Recommended "Most Fun" Playstyle? First Playthrough Here

[Baltar777]

Hey everyone,

So I just got past the prologue and am free to roam the open world and start really engaging with the game's mechanics.

So far, I built my character with Agility and have been mixing Pistol Gameplay + Katana Deflects for the most part in combat.

I wanted to know - Does anyone have a recommended playstyle, whether its certain weapons or skills to really up the ante on 'fun'? Ive enjoyed what Ive played so far, but, not sure Pistol + Katana is gonna have the legs for a like 50+ hour playthrough.

Just wanted to get any recommendations if people have gone through the game and had an 'A-ha' moment with the 'most fun' gameplay style.

I went with the Katana build because I do really enjoy deflection combat, would want something twitch based action oriented most likely. But willing to hear people's takes on the combat system that I may be missing the ball on.

Thanks for your time.

[EJR]

My take on builds in games is that I do character-inspired builds instead of meta builds. My previous build was a Wolverine build with Mantis Blades. My current build is a Netrunner/James Bond-style build using hacking and pistols only. I plan to have my next build be a Ryuko Matoi build or sometime similar to a Japanese schoolgirl delinquent.

Builds can be anything you want to be as long as it brings you fun and satisfaction. But if you want to take my advice then I'd reset my attributes and switch the pistol attribute (Cool) with either Body or Tech. But if a katana+pistol build works for you then don't let me stop you.

[Zoid13]

i always find the stealth / blades approach to be the most fun.
i love sneaking through all the areas and clearing the whole place out without being detected. (im not a big fps guns blazing fan in general)
the melee gorilla arms talents get super fun too when you get to the perks that let you pick guys up and throw them around :P

[Baltar777]

Originally posted by Zoid13:

i always find the stealth / blades approach to be the most fun.
i love sneaking through all the areas and clearing the whole place out without being detected. (im not a big fps guns blazing fan in general)
the melee gorilla arms talents get super fun too when you get to the perks that let you pick guys up and throw them around :P

I did not realize this was a thing. Thanks for the heads up, thank you

[NixBoxDone]

Sandevistan max body parkour shotty player here. Slowing down time and chunking people one satisfying "Ka-CHUNK" at a time while your implants play nursemaid and give you a massive adrenaline shield is easy and immensely satisfying to me.

Alternatively there are implants and perks that let you zoom across the battlefield while technically sneaking and using camo. Playing "will it blend" with that and a good katana also never gets old.

[Mei]

Stealth with full ghost for me. Especially as you get into the mid levels as the game quickly becomes a cakewalk if you play it like a normal shooter. Gotta make your own fun and I still enjoy messing with the ai.

[valium]

Most fun for me are hyper aggressive playstyles for most combat, and stealth for missions. A combination of Deus Ex for missions and Borderlands for the rest.

[Xengre]

My recommendation is to go for an aggressive open combat option, probably with melee mostly but guns/grenade builds or supporting setups can also be fine.

The issue with stealth oriented builds is... They're extremely detached from play tbh compared to your typical stealth game because the level/enemy design is so minimal and the builds so vastly overpowering it makes you basically an unstoppable grim reaper by simply pressing a single button.

Stealth Pistol builds are currently the most devastating in terms of raw dmg, able to do over 5K in a single click or over 10K in a burst (two clicks) before they can react (with the right perk). You are early in so this can be hard to put in perspective but let me put it this way... throwing weapons usually do around 2k at high end (some a bit more, but basically not above 3K peak) and throwing weapons are greatly limiting with recharge, gravity range impact, and problematic hit detection while also being a lot noisier than pistols (yes, this is a pretty big problem if enemies are too close to one another with throwing weapons).

Any other gun in terms of dmg lol... yeah, not even close. Non-stealth gun dmg is basically in the kiddy leagues by comparison. This isn't to say they're bad, they're just not as dumb broken as stealth pistol builds. Especially because there are various ways to abuse stealth multipliers and stuff even if you screwed up and went loud or such.

As for the most broken setup? Hacking loud or stealth. There are tons of overpowered hacking builds where you just click a button and things die. To be precise, there are builds where everything dies. Period. There is no gameplay. You're essentially deleting the element of combat from the game and focusing on non-combat gameplay/story only. This ranges from using System Collapse to automatically KO everyone in the area through spreading Overclock shenanigans, to mass Contagion DoT spread or uber crits, single target nuke 1-shots, making it so all your enemies miss/can't even shoot/can't even move/can't even use abilities like dodge, to turning grouips of enemies into Cyberpsychos while you sit back and watch them kill each other.

This contrasts other games like Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid which do more with their stealth systems and enemy/level design to make it less brain dead.

Of course, if you want to roleplay that mercenary grim reaper wanna-be Agent 47 has a looming stealthy shadow of death with the most insane nethacking skills in town power fantasy then that is another story entirely. Then go for it.

[ferrata_vi]

My next playthrough I'm just gonna be a dude with a lead pipe, a magnum revolver, and lots of 'nades.

Right now I'm playing a knife throwing netrunner who occasionally pulls out a tech shotgun.

[FD_Stalker]

Hitman 47 style
Basically back choke everyone into unconscious and bag the target into fixer's car without any implant or getting detected.
You can throw recon grenade to push enemy, throw knife to pull enemy, or leave unconscious body on ground to let them see

[Xengre]

^Speaking of the above post's comment if you do this without detected for some missions rather than completing the hit on the target it has alternate mission ending dialogue for some of them.

I should add a correction to my own prior post. Stealth, without using abusively overpowered damage from guns/throwing or auto-win hacks... but rather using chokes, noise / distractions via hacks or manual activation and finding routes like double jumping up to a higher area, tunnel, etc. are actually decent as another play option. They're just restrictive and due to the game's length and some of the mission designs not always ideal but you could fall back to going loud once cover blown.

[Klutch]

V is only 4'11. I basically pretend he is a dwarf, and get a ton of implants and raise up that armor asap.

[Tom]

Maybe replace pistol with throwing knife? There is an iconic knife that specifically pairs with an iconic sword. You could also throw on invis cloak for if things get too hectic and you want to ghost around the room. Alternatively spec into tech and go for pyromania using an explosive weapon such as Doom doom which is an iconic revolver that fires multiple explosive pellets and that will trigger the perk, mix that with sword and the armcannon and you can be a whirlwind of blades and explosions.

[Mexicola9302]

In my last playthrough I played mostly with throwing knives in combination with Sandevistan. It feels pretty satisfying just activating the "bullet time" and then throwing the knife into 3 heads and immediatly picking it up afterwards, one after one boom dead. You just stand right in front of them activate Sandevistan and boom their all dead. In combination with that invisiblity cyberware etc. it's very sneaky and fun. On the long distance i just used pistols or that silenced sniper "Overwatch". And if i get discovered i switch to Psalm whatever or a shotgun or whatever i like. I mean there are so many fun ways to kill the NPC's.

[ferrata_vi]

There is a mod out there OP that lets you freely reassign ability points (no usage cap). Look up Neu-Respec.

You might just find that you're 20% through a playthrough and you decide you want to try a few things.

[Omen3608]

I'd recommend to not visit the forums at all until you've finished your first run. Let the game inspire you where you want to take your character and just enjoy the game with a first hand experience.

There are tons of viable builds and I would strongly recommend staying away from overpowered meta builds for your first run unless you happen to end up building one by yourself.