We’ve got a few tips for you in Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty and the big 2.0 update.
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We’re going to break down some of the best relics, new combat tactics, weapons, and a few things to keep an eye out for.
Relic skill Vulnerable Analytics
- The new relic skill Vulnerable Analytics is perfect if you’re looking to shake up the classic FPS formula of take weapon.
- point at head, shoot at head. This relic adds new vulnerable weak spots to target on enemies, and you get 100% hit chance and 25% armor penetration.
- It’ll explode in a strong EMP blast if you fully destroy it.
- Before initiating combat, you can preemptively paint these on the target just by zooming in on someone.
- Smart weapons are really good to pair with Vulnerable Analytics, since using their zoom function will automatically target those vulnerable spots.
Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty carjack skill
- The carjack skill in the intelligence tree is just plain fun.
- That’ll let you drive vehicles around like cute little remote control cars.
Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty Iconic katana Jinchu Maru
- From this vendor in the main shopping area of Dogtown, you can buy here the iconic katana Jinchu Maru.
- Its special effect will give you 100% critical chance while invisible with optical camo.
- If you’re quick, you can assassinate entire groups before they even see what’s going on.
Deserter iconic double barrel shotgun
- By completing the side quest Addicted to Chaos, you’ll end up at this spot in the southern part of Dogtown.
- Here you’ll find a case with the deserter iconic double barrel shotgun.
- This shoots two incredibly hard hitting explosive shells at once, and can apply burn.
- It’s so powerful, it actually covers the wielder in flames, damaging you for a few seconds after killing someone.
Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty EMP blast and melee
- The EMP blast will also easily crumple up robotic enemies.
- This isn’t just for shooting, melee weapons can activate these vulnerable spots as well.
- If you’re looking for a deeper melee combat system where you’re encouraged to manually aim your swings at different limbs, You can get a powerful and completely free iconic melee weapon right towards the start of Phantom Liberty. Just head over to this location in Dogtown.
- It’s right next to circular building. Around this path to the back of the building, you’ll find this guy having a really bad day andthat iconic chainsword out of his brain. That’ll get you the Cut-O-Matic X-Mod 2, which comes with open mod slots to tweak how which is somewhat rare for an iconic weapon.
- If you’re looking to play out your deepest Warhammer 40k power fantasy, this thing will chew through most anything.
Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty Emergency Cloaking Relic
- The Emergency Cloaking Relic will let you use the optical camo cyberware to break enemy tracking even during combat.
- It wants you to use this to disengage combat, but it also works as a useful offensive tool.
- Someone shooting at you, just go invisible, casually walk behind them, and give them a nice neck attack.
- If you get the upgraded relic skill after this, it’ll automatically slow down time right before you’re about to get spotted.
Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty shock and awe cyberware
- This variant has a chance to deal 500 electric damage around you whenever you take damage.
- Now that self-inflicted fire DPS will be popping off strong electrical blasts around you automatically after each kill with the deserter.
- Then equip the cyberware micro generator, and that will add an electrical damage buff when reloading an empty gun.
- Since this only fires once per reload, that will apply extra electrical damage after every subsequent shot.
Stacking movement speed and explosive damage buff
- The shotgun deals explosive damage, throw on the third rank of pyromania, giving you a stacking movement speed and explosive damage buff after each time you inflict explosive damage.
- Combine all of that, and the damage output and carnage this combo can inflict is just chaotically satisfying.
- Whatever is the absolute exact opposite of a tactical stealthy playstyle is this rampaging fire engulfed electric exploding death cannon.
Take down a squad from a safe distance
- You don’t need a sniper rifle, just remotely pilot a car and turn it into an unoccupied wheelie weapon.
- If anyone is trying to accuse you of anything, just blame it on those crazy self-driving cars.
- You can also use this to drive yourself around in a vehicle you’re not actually steering.
- If you have at least 28 total ram, you can use the carjack skill to remote detonate vehicles turning them into rolling explosives.
Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty jailbreak relic
- If you often use an armed cyberware weapon, it’s pretty much mandatory to grab the jailbreak relic, which improves every single one of those.
- For the monowire, you can socket control quick hacks onto it and then it’ll automatically apply that hack debuff with a charge attack.
- Unlike a normal hack, this doesn’t cost any ram to apply, and its upgraded effect can spread it to nearby enemies.
Searching for Care Packages in Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty
- A another audio visual thing to keep an eye and ear out for. When you hear such sounds then look around nearby for red smoke.
- That indicates a care package has been dropped on the map.
- Often you’ll see this little symbol above them in orange, indicating normal tier 5 items.
- But you really want to see this symbol yellow, indicating it has a unique, iconic item.
Santa Gift Drops in Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty
- Santa gift drops are one of the best ways to accumulate rare, iconic weapons and cyberware.
Mantis blades, Upgraded effect , Gorilla arm
- For the mantis blades, it lets you leap attack from really far away now, so you can pounce out of nowhere like a predator.
- Its upgraded effect will also cripple the target and increase the chances of body parts being removed.
- The gorilla arms get a big meaty punch that will send someone flying.
- Its upgraded effect can also knock down enemies near the impact point.
- For the projectile launch system, you can now charge it up to release a sequence of and its upgraded effect will give you a bonus charge, so you can quickly refire it again.
How to learn new Relic Skills Early
- If you want to amass a lot of these new relic skills early on, seek out these R symbols on the map or overlaid in the world.
- They also give off this sound. If you find and jack into one of these restricted data terminals, it’ll give you a free relic point to go spend in the new skill tree.