Play it the way you want. Seriously. You’ll probably miss something but that’s the beauty of it. You’ll be able to do a completely different playthrough.
perrohunter
Have fun chump
magnum609
Sometimes blue dialogue matters
SenmiMsS
I would say “pick Angel”, but CDPR already killed that joke :/
PhannyDantom15112022
Personally I’d say just have fun!
laikahass
Kill all the bad guys and don’t die
ThrowRA-1122335
Don’t follow any guides unless you’re stuck with something. *Play however you want!*
With the DLC, the game is MASSIVE. Almost on-par with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
There is no “correct” or “true” ending either. Some are better/worse than others, and you may miss some things, but that’s the beauty of it. Every ending is drastically different, encouraging multiple play-throughs.
Have fun, choom!
unnknownnuserr
Don’t rush. Try to do some gigs or ncpd scanners in between the main missions. Certain gigs are just as good as the main quests, so they’ll really enhance your immersion. Anyway, you’re in for a ride. Welcome to night city choom.
PomegranateCheap3432
Take your time
Aka_79
Just enjoy that amazing journey.
Beautiful-Swimmer339
Im not done with my first playthrough yet but here are some tips.
Play gigs early and often, they arent filler content but great worldbuilding.
Play the side content alot , if you get stressed by the “urgency” of the main story you will find yourself at the point of no return very early as the main story is rather short.
You can get quite creative with your solutions to some jobs, with traversal, stealth and netrunning.
Many buildings have roof windows or hidden entrances.
tigran_i
Don’t eat the yellow snow choomba
Scottmo51
Stop and explore everything, try to walk instead of driving, trust me there are so many hidden easter eggs.
voxelboxthing
make sure the room temp is comfortable.
Clear-Wrongdoer42
This game is not difficult, even on hard mode. So, use whatever style of play you want. Focus on one or two perk trees at first.
Quick hacks are the most overpowered way to play, the game seems to be designed with them as the expected option (they are my favorite.) However, playing a shotgun bruiser or a Speedy McSpeedpants with a katana is fun too.
Expect to be lied to an mislead by virtually every character with only a few exceptions. I will only spoil one of them: Vic is an honest guy and a genuine friend.
Tips:
1. Don’t use explosive barrels for cover.
2. If you play a hacker, learn your hack combos
3. Not all iconic weapons are better than their normal counterparts.
4. If you see a mostly naked NPC walking around, it isn’t a glitch. Girls in night city just don’t care about feeling a draft, I guess.
taskmaster51
Fastest way to make Eddie’s is do the police scanner jobs
dingo_khan
DO NOT RUSH THROUGH THE MAIN STORY. the game’s best content, even with main characters, is in side missions and small moments. The game will hit you with a sense of urgency, just let it. Go see Night City. Take on weird jobs. Some of the coolest moments in gaming in years for me were just random crap jumping off in NC.
shuja246
Reflex tree over everything and get the double jump ASAP
Chaoticist523
If you go around doing ncpd scanners instead of meeting Jackie to get your car, you can pay off Vik within about 20 minutes.
You don’t have to play a build to have fun, but it does help. Try leveling the main things in the pistol tree, and maybe the netrunning trees. Netrunning is super handy for not getting caught by turning off cameras and such. These two trees are very handy.
You don’t actually have to pick where to put points in character creation, you can skip it and figure it out later.
The first chunk of skills in the body tree are super handy, because they give you health regeneration.
If you have phantom liberty you can eventually put at least 15 in every attribute.
If you pick up everything, and sell pretty much all of the guns you find, you’ll be rich in no time.
Cars are cool, but bikes are much easier to drive.
Utinni1111
Take your time, enjoy, kill gang members, don’t shoot cops
daddyshakespear
Iconics can be upgraded. Other weapons can’t
MadMax091
You’ll eventually know what you did wrong in your second playthrough, cause you will do more than 1.
basicwhitelich
Crank the volume before the title drops
Forward-Drag3527
Don’t punch fingers, when ur doing the mission to memorialize silverhand with his shrine make sure u choose the correct dialogue to unlock don’t fear the reaper secret ending. You can save Takemura during the mission. Don’t side with Arasaka. Finish all the Japan town gigs asap to get byakko, best weapon in the game hands down if ur doing a katana build.
the_mellojoe
Finish the intro, finish the tower heist quest, and then finish the interlude, and THEN start open world going around doing anything and everything while completely ignoring the main story line. the “intro” to this game is longer than you think, so go ahead and focus main story directly until **AFTER THE INTERLUDE** (you’ll know it when you get there because it literally pops up that this is an interlude). After the Interlude, then you can go into full on open world mode, and start all the wild side-quests, and skip the main quest if that’s your thing. But if you do too many sidequests before the interlude, some stuff can get spoiled, or not be available. So just get that main introdution out of the way.
UseIntelligent2245
Do side missions get weapons and have fun
ElephantAway3952
There are dick and balls art and graffiti all over the place. Take pics of every one. Some are actually artful and funny. Then post the album on here.
Easy-Client-793
Don’t be afraid to step away from the main story to do gigs/side missions they’ll net you a lot of money and exp and are honestly just as good if not better at times than the main quest.
RealVanillaSmooth
Don’t try to be a jack of all trades when it comes to weapons. Focus in on 2 weapon types you think you’ll really enjoy and hone in on those. You’ll miss out on a lot of cool perks if you try to dip into everything.
Also, explore everything. There are some areas that you kind of just pass through and you don’t get a lot of quest or story reasons to stay in a couple places for very long. One of the best things about this game is honestly just taking in some of the views.
rexxsis
Tech tree us very important
footfoe
When you get to “chipping in” quest, stop and refer to a guide. A random dialog option locks you out of certain endings
Neutral-Wanderer
If you feel at some point that the game is too easy and don’t offer you a challenge don’t be shy about raising the difficulty.
Hnestly it isn’t a hard game and raising the difficulty will make the game more cohesive because it will push you to engage with it’s mechanic and will push your need to make a cohesive build and a good build really makes the hardest difficulty a cake walk, but a really fun one, compare to the basic shoot everyone with your brain turned off
Alternative_Ear_861
don’t select dialogue options based on the rewards
cole-seph
Take your time and indulge in everything as far as dialogue, environment, and everything that this game has to offer. So fun to see the effort put into the world building!
Particular_Kitchen42
You take vacation time from work?
You’re going to need to
leicanthrope
Read all the shards. Even apart from the worldbuilding aspect, there are some that’ll give you directions to where some loot is stashed.
Hanako will wait indefinitely.
trinithmournsoul
Duuude
This game is so amazing. Sometimes you feel like running stealth, sometimes you feel like running in guns blazing and sometimes there’s that one occasion where you run through a hail of bullets to accomplish a mission, jump out a window & run out the front gate past the turrets, down the street, across the freeway before they stop chasing you. But you did what you came to do so …
leaveitalone36
Antidepressants
Ok-Jaguar-4471
Honestly, just take your time. Walk around Night City, do sidequests, poke your head into back alleys. The game does an amazing job of making its world feel vibrant and alive, and half the fun of the game for me came from just feeling like I was becoming a true resident of NC and learning the landmarks, becoming more adjusted to the dangers and lifestyles of the different districts. The game does a good job making plot points feel like they’re urgent, but just don’t forget to stop and take it all in every once in a while.
butter_lover
There are a bunch of iconic unique weapons if you miss them you can’t go back and get them later and then you’ll always have empty slots on your stash wall.
BrightPerspective
Explore. And enjoy the watson district before moving on with the story, it’s like a miniature of the rest of the city.
Enjoy everything you can, don’t rush: you can only play the game for the first time once.
Also, I recommend the nomad start, it’s got the best “new to the city” vibe.
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Play it the way you want. Seriously. You’ll probably miss something but that’s the beauty of it. You’ll be able to do a completely different playthrough.
Have fun chump
Sometimes blue dialogue matters
I would say “pick Angel”, but CDPR already killed that joke :/
Personally I’d say just have fun!
Kill all the bad guys and don’t die
Don’t follow any guides unless you’re stuck with something. *Play however you want!*
With the DLC, the game is MASSIVE. Almost on-par with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
There is no “correct” or “true” ending either. Some are better/worse than others, and you may miss some things, but that’s the beauty of it. Every ending is drastically different, encouraging multiple play-throughs.
Have fun, choom!
Don’t rush. Try to do some gigs or ncpd scanners in between the main missions. Certain gigs are just as good as the main quests, so they’ll really enhance your immersion. Anyway, you’re in for a ride. Welcome to night city choom.
Take your time
Just enjoy that amazing journey.
Im not done with my first playthrough yet but here are some tips.
Play gigs early and often, they arent filler content but great worldbuilding.
Play the side content alot , if you get stressed by the “urgency” of the main story you will find yourself at the point of no return very early as the main story is rather short.
You can get quite creative with your solutions to some jobs, with traversal, stealth and netrunning.
Many buildings have roof windows or hidden entrances.
Don’t eat the yellow snow choomba
Stop and explore everything, try to walk instead of driving, trust me there are so many hidden easter eggs.
make sure the room temp is comfortable.
This game is not difficult, even on hard mode. So, use whatever style of play you want. Focus on one or two perk trees at first.
Quick hacks are the most overpowered way to play, the game seems to be designed with them as the expected option (they are my favorite.) However, playing a shotgun bruiser or a Speedy McSpeedpants with a katana is fun too.
Expect to be lied to an mislead by virtually every character with only a few exceptions. I will only spoil one of them: Vic is an honest guy and a genuine friend.
Tips:
1. Don’t use explosive barrels for cover.
2. If you play a hacker, learn your hack combos
3. Not all iconic weapons are better than their normal counterparts.
4. If you see a mostly naked NPC walking around, it isn’t a glitch. Girls in night city just don’t care about feeling a draft, I guess.
Fastest way to make Eddie’s is do the police scanner jobs
DO NOT RUSH THROUGH THE MAIN STORY. the game’s best content, even with main characters, is in side missions and small moments. The game will hit you with a sense of urgency, just let it. Go see Night City. Take on weird jobs. Some of the coolest moments in gaming in years for me were just random crap jumping off in NC.
Reflex tree over everything and get the double jump ASAP
If you go around doing ncpd scanners instead of meeting Jackie to get your car, you can pay off Vik within about 20 minutes.
You don’t have to play a build to have fun, but it does help. Try leveling the main things in the pistol tree, and maybe the netrunning trees. Netrunning is super handy for not getting caught by turning off cameras and such. These two trees are very handy.
You don’t actually have to pick where to put points in character creation, you can skip it and figure it out later.
The first chunk of skills in the body tree are super handy, because they give you health regeneration.
If you have phantom liberty you can eventually put at least 15 in every attribute.
If you pick up everything, and sell pretty much all of the guns you find, you’ll be rich in no time.
Cars are cool, but bikes are much easier to drive.
Take your time, enjoy, kill gang members, don’t shoot cops
Iconics can be upgraded. Other weapons can’t
You’ll eventually know what you did wrong in your second playthrough, cause you will do more than 1.
Crank the volume before the title drops
Don’t punch fingers, when ur doing the mission to memorialize silverhand with his shrine make sure u choose the correct dialogue to unlock don’t fear the reaper secret ending. You can save Takemura during the mission. Don’t side with Arasaka. Finish all the Japan town gigs asap to get byakko, best weapon in the game hands down if ur doing a katana build.
Finish the intro, finish the tower heist quest, and then finish the interlude, and THEN start open world going around doing anything and everything while completely ignoring the main story line. the “intro” to this game is longer than you think, so go ahead and focus main story directly until **AFTER THE INTERLUDE** (you’ll know it when you get there because it literally pops up that this is an interlude). After the Interlude, then you can go into full on open world mode, and start all the wild side-quests, and skip the main quest if that’s your thing. But if you do too many sidequests before the interlude, some stuff can get spoiled, or not be available. So just get that main introdution out of the way.
Do side missions get weapons and have fun
There are dick and balls art and graffiti all over the place. Take pics of every one. Some are actually artful and funny. Then post the album on here.
Don’t be afraid to step away from the main story to do gigs/side missions they’ll net you a lot of money and exp and are honestly just as good if not better at times than the main quest.
Don’t try to be a jack of all trades when it comes to weapons. Focus in on 2 weapon types you think you’ll really enjoy and hone in on those. You’ll miss out on a lot of cool perks if you try to dip into everything.
Also, explore everything. There are some areas that you kind of just pass through and you don’t get a lot of quest or story reasons to stay in a couple places for very long. One of the best things about this game is honestly just taking in some of the views.
Tech tree us very important
When you get to “chipping in” quest, stop and refer to a guide. A random dialog option locks you out of certain endings
If you feel at some point that the game is too easy and don’t offer you a challenge don’t be shy about raising the difficulty.
Hnestly it isn’t a hard game and raising the difficulty will make the game more cohesive because it will push you to engage with it’s mechanic and will push your need to make a cohesive build and a good build really makes the hardest difficulty a cake walk, but a really fun one, compare to the basic shoot everyone with your brain turned off
don’t select dialogue options based on the rewards
Take your time and indulge in everything as far as dialogue, environment, and everything that this game has to offer. So fun to see the effort put into the world building!
You take vacation time from work?
You’re going to need to
Read all the shards. Even apart from the worldbuilding aspect, there are some that’ll give you directions to where some loot is stashed.
Hanako will wait indefinitely.
Duuude
This game is so amazing. Sometimes you feel like running stealth, sometimes you feel like running in guns blazing and sometimes there’s that one occasion where you run through a hail of bullets to accomplish a mission, jump out a window & run out the front gate past the turrets, down the street, across the freeway before they stop chasing you. But you did what you came to do so …
Antidepressants
Honestly, just take your time. Walk around Night City, do sidequests, poke your head into back alleys. The game does an amazing job of making its world feel vibrant and alive, and half the fun of the game for me came from just feeling like I was becoming a true resident of NC and learning the landmarks, becoming more adjusted to the dangers and lifestyles of the different districts. The game does a good job making plot points feel like they’re urgent, but just don’t forget to stop and take it all in every once in a while.
There are a bunch of iconic unique weapons if you miss them you can’t go back and get them later and then you’ll always have empty slots on your stash wall.
Explore. And enjoy the watson district before moving on with the story, it’s like a miniature of the rest of the city.
Enjoy everything you can, don’t rush: you can only play the game for the first time once.
Also, I recommend the nomad start, it’s got the best “new to the city” vibe.