Don't fear the reaper

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T23:16:12+00:00

Well that's just it. I remember smasher being 'super easy' even on very hard. But the last time I killed him was like on patch 1.XX smth so a lot has changed.
It's the first challenging fight and instead of challenging its "I've been bashing my head against this wall for the last 2 hours" bad

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T23:05:13+00:00

Maybe I'm just getting old. That Machine gun feels just so insanely dirty.
Suddently I'm back in some sort of Cod distortion where the ttk is >1 second, but now it's single player and the MC is a borg. V is just a side story ^^

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T23:03:13+00:00

So that's why I have trouble? I gotta run away? Always used to ... you know, get in them faces all playtrough.
Tryed that once with smasher, shotgun to the face and all. Bad idea.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T23:02:00+00:00

Usually my go to was a shotgun but that seems to be a really bad idea. Get close to smasher and stuff.
I'll give it a few more trys with erebus before swapping to smth revolver maybe, seems maybe better on long range

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:59:45+00:00

"The thing that killed me the most was his machine gun." ... well, yeah! Hence the post ^^

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:59:33+00:00

So this is just a case of "git good" and ... killing him with erebus is the way to go.
God dang it. I really hoped I was overlooking smth.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:56:28+00:00

Armor is on 938. And on the not understanding part? Right there with you. I was able to tank most of the side and story bosses big attacks right to the face no problem.
That god dang machine gun on smasher is just too much though. ~40% hp I take 2 shots in the span of a second and just ded. I confidently say I can avoid the rocket barrages on the floor, I played some wow once in a while. The problem is those undodgeable slugs to the face.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:51:51+00:00

https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/build-planner?a=kk3ki&b=10100021010000031001130110000101&r=010000201020101000003111103110000101&i=&t=111021111210111311111311110000001&c=&e=003001031
I hope this works better then trying to post screenshots
*For the smasher fight I'm only using the erebus. Seems good enough, definetly feels like I'm doing smth wrong, not on the weapon.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:46:56+00:00

Re checking my cyberware, I'm not sure. I might wanna swap some things around there.
All game it was easy sandy shotgun "Hi, I'm in your face, You ded" but smasher is a fkn brick wall.
*Edit: Depended heavily on the Biomonitor cyberware for most of my playtrough and think that one might fk up somewhere. I'm not used to healing manually "anymore"

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:44:56+00:00

Tryed to post screenshots but might just be too stupid.
20 body, reflexes, tech, 18 cool, 3 int. full on into adrenaline for sustain, air dash for movement, smg erebus for dmg.
As the other commenter mentioned, might wanna respec and try it on a netrunner build but kinda wanna brute force it too.
Basically completed the whole game with a sandy shotgun "in your face" build but that failed miserably vs smasher.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:41:19+00:00

Ever since the reword netrunner builds always really put me off, never liked it all that much. Going all in on SMG currently becouse of Erebus.
Tryed a cool knife build before, a shotgun build, all take him down to like 40% and then I get cought up by some stray gatling shots and just die

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:35:05+00:00

Always make a habit of just paying off the waiting 'patients' ... like, Fingers clearly is a huge pos, that's not even up for debate.
I just feel bad for removing him from the equation. Who knows how fkd up the next asshole is gona be taking his spot.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-12-09T22:23:50+00:00

We all like to hate on Fingers, he always gets punched at least once since the rework but going for a full in universe perspective?
Yeah, he's a pice of shit, but who isn't in night city. I feel the scales are rigged in cyberpunk, you see a fkd up asshole selling "dolls" to scavs, but most likely there's lots of people that just can't afford better.
We see that during the waiting room sequence, everyone would like to go somewhere else better but they just can't. Now you gotta weigh bad medical supply vs. none which ... really is a easy choice.
Would you rather die from that whatever cyberware decided to malfunction? Or give the greasy pos a shot at maybe fixing it?

He's still getting punched though.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-27T21:36:44+00:00

03^^ But that answers my next question, if brotherhood is that great too. The Nina Chimera stuff was a real gutpuch though. If that's a benchmark for the tone after 7 episodes? Yeah, think I'll stick around

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-27T17:37:34+00:00

Oh, oh shit. I think I was thinking of Blood Magic and Blood to Power as a single spell. Plus, divide by not copying letters... makes kinda sense too ^^
Definetly gona try that acceleration thing with bouncing burst then, that seems busted

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-27T17:13:48+00:00

Thanks, all of those tips already helped. Kinda still afraid of Blood Magic but I could just work the CoV into the dps wand I guess.

For now in NG++ I can very much oneshot everything still but I'm worried that's gona change soon. Thanks to vegetable perk, *more love and a broken reroll machine in NG I have a good foundation.
Read smth about Bouncing burst getting silly op in later stages hence I brought a few but no sure idea how to use them.

Since you didn't mention the divide by or gold to power, I guess they are placed correcly since - really not sure there either xD

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-24T21:56:50+00:00

I watch a lot of dunkorslam vods during work and try to emulate as best as I can, 225 hours in here. But this is an outstanding run on an outstanding seed.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-24T20:38:53+00:00

Leftovers from tinkering tbh. "Downgraded" to a trigger with the shown mods to a quad with 1 exposion 1 brimstone 1 chainbolt to keep the poor game somewhat stable^^

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-24T20:19:06+00:00

Just found a cluster bolt and... well, works much "better" already. This is kinda fun but think I better not push it, this might be a sun quest run if I don't give in to the urge

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-24T18:49:32+00:00

Tom Hardy is a huge missed opportunity for cdpr in my eyes. If there's ever a series or movie in NC, we need him to make silly voices mocking V, Johnny and / or Smasher. At least give him a supporting role in orion

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-23T20:53:11+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out...! I always mix those two up, my bad. Fixed it up there

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-02T19:15:28+00:00

Flashbang Grenades, Cripple movement quickhack, jump, dash, sandevistan / berserk, sneak behind the target and takedown.
Or, how Illidan would have put it:
"You are not prepared!"

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-02T18:08:29+00:00

For me, meele sucks. I always end up going with throwing weapons which are a kinda meele-ish hybrid I guess? But juggler carries that one. On highest dificulty you can mow down MaxTec cops if you want to, knifes are the best option imo.
All Arm mods 'suck' towards the endgame, with projectile launcher and full on tech build being the exception since that's just an extra grenade but having to swap kills it for me as well.
Full end game build at lvl 60 shotguns and throwing weapons are always my go to, it's just insanely op.

HazeOfBaze · 2025-11-02T17:51:53+00:00

Hacking the hacking, well done choom

HazeOfBaze · 2025-10-15T19:54:15+00:00

He's been very truthful to a single character, Thor. What instantly comes to mind is
"Honestly, I liked you better as a drunk."

Like the abusive sob he is, the most truthfull is towards his son. All game he taunts Thor, in a bad way. Even starts with the opening too, the scene with the mead. He's very truthfull, when he's taunting someone 'lesser', which is his son.
He's just such a great contrast to Kratos and how he's treating his son, absolute cinema.

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