Gotta admit I thought ricochets doing more damage back then was such a stupid idea and I'm glad it got changed. The idea of the feature should be "how can I attack this enemy from the side" or something not "I will always fire at the ground to win this"
@maskedman5657 the ricochet is still good for dealing with Sandevistan enemies I've found. They're not able to dodge the bounces like they can a straight shot.
@@maskedman5657 It gave us too much reason to use power and way too little reason to actually aim making gameplay easier and much less rewarding. Also ricochet being so OP made power weapons step on the toes of smart guns.
@@RansomMemoryAccess not really. Smart Guns were still viable. You almost never missed a shot. Even then I don't disagree with the nerf. But it was nerfed too hard
@@RansomMemoryAccesssmart guns have always been way OP ricochet wasn't as useful as I found it highly inaccurate. If the enemy was in cover it became useless.
@@maxpower8763They don't? I switched to a cyberdeck just to hack vehicles during the races and had great success for the first race. Will it not work for all the races?
Lizzie used to be my go-to gun for a long long time, until recently, that big patch, i dunno what they did but it just feels a lot weaker now. I've found myself running smart guns and power guns a lot more.
Lizzie works insanely well with Electromag Recycler. That piece of chrome heals your health and stamina by 5% at tier 5 for each charged tech shot you land. Lizzie fires 5 shots in a row when charged. The shots also split into 4 pellets. This counts as 20 hits, hence healing your stamina and health by 100%. Makes you really bulky and having full stamina all the time also gives infinite range and better aim with the cool perks. Pretty boring playstyle though since you'll end up walking up to people, hold charge, release and repeat.
Wasn't feeling smart guns at first, but after checking out your Netgunner build, I'm in love. It's so satisfying to watch the little rockets curve around cover to nail a gonk in the dome. Tech weapons are alright, but not my jam
Power weapons should be immune to weapon glitch hacks. Also someone should add the ChemRail from Elysium as a cyberpunk tech assault rifle. It would fit the cyberpunk universe perfectly. LMGs need a power buff
i love the game but sometimes i just feel like i'm two gonks short of a braincell if you catch my huscle. hard to choom when your delta v deck is brain dancing on detective deckard's e-dick
TECH all the way! so fucking cool! most fun weapons ever! shooting through walls, getting that loading sound while charging and the lightning bolt zapping gonks never gets old!! Satara, raiju, quasar, Burya, widowmaker are my favs!
Cool thing about Widowmaker is that Bolt shots will cause the contagion explosion thing if the poison proc is triggered. Just a shame we can't mod it anymore, so it kinda gets outperformed by the Achilles xmod2
Thanks for all the videos after the update. I'm 450 hours in but still a lot to learn, or even getting a different perspective opened up a lot of builds and gear for me
Man you are the best cyberpunk enciclopedia out there, i watched you for a long time and you are keeping me interested in cyberpunk, untill I get my new PC and finaly play phantom liberty
Always enjoy your in-depth analysis of Cyberpunk. It occurs to me that it might be interesting to see you get into games with a truly massive inventory of guns to review. The likes of Warframe or Destiny, even though the first is a big time commitment (but overall amazing) and the latter isn't in its glory days for sure. With that said, I would totally get it if you want to focus on more solo games with less intense grinds, and I encourage you to keep making great content!
tech sub machine gun with the bolt perks is the single strongest meta there is. every shot has a bolt, and the damage transfers to other enemies, drop max tac in about 30 seconds
All power weapons also have their own ''ricochet aggression'' aka how aggressive a Ricochet ''flicks'' to a target and make the target green. A weapon like Carman or Kongou it is very easy to ricochet to a target while the Rook or Moron Labe it is much more difficult to get a ricochet to ''snap'' to a target.
You never did a Smart Weapons Ranking in the end. Too bad, I would love to watch it ! Anyway, great job on your videos, thanks for the work you're doing ! I really enjoy the cheerful tone used on the videos (compared to other Cyberpunk related channels, although very interesting, where their monotone speech can be a little tedious to listen to)
YES! thank you sam! just what i needed and not a moment too soon. could you make a video ranking smart guns 2.0 soon, please? im hooked on your content bro. HOOKED!
Tech weapons are mine go-to, in a form of Rasetsu/Achilles/Ambition combo. Power weapons are good but tiresome sometimes. Can't bring myself to use Smart guns, since it always looks to me like I'm aim-boting. Thank you for all your work! 🤝🔥
Trying to get and maintain a target lock with a smart gun is what you do with them half the time. But why shoot around cover when you can just shoot through it.
Yinglong is easily my favorite weapon in the game. It's fantastic against people, bots, and even vehicles -- when it pops its electric damage, it disables just about everything electronic (vehicles, bots, drones) and does some serious damage to people as well. It's great for when you need to wait a bit for your RAM to recharge -- just start shooting that thing, and watch your enemies drop like flies.
I don't know if you'll see this since you're making fallout videos now, but I really appreciated and binged your videos the entire year. You are probably one of, if not, the best informational youtuber regarding these types of games.
Smart guns all the way with a cyber dec as support (yes not the other way around). As for why, they are just so much fun to use, lock on, pump half a mag from Divided we Stand in the general direction of the enemy and watch the green fireworks go off. Less involved in pure aiming skills for sure but giving off the biggest "cyber" feel of them all.
The downside to smart weapons is the lock-on time. You can definitely be extremely effective with smart weapons, but it's a different kind of gun-play that I don't really like.
@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 To each their own ofc, that´s what i like about Cyberpunk so much, there is a playstyle for almost every flavor of combat taste around. Melee, fast and slicy or slow bruiser. Gun play in a dozen different flavors, and even "magic" in the form of cyber decks and hacking. The game really allows you to build your character to play how you like and i just love the everliving heck out of not having to aim but being a death dealing "missle battery" on two legs, which is pretty unique in modern (or future) set games.
The main idea is how each class attacks targets under cover while minimizing your exposure. With smart you just aim not at them but use the sides up or left or right. In that way the bullets can make a more cuved trajectory. While the tech just pass through the cover and power guns use walls to shoot targets behind cover. In buildings like corridor corners the ricochet has an advantage to make 45% degree deflection. When there is an open space the smart can make ballistic trajectory to land head shots from above. Do not aim the center aim at the edges to get maximum curved trajectory. While tech just pas through obstacles but you need extra reconnaissance.
Thank you for the video, I started a new playthrough a few days ago using the plague doctor build and I’m loving it but I needed gun ideas, I’ve just been using skippy, divided, and yinglong but it’s very fun
Nice video mate. I have seen your every video on the channel, you're literally the best Cyberpunk RUclipsr there is. I also wanted to give you an idea of video, can you please make a video ranking every gun(or a top 10 maybe) in general? Not specific to any build. I know it sounds weird as you need to focus on a build to bring the best out of a gun,but there are exceptions like Ba xing chong(just put a tygerclaws tattoo) or Hercules 3AX(has a smart targetting build in it). It would be a intersting video,and till now you haven't done anything like that. And, sometimes casual people just wanted to play the game without focusing on a particular sandevistan or netrunner build, just experiencing the guns. And when they like the guns,then they focus on how to improve them,and then go for a specific build. I think CDPR too understood it, that's why we have Chrome Compressor. It doesn't offer anything specific,so people can be whatever they want to be.
I completely agree mate! I was thinking along the lines of dropping a top 10 overall weapons in the game. Having carefully reviewed them all now I think I can assess pretty fairly which ones it'll be. Though it will be a task to narrow it down
@@SamBram That's great news buddy. The logic with which you describe positioning every gun is rare to find these day,and I(and friend on mine whom recommended your videos) sometimes check certain guns after we saw you evaluating them,and even if you disagree with you initially, later we really end up agreeing with you after testing personally(except just once,we didn't agree with you on Pozhar x-MOD2 ,it should be lowered and ba xing Chong should be higher,in our humble opinion). So,a overall best guns from you is everything could we ask of you for now,it will be great to see your rankings.From hitler reacting to Coronavirus to almost having 100k subs,you have really came a long way mate. Congratulations in advance. God bless you
Im all for more smart guns testing and builds. If possible could you also compare smart rifles to smart pistols as they all come with their own good perks. I know people find Yinglong a pinnacle gun but I feel like with all the COOL perks (+40% headshot dmg, no dmg falloff + movement speed), smart pistols are pumping out some serious numbers. And as always, great video Sam.
I have noticed that the ping'd or detected enemies now have more than an outline with glowy bits after 2.1. I can see far more detail of their armor/aparrel/body and facing than we had in the past.
There's an engine bug with the MA70 where since it's already explosive, applying explosive to it again with firecracker will cause the bullets to have instant travel time, this also means they have almost no recoil and almost no downside to using a sandevistan with them.
The downside isn't bullet travel, but sandevistan scaling. Guns like bolt actions and shotguns have most of their firing sped up by having a sandy active, while automatics stay sluggish.
So far, for my first/current play of Cyberpunk, I am playing as a stealthy net runner and sniper. Silenced ranged power weapons (i.e. Overwatch and Her Majesty) are useful to me for sneaking around. But in open fights and for powerful enemies/bosses, I enjoy tech weapons like Widowmaker and Breakthrough-along with matching tech weapon perks-for that extra punch. Quickhacks with Overclock, plus the “Chain Lightning” perk & Cellular Adapter cyberware for tech weapons, really helps in dispatching crowds of enemies or in boss fights.
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I always played with the mix of all. Power pistol for stealth situations, tech fo a sniper rifle, Smart Guns to just get easy headshots on multiple nemies hiding behind boxes/cars while I jump around.
One of my favorite things with power weapons is that the explosive ones work with pyrpmania, it's one of the primary motivations for using bald eagle in my build
13:00 im running a mixed mixes cool-intel build built around a silent power pistol for stealth and a smart sniper rifle and pistol for going loud. Intel is speared up to smart synergy for smart weapons and nerves of steel and ninjutsu from cool. There are a lot of buffs to head shots and the smart weapons lvl up both headhunter and netrunner. It’s amazing single target damage and you got the synergy of quick hacks and smart weapons still for groups.
My first playthrough occurring right now, I'm mainly using power weapons for that old school feel. Shotgun, sniper and throwing knives, mantis arms with shock and a high mobility stealth build.
Ricochet does work extremely well against enemies with sandevistan. enemies seem to have a hard time dodging ricochet shots. nice to have when going up against maxtac
There is a one big problem for tech/smart guns. If you want to reach full potential you gotta pick general perks for your weapon type and special smart/tech perks. And with classic power guns you can build your character more hybrid playstyle.
Thanks for explaining the Tech-weapon perks. After the simplicity of 1.x, at a glance they seemed fiddly and annoying so didn't bother. Never got the hang of smart-guns, even in high int builds, so standard shooty guns for me thanks.
Something not mentioned here, but he has in much earlier videos from 1.6 ish: Ricochet smashes any enemy with a sandevistan on. If they're giving you problems, keep one spec'd out for it on hand.
Tech is my favorite gun type, it's extremely rewarding, specially with bolt. Both aim and charge timing are factors, but when you use it properly you deal MASSIVE damage
If I had to be a reviewer for the Rostovic Db-2 satara, my final thoughts on it would be that it "mixes the old and reliable with the new and satisfying", by 2077 the double barrel shotgun would've now been over two hundred years old, so naturally it's gonna be generally obsolete(and especially won't put holes in smashers armor) so what do you do to fix that? Make it fire spikes and turn it into a railgun, with 14 projectiles(which I assume are tungsten) each shell and the guaranteed fact that the only thing will jam your weapon is a netrunner, you surely got a powerhouse that even smasher would respect
Figured i'd mention that you can get +90-110% ricochet damage with muzzle + hand implant + secondary implant stats (you should easily get +2.5% bonus ricochet damage per implant, there's 20 implants so thats +50% damage. Add +55% from hand implant and muzzle and thats 105%.) on top of that, ricochets usually aims for the Torso which means the Pistol "Cheetah" works really well with ricochet. So if you go ALL IN on ricochet, you'll have +105%~ damage increase + whatever Cheetah does on Torso hits. That doesn't eliminate the annoyance of aiming, but hey, i had fun playing as a pure ricochet build if anyone wants to do it. The key is to get chipware connoisseur, license to chrome, lucky day and get cyberware at early levels and upgrade them to get bonus to ricochet damage stat (as high as you can get it)
Im not a youtube or streamer, :D It's just a combat gunslinger using ricochets with +bonus ricochet stat modifiers on 20 implants, ricochet items, the necessary perks and leveling the right skills (engineering boosts stat modifiers by 30% at skill 50). Add in cheetah (+122.5% damage to torso hits which is where ricochets hits) and it works rather well. 20 cool and 15-20 tech is the basics, how you build the ricochet build after that is up to the player. I went for Air kerenzikov (air dashes 20 reflexes), 4 int for vehicle\covert\control hacks and 15 body for adrenaline rush. As such my build was a high movement, fast paced gunslinger build. But there's plenty of variations you can do.
@@zhiphius Yeah but I already used most of my cyber wear on things that don't priotize Richochet Damage. So it would have been mad expensive to reset it.
@@maskedman5657 Ah, nothing we can do then. Half of the damage come from muzzle + hand implant, the rest from bonus ricochet damage stat modifier (not counting cheetah which works regardless as long as its on torso). But yea, rolling for ricochet stat is expensive and paininducing. It requires work and patience. (i use a mod to eliminate the pain while having to upgrade. But not everyone's on a PC). Anyways have a nice day sir :)
Also worth adding that tech weapons pair really badly with a sandy because of the charge time, much to my own frustration as tech weapons and the sandy are my favourite things!
My favorite build so far is a netgunner using a tech shotgun with kneel. Specd into all healing perks makes me unkillable as long as I keep killing. Literally unkillable against a single opponent if I just stand there. I call it the meltdown runner
I mean, dont get me wrong. Love all these vids, watched them all, will continue to watch them, but quite franky just get Problem Solver with both the recoil hand cyberwares and a Satara with Wall Puncher for when your ammo inevitable runs out and you're set to murder everything in no time, done and done.
One thing I am sad they removed in 2.0 was threat detector, getting rid of detachable sniper scopes for some unknown reason and suppressed revolvers was insanely fun back then and you were actually able to unequip mods also pariah and pizdets are suppressed but pariah i would not use with lightning chain as you'll get spotted if it chains
I put wallpuncher and spinetickler on the Achilles xmod2, the thing is just absolutely bonkers and it's a shame they don't let us do that with Widowmaker
Bruh the seraph is slept on. I like it better than her majesty for my build. Faster follow up shots, explosive bullets, can be silenced, can get double kills, the only gun I enjoy more if I’m not stealthed is Johnny’s gun
So many games have guns. So in Cyberpunk I prefer to do what they don't, hacking + smart weapons or Sandevistan with katana. Both playstyles one can pull off with below 40 fps frame rate introduced with all the shiny ray tracing effects 😋
I loved tech weapons more before 2.0, im not that hyped on the emi effect when released early. The whole tech weapons stick always felt to me to aim for the perk that allows to hold your fire and use tech guns in a "predatory" style, releasung your boosted fire when and where you wanted. That 2.0 mechanic brings back "you being the lackay of your gun" and not the other way around.
My first play through was with power assault rifles with a relex build which was fun but a bit easy near end game. Now trying tech weapons using snipers and pistols.
My personal favourite is power weapons but I do sometimes switch depending on the situation. Power weapons are very traditional and have the most options to using them. I mainly stick to pistols revolvers and shotguns. The only tech weapons I use tend to be shotguns. Mainly the satara and its iconic variant. Smart weapons get the least amount of use from me. I like them but they’re kinda weak and can’t be silenced. I use smart pistols if I am going to use them but it depends on the build and most of my builds don’t have smart weapons on them.
for the life of me I just don’t find smart weapons fun at all. It’s definitely interesting and cool in its own way, but it’s hard to drop blades and suppressed weapons. Nonetheless, great video as usual!
I personally find all of the smart weapons so WEAK, the one exception being the Bai Xing Chong. Even the shotguns that spray out a mass of shells still don't hit very hard. The Tech weapons, on the other hand, are pure death incarnate. Satara and Nekomata for the win, unless you're being hard forced into stealth.
I use them all, but tech by far does the most damage and that's just at base. Once you get bolt shot, chain lightning and max out the engineer skill, you're melting crowds without effort. Only stuff like ba xing chong and the poison smart ars come close to the crowd dropping potential. In fact they had me bump up the difficulty because combat just became far too easy.
Power all the rje way Few things are as satisfying to me as hitting a silenced headshot from outside detection range with Panam's iconic rifle, or clearing a room in seconds with six well aimed Overture headshots
Smart guns are my absolute faves. I would revisit the Shotguns though. You rated them fairly low in your SG video and I couldn't disagree more. Synergizing them with your cyberdeck and overclock perks makes them the most satisfying oneshotters. Rolling up to a group of enemies, loading them up with quick hacks and then unloading one trigger pull for each enemy and then hearing the satisfying "Pop" all pellets connect at once is phenomenal.
I never used smart weaponsnmuch in my first couple play throughs. They just seemed like they did so little damage and ate up so much ammmo. But when you decide to really dedicate yourself to them they are cool. They dont do as much damage but if you take the time to lock on and you get yourself a good smart gun it is pretty impressive, even witjout a netrunner build
how about list of "farming places" to gain lots of xp and fun fights and maybe nice rewards. I found one on barghest tunnel. many enemies with one boss, and that tunnels leads directly to paciffica beach, outside dogtown
@1:10 What "Preview of estimated damage" I don't see anything on the ui that tells me the estimated damage of the shot I have lined up. Where is this wonderful thing of which you speak?
I adore Reeds pariah, thought im never betraying him so im just headcanoning that he gave it to me after talking to me at the basketball court after killing So Mi (yes I just used console commands)
It seems like the legendary weapons are super overpopulated with power weapons, that's my only gripe with them, all the weapon types are cool as hell though
Netrunner doesn't even need gun just use cool and throw knifes or monowire quick hack between ram charges, It is better to craft chimera power or tech mod even if your net runner build because only 1 iconic smart weapon (pistol) with mod slot support exist in game only accessible if you have phantom liberty dlc installed.
And I'm not talking about the one you find in the pond. You have to use the scuba soup and search on the water for very, very long time before you find it. 😮
My favorite has to be power weapons. I really don't enjoy the charge up on tech weapons and smart weapons usually don't fit my build(I am however going to use them for my next playthrough)
Smart Weapon: For Netrunner only Tech Weapon: For those who love to kill enemy behind walls/kill those dodge bastard/1 shot for high damage Power Weapon: For none of the above
There is something so cyberpunk about the smart weapons even if they are some of the weakest early on. By the way Cyberpunk 2077 is easily a top 3 game of the generation and one of the greatest of all time
Tech. I don’t even use them that often. They’re my least favorite gun, but any of the mid-tier to Legendary tech weapons are completely busted Also, if you -Kill Reed- in PhanLib, you get a suppressed tech pistol, so you can stealth with tech, but only after beating the DLC in a specific ending.
Throwing knives are definitely the best sniper rifles in the game
a knife with zero g is more accurate than any sniper
Not really. Sparky and other Tech snipers are better than knife. You can't one shot an elite enemy with knife who has subdermal armor .
Kinda range limited though
@@Krelgarshheadshot anyone except those with sandevistan, unless you got cripple movement quickhack
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Samuel Bramuel back at it again with some great Cyberpunk content.
Gotta admit I thought ricochets doing more damage back then was such a stupid idea and I'm glad it got changed.
The idea of the feature should be "how can I attack this enemy from the side" or something not "I will always fire at the ground to win this"
XShaneX19 but it gave us alot more reason to use power
@maskedman5657 the ricochet is still good for dealing with Sandevistan enemies I've found. They're not able to dodge the bounces like they can a straight shot.
@@maskedman5657 It gave us too much reason to use power and way too little reason to actually aim making gameplay easier and much less rewarding. Also ricochet being so OP made power weapons step on the toes of smart guns.
@@RansomMemoryAccess not really. Smart Guns were still viable. You almost never missed a shot. Even then I don't disagree with the nerf. But it was nerfed too hard
@@RansomMemoryAccesssmart guns have always been way OP ricochet wasn't as useful as I found it highly inaccurate. If the enemy was in cover it became useless.
Underrated use for smart guns: Vehicle combat. Especially during The Beast In Me and racing generally
Beast In Me is a breeze with vehicle hacks. Emergency Brakes kills the AI and they never return to the race if hit with it
@@TheDeadmanstrolling Some races don't let you hack
@@maxpower8763They don't? I switched to a cyberdeck just to hack vehicles during the races and had great success for the first race. Will it not work for all the races?
That is...genius.
@@warrier705It works but sometimes it won't let you hack certain cars
Lizzie made me fall in love with tech weapons all over again, just so satisfying getting the hang of bolt shots
Lizzie used to be my go-to gun for a long long time, until recently, that big patch, i dunno what they did but it just feels a lot weaker now. I've found myself running smart guns and power guns a lot more.
Lizzie works insanely well with Electromag Recycler. That piece of chrome heals your health and stamina by 5% at tier 5 for each charged tech shot you land. Lizzie fires 5 shots in a row when charged. The shots also split into 4 pellets. This counts as 20 hits, hence healing your stamina and health by 100%. Makes you really bulky and having full stamina all the time also gives infinite range and better aim with the cool perks. Pretty boring playstyle though since you'll end up walking up to people, hold charge, release and repeat.
@@_Saracen_they nerfed Lizzie in one the latest patches, it's almost useless now. Same for Johnny's revolver, went from my favorite gun to useless
@@DragonZombie2000 I was never a big fan of Johnnys gun personally but it's a damn shame about Lizzie.
Okay but am i the only one who enjoys the order shotgun?
Wasn't feeling smart guns at first, but after checking out your Netgunner build, I'm in love. It's so satisfying to watch the little rockets curve around cover to nail a gonk in the dome.
Tech weapons are alright, but not my jam
Power weapons should be immune to weapon glitch hacks.
Also someone should add the ChemRail from Elysium as a cyberpunk tech assault rifle. It would fit the cyberpunk universe perfectly.
LMGs need a power buff
I hate so much that tech weapons are so POWERFUL that go through walls while power weapons are so TECHNICAL that can calculate ricochet trajectory
yeah it's why i always get confused on which one does which because shooting through walls is a powerful thing to do
late to the discussion, but I'm glad the italian traduction description power wappns as traditional weapons
i love the game but sometimes i just feel like i'm two gonks short of a braincell if you catch my huscle. hard to choom when your delta v deck is brain dancing on detective deckard's e-dick
TECH all the way! so fucking cool!
most fun weapons ever! shooting through walls, getting that loading sound while charging and the lightning bolt zapping gonks never gets old!!
Satara, raiju, quasar, Burya, widowmaker are my favs!
Nekomata + Ping best combo ever. You dont need to enter the building or just hide behind closed door
Widowmaker ftw. The juicy cracking sound it makes at full charge point blank headshot is satisfying af.
Cool thing about Widowmaker is that Bolt shots will cause the contagion explosion thing if the poison proc is triggered. Just a shame we can't mod it anymore, so it kinda gets outperformed by the Achilles xmod2
Thanks for all the videos after the update. I'm 450 hours in but still a lot to learn, or even getting a different perspective opened up a lot of builds and gear for me
Smart guns really do synergize well with reflex and a lot of movement. My go to companions for a slash and dash build.
This is probably the last video made before 100k subs, congrats Mr.Bram you deserve it
Additionally, I WAS HERE
I think there might be a couple more released before quite hitting that milestone. But thank you all the same!
Thanks for this guide. I just started Cyberpunk 2077 and this gives me a lot of info without spoiling the fun of experimenting with different guns.
Man you are the best cyberpunk enciclopedia out there, i watched you for a long time and you are keeping me interested in cyberpunk, untill I get my new PC and finaly play phantom liberty
you are so underrated bro, love your stuff. Tech weapons all the way, always love being a sniper build in games like this
11:21 this clip is a work of art
I rolled back to watch. You're absolutely right.
Always enjoy your in-depth analysis of Cyberpunk. It occurs to me that it might be interesting to see you get into games with a truly massive inventory of guns to review. The likes of Warframe or Destiny, even though the first is a big time commitment (but overall amazing) and the latter isn't in its glory days for sure.
With that said, I would totally get it if you want to focus on more solo games with less intense grinds, and I encourage you to keep making great content!
tech sub machine gun with the bolt perks is the single strongest meta there is. every shot has a bolt, and the damage transfers to other enemies, drop max tac in about 30 seconds
I killed maxtac in 15sec
Yup, Raiju is a thunder god power fantasy. Full stop.
For that matter, Byakko will do it faster.
@@RicochetForcewe were talking about the drop max tac
@iainsteele5737
All power weapons also have their own ''ricochet aggression'' aka how aggressive a Ricochet ''flicks'' to a target and make the target green. A weapon like Carman or Kongou it is very easy to ricochet to a target while the Rook or Moron Labe it is much more difficult to get a ricochet to ''snap'' to a target.
@thundereagle4130 I didn't know about the Carman. Gotta test out
With out a doubt the best cyberpunk youtuber out there
Thanks for the content choom ❤
Greetings from Vienna , Sam. I like your Cyberpunk Videos. Because of you i have gain a lot of knowledge. Thanks man, i wish you all the best.
You never did a Smart Weapons Ranking in the end. Too bad, I would love to watch it !
Anyway, great job on your videos, thanks for the work you're doing !
I really enjoy the cheerful tone used on the videos (compared to other Cyberpunk related channels, although very interesting, where their monotone speech can be a little tedious to listen to)
YES! thank you sam! just what i needed and not a moment too soon. could you make a video ranking smart guns 2.0 soon, please? im hooked on your content bro. HOOKED!
Tech weapons are mine go-to, in a form of Rasetsu/Achilles/Ambition combo. Power weapons are good but tiresome sometimes. Can't bring myself to use Smart guns, since it always looks to me like I'm aim-boting. Thank you for all your work! 🤝🔥
Trying to get and maintain a target lock with a smart gun is what you do with them half the time. But why shoot around cover when you can just shoot through it.
Mf it's a singleplayer game, who gives a damn? Goofy ass logic
@@arcticowl1091 Lol, that's called personal preference.
Yinglong is easily my favorite weapon in the game. It's fantastic against people, bots, and even vehicles -- when it pops its electric damage, it disables just about everything electronic (vehicles, bots, drones) and does some serious damage to people as well. It's great for when you need to wait a bit for your RAM to recharge -- just start shooting that thing, and watch your enemies drop like flies.
YingLong is the Best
I don't know if you'll see this since you're making fallout videos now, but I really appreciated and binged your videos the entire year. You are probably one of, if not, the best informational youtuber regarding these types of games.
Smart guns all the way with a cyber dec as support (yes not the other way around). As for why, they are just so much fun to use, lock on, pump half a mag from Divided we Stand in the general direction of the enemy and watch the green fireworks go off.
Less involved in pure aiming skills for sure but giving off the biggest "cyber" feel of them all.
It's the most cheese build in the game
For me smart weapons are most boring of them all. No way i'm going to complete playthrough with them, around 30 lvl already. Katana + sandy for me. :D
@@albertf9692 so we are polar oposites in this because i find the entire melee section boring AF.
The downside to smart weapons is the lock-on time. You can definitely be extremely effective with smart weapons, but it's a different kind of gun-play that I don't really like.
@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 To each their own ofc, that´s what i like about Cyberpunk so much, there is a playstyle for almost every flavor of combat taste around.
Melee, fast and slicy or slow bruiser. Gun play in a dozen different flavors, and even "magic" in the form of cyber decks and hacking.
The game really allows you to build your character to play how you like and i just love the everliving heck out of not having to aim but being a death dealing "missle battery" on two legs, which is pretty unique in modern (or future) set games.
The main idea is how each class attacks targets under cover while minimizing your exposure. With smart you just aim not at them but use the sides up or left or right. In that way the bullets can make a more cuved trajectory. While the tech just pass through the cover and power guns use walls to shoot targets behind cover.
In buildings like corridor corners the ricochet has an advantage to make 45% degree deflection.
When there is an open space the smart can make ballistic trajectory to land head shots from above. Do not aim the center aim at the edges to get maximum curved trajectory. While tech just pas through obstacles but you need extra reconnaissance.
Love these videos. An amazingly useful resource and reference for all the finer details I can never remember.
Thank you for the video, I started a new playthrough a few days ago using the plague doctor build and I’m loving it but I needed gun ideas, I’ve just been using skippy, divided, and yinglong but it’s very fun
""stealth one shot through wall would be too broken '' laugh in netrunner
Nice video mate. I have seen your every video on the channel, you're literally the best Cyberpunk RUclipsr there is. I also wanted to give you an idea of video, can you please make a video ranking every gun(or a top 10 maybe) in general? Not specific to any build. I know it sounds weird as you need to focus on a build to bring the best out of a gun,but there are exceptions like Ba xing chong(just put a tygerclaws tattoo) or Hercules 3AX(has a smart targetting build in it). It would be a intersting video,and till now you haven't done anything like that. And, sometimes casual people just wanted to play the game without focusing on a particular sandevistan or netrunner build, just experiencing the guns. And when they like the guns,then they focus on how to improve them,and then go for a specific build. I think CDPR too understood it, that's why we have Chrome Compressor. It doesn't offer anything specific,so people can be whatever they want to be.
I completely agree mate! I was thinking along the lines of dropping a top 10 overall weapons in the game. Having carefully reviewed them all now I think I can assess pretty fairly which ones it'll be. Though it will be a task to narrow it down
@@SamBram That's great news buddy. The logic with which you describe positioning every gun is rare to find these day,and I(and friend on mine whom recommended your videos) sometimes check certain guns after we saw you evaluating them,and even if you disagree with you initially, later we really end up agreeing with you after testing personally(except just once,we didn't agree with you on Pozhar x-MOD2 ,it should be lowered and ba xing Chong should be higher,in our humble opinion). So,a overall best guns from you is everything could we ask of you for now,it will be great to see your rankings.From hitler reacting to Coronavirus to almost having 100k subs,you have really came a long way mate. Congratulations in advance. God bless you
Im all for more smart guns testing and builds. If possible could you also compare smart rifles to smart pistols as they all come with their own good perks. I know people find Yinglong a pinnacle gun but I feel like with all the COOL perks (+40% headshot dmg, no dmg falloff + movement speed), smart pistols are pumping out some serious numbers. And as always, great video Sam.
Genjiroh and Ashura with the paraline deck are ridiculously effective.
@@JekaSkuf yes Ashura is a powerhouse with sniper perks. I just think pistols are not as flashy so a lot of people overlook them
I have noticed that the ping'd or detected enemies now have more than an outline with glowy bits after 2.1. I can see far more detail of their armor/aparrel/body and facing than we had in the past.
Your videos are awesome. Thanks so much for doing this
It’s nice that each class of weapons fills its own niche now instead of one just objectively being better than the other two.
There's an engine bug with the MA70 where since it's already explosive, applying explosive to it again with firecracker will cause the bullets to have instant travel time, this also means they have almost no recoil and almost no downside to using a sandevistan with them.
The downside isn't bullet travel, but sandevistan scaling. Guns like bolt actions and shotguns have most of their firing sped up by having a sandy active, while automatics stay sluggish.
@@AGuy-vq9qp Time is slowed so you're still firing faster than you would normally, more dps because seconds take longer, but I get what you mean
amazing content as always
So far, for my first/current play of Cyberpunk, I am playing as a stealthy net runner and sniper. Silenced ranged power weapons (i.e. Overwatch and Her Majesty) are useful to me for sneaking around. But in open fights and for powerful enemies/bosses, I enjoy tech weapons like Widowmaker and Breakthrough-along with matching tech weapon perks-for that extra punch. Quickhacks with Overclock, plus the “Chain Lightning” perk & Cellular Adapter cyberware for tech weapons, really helps in dispatching crowds of enemies or in boss fights.
I always played with the mix of all. Power pistol for stealth situations, tech fo a sniper rifle, Smart Guns to just get easy headshots on multiple nemies hiding behind boxes/cars while I jump around.
I hope that Cyberpunk 2 will come out as soon as possible just to have more of your videos ❤
excellent content!
One of my favorite things with power weapons is that the explosive ones work with pyrpmania, it's one of the primary motivations for using bald eagle in my build
It's Sam O'Clock Bram! I mean time 🎉
The yinglong is my absolute favorite smart weapon in the game. So satisfying with the electrical damage it can do.
You can just use spinetickler on tech weapons, tho you can only access it in the DLC
13:00 im running a mixed mixes cool-intel build built around a silent power pistol for stealth and a smart sniper rifle and pistol for going loud. Intel is speared up to smart synergy for smart weapons and nerves of steel and ninjutsu from cool. There are a lot of buffs to head shots and the smart weapons lvl up both headhunter and netrunner. It’s amazing single target damage and you got the synergy of quick hacks and smart weapons still for groups.
My first playthrough occurring right now, I'm mainly using power weapons for that old school feel. Shotgun, sniper and throwing knives, mantis arms with shock and a high mobility stealth build.
Ricochet does work extremely well against enemies with sandevistan. enemies seem to have a hard time dodging ricochet shots. nice to have when going up against maxtac
There is a one big problem for tech/smart guns. If you want to reach full potential you gotta pick general perks for your weapon type and special smart/tech perks. And with classic power guns you can build your character more hybrid playstyle.
I've always liked tech weapons, especially the widowmaker and lizzie/comrade's hammer, coupled with sandevistan it makes the game so trivial ^^
Thanks for explaining the Tech-weapon perks. After the simplicity of 1.x, at a glance they seemed fiddly and annoying so didn't bother.
Never got the hang of smart-guns, even in high int builds, so standard shooty guns for me thanks.
Something not mentioned here, but he has in much earlier videos from 1.6 ish:
Ricochet smashes any enemy with a sandevistan on. If they're giving you problems, keep one spec'd out for it on hand.
@besabaftw it got nerfed
@@maskedman5657 it's not as broken as before, but it still eats enemy sandevistans for breakfast
@@besabaftw It's so weak now that I just use weapon glitch or cripple movement
I’m excited for this one
Tech is my favorite gun type, it's extremely rewarding, specially with bolt. Both aim and charge timing are factors, but when you use it properly you deal MASSIVE damage
If I had to be a reviewer for the Rostovic Db-2 satara, my final thoughts on it would be that it "mixes the old and reliable with the new and satisfying", by 2077 the double barrel shotgun would've now been over two hundred years old, so naturally it's gonna be generally obsolete(and especially won't put holes in smashers armor) so what do you do to fix that? Make it fire spikes and turn it into a railgun, with 14 projectiles(which I assume are tungsten) each shell and the guaranteed fact that the only thing will jam your weapon is a netrunner, you surely got a powerhouse that even smasher would respect
I've put Smasher down with only Sovereign, which is basically a iconic Rostovic DB4 Igla. DB2 Satara is a beast too.
Figured i'd mention that you can get +90-110% ricochet damage with muzzle + hand implant + secondary implant stats (you should easily get +2.5% bonus ricochet damage per implant, there's 20 implants so thats +50% damage. Add +55% from hand implant and muzzle and thats 105%.) on top of that, ricochets usually aims for the Torso which means the Pistol "Cheetah" works really well with ricochet. So if you go ALL IN on ricochet, you'll have +105%~ damage increase + whatever Cheetah does on Torso hits.
That doesn't eliminate the annoyance of aiming, but hey, i had fun playing as a pure ricochet build if anyone wants to do it.
The key is to get chipware connoisseur, license to chrome, lucky day and get cyberware at early levels and upgrade them to get bonus to ricochet damage stat (as high as you can get it)
@zhiphius Yeah most of my implants aren't ricochet based.
You got any footage on your Ricochet Build? You should post some
Im not a youtube or streamer, :D
It's just a combat gunslinger using ricochets with +bonus ricochet stat modifiers on 20 implants, ricochet items, the necessary perks and leveling the right skills (engineering boosts stat modifiers by 30% at skill 50).
Add in cheetah (+122.5% damage to torso hits which is where ricochets hits) and it works rather well.
20 cool and 15-20 tech is the basics, how you build the ricochet build after that is up to the player.
I went for Air kerenzikov (air dashes 20 reflexes), 4 int for vehicle\covert\control hacks and 15 body for adrenaline rush.
As such my build was a high movement, fast paced gunslinger build.
But there's plenty of variations you can do.
@@zhiphius Yeah but I already used most of my cyber wear on things that don't priotize Richochet Damage. So it would have been mad expensive to reset it.
@@maskedman5657 Ah, nothing we can do then. Half of the damage come from muzzle + hand implant, the rest from bonus ricochet damage stat modifier (not counting cheetah which works regardless as long as its on torso).
But yea, rolling for ricochet stat is expensive and paininducing. It requires work and patience. (i use a mod to eliminate the pain while having to upgrade. But not everyone's on a PC).
Anyways have a nice day sir :)
@@zhiphius This build doesn't seem as strong when you compare it to the smart SMG builds
Also worth adding that tech weapons pair really badly with a sandy because of the charge time, much to my own frustration as tech weapons and the sandy are my favourite things!
My favorite build so far is a netgunner using a tech shotgun with kneel. Specd into all healing perks makes me unkillable as long as I keep killing. Literally unkillable against a single opponent if I just stand there. I call it the meltdown runner
After 2.0, smart weapons now definitely sit in their own little bubble, and they are more niche to use and are worthy of their own ranking video.
The prototype in an overclock build with the contagion quick hack is so fun.
I know we have the projectile launch system and grenades but I wish there were more explosives, like straight up grenade and rocket launchers
was just watching 1.6 version of this the other day wondering when will you make a 2.0 version lmao
I mean, dont get me wrong. Love all these vids, watched them all, will continue to watch them, but quite franky just get Problem Solver with both the recoil hand cyberwares and a Satara with Wall Puncher for when your ammo inevitable runs out and you're set to murder everything in no time, done and done.
One thing I am sad they removed in 2.0 was threat detector, getting rid of detachable sniper scopes for some unknown reason and suppressed revolvers was insanely fun back then and you were actually able to unequip mods also pariah and pizdets are suppressed but pariah i would not use with lightning chain as you'll get spotted if it chains
I put wallpuncher and spinetickler on the Achilles xmod2, the thing is just absolutely bonkers and it's a shame they don't let us do that with Widowmaker
Bruh the seraph is slept on. I like it better than her majesty for my build. Faster follow up shots, explosive bullets, can be silenced, can get double kills, the only gun I enjoy more if I’m not stealthed is Johnny’s gun
So many games have guns. So in Cyberpunk I prefer to do what they don't, hacking + smart weapons or Sandevistan with katana. Both playstyles one can pull off with below 40 fps frame rate introduced with all the shiny ray tracing effects 😋
I loved tech weapons more before 2.0, im not that hyped on the emi effect when released early. The whole tech weapons stick always felt to me to aim for the perk that allows to hold your fire and use tech guns in a "predatory" style, releasung your boosted fire when and where you wanted. That 2.0 mechanic brings back "you being the lackay of your gun" and not the other way around.
I'd really love a video for your "plague-spreader" build.
My first play through was with power assault rifles with a relex build which was fun but a bit easy near end game. Now trying tech weapons using snipers and pistols.
My personal favourite is power weapons but I do sometimes switch depending on the situation. Power weapons are very traditional and have the most options to using them. I mainly stick to pistols revolvers and shotguns. The only tech weapons I use tend to be shotguns. Mainly the satara and its iconic variant. Smart weapons get the least amount of use from me. I like them but they’re kinda weak and can’t be silenced. I use smart pistols if I am going to use them but it depends on the build and most of my builds don’t have smart weapons on them.
for the life of me I just don’t find smart weapons fun at all. It’s definitely interesting and cool in its own way, but it’s hard to drop blades and suppressed weapons. Nonetheless, great video as usual!
Smart guns are made for people who don't like guns.
I personally find all of the smart weapons so WEAK, the one exception being the Bai Xing Chong. Even the shotguns that spray out a mass of shells still don't hit very hard.
The Tech weapons, on the other hand, are pure death incarnate. Satara and Nekomata for the win, unless you're being hard forced into stealth.
I like to use them for run and gun when dashing and double jumping in platforms. You dont have to aim so you focus on the parkour which is fun
@@miguelordonez3323 I go for the "Make things I don't like dead very quickly" approach :)
@@KiljaedenasIf you think the Smart weapons are weak then you aren't using them correctly
I found lock boxes under the water when I opened them. The weapons are more devastating than anything that you're showing
I use them all, but tech by far does the most damage and that's just at base. Once you get bolt shot, chain lightning and max out the engineer skill, you're melting crowds without effort. Only stuff like ba xing chong and the poison smart ars come close to the crowd dropping potential. In fact they had me bump up the difficulty because combat just became far too easy.
You should always play on very hard
Power all the rje way
Few things are as satisfying to me as hitting a silenced headshot from outside detection range with Panam's iconic rifle, or clearing a room in seconds with six well aimed Overture headshots
Stealth and Blades FTW
Smart guns are my absolute faves. I would revisit the Shotguns though. You rated them fairly low in your SG video and I couldn't disagree more. Synergizing them with your cyberdeck and overclock perks makes them the most satisfying oneshotters. Rolling up to a group of enemies, loading them up with quick hacks and then unloading one trigger pull for each enemy and then hearing the satisfying "Pop" all pellets connect at once is phenomenal.
Jackie's gun is great for stealth as well
I never used smart weaponsnmuch in my first couple play throughs. They just seemed like they did so little damage and ate up so much ammmo. But when you decide to really dedicate yourself to them they are cool. They dont do as much damage but if you take the time to lock on and you get yourself a good smart gun it is pretty impressive, even witjout a netrunner build
how about list of "farming places" to gain lots of xp and fun fights and maybe nice rewards. I found one on barghest tunnel. many enemies with one boss, and that tunnels leads directly to paciffica beach, outside dogtown
Smart weapons. I can literally drink my bloody mary while shooting at the same time.
Awesome vid😅
@1:10 What "Preview of estimated damage" I don't see anything on the ui that tells me the estimated damage of the shot I have lined up. Where is this wonderful thing of which you speak?
You ever figure that out? I would like to know to.
@@wolfhunter98cool perk
I think the best weapon type is the one that the enemy uses to shoot their allies with.
I do like Death and Taxes though. It's special.
I adore Reeds pariah, thought im never betraying him so im just headcanoning that he gave it to me after talking to me at the basketball court after killing So Mi (yes I just used console commands)
One video idea I had while watching this was best pistols for vehicle combat
I loved the old ricochet lmao with kangou(spelling?) and tier 5 muzzle it did more damage with ricochet than without
Firecracker mod doesn't entirely disable ricochet, I've gotten it still, tho very rarely and only when I shoot really close to myself
It seems like the legendary weapons are super overpopulated with power weapons, that's my only gripe with them, all the weapon types are cool as hell though
In all my playthroughs, I've always preferred power weapons. The satisfaction of lining up a perfect headshot is incomparable....
I'm sure this would be very subjective, but how about a ranked Samurai songs vid?
Netrunner doesn't even need gun just use cool and throw knifes or monowire quick hack between ram charges, It is better to craft chimera power or tech mod even if your net runner build because only 1 iconic smart weapon (pistol) with mod slot support exist in game only accessible if you have phantom liberty dlc installed.
And I'm not talking about the one you find in the pond. You have to use the scuba soup and search on the water for very, very long time before you find it.
😮
Best smart weapon vid. 1 Vote here.
I usually go power stealth pistol, or smart if I am doing run&gun/cyber. Tech I only use for snipers.
My favorite has to be power weapons. I really don't enjoy the charge up on tech weapons and smart weapons usually don't fit my build(I am however going to use them for my next playthrough)
Smart Weapon: For Netrunner only
Tech Weapon: For those who love to kill enemy behind walls/kill those dodge bastard/1 shot for high damage
Power Weapon: For none of the above
I love Net Gunning 😎😁
There is something so cyberpunk about the smart weapons even if they are some of the weakest early on. By the way Cyberpunk 2077 is easily a top 3 game of the generation and one of the greatest of all time
Sam where is our Smart Gun ranking? 😣
Tech. I don’t even use them that often. They’re my least favorite gun, but any of the mid-tier to Legendary tech weapons are completely busted
Also, if you -Kill Reed- in PhanLib, you get a suppressed tech pistol, so you can stealth with tech, but only after beating the DLC in a specific ending.