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To be honest, Cyberpunk 2077’s best advice (if you ask me) is to put off buying the game. Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t finished, and it’s so buggy that developer CD Projekt Red released an apology and offered to refund purchases. By the time I finished our Cyberpunk 2077 review, I realized that I can attest that Cyberpunk 2077 bugs are something you have to try and get used to.
But I guess if you are reading this, you have already decided to connect to the world of Johnny Silverhand and visit Afterlife. So now that you’re in: This game can get pretty confusing, right?
Having made it through a major part of the main story in Cyberpunk 2077, I’ve learned a lot about how to live, thrive, and die in Night City. However, the most important lesson is that a little care goes a long way, especially if you chose the Normal difficulty. I did, and found the game to be incredibly forgiving when I was reckless, distracted, or both.
Aside from accepting mistakes and failures as a fact of life, I have compiled the seven things I wish someone had told me when I started my road as Street Punk.
1. Don’t worry about your Lifepath
Cyberpunk 2077 offers a host of options for building your character, from cosmetics to stat points, but you might spend some (or more) time dying on your Lifepath. This is basically your character class. Your three options are Corpo, Nomad, or Street Kid, and this is a much more trivial concern than you might expect.
Even in situations where I’ve been on the streets of Night City, my Street Kid dialogue choices didn’t help me much. They felt more like a condiment than anything else, which annoyed me a bit. So, choose the personality that you think will have the most fun.
2. Play smarter, not harder
While you can beat most of Cyberpunk 2077 with some skill, or less, if you set the game to Normal, where enemy AI can’t present a huge challenge, you can often run out of RAM. No, not the memory that helps your system run (or not run) Cyberpunk 2077 smoothly, but the in-game points you can use to hack.
So when it’s time to fill in your Attribute points in advance, don’t think you can easily get by with low Intelligence. Since enemy AI is questionable, I’d say it’s not worth maximizing body and reflexes at the expense of intelligence. Cool is also an attribute to pay attention to as it can help you play stealthily.
3. Take some time to stop and smell the side missions.
The core story of Cyberpunk 2077 may seem extremely urgent, but you need to take the optional side missions early on if you’re trying to get the most out of this game. As I found out, Cyberpunk’s main quest is surprisingly quick to finish.
I realized this after I finished most of the missions in Act 2 and found that Act 3 was smaller. And don’t skimp on side missions, as Cyberpunk 2077 has secret endings, which are unlocked by completing the Blistering Love missions for the Johnny and / or Panama missions.
4. Hack your wallet completely
Many of Cyberpunk 2077’s tech environments can be mixed together, but if you see a rectangular interface on a wall, walk up and see if you can connect it by holding X. These boxes often have the Breach Protocol challenge, which can help you big bucks.
However, to make money, you will want to have your Intelligence active (remember what we said earlier) so that you can use as many access points as possible. Then choose to spend skill points on the extended network interface (which makes it easier to find access points) and the advanced data mine (which increases the possibility of getting quick access from an access point).
From there, it’s a matter of understanding the rules of the Default Protocol. Look at the “sequence required to load” on the right side of the page: These are the Daemons you are trying to load and often there will be a bunch of Eurodollars (eddies) that you can get with the correct Daemon. You want to click on that sequence in the grid on the left, starting with the first row, and your next selection should be from the same column as your first choice. Then your third selection must come from the same row as your second selection. Choose 4? You guessed it: from the same column as pick 3. It repeats as such. Oh, and you have a limited number of selections. Plan ahead correctly and you can load multiple daemons at the same time.
5. Walk, don’t run
This may depend on your platform, but I’ve found that larger Night City environments look a lot worse if you’re speeding through the world.
Yes, for a game that has ads speeding through its neon-lit streets, Cyberpunk 2077 performs much better moving at a slower pace, or at least it did on my Xbox One X. Even crashing into a restaurant succeeded. lock the game for me. If you have a PS5, Xbox Series X, or a PC with a new GPU, you may be able to play faster and more loosely.
The same advice applies to driving, but this time we are not talking about mistakes. The faster you go, and these cars don’t handle well, the more likely you are to accidentally crash into one of the little pylons, other cars, or (gasp!) A pedestrian.
6. Give up headshots
Arguably the funniest part of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay is that I can shoot an enemy 5 times in the head and watch them run towards me and attack. This is not to say that those punches are worthless, they do more damage than, say, a blow to the leg, but they are not the one shot kills you want them to be.
And the time spent trying to get a clean headshot could be better spent evading, reloading, or healing.
7. Learn to save quickly, a lot.
It’s not just about the glitches, except that it totally is. I have found that Cyberpunk 2077 automatic quick saves can often occur moments long before or after I hit Save. So build muscle memory to enter the menu and click Triangle (on PlayStation), Y (on Xbox), or F5 (on PC).
That way, if Cyberpunk 2077 crashes, crashes in a disruptive way, or does anything else you’d want to avoid, you’ll be ready to reload and rock and roll.
