Cyberware guidance

[Devil Dog]

This is my first play through and just realized there is a crap ton of options, which is great, but I have no idea what is good or bad to install.

Is there a method to managing Cyberware installs and upgrades or do I just learn as I get along in the story?

[Caruth]

All depends on your playstyle as usual. Things to look out for is bonus stats, when you specd so you get 3 options when upgrading look at what compliments your style, like do you even melee, do you need more armour, or especially ram leaching if you're specd in intelligent.

Also not required but useful to look at what that item is attuned to, like cool, or body etc, because you can get a little bonus from that stat bonus too.

I also look at armour, I tend to go for 3 of the biggest armour bonuses so I don't die, but then if you're stealth or have alot of life leaching, maybe you don't care about armour.

It's all basically a balancing act on cost of cyberware vs bonus you get back, as your limited on how much cyberware costs. Don't forget that if you want more cyberware still, you can even choose the perk that lets you go above the max.

There's too much variations to give you a definitive answer, it's what you find fun and benefits you the most really.

I have 1 tip for you though, sometimes you don't need to upgrade as vendor might be selling you an already upgraded version to what you have currently, so if you have tons of money but low on components, you could just buy the upgraded version and sell off your old one. If you do that, don't forget at some point to upgrade at least once so you get to choose the 3 bonus stats specific to your build.

[Devil Dog]

I saw those talent perks on some pieces. But that I'm only a few hrs in probably best to consider what u mentioned about play style.

Regardless u gave me some good info. Thanks alot bro!

[Tech Enthusiast]

Not sure what kinda managing methods you want here.

You have X slots and then look at the stats and cost... think hard about if it is worth it,.. if yes, get it, if not, don't.

[Devil Dog]

Maybe a bad word choice on my part - in my line of work managing generally refers to understanding and handling equipment.

But @Caruth already did a great job of answering my question.

[em_t_hed]

Originally posted by Caruth:

All depends on your playstyle as usual. Things to look out for is bonus stats, when you specd so you get 3 options when upgrading look at what compliments your style, like do you even melee, do you need more armour, or especially ram leaching if you're specd in intelligent.

Also not required but useful to look at what that item is attuned to, like cool, or body etc, because you can get a little bonus from that stat bonus too.

I also look at armour, I tend to go for 3 of the biggest armour bonuses so I don't die, but then if you're stealth or have alot of life leaching, maybe you don't care about armour.

It's all basically a balancing act on cost of cyberware vs bonus you get back, as your limited on how much cyberware costs. Don't forget that if you want more cyberware still, you can even choose the perk that lets you go above the max.

There's too much variations to give you a definitive answer, it's what you find fun and benefits you the most really.

I have 1 tip for you though, sometimes you don't need to upgrade as vendor might be selling you an already upgraded version to what you have currently, so if you have tons of money but low on components, you could just buy the upgraded version and sell off your old one. If you do that, don't forget at some point to upgrade at least once so you get to choose the 3 bonus stats specific to your build.

you can't have a 'playstyle' if you've never played the game... if you're going on the idea 'playstyle' developed from playing other 'similar' types of game... you've gone off the deep end...

the only way to develop a playstyle in this is to experiment and find out what you like/don't like regardless of watching the plethora of a waste of yt content on cyberware guides and CRAP. JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE SOMEONE PLAY AND LIKE HOW THEY PLAY DOES NOT MEAN YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PLAY THE SAME WAY REGARDLESS OF HOW INFORMATIVE/FORTHCOMING WITH THEIR BUILD.

there's enough latitude in this game you can have evolving tactics if you want. so the concept of 'playtyle' be damned.

a 'playstyle' LOCKS YOU INTO PLAYING THAT WAY THROUGH 99% of the game

don't listen to this fool and 'playstyle' vocabulary and short sighted delusional remedial thinking...

he/she just wants you to look up yt content to get money for whomever... doesn't matter who

[em_t_hed]

the devs themselves provided a massive amount of 'guidance' JUST ON HOW THEY MADE THE MAPS

if you can't understand how that works towards what tactics you should/want to attempt ...

START there regardless of all the 'bells and whistles' of all the cyberware ...

[Devil Dog]

Originally posted by em_t_hed:

you can't have a 'playstyle' if you've never played the game... if you're going on the idea 'playstyle' developed from playing other 'similar' types of game... you've gone off the deep end...

the only way to develop a playstyle in this is to experiment and find out what you like/don't like regardless of watching the plethora of a waste of yt content on cyberware guides and CRAP. JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE SOMEONE PLAY AND LIKE HOW THEY PLAY DOES NOT MEAN YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PLAY THE SAME WAY REGARDLESS OF HOW INFORMATIVE/FORTHCOMING WITH THEIR BUILD.

there's enough latitude in this game you can have evolving tactics if you want. so the concept of 'playtyle' be damned.

a 'playstyle' LOCKS YOU INTO PLAYING THAT WAY THROUGH 99% of the game

don't listen to this fool and 'playstyle' vocabulary and short sighted delusional remedial thinking...

he/she just wants you to look up yt content to get money for whomever... doesn't matter who

U both might be right. I'm guessing @Caruth meant by "playstyle" pretty much what u suggested - adapt based on the situation.

I played both The Division and The Division 2 twice, which have some of the best weapon and gear customization and core gameplay mechanics. So I'm getting that I might have to play through this game at least twice too since it's got similar character customization.