Did nun but main quest my first play through but because of how buggy it was I just focused on story ps I got it when it first came out it’s great now lol 😂
I just started playing and I’m already a fan of Panam she gonna be my girl through the whole game once I seen her with that sick truck and her slam back a beer and instantly order another I knew she was the girl for me 💀
The Jackie thing hits even harder if you send his body to Vik and then do the ending where Alt destroys mikoshi. V will meet Jackie's engram one last time in cyberspace on a reconstruction of the rooftop of Misty's shop. What makes this hit harder is that while in this ending the Jackie engram is obviously still corrupted, there's little hints here and there that he actually understands the situation more than you'd think and is on some level self aware, and that he's trying to say goodbye to V. It's a real gut punch.
But it ain't him or even a decent copy. He was hours dead when they snapshot his braindead ass. Its just an AI with a personality 'construct" overlaid so who cares.
This is the ending im currently trying to get. My first one was the Aldecaldos with every side character having a good ending and saying goodbye to a V that left Nightcity and only has 9 months to live. Best ending imo
The most effecient thing to do is sell low level guns and scrap high level guns. Low level guns keep comming, so the eddies keep coming. High level components are more rare.
Yup, this. Lvl 5 upgrade components are super useful and u need a lot. Once at that level (I think 40?) u can sell everything that grants lvl 4 components or below.
And given how I end up sitting on several MILLION eddies near the end of the game, because there really isn't all that much to spend money on, I find it a non-issue
Brother the Arasaka ending was my 1st ending do I regret it. Kind of the other endings actually felt like happy endings I felt like I was getting hit with a truck. Tbh I wanted to be realistic with the company helping but yeah. Will say raging at Johnny came out nowhere. But I will say Jhonny ending is least satisfying. I ain’t giving up my house. Don’t fear the reaper for the win.
theres a mod for new game plus i use it every time i play, the only downside to it is that it makes you get attacked half the times you enter a vehicle to balance it out.
My newest and likely final playthrough i dedicated to this. Making my own new game+. Before doing heist i went farm looting disassemble and sell point CRAZY. Entire point was to level up as much as i can without doing main things. I grinded hard af for about 4-5 days straight, periodically doing certain things (lots before the heist which opens the rest of the map, after that i turned to very hard (did hard for intro), almost no gigs or yellow things, kept most ncpd and assault in progress, etc). I think at game log 50hrs i had all my cyberware 5++ (including 4 iconics), body/reflex/tech at 20 and 75% of relic points chosen, and all but netrunner at lvl 60, street cred and character also max. Main things i did at this point: panam is gf now, just finished saving president, and have not even SCOUTED arasaka yet with Takemura! I have minimum 40hrs left to play and a fully maxd character and tbh, this BY FAR my most favorite and fun play through because i dedicated this to be a "new game+" version. Fun fact, i have way more perk points than any other playthrough because they added them to secret loot and regular looting beaides earning from leveling up, so i hace more perks now than any other playthrough (I'd say maybe 10 more). I learned running into enemies (blunt weapon perk, even fists) and ground slam are SUPER OP for the boxing fights... all of them! The first 4-5 day grind of farming respawn areas (velntinos in alleys in the citry, pacifica has a great route to circle, etc) was super tedious but so worth it. I have sooooooo much left to do in the game and max level charcter/cyberware/weapons/etc to do it.
I really loved that River questline. Mostly because it's very clearly an homage to the movie The Cell, an actually good JLopez film. But I also love that they factored in the fact that V might actually GO to that farm from just random exploration, before doing the mission. And if you do, V just recognizes the farm, and says so. You don't have to hack the information or have enough Intelligence to suss it out. Just "Hey...River, I know that place, I've been there!" and boom, you have the location. Nice attention to detail there.
Very first time I played the game (at launch) I ended up the farm and thought it looked weird. And when I saw the outside I was ready to go. But V automatically said it! I was shocked
For me early on in the game I sell majority of my low level weapons. I do a good amount of side jobs and sell. After the heist then yeah money starts to come pretty easily. I then keep the weapons and break them down. But that's how I play though.
Me too. And since Misty is the most annoying main character in the game I'm okay with not having to spend any more time with her. Got Jackie's bike anyway.
I sent him to Vic.... Because I didn't think his Family would be able to handle it if Arasaka came knocking. I figured that since Vic is basically operating illegally *anyway*, that's he'd know how to deal with him discreetly. I mean, it was Obvious he was dead. resuscitation pretty much has to be started immediately or serious brain damage is a given, and there is no way he'd get to vic in time. Also, I didn't doubt for a moment that Arasaka was still looking for us- super experimental flagship product? a product that the emperor himself showed up to retrieve? The emperor we're taking the heat for offing? I figured that it would be weeks or months before V would be able to poke his head out of whatever hole he/she hid themselves in without Arasaka trying to shoot it off. And given what we see in game? it was about a month. Which is still pretty short, all things considered, but still.
DONT SELL UR GUNS!!!! break them down for parts. After 2.0 the best way to upgrade ur guns and chrome is to get as many components as u can. Only sell the common and uncommon guns that are worth more than like 700ish which will be later on in the game when the gun prices scale to ur level, regardless of the weapons rarity they can be worth a lot. Always break the purple and gold guns for epic and legendary components. I know it seems counter intuitive but since the update, this is how the economy works. Besides all u should be using are the iconic weapons which u can only upgrade and not destroy
It depends. Early on sure but after tier 3 only breakdown stuff for your current tier. When you are a tier 5 its better to sell yout tier 4 and bellow guns to buy cheap tier 5 accessories to dismantle instead of upgrading your components.
I... never sold any guns. Everything that could be broke down, I broke down. Keep only the stuff you are actually gonna use. A lot of the best stuff in the game can be gotten for free anyway. You can convert lower grade mats to higher grade mats. And if you aren't wasting money, there is plenty to get what you need for your build- whatever that build is.
Yeah I have ADHD so sometimes I’ll focus on the main story a lot more but I’ve never outright skipped side quests lmao. And I usually have a second play-through where I do every side quest. I do like 25-50% of them in every game I play for the first time but yeah I try not to get to lost with the main story. Also some games side quests just suck so I get it but in Cyberpunk it makes no sense the side quest are some of the best I’ve ever played outside of, well, the Witcher 3.
it honestly made me phisically ill when he said some people skip over these quest and just do the main story, the whole point of cyberpunk is getting immersed in the world
Post-2.0 Attributes can be reset, once. The main reason you break down weapons is for the components to either build new ones, upgrade Iconics, or upgrade cyberware. You only spend eddies on building Iconics, like Buzzsaw or Comrade's Hammer. You can easily upgrade your weapons by keeping the best from what you loot. Until you are level 10, selling guns lets you pay off Vik and makes up for the lousy payouts you get for gigs early. Past 10, stop selling them, keep them for upgrading Iconics and cyberware. You're going to be making enough from gigs and looting eddies from bodies and safes, and since you can't buy components anymore it's an easy way to stock up. The "sidequests" are not just there for filler. They're ways to gain XP and eddies, Iconic weapons and cyberware, and your choices in them can effect your endgame choices.
One thing i fou d really annoying was how locked gates and door felt really inconsistent. Like a rusty taped together metal sheet gate taking the pinnacle of technical ability to bust open. Like really?
On the Breaking guns vs Selling Guns, I have a middle(ish) ground. White and (later) green guns are scrapped for parts while the higher quality get sold off. There's enough common guns and they sell low enough to not put that much of an impact to credit balance. Also, once your build is set, you can just sell everything anyways.
Hey dan, I have a tip for a video for you, but it may be a hard undertaking: Theres a sense of urgency in cb2077 due to v's condition with the chip. It would be nice to get a list of an optimal order to tackle main quests and sidequests from a storytelling perspective. I personally like to do the watson district as a whole before doing the heist so you can justify V fooling around less, but later on there are other things you need to consider, like the proper moment to do phantom liberty etc.
Scraping weapons ain’t that bad, I just sell the lower tiers and just scrap the highest tier I can obtain, when I do the math it takes twice the amount of material to make a tier five weapon from scraping tier four then just selling it compared to selling a tier five, so that’s how I just do it and it worked for me Now I have two million eddies but in need of components so if you aren’t desperate for eddies just scrap your guns and upgrade your cyberware and iconic guns💪
"Listen amiga i got this thing, mind if I borrow your wheels?" Just hits in the feels. Like a gut punch. I never use the defualt car in the game post jackies death. He can always have my wheels. RIP
Little fun fact... you can dial up jacky after he died. Found that very emotional. Besides of that, beating up Adam Smasher to pulp WITHOUT USING THE DILDO ONLY from Meredith is NOT CANON. 4 Rebecca!
Friend - Meh, I don't bother with the side quests, I don't have time for that. I just want to play through the main story. Me - One does not simply meet Hanako at Embers!
Doing gigs and scanner hustles are far more lucrative than they were before, including cyberpsycho missions. This was likely done to make up for other ways to make eddies.
My cousin did the same thing as your friend. Underleveled, no options for endings, low-tier guns, and finished the game before me. But we went back when he learned of Panam.😂
The worst mistake is not playing all the endings with at least the first time you play it throuhg. The game literallly throws you to the point where you can start new ending. Not all endings are available? Then just go play those quests that unlock them and play them then. I've done this on over 10 playthroughs.
I like this channel. I always find what you do is very intricate and detailed, and then I wondered like "dam I didn't know about this." What else could I have missed
I'm on my 4th game play. I played from day 1 and still remember when they had vibrators to find all over the map. I actually have day 1 video of the first one I found lol. They quickly removed them, and I wonder why. They were.... interesting and I was kinda there for it lol 😂
Ya my very first playthrough, I remember going to that radio tower and seeing dildos everywhere!! You could sell them as junk... You can find one or 2 to use as weapons now, which is fkn hilarious
Yeah that's what it looked like to me. I never got this option.. didn't know it existed. But based on what I saw, it's just a replay of old memories. He has no awareness like Johnny has, which is really sad. Sending him back to Mama Welles was the best option
I think the biggest mistake is that the game skips through V's time with jackie much too fast. I'm not that bothered by him dying in the Arasaka heist, but I do feel that they could have done so much more with the dynamics between V and Jackie instead of doing just a few jobs and some flashbacks. But then I believe the developers left a lot on the table that they could have explored much better, like using the three different characters to create three different play-throughs. Maybe they'll do better with the sequel.
Selling guns is the gonk move. As long as you aren't being stupid and splashing eddies every time you get the chance, money will NEVER be an issue. My first Corpo playthrough, after Phantom Liberty, I ended with 2M in the bank (no luck finding the cyberware I needed in the world, so I HAD to buy it, plus bought a few cars), my Nomad playthrough, low cyberware, no bought vehicles... 4M came easy.
Even splashing money around isn't an issue. I can maybe understand for people who only do main quests, but i do a lot of side contents so money is never an issue. I was playing corpo and buying every fancy looking car, buying cyberware instead of upgrading it except for tier 5+ and 5++, and overall never really caring about money, usually paying people for information and left the boxer guy with his car and money because i didn't need it. Materials on the other hand are much more time consuming to get, so i would only sell guns if i really wanted to buy domething at that exact time
Literally started playing for my first time in December 2024 and I randomly drove into this girl leaned over a car and I was saying to my friend who played the game a lot when it happened and I said "Ayo, theres a baddie fixing a car" and he told me that if im the male V I can romance here, so after that I think I only 2 main story mode missions, last main mission I remember doing was talking to takemuras contact who turned us down but told us about the parade. Havent even met Judy yet, but last night I just finished the last part of the Panam missions to make her my gf, I have ignored pretty much every spoiler so I knew about nothing that would happen, but that scene in the tank caught me off guard in a good way 😂
The River thing lowkey got me sad, can you imagine going through all that and a FREAK tells you on your face that these KIDS that were hooked up like cows had it coming? I'd do the same thing, he looks so damn sad and pathetic in that last call too.
Don't be a gonk, don't sell your weapons. You need loads of mats to upgrade your Cyberware. Never sold weapons, still got over 2 million from doing Side Missions and GIGs.
Jackie must’ve died during the transfer or died in the car. His brain unable to receive oxygen. Meaning what ever engram of Jackie that was created wasn’t whole. Corrupted and somewhat sentient.
What I do is I complete the main story up until the point of no return, while completing any missable objectives, and then I go through all the side quests. It definitely helps with the attribute checks in side quests
During a playthrough I went rhe Arasaka route. Chose to let then help me but I wanted Panams romance. I went past the point of no return and ended up in space. During credits, Panam calls and asks if we have any gigs we could pass off to her. She's not doing well with the Aldecaldos and struggling to stay afloat... honestly hit me in the feels.
The components from guns helps, but here's how I do it. I don't break down guns until I start finding tier 3 guns and when I start finding that I start selling all of my tier 1 guns and breaking down the 2s and 3s. Then once I start finding tier 5s I sell the tier 1s, 2s, and 3s, and breaking down everything higher that I don't need. If you do this you will have tons of money and plenty components for upgrading your iconic weapons and cyberware.
Breaking down weapons for parts is okay if you have saved enough eddies, especially toward the middle of your playthrough. If you take the time to do all the side quests and complete the NCPD scanner hustles, you'll earn more eddies than you need. Getting parts for upgrading your cyberware or getting your favorite iconic weapons to tier 5++ requires components you can only get sparingly in random drops or breaking down unneeded weapons. Trust me, you'll get more weapon drops than upgrade components in this game.
In the latest Cyberpunk version, breaking equipment for components is basically the only correct choice. Gigs give more than enough scratch, and you need a ton of components to upgrade your chrome. If you buy new chrome every time a new tier unlocks - you won't have any extras with or without extra scratch from selling guns, because chrome of high tier is all expensive af. Much better to buy it as you play, and then just upgrade
I love crafting, since you can upgrade the iconic weapons, and they are, most of them, the best guns in the game, so the very much so are worth upgrading. But at some point when your guns are higher quality, you really don't need to disassemble them, the grays, greens and mostly blues, so those are worth to sell after some point. And at some point you start getting so much money, that I don't what to use it for anymore.
Clearly you have to buy all the cars and appartments since that's just crucial to completing the game or something..? I don't know I'll just have fun with my Tier 5++ cyberware and iconic weapons instead.
@@jarrodbright5231even buying most of the cars and apartments i was still finding myself with more money than i ever needed. I only sold guns from time to time to keep the balance afloat if i bought a lot of stuff (i bought all my cyberware, only upgrading for tier 5+ and 5++)
Advertised "Biggest mistakes", delivered personal opinions on story arcs and some 10IQ advice, including always selling guns instead of scrapping them which is actually a big mistake.
I keep seeing people say to not sell the guns, but I ended up doing it nearly every time and still ended up with more crafting components than I never needed.
I didn't save Takemura because Johnny made me think he was dead. I'm on my first playthrough and completed the main story and I'm still upset about it. I sent Jackie to Victor because I thought he might be able to revive him in some way. I was right in the worst way.
With Phantom Liberty you can upgrade weapons and cyberware to 5++ for a pretty big boost but it needs 200 components so 100% scrap those weapons. you can easily farm enough eddies with gigs that you should be doing anyway and NCPD scanner hustles
I was bummed out that you cant max out evrything when I found out, I was willing to grind a lot for that, that was the only thing that dissapointed me in this game, Great game, I loved it
Literally just started playing cyberpunk for the first time and I gave Jackie's body to Viktor and I'm too far in to go back and redo it again....whoops :( We'll get it next play-through 😭
Don’t sweat it, this game has so much to offer. I thought I’d only play it once and put the game down but I am doing another character choosing different choices. Enjoy it :)
Jackie dies and his cold dead body is stolen. But in the end all the "engram" is is a copy of what ever had yet to rot by Arasaca. No major change to story. You get his bike with less work have a vehicle to hold till your car is fixed.
you can actually max out everything if you have phantom liberty. The dropships sometimes have perks and attributes shards. Also if you cycle all vendors and ncpd drops you will have alot more attribute and perk points than your lvls would have granted you. If you hundred percent the game and grind the drop points, it will take you about 20 hours after reaching max level to max out everything.
Siding with Maiko and NOT taking her money is the best outcome cause Judy understands later on why you sided with her and her friends at Cloud live. Siding with Judy actually kills the doll friends and she feels horrible about it.
Never have understood why they told Jackie's story this way. If they were able to find Jackie's body this easily, why did they not take out Mama Wells like they did Dex? Why no-hit squads or NCPDs warrants for V's arrest? Maybe that was cut content or a huge hole in the storyline.
I've been scrapping everything since i started and im still swimming in ED's while also being able to upgrade equipment ahead of my actual level/what was available at the ripper docs. :P
PROTIP: - After you beat Sasquatch in the GIM, punch the NetWatch agent! If you make a deal with him, you'll cause something Very Bad to happen and spend the rest of the game with pissed off Voodoo Boys trying to hunt you down.
i remember way back at 1.6 earning moneys was awful in the start , now its kinda easy just selling them weapons XD... as for dismantling... leave for the broken ones
I essentially made all of these mistakes on my first (and only) playthrough. The only thing I regret is misplacing my attributes. The rest is just part of the path my V chose to take. No ragrets.
Judy is best girl. Glad someone else thinks so. I think Panam is a bit bitchy and uppity. Doesn't mean she's wrong about Saul, but her way about going about handling him could have been done with a much cooler head. Honestly, I think Panam is more chaotic and more likely to jump out a window and be surprised it hurt than Judy is.
Panam is the only reprieve you get after losing Jackie. The problem is that most people see her as some piece of ass, but she has the most fun missions and the best chemistry with V, especially with female V, since male v and panam mostly drool on one another instead of bantering and exchanging quips. Also she has brilliant ideas, can handle a rifle... With panam you go through some shit. You get her car back, kill some raffen scum, unload an EMP on the city down an AV, kidnap a corporat, commit great train robbery, commit grand theft tank, drink beer around a camp fire... Panam will go through hell and back for you, put her family at risk she is ride or die. With Judy you watch some snuff movies and go for a leisurely swim and then she ditches you.
Meanwhile Judy is an uptight, naive girl who truly believes there's a happy ending to be had anywhere in Night City, or anywhere within reach of corps. People have flaws, how surprising.
I have found on my current playthrough that selling weapons above Common works well. I scrap the common stuff and the clothes and junk and at level 30 I have like half a million eddies.
Not sure how many others realized this, but Arasaka would’ve never known Jackie was at Vik’s if you hadn’t led them there after Takemura and V kill the ninjas on the highway.
Think its a good idea to disassemble weapons for components in the early game to upgrade iconics and cyberware. I used to always just sell everything but honestly you dont need that much money in this game. By the time your level 40 youll have plenty from gigs and jobs. Unless you wanna buy every single vehicle (which is really doable) no need to sell everything
My previous playthrough I was trying to investigate poorly with River to geo to the wrong farm, but I "accidently" investigated properly :(. I also wanted to do the secret ending with that character and didn't select the right stuff but I got the Kerry questline for the first time after 4 characters🤔
Agreed. Judy is literally red flag city. Panam is definitely full of emotional baggage, but she learns from it and grows. Judy dictates her whole future on her past, judging everyone she meets and clinging on like a splinter.
@isaacchauncey2458 hello? Judy also grows and learns to trust V without also being super abrasive, Judy has been living on her own in Night city since she was like 15 so I think she has more reason than Panam to be jaded by people
Wait, you can skip Johnny's and Panam's quests? This part of the storyline was so huge I was sure it was obligatory to complete them in order to complete the main story
Man skipping Johnny & Panam is almost half the game right there
Did nun but main quest my first play through but because of how buggy it was I just focused on story ps I got it when it first came out it’s great now lol 😂
Nah it ain't trust haha
Panam best wife materiale in the whole game
@@piouy_retr0507Judy a ride or die as well both the girls are dope
I just started playing and I’m already a fan of Panam she gonna be my girl through the whole game once I seen her with that sick truck and her slam back a beer and instantly order another I knew she was the girl for me 💀
The Jackie thing hits even harder if you send his body to Vik and then do the ending where Alt destroys mikoshi. V will meet Jackie's engram one last time in cyberspace on a reconstruction of the rooftop of Misty's shop. What makes this hit harder is that while in this ending the Jackie engram is obviously still corrupted, there's little hints here and there that he actually understands the situation more than you'd think and is on some level self aware, and that he's trying to say goodbye to V. It's a real gut punch.
But it ain't him or even a decent copy. He was hours dead when they snapshot his braindead ass. Its just an AI with a personality 'construct" overlaid so who cares.
This is the ending im currently trying to get. My first one was the Aldecaldos with every side character having a good ending and saying goodbye to a V that left Nightcity and only has 9 months to live.
Best ending imo
It is just a poor copy of his hours dead brain transplanted onto an AI. It is like Vik Valentine in Fallout with the memories of a long dead cop.
@@Landorcan Nick Valentine if Nick Valentine was basically mentally disabled.
@@mannysikariohow do I get that ending
Recycling guns isn't that bad idea.
You need a lot of components to upgrade cyberware.
The most effecient thing to do is sell low level guns and scrap high level guns. Low level guns keep comming, so the eddies keep coming. High level components are more rare.
Hard agree. You still get millions with access points and side hustles so scrapping guns is way better than selling them. You should go...
Yup, this. Lvl 5 upgrade components are super useful and u need a lot. Once at that level (I think 40?) u can sell everything that grants lvl 4 components or below.
And given how I end up sitting on several MILLION eddies near the end of the game, because there really isn't all that much to spend money on, I find it a non-issue
Doing side content will give you plenty of eddies. I scrap weps until I’ve fully upgraded everything. Money was never a problem
Worst mistake you can make is picking the arasaka ending
Butt why
You sign away your soul
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Don't fear the reaper is the best ending
Noooo
Brother the Arasaka ending was my 1st ending do I regret it. Kind of the other endings actually felt like happy endings I felt like I was getting hit with a truck. Tbh I wanted to be realistic with the company helping but yeah. Will say raging at Johnny came out nowhere. But I will say Jhonny ending is least satisfying. I ain’t giving up my house. Don’t fear the reaper for the win.
I wish this game had new game plus this game is still my favorite
theres a mod for new game plus i use it every time i play, the only downside to it is that it makes you get attacked half the times you enter a vehicle to balance it out.
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@@TheOliveboy93same but it’s true
My newest and likely final playthrough i dedicated to this. Making my own new game+. Before doing heist i went farm looting disassemble and sell point CRAZY. Entire point was to level up as much as i can without doing main things. I grinded hard af for about 4-5 days straight, periodically doing certain things (lots before the heist which opens the rest of the map, after that i turned to very hard (did hard for intro), almost no gigs or yellow things, kept most ncpd and assault in progress, etc). I think at game log 50hrs i had all my cyberware 5++ (including 4 iconics), body/reflex/tech at 20 and 75% of relic points chosen, and all but netrunner at lvl 60, street cred and character also max. Main things i did at this point: panam is gf now, just finished saving president, and have not even SCOUTED arasaka yet with Takemura!
I have minimum 40hrs left to play and a fully maxd character and tbh, this BY FAR my most favorite and fun play through because i dedicated this to be a "new game+" version.
Fun fact, i have way more perk points than any other playthrough because they added them to secret loot and regular looting beaides earning from leveling up, so i hace more perks now than any other playthrough (I'd say maybe 10 more). I learned running into enemies (blunt weapon perk, even fists) and ground slam are SUPER OP for the boxing fights... all of them!
The first 4-5 day grind of farming respawn areas (velntinos in alleys in the citry, pacifica has a great route to circle, etc) was super tedious but so worth it. I have sooooooo much left to do in the game and max level charcter/cyberware/weapons/etc to do it.
@@TheOliveboy93 kuz u know it’s true 😂😭
"Afterlife, see you there" is the only moment of clarity of Jackie's "engram" since it's more of cobbled up random memories of Jackie.
If you skip Panam mission i don’t want to talk you plus leaving with Panam is the best ending
I like the ending with Johnny more. The one where you go alone to Arasaka’s tower and become the baddest of them all.
I really loved that River questline. Mostly because it's very clearly an homage to the movie The Cell, an actually good JLopez film. But I also love that they factored in the fact that V might actually GO to that farm from just random exploration, before doing the mission. And if you do, V just recognizes the farm, and says so. You don't have to hack the information or have enough Intelligence to suss it out. Just "Hey...River, I know that place, I've been there!" and boom, you have the location. Nice attention to detail there.
Very first time I played the game (at launch) I ended up the farm and thought it looked weird. And when I saw the outside I was ready to go. But V automatically said it! I was shocked
Advising to sell guns is crazy, money comes pretty quickly without selling a single item and components are key to upgrading iconic weapons.
And cyberware.
Specially upgrading iconics from 5+ to 5++ is super expensive on mats.
For me early on in the game I sell majority of my low level weapons. I do a good amount of side jobs and sell. After the heist then yeah money starts to come pretty easily. I then keep the weapons and break them down. But that's how I play though.
Really? I sold all of the weapons and still had plenty of mats to upgrade. Granted, I didn't upgrade all my weapons, only the few that I actively use.
@Syberz have you tried to upgrade all your cyberware to tier 5++? You'll realise quickly just how many mats you need
In my first playthrough, I sent Jackie's body to Vik's clinic, thinking that there could be a chance to save Jackie.
same...
Yeah. Also did the same thing
Me too. And since Misty is the most annoying main character in the game I'm okay with not having to spend any more time with her. Got Jackie's bike anyway.
I sent him to Vic.... Because I didn't think his Family would be able to handle it if Arasaka came knocking. I figured that since Vic is basically operating illegally *anyway*, that's he'd know how to deal with him discreetly.
I mean, it was Obvious he was dead. resuscitation pretty much has to be started immediately or serious brain damage is a given, and there is no way he'd get to vic in time. Also, I didn't doubt for a moment that Arasaka was still looking for us- super experimental flagship product? a product that the emperor himself showed up to retrieve? The emperor we're taking the heat for offing?
I figured that it would be weeks or months before V would be able to poke his head out of whatever hole he/she hid themselves in without Arasaka trying to shoot it off. And given what we see in game? it was about a month. Which is still pretty short, all things considered, but still.
That's what I just did!!! Just started the game last week!
DONT SELL UR GUNS!!!! break them down for parts. After 2.0 the best way to upgrade ur guns and chrome is to get as many components as u can. Only sell the common and uncommon guns that are worth more than like 700ish which will be later on in the game when the gun prices scale to ur level, regardless of the weapons rarity they can be worth a lot. Always break the purple and gold guns for epic and legendary components. I know it seems counter intuitive but since the update, this is how the economy works. Besides all u should be using are the iconic weapons which u can only upgrade and not destroy
It depends. Early on sure but after tier 3 only breakdown stuff for your current tier. When you are a tier 5 its better to sell yout tier 4 and bellow guns to buy cheap tier 5 accessories to dismantle instead of upgrading your components.
Break down all tier guns.
Tier 1,2,3, and 4 components can be used too craft tier 5 components
@@sif-cd3du right, it's like people don't even know the game mechanics...lol
I... never sold any guns. Everything that could be broke down, I broke down. Keep only the stuff you are actually gonna use. A lot of the best stuff in the game can be gotten for free anyway.
You can convert lower grade mats to higher grade mats.
And if you aren't wasting money, there is plenty to get what you need for your build- whatever that build is.
You can break down tier 3 items to craft tier 4 components. @@IamAlterEggo
I'll NEVER understand gamers who avoid side quest.
Lock them up in a psyche ward cuz that's crazy talk...
Facts
Yeah I have ADHD so sometimes I’ll focus on the main story a lot more but I’ve never outright skipped side quests lmao. And I usually have a second play-through where I do every side quest. I do like 25-50% of them in every game I play for the first time but yeah I try not to get to lost with the main story. Also some games side quests just suck so I get it but in Cyberpunk it makes no sense the side quest are some of the best I’ve ever played outside of, well, the Witcher 3.
fuck side quests boring
it honestly made me phisically ill when he said some people skip over these quest and just do the main story, the whole point of cyberpunk is getting immersed in the world
Always complete every side quest possible then do main until more sides show. that's the way games are meant to be played.
Post-2.0 Attributes can be reset, once. The main reason you break down weapons is for the components to either build new ones, upgrade Iconics, or upgrade cyberware. You only spend eddies on building Iconics, like Buzzsaw or Comrade's Hammer. You can easily upgrade your weapons by keeping the best from what you loot. Until you are level 10, selling guns lets you pay off Vik and makes up for the lousy payouts you get for gigs early. Past 10, stop selling them, keep them for upgrading Iconics and cyberware. You're going to be making enough from gigs and looting eddies from bodies and safes, and since you can't buy components anymore it's an easy way to stock up. The "sidequests" are not just there for filler. They're ways to gain XP and eddies, Iconic weapons and cyberware, and your choices in them can effect your endgame choices.
If you do enough NCPD gigs, you don’t even need to sell guns before level 10, fighting crime is the most time-efficient way to earn cash.
Meanwhile im here scrapping my guns and still never feeling strapped for cash
One thing i fou d really annoying was how locked gates and door felt really inconsistent. Like a rusty taped together metal sheet gate taking the pinnacle of technical ability to bust open. Like really?
On the Breaking guns vs Selling Guns, I have a middle(ish) ground. White and (later) green guns are scrapped for parts while the higher quality get sold off. There's enough common guns and they sell low enough to not put that much of an impact to credit balance. Also, once your build is set, you can just sell everything anyways.
Never tell Judy that what happened between you two was a one night stand. She'll block you and leave town. So either romance her or don't.
Hey dan, I have a tip for a video for you, but it may be a hard undertaking:
Theres a sense of urgency in cb2077 due to v's condition with the chip. It would be nice to get a list of an optimal order to tackle main quests and sidequests from a storytelling perspective.
I personally like to do the watson district as a whole before doing the heist so you can justify V fooling around less, but later on there are other things you need to consider, like the proper moment to do phantom liberty etc.
But you don't get any of Johnny's dialogue if you do that
@@greensabr200but im with him, it doesn't make any sense to do it that way around
Scraping weapons ain’t that bad, I just sell the lower tiers and just scrap the highest tier I can obtain, when I do the math it takes twice the amount of material to make a tier five weapon from scraping tier four then just selling it compared to selling a tier five, so that’s how I just do it and it worked for me
Now I have two million eddies but in need of components so if you aren’t desperate for eddies just scrap your guns and upgrade your cyberware and iconic guns💪
"Listen amiga i got this thing, mind if I borrow your wheels?" Just hits in the feels. Like a gut punch.
I never use the defualt car in the game post jackies death. He can always have my wheels. RIP
Little fun fact... you can dial up jacky after he died. Found that very emotional.
Besides of that, beating up Adam Smasher to pulp WITHOUT USING THE DILDO ONLY from Meredith is NOT CANON.
4 Rebecca!
True, I also heard if you do that too much, you get a rather nasty surprise.
What are you talking about? What happens?
@@armandomarchan7888 some feeaky-ass horror shit featuring your ol' pal Jackie
Friend - Meh, I don't bother with the side quests, I don't have time for that. I just want to play through the main story.
Me - One does not simply meet Hanako at Embers!
Friend needs to visit a psychward
Good to see the Cyberpunk 2077 comtent back
This game is still one of my favourites of all time.
I like the ending where it's you and johnny going to arasaka solo
Doing gigs and scanner hustles are far more lucrative than they were before, including cyberpsycho missions. This was likely done to make up for other ways to make eddies.
My cousin did the same thing as your friend. Underleveled, no options for endings, low-tier guns, and finished the game before me. But we went back when he learned of Panam.😂
The worst mistake is not playing all the endings with at least the first time you play it throuhg. The game literallly throws you to the point where you can start new ending. Not all endings are available? Then just go play those quests that unlock them and play them then. I've done this on over 10 playthroughs.
I like how someone described engram!Jackie as "ChatGPT Jackie".
I like this channel. I always find what you do is very intricate and detailed, and then I wondered like "dam I didn't know about this." What else could I have missed
Skipping all the ''main'' side quests is a sin, at that point you did not even play Cyberpunk.
I'm on my 4th game play. I played from day 1 and still remember when they had vibrators to find all over the map. I actually have day 1 video of the first one I found lol. They quickly removed them, and I wonder why. They were.... interesting and I was kinda there for it lol 😂
Ya my very first playthrough, I remember going to that radio tower and seeing dildos everywhere!! You could sell them as junk... You can find one or 2 to use as weapons now, which is fkn hilarious
The “soul killer” we see of Jackie is nothing more than memories on replay
Yeah that's what it looked like to me. I never got this option.. didn't know it existed. But based on what I saw, it's just a replay of old memories. He has no awareness like Johnny has, which is really sad. Sending him back to Mama Welles was the best option
Biggest Mistake Cyberpunk Does, IS LETTING JACKIE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!
No happy endings in Night City they let you know from the jump
Jackie is a playable character in the 2077 board game. I assume that means we get to see what would have happened if Jackie had survived The Heist.
I think the biggest mistake is that the game skips through V's time with jackie much too fast. I'm not that bothered by him dying in the Arasaka heist, but I do feel that they could have done so much more with the dynamics between V and Jackie instead of doing just a few jobs and some flashbacks.
But then I believe the developers left a lot on the table that they could have explored much better, like using the three different characters to create three different play-throughs. Maybe they'll do better with the sequel.
Selling guns is the gonk move. As long as you aren't being stupid and splashing eddies every time you get the chance, money will NEVER be an issue. My first Corpo playthrough, after Phantom Liberty, I ended with 2M in the bank (no luck finding the cyberware I needed in the world, so I HAD to buy it, plus bought a few cars), my Nomad playthrough, low cyberware, no bought vehicles... 4M came easy.
Even splashing money around isn't an issue. I can maybe understand for people who only do main quests, but i do a lot of side contents so money is never an issue. I was playing corpo and buying every fancy looking car, buying cyberware instead of upgrading it except for tier 5+ and 5++, and overall never really caring about money, usually paying people for information and left the boxer guy with his car and money because i didn't need it.
Materials on the other hand are much more time consuming to get, so i would only sell guns if i really wanted to buy domething at that exact time
Literally started playing for my first time in December 2024 and I randomly drove into this girl leaned over a car and I was saying to my friend who played the game a lot when it happened and I said "Ayo, theres a baddie fixing a car" and he told me that if im the male V I can romance here, so after that I think I only 2 main story mode missions, last main mission I remember doing was talking to takemuras contact who turned us down but told us about the parade. Havent even met Judy yet, but last night I just finished the last part of the Panam missions to make her my gf, I have ignored pretty much every spoiler so I knew about nothing that would happen, but that scene in the tank caught me off guard in a good way 😂
The River thing lowkey got me sad, can you imagine going through all that and a FREAK tells you on your face that these KIDS that were hooked up like cows had it coming? I'd do the same thing, he looks so damn sad and pathetic in that last call too.
Don't be a gonk, don't sell your weapons. You need loads of mats to upgrade your Cyberware.
Never sold weapons, still got over 2 million from doing Side Missions and GIGs.
You should've included picking the wrong dialogue options in the oilfield and getting locked out of Johnny's ending
Oh my God, I didn't know about Jackie being soul killed. I'm so glad I've never sent him to vic, that was absolutely heartbreaking.
Right on time Big Dan..just started a new playthrough last night..went with a normal size **nis this time
Jackie must’ve died during the transfer or died in the car. His brain unable to receive oxygen.
Meaning what ever engram of Jackie that was created wasn’t whole. Corrupted and somewhat sentient.
What I do is I complete the main story up until the point of no return, while completing any missable objectives, and then I go through all the side quests. It definitely helps with the attribute checks in side quests
Really helpful! Thank you so much for this Vid! Love from Germany♡
None of these really ruin the platthrough. The closest is maybe Jackie since you miss out on his bike and pistol and a few side missions.
I took Jackie to Vic in hopes he might save him...
During 'The Hunt' mission, I didn't get the choice to choose one of the farms. The game itself chose the farm and boy am I glad it was the right one.
Doing my 2nd run.
Decided to send Jackie to Viktor.... Knew it was a bad idea, but it's a purposeful decision.
The side quests in general are some of the best, and not just the Johnny & Panam stories.
“Judy is best girl” no way she is never happy.
Make a permanent save at the start of every significant quests, quick saves are erased as you progress.
During a playthrough I went rhe Arasaka route. Chose to let then help me but I wanted Panams romance. I went past the point of no return and ended up in space. During credits, Panam calls and asks if we have any gigs we could pass off to her. She's not doing well with the Aldecaldos and struggling to stay afloat... honestly hit me in the feels.
The components from guns helps, but here's how I do it. I don't break down guns until I start finding tier 3 guns and when I start finding that I start selling all of my tier 1 guns and breaking down the 2s and 3s. Then once I start finding tier 5s I sell the tier 1s, 2s, and 3s, and breaking down everything higher that I don't need. If you do this you will have tons of money and plenty components for upgrading your iconic weapons and cyberware.
Breaking down weapons for parts is okay if you have saved enough eddies, especially toward the middle of your playthrough. If you take the time to do all the side quests and complete the NCPD scanner hustles, you'll earn more eddies than you need. Getting parts for upgrading your cyberware or getting your favorite iconic weapons to tier 5++ requires components you can only get sparingly in random drops or breaking down unneeded weapons. Trust me, you'll get more weapon drops than upgrade components in this game.
In the latest Cyberpunk version, breaking equipment for components is basically the only correct choice. Gigs give more than enough scratch, and you need a ton of components to upgrade your chrome. If you buy new chrome every time a new tier unlocks - you won't have any extras with or without extra scratch from selling guns, because chrome of high tier is all expensive af. Much better to buy it as you play, and then just upgrade
I love crafting, since you can upgrade the iconic weapons, and they are, most of them, the best guns in the game, so the very much so are worth upgrading. But at some point when your guns are higher quality, you really don't need to disassemble them, the grays, greens and mostly blues, so those are worth to sell after some point. And at some point you start getting so much money, that I don't what to use it for anymore.
Clearly you have to buy all the cars and appartments since that's just crucial to completing the game or something..? I don't know I'll just have fun with my Tier 5++ cyberware and iconic weapons instead.
@@jarrodbright5231even buying most of the cars and apartments i was still finding myself with more money than i ever needed. I only sold guns from time to time to keep the balance afloat if i bought a lot of stuff (i bought all my cyberware, only upgrading for tier 5+ and 5++)
lol I some how ended Rivers quest early after the first mission and he ended up opening a hotdog stand and having a happy ending
any thing cyberpunk.....i here for
Damn, Hanako is working that white dress though
I can almost imagine Johnny & Panam skippers being upset that the game has not much to offer and it's too short...
Worst decision is not whipping out the voodoo boys every playthrough
Advertised "Biggest mistakes", delivered personal opinions on story arcs and some 10IQ advice, including always selling guns instead of scrapping them which is actually a big mistake.
I keep seeing people say to not sell the guns, but I ended up doing it nearly every time and still ended up with more crafting components than I never needed.
Dan we need more Cyberpunk2077 content choom
I didn't save Takemura because Johnny made me think he was dead. I'm on my first playthrough and completed the main story and I'm still upset about it.
I sent Jackie to Victor because I thought he might be able to revive him in some way. I was right in the worst way.
There are faiths worse than death, Jackie-san.
Sending Jackie to Arosaki is the WORST especially since he absolutely hates corporations
Saves made after 2.0 can also respec once per playthrough.
With Phantom Liberty you can upgrade weapons and cyberware to 5++ for a pretty big boost but it needs 200 components so 100% scrap those weapons. you can easily farm enough eddies with gigs that you should be doing anyway and NCPD scanner hustles
I was bummed out that you cant max out evrything when I found out, I was willing to grind a lot for that, that was the only thing that dissapointed me in this game, Great game, I loved it
You can reset the attributes in any playthrough once per save-file, and perks can be reset for free.
I think the reason jackie engram is like that was unlike jhonny he was already dead when arasaka use the soulkiller. On him
Literally just started playing cyberpunk for the first time and I gave Jackie's body to Viktor and I'm too far in to go back and redo it again....whoops :( We'll get it next play-through 😭
Don’t sweat it, this game has so much to offer. I thought I’d only play it once and put the game down but I am doing another character choosing different choices. Enjoy it :)
it doesn't really matter, you actually get more content with Jackie now
Jackie dies and his cold dead body is stolen. But in the end all the "engram" is is a copy of what ever had yet to rot by Arasaca. No major change to story. You get his bike with less work have a vehicle to hold till your car is fixed.
thats how jackie becomes a construct
I have done so many playthroughs and I am actually using a guide this time to make a proper netrunner build
I knew you were going to make one of Jackie since you did the one as to why not to save that one dude hahahaha
Glad to see more cyberpunk content to watch.
Wrong never betray Judy 5:13
you can actually max out everything if you have phantom liberty. The dropships sometimes have perks and attributes shards. Also if you cycle all vendors and ncpd drops you will have alot more attribute and perk points than your lvls would have granted you. If you hundred percent the game and grind the drop points, it will take you about 20 hours after reaching max level to max out everything.
I didnt really grow attached to Jackie so i didnt really care tbh. Just sent him to his mom cuz just felt right.
Siding with Maiko and NOT taking her money is the best outcome cause Judy understands later on why you sided with her and her friends at Cloud live. Siding with Judy actually kills the doll friends and she feels horrible about it.
But then you can’t exploit her emotional vulnerability to have sex with her
Never have understood why they told Jackie's story this way. If they were able to find Jackie's body this easily, why did they not take out Mama Wells like they did Dex? Why no-hit squads or NCPDs warrants for V's arrest? Maybe that was cut content or a huge hole in the storyline.
So much cut content.
I've been scrapping everything since i started and im still swimming in ED's while also being able to upgrade equipment ahead of my actual level/what was available at the ripper docs. :P
Thanks Dan, I'm gonna go BRICK my gameplay right now
You can get hella money from the neverending carjacking quests from El Capitan theres no need to sell all your guns especially the high grade ones!
PROTIP:
- After you beat Sasquatch in the GIM, punch the NetWatch agent! If you make a deal with him, you'll cause something Very Bad to happen and spend the rest of the game with pissed off Voodoo Boys trying to hunt you down.
I wish there's an ending where you get a perfect engram for Jackie... 😢😢😢
i remember way back at 1.6 earning moneys was awful in the start , now its kinda easy just selling them weapons XD... as for dismantling... leave for the broken ones
I essentially made all of these mistakes on my first (and only) playthrough. The only thing I regret is misplacing my attributes. The rest is just part of the path my V chose to take. No ragrets.
I took Maiko's bribe money in my second playthrough because I had never done it before and wanted to see what would happen
Judy is best girl. Glad someone else thinks so. I think Panam is a bit bitchy and uppity. Doesn't mean she's wrong about Saul, but her way about going about handling him could have been done with a much cooler head. Honestly, I think Panam is more chaotic and more likely to jump out a window and be surprised it hurt than Judy is.
Panam is the only reprieve you get after losing Jackie. The problem is that most people see her as some piece of ass, but she has the most fun missions and the best chemistry with V, especially with female V, since male v and panam mostly drool on one another instead of bantering and exchanging quips. Also she has brilliant ideas, can handle a rifle... With panam you go through some shit. You get her car back, kill some raffen scum, unload an EMP on the city down an AV, kidnap a corporat, commit great train robbery, commit grand theft tank, drink beer around a camp fire... Panam will go through hell and back for you, put her family at risk she is ride or die. With Judy you watch some snuff movies and go for a leisurely swim and then she ditches you.
Meanwhile Judy is an uptight, naive girl who truly believes there's a happy ending to be had anywhere in Night City, or anywhere within reach of corps. People have flaws, how surprising.
Buying the ps4 version could also count
I have found on my current playthrough that selling weapons above Common works well. I scrap the common stuff and the clothes and junk and at level 30 I have like half a million eddies.
Not sure how many others realized this, but Arasaka would’ve never known Jackie was at Vik’s if you hadn’t led them there after Takemura and V kill the ninjas on the highway.
Think its a good idea to disassemble weapons for components in the early game to upgrade iconics and cyberware. I used to always just sell everything but honestly you dont need that much money in this game. By the time your level 40 youll have plenty from gigs and jobs. Unless you wanna buy every single vehicle (which is really doable) no need to sell everything
always happy to se a new upload from you!!
With Jackie, I think that was him, but he could only respond certain ways. But if you listen to the responses, you can tell what he was saying.
My previous playthrough I was trying to investigate poorly with River to geo to the wrong farm, but I "accidently" investigated properly :(. I also wanted to do the secret ending with that character and didn't select the right stuff but I got the Kerry questline for the first time after 4 characters🤔
Panam is best girl not Judy, Panam is the right way.
amen!
Agreed. Judy is literally red flag city. Panam is definitely full of emotional baggage, but she learns from it and grows. Judy dictates her whole future on her past, judging everyone she meets and clinging on like a splinter.
And Panam simply refuses to talk to you after you stay 2 years in coma, at least Judy is more understanding
Incorrect opinion
@isaacchauncey2458 hello? Judy also grows and learns to trust V without also being super abrasive, Judy has been living on her own in Night city since she was like 15 so I think she has more reason than Panam to be jaded by people
Wait, you can skip Johnny's and Panam's quests? This part of the storyline was so huge I was sure it was obligatory to complete them in order to complete the main story
Good thing I use a mod that allowed me to reset my attribute any time I wish.
Noted I gotta spend a lot of eddies each time but that’s fair game
Glad that i always had habit the of selling unwanted items in my inventory