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There are plenty of opportunities to creep around like a silent ninja in Cyberpunk 2077. Sneaking into a corpo installation, stealing valuable blueprints, and getting out before anyone’s the wiser is a valid strategy that will get you plenty of eddies. Another perfectly valid strategy is to go in howling like a baboon while filling the general vicinity with enough hot lead to fricassee an Animal.

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This guide is all about forgoing subtlety in favor of all-out carnage. The kind of carnage that you can only get by spraying bullets at all life’s problems. If you’re here to learn how to make your issues disappear in a bloody mist, you’ve come to the right place, choom.

The Solo Build

Mercenary Of Night City Shooting His Gun In A Firefight

The Solo is all about running up to a gonk and pulling the trigger. Or you can stand in the line of fire while holding down the trigger on your machine gun until those gonks stop firing back at you. Either or.

Your main attributes for this build are Body and Technical Ability. In the Body perk tree, you'll be getting the perks that enhance shotguns and machine guns, health regeneration, and the Adrenaline Rush ability. With these, you'll be able to take incoming fire while dishing out significant pain at both close and short range.

On the Tech side, you're looking at once again crawling up the middle and left perk trees. The left side enhances your consumables, such as grenades and healing items, while the middle tree enhances your cyberware. Both improve your durability such that when combined with a high Body, you'll be an unstoppable force.

It's highly recommended to get the Blood Pump cyberware. As the highest health-boosting cyberware in the game, it'll keep your Adrenaline Rush active longer.

The expectation of the Solo is you'll be using a Sandevistan, providing you with a good reason to grab the Ticking Time Bomb perk. If not, you can skip that capstone perk to assign elsewhere. This build also grabs the Doomlauncher perk assuming you'll grab the Projectile Launch System arm cyberware, but if you prefer Gorilla Arms, go ahead and re-assign that perk too.

This build can be completed in vanilla Cyberpunk 2077 without Phantom Liberty, but if you do have the DLC, you'll have enough perk points to flesh out the rest of the Tech tree or even the blunt weapons side of the Body tree.

Key Cyberware

  • Projectile Launch System
  • Blood Pump
  • Epimorhpic Skeleton
  • Neofiber
  • Cellular Adapter
  • Sandevistan
  • Wild Dog
  • Guts
  • The Headsman
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Crouching Tiger Build

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This build offers a somewhat more subtle approach to gunplay, but you can still definitely switch from sneaking to full-on massacre whenever you so choose.

The main attributes of the Crouching Tiger build are Reflex and Cool. Reflex will provide us with the perks that enhance assault rifles and submachine guns, while the Cool perks provide significant damage mitigation and faster crouch speed through the Ninjitsu perk.

When combined with the Feline Footwork and Gundancer perks, you're actually faster aiming an assault rifle or SMG while crouching than you are moving normally.

Most engagements will start off being sneaky using a silenced pistol, but if/when you get detected, you can just swap to your assault rifle or SMG to start picking off targets one by one. Stick to cover and remain crouched to maintain your damage mitigation and speed.

This build is more about mid-to-long-range engagements, so try to keep enemies away from you.

This is a bit of an all-rounder build. You've got enough attributes points in Intelligence and Tech that you can use a cyberdeck to be a decent hacker while also wearing potent cyberware. With the Phantom Liberty DLC, you can put more attributes into the Intelligence tree to be a full-hacker or spread those perks in the rest of the Tech tree for better grenades and healing items.

Key Cyberware

  • Kiroshi "Clairvoyant" Optics
  • Spring Joints
  • Ballistic Coprocessor
  • Kerenzikov
  • Cellular Adapter
  • Lynx Paws
  • Fenrir
  • Buzzsaw
  • Erebus
  • Moron Labe
  • Psalm 11:6
  • Hawk
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Smart Assaulter Build

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Who says you gotta be dumb to charge in guns blazing? The Smart Assaulter is all about hypermobility combined with potent smart weapons and quickhacks to eliminate entire squads with ease.

The main attributes of the Smart Assaulter are Intelligence and Reflex. With 20 in Intelligence, you've got the full range of RAM and quickhack-boosting perks alongside the smart gun-enhancing perks, including the Smart Synergy and Recirculation perks. This both increases the damage of smart guns on enemies affected by quickhacks and gives you RAM back whenever they're defeated.

It's best to pair this build with a cyberdeck that will spread quickhacks quickly, such as the Raven Microcyber.

Reflexes provide us with all the assault rifle and SMG perks, making the smart versions of either of these guns all the more potent. You also get the full range of Dash and Air Dash perks, making you incredibly mobile. You can pull off some impressive aerial kills with the help of Kerenzikov.

Bullet spread and recoil aren't relevant to smart weapons, so we skip some of the tier-nine perks entirely.

This build has fewer perks to spare than the others, but with Phantom Liberty, you can fill out a bit more of the Tech perk tree for access to better cyberware, or you can invest in the Cool tree for faster crouch movement or better smart pistols. You could also invest in the monowire perks if that’s your preferred arm cyberware.

Key Cyberware

  • Reinforced Tendons
  • Kerenzikov
  • Raven Microcyber
  • Smart Link or Tiger Claws Dermal Implant
  • Divided We Stand
  • Pizdets
  • Chesapeake
  • Shingen Mark V
  • Yinglong
  • Hercules 3AX
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Tech Bolter Build

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The Tech Bolter is a bit different from the rest of these builds in that it really prefers to stay behind cover, but doing so doesn't stop you from firing with wild abandon.

The key to the Tech Bolter is a heavy investment into your Tech attribute to unlock the Bolt perks alongside the Chain Lightning perk. This turns all your tech weapons into armor-ignoring lightning bolts that can kill multiple enemies at a time.

Most of the tech weapons are pistols, precision rifles, or sniper rifles, so you'll actually be going down the Cool perk tree to unlock Deadeye, Focus, and Nerves of Tungsten Steel. With careful aim, this makes most of your headshots a one-shot-kill.

With most of the focus in Tech, you can spread the rest of your attributes for an all-rounder build. Points in Intelligence give you decent hacking skills while Reflex gives you some mobility. With Phantom Liberty installed, you can easily fill out the rest of either of these trees to be a better hacker or use another weapon system on occasion.

Make liberal use of the Ping quickhack to determine enemy positions behind cover and walls. The Kiroshi "Stalker" Optics are also a key ingredient to keep pegging heads from behind cover.

Key Cyberware

  • Kiroshi “Stalker” Optics
  • Shock Absorber
  • Feedback Circuit
  • Ambition
  • Breakthrough
  • Lizzie
  • Widow Maker
  • Rasetsu
  • Apparition

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