Street Cred?

[Corbae]

Anyone else confused to why street cred works the way it does? The fastest way, I found, to level up street cred is to work with the police killing gangs. So even if the police in this game were not corrupt and owned by corps this still would not give you cred with criminals, which you are. Killing gangs for the police I would think would be the last way to get cred, in fact in a believable world it would do the opposite. If you had two different sliders one for police and one for criminals then that would make sense but this doesn't make any sense at all to me.

[Fast Pooper]

You get cred for killing people. The way the game is made oc ops don’t count as mobs. It’s less cred with the streets than cred you use on the streets. Fear vs respect.

[Havok]

I hit 50 street cred around level 28. The real grind seems to be the character level.

Most of the cybernetics are level locked or a ridiculous price, so yea.

[Jakarta's Stray Dog]

i think that would require a separate mechanic of gang/corpo relationship with V. Street Cred after all just an overall reputation of how much your "Name" weight in the street of Night City. After all, a choom like Adam Smasher is considered a Legend despite of being an Arasaka's Toy

[RPG Gamer Man]

It is based off the original version of game. Street Cred is a stat from that, so they made it in this game too..it follows alot of the rules of the tabletop version of the game. If interested, go look into it. It is somewhat interesting and i looked into it myself.

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[Nova]

You are NOT building street cred with just criminal gangs. you are building street cred with your fellow mercs and people like that. mercs are just hired guns for anyone to buy corps gangs and even police pay them to do jobs thats why you get street cred for helping the police, because you pulled off a job and get props for that.

[Corbae]

Okay so no one thinks this is weird. Got it. Still think it is a lazy mechanic but okay you guys do not. Surprised not one of you even sees a little issue with this.

One of the fixers we work with throughout runs the tiger claws and you kill them all the time and she never mentions it.

edit: just feel the games narrative is lazy as ♥♥♥♥. respect people that do not feel this way but had to make a post.

[Mononymouse]

Originally posted by Nova:

You are NOT building street cred with just criminal gangs. you are building street cred with your fellow mercs and people like that. mercs are just hired guns for anyone to buy corps gangs and even police pay them to do jobs thats why you get street cred for helping the police, because you pulled off a job and get props for that.

Exactly. in the PnP there was a distinction, between Rep, and Renown.
I feel they dumbed it down for the game, but overall, we are Dealing with Renown, rather than Rep/street Cred.

Folks know your name, and what you do well, and they know you are good at what you do, and they are willing to hire you, but they don't trust you.

[Fast Pooper]

Originally posted by Raven:

Okay so no one thinks this is weird. Got it. Still think it is a lazy mechanic but okay you guys do not. Surprised not one of you even sees a little issue with this.

It's only an issue if you focus on the name and think the Streets are whatever mooks are around. They are just fodder. Your reputation isn't tied to them.

[Overeagerdragon]

Yeah it's not meant as Creds you score to increase the rep with your homies....

It's how much credit you build on the street as being a merc who can handle their shizz without stuff going fubar all the time.

[Jakarta's Stray Dog]

Originally posted by Irx:

Originally posted by Raven:

Okay so no one thinks this is weird. Got it. Still think it is a lazy mechanic but okay you guys do not. Surprised not one of you even sees a little issue with this.

One of the fixers we work with throughout runs the tiger claws and you kill them all the time and she never mentions it.

Frankly, I don't see a point for this stat at all, considering you get street cred for the same stuff you get normal xp, why not tie it to the level? Reputation system would make more sense if there were several factions, otherwise it's just superficial imho.

considering there are many gangs and corpo factions in-game i'd say this is quite an oversight in the gameplay mechanic...but then again more complicated mechanic could have brought even more bug for the game at its current state

[mcSlothalot]

Originally posted by Raven:

So even if the police in this game were not corrupt and owned by corps this still would not give you cred with criminals, which you are. Killing gangs for the police I would think would be the last way to get cred, in fact in a believable world it would do the opposite.

Thats the thing that you got wrong. You are not playing a criminal. You are playing a gun for hire, that works for everybody.
And streetcred is basically just a metric for getting people to know you. Which makes sense in terms of if you successfully do your work, people are more likely to hire you.

[Old Skool Raver]

Originally posted by Raven:

Anyone else confused to why street cred works the way it does? The fastest way, I found, to level up street cred is to work with the police killing gangs. So even if the police in this game were not corrupt and owned by corps this still would not give you cred with criminals, which you are. Killing gangs for the police I would think would be the last way to get cred, in fact in a believable world it would do the opposite. If you had two different sliders one for police and one for criminals then that would make sense but this doesn't make any sense at all to me.

You're making the mistake on thinking CDPR thought about it for more than 5 seconds. Easy mistake to make I know.

[Corbae]

Originally posted by mcSlothalot:

Originally posted by Raven:

So even if the police in this game were not corrupt and owned by corps this still would not give you cred with criminals, which you are. Killing gangs for the police I would think would be the last way to get cred, in fact in a believable world it would do the opposite.

Thats the thing that you got wrong. You are not playing a criminal. You are playing a gun for hire, that works for everybody.
And streetcred is basically just a metric for getting people to know you. Which makes sense in terms of if you successfully do your work, people are more likely to hire you.

Yea no we work outside the law and corps. V is a criminal and works for criminals. No fixer would work with V if V actively was killing their gangs every chance V got. Plus we actively kill gangs just solely on illegal activity not for a fixer or anyone else.

[mcSlothalot]

Originally posted by Raven:

Originally posted by mcSlothalot:

Thats the thing that you got wrong. You are not playing a criminal. You are playing a gun for hire, that works for everybody.
And streetcred is basically just a metric for getting people to know you. Which makes sense in terms of if you successfully do your work, people are more likely to hire you.

Yea no we work outside the law and corps. V is a criminal and works for criminals. No fixer would work with V if V actively was killing their gangs every chance V got. Plus we actively kill gangs just solely on illegal activity not for a fixer or anyone else.

Maybe check the lore and pay attention to story and dialogues. You are not a criminal, you are a merc. Everybody can hire you. Corps, police, gangs.