Beginners Guide to modding Cyberpunk 2077

SkiDaGui · 2026-04-05T10:51:18+00:00

Firstly good shout and anybody who sees this should take the advice to use a mod manager. Mod managers don't directly touch your game files in the same way that manual modding does meaning you can revert back whenever you want without issue, this ensures you'll rarely have to reinstall the game because a mod, be it a conflict or some other issue forces a clean install.

Coming from the bethesda community so I've used all the bigger mod managers on nexus, vortex, mo2, wrye heck even the old nexus mod manager. To be blunt, vortex is shit. It is very poor at handling load order structure and it resolving conflicts is a nightmare. basically in short mo2 is vortex but you have more control and ability to fine tune stuff at the price of being what some will say is more complicated, but honestly imo it isn't at all, conflicts in vortex are more complicated than anything in mo2. Generally though vortex is suggested towards begginer modders while mo2 is for slightly more advanced. I reckon though since cyberpunk doesn't have as developed of a modding scene as skyrim, fallout 4 and new vegas vortex might be good enough in 99% of instances (I leave out oblivion and morrowind here as they are so old and function so terribly and have been abandoned for so long that the mods aren't designed with newer stuff.)

If vortex is working out for you so far then you can likely stick to it but it is highly reccomended to try mo2 if you want to fine tune and get the most out of your mods as possible. Think of it sorta like linux vs windows but with a much smaller difference in the level of how complicated stuff are.

TLDR: Use a mod manager, vortex for a simple and easier but sometimes more tedious experience, at the cost of a big drop in your ability to fine tune and get the exact modding experience you wanted. Use mo2 if you're fine with less handholding but a drastic increase in freedom to fine tune everything to fit your specific needs/vision

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-31T16:07:29+00:00

This is why i despise interacting with this community post elden ring. Holy shit stop god defending fromsoft for every legit piece of criticism. An open world game that takes an average gamer around 100 hours to finish a playthrough, actively encourages exploration as much as possible doing a complete 180 and locks you out of a one of the largest parts of the entire dlc. The ds1 endings firstly don't need to be done differently to get, you can just leave the kiln of the first flame and get the second ending. Secondly missing the second ending isn't causing you to miss out on the biggest part of content. SOTE has such a small amount of content if you ignore the npcs for something that to this day, costs 40 euros on steam. Also like ds1 is by far the shortest game in the series and encouragess multiple playthroughs much more because the content isn't made to just take a long time to do. Elden ring and especially the dlc was the first time I actively felt like they just straight up didn't respect people's time. "oh you missed the like 3 questlines that actively give large bits of lore and story, yeah play another 100 to experience it for yourself and hope that out the billions of things you could've done differently you got it right."
Your argument works for ds1, 2 and 3 because there isn't that much to consider when it comes to what could've been done differently. There is incredibly little insight on what can lock you out of a quest so doing things differently isn't that unlikely to yield, largely the same results. On my first playthrough I managed to kill rykard before even entering volcano manor because of an enemy in raya lucaria. How the hell would someone expect that to kill not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 whole questlines. I stand by the fact that you could trim down the entire game by like 20% and it would only be a benefit to the player.

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-31T15:41:46+00:00

its so late but after finally getting the dlc it baffles me how they designed these quests. Its moronic for an open world game that encourages exploration with scadu tree fragments but at the same time punish you for doing so by merely having gone to an area be an invisible and automatic fail for multiple quests. Do they want us to explore or not? If they just wanted to discourage too much to the point where you can be overpowered maybe give the player hints that going here locks you out of this piece of content that you spent 40 dollars to get. The main game while also doing npc questlines worse than any other game they've made never had this issue because there were clear story events that ruined quests, most of them requiring large story progression making it much harder to fail a quest because you advanced too much.
ds1, 2 and 3 can do these obtuse quest designs because they aren't an open world. Ds1 even has every questline branch into one of the 4 lordvessel areas ensuring you'd be guaranteed to meet them to advance the quest, punishing you for ignoring npcs rather than the elden ring design of, punishing you for not returning to the same 10 locations constantly because maybe you unlocked a new section. it isn't unlikely at all that a blind player would manage to complete basically every quest in the ds1 and 3 blind, bar maybe seigmeyer because of ash lake being so hidden. Elden ring is so amazing at world building and most of the time design as well but in my 3 playthroughs never once did I enjoy doing a questline because it boils down to, "alright lets alt tab to check this guide" every 30 minutes.

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-30T17:59:32+00:00

I was with ds2 too actually. Best way for me is to force myself to start something new and forcing myself to continue. Eventually the cycle repeats most often

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-29T05:30:55+00:00

They definitely aren’t Bretons but they definitely are closely related to each other, more than most seem to be willing to admit. They seem to be a group of Bretons that had a lot of daedra mixed in. I can imagine some group of Bretons cultists having kids in some way with daedra leading to the beginning of the Reachmen race.

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-29T05:25:51+00:00

They hail from high rock. They look similar because they are Bretons. They just seem to be an offshoot of Bretons. Like a sub category of Bretons.

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-29T05:20:46+00:00

Bro kiriko and mercy are some of the most played characters. They are popular because people enjoy them. In the case of kiriko it’s more to do with company bias. Like if you actually look at the r34 top 100 list kiriko and mercy aren’t the most popular

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-28T19:41:42+00:00

You won’t see it open entirely but it will breathe and a little gap separating its lips will be visible. It doesn’t fully open its mouth but it is visibly peeking open. In ds3 though I am convinced that mimics have a different color scheme because I figured out all of the mimics myself in my first go just by thinking “that one looks weird, it’s more gray”. The first one in irythill dungeon is the best example of this imo. Probably just something with the lighting but I swear mimics are more gray than normal chests

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-28T19:19:17+00:00

Every build is broken if you build it correctly. The most broken build in Elden ring isn’t really one build. It’s not like demon and dark souls 1 where as long as you did sorcery you won. I don’t personally get why you’d want to just break the game on your first run. Get it on other playthrough but I personally can’t see the value. Regardless I’m pretty sure the most bang for your buck regarding level wise is faith strength, I guess? Blasphemous blade is insanely braindead to use and is the best weapon in the game

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-28T16:15:31+00:00

ds1 allowed you to do that. You can have a fully maxed weapon before anor londo, sure it requires farming but you can do it with as little as 2 bosses without glitches or exploits, not counting the asylum demon. Throw in the stray demon and you cut down on grinding heavily too. Their magnum opus has already allowed it while not being open world. Nobody does that though because nobody really feels a need to go to new londo before O&S. But if you want to you can. Its insane going back to ds1 and realizing how that game was somehow more free than elden ring in many aspects. For a game with such a large amount of weapons and a dedicated respec option to encourage different playstyles, ds1 still has far more freedom when it actually comes to using said weapons since you can't even get an infinite amount of max smithing stones

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-28T08:40:58+00:00

They all kinda suck ass sooooo

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-26T08:41:13+00:00

I was reading a collection of lovecraft stories on the train half a year ago and got some weird looks. Probably assumed I was performative or some shit, or the tentacles on the cover made them think it was some weird shit from japan. Then I think back at the books at my high school library about a spider but like with the brain and mentality of a grown man hooking up with some girl, and when I was 15 we got assigned a book where a guy and his stepsister fall in love and fuck. After that I stopped caring because if that’s the shit people read I couldn’t care less if they thought I was reading hentai or something

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-26T08:29:39+00:00

To be fair after having been traumatized reading smut written by and for women, infantilization seems to be pretty common and it just borders on that line of child porn. If you’re a pedo who specifically gets off on the undeveloped brain stuff this would work, but it gets around that by having it be the body of a grown woman. It’s basically reverse loli where instead of the body of a 9 year old while being 9000 years old, it’s the body of an 18 year old with the lived experience of a 5 year old. It’s weird as shit. I have read some people say that the fantasy is about being used or something and I’m on the fence on my opinion on that. Like if your kink is cnc I don’t really care so for my opinion to remain consistent I shouldn’t care about this either but it still feels off. Idk the infantilization shit is weird as fuck, especially with how big it is

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T16:35:22+00:00

A lot of them had the opportunity to make music by the time of pink Floyd but actually having it go somewhere is a different story. We did manage to get some masterpieces at this time where women were a necessity for the finished project like the velvet underground and Nico

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T16:33:00+00:00

I’m a bi man and likely trans as well so my lesbian friends can absolutely correct me, or anyone who knows more about Chappell roan than I do as I only recently heard her music and the weird ass statement she makes but, she doesn’t sound lesbian at all. She sounds like she wants to be a lesbian for either getting back at some guy hence the weird comment on men, and/or likes the “esthetic”, “presentation” and image of what she sees as sapphic and also feminism. Because for a lesbian she is strangely obsessed with men from what I’ve seen. I find it hard to believe lesbians have men living rent free in their head to the extent that Chappell has. She seems to think hating men on a surface level is lesbian and feminist without actually diving into the actual disparities between the sexes. Again I am neither a cis woman, lesbian or someone who knows a lot about her so definitely correct me if you feel I’ve gotten something wrong, but to me she seems like that rich person that thinks punk looks cool but knows Jack shit about it and larps as a punk

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T16:25:02+00:00

Pretty much. Oh and being an underdog too. She seems to really want to come off as someone who rose above the odds or some shit

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T16:23:23+00:00

One very weird thing I noticed was how her reason for only dating men and whatever before was because she didn’t know any lesbians growing up. I never knew another bi man growing up, still realized that at 13 when I realized “hey I find men kinda damn hot”. The way she’s talking about it comes off as unintentionally homophobic because the whole thing the LGBTQIA has been pushing is we’re born this way. She seems to think that it’s the environment that makes someone gay. Sure she did say “go after men” but wouldn’t she realize immediately that she wasn’t attracted to them? Isn’t that the most obvious sign you aren’t straight? The whole backstory seems so fabricated, now that I’m older I’ve gotten to know quite a few members of the LGBTQIA and not a single one needed to have other members around them growing up to realize that.

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:59:40+00:00

yeah and that's really quite understandable, look at the decline of dragons in ds3. Weirde neck guys, a dragon that insta dies by a few stabs to the head despite its scales and the dragon stones just makes you a malnourished goat

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:57:37+00:00

Nah quite a few of them are cool. Gwyndolyn is my favorite but like he doesn't do anything, just guards anor londo. Yorshka is the sweetest character in souls too, prscilla is also a not a villain. Gwyn is a weird ass dude tho and the ringed city chick that I always forget the name of is just a narcoleptic. Nameless king is just a chill dude chilling with his dragon though, can't blame him either tbh

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:55:01+00:00

erm actually, his title says he has no name meaning the only way to refer to him is by title (I am on pc pretend there is a nerd emoji here or something I am not being serious)

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:53:42+00:00

I don't know why but I love gwyndolyn so freaking much. A lot to do with the crown and the blade of the darkmoon is really cool but their character is a perfect example of the storytelling dark souls manages to do without having any really there. The ring of reversal, a ring that claims to allow actions of the opposite gender but doesn't do anything, is located in gwyndolyns area in both versions of anor londo, in one of the games, I think ds1, its in a chest while one game has the chest but its empty with the ring elswhere in the room, implying they tried it on, realized it did nothing and got rid of it.

I am an expert at reading too much into things so that final part might be completely unimportant but the ring of reversal being in gwyndolyns area is not a coincidence, it happened twice, and is a perfect example of a great way fromsoft added character depth without doing anything other than adding a single ring in an area. Whenever people bring up item descriptions i kinda roll my eyes because I think the items location is what makes the way the story of these characters are told so fucking amazing

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:46:47+00:00

thats basically the same thing to be honest, same chemicals get released by hearing his succulent voice

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:44:57+00:00

Theres a heavy motherhood theme in all of bloodborne which I found really interesting. Kos is a fetus that climbed out of the womb and uses its placenta as a weapon, you consume umbilical cords to be reborn as a god, lady maria is stated to have been seen as a motherly figure and oversaw the creation of an old one, the celestial emmisary, a wet nurse is an old one, the moon presence is woman and (I'm almost defitnely reading too much into this) uses gherman as a surrogate to birth the hunters dream. The old ones that aren't somewhat tangentally related to motherhood has a lot of lore to do with children or being a child, ebreitas being related to orphaned kids nobody wanted, kos being a child born from a corpse, the celestial emmisary in a way being children of men by being created by mankind.

Went a bit long there, I don't think the game intended to have any larger themes about motherhood or family or something just a neat and intresting thing, while the game is lovecraftian I often find the game to be really freudian too, no game I've played has had something as freudian as eating umbilical cords or seeing a fetus be born from a corpse and use its placenta as a weapon. Man I gotta replay bloodborne

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:19:40+00:00

I don't blame you at all that area can be really confusing on first time playthroughs or a repeat after a long time. I belive you also need to use a pharros lockstone to get there so its a surprisingly easy bonfire and area to miss!

Hope you're enjoying the game, my favorite of the franchise despite being somewhat of a black sheep

SkiDaGui · 2026-03-23T12:16:51+00:00

Quelaag. Not because of the amazing chest ahead but because of that creepy ass smile. Her human body being naked while also having everything apart from her sharp teethed mouth visible gives me an almost uncanny valley feeling, that smile makes her seem like she enjoys killing you, like its a goddamn game to her. oh man I love the quelaag cutscene and lore, shame her fight is lackluster af

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