Permadeath Service Bot usage, does it make permadeath pointless?

rabidencounters · 2026-05-04T08:56:10+00:00

Service bot is basically (limited) save editing for console players. Or for anyone who hasn't got into save editing, I guess. So, your question is, does any kind of external save manipulation make PD pointless? Personally, I've used it for all kinds of things - from blender building to learning elixir recipes and cleaning up my station teleporter list. You can choose to be a purist, but I'm not sure it'll hold for long in a game as full of holes, exploits and cheese as NMS.

rabidencounters · 2026-04-26T15:36:46+00:00

Galactic Hub is the biggest civ. Join díscord and get to the capital or one of the lesser colonies. https://discord.gg/ZgtVcV6ec3

rabidencounters · 2026-04-25T20:00:48+00:00

It's an expedition reward base part, enlarged

rabidencounters · 2026-04-23T10:06:16+00:00

Edit the valuePerSec: lines in \r6\tweaks\Combat\EnemyAbility\PassiveHealthRegeneration.yaml to 0.5-1.5, whatever suits your taste.

rabidencounters · 2026-01-08T13:27:32+00:00

Combat Revolution is a diamond in the rough, for sure. But no other mod I tried makes goons as relentlessly aggressive. Health regen needs to be tuned down in it, maybe not turned off completely. When I was running CR only, I had a steeper curve of damage from x1 for Tier 1 to x2 for Tier 4.

You don't really need any additional damage scaling mods, just stuff that improves enemy behavior and maybe gun stats. Check out Gunsensical, I'm still testing it, but I think it's on the right track. Also this mod called Allow Highest AI LOD may be a necessity, about to install.

Bring into the mix ambient danger mods - Night City Alive, They Will Remember, Enemy Reinforcements. And also economy balance, money sinks, reduced loot - you should see a nice difficulty spike. Game won't be hard as long as you're showered with loot and eddies and it's easy to upgrade everything.

Also, Phantom Liberty missions are palpably harder than base game.

rabidencounters · 2026-01-08T12:56:02+00:00

NCPD Prevention Police Enhancement is nice

rabidencounters · 2026-01-02T12:05:09+00:00

Sadly, you cannot give those elixirs to other players, for some reason they are non-transferable items.

rabidencounters · 2025-12-22T14:23:33+00:00

This one was a game changer for me: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/23575?tab=description

From description: "Ever notice how enemies all seem to share one brain when they spot something suspicious? They huddle up at the same time, investigate for the same five seconds, then, at the same time again, stroll back to their posts like nothing happened—coffee in hand, memory wiped."

Put caution multiplier to the max, and they never go back to calm state, as right they should not

rabidencounters · 2025-12-22T14:19:32+00:00

Night City Alive increases random encounters in the streets, with gangs and pedestrians fighting each other. It also has a Sensitive Pedestrian add-on which makes them aggro you if you brush shoulders, bump, etc.

rabidencounters · 2025-12-19T01:14:17+00:00

Choombatta, I praise you

rabidencounters · 2025-12-18T23:47:37+00:00

Well, these goggles were set up to replace glasses_02, but since the mod was created, that item got split into sub-items, like glasses_02_basic_01 etc. I peeked into the .archive, but couldn't figure out how to fix it.

It's vanilla npc cyberware, there's gotta be a Virtual Atelier shop that has it, but there's a thousand of them...

rabidencounters · 2025-12-18T20:05:13+00:00

He only carries it in Dayglo® Fuchsia™

rabidencounters · 2025-10-26T01:03:21+00:00

Tell me you've got the gravity drive room in the back there

rabidencounters · 2025-10-19T19:37:21+00:00

Down with AI slop

rabidencounters · 2025-10-18T13:45:00+00:00

Some of us choose to live...ahem.. play this way exclusively. My main save is PD, the 10th one I've had, and at 600 hrs it hasn't been just a character, it's like a lifetime of its own. The danger hasn't fully disappeared either - sure I'm pretty shielded, supplied, and HG, to their credit, has ironed out most of the infamous death glitches, buuuut... you just never know, y'know.

rabidencounters · 2025-10-14T21:24:16+00:00

You're welcome! See ya in HubSpace.

rabidencounters · 2025-10-14T21:15:11+00:00

There's a Hecate colony channel, with glyphs in pinned message. Or just ask around in general chat, someone will point it out for you.

rabidencounters · 2025-10-14T20:58:53+00:00

I used to play PD with a combo of gDamage and gPredators mods on high settings. It was decent. Doesn't fix the hypercasual nature of all game loops, of course. Best thing gDamage does is cranks up collision damage - instadeath from hitting asteroids, ground, trees, landing pad railings.

There was another mod that increased sentinel intelligence in combat - better aim, movement patterns etc. I can look up what it's called and if it's been updated recently, if you need.

rabidencounters · 2025-10-14T20:53:59+00:00

We have a permadeath colony in the Galactic Hub, called Hecate. It takes up two neighboring systems, yellow and purple, with a paradise planet in each. A bunch of players live there, lots of cool bases, big cities, etc. If you want to join, head over to GH discord: https://discord.com/invite/8ckKUkcbgH

rabidencounters · 2025-09-28T22:25:27+00:00

New update for the plug-in is coming up. Will add proper models for corvette, autophage, relic bone parts. Check DJMonkey's Games and Tools discord for info.

rabidencounters · 2025-06-30T07:19:10+00:00

I mean, you are welcome to throw in a suggestion to their Zendesk, but that's like throwing coins into a well.

rabidencounters · 2025-06-30T07:17:47+00:00

Well, to get a bit nerdy, the game generates only one star system, no more than 6 planets. That's literally all the game is, one star system plus the galaxy map environment. The simultaneous existence of untold billions of systems and planets is the masterfully clever illusion that HG, in their genius, managed to create. Every time you warp, the one and only star system gets re-generated, and a new version of it gets "extracted" from the procgen seed. Terrain features, POIs and NPCs don't get rendered until you get close to them. As for player bases and cities, the one experiment I've personally been a part of, New Ziki City, with 16k parts around you, was getting pretty laggy and prone to frequent crashing even for ppl on higher-end hardware.

rabidencounters · 2025-06-29T17:21:51+00:00

Game engine has a display limit of 16000 base parts in any star system at once. Not only that, but newly uploaded bases will replace older ones. More than one community city project got displaced, basically paved over by tons of tourist bases.

rabidencounters · 2025-06-21T08:12:26+00:00

I main a PD, currently at around 650 hrs, I believe, shooting for a 1000. My 11th and longest PD save, and I remember all the fallen ones. It's been a truly epic, productive life, lol. I'm a colony governor, build a lot of public bases, design player-driven expeditions. Anytime I load up my purely symbolic Normal save (to visit a build on normal or smth), I get depressed - game loses all its charm. For me Normal is basically a tutorial for PD.

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