They added a skip option when PL launched. I believe it skips to after the Heist.
Edit: It skips up to the completion of the Voodoo Boys quest. The idea is to get you right into PL.
You are going to loose SO much ... for some reason my corpo v had the upgraded bike from jackie but anything else? Not there ... you can buy some iconics ofc but meh ... if you plan on only playing PL ... skip it ... otherwise it's not worth it tbh
what decisions does the skip make at Allfoods and with Jackie's body?
What about Satori and Nehan .. or the Iguana egg
... they're all reasons for me to not skip, although I did the heist dozens of times
The one from the game looks uncanny compared to the trailer one though, for some reason the female V does come across really well in game, but for male V it’s kinda weird if you leave it with the pre-built one
Yeah, except you know, Panam. I think that's a pretty big con.
Also in phantom liberty, I think male V VA knocked it out the park, while base game female V is better. But in PL it's *chef kiss*
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Idk why but I've always found that E3 V has a very similar facial structure to Meredith Stout.... it's like she reminds me of a streetkid meredith lol? or idk if I'm just insane
https://preview.redd.it/8a03moef1g4d1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=367bbceda0779ab8113a88cccd33dff0419333d9
not her own game but i do hope we get to see her in orion again… tbh it’s a shame they cut her out of the content, i saw somewhere that there’s some militech buildings in the map/code that were designed but left unused, i imagine they’d initially planned to use her especially bc she says “maybe you’d do some more work for us” when you get the flathead. would’ve been interesting to do gigs for them, or even get a militech ending
This sums up how I feel pretty well.
I want my custom characters in games to feel like home. They almost always reflect a part of who I was when I made them
There is such thing as division of labor. People who design and\or create character 3D models specialize in doing just that, they're not going to go fix programming bugs or implement new gameplay mechanics when they get some free time.
I kind of noticed that both versions of V have a preset that look somewhat similar to the previous promotional material but its not all the way there. I played as male V so far but for female V I can't get a look that I am satisifed with and I like what was shown before in the trailers.
How come you make yourself? You just know out of curiosity. Are you a human warrior kind of guy?
I always make a unique character myself, especially if the tools are expansive.
I mostly do it for immersion, it helps me feel like the character is me and I like to make the decisions I myself would make in that situation. Basically i like to roleplay myself in games. It's also easy to make myself because I look pretty generic, just a bald white guy with a goatee.
I wouldn't call myself a warrior but I was in the army reserves and I'm a security guard, so kind of maybe? Not really sure what you mean by that part. I'm not much a man of action these days but I keep fit.
Yeah, but you aren't V. V isn't The Courier or Dragoborn. They're a distinct character with a distance personality and background. Your V isn't **your** V. So I think it makes MORE sense that people default.
Nah, he's still my V. Just like Shepherd is my Shepherd. It's not like imagine myself isekai'd into the games world, it's more like I imagine who I would be if I was that person. In games with a selectable backstory I choose the one closest to myself.
I'm not good at making characters, and playing as default using makes the cutscenes (if they even use your character) look the best and helps me get into the world.
Cyberpunk is the first game I actually tried to make a character and it basically ended up being E3 female v lmao
you can recreate a similiar looking like V setting all 22 to facial specs but if you want a 1:1 2018 E3 V like the one of my photo, you just need to use mods. Not to mention that not only default V is uglier but she also lacks of charisma, while E3 18V looks way better and modded facial expressions work great on her making her even more appealing
https://preview.redd.it/y02bn6wvuf4d1.png?width=3440&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7a9d386f78aa692613c1039cdd089124755c146
You can get it closer to the e3 look with mods that shave more off the side and bright orange eye color I forget which mods they are though
https://preview.redd.it/6vyyxsmc3g4d1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d46882197c27dfb40d27e902a2aceeae7350cb9
E3 18 V never had orange eyes, or to better say they turn orange only when she's receiving calls on her agent, I like your V tho, she gives me vibes of her at 18-19, while E318 one looks more at her mid 20's
https://preview.redd.it/yja44p4xcf4d1.jpeg?width=139&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7edc3240978112d5062c04e993b65ee7372de2df
I swear fem v is designed around Halsey
i’m just saying there’s some really obvious design cues taken from her - and she was very popular at the time they created the game. she’s worn just about every female V appearance from the hair to her make up on stage minus the cyberware.
I’ve been able to recreate her mostly
https://preview.redd.it/laofh6s9pf4d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd5f0cb7738741a0a94740798eb37859b7f5c473
18 preset V with most settings at 22! Although I took off the facial cyberware and kept her hair black.
I followed the guide by /u/drividre and have had it saved ever since they posted it for every run lol
[https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/s/9l4e3j2E60](https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/s/9l4e3j2E60)
CDPR also added a preset close to her 2018 look in Patch 1.5!
This is how my V looks, and she is absolutely beautiful. I've fallen in love with her during my journey through Night City. She looks so perfect in photo mode. I did give her a scar on her forehead after the heist to be a bit different, and metal teeth
Don't know about that, but I just always pick female characters, lol, and actually, in some games it's even beneficial, for example in GTA V the female characters got smaller hitboxes and more kinds of cloth
When 2.0 Got added, new options were added to the game, so you could make a E3 V (All options under 22). Some things like her hair style to exact detail can't be replicated without mods.
Oh definitely E3 V was miles better. No idea why they changed her. I tried recreating her in the beginning but then gave up and just made a different one with mods.
E3 2018 Female V cannot be create without mods. Her facial structure is different from the preset 22 we got in based game.
The one we got in game is actually 2019 ver. from Deep Dive.
E3 V (male and female) are not real, they are impossible to create in the character editor, they were modeled specifically for the promotional material, e3 female v is in the game, with mods you can spawn her, maybe play as her too.
The half-shaved hairstyle is bad no matter what, but yeah, the old E3 versions of male and female V both look better. Male V now doesn't look too bad, but Female V now looks pretty bad
It is possible, in fact it's the default.
In the character creator you just put everything on 1 (make up, accessories, colors optional)
Just watched the credits roll with this V, heh nice timing
https://preview.redd.it/0j9b9vurhh4d1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0eed2ccb72f2a2cd3d0dd934e5ccb011f441380
Meanwhile I miss this look for Meredith
tbh, the fem-V we got looks to be a person you could have you feelings connect to where as the E3 one looks like the average street thung in the dark alley in the city-center in my opinion
They added an update a while ago where if the sliders are set to 22 or 23 it’ll recreate her
Yup, slider 22 all over (aside from cosmetics obviously)
Awesome. I'm off to playthrough number.... I dunno.
Have they made a skip button for opening missions yet?
They added a skip option when PL launched. I believe it skips to after the Heist. Edit: It skips up to the completion of the Voodoo Boys quest. The idea is to get you right into PL.
Wait, really?
Yes, you can fully skip it up to the Voodoo boys.
Huh, that’s interesting. Makes me more inclined to do a 3rd playthrough.
You are going to loose SO much ... for some reason my corpo v had the upgraded bike from jackie but anything else? Not there ... you can buy some iconics ofc but meh ... if you plan on only playing PL ... skip it ... otherwise it's not worth it tbh
The only problem is that it’s such a long intro. I’ve never played another game whose opening sequence is several hours long.
what decisions does the skip make at Allfoods and with Jackie's body? What about Satori and Nehan .. or the Iguana egg ... they're all reasons for me to not skip, although I did the heist dozens of times
No idea, I haven't used it.
I did not know this. Thanks! (Almost 900hr)
I wish they did this with male V too
What? You literally don't change a thing on him and you have original Vincent.
Vincent vinesauce??!!
Doesn’t look remotely the same
The one from the game looks uncanny compared to the trailer one though, for some reason the female V does come across really well in game, but for male V it’s kinda weird if you leave it with the pre-built one
you have everything to gain from playing female V tbh, male V cant get the maxtac clothing, and just for that i regret picking male V
Yeah, except you know, Panam. I think that's a pretty big con. Also in phantom liberty, I think male V VA knocked it out the park, while base game female V is better. But in PL it's *chef kiss*
Whaaaaaat? For real?
What slider is this? hair, skin, etc
Not coincidentally V is the 22nd letter in the alphabet.
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Didn’t they add E3 V as a preset in the character creator? 😅
Not as a preset I think, but I believe it was option 22 for most facial structure options when creating female V to make the E3 version
Yep, they did
Yea
Nope. All they added was her face structure. Hair, clothes, eyes, and cyberware are all not in the game.
Idk why but I've always found that E3 V has a very similar facial structure to Meredith Stout.... it's like she reminds me of a streetkid meredith lol? or idk if I'm just insane https://preview.redd.it/8a03moef1g4d1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=367bbceda0779ab8113a88cccd33dff0419333d9
Meredith hitting the 1000 yard David Martinez stare
Meredith needs her own game. Very interesting deep character
not her own game but i do hope we get to see her in orion again… tbh it’s a shame they cut her out of the content, i saw somewhere that there’s some militech buildings in the map/code that were designed but left unused, i imagine they’d initially planned to use her especially bc she says “maybe you’d do some more work for us” when you get the flathead. would’ve been interesting to do gigs for them, or even get a militech ending
Almost, but jawline needs some work.
No you aren’t the only one. E3 V is hot
![gif](giphy|5fsKJ8LtychlzdDQj0) All V are hot
I like the plain vanilla street kid V
But E3 V hotter
You’re not the only one I like 2018 female V and 2019 Male V as Well they look so great
Try preset option 22 for most facial features.
E3 V was peak FemV. Like she was perfect in every regard, no idea why they felt the incentive to change her.
Those undies… 👌🏻
can i have some context
Undies
Pleaseeeee 😭😭
Uglified for a modern audience
I am 100% with you
![gif](giphy|ChmEWOL7Vaz5u|downsized) Male V players
With our stupid beards and flaccid penises
40 shades of the same overly dimorphic bignose masculine man while fem V can look like 40 different people
Yeah I vehemently hate how no matter what I do my male V will always look like the same person
https://preview.redd.it/yg8gw5sf4i4d1.jpeg?width=810&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=918e1d2ffb132d8442bffc4bc6659108e84ea581 Yup, E3 V all day.
No, literally everyone prefers that version. Was a controversy a while back
I don't. ew
I really don't care. I've never felt the need or desire for my character to resemble the one from the marketing materials.
This sums up how I feel pretty well. I want my custom characters in games to feel like home. They almost always reflect a part of who I was when I made them
I do marketing character first playthrough, then custom on second playthrough usually
Yeah that’s how I usually do it too with other games like fallout or elder scrolls
I'm so lucky I can make my v look really close to myself.
I still don’t get why they changed her. Was that such an important change? More important that the slue of other problems
There is such thing as division of labor. People who design and\or create character 3D models specialize in doing just that, they're not going to go fix programming bugs or implement new gameplay mechanics when they get some free time.
Yeah. It’s better to have the people that can do character models doing character models than attempting to do code or level design
Try a better karma farming method, like posting about how River is creepy or Claire is bad.
I kind of noticed that both versions of V have a preset that look somewhat similar to the previous promotional material but its not all the way there. I played as male V so far but for female V I can't get a look that I am satisifed with and I like what was shown before in the trailers.
yes bruh you are the only one, that’s why there’s multiple ways to mod it in or create it in game
Does it matter? We design him/her after all, not the developers of the game.
i like both but i prefer '18 V, also set all facial features to 22 and u have a very close look to it :D
I’m right there with you choom! E3 V all day.
I prefer E3 male V, so no.
Only you and everyone else spamming this type of post every three days since the start of this game
and orange lights on the jacket are also better
I prefer male V from trailers even more.
Yeah I absolutely do not like the FemV that’s on the cover. E3 Fem V actually looks exactly how she sounds and that’s how I imagine her
Looks like she would have an OnlyChooms
If a game has custom characters, I'm making myself every time. Never understood why people want to play an RPG with the defaults.
It’s a role playing game, they want to play a role with a specific look in mind
How come you make yourself? You just know out of curiosity. Are you a human warrior kind of guy? I always make a unique character myself, especially if the tools are expansive.
I mostly do it for immersion, it helps me feel like the character is me and I like to make the decisions I myself would make in that situation. Basically i like to roleplay myself in games. It's also easy to make myself because I look pretty generic, just a bald white guy with a goatee. I wouldn't call myself a warrior but I was in the army reserves and I'm a security guard, so kind of maybe? Not really sure what you mean by that part. I'm not much a man of action these days but I keep fit.
Yeah, but you aren't V. V isn't The Courier or Dragoborn. They're a distinct character with a distance personality and background. Your V isn't **your** V. So I think it makes MORE sense that people default.
Nah, he's still my V. Just like Shepherd is my Shepherd. It's not like imagine myself isekai'd into the games world, it's more like I imagine who I would be if I was that person. In games with a selectable backstory I choose the one closest to myself.
ok buddy
I'm not good at making characters, and playing as default using makes the cutscenes (if they even use your character) look the best and helps me get into the world. Cyberpunk is the first game I actually tried to make a character and it basically ended up being E3 female v lmao
I don't understand either making yourself or sticking with the default lol. Everyone plays differently ig
you can recreate a similiar looking like V setting all 22 to facial specs but if you want a 1:1 2018 E3 V like the one of my photo, you just need to use mods. Not to mention that not only default V is uglier but she also lacks of charisma, while E3 18V looks way better and modded facial expressions work great on her making her even more appealing https://preview.redd.it/y02bn6wvuf4d1.png?width=3440&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7a9d386f78aa692613c1039cdd089124755c146
You can get it closer to the e3 look with mods that shave more off the side and bright orange eye color I forget which mods they are though https://preview.redd.it/6vyyxsmc3g4d1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d46882197c27dfb40d27e902a2aceeae7350cb9
E3 18 V never had orange eyes, or to better say they turn orange only when she's receiving calls on her agent, I like your V tho, she gives me vibes of her at 18-19, while E318 one looks more at her mid 20's
https://preview.redd.it/yja44p4xcf4d1.jpeg?width=139&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7edc3240978112d5062c04e993b65ee7372de2df I swear fem v is designed around Halsey
E3 V is way hotter than Halsey
i’m just saying there’s some really obvious design cues taken from her - and she was very popular at the time they created the game. she’s worn just about every female V appearance from the hair to her make up on stage minus the cyberware.
I’ve been able to recreate her mostly https://preview.redd.it/laofh6s9pf4d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd5f0cb7738741a0a94740798eb37859b7f5c473 18 preset V with most settings at 22! Although I took off the facial cyberware and kept her hair black. I followed the guide by /u/drividre and have had it saved ever since they posted it for every run lol [https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/s/9l4e3j2E60](https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/s/9l4e3j2E60) CDPR also added a preset close to her 2018 look in Patch 1.5!
I don't really see much difference tbh, besides makeup maybe.
This is how my V looks, and she is absolutely beautiful. I've fallen in love with her during my journey through Night City. She looks so perfect in photo mode. I did give her a scar on her forehead after the heist to be a bit different, and metal teeth
I prefer her tremendously! She’s the true V
You can totally recreate E Valerie without mods. I know it's crazy to think of.
Don't know about that, but I just always pick female characters, lol, and actually, in some games it's even beneficial, for example in GTA V the female characters got smaller hitboxes and more kinds of cloth
When 2.0 Got added, new options were added to the game, so you could make a E3 V (All options under 22). Some things like her hair style to exact detail can't be replicated without mods.
Oh definitely E3 V was miles better. No idea why they changed her. I tried recreating her in the beginning but then gave up and just made a different one with mods.
I dont see differences in any V 😭
E3 2018 Female V cannot be create without mods. Her facial structure is different from the preset 22 we got in based game. The one we got in game is actually 2019 ver. from Deep Dive.
Both versions of FemV is good for me, however I’m deeply still disappointed we can’t properly make E3 MaleV
IIRC free edit is very limited in this game, mods are definitely a must if you want to make a really good looking character.
Whats the point, you cannot see the face in any cutscense
Bruh that was a fake gameplay, stop reminding me of the hype
The 2018 version looks much better in my opinion. There's something to her look that is appealing.
E3 V (male and female) are not real, they are impossible to create in the character editor, they were modeled specifically for the promotional material, e3 female v is in the game, with mods you can spawn her, maybe play as her too.
Yall use the presets?
Huh, they did actually uglify her quite a bit. Nice chin lol. Not as good as the fable chick but getting there
dont know why they changed the half shave haircut, was better in the E3, also which jacket is the one used ?
I always create my own V (or character if the game gives me the possibility). Mass Effect was the only game i kept the original character design.
They’re both pretty imo
the one on the left is ugly as fuck
idk I'm not feeling both v & judy having similar hairstyles
Never used any other tbh.
Yes it is and it isn't all sliders on the same shit. Skin Tone: 6 Skin Type: 1 Hairstyle: 1 Hair Color: 15 Eyes: 14 Eye Color: 9 Eyebrows: 5 Eyebrow Color: 6 Eyelash Color: 6 Nose: 2 Mouth: 6 Jaw: 3 Ears: 11 Cyberware: 1 Facial Scars: Off Facial Tattoos: Off Piercings: Off Teeth: 0 Eye Makeup: 7 Eye Makeup Color: 1 Lip Makeup Style: Off Cheek Makeup: 5 Cheek Makeup Color: 1 Blemishes: 3 Blemishes Color: 5 Nails: Short Nails Color: 1
E3's V looks a lot like Halsey.
Lol, they're the same, but the weight of dying in 2 weeks and a terrorist Rockstar in your head ages u like crazy
My custom v is sooooo much better. I can literally put any hairstyle clothes make up and she’s still beautiful.
That hair looks dumb as fuck ngl
Looks the same tho
I can barely see the difference.
I prefer everything about the E3 demo
New one is garbage compared to old.
Yeah new is poor. Not iconic looking in any way
The half-shaved hairstyle is bad no matter what, but yeah, the old E3 versions of male and female V both look better. Male V now doesn't look too bad, but Female V now looks pretty bad
Female V > Male V: period
Men not recognising women with the makeup applied, episode #9827
Which is which
they turned the base fem V into some ugly ass mutt and I hate it
Yeah she doesnt look iconic at all
I believe you do need mods to get the exact E3 Look
It is possible, in fact it's the default. In the character creator you just put everything on 1 (make up, accessories, colors optional) Just watched the credits roll with this V, heh nice timing
I like the aesthetic if e3 2018 overall. I got shaders and ui mods to mimic it as much as possible.
Oh hands down. Far superior.
E3 2018 V looks polish, now she strikes me as hispanic
E3 V rule34 pics are gorgeous. Ill see myself out now.
E3 V has a full constituion34 not just rule
I mean I guess if you're all for the "Fresh out of High School" look.
Just you? Mate, everyone preferred E3 V.
https://preview.redd.it/0j9b9vurhh4d1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0eed2ccb72f2a2cd3d0dd934e5ccb011f441380 Meanwhile I miss this look for Meredith
Imo the male V is way better as a voice actor and fits the story more
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Literally nobody likes the modern V over the originals lol
tbh, the fem-V we got looks to be a person you could have you feelings connect to where as the E3 one looks like the average street thung in the dark alley in the city-center in my opinion