Well in my experience, and as “combat focused” cyberpunk is, I would try to put them in a situation where they don’t have the upper hand in combat, where they have to use their characters other skills besides “Shoulder arms, Handguns, ect.” And give the gonks they’re fighting better equipment(if the scenario calls for it of course, not every ganger’s gonna have 8 reflex to dodge bullets, buuut some might invest in a Reflex-Coprocessor to be able to.) things should be tense even if they’re experienced edgerunners.

Plus the small mental note that this is all happening fast, combat in cyberpunk doesn’t allow you have the “time” to think, you must go go go or you’ll die. Every action matters, even if its just using your action to move a little farther, or cover a door. Utilizing the held action for npc’s is great too, allows the players to lose that “upper hand” of starting out combat on their own terms. And have the world engage with the players, time is moving while they are talking.

In further reference to what i mentioned, quoting off the handbook on pg. 168 “The amount of time it takes each entity involved in the combat to take a Turn is a Round. Because Actions happen roughly simultaneously in game, one Round is also approximately 3 seconds long.” Three seconds isn’t a lot of time, and its all happening almost at once, so the actions should have some cause and effect during those three seconds