So, yeah, a few lines describing your "high tech, low life" character is about it.
Look at the CP2077 trailer again. While cyber is everywhere Joe Average probably has little if any because of cost. In the real world there's a large middle class in most places, in Cyberpunk it's a much much smaller proportion of the population. There's RICH and there's poor and not a lot in between.
The "working man" lives on a subsistence income and just plain can't afford most "fashion" cyberware much less the combat related stuff, and ask yourself "Why" would they even have it in the first place? A neuralware processor and interface plug might be necessary for their job but a cybereye? As always the rich can do what they damn well please, but their focus is fashion not utility, so again not a lot of combat cyberware.
The military and police forces have a use and reason for the stuff, when a soldier gets an arm blown off it get's replaced by a cyberlimb, it's cost effective to the military, they retain the training and experience at the cost of the limb, and do they really care about the "humanity" of the grunts as long as they follow orders?
So while cyberware itself is common place enough to not raise an eyebrow "excessive" cyberware will get noticed if for no other reason then that amount of augmentation is uncommon. How often do you see someone in a wheelchair cruising down the street? Often enough it's not shocking, and you probably don't pay that much attention to them, but you do notice. And unless you go to the Special Olympics you rarely see more then one or two at a time.
While it's Sards game, Sards world, and he decides the "tone" good role-play means the players should consider the world their character lives in and how it's going to react to and with their character. Sure, everybody and their sister is armed, the world is a dangerous place. How many carry, or need an assault rifle? If they get into a life-or-death firefight coming home from work every other day how long do you think it will be before they lose one? Think more like the real US "Wild West", many people are armed and everyone has ready access to a weapon and knows how to use it. But that doesn't mean firefights in the streets are a day-to-day occurrence. They can't be else the streets would soon be empty.
Let's look at weapons and armor.
If everybody and their brother is wearing an armor jacket rendering most handguns and SMGs ineffective who's buying them and why? The average weapon people carry must be effective in the vast majority of situations where they'd use it or there is no reason, NO REASON, to carry it.
**Puts her soapbox away**
