with EXP there is an exploit. If you disassemble EQUIPPED grenades they DO NOT disappear, you also dont get the components but you do get crafting EXP. So its an infinite EXP exploit.
You get crafting xp from disassembling as well. Super useful. Disassemble drinks into components. Disassemble everything. Also, it's a bit glitchy, but if you have a stack of something, disassembling one at a time gives you XP as though you disassembled the whole stack. Particularly useful for stacks of grenades, for instance. With that glitch, it's incredibly quick to level crafting.
Bonus tip this is a bit more well known but if you go to any vender that’s sells drinks buy all of them as well as all vending machine drinks you can bulk scrap them and use the scrap to craft gear or just sell the scrap ultimately making more then you spent by a lot venders stock restocks every day and vending machines tend to be random with how much they have as well as when they restock. Also try facing a bit to the left when buying the soda as to be angled just right to pick up the drinks and buy them saves you a few seconds and in night city that enough time to get shanked exactly 7 times
Tip on leveling, don't use the experience from getting the item to dictate worth. Crafting stuff like grenades will net very little but when you dismantle a stack of 200 grenades, you will get an experience bump of 1200-1500 based on free mat proc's.
CDPR changed things w/ 1.5-1.6. ALL clothing items no longer have same mod slots as before. Now usually they have 1 mod slot inherent to the Item and one open slot or 2 open slots. In addition, ALL mod levels have to match or not exceed the Item level AND go on an Item type. The level matching and use changes apply to weapons also. Pre saving and reloading on a high-quality item still works but you will still be bound by the new rules and iconic weapons will only change a small feature like crit chance/damage. Upgrading items is tied to leveling. Once at lvl 50 you can craft and item but can't upgrade until they raise the max level
Pretty sure you cant stack crit mods like that. When I put multiple Crit chance mods on for exampe and go check the stats screen, it doesn't change, neither does multiple crit damage. On top of that its also buggy, if you put on two crit chance mods on different items of clothing and take one off, it reduces your crit chance, even though you still have a piece with it on, you have to take that piece off and back on again to get it to show on the stat screen again.
If you don't have the double jump cyberware, go to the ACs jump on them, crouch walk to the fence, jump on the barbed wire, take the damage, crouch walk over to the vent and jump on it.
I’ve got my tech up to 20 a couple of days ago and I just got my crafting up to lvl 19. Talk about a pain to lvl up. It’ll be worth it though. Especially when the DLCs come out.
@@Chadly99 Once you get to lvl 16-17 on crafting, I’d advise focusing on upgrading your gear. I’ve found that your gear ends up giving more exp than anything. Especially if you focus on one piece. For example: my blazer gives me almost 5k exp per upgrade, while crafting individual items gives me around 200-500 (I wasn’t paying close attention to the numbers, so I might be wrong). Be aware though, that this will suck up tons of crafting materials. While it’ll be cheaper craft a bunch of legendary weapons/gear to sell, I find it a little wasteful since those components won’t help me in the long run.
@@RogueJin Yeah, but i'm sure crit chance and crit damage mods in every slot will make you melt an entire army in seconds with the critical error skill.
@@apex1568 these unfortunately arent stacking as far as I'm aware, or at least it doesn't say so in stat sheet. regardless, my short circuit crits for around 14k and is enough to oneshot most enemies, quickhacking is very powerful even without the stacking crit dmg
YES THAT. I realized that very late in to game. Same rules apply to ALL items(clothes and weapons) found in open world! Want best stats on Skippy? Then u have to save the game before pickup/approach and roll few times to get it. Same with clothes, want 3 mod slots on legendary shoes that roll with your style best? Again. Save game and roll. Sad system but thats how it is. Zero mod slots and 3 slots makes huge of a difference.
If you find you do not have enough low level components, you can by sodas from vending machines, break about 2/3rd of them down to components, then sell the other 3rd to get your money back. You can also just buy sodas and break them down and sell all the components to make loads of money.
i have thousands of crafting component also from crafting armadillo and than dismantling them, the material you get back is more than is what used to craft
Tech is one of the most powerful attributes imo. The ability to install the most powerful mods and craft the highest dps gear often puts you on par if not surpass the bonuses of other skill trees. Then consider that you normally have enough points to max out another stat and then some before you max out.
One of the best ways to both earn some credits and level crafting is that scrapping some cans then crafting green jacket which is sold for 400 credits or higher depending on armor values which increases with your level!! You can also craft epic heal with only common materials then scrap it for epic materials which is extremely useful for farming epic materials.
It’s actually really easy to level up your crafting skill. You can also make a lot of money at the same time buy a lot of cans break them down into components then sell those components common and uncommon and you will make about triple your money and your crafting scale will go up because you broke down the cans
Another thing to note here. Is that you get more xp towards crafting through upgrading than you do actual crafting. A good practice is to throw any common weapons/armor you get into your stash as you're leveling. When you get the perks 'Efficient Upgrades' and 'Let There Be Light'. Go back and upgrade each common drop a couple times. Then disassemble and move onto the next item. The tedious part is having to go back and deposit stuff in your stash. And being without the components or gold from disassembling or selling those commons as you level. But trust me, it pays off later on by giving you a lot of xp through upgrading efficiently as possible.
Craft those meds and disassemble them you can profit doing it if you're short on funds and you get good components if you're looking to use them for crafting
I love crafting! I remember playing skyrim, mastered blacksmithing and enchanting to be able to one hit a dragon with a dagger. Cyberpunk 2077 very nice game 😁
I like to make games harder on myself by making sure my armor and clothes not only have high specs but look cool and tactical, I usually put my armor and heavy weapons in my truck and pull them out before going into a tactical situation. A little roleplay I reckon.
Crafting is pretty much game breaking my good. Even if you’re a Gorilla Arms only or Mantis Arms only build, it is STILL the best skill tree, just for the armor upgrading and lvl 16 perk for removing mods. The amount of defense, crit damage bonuses is staggering with legendary mods. Turns the game into easy mode.
Thanks, I was wondering about this. I was worried about eating up too many of my attribute or perk points, but you have clearly dissuaded me of that concern. I have found that the early XP from breaking down bad gear is decent, so there are tons of good reasons to take early points, plus you can make money selling crafting mats.
Investing into tech doesn't necessarily lower your damage potential. Remember to use grenades, make a lot of grenades, and minmax the gear you get your hands on. Tech, or crafting at least, is also the only tree with persistent effects even if you respec: Once you reach max level and max level gear, you can make your kit before reallocating your skills somewhere else, or simply roll back a little to still enjoy the crafted weapon bonuses, which are almost as good as the bonuses of the respective weapon's tree.
you can power level crafting with expensive upgrades/crafts if ressources are the problem .. you can generate them by crafting items which have a chance to get crafted in high quality and uncrafting them produces MUCH more components than the crafting before cost.. in other words .. you get infinite ressources for crafting, it's just increddibly tedious since you can only craft/uncraft 1 item at a time .. aswell as higher quality bounce back / max doc etc generate more than they cost .. just .. yes it takes time .. craft 100 of them and uncraft them afterwards (nice gimmic here .. you can bulk disassemble those [unlike armadillo etc which have an insane item output]) you will be swimming in crafting ressources. and train the skill at the same time
Been full crafting for 20+ levels, can confirm is awesome. Though my biggest disappointment with cyberpunk is a lack of much weapon customization. I'd hoped it would at least have the same level as call of duty given the whole tech atmosphere and such.
Yeah I agree with you the only problem is with the money cheat you don't even need to go this route but if you're playing honestly it's a lucrative way to go but I don't know just a little bit boring for myself I want the intelligence and cool
You only need 1 point in workshop perk because of the way it works. It calculates the bonus when you put your cursor on the items, it's really weird that they thought this was good. So all you have to do is move your cursor back and forth till it shows you'll get more components. This is specially good when you disassemble in bulk, for example, when you make hundreds of Maxdocs mk3, the difference between 3 and 5 epic upgrade components really adds up when you get it for ALL of them.
there's actually an exploit in the very start of the game. pick corpo, loot everything, and i mean EVERYTHING in the starting arasaka office, disassemble EVERYTHING and craft common bounce backs until you've reached level 2 crafting. then disassemble them all (bounce backs). notice that at level 2 of crafting, you get 6 common and 2 uncommon materials when disassembling common bounce backs, but you only need 5 common and 1 uncommon. see where im getting at? get 2 autoclickers, one to click, and one to hold. set the clicker to 900 ms and afk your way into wealth
The issue is with the bloat that doesnt get deleted when it should be. For some people it doesnt corrupt, for some it does. Crafting I think is a large cause of the bloat from what everybody reports. So the issue isnt that they have too many items, the issue is that theyve crafted X number of times. Im certain this was caused by the update 1.04 or 1.03 because thats when the reports started coming in
A tip for PC users. You may find it easier to craft with a joy-pad. Its just a button press and you can sit back and watch you-tube while crafting a batch. Slightly less annoying until they patch in a timed multi-craft system.
Crafting is very tedious and time consuming. As I've gotten older I've chosen to value my time over "fair" gameplay when playing single player games. I still avoid what I consider obvious exploits but I am now OK with cheating so long as it is only removing time sinks and avoiding other unfun mechanics I could (but don't want to) perform myself. With that in mind here is what I did to make crafting WAY easier: Download and install Cyber Engine Tweaks from nexus mods. It doesn't change the game - it helps with some bugs and most importantly for me fixes the virtual input bug (yes it is a bug, not a security feature). Wrote an AHK script. It's a simple loop that clicks down, sleeps 845 milliseconds, clicks up, sleeps another 50. Now I can run the script and it crafts for me. I can watch a movie, walk away, mow the lawn, etc. If you want to be a bit extra you can make the script send the clicks directly to the game and still use your computer for other things. I didn't feel I needed this. Additionally I later decided to add a bit more "cheat" to it. I use cheat engine to speed up the game to 10x speed. I gave cheat engine some hotkeys, I adjusted the script to activate/deactivate those hotkeys, and adjusted click down to 350. It now crafts almost 3 times faster. You will have to adjust based on your PC performance. It doesn't actually run the game at 10x speed.
Max mk 2 schematics use c/uc crafting components and create c/uc/r components. At lvl 18 tech taking all crafting related perks you can create infinite crafting materials including legendary weapons and armor.
Worth sharing! Crafting can bloat your savefile, and if it gets to bit it will corrupt! So rememmber to back upp your saves if you do a lot of crafting!
to get crafting up fast equip common med inhaler press the dissemble button while item is equipped you will earn xp without loosing your item. Works better the more of the same item you have
Or you could raid all soda machines and deconstruct all the sodas you bought to get rather quick crafting components, also the crafting mats you get from deconstructing is worth way more then you spent on the sodas. This means that you can also make a fair bit of eddies this way, and if you empty all the soda machines you only need to open your inventory and wait 24 hours and they will all be restocked.
For now there is a glitch that you can lock your consumable after using it in backpack and you can dissemble them and they won't actually dissemble but still give you xp, which make super fast progression
If you want to craft faster you can simply edit one of the config files. (credit for this goes to a mod on the Nexus modding site, I didn't come up with it) This gives basically instant craft and disassemble \Cyberpunk 2077 6\config inputcontexts.xml open file with a text editor and edit lines "905" and "906" hold action="disassemble_item"timeout="0.01" />(Original is 0.4) hold action="craft_item" timeout="0.01" />(original is 0.8)
I had this skill tree on the 20th level and it ended up with me having a one shot one kill legendary Burya revolver (or however you spell it), legendary Overwatch and a super strong legendary smart pistol. Definitely was worth it.
The best way to level up your crafting tree would be to get the auto dismantle skill. Even though it may dismantle some items that you could have sold for $750 Eddies but still it's much more efficient to have all of the junk that you pick up be dismantled right away and in so doing getting passive experience that way. If CD projekt could Implement some kind of filter on what could be dismantled that skill would literally be god tier.
This video is now outdated. You really don't need to dump ability points into Technical for crafting and you really only should if you want perks in Engineering. It won't feel good leaving all your iconic items at rare tier and all your gear mods at rare tier, but in reality, you don't lose all that much damage and vendors can still give you legendary stuff. You don't need crafting to EQUIP legendaries.
Pc user beware of save corrupting bug when you save file size exceed 8mb and crafting significantly increases save file size , search google cyberpunk 2077 save corrupting bug.
I started tech first just got it to 20, and currently skill 14 only missing a ability, and have upgraded all my iconic guns, next is melee weapons. Mostly using epic healing item to get parts. And using armadillo mods on clothes just to try to be unstoppable. Sucks doing it on console though.
Crafting is so good in this game and allows some insane ways to make money, but I have to say on my 2nd playthrough I went Melee with Katana and Mantis using Reflex and Cool and it was so much more OP, easily hitting 100% crit very early in game with some just insane perks. There are quite a few viable builds, but even on hardest difficulty this game is not very challenging.
Also, stacking crit damage doesn't work as intended. Get crit dam from perks if you want but getting one deadeye and one bully is the best you'll be. Crit chance is diminishing return and you can get fairly high cc from perks. Also, speccing into damage first then crafting later...yeah you'll have an easier time with the things you have but the things you have won't be as good ever as the ones you craft. Without utilities you won't have power to give to your tools to tinker with your gunz. Having a utility build early will yes slow you down somewhat but at the end of the day it'll make you a god early on. LV 25ish and have legendary quickhacks doing 12-15k contagion crit reliably with SC 50 over 1.2m eddies bagged and all items are crafted where possible. I'm in act 2 and crafting epic nades to disassemble for mats, freecraft boosting legendary mats and disassembling €$10 soda for 3 €$8 and 5 €$5 mats to craft more nades from 1-1 for 0-0/5-5/3-3/0-0 giving you infinite money and mats while clearing a 12-17 NPC encounter in 2-3 seconds is God mode.
cant stop staring at those headphones... lol
Came to the comments to say this
He's actually an alien and has a greenscreen wrapped around his head to hide his conehead.
Now i can't stop staring..lol..
@@UltimatePowa was about to make a conehead reference myself but you beat me to it lol.
I've owned like 50 pairs now and the only ones I like anymore all look ridiculous haha. Ones that sit right over your head SUCK for anything besides casual 30 minute sessions.
Pro Tip: All Legendary clothing/armor has 3 or 4 slots on them as their max.
Save right before you pick up a legendary item and reload until you get one with the max slots in it, as the number of slots as well as the upgrades will be random each time.
Very nice tip👍 thank you!
Any tips for someone *not* wanting to add to crafting at all?
Finding the ‘ Armadillo ‘ crafting spec, is gold!
A lot of ppl skip that point. You can make yourself a tank, literally.
Straight up. Makes you almost God mode. I got a Swordsman build and he takes like 1 damage a bullet. I have like 3K armor. Only thing that can hurt me is getting slashed at.
So make iron dagger? Got it.
LoL - The last game I was playing before getting C2077 was - you guessed it - Skyrim.
I thought this would be a good pallette cleanser. You know - Something DIFFERENT.
Still dig it, tho.
Lol I understood that reference 🤣
Same iykyk
I swear, when I get this game the crafting tree is the first thing I'm maxing out.
They really need to add bulk crafting, even if it's just for small stackable things like consumables or upgrading component rarities
done in today's 1.3 patch.
Pro tip, craft epic grenades, decraft them for higher level components
It’s basically the higher rarity version of buying and destroying a thousand cola cans.. love it.
Also, craft Bounce Back mk.1 to get common and uncommon parts.
Edit: doing both of these will allow you to have infinite resources (except legendary. Gonna have to cough up the creds for those), but it will be a time consumer. I’ve spent the past 2 days focusing on my crafting. Only gone up 2 lvls in that time, but I have almost complete legendary gear with great mods. That includes my cyber gear.
yesss ive been doing that too :D
Pro tip do the duplication glitch and cheese components
@Darth Ren99 bruh, you're on the internet... look it up
I'm barely getting my feet wet with crafting, it started to take my interest too. Thank you bro, I didn't even know there was a skill tree dedicated to crafting. lol
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@@malicki77 also...............
Crafting is the sh!t...
It’s a waste of time and skills since you can easily kill enemies with normal wapons and you can also find some good ones
I maxed out my crafting first. Now all my iconics are legendary, had to raise the game difficulty bc I was beyond way too op & made the game too easy.
Now i don't know where i got it but if you find schematic for grenade called "Gash Antipersonnel Grenade" its insanely good way to get blue and epic quality materials when deconstructed and what makes is pretty OP is the fact it costs 1+1 uncommon items to craft and it gives you 3+3 blue materials and 1+3 epic materials. It also gives 6xp so when you "farm" deconstruct materials you also get decent amount of exp at the same time so its kinda win-win :D
This! Thank you man. Acquiring epic components was such a pain in the ass.
all the purple grenades does that. so any of them will do. and if you need the base mats to build them just crating bounce back mk.1 and taking them apart will give you 3x items. at least when you got the crafting upgrades
You get it from a backyard. When you get to Delemains side quest where you're collecting the cars, there's one that has you destroy flamingos. It'll bring you to the backyard where the grenade is, in a chest. At least that's how I found it.
Excellent video. With all its bugs, etc, this game is a blast - I'm on PC. The bottom line for any game is the fun factor, which is completely subjective. If it's fun, I play it; if it ain't, I don't. Subbed and belled. Cheers, Harry.
I'm having Skyrim flashbacks 🤔
8:50 - my dude just go to upgrades and upgrade some random white items - they double their XP value every time you upgrade them. Sucks you didn't realize that upgrading your gear and shit gives THOUSANDS Of XP all at once and if you just lvl up some random white items it only costs the green components that you can farm!!
Ooh that’s solid, hell yeah
Ya this is exactly how I do it, I can level up that ability in literally a few minutes.. great strat
i cant upgrade any white items twice says that im not high enough level
Guess that's as good a reason as any to keep upgrading the white Satara I've been using for 15 levels... :)
@@argenis911 That’s fine. Just upgrade it once, then scrap it. Then move onto the next white piece, rinse and repeat. Pick up everything.
Upgrading purple gear that you find gives a lot of progression xp.
Thanks! Nice to see someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
so much unhelpful stuff released around December 9 -12 from people and organisations that played the game for 30 minutes
A lot of the crafting system in this game is structured very similar to the system in Witcher 3. The stepwise progression for each weapon is very similar. The Witcher didn't have so much overhead just to unlock those tiers apart from having the crafting diagrams and the previous tiers item. So to craft the next level of Witcher gear you needed the previous level's gear item and the blueprint and components for the next level. And the money, since you couldn't craft on your own. You had to do it at a smith. Also another thing, I'd recommend that you should make sure to buy all of the crafting diagrams. Buying lower-tier item diagrams removes them from the loot pool and allows you to get higher tier diagrams from vendors and drops.
One of the key skills for increasing your crafting ability is the skill that automatically converts junk because every time you pick up a piece of junk from then on you'll automatically deconstruct it and it increases your crafting skill little by little
I was wondering why this wasn't mentioned. I got that and sometimes when i pick up jewelry it hurts seeing 750$ go away into junk components.
DUDE YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THAT TECHNICAL ABILITY ALSO HELPS A TON WITH OPENING UP LOCKED DOORS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD!!
Thats on the description of the attribute so not needed to be mention.
You don't need to open locked doors. I'm not specd into body or engineering and every single Gig I've done always had another way to get into a building without getting noticed.
The game is showing it has more meat on its bones. Love it.
Yap, as we get further into this great adventure.
It really doesn’t. Great game but the story aspect at least is as bare bones as it gets.
@@venheartzeil3070 clearly you’ve never touched a single side quest. The main story is great, but once you start delving into side quests it’s a different ballpark. Lots of interesting characters and stories and developments happen and it makes you realize how big the game is.
@@Matt-ft7zr playing it rn. Would highly disagree. This game is shit that holds the potential to not be shit
@@dakotamaiden4331 Gonna also disagree with you there then. Even with the bugs, story is great. Side missions keep giving me interesting and different scenarios. Many agree, many disagree. No one is right or wrong just personal preference. Game isn't for everyone.
Something that has my head hitting the desk every time I watch one of these videos that references crafting... nobody uses the filter tabs at the top and spend a lot of time scrolling through the entire list.. the only stuff that doesn't show up in one of the other tabs is Ammo.. every thing else has its own tab that greatly cuts down on the scrolling.
I'm doing a Crafting/Submachine Gun playthrough at the moment, and crafting is super powerful. My V is presently lvl 15 and just started Act 2, and all his Weapons and Armor are Legendary Quality and I didn't spend an Eddy on a single thing other than buying my Cyberware and a grenade crafting spec. Not to mention that the Tech tree boosts your armor a ton. My V at lvl 15 has over 1500 armor. I expect to have well over 5,000 armor by the time I hit lvl 30.
I found the best way to get materials is to craft/disassemble blue frag grenades and green health pots. It's a major click fest and the crafting xp gain is slow, but in both cases you get more components back when you disassemble than it took to create the item. I too really hope they add bulk crafting option at some point. All that clicking is gonna make my carpal tunnel start acting up again. :)
When your character looks like he's trying out for a YMCA video remake.
Seriously
Very good information. Thanks for covering this. One question: Why can a family of four fit between the top of your head and the top of your headphones?
LMAO
What's the name of that city from _Percy Jackson & the Olympians_ series, with the Echidna and the bag handles?
Cuz that's what that is
I didn't even notice till I read your comment lol you could fly a jumbo 747 through that gap🤣🤣
Hair Dent Protection. Lvl. 9000
Once you hit level 50 and made every single thing, you can Respec to allocate those points into the Tech tree to make the ultimate Lizzy build which dominates in Don’t Fear The Reaper Ending.
For my build I went 18 body, 16 reflex, 18 tech, 16 intel, and 3 cool. For a level 50 this is quite broken. Can craft anything you want, have either legendary or epic cyber ware, handle yourself in all for combats, or have epic level quick hacks and melt your by breaching and using the security cameras to melt all down while you stand outside across the street.
I am glad to see a build that focuses on attributes instead of two or three. This helps me see I wouldn't be spreading myself too thin on levels for stats.
aaand i thought i was the only one appreciating crafting :P great vid man
Adding heavy crafting to all my builds now! Good stuff Chad!
A tip - there's a perpetuum mobile there, if you got perks(extra mats with dissassemble, chance of free creation) - spam white modes willl give you free greens, blues, etc on dissassmbling. Like +200 blues + 300-500 greens for NO COST AT ALL. Well, timecostly and grindy tbh.
Any game that has crafting in it you will find the crafting is extremely useful. I don't even have this game yet, but as soon as I saw it included crafting I knew what I would be spending 99% of my in game time doing when I get around to buying it for my PC. :)
I have 1400 armor. Find the mod that increases piece armor rating 130+ and duplicate it. Add it to every armor slot.
Before you type it, yes I’m aware mods aren’t stacking properly right now
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Not sure if you'll see this but it is possible to change the craft and dismantle times in the config files if on pc.
Location being game install/r6/config/inputContexts.xml
A kinda cheesy way to up your crafting is by breaking down cans, a few places have a ton of vending machines.
Best spot for this is at arasaka tower. stock up on 1 type of can ( I use the nicola fire) until you have over 1k. Go to your inventory and disassemble 1 can at a time and it gives you crafting xp as if you disassembled them all at once. more cans=more xp. Can also drop a save and reload to reset the vending machines to buy more.
@@UnofficialSno nice,Thanks.had it glitch and wont disassemble the fire anymore as I was going too fast.switched out to the blue and jumped from lvl 9 to 16 in about 15mins..
@@UnofficialSno add this to the money glitch and you can be balling in about an hour or two..
There’s a dupe glitch now so no need to craft any more
@@UnofficialSno Don’t forget about upgrading your gear. That’ll give you tons of xp. I’d advise doing it for gear you plan on keeping for a long time or the rest of that gameplay, cause it’s gonna suck up a ton of resources after a certain point.
Craft levels are the easiest of all, no resources necessary.
You can Study items to get a fraction of the crafting exp you would get from disassembly.
Just use Disassemble with the item Selected, and it won't consume it, but will still give a small amount of craft exp.
You could technically go from 0 to 20 crafting w/o using any resources if you were willing to invest the time.
(tip, try it with a very large stack of grenades and see how much xp you get)
This aged like milk after the 8MB save data corrupt thing came out
Unfortunately my thought exactly!
It only max out 8mb when you dupe a lot of items or glitch money and items. Been crafting like crazy my save file didn't get corrupted.
@@dankazama09 You must’ve just started craft a couple how to legendary’s and you’ll get caught up in no time have fun restarting
stop spreading FUD, not an issue if you play the game normally
@@mmaknowledge1083 i dismantle tin cans and craft tons of sniper for money. It even weigh 4000. Didn't corrupt my save file
I wouldn’t call it the best perk tree but it certainly has its advantages, making money incredibly easy is one of them.
Ran into that crafting issue. Run a macro on your mouse if you can. Click and hold for 2 seconds, release for .5.
Set that bad boy to repeat and check back every 15 minutes. Easy crafting.
LITSTEN, if you get 500 sodas and take them apart one at a time it thinks you've done the whole bunch every time, 500x500x500 etc. Reach crafting level 20 in 5mins
Still work?
@@TarisTargeted yes it still works... but keep in mind it has to be equipped for it to work... so just equipt a consumable you have a ton of... then salvage it 1 at a time and it will think your salvaging the whole stack even when your not.
Little late but hopefully this get read. Buying Stim pack blueprints from a med vendor. You make the purple with minimal green components and they disassemble into multiple tiered components. Much better than upgrading weapons for 100 EXP per 20 common and 15 uncommon parts. You get 56 exp per purple stim pack. theyre 14 common and 7 uncommon so slightly more expensive BUT they disassemble into 4 common, 3 uncommon, 3 of each of the blue tier and 1 epic item and 3 epic upgrade components.
Also if people are really struggling with EXP there is an exploit. If you disassemble EQUIPPED grenades they DO NOT disappear, you also dont get the components but you do get crafting EXP. So its an infinite EXP exploit.
You get crafting xp from disassembling as well. Super useful. Disassemble drinks into components. Disassemble everything. Also, it's a bit glitchy, but if you have a stack of something, disassembling one at a time gives you XP as though you disassembled the whole stack. Particularly useful for stacks of grenades, for instance. With that glitch, it's incredibly quick to level crafting.
Bonus tip this is a bit more well known but if you go to any vender that’s sells drinks buy all of them as well as all vending machine drinks you can bulk scrap them and use the scrap to craft gear or just sell the scrap ultimately making more then you spent by a lot venders stock restocks every day and vending machines tend to be random with how much they have as well as when they restock. Also try facing a bit to the left when buying the soda as to be angled just right to pick up the drinks and buy them saves you a few seconds and in night city that enough time to get shanked exactly 7 times
You can craft epic grenades, only cost 1common/uncommon, disassembled them all at once for tons rare/epic materials and crafting exp!!
Tip on leveling, don't use the experience from getting the item to dictate worth.
Crafting stuff like grenades will net very little but when you dismantle a stack of 200 grenades, you will get an experience bump of 1200-1500 based on free mat proc's.
My grenades won’t dismantle😒
@@Poppa_Capinyoaz The ones you have equipped won't. Everything else should.
@@OcihEvE That’s so weird, I can dismantle my bounce back’s while equipped. This game’s got some weird ass intricacies.
I knew I wasn't wasting my time in this tree. thanks 👍
Crafting is the best money maker. Plus in missions like the Heist, you are never disarmed.
CDPR changed things w/ 1.5-1.6. ALL clothing items no longer have same mod slots as before. Now usually they have 1 mod slot inherent to the Item and one open slot or 2 open slots.
In addition, ALL mod levels have to match or not exceed the Item level AND go on an Item type.
The level matching and use changes apply to weapons also.
Pre saving and reloading on a high-quality item still works but you will still be bound by the new rules and iconic weapons will only change a small feature like crit chance/damage.
Upgrading items is tied to leveling. Once at lvl 50 you can craft and item but can't upgrade until they raise the max level
Pretty sure you cant stack crit mods like that. When I put multiple Crit chance mods on for exampe and go check the stats screen, it doesn't change, neither does multiple crit damage.
On top of that its also buggy, if you put on two crit chance mods on different items of clothing and take one off, it reduces your crit chance, even though you still have a piece with it on, you have to take that piece off and back on again to get it to show on the stat screen again.
One of the legendary weapons is above the elevator at the afterlife... You're missing it my guy
How do you get to it?
@@basedghostface6684 you need to take the elevator to the roof then use the double jump cyberwear to jump up to it.
If you don't have the double jump cyberware, go to the ACs jump on them, crouch walk to the fence, jump on the barbed wire, take the damage, crouch walk over to the vent and jump on it.
🤔
What weapon is it
Great thing about tech is once you've done all the upgrades you want take a tabula rasa and remove all crafting points and use them somewhere else.
You can only rest perks. Not skill points. You put 20 into tech and it's stuck there
I’ve got my tech up to 20 a couple of days ago and I just got my crafting up to lvl 19. Talk about a pain to lvl up. It’ll be worth it though. Especially when the DLCs come out.
I’ll be grinding out my crafting level soon, not looking forward to it
@@Chadly99 Once you get to lvl 16-17 on crafting, I’d advise focusing on upgrading your gear. I’ve found that your gear ends up giving more exp than anything. Especially if you focus on one piece. For example: my blazer gives me almost 5k exp per upgrade, while crafting individual items gives me around 200-500 (I wasn’t paying close attention to the numbers, so I might be wrong). Be aware though, that this will suck up tons of crafting materials. While it’ll be cheaper craft a bunch of legendary weapons/gear to sell, I find it a little wasteful since those components won’t help me in the long run.
You can get the legendary grenade blueprint from a sidequest with a clown who has a grenade on his face. I noticed you dont have that one yet
That grenade is so strong lol
Thanks for this info. Lots to sift through, but very helpful as I get up to speed with the game. Much appreciated.
Crafting is so 2020, I just quickhack everything with nothing on.
I keep finding I Max out quick hacking & breach & the have to put a point into it.
Same. Don’t need armor or weapons when the enemy can’t see you while you explode their cyberware
@@RogueJin Yeah, but i'm sure crit chance and crit damage mods in every slot will make you melt an entire army in seconds with the critical error skill.
@@apex1568 these unfortunately arent stacking as far as I'm aware, or at least it doesn't say so in stat sheet. regardless, my short circuit crits for around 14k and is enough to oneshot most enemies, quickhacking is very powerful even without the stacking crit dmg
I did one of those builds it was more of a hybrid but hacks were still very very potent
YES THAT. I realized that very late in to game. Same rules apply to ALL items(clothes and weapons) found in open world! Want best stats on Skippy? Then u have to save the game before pickup/approach and roll few times to get it. Same with clothes, want 3 mod slots on legendary shoes that roll with your style best? Again. Save game and roll. Sad system but thats how it is. Zero mod slots and 3 slots makes huge of a difference.
Just make "the Comrade" you wont need any other guns
If you find you do not have enough low level components, you can by sodas from vending machines, break about 2/3rd of them down to components, then sell the other 3rd to get your money back. You can also just buy sodas and break them down and sell all the components to make loads of money.
i have thousands of crafting component also from crafting armadillo and than dismantling them, the material you get back is more than is what used to craft
Pro tip, build epic grenades and break it back down to get epic components. Same goes for legendary.
Tech is one of the most powerful attributes imo. The ability to install the most powerful mods and craft the highest dps gear often puts you on par if not surpass the bonuses of other skill trees.
Then consider that you normally have enough points to max out another stat and then some before you max out.
One of the best ways to both earn some credits and level crafting is that scrapping some cans then crafting green jacket which is sold for 400 credits or higher depending on armor values which increases with your level!! You can also craft epic heal with only common materials then scrap it for epic materials which is extremely useful for farming epic materials.
It’s actually really easy to level up your crafting skill. You can also make a lot of money at the same time buy a lot of cans break them down into components then sell those components common and uncommon and you will make about triple your money and your crafting scale will go up because you broke down the cans
Another thing to note here. Is that you get more xp towards crafting through upgrading than you do actual crafting. A good practice is to throw any common weapons/armor you get into your stash as you're leveling. When you get the perks 'Efficient Upgrades' and 'Let There Be Light'. Go back and upgrade each common drop a couple times. Then disassemble and move onto the next item. The tedious part is having to go back and deposit stuff in your stash. And being without the components or gold from disassembling or selling those commons as you level. But trust me, it pays off later on by giving you a lot of xp through upgrading efficiently as possible.
Not a good xp exploit
Craft those meds and disassemble them you can profit doing it if you're short on funds and you get good components if you're looking to use them for crafting
Thank you! I was not planning on going into crafting too much but after checking out your video I think I will!
I love crafting! I remember playing skyrim, mastered blacksmithing and enchanting to be able to one hit a dragon with a dagger. Cyberpunk 2077 very nice game 😁
Great info. Makes sense especially when looking at the overwhelming amount of perks to unlock lol. Thanks
I like to make games harder on myself by making sure my armor and clothes not only have high specs but look cool and tactical, I usually put my armor and heavy weapons in my truck and pull them out before going into a tactical situation. A little roleplay I reckon.
I think no matter what build you are going for, 18-20 in Tech Ability is needed!
Crafting is pretty much game breaking my good.
Even if you’re a Gorilla Arms only or Mantis Arms only build, it is STILL the best skill tree, just for the armor upgrading and lvl 16 perk for removing mods. The amount of defense, crit damage bonuses is staggering with legendary mods.
Turns the game into easy mode.
Thanks, I was wondering about this. I was worried about eating up too many of my attribute or perk points, but you have clearly dissuaded me of that concern. I have found that the early XP from breaking down bad gear is decent, so there are tons of good reasons to take early points, plus you can make money selling crafting mats.
Great video with a bunch of info, but I’m maxed into Intelligence i dont even need gear lol i just hack everyone before i walk into a room
Investing into tech doesn't necessarily lower your damage potential. Remember to use grenades, make a lot of grenades, and minmax the gear you get your hands on. Tech, or crafting at least, is also the only tree with persistent effects even if you respec: Once you reach max level and max level gear, you can make your kit before reallocating your skills somewhere else, or simply roll back a little to still enjoy the crafted weapon bonuses, which are almost as good as the bonuses of the respective weapon's tree.
you can power level crafting with expensive upgrades/crafts
if ressources are the problem .. you can generate them by crafting items which have a chance to get crafted in high quality and uncrafting them produces MUCH more components than the crafting before cost.. in other words .. you get infinite ressources for crafting, it's just increddibly tedious since you can only craft/uncraft 1 item at a time ..
aswell as higher quality bounce back / max doc etc generate more than they cost .. just .. yes it takes time .. craft 100 of them and uncraft them afterwards (nice gimmic here .. you can bulk disassemble those [unlike armadillo etc which have an insane item output]) you will be swimming in crafting ressources. and train the skill at the same time
If you need white and green components just find soda vending machine, buy all the cans and disassemble them :).
Upgrading give you a lot of xp.
Wish I would of known this weeeekkkkksssss ago... I eventually figured some of. Out but I didn’t know about the crafting level... huge help thank you
Crafting is ultra easy. Create a bunch of rare meds, and then dismantle them. They do not disapear from the bag, but you still get the skill
Been full crafting for 20+ levels, can confirm is awesome.
Though my biggest disappointment with cyberpunk is a lack of much weapon customization. I'd hoped it would at least have the same level as call of duty given the whole tech atmosphere and such.
Awesome video! Highly detailed without non-essential fluff.
Yeah I agree with you the only problem is with the money cheat you don't even need to go this route but if you're playing honestly it's a lucrative way to go but I don't know just a little bit boring for myself I want the intelligence and cool
You only need 1 point in workshop perk because of the way it works. It calculates the bonus when you put your cursor on the items, it's really weird that they thought this was good. So all you have to do is move your cursor back and forth till it shows you'll get more components. This is specially good when you disassemble in bulk, for example, when you make hundreds of Maxdocs mk3, the difference between 3 and 5 epic upgrade components really adds up when you get it for ALL of them.
there's actually an exploit in the very start of the game. pick corpo, loot everything, and i mean EVERYTHING in the starting arasaka office, disassemble EVERYTHING and craft common bounce backs until you've reached level 2 crafting. then disassemble them all (bounce backs). notice that at level 2 of crafting, you get 6 common and 2 uncommon materials when disassembling common bounce backs, but you only need 5 common and 1 uncommon. see where im getting at? get 2 autoclickers, one to click, and one to hold. set the clicker to 900 ms and afk your way into wealth
Just keep in mind crafting things increases your save file size and right now if you surpass a 8mb save file size it will corrupt
The issue is with the bloat that doesnt get deleted when it should be.
For some people it doesnt corrupt, for some it does.
Crafting I think is a large cause of the bloat from what everybody reports.
So the issue isnt that they have too many items, the issue is that theyve crafted X number of times.
Im certain this was caused by the update 1.04 or 1.03 because thats when the reports started coming in
A tip for PC users. You may find it easier to craft with a joy-pad. Its just a button press and you can sit back and watch you-tube while crafting a batch.
Slightly less annoying until they patch in a timed multi-craft system.
Crafting is very tedious and time consuming. As I've gotten older I've chosen to value my time over "fair" gameplay when playing single player games. I still avoid what I consider obvious exploits but I am now OK with cheating so long as it is only removing time sinks and avoiding other unfun mechanics I could (but don't want to) perform myself. With that in mind here is what I did to make crafting WAY easier:
Download and install Cyber Engine Tweaks from nexus mods. It doesn't change the game - it helps with some bugs and most importantly for me fixes the virtual input bug (yes it is a bug, not a security feature).
Wrote an AHK script. It's a simple loop that clicks down, sleeps 845 milliseconds, clicks up, sleeps another 50.
Now I can run the script and it crafts for me. I can watch a movie, walk away, mow the lawn, etc. If you want to be a bit extra you can make the script send the clicks directly to the game and still use your computer for other things. I didn't feel I needed this.
Additionally I later decided to add a bit more "cheat" to it. I use cheat engine to speed up the game to 10x speed. I gave cheat engine some hotkeys, I adjusted the script to activate/deactivate those hotkeys, and adjusted click down to 350. It now crafts almost 3 times faster. You will have to adjust based on your PC performance. It doesn't actually run the game at 10x speed.
Max mk 2 schematics use c/uc crafting components and create c/uc/r components. At lvl 18 tech taking all crafting related perks you can create infinite crafting materials including legendary weapons and armor.
Thanks for the info.
Never a crafter and never will be but glad this game gave player a choice.
I am a hacker BTW. Contagion AOE is my jam.
Sovereign - sweet looking double barrel shotgun. Find the epic spec at a shop, upgrade to legendary. Now use only this beauty to clean the streets.
Worth sharing!
Crafting can bloat your savefile, and if it gets to bit it will corrupt!
So rememmber to back upp your saves if you do a lot of crafting!
Patched
to get crafting up fast equip common med inhaler press the dissemble button while item is equipped you will earn xp without loosing your item. Works better the more of the same item you have
Do this in your inventory menu guys not the crafting menu hope this helps
Or you could raid all soda machines and deconstruct all the sodas you bought to get rather quick crafting components, also the crafting mats you get from deconstructing is worth way more then you spent on the sodas. This means that you can also make a fair bit of eddies this way, and if you empty all the soda machines you only need to open your inventory and wait 24 hours and they will all be restocked.
And ofc you get crafting xp from deconstructing a cupple of hundreds of sodas as well
Upgrading gear gives a boatload of crafting xp
For now there is a glitch that you can lock your consumable after using it in backpack and you can dissemble them and they won't actually dissemble but still give you xp, which make super fast progression
If you want to craft faster you can simply edit one of the config files.
(credit for this goes to a mod on the Nexus modding site, I didn't come up with it)
This gives basically instant craft and disassemble
\Cyberpunk 2077
6\config
inputcontexts.xml
open file with a text editor and edit lines "905" and "906"
hold action="disassemble_item"timeout="0.01" />(Original is 0.4)
hold action="craft_item" timeout="0.01" />(original is 0.8)
I had this skill tree on the 20th level and it ended up with me having a one shot one kill legendary Burya revolver (or however you spell it), legendary Overwatch and a super strong legendary smart pistol. Definitely was worth it.
The best way to level up your crafting tree would be to get the auto dismantle skill. Even though it may dismantle some items that you could have sold for $750 Eddies but still it's much more efficient to have all of the junk that you pick up be dismantled right away and in so doing getting passive experience that way. If CD projekt could Implement some kind of filter on what could be dismantled that skill would literally be god tier.
This video is now outdated. You really don't need to dump ability points into Technical for crafting and you really only should if you want perks in Engineering. It won't feel good leaving all your iconic items at rare tier and all your gear mods at rare tier, but in reality, you don't lose all that much damage and vendors can still give you legendary stuff. You don't need crafting to EQUIP legendaries.
Just to point out, if you check the STATS tab in inventory, same mods don't stack.
Pc user beware of save corrupting bug when you save file size exceed 8mb and crafting significantly increases save file size , search google cyberpunk 2077 save corrupting bug.
I started tech first just got it to 20, and currently skill 14 only missing a ability, and have upgraded all my iconic guns, next is melee weapons. Mostly using epic healing item to get parts. And using armadillo mods on clothes just to try to be unstoppable. Sucks doing it on console though.
I ended up exploiting my way to max crafting because it takes way too long trying to do it normally.
As long as the vending machine crafting loop works money and crafting mats arent a problem, probabaly need to use before/if its patched
Crafting is so good in this game and allows some insane ways to make money, but I have to say on my 2nd playthrough I went Melee with Katana and Mantis using Reflex and Cool and it was so much more OP, easily hitting 100% crit very early in game with some just insane perks. There are quite a few viable builds, but even on hardest difficulty this game is not very challenging.
Also, stacking crit damage doesn't work as intended. Get crit dam from perks if you want but getting one deadeye and one bully is the best you'll be.
Crit chance is diminishing return and you can get fairly high cc from perks.
Also, speccing into damage first then crafting later...yeah you'll have an easier time with the things you have but the things you have won't be as good ever as the ones you craft.
Without utilities you won't have power to give to your tools to tinker with your gunz. Having a utility build early will yes slow you down somewhat but at the end of the day it'll make you a god early on. LV 25ish and have legendary quickhacks doing 12-15k contagion crit reliably with SC 50 over 1.2m eddies bagged and all items are crafted where possible. I'm in act 2 and crafting epic nades to disassemble for mats, freecraft boosting legendary mats and disassembling €$10 soda for 3 €$8 and 5 €$5 mats to craft more nades from 1-1 for 0-0/5-5/3-3/0-0 giving you infinite money and mats while clearing a 12-17 NPC encounter in 2-3 seconds is God mode.