Best Lifepath
There are three life paths you can choose from in Cyberpunk 2077, and you'll select one before you even have a chance to start customizing V. Your life path decision is arguably the most important choice you'll make when making the most of your life path. character creation. This is your character's background, and it will affect the openness of the game and how other characters react to you throughout Night City.
The three life courses are Nomad, Streetkid and Corpo. They are all very different from each other, but there is no right answer. Ultimately, you have to choose the background that suits the type of character you want to play. If you want to be a ruthless businessman, go for Corpo. If you're more in the mood for a Night City underworld criminal, choose Streetkid. If Night City isn't your thing at all, go with Nomad so you can start in the Badlands surrounding the megalopolis.
Here are basic summaries of the three life courses to help you choose one.
- Nomadic - You are an alien who loots junkyards and fuel depots in the arid suburb of Night City. Nomads have a bad reputation among the inhabitants of Night City, especially the elite, but the nomadic communities of the Badlands are very close-knit.
- Streetkid - You've spent your life on the streets of Night City, with your fair share of gangs, repairmen and criminals. Thanks to your experience, you do not lack street intelligence and connections in the clearest areas of the city.
- Body - You are a ruthless corporate agent. The Night City corporate world is rife with corruption and you are no stranger to it, for you have bent the rules in your favor and exploited the secrets of others to your advantage.
For more details, see our full Life Course guide which further describes each of the three routes.
Best attributes
There are 5 attributes in Cyberpunk 2077. Each of them is listed below along with the things they affect.
- Body
- Increases health
- Increase endurance
- Increases melee / unarmed damage
- Increases movement speed while grabbing an enemy and wielding an HMG
- Increases movement speed while attacking an enemy
- Increases the duration of enemy combat
- Intelligence
- Increases the RAM capacity of the cyberdeck
- Increases quickhack damage
- Increase the duration of the quickhack
- Reflexes
- Increases passive evasion from enemy attacks
- Increases crit chance
- Increases damage of Mantis blades
- Technical capacity
- Increase armor
- Allows you to unlock doors and use tech weapons
- Cool
- Increases critical damage
- Increase all resistances
- Increases stealth damage
- Reduces enemy detection speed
- Increases monofilament damage
Each attribute starts at minimum level three. You have seven points to divide among the five categories, increasing V's stats depending on where you assign them. Each of the five attributes can be summed up in a few words.
- Body – Force / Endurance
- Intelligence - Hacking
- Reflexes - Critical luck / evasion
- Technical capacity - Armor / Tech Weapons
- Cool - Stealth
Each of these attributes corresponds to a certain playstyle, so throw your points into the ones that look fun. If you're going to be doing a lot of stealth, put points in Cool. If you want to be a melee fighter, throw points in Body. If you plan to focus on netrunning / hacking, go for Intelligence. Don't worry too much yet - you can increase the attributes as you level up during the game. You'll probably get a better idea of which ones you like after spending a few hours in Night City.
cyberpunk 2077 is out now on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia. A Next Generation Version of the Game is Currently in Development for PS5 and Xbox Series X | S.
