Lots of information that I can agree with. But if you play on Normal difficulty, I found it all quite manageable. You don’t need a lot of exciting things in the beginning and the tutorial you get at the beginning helps a lot to get things done.
It helps that different playstyles are possible in the game. You can do almost anything with basic run & gun, like you do in the average shooter. But you can also get more stealthy assassins, ninjas, pure netrunner hacking style and come up with more.
In terms of the tech tree… it’s not that bad! But does it take you a while to see it? The only thing that really matters are Attribute Points. What helps is picking a bit of a playstyle, which I gave a few examples of in the previous Aliena. The attribute points you award are permanent for the playthrough, as you cannot reset them. There are only 5 attributes and they can be entered in a specific box. If you’ve ever played an RPG with attribute points before, they fit quite well with the well-known concept of Strength, Agility, Vitality, Intelligence, and Charisma/Luck. Reasonable because Str and Vit are modeled together in Body, and you get “new” technical abilities as a representation of your V’s technical insight and ingenuity.
Those perks, they look like a huge tech tree, because there are over 200 of them. It’s understandable that you can’t see the forest for the trees anymore. Luckily, they also recognized it in CDPR and you can play around with it quite a lot. You get more than enough advantage points to pick an entire group of them. And you can restore them by purchasing a Tabula E-rasa from a Ripperdoc at the very affordable price of just $25k. That item used to be much more expensive, luckily that’s now fixed.
So don’t worry about these benefits – experiment.
There also has to be a lot to that game to keep it interesting in the long run. I have about 65 hours of gameplay now and I haven’t finished the game yet. Now play as “Gunslinger”. Focus on the guns, start sneak firing a silencer and when shit hits the vent I’ll switch to a hipper pistol and keep a shotgun handy.
I also already know that after this I will play again with a completely different style: more netrunners will hack the planet with something like a sword or melee.
I too am the same age, I too have offspring, and I have to make do with a few evening hours which sometimes remain
[Reactie gewijzigd door Ultraman op 9 december 2022 12:08]