 So, I am back with another Cyberpunk video and in Episode 2 of Knowing the Basics, we check out our character, the customization, upgrading and the story options we can select before being thrown into the world of Cyberpunk 2077. How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and if you enjoyed the video, hitting that like button really helps out and if you enjoy what you see and want to see more, be sure to subscribe. Also people do check out the playlist linked within the video description for all you need to know on Cyberpunk 2077, with detailed guides and the very basic foundations which make this game. So the character customization and the availability of an upgrade in our character skills are truly enormous. And while from the other videos I have seen, things can be a little overwhelming. Today we take a deep dive into it and I'll explain the options available, how it works, what can be done and so much more. Firstly, the character we play is known by the alias of V, this cannot be changed. We play the role of a mercenary outlaw within Night City. And gain into the game, we have three options of backstories or life paths we can select from Nomad, Street Kid and Corporate. Nomad's description is, roaming the badlands, looting scrapyards, raiding fuel depots and life on the road wasn't easy but growing up, in a Nomad clan has its perks, honesty, integrity and love of freedom, qualities that few in the Night City possess and no amount of money can buy. We then have Street Kid, they say if you want to understand the streets you gotta live them, gangs, fixers, dolls, small time pushers, you were raised by them all. Down here, the low of the jungle, dictates the weak serve the strong, the only law in Night City you are yet to break. And lastly we have Corporate, few leave the corporate world with their lives, few are still with their souls intact, you've been there, you've bent the rules, exploited secrets and weaponised information, there's no such fingers fair game, only winners and losers. Now either of these three options sees you before being let loose in Night City, playing around 30 minutes of gameplay, now all three options will see you end in Night City at the same point as the same character. These are just the origin story or life path of that character you will be playing, and depending on the life path you pick, Nomad Street Kid or Corporate, things will obviously differ, influencing dialogue options and allowing you to interact with different factions in different ways. For instance, picking Street Kid will give you more options talking to the lower level gangs, picking Corporate will see you obviously being able to swing things easier higher up that food chain in certain instances. Okay so onto the first stages of character customisation and we start with an overall appearance, now the options here are truly staggering, now they're probably at the most in depth you've ever seen but they're definitely up there for sure, so it starts with you being able to pick either male or female. We then edit our background where we can I believe add our names and various other things like prior convictions, education and more details, we choose from a section of childhood heroes, key life events and why we chose Night City. We then under the biometric scan tab we can customise skin type, hairstyle, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, jaws, ears, 8 bits of cyberware which we will get to into a second, I mean there's a massive massive catalogue of cyberware which is just another level of customisation which will truly affect the way you play the game. We also have scars, tattoos, piercings, teeth, eye makeup, lip makeup, blemishes, nipples, tattoos, body scars, penis types, vagina options, pubic hair and even more. And yes guys, you can change the size of your peepee, you can change the size of your nipples, you can do so much, it's unbelievable. And then under the tab of appearance where we're able to change the colour of our hair, head, eyebrows, beards and pubic hair, the game also features sliders that can be used like I said to increase breast size, penis size and buttocks so you can give yourself a giant lung along if you want to, that's up to you. Now it's said that choosing between voices determines the gender the player character is and the genitalia also determines what characters can be romanced and yes romance is a thing within this game but we'll get into that in a different video. So after you are done here with the appearance of our character it's then on to the biostats which is where we will spend points where we have five stats which are our main attributes. We have body, intelligence, reflexes, technical and cool and beyond these there's a massive skill tree which we can earn and spend points into. These five attributes are the five main points of that skill tree and the skill tree consists of many many other stats which we can build into as you'd expect from an RPG and as you can see by the skill tree on screen now we can see those five stats but there are tons of trees which build off these for instance cool is represented by assassination, nerve and snipers, technical has engineering, body we have melee, athletic, shotguns and two-handed, intelligence we have hacking, reflexes we have blades, rifles and handguns these all can be built into various different ways we can see we can earn more attribute points also so we can put further more into the original five attributes we built into. Perk points here are obviously spent on the perks unlocked with the attributes of reflexes, cool, technical and so on. Now these individual perks can also be leveled up for instance using rifles gives you rifle experience because as you can see within the skill tree there are XP bars under said skills. I guess here by looking at this we see rifles has a max level of four here represented by reflexes being at level four this can go up even further like we can see the other attributes and perks combined. So leveling up our character we can gain points to spend it's that simple but we also have street credit too levels here unlock new vendors around night city as well as I believe granting us perk points and unlocking further side missions. Now clothing within this game and the multitude of sources and themes behind this system is crazy massive and with clothes come even more benefits to our character or build with clothes offering things like resistance to certain in-game groups of wild caught elements like thermal, EMP, chemical and physical resistance. These we see commonly on jackets where we also see a boost in street cred XP so that's pretty cool to know but the customization doesn't end there people. The world of cyberpunk 2077 is certain to be rich and vivid in its dystopian vision of a future entrenched in corruption and technological marvels and these marvels include cyberware technology which compromises much of cyberpunk 2077's aesthetics and storytelling and like I said earlier I'm one with talking about appearance and character customization Cyberware in cyberpunk 2077 is absolutely massive and plays a massive role within this game so cyberware in this game can be organized into a number of different categories generally in short cyberware is defined by any cybernetics technology that is inserted into or into the human body to serve a particular purpose. These are different from cyberpunk 777's Bioware which are biological enhancements which we will talk about in a second but more on to the cyberware so cyberware enhancements vary in different varieties going up to legendary there are many many options here so let's check them out now for every option of cyberware you can implant or put onto your body within this game there are many many subcategories to that which we won't get completely into but you'll see the available options on screen if you do want to pause it and read them so we're going to start with implants so implants are the useful little things that you get plugged in to make living easier or that you may want for a specific job like motion detectors radiation detectors and chemical analyzers and many many more which you can see on the screen now like i said there's so much depth here people to this one category alone is unbelievable we then have neuralware so this class of cyberware possessors are critical for linking cybernetics to the general nervous system one of the most important aspects of cybertech is invisible to the naked eye this type of enhancement is known as neuralware and it's usually in the form of tiny co-processing chips and nerve amplifiers that increase existing abilities the basic neural processor is a switch box implanted into the lower spine and this is used to route signals from external cyberware to the central nervous system it is the main system for any type of neural interface including reflex boosters interface plugs weapon dataterm and vehicle links mini computers and sensory augmentations the neural processor has a small inspection space which allows secondary co-processors to be inserted into the basic processor module this makes for even more upgrading people so co-processors are specialized addons which can be plugged into the main neural processor at any time like i said now some light reflex boosters allow you to improve your reactions and perceptive abilities to inhuman levels obviously like link call processors allow you to interface with computers databases vehicles and other machines once you have that basic neural processor you can jack into as many options as you like so pretty cool we then have cyber limbs these are things that can be done to oneself to improve strength damage capacity and flexibility in addition to these improvements artificial shoulders can be mounted at waist level to provide extra arms a cyber limb can hold up to four options or built-ins a hand or foot is considered to be one option cyber limbs automatically come with foot modules some examples of cyber limbs you can read upon on screen now they were just way too many options to stay here people but if you do want to pause the video and check them out you can we then have cyber weapons so cyber weapons are at the top of the black cyberware hit hidden killing tools that can be buried within your skin until that moment you want to take someone out cyber weapons are normally not available on the open market the only exceptions are scratches and vampires and locating them usually involves going down into the local combat zone finding a fixer and paying a lot of you or two ugly nasty violent people who would normally consider you spare parts we have fashion wear so fashion wear is a cluster cyberware focused on physical aesthetics and fashion wear is a low-impact cyberware designed for casual convenience or merely for looks fashion wear is genuinely innocuous easy to install and carries a low or negligible humanity cost relative to real cyberware most mall stores and retail outlets that install commercial cyberware will have options for fashion wear as well there are even standalone kiosks that can install it again you can see the many different available options on screen now and then we have cyber optics these cyber optics are a combination of a digital processor and camera cyber optics are replacements for the normal eye cybervision is just like regular vision only bear colors are brighter images sharper and that's just the start we then have body plating so body plating covers any situation where armed plastics and metals are layered and directly anchored to the skin the arm is micro scopically porous allowing the skin underneath to breathe and made by sandwiching an ablative plastic shell with energy absorbing micro cellular honeycomb body plating doesn't though make you any stronger or faster but it's perfect for the cyborg who wants all over protection all the time and it doesn't care who knows it is the ultimate expression of the metal is better than me philosophy the body played look more like robots and do humans and i'm previous to most of the physical damage that beats us mere mortals body playing also includes specialized mounts for sensors as well as body armor and then we have cyber audio and while these systems patch into the auditory nerves and speech centers of the brain this enhancement affects both ears and also includes a sub vocalizing mic under mastoid bone there's also no visible change to the outer ear although some cyberpunk should place the outer ear with a set of mechanical speaker pickups for max effect and while people that's it for just the cyberware and like i said it's absolutely massive now i'd be lying if i told you there wasn't more here with cyberware because the depth is unreal and with the cyberware being so popular within the world of cyberpunk and the city of night city so far is the demand for places in which cyberware can be installed and that's where ripperducks come in ripperducks are the doctors you can visit in cyberpunk 2077 installing all sorts of cybernetic prosthesis there are many that operate legally but some conduct illicit deals such as installing military-grade cybernetics for the right price and well if you want cyberware ripperducks and many of them will have to be visited and it won't be free they cost you that in-game but yeah guys the end of this video is near i believe i've covered the mass majority of which you can customize and upgrade your character and well like i said at the start the depth to this game is unreal and this shows it now if you guys did enjoy the video leaving a like truly helps me out for sure i mean i'm kind of new to cyberpunk when it comes to creating content but i don't plan on stopping so if you like the depth i go to and want to see more make sure you subscribe but yeah guys this has been basically an overview of the character customization we will get come november with cyberpunk 2077 and on that note the end of the video has arrived again if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out and remember and turn notifications on if you liked what you see and want to see more but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully i will see you on that next one