Choice to be augment free?

[netra]

Nothing hotter than a man in Kilt...or other kind of REAL skirt....or long tunic.......trousers are for barbarians, every roman and greek knows that

When i think barbarian i think loincloth. And then I think of kittens, to get rid of the previous image.

 

[username_3641692]

It needs to happen.

 

[onosendai7]

When i think barbarian i think loincloth. And then I think of kittens, to get rid of the previous image.

Barbarians :

Cutties, aren't they ? Note the 80s kitsh hairdress...

Now the kittens :

Happy ?

DO NOT SCROLL UP

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

It's becoming harder to filter through the suggestions and spam. Can we please keep the random comments on the Off Topic forum?

 

[gregski]

It's becoming harder to filter through the suggestions and spam. Can we please keep the random comments on the Off Topic forum?

I concur.

 

[Sardukhar]

In the Forlorn Hope, perhaps!

Although if you suppress people's occasional urges to veer away from topic, you'll find they don't post in the OT forum - they just post less. Weakens a community, I think, at least at this stage.

Here's a thought ON TOPIC for the anal amongst us: if the choice is to be augment free and you lose a limb in-game, do cloned limbs count? Since they aren't naturally part of you, they would seem to be as much augment as any other bioware.

And if you are augment-free, au naturel, as it were, do you envision playing with only one leg? One eye?

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

At that point you could get a choice- be limbless or get a prosthesis. But honestly, I don't see game play value in disabling non-augmented folk, maybe just have them regenerate like in other RPGs, or use a med kit or something.

 

[Sardukhar]

Hmm. I don't see much gameplay value either, but it does go to the core of why we use prosthetics - to replace what was lost. Be an interesting in-game choice.

The gameplay value would be in the social and physical challenges presented, I guess.

 

[dragonbird]

I pretty much agree with cmdr_flashheart here, cloning really just becomes an extension of med kit use, as the final effect is presumably indistinguishable from the original limb.

And regarding off-topic posts, shit happens, especially after 9 pages of discussion. The best way of bringing it back on-topic is to say something interesting and on-topic

 

[Sardukhar]

Sure, but if you're replacing your limbs with cloned limbs, are you not augmenting your current crippled state? Could you say that you're truly playing augment-free? I would say no, of course, since I see neuralware and cloned limbs and enhanced antibodies as all very much the same: technological adaptations to yourself in order to compensate for or improve on nature.

After all, if you could regenerate health, ( god I hope that is not in the game), your name would be Wolverine. Or...Starfish? No, Wolverine. Definitely Wolverine.

Edit. And of course I agree Dragon. Which makes me sick to say so. SICK.

 

[onosendai7]

Edit. And of course I agree Dragon. Which makes me sick to say so. SICK.

Aspirin ?

On topic :
In Cyberpunks, they are movements to promote the purity of the flesh (opposed to the corruption of machines). This is a pretty neo-luddite point of view (even if cyberpsychosis give them some credit) : cyberware is evil.
So, of course you should be able to play a non augmented character, if your stance toward cybernetics says so. However, don't forget that you will be seriously disadvantaged when the opposition is heavily augmented. So yes, you may choose that path. But you will not go very far.

 

[onosendai7]

In the Forlorn Hope, perhaps!

Although if you suppress people's occasional urges to veer away from topic, you'll find they don't post in the OT forum - they just post less. Weakens a community, I think, at least at this stage.

Since everything we know is already summarized there http://www.cyberpunk.net/forum/en/threads/216-(unofficial)-Cyberpunk-2077-Known-Features-Thread
and all we have is a target-render cinematics, we may also close evry topic and stop discussing about thin air.
CDPR made some statements on what they intend to do, and Mike also gave some hints, but no one here has the smallest idea of what the game will propose in terms of gameplay.
So basically, everything is out of topic...

 

[username_3641554]

You can be a meatbag and still be aumented. Using nanites or gene therapy to increase your body type or reflexes is a way to go.
But I would also like to see EMP screwing with the chrome on people.

 

[Sardukhar]

Mmm. An excellent point I really hope for EMP weapons used on players, as well as hacked and modified cyberware. Half the reason I was a fan of bioware was to avoid or reduce the chances of those screwing with my characters.

 

[deathntaxes]

always a spend a slot for emp shielding!

 

[Sardukhar]

EMP shielding only works to a certain level. And doesn't stop them from hacking you or putting subroutines in.

 

[wisdom000]

Hackable Cyber is a really really really bad idea.... it's bad enough in the real world, in the Cyberpunk setting, its basically playing suicide roulette.

 

[RLKing1969]

I have a couple of suggestions for both the game designers and for those who don't wish to embrace the metal edge: Gibson Battlegloves and smartgoggles . Make 'em available. That way, the unaugmented could have some of the advantages of cyberware and none of the nasty side effects... Like becoming a raging Cyberpsycho. And by the way, if someone REALLY insists on being "Mr. Meatboy", better seriously brush up on some seriously hard assed martial arts that can screw up borgs and the like.