How It Feels Playing as a Netrunner in Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0! New CyberWare and QuickHacks

In today's video, I'll show you the best

quick hacking and cyberdeck build in

Cyberpunk 2077, with a focus on quick

hacking and using cyberware to use the

enemy's machinery to your own advantage.

When it comes to Cyberpunk 2077, there's

so many ways to play the game, and most

people do like to just go in there guns

blazing or with a katana or a massive

hammer and just destroy things or blow

stuff up. But if you want to play in a

more discreet way, then cyber hacking and

quick hacks and cyberware is the way to

go. Thanks to the revamped skill tree and

new talents and perks, the game has

changed quite a bit in regards to what you

can do with the cyberdecks, and you can do

some pretty cool stuff. So for the talent

tree, basically you want to get almost

everything in intelligence. You want to

max out the middle skill so you can get

spillover, so you get overclocking, 50%

chance for quickhacks to spread to an

additional target. The spreading of

quickhacks are really cool because you can

do like a short circuit on one enemy and

it has a chance to spread over to other

enemies and do multiple damage.

Overclocking is really important because

when you press left Shift, it allows you

to use quickhacks even when you don't have

enough RAM. Instead, it will take down

your health points by every extra piece of

RAM you use. So it's like exchanging

health for RAM, which I think is a fair

trade in a lot of cases. There's just so

many different skills you get in this

skill tree. There's too many to go through

and there's not enough time really.

Basically, you just get improved RAM

recovery rates, increased health when

you're using quickhacks, and stuff like

DOT effects or spreading effects of

different viruses. So if you want to go

for like a hacking build, just get all of

this. Ignore all of this because this is

just smart weapons and smart locking. I

mean, you could use smart weapons if you

wanted to, but we're not really going to

focus on using any kind of weapons because

we're just purely going to hack stuff and

maybe use a silenced pistol just in case

the enemy discovers us and gets in our

face. And I also put some points into

Technical Ability. This basically just

boosts your cyberware and your cybernetics

and gives some bonus points and stuff like

that. And also Edgerunner is really good

because you get 10% damage, 30% crit

chance, 50% crit chance multipliers for

about 12 seconds. I also got some sneaking

ninja kind of skills so I could sneak

around. And I can also sprint whilst

crouching, which is pretty useful. You

also get optical camo, so you can

basically go invisible while sprinting

whilst crouching, which is pretty cool as

well. So you want to be sneaking around,

hiding in the shadows whilst you're

hacking the enemies and causing viruses

and quickhacks to spread around, and also

applying debuffs, and also hacking their

machinery like their turrets and cameras

and things to use against them. So there's

quite a lot going on here, and I'll show

what the gameplay is like for the

remainder of the video. So see, we've got

like a turret here, we can do something to

this. Like, we could either turn it off,

activate friendly mode, assist mode,

initiate overload to blow it up, or take

control of it. We use it to distract

enemies. So we could just like take

control of it and then use its gun against

the enemy like that, which is pretty damn

cool. And then we just destroy stuff using

the gun, and then afterwards we can just

simply turn it off. You don't need to

shoot it or attack it. And then that door

just randomly opened, but it's fine

because I already killed everyone in

there. So I think that's it for this room.

So as you can see, we have quite a few

enemies closing in on us. I'll show you

what kind of cool stuff we could do, do to

them. So just zoom in and then target

them, and then look at all the things we

can do. We can do a Synapse Burnout,

Cyberpsychosis, Memory Wipe.

Cyberpsychosis basically makes him your

ally, and then he'll start shooting his

own friends, which is pretty entertaining.

So we might do that one. And then see what

happens. So he's going to go kind of

crazy, and then he's going to start

shooting at his allies. As you can see,

he's doing all the hard work for you. So I

mean, the hacking gameplay playstyle is a

very lazy way of playing the game. If you

don't want to get your hands dirty and

getting shot in the face and stuff, then

you can just like hang back, hack people,

let them do the dirty work for you. And

then we can do like a short circuit on

this guy. That basically just one-shot

him, and I think also spread to that other

guy as well. So we're making our way

through here. I see we've got one guy over

there, just see him through the window.

There he is. And then we can do like a

Synapse Burnout, see what that does.

So it did 600 damage.

One-shot him. What else

can we do? Any enemies around? Use this

thing. You can use the camera, take over

the camera. I can see a guy over there,

and then we can use the camera to actually

do quickhacks from the camera. So you can

just hide in a room and then access the

cameras and then keep switching cameras to

find enemies and use hacks on them without

even moving from one spot. So we can just

do like a short circuit on him. Did half

of his health, and it's also doing damage

over time as you can see. But that was not

enough to take him down. Maybe do another

Short Circuit. Yeah, that's going to take

him down. And, ah,

he's almost down. He's got a tiny sliver

of health. So now we need to wait for our

ram to reload, which shouldn't take too

Nope, still can't do anything.

Maybe another short circuit. Yeah,

finally got him. I don't know why he was

so tough. So I don't know if there's any

more. Where am I? I think that's me.

Yeah, that's me over there hiding.

And it looks like the area's— oh, there's

one over there. So we can get him to do a—

maybe a short circuit.

That should take him out. Oh, it almost

took him out. That was close.

And then we could do an overclock. I don't

know if we— no, we can't do it whilst in

the camera mode.

Well, we could use this. Oh no, I thought

I could blow up that door, but I thought

it was like a machinery. We could do

another short circuit. Yep,

that took him out. I think that's it.

No any, any other enemies.

Distract enemies could bring out some. So

if you like this kind of gameplay where

you don't really move much, just use the

cameras, switch to the other cameras.

Some might say this is a boring way of

playing the game, and it might be.

But you know, it's, it's a fresh new way

of playing the game if you're bored of

just shooting and slashing at stuff.

Yeah, I think we've cleared the whole area

so we can now move on. Oh no, there's one

guy over there. Sneaky, sneaky. So we get

him to do a detonate grenade.

He's gonna pull out his grenade on

himself. And that does the trick.

And then if you look at your cyberdeck,

this is basically the most important

thing. If you don't have this, you won't

be able to do any hacks. I have the tier 5

Raven Micro Cyber. There's loads of

different ones that have different

abilities, but I like this one. So this

one has a 40% chance of spread distance

with quick hacks. Quick hacks spread to

all valid enemies immediately instead of

waiting for the initial upload to finish.

When Overclock is active, you get a 15%

chance for any quick hack to spread to the

2 nearby enemies. So this one kind of

focuses on spreading, and you get 8 slots

to choose from different cyber hacks or

quick hacks, and then you just drag them

over or just click on it, and then you can

choose which ones to use. And then you can

use any of these 8 on enemies when you're

playing the game. So I personally have,

um, Reboot Optics, makes them go blind. I

have Memory Wipe. I also have Short

Circuit here. So I like Short Circuit for

my tier 5 quick hack. And then we've got

Destinate Grenade, Cyberpsychosis,

Synapse Burnout, System Collapse. There's

loads of different types of quick hacks

you can choose from if you go to the quick

hack vendor. And it depends what you want

to do. Do you want to like completely

destroy the enemy using their own

cyberware, or do you want to knock them

out or make them blind so you can sneak

around and do like a non-lethal gameplay?

I guess it's up to you. You just have to

choose your own playstyle. That's one of