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PaperclipPerfector  5mo ago (text post)   2323 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 1, 2023

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I've been playing cyberpunk 2077. Fun game, has been sucking up my time. Only downside is that I went in with a particular playstyle that I enjoy from shooters, and its sometimes been hard to get the cyberpunk leveling to play well with my preferred playstyle. I ended up having a "cool" based character that absolutely murders with a silenced pistol. Cyberneticed like crazy, and hacks my way through things.

I'm also going to go see Bert Kreischer's standup tour soon. Very excited for that.

Only downside is that I went in with a particular playstyle that I enjoy from shooters, and its sometimes been hard to get the cyberpunk leveling to play well with my preferred playstyle.

How well does it handle stealth? I have been a first-person sneaker fiend since Thief.

I recently finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution as...a stealthy hacker.

The stealth is quite good. Many of the gigs and other side jobs have thieving or installing a virus on the network as a goal. You get a bonus for remaining undetected. You can get cybermods to be more stealthy and can hack cameras / turrets / etc.

Have you played phantom liberty yet? Being a stealth hacker in PL is op as fuck, legendary quickhacks are ridiculous. My set up goes invisible and slow mo if anyone sees me and contagion plus iirc cyberware malfunction drops entire rooms of enemies, with every death cutting any potential trace progress by a third. It's a lot of fun, but it does feel cheap.

I haven't, I just got around to playing Cyberpunk in the last few weeks. I really liked it and I'm planning to get PL.

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