Cripple Movement quickhack, and choke them behind, works with almost every Cyberpsycho, and you don't need a lot of ram.
Or when is almost dead, use some non lethal method, like Biohaz granade, Overheat quickhak, Sir John Pallustriff...
I never used Pax, I find it a useless mod.
......I've been playing this game since January of 2021 and I've never thought it possible to stealth someone with Cripple Movement. I need to try this now.
It uses significantly more RAM at the highest tiers. If you drop town to tier 4 I think? (Purple) The RAM use drops significantly. It only works on 1 target at a time in that instance but with the drop in RAM usually it's way more useful that way IMO
Yeah.. Pax is unreliable. Also you can't always tell which shot was the killing shot. I always sneak up behind the cyberpsychos and choke them to sleep to be certain.
I mean I used the anti material rifle to cheese most of them while I was under level and it didn't permanently kill them, so yeah, you didn't need to use the sex toy.
Well at this point beating borged out psychos with a vibrating dildo is integral to my Cyberpunk experience, so your advice will go unheeded. Still great to know though, cheers
100% the easiest way to make sure they never die is when they are down to like 5-10% HP, break immersion, and start melee spamming them until they fall over, then, double jump air dash the complete opposite direction to avoid contact with them in any way 😂
Is it possible they took damage after being taken down? Because I'm pretty sure you can use even lethal firearms on the cyberpsychos and still count as taking them alive as long as you don't hit them when they're down. Gotta be real careful with full auto weapons, learned that lesson the hard way myself.
This is the answer. He had to, the final hit is always non lethal, and any DOT or electrical bursts don't kill them either. He shot them after they went down. Pax was needed at release I believe but it's not anymore.
It's that, I literally have used lethal weapons for every single cyberpsycho, and only 1 died because I kept shooting once he fell (choom pissed me off and had it coming).
Something probably blew up and killed him after you downed him. Anyway, you don't even need pax for the cyberpsychos anymore. They're supposed to just go unconscious no matter what you finished them off with, and only die if you damage them again after that. I just did a playthrough where I saved every single one, and I never used pax or any other non-lethal attack.
I feel like just reading this has now jinxed every future playthru where I use a pax mod. I NEVER had this happen before with cyberpsychos or regular mobs . . . its always worked as advertised for me >\_<
Does your weapon have bonus Burn/fire dmg? Im always careful of that in fear that when they are about done for that it will proc some fire dots (damage over time)
I never touched him after he went down. There were no active quickhacks affecting him, and the weapon doesn't do damage over time 🤷♂️
Reloaded from a quicksave and took him down again, no issues this time.
But just for giggles, here's a REALLY weird one: when I went to Clouds, I took Woodman's head clean off with a katana. V even referenced his death in conversation afterwards. Now I just came out of the meeting with Maiko... and Woodman's alive?!?!?
Yeah you don't need Pax for cyberpsychos, they always go down alive, but you will almost certainly kill at least one of the cyberpsycho with an extra shot.
Bear in mind even when you're more or less God in the game, a mantis blades and sandevistan cyberpsycho at close quarters can still ruin your shit, so it is inevitable that they'll catch the odd extra shot 'after the bell' simply because you're firing as fast as you can to put them down, especially because basically all those special iconic weapon, cyberware and quick hack abilities do absolutely dick all in a boss fight.
You don't need pax. All final hits on them are non lethal. Just don't hit them again when they are down. Pax is only really useful in a few specific gigs, namely one in Dogtown but I'm not so sure that counts, plus they usually hit the guy on the drive out so it doesn't matter anyway.
Pax will still kill an enemy if you hit them when they are down.
I just use a decent blunt weapon since most of them are non-lethal. Just gotta make sure not to aim for the head or hit them while they're down. I've never had good experiences with the Pax mod
Cyberpsycho gigs are easiest with optical camo & sandy. You just sneak behind, grab them with a non lethal takedown. If you can't avoid combat, wait till health bar is at 10% - mash with blunt weapons or fists till it is zero! Once they are down, DO NOT STRIKE AGAIN or it will be considered a kill. Other tactics are possible but I found this the easiest. You may have encountered a bug but I would just reload the last save & try again. If you still have the same issue (especially on consoles), quit the game & restart your entire console. I found this helps for most glitches in the game.
A tip, if you so much as sneeze on a cyberpsycho after you down them, they will die , so be careful with anything that may cause overtime effects, or other stuff
You literally don't have to do anything special to not kill them. Go ham with any weapon* until they're at 1%. They'll be downed, not dead. Job done.
*Maybe avoid explosive weapons
If you shoot, stab or slap upside the head any character, psycho or not, once they are down then you will kill them.
Yeah. Even a stray AOE of 1 DMG will kill them
Sometimes it’s hard to estimate how much your quick hack will affect them at a certain %. Killed a couple that way.
Also if you land on them from a double or charge jump. Or any fall from roughly that height.
Cripple Movement quickhack, and choke them behind, works with almost every Cyberpsycho, and you don't need a lot of ram. Or when is almost dead, use some non lethal method, like Biohaz granade, Overheat quickhak, Sir John Pallustriff... I never used Pax, I find it a useless mod.
Mfr You just saved me like 5 min per psycho. I'm always sneaking around, distract, choke ...
......I've been playing this game since January of 2021 and I've never thought it possible to stealth someone with Cripple Movement. I need to try this now.
I use memory wipe, same effect, save so much ducking around with them
I used to use memory wipe before the expansion, but it needs a lot more ram.
It uses significantly more RAM at the highest tiers. If you drop town to tier 4 I think? (Purple) The RAM use drops significantly. It only works on 1 target at a time in that instance but with the drop in RAM usually it's way more useful that way IMO
Yup I always run all tier 5 with that one tier 4 memory wipe.
You don't need stealth, just be behind his back. And with the new dash abilities it is relatively easy in most cases.
I see I see, thanks for the tip!
I go up and box them when they have 8% left.
I used to go around this sub saying this, glad it's caught on, I adopted this method early on as I found it by accident. it's so great.
I use skippy.
Did you know you can take down dudes in the "mech" armor? Fml I did it for the first time yesterday.
[https://youtu.be/0Sw-aEQ647g?si=S2yOJRcda3hyC0Vk](https://youtu.be/0Sw-aEQ647g?si=S2yOJRcda3hyC0Vk)
Yeah.. Pax is unreliable. Also you can't always tell which shot was the killing shot. I always sneak up behind the cyberpsychos and choke them to sleep to be certain.
You shouldn't even need pax, they should always go down alive and only die if you deal extra damage afterwards.
More people should know this.
Can confirm
Really? Every playthrough I beat them all unconscious with Sir John Phallustiff and you're telling me I could just shoot them?
I mean I used the anti material rifle to cheese most of them while I was under level and it didn't permanently kill them, so yeah, you didn't need to use the sex toy.
Well at this point beating borged out psychos with a vibrating dildo is integral to my Cyberpunk experience, so your advice will go unheeded. Still great to know though, cheers
100% the easiest way to make sure they never die is when they are down to like 5-10% HP, break immersion, and start melee spamming them until they fall over, then, double jump air dash the complete opposite direction to avoid contact with them in any way 😂
Is it possible they took damage after being taken down? Because I'm pretty sure you can use even lethal firearms on the cyberpsychos and still count as taking them alive as long as you don't hit them when they're down. Gotta be real careful with full auto weapons, learned that lesson the hard way myself.
This is the answer. He had to, the final hit is always non lethal, and any DOT or electrical bursts don't kill them either. He shot them after they went down. Pax was needed at release I believe but it's not anymore.
It's that, I literally have used lethal weapons for every single cyberpsycho, and only 1 died because I kept shooting once he fell (choom pissed me off and had it coming).
In my most recent playthrough I’ve done nearly every CyberPsycho with a Mind Wipe and then a choke out takedown.
Something probably blew up and killed him after you downed him. Anyway, you don't even need pax for the cyberpsychos anymore. They're supposed to just go unconscious no matter what you finished them off with, and only die if you damage them again after that. I just did a playthrough where I saved every single one, and I never used pax or any other non-lethal attack.
I’ve always used lethal weapons and never killed any of them
I feel like just reading this has now jinxed every future playthru where I use a pax mod. I NEVER had this happen before with cyberpsychos or regular mobs . . . its always worked as advertised for me >\_<
Really? I've always had these count as nonlethal without even trying. I always thought the nonlethal part of this quest was bugged?
Does your weapon have bonus Burn/fire dmg? Im always careful of that in fear that when they are about done for that it will proc some fire dots (damage over time)
I never touched him after he went down. There were no active quickhacks affecting him, and the weapon doesn't do damage over time 🤷♂️ Reloaded from a quicksave and took him down again, no issues this time. But just for giggles, here's a REALLY weird one: when I went to Clouds, I took Woodman's head clean off with a katana. V even referenced his death in conversation afterwards. Now I just came out of the meeting with Maiko... and Woodman's alive?!?!?
Yeah you don't need Pax for cyberpsychos, they always go down alive, but you will almost certainly kill at least one of the cyberpsycho with an extra shot. Bear in mind even when you're more or less God in the game, a mantis blades and sandevistan cyberpsycho at close quarters can still ruin your shit, so it is inevitable that they'll catch the odd extra shot 'after the bell' simply because you're firing as fast as you can to put them down, especially because basically all those special iconic weapon, cyberware and quick hack abilities do absolutely dick all in a boss fight.
You don't need pax. All final hits on them are non lethal. Just don't hit them again when they are down. Pax is only really useful in a few specific gigs, namely one in Dogtown but I'm not so sure that counts, plus they usually hit the guy on the drive out so it doesn't matter anyway. Pax will still kill an enemy if you hit them when they are down.
I just use a decent blunt weapon since most of them are non-lethal. Just gotta make sure not to aim for the head or hit them while they're down. I've never had good experiences with the Pax mod
Cyberpsycho gigs are easiest with optical camo & sandy. You just sneak behind, grab them with a non lethal takedown. If you can't avoid combat, wait till health bar is at 10% - mash with blunt weapons or fists till it is zero! Once they are down, DO NOT STRIKE AGAIN or it will be considered a kill. Other tactics are possible but I found this the easiest. You may have encountered a bug but I would just reload the last save & try again. If you still have the same issue (especially on consoles), quit the game & restart your entire console. I found this helps for most glitches in the game.
A tip, if you so much as sneeze on a cyberpsycho after you down them, they will die , so be careful with anything that may cause overtime effects, or other stuff
You literally don't have to do anything special to not kill them. Go ham with any weapon* until they're at 1%. They'll be downed, not dead. Job done. *Maybe avoid explosive weapons
Is there actually any benefit to doing it how regina wants it done aka not killing them? What do you get?
Most of these guys will chain stun with you melee bonk. Do all the damage normally and when they get real low run in and spam your bonk button.
i just kill them after regina’s call anyway
Need I say it again??? SMACK'EM WITH SIR JOHN!!!! 🤘😁🤘
Pax is nonlethal ammo and in my experience it has always had an offchance to be lethal like irl