How Do You Have Fun in this Game?

[KayMor]

I'm trying to figure out how to enjoy myself.
Initially I went gun-fu build but that made it like every other shooter.
I restarted as a netrunner, but I can literally spam overheat from a distance and everyone dies. I don't need any strategy. I don't even need other quick hacks. I can literally coast with one and pass all the missions.
So, how can I have fun with this game? I'm at a loss.

[Bishop-Six]

Immerse yourself as agent and do Stealth + Sandevistan. Stealth takedowns are effective and fun and its mre challenging to kill every ganger without ever raising the alert status.

Knife throwing is incredible fun, but also that Air-Power-Slam with Gorilla arms. Shotguns are a nice addition for gore and splatter.

Knife, Shotgun and Gorilla arms and you have lots of fun, promised. Later you get their finishers and its even more fun then!

[Mithos]

Originally posted by Bishop-Six:

Immerse yourself as agent and do Stealth + Sandevistan. Stealth takedowns are effective and fun and its mre challenging to kill every ganger without ever raising the alert status.

Knife throwing is incredible fun, but also that Air-Power-Slam with Gorilla arms. Shotguns are a nice addition for gore and splatter.

Knife, Shotgun and Gorilla arms and you have lots of fun, promised. Later you get their finishers and its even more fun then!

all finishers are bugged unfortunately

[Verios44]

Originally posted by KayMor:

I'm trying to figure out how to enjoy myself.
Initially I went gun-fu build but that made it like every other shooter.
I restarted as a netrunner, but I can literally spam overheat from a distance and everyone dies. I don't need any strategy. I don't even need other quick hacks. I can literally coast with one and pass all the missions.
So, how can I have fun with this game? I'm at a loss.

1. Turn difficulty to very hard if it is not

I prefer a ninja build. To do this so im not slaughtered, I use a Sandevistan implant that allows me to slow down time for a bit, get in, slash, get out. Then pull out a revolver for engagements.

Other times I try to do a total sneak run and not take out anybody. Easier said than done depending on gig.

[Verios44]

Originally posted by DemonMithos:

Originally posted by Bishop-Six:

Immerse yourself as agent and do Stealth + Sandevistan. Stealth takedowns are effective and fun and its mre challenging to kill every ganger without ever raising the alert status.

Knife throwing is incredible fun, but also that Air-Power-Slam with Gorilla arms. Shotguns are a nice addition for gore and splatter.

Knife, Shotgun and Gorilla arms and you have lots of fun, promised. Later you get their finishers and its even more fun then!

all finishers are bugged unfortunately

Yes but there is a mod that fixes the finishers. And CDPR confirmed they are working on an official fix

[Bishop-Six]

Originally posted by DemonMithos:

Originally posted by Bishop-Six:

Immerse yourself as agent and do Stealth + Sandevistan. Stealth takedowns are effective and fun and its mre challenging to kill every ganger without ever raising the alert status.

Knife throwing is incredible fun, but also that Air-Power-Slam with Gorilla arms. Shotguns are a nice addition for gore and splatter.

Knife, Shotgun and Gorilla arms and you have lots of fun, promised. Later you get their finishers and its even more fun then!

all finishers are bugged unfortunately

Ah yes i forgot because i still play 2.02. But they will be fixed later i suppose and maybe there is a mod for that?

[Stj.Srex]

Originally posted by KayMor:

I'm trying to figure out how to enjoy myself.
Initially I went gun-fu build but that made it like every other shooter.
I restarted as a netrunner, but I can literally spam overheat from a distance and everyone dies. I don't need any strategy. I don't even need other quick hacks. I can literally coast with one and pass all the missions.
So, how can I have fun with this game? I'm at a loss.

If you dont have fun with any strategy then i think this game is not for you.

[prnellom0922]

Up the difficulty and mix up your mission approaches. There are so many ways to fool around in missions. Hacking their turrets and killing them with it, silent pistol headshots only, Melee + grenades only (that's challenging) , Shotguns only without hacking or grenades, etc. Gotta think outside the box and give yourself weird challenges. Currently 80 hours in lol :)

[ImHelping]

You admit it is janky trash. That isn't an attempt at sarcasm. You actually PLAY BETTER if you do so.

For a new stealth hacking example. If you drink the kool-aid about "Oh it is super lore friendly and if you disagree you hate a challenge!" then when missions start having an entire map go on alert because you used high body to rip a temporarily turned off turret off the mount (unlike all the missons that DON'T). Then you will suck it up like an idiot and give up on any stealthy way to perma disable turrets.

However, if you admit the game is janky trash. Then you know LOUDLY EXPLODING IT (As long as nobody gets hit by the explosion but the bodies you left next to it) even 15 feet away from enemies? Perfect stealth.

Crying "Overheat kills everything!" means you are pretty spoiled or taking 18 years to beat anything but a few dudes rushing you. I actually took the time to pure hack a warehouse to death again and only a dozen guys indoors tops took foreeeever purely due to ram recharge rates alone. even working with nearly 40 ram total. "Two guys down. wait... wait.... wait.... wait.... wait..... two guys down at once.... wait.... wait.... wait... wait.... I could just get in there and kill them with strangling or guns I already marked everybody's location.... wait... two more guys down at once... wait-"

[RÊYTH]

Any game is what you make of it.
But games are, after all, just games.

I mostly like to just wander around and occasionally torture AI minds. "Challenge" is not my purpose.

If you want a real challenge, sell everything you own and join the Peace Corps, another humanitarian charity service, or Christian missionary work. You'll never complain about trivial matters like un-challenging video games.

[76561199028474709]

Maybe this game just isnt for you.
Move on.

[Titan Awaken]

As for the original post, if you need to ask then the game isn’t for you.

There is no magical “fun mode” button you can press and everything becomes “fun”. Cold hard truth is that if you’ve experimented with all the builds and still don’t find any one of them fun, then you just don’t enjoy the game.

It’s neither your nor the game’s fault by the way. There is no single thing in this universe that will satisfy everybody.

That being said, you can install gameplay mods to remedy your boredom. I found vanilla Skyrim to be boring but after modding the hell out of it, I sunk hundreds of hours into the game (which is a lot for me).

[Kamikaze Velociraptor]

Download some mods. There is a density mod which increases traffic or get the stock market mod.

[Big E]

Originally posted by KayMor:

I'm trying to figure out how to enjoy myself.
Initially I went gun-fu build but that made it like every other shooter.
I restarted as a netrunner, but I can literally spam overheat from a distance and everyone dies. I don't need any strategy. I don't even need other quick hacks. I can literally coast with one and pass all the missions.
So, how can I have fun with this game? I'm at a loss.

I've found the game really shines while playing on very-hard and doing stealth. Gigs are really well built for stealth, and the methodical approach feels on par with the likes of full stealth games like Dishonored. It's that good imo.
Outside of stealth, I self handicap by not using a Sandi/Berserk and typically melee. WIth a goal of sparing as many people as possible.

[egg fu]

throw people with the savage sling perk