Love close combat? In Cyberpunk 2077, the player will find many examples of weapons for this kind of battle. Knives, clubs, hammers, even katanas - all this can be used for successful battles with enemies.
The editors of Wotpack decided to talk about a rather unusual build, where the main character will be a kingpin who, with the help of the Gorilla Hands modification, fights against all enemies.
Information
The Terminator build is named for a reason. We will explain below why it was chosen:
- A huge number of used demons.
- High rates of maneuverability.
- Enemies have a hard time killing V.
The way this build works is that V uses the hacks "Short circuit" and "Overheating”, dealing a large amount of damage to living and non-living objects, respectively. This allows you to act from afar and not worry about your health. When there are no thoughts about it, then it is easier to stay alive.
Attributes
A player wishing to follow this path must upgrade the following attributes: Intelligence, composure и Force. The first one is required to get the legendary versions of the hacking programs listed above. The second is responsible for Stealth and Equanimity. The latter is needed to increase health, armor, as well as improvements related to medium and heavy weapons.
However, this is not the main point here. The important thing is that pumping Energy allows you to take skills related to melee combat. It will be the focus of this build.
Skills
Now let's look at what skills should be acquired in order to get the maximum profit from this assembly. Intelligence and Protocol Hacking are top priorities when leveling.
Quick hack
- Corrosive programs. An extremely simple perk will increase damage after using quick hack programs.
- Hacking school. The skill provides all the necessary knowledge to create scripts of epic rarity.
- Critical error. The perk will allow you to deal critical damage with a quick hack, which significantly increases the damage from a short circuit.
- Bartmoss legacy. The logical continuation of the School of Hacking. With this skill, V is given the ability to replicate the legendary patterns of quick hack programs.
Athletics and Destruction
- Recovery. Works as passive regeneration. Improvement is made by adding additional perks.
- Invulnerability. The perk increases health by a percentage. Good for more survivability.
- Epimorphosis. Adding this ability will allow you to almost fully heal when leaving combat. Many first aid kits will now lie in stock unused.
- Steel and chrome. Responsible for the increase in melee damage. True, another skill is responsible for the real increase - Flurry of blows, but about it a little later.
- Healthy mind. With it, health recovery can occur while moving. And since the player is constantly moving, he will feel great.
- Dog of war. Regeneration works even in combat. This will save even more first aid kits, which is also good.
- Sprinter. You can now run almost indefinitely. Sprinting will no longer drain stamina.
- Wolverine. With it, it will be possible to greatly reduce the start time for the restoration of health points. As a rule, the increase is 50%, which is quite good.
street fight
- Flurry of blows. Increases damage on consecutive hits.
- surge of strength. Healing occurs right during the battle. This will allow you to go into close combat more often.
- Calculated Strikes. They take less stamina.
- Fury. Makes blunt weapons more dangerous, increasing damage by 100%.
- Partisan. During the first 10 seconds after the start of the battle, V's critical damage is increased to 100%.
Stealth and Equanimity
- Equanimity. Complex buff that lasts 10 seconds. Properties depend on the player himself. Activates when an enemy dies at the hands of V. At first, only an increase in movement speed, but as you move along the skill tree of the same name, other advantages will open up. It is worth taking immediately, so that already at the second level of the perk there is the possibility of increasing the chance of a critical strike.
- Critical situation. Increases the duration of the buff. A must-buy perk.
- Protective coagulation. Plus armor per stack of Equanimity. Another perk from the "survival" category.
- Rapid blood flow. This perk increases in-combat and out-of-combat health regeneration for each stack of Coldblood you have. The more healing you receive, the better you will take advantage of it.
- Cold calculation. A critical hit on an enemy grants one stack of Equanimity.
- Strike from the shadows. +50% critical hit for the first 10 seconds after the start of the battle.
- Strong nerves. This perk will allow you to quickly restore stacks of Equanimity, since V will only lose one, and not all at once.
- Steadfastness/Total Equanimity. Both options are for fast stacking. The more of them, the stronger the character will become. Worth considering buying both.
- Stress resistance. A full "full stack" when the player's health is reduced to 45%.
- Ruthlessness. The ultimate ability from the Equanimity branch. Gives increased crit and the chance of its occurrence.
Equipment
In this section, we will look at what hardware is required to play this build.
Weapon
The main weapon in this build will be "Gorilla hands". They increase the damage of fists, and also perform various actions that require strength, such as opening doors.
If you are going to play a "naked" build, then "Gorilla hands' is the most efficient way to do this. The modification in the form of these hands with each attack is increasingly charged, and when the charge is already fully accumulated, it will be possible to inflict crushing blow.
By the way, "Gorilla Hands" is also used by a melee strongman. Detailed build for it - here.
However, there are a few mods you will need for this build and these are Rinzu Battery и synaptic accelerator. The former fully restores stamina when you defeat an enemy, while the latter offers various effects, however, only the one that increases maximum health is needed.
Armor
In terms of armor, ideally you want to look for items with a bonus of crit chance or critical damage.
If you can't find what you're looking for, try create it yourself. So you can make yourself good clothes.
Implants
This part is considered very important for this build.
You will need Limbic System Stimulator и Visual cortex stimulator, which increase the chance of a critical strike and the damage from it.
These are some of the best implants in the game and should only be installed in legendary quality.
Biomonitor - another cool implant that allows you not to think about such a question as treatment for a while. When health drops below a certain limit, the device turns on and restores HP quickly, without interrupting the battle with enemies.
Synaptic signal optimizer - Another great implant that increases, and significantly, your health. In addition, he will restore health when hitting an enemy. Be sure to get that implant when you can.
The last implant that is absolutely essential for this assembly is Hypodermic armor. Since you have to play as a melee player, you need all the means to protect yourself from any damage.
Demons and cyberdeck
The hero, first of all, needs to take a cyberdeck from Network Watch — Network Watch (Ver. 5) for this build. You can find it at Nina Kravitz.
It not only allows you to load daemons for three purposes at once, but also increases their damage by 30%. Get this deck as soon as possible.
The only demon you absolutely need for this build is Зbridging.
Rare you can buy a version of such a virus at a netrunner in Pacifica. epic easy to get after unlocking the skill Hacking school. legendary - in the same way, but already opening the perk Bartmoss legacy.
General Tips
One of the really fun things to do with this build is to start the fight by crashing your car right into a crowd of enemies. Then it's worth trying to create with auto short circuit. Since V with such a build is extremely high survivability, the player will successfully escape from the environment.
Robots often kill you because they are in front of "death» explode. Instead of trying to destroy them, just use "Зbridgingfrom a distance to destroy them. It will save you from a quick death, and it's really easy to do even in combat.
You won't need to heal often with this build. True, this is still required to be done from time to time, so do not think that V is completely invincible. This advice especially relevant at an early stagee, since the player will not have all the parts of this assembly.
Finally, it's easy to get the legendary version of the hand mod if you complete the main story. Alternatively, the player can purchase it from the Reaper for 100 thousand Eurodollars.