Cyberpunk 2077 guide: List of perks, skills, and attributes
The skills you’ll need to conquer Night City.
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Cyberpunk 2077offers an expansive world for players to explore, but in order to survive the brutality of this dark future, you’ll need to upgrade yourself and increase your lethality wherever possible. We’ve compiled a full list of the perks, skills, and attributes available in Cyberpunk 2077.
We’ve broken downhow stats and attributes work, but the most important thing to understand is that there are five major attributes to worry about: Body, Reflexes, Technical Ability, Cool, and Intelligence. In Cyberpunk 2077, you’ll unlock a new perk point and an attribute point whenever you level up. This means you can upgrade an attribute as a whole while also unlocking particular perks in sub-categories.
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Cyberpunk 2077 attributes: Body
Body refers to what you think it does: your physical prowess. This attribute affects your health and stamina, along with upping your melee damage. If you like to use your fists in combat, want to move quickly, or want to go full tank, put your points here. You can also put your points in certain perks to gain interesting abilities with ranged weapons.
Athletics
Annihilation
Street Brawler
Cyberpunk 2077 attributes: Reflexes
Reflexes mostly have to deal with movement speed, but putting points in this attribute also increases your Crit chance in combat. The perks in this attribute all have to do with different weapons, the damage they deal, how much recoil you have, and more.
Assault
Handguns
Blades
Cyberpunk 2077 attributes: Technical Ability
The Technical Ability attribute increases your skills in crafting and engineering. The former is self-explanatory (although still complicated in Cyberpunk 2077), while the latter pertains to your proficiency in using grenades, tech weapons, and even in gaining resistance from certain types of damage.
Crafting
Engineering
Cyberpunk 2077 attributes: Cool
If you want to play stealth, you have to put your points in Cool. It determines your effectiveness in stealth situations, but it also increases your stealth damage and resistance. Also, check out the Cold Blood perks for some quickhack abilities.
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Stealth
Cold Blood
Cyberpunk 2077 attributes: Intelligence
You can either be great in combat or smart in Cyberpunk 2077. The Intelligence attribute pertains to your netrunning proficiency, or your hacking skills. You can also increase the usability of your cyberdeck, which makes you a more effective hacker in combat.
Breach Protocol
Quickhacking
Become V
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Main
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