That guy is just outrunning cars, while I’m over here hacking and sneaking around. I was talking with Jesse Vitelli at Prima Games, who has specced into Reflexes, and there’s a perk in there that lets you lower stamina use when dashing toward enemies. KS: Yeah, I’ve been talking to a few others who have been playing 2.0, and it’s been really surprising seeing how much one person’s V can be so different from another now. Like this new skill tree feels way more interesting when it comes to crafting a specific build and living up the fantasy of this kind of fiction.
Never have i ever game zip#
I can zip around, bring time to a crawl, mantle out of cover, and slide across the floor as time slows. I’d just get some numbers up and then spam shots to get to a cool narrative moment, because that’s what I was there for (and pretty lights), but now? I too have been investing in Cool, and its wild how much I feel like I’m fulfilling a Matrix-y cyberpunk fantasy now. In the original game, the options rarely felt rewarding (I also have a hard time with RPG mechanics that aren’t in a turn-based game, particularly when it’s a shooter and my brain just wants to go into Halo mode). Much as I always saw myself in V narratively, I rarely paid significant attention to the RPG mechanics under the hood. Old habits and go-to strategies might not work for folks-and I think that’s for the better. Now, each spot on a skill tree gives you something tangible to use in the game, rather than making my pistol’s bullets hit harder, somehow.ĬJ: Oh yeah, there’s a good case to be made that one may wish to start with a new character or take their time with other activities before diving into Phantom Liberty’s story, because I definitely had (and am still struggling with) a bit of an awkward learning stage with the new mechanics. It really feels like CDPR just gutted this game and put something new in its place, because progression is no longer this really arbitrary, inconsequential numbers game of making damage go up. And even then, I can use Memory Wipe or Reboot Optics to take advantage of that opening.
Never have i ever game update#
I used some of the update hardware to cloak in fights, and the skill tree has so many neat perks, like slowing down time when you’re seen giving you a precious few seconds to get back into cover before an enemy aggros. With 2.0, the Cool/stealth build has so many new tools in its kit. I loved rebooting enemy optics, then sneaking up behind them and taking them out, but that was most of what I did to get through fights in that game. My V is specced hard into Cool and stealth, which was fine in the original game. One of my big recommendations for people going into the 2.0 update is to maybe go test out a lot of the skills before jumping into Phantom Liberty, because many buttons no longer do what they previously did. Booting the game up and just immediately being able to access almost everything on one of the new skill trees was like being put behind the wheel of a truck after driving cars for years. KS: The funny thing was I was using my second playthrough, which wasn’t a total completionist run but I’d done a majority of the things to do in that game. I think I’m on record somewhere as saying that short of big sweeping changes to the way the game operates nothing was going to make Cyberpunk 2077 “good.” But I also think I said that assuming we’d never get something like the 2.0 update, and I gotta say, this is exactly what the game needed. But systemically, Cyberpunk 2077 just felt like the most unremarkable RPG adorned with some pretty neon lights, great characters, and some pretty strong thematic broad strokes.
Because there’s an argument to be made that even the most detestable parts of it Cyberpunk 2077's writing were part of a larger commentary, and whether or not it holds up to scrutiny is a separate discussion. Even then, that was before the 2.0 update, and I think while I certainly had my issues with the writing, its worldview, and a myriad of other problems, I always thought the thing that always kept it from being good or great was a lot of its systemic issues. KS: Honestly, I went from a begrudging respect/disdain toward it when I played it at launch to it also holding a very special place for me when I replayed it last year. The game is in a very different place now. I think Phantom Liberty really makes that asterisk hard to see. It holds a special place for me, so it’s always been “good.” Just with a big asterisk. Claire Jackson: I’ve always loved this game.
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