As of Chapter 57 the story was written based on the original game. After the 2.0 update, many of the skills and cyberware have changed function and description, so the early chapters will be "out of date".
Looking at the ray of light that shined through a tree and into my window, I relaxed back into my pillow and enjoyed the sense of peace. Saturday morning was always my favorite time of the week. The hustle and bustle of the work days are left in the rearview mirror, and it's still early enough into the weekend that I don't feel pressured to be productive.
The nest of pillows and blankets enwrapped me in luxurious warmth. I tossed around for a few more minutes in a futile attempt to retain the built-up comfort only found in a bed after a great night's sleep. But it was hopelessly ineffective, and I lethargically peeled myself out under the covers and trotted over to my shower.
I climbed into my tub and pulled the water knob, setting it to the midpoint. A cold spray hit my face before heating up to the perfect temperature. I just stood there for a few minutes, letting the hot water wash over me, daydreaming and thinking over my life.
This weekend was special because I finally quit my job. I took a year off college to gain work experience, trying to take advantage of the understaffed workforce. Things happened, and I was quickly promoted from intern to full-timer and even got a promotion. I liked the company, so I figured I could simultaneously do my job and school. In hindsight, it was rather ridiculous of me to think that.
Now that going back to college is right around the corner, it has become clear I can't swing being a full-time student and working at the same time. I come from a good family that provides housing for me and pays for my college. Between school and work, I have the luxury of attending school. So I quit with a month of free time before school starts.
After my mind sufficiently warmed up, I scrubbed myself clean and did a basic shave. Getting out of the shower, I dried myself off and brushed my teeth. I got dressed in my favorite pair of towel pants and a new towel hoodie I bought for myself.
Feeling more energized after freshening up, I quickly walk into my kitchen to make a simple breakfast of sausage and eggs. After plating my meal, I brought the food to the table and sat down. Scrolling through the news feed on my phone while cramming food into my gullet, I gently sighed at the ever-expanding list of negative things happening worldwide.
Generally speaking, I didn't care for politics or the world around me, but even I feel like the last four to five years have just been a slow march into a massive shitshow. It could be one of the side effects of being an adult and unnecessarily viewing everything through a pessimistic lens. Maybe things weren't better when I was younger. Perhaps I was just too oblivious to see things crumbling around me. Regardless, I've been in severe need of stress relief for a while now.
While scrolling through my emails, my phone vibrated.
"Hey, Basil. Wanna run the gauntlet and shoot the shit?"
"Nah, got stuff to do today. Thanks anyhow."
Usually, when I needed a break I would play video games for a few hours, get greasy food, or hit up random stores and do some people-watching. But after finding my first full-time job, my free time was severely reduced, and I hung out with my buds less and less.
Most of my friends also left where we grew up to work or further their education, making it hard to hang out when I have the time. Sure I could play video games with them, but everyone's been on a battle royale fever lately, and I'm not too fond of that stuff. Due to this lack of venues for stress relief, I have recently found myself in a rut.
That's why I've been craving something more sustainable. Something that I can cater to myself and enjoy over several days, if not weeks. I wanted a game where the environment alone could tell an engaging story. This desire used to be filled with games like the Fallout series. But after so many years and playthroughs, finding enjoyment in my go-to's has been harder and harder. That's where Cyberpunk 2077 came in.
When the game first came out two years ago, it was met with bad reviews: disappointing graphics, lack of content, poor performance, buggy game mechanics, the whole gamut. But throughout its life, the game has consistently improved, and many people swear it is now outstanding. I had a company gift card sitting around, the game was on sale, and I figured I had nothing to lose. And I'm so glad I finally bought the game.
The lore, setting, and in-game ambiance were all so good. Sure, the game could have been better, but it did satisfy my craving for a new RPG that has yet to be fulfilled for years. My first playthrough took just over 40 hours, and I finished maybe only half of the available content.
My main gripes were that the level cap made it impossible to max all stats, you could only use one type of Operating System, and the main missions felt a bit short. The problem with the story I couldn't fix, but the other two issues could easily be modded to suit my tastes.
After breakfast, I returned to my room and sat at my computer. While spamming the space bar so my desktop would get out of sleep mode, I thought about how I wanted this new playthrough to go. For my first playthrough, I chose the Corpo life path and used any gun with the highest DPS. Since I didn't choose a weapon type to specialize in, my skills were all over the place, resulting in a poorly optimized build.
This time I think I will invest in a Sandevistan/katana build. I usually shy away from melee, but the few times I used a katana in this game was surprisingly fun.
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After the screen turned from black to the lock screen, I entered my login and opened the mod manager launcher. I did a quick once-over to ensure the mods were loaded and hit the play button. The game went through its standard intro with in-game commentary, faded to a black screen, and... stayed as a black screen. Opening task manager, I check that the game is still responding. Everything seems fine, and just the other day, I did a test run. Everything worked perfectly then; I don't see why anything would be different now.
The smoke alarm suddenly blared into life, and my screen flickered and gave a distorted image. Startled, I looked around and noticed my PC case billowing smoke behind me.
"What the hell! Fuck, is that fire?"
I quickly rushed to the case, taking off the side panel to better understand what had happened. In hindsight, that was not the most intelligent thing to do.
The second the panel came off, a blinding white light rocketed out, and a scorching heat wave hit my body. My body was then assaulted by an explosive force and thrown back. The last thing I felt was my body crashing into the floor and then passing out.
Author's Note
Hi!
Welcome to this weird thing I'm doing. The plan is currently to do at least five chapters every week for at least 2 or 3 weeks. Afterward, I'll most likely slow down to three or four chapters a week.
Bye!
That's a lot of chapters.
Also obviously he left chrome on when booting up CP2077. Smh rookie mistake
yeah he should've used opera GX. it does a body good
@Hunter1105 yes, while some updates in opera gx aren't that good recently it still the best browser for playing.
@Hunter1105 oPRXA GX saves the locatin where u open the brwers and when , oprea the compay is under a chinse company due to the ccps poliacy they can reqest that info from oprea at anytime
The hell kind of hardware was he running in that rig for it to explode with enough force to launch a full grown man? Dude must have bought one of those corsair PSU's that loved to catch fire.
Just gonna point out here that if lighning hits your power lines or you get a supersurge it will arc past any fuzes or switches expending just a bit of energy with each till it reaches something to dump all that energy into. Parts will explode in this case and I've had to try to repair computers in this state a psu has enough copper and parts in it to cause quite the detonation and molten copper is how high explosive anti tank weapons work so this is actually quite a potentially letal thing.
Remember nature's lit and never ever should you underestimate the damage it can cause.
@America_yea I'm not doubting that computers can explode or be lethal. I'm doubting that they have the proper force to toss an adult male across a room. Shrapnel and severe burns I would understand, but this is just a bit fantasy to me. I love the novel and this is pretty minor but I just felt the need to point it out because it feels more action film than reality.
@coldpyr0 ah fair if lightning strikes close enough there should be enough energy there but you'd have to convert a large portion of the componants to pure plasma to generate enough force for it to do that which is unlikely at best even with a direct strike. What I had to clean out was actually the copper wiring melting then the battery in the psu exploding projecting said copper in lines through the metal siding of the tower(thankfully noone was injured) btw holes were in line with the copper wiring is how we figued out what happened there. Gpu's if they do get overloaded I've heard have problems dumping energy back into the grounding and can have signifigantly more energetic surge explosions (or so our guys at the failure analysis lab say they called it a fully catastrophic failure cascade or something.) but explosion size really does depend on how much material and what componants exactly get gassified or turned to plasma by the current. There's a really good video on the effect on youtube if you wanna look up exploding capacitors with too much current.
@coldpyr0 The only possible reason for it to launch him would be the muscle lock from electrocution. It is alarming how your muscles can launch you from electricity.