What are y’all running for mods these days?
I didn’t know they didn’t affect achievements, so I’m just getting into them now after my first ending (I restarted a lot).
So far I have:
- some body mods
- Lizzie’s Braindances/Dark Future/Street Vendors to work together for immersion.
- Also, Night City Alive for immersion, but it doesn’t really interact with the ones above.
- I forgot the name but it replaces River with Rhino, including a mostly-passable AI voice change.
Any other suggestions? I think I could use a combat mod, something that spices things up a bit and adds challenge. I might try Amateur Hackers and AI Netrunners Enhanced, so something that blends well with that would be preem.
I’m all about immersion and trying to make the game feel like I’m part of the world so besides various fixes some of the mods on the list focus on minor (some may say useless) fluff features. I’m also one of the weirdos who prefers the pre 2.0 version of the game in some regards so don’t be surprised by some of the choices.
Here’s my list (in no particular order):
- No Forced Weapon On Carrying Bodies
- Sit Anywhere
- Lean Anywhere
- No crowd panic from using devices
- Vanilla Rain Effect Fix (can be hard to spot but the rain effect has a pretty obvious vertical tiling issue)
- Pre-2.0 Access Point Scaling (no more level scaling when hacking access points)
- Pre-2.0 Skill Checks (no more level scaling for skill checks)
- Pet Your Cat (you can pet Nibbles in your first apartment after adopting it)
- Gunsensical (weapon stat rebalance)
- Enemy Rarity Fixes (enemy rebalance)
- Pre-2.0 NCPD Scanner Map Icons (restores separate icon for different activity types)
- Diverse Loot (adds Dog Town loot to NC)
- Bike Wipeout (makes falling off bikes easier)
- Resist and Restore (restores NPCs resistances and vulnerabilities removed with 2.0)
- The Weapons ARE NOT broken 2.1 (enemy weapons no longer end up broken when dropped)
- Relic Malfunctions Restored (restores malfunction effects removed with 2.0)
- Cyberpunk 2077 HD Reworked Project (higher res textures)
- Immersive Crafting Access (crafting access available only from home workbenches and vehicle trunks)
- Economy Tweaks and Balance (slower reward curve, less bling bling to spend)
- Actually Bulletproof Vests (bulletproof vests provide real damage mitigation but affect movement speed)
- Wilson’s Range (you can go pew pew there outside of the competition quest)
- Immersive Sunglasses (sunglasses dim your view)
- Live A Little (gives some breathing room between quests instead of making them available right away)
- Immersive First Person (better first person camera)
- Better Vehicle First Person (ditto but for vehicles)
- Simple XP Multiplier (customise your EXP, rep etc. gain)
I also use various clothing, quest and other misc mods but these are the major ones. I haven’t browsed for new mods in a year or so, might be a time to change that.
Nice, thank you! I’ll definitely be checking some of these out. I’d seen Simple XP Multiplier on an earlier sweep, but didn’t actually download it. That combined with Live a Little sounds great for letting you take more time at lower-to-mid levels. I felt like I got overleveled and rushed to endgame pretty fast in my unmodded runs.
Yeah, current balance is pretty whack - great if you want a full-on power fantasy, not so great if you like to struggle (if only a bit). Simple XP Multiplier is an absolute must for me as I prefer to go slooooow with progression (in general not just in Cyberpunk) and mixed with other progression affecting mods can make you feel like you’re really struggling to dig yourself out from the depths of NC.
Those three ad mods that add more in-universe ads, new game plus native, custom level cap, immersive bartenders and street vendors, city of dreams loading screens and menu backgrounds
I built it around a realistic damage mod. It makes combat feel more like a firefight and less bashing people with wet noodles
A fuck ton. Mostly cosmetic
The Welcome To Night City collection on NexusMods is a great start point, but it doesn’t change up anything big with combat by default.
