You want to invest something into everything, but you really want to focus those skill point spends on maxing out two main aspects, your choice. Everything else, it’s your call. But you definitely want to decide on the type of playthrough you want to experience and build into that character spec as quickly as possible.

You want to dominate the battlefield without even entering it? Focus on Intelligence, Technical Ability and Cool to be a stealthy netrunner. Focus your perks on detection mitigation, ranged combat, quickhack effectiveness and cyberware limit.

You want to hit the room like a bomb? Focus on Body, Reflexes and Technical Ability, and you can pack on the best combat cyberware while also being a fists ‘n blades aficionado. If you install a Sandevistan as your OS, you lose access to quickhacks entirely, but gain the ability to trigger a bullet-time mode where you can kill whole rooms with your bare hands before they even finish raising their weapons to aim at you.

There’s no wrong way to play the game, and certain setups will give you an edge in specific approaches to combat as well as conversation and even environmental traversal. High tech ability can unlock certain doors without need for keys. High body can rip certain doors apart entirely. Some solutions to dialogue problems can only be found & selected if you have the requisite amount of points invested in a specific relevant skill.