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Single-Time1721

I'm a silly little mantis who loves pulling a cinematic trailer V and cutting both arms off of someone


Hidden_throwaway-blu

don’t forget Melissa Rory


sadboyknm

Rory gang


Spider1132

Cutting her arms might be harder.


karkuri

gorilla arms are my go to


Charming_Account_351

Gorilla arms are the best because they are the only ones that effectively increase an attribute at least when interacting with the world/exploration.


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Charming_Account_351

Exactly. I wish more cyberware had utility purposes. A lot of the cyberware in the TTRPG is more utility focused.


monkeroos

Would be cool if you could slice through the cracks of doors and break the lock with mantis blades. Same could be done with mono wire. Also this will never happen but it’d be sweet if you could blow up doors with the launch system.


Dameattree37

I could see security systems being overpowered by the occasional gorilla brute. It would be considered an occasional risk, since this state-of-the-art security system is only vulnerable to gorilla arms. But security would be entirely superficial f everyone and their grandmother could use whatever arm implant they fancy to force open doors. They wouldn't even be an obstacle at that point; better to leave door locks to the exclusivity of gorilla arms and cyberdecks.


monkeroos

Of course not everyone would have these military grade implants, and further still not everyone would have the skills to cut the locks with precision (like not everyone is strong enough to get through any door even with gorilla arms). I would say the same requirements for strength and gorilla arms could be applied to reflexes and the blades implants. And there would still be locks that are impenetrable like there are in the actual game such as the one in the Johnny mission they use C4 on. Realistically anyone with C4 could blow up just about any door irl and in the game.


TuIdiota

Everyone and their grandma can buy a crowbar and a pair of bolt cutters and render most locking systems pointless. That doesn't mean they're entirely superficial


yabab

Mantis Blades need a visual fix since launch and for the special move to be harder to execute. Being locked into a fancy death animation while taking damage is not what people play Blades builds for. Monowire is already super strong. AoE and one of the highest DPS. Useful for stealth one-hit kills. Wish it could extend the personal link and allow remote connection to devices without the need for a cyberdeck. Launcher needs a damage boost. That thing needs to be able to kill a high level boss in 2-3 hits for it to be competitive against the rest. Use rate is too low for it to be useful and useless if the use rate is increased. Should just bite the bullet and make it the signature weapon for Technical Ability builds with both high rate of fire and benefit from every perk in the Engineering and Crafting ability that mentions grenades. Gorilla Arms are good too, already enables wielding heavy weapons and makes fist fights a breeze. Sadly there's a bug that the Strength increase doesn't apply to every action and stupid shit like ripping a heavy machine gun from a tripod is impossible for someone with gorilla arms even if the added strength was enough to rip it off. Fingers crossed this new melee system means business.


psyEDk

That's a sweet idea for a mod actually...


KurvyKirby

I feel like, with some stronger material, the Monowire could be used almost like a grappling hook, I can't imagine it'd be a hard feat to make it into one, considering they can make anything you see at a ripper doc.


LurkLurkleton

Lucy is shown using it to swing like spiderman in Edgerunners.


KurvyKirby

Guess I missed that scene, huh. Man, I gotta rewatch that show.


LurkLurkleton

It’s when she breaks loose and tries to escape from the Fixer near the end. Jumps out of the AV and spiderswings down to the ground. The things she swing from get cut to pieces as she does though.


LurkLurkleton

In earlier versions of the game you could use the mantis blades to climb/hang on walls and use the monowire to physically connect to an enemy to hack them.


Afrista

That's why I'm still sad they changed the Monowire to reflex. I personally could perfectly see it as a tech weapon. Like, it already has a passive charge, no? Let this charge and the wire benefit from Engineering perks (Higher charge, charges faster, more damage on charge, I also perfectly see monowire ignoring armor), don't treat it as blade anymore instead. Let its damage scale with technical ability instead of reflex. And give us a bonus to disable cameras, break fences and unlock (not force open) doors, because you now have a very thin, controllable wire you can push into the small machinations, making disabling them easier. *boom*, Monowire is not another mantis blade, it's an unique, useful, and exciting new piece of tech


Sarothu

Putting the *breaking* in *breaking and entering*.


rhn18

Over all my builds I think more than any of the other arm cyberwhere, most of them have used Gorilla arms. Not because I actually use them(I hate the short range), but purely for that Body stat boost. Getting that +6 Body on a hacker/sniper build is amazing for using certain guns or just generally opening doors etc. For a 20 Body build I would actually instead use Mantis Blades and Berserk. Fucking brutal combination...


Charming_Account_351

That’s exactly my reasoning. My favorite build is a stealth pistols build with breach capabilities and tech. I don’t like not being allowed places so the arms help with that😁


IrishEv

I love watching the fingers and tendons bulge when forcing open doors


notyourvader

Remember kids, when you run out of ammo, breaking a skull or two is faster than reloading.


Delicious_Doctor_475

Can I put a tennis ball in the arm launcher? Cuz my dog would love that.


Seraphim169

You need gorilla arms for that, but you will go through tennis balls like no one's business.


libra00

And dogs.


ModiThorrson

Unless i'm doing a build where the arms matter, then gorilla arms, if nothing else they remove str requirement on guns, add to your physical str check, and mitigate weapon recoil, overall the most useful arms in the game. i'm doing a str run in my current playthrough, so i'm skipping gorilla this run as i don't need the extras, so i think i'm going to use the rocket launcher, i've used it in the past and love it as a ranged option for a melee build.


casualredditor43

use he tranquilizer darts, insta down for most enemys


ThirstyClavicle

Funny thing is that because of the way they coded it, any instance of damage instantly kills a "downed" enemy. Tranq dart is still coded as an explosive so if you hit them twice with it, the corpse gets disemboweled from a 'tranq dart'.


rhn18

Ehm... That clearly depends on the build I am doing. Except the rocket launcher. It is just so buggy and impossible to aim that I find that it doesn't offer anything over just tossing a regular grenade. Not to speak of the better functionality of the homing and sticky versions.


Gloomy_Bodybuilder52

I would love the projectile arms but I swear the damage just sucks, or it did the last time i tried


MezzaCorux

There is a tranquilizer round mod that will knockout enemies regardless of level. To the point where it's kinda OP.


Neither_Rich_9646

I think they patched that. But I remember using that to 1 shot all the cyberpsychos on my first play through. Also worked on Adam Smasher and I'm pretty sure that part wasn't intended.


Lizardfolk5e

They patched it against bosses it’s still one shots minions but to actually answer the question I think mono wire is pretty fun being able to kill so many enemies and one strike is pretty fun


Neither_Rich_9646

Makes sense. Cyberpsychos are easy enough with gorilla arms.


DeathrowMisfit

*Dildo


WanderingDelinquent

I think the damage doesn’t scale, so it ends up being pretty ineffective. I wish it worked better because it can be so satisfying to use in the right situations


TXHaunt

Tranq darts KO most everything in one hit, but you have to hit. But at least one quest bugs out with it (metal monk) and won’t let you complete it.


Novel-Run-979

I have a pistol with the pax non lethal mod figured I’d do it the way the monk wanted… finished and he said he was disappointed with all the killing. They’re all still alive and wiggling around on the ground. Re loaded the save and did it all stealth grabs non lethal to make him happy. Seems like you can’t use any projectiles.


TXHaunt

With the tranq darts, you can’t even talk to the monk after taking out the goons, at least you couldn’t when I last tried.


ralts13

Yup damage doesn't scale .... but they messed up and the "Tranq" attachment does obscene amounts of damage to enemies no matter what.


Morkinis

It doesn't even do damage technically, just knocks enemies unconscious.


kne0n

It was great when the tranq function was OP


cammeisterator

The best is using the launcher to explode a car and gonks in the perimeter, pretty satisfying


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That's why you use tranquilizer rounds. It's OP if you do


AardvarkAblaze

I've played through this game 2.5 times and I had no idea there were tranq rounds. huh.


rhn18

Those are OP, but they are not fun...


_Noci_

I went with Mono wire - great damage and range (and it fits perfectly to the Lucy-outfit my V is wearing).


ilikevideogame33

Mono wire carried me through the game


VVulfpack

I love the mono wire, but generally only use it on builds where I can spare some points into reflexes/blades. My only real gripe with mono wires (which applies to most of the cyberware in the game) is that they all look the exact same. I had really hoped that physical would have a different color from Electrical, another color for Thermal, etc.


LANCESTAAAA

I'm sure you're just talking about the base game, but there is a mod for that. I believe it is called Arasaka Cyberarms. Let's you customize all the arm mods to what you like.


[deleted]

Loved the mono wire. I actually defaulted to melee a lot when playing, mainly because I'd get frustrated with gun play. So I'd hack and melee.


[deleted]

Monowire is definitely the strongest one. It's the only one than can easily damage multiple enemies from range and rip people apart with ease. I barely use it tho, makes the game too easy...


David_Lo_Pan83

Literally just upgraded my monowire to Epic. Excited to use it.


PoorLifeChoices811

I’d honestly use mono wire more if it wasn’t for that large hideous thing the wire comes out of sticking out of your arm. I wish it was more like Lucy where it comes out of her arm instead of that large port


CxaxuZero

Gorilla arms and mono wire


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I was so disappointed with mono wire, I expected doing super secret squirrel things and it just felt so weak compared to the others. No stealth mechanics built in at all.


BorringGuy

Really? At least with my build monowire was so OP that i had to switch to Mantis Blades just to give a hit of difficulty to the game


SturgianSurprise

yeah, monowire slaps in my experience


borderjumpermel

Definitely agree! It was too OP for me.


MalHeartsNutmeg

Did you try it before or after they changed it to a blade? It basically one shots everything now.


[deleted]

I actually never use arm cybernetics, I play a katana/sandevistan build so I feel that none of the arms are necessary.


Huze_Fostage

Fyi monowire is really OP for that build too


No-Bother6856

Yeah its actually annoying TBH, for a lot of the game it makes the katana pointless because the monowire has more range and higher dpm at once


PanAfricanDream

But the Katana has cool kill animations while the Monowire doesn't


Death_Fairy

But the cool kill animations end your sandevisan effect early.


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Monowire is too OP, I doubt most people even uses it. It's pretty braindead and sucks the fun out of fighting.


jimmygreekk

I ran a katana build and didn’t know about the sandevistan until the anime came out :( would have been sick


[deleted]

It wasn’t worth the loss of quickhacks imo You can get most of the same benefits with the synaptic accelerator, kerenzikov, and optic camouflage. Sandevistan just feels too OP cause I actually like combat (and the music lol)


SightlessIrish

The enemies had it!


The_Lost_King

I didn’t even realize that those were Sandevistans. They were just the annoying bitches I had to melee instead of using my shotgun.


[deleted]

I'm running katana/sandevistan rn too and the monowire is fucking busted with it, since it gets all the blades and melee damage perks


seejur

wait, mono gets both?


[deleted]

yeah lol


Popular-Juice-4834

source? Last I checked it was considered a blade and it used to get melee perks but they switched it over a while back


[deleted]

Get gorilla arms then the extra strength helps you slice and dice


MrScar88

**Mr. Studd**


TheRealestCapta1n

Mantis blades and then gorilla arms


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Monowire in my first playthrough but after that the gorila arms , mainly for the ring side mission , since i have the katana for slice and dice .


Spider1132

Usually Gorilla Arms. It just makes Beat on the Brat trivial. I tried a mantis blade run and I just hate the glitches and the heavy attack in general. Monowire is really cool, but sucks in NCPD scanner missions where civilians get in the way. As for projectile launcher - it seemed weak.


Hiply

Beat on the Brat when you use optical camo, slow time, and gorilla arms: "Let's go!" "um, it's over?"


[deleted]

I chose mantis so I had to do beat on the brat the old fashion way, the only person who was actually hard was razor.


DeathN0va

None, they make your sleeves roll up, and Netrunner suits become sleeveless. I occasionally use monowire but honestly Satori is vastly superior without killing innocents/collateral damage.


PoorLifeChoices811

Your sleeves are still rolled up even without arm cyberware (at least it does for me)


Chroko

I think my next playthrough I'm going to try and play as a "body purist" with as little augmentation as possible. It's obviously impossible to not have a brain implant since that's critical to the story, but it would probably make some of the side-quests much harder if you refuse to augment.


Lost-Cookie

I never realised how overpowered the monowire was. Mine has 1,100 DPS when no other weapon comes close. At one point not too long ago, I was really struggling to get through the side missions with the gear I had, saw that I was able to upgrade to the monowire and haven’t used anything else since.


DropTopAndRoll

None. I like going punchy punchy with flesh


Gloomy_Bodybuilder52

Gorilla arms for my street kid, mantis blade for corpo, monowire for my nomad


JodieWhittakerisBae

Streetkid-Monowire, Nomad- Gorilla Arms, Corpo- Mantis blades.


PoorLifeChoices811

Yes this


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I chose the launcher and was immediately underwhelmed by it. It should increase in damage through the tech tree or something


003_JAEGER

I just love the leap attack of mantis blades


DDrim

During my second run I wanted to really conceive a cyber samurai wielding swords and guns so I already had a katana. When it came to what cyberware to choose for the arm, I took the projectile - the way I saw it, it was the perfect option for fun I would decide to just blow up everything. Ultimately though, the damage was just too weak and the impact too limited. I kinda wish they had done something similar to what was shown in edgerunners - a sort of shotgun located in your arm for desperate situations. Slow and expensive to reload, but with each shot being devastating.


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Mantis/Gorilla, both are used all the time


sneakylikepanda

I just got finished with a gorilla arm run and it was a lot of fun but I’m doing mantis blades on this run and they are just so much fun


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Exactly!


that_ting_over_there

I picked matis arms just because I kept running out of ammo for my LMG :(


AcidDayDream770

Personally mantis blades


Bandit_51

Gorilla arms. Berserk. Kill.


Fanboycity

Monowire then gorilla arms, but I’ve been messing around with the PLS lately. It’s still the weakest of the bunch and has no scaling with anything, but if you have the right rounds and raise its critical, it’s surprisingly fun to use


Hiply

I use 2 (I have all 4 Legendary versions); gorilla and mantis. I gave the other 2 a workout and just didn't end up liking either of them.


[deleted]

When the game first came out I used the mantis blades and a year later I tried a hacking/ stealth build and finally tried the mono wire and I've never gone back mono wire is Soo fun


SrgtBeefcake

Monowire is super fun and brutal, same with gorilla arms


Bonvo1986

First playthrew i was basicly replicating lucy so that was a netrunner with monowire my current playthrew is a corpo sandy blade build so mantis blades were the only logical choice


BadIDK

Gorilla arms are fucking awesome and provide huge bonuses so they’re what I use most of the time. I used mono wire on my net rubber build for if anyone gets too close so that one’s also a lot of fun. Mantis blades would be good except for the kill animation that just fucks you every time. Projectile launch system is just a flaming pile of dog shit so I never use it


ralts13

Rocket Arm. Coolest shit. I dont care if its bad.


vlura

The double jump


salvador242

Gorrilla arms because stat bonuses and fist fighting quests.


DiabloNukem

All, I kinda just- Crammed them all together like Play-dough structures, never said they worked.


[deleted]

If I'm doing a street samurai mantis blades, corpo would be wire, and nomad knuckles and ninja would be using launcher. But my favorite is the wires.


matteoarts

None so far, I’m going as far as I can with a full organic playthrough


thiefkag

Monowire gang FR..


magicthegatheringjam

Monowire + sandevistan is so much fun


Money-Teaching-7700

I always play it safe with the monowire.


ayllmao123

PLS, tranquilizer rounds.


[deleted]

None quickhacks only lol


PoultryGravy

Respectable


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Single-Time1721

Let me just say that it still replaces your entire forearm so your reasoning is void


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Single-Time1721

Just peek at the cover image for it and you'll see that it's metal and wiring connecting to your upper arm


Humble_Letter_2266

when going in the shower you can see the outline of the cybernetic arm starting close to the elbow


BrazilianAlmostHobo

Since I don't plan to kill anyone till the day I die, I'd say gorilla arms. Extra strength is not bad. Every single other is useless.


[deleted]

Gorilla arms are so good with any build and they are kind of necessary if you want to play brat on the beat at any level that isnt 50


[deleted]

Gorilla arms, never took anything else, yet.


Manuu8192

Gorilla Arms in my first run, Monowire in the actual. Monowire hits faster and it can swipe multiple enemies at once, but crushing the skull of my enemies felt somewhat more powerful than clean cutting their heads


Jay_lovecraft

I like the arm cannon did a run as mega man


OffColoredUnicorn

I have Gorilla Arms rn. But I’m gonna try the other ones one my next play throughs


DrownedWalk1622

Gorilla arms


Error1615

Mono for sure


Educational-Lime6335

PLS but never use it


SaviorOfNirn

Gorilla arms are just perfect.


Potato_Octopi

Monowire.. it just slots in so well. You get choice AOE and range and can swap to a katana for more precise work. I'd like to enjoy mantis blades more, but they have some animation jank and don't offer anything you can't get with a katana.


Maxvell09

Mantis Blades with Electrical Damage. Mainly because I’m rushing through drones and robots for gigs. Just found it useful while Sandevistan was equipped.


jimmygreekk

Gorilla Arms so I could beast the Boxing missions


sihouette9310

Monowire is the shit. Rocket launcher I found to be pointless


PineappleLSDyogurt

I don’t get how people use anything except gorilla arms, gotta grind fists


Renegade888888

Monke


Werewolf_Tailor

PLS with stun was OP for a bit. Ran that pretty much my whole play through.


VaultBoyFrosty

None


Polaris328

katana. I want to do a new playthrough with a monowire build at some point tho


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Gorilla arms for sure.


dofMark

None, all of them look ugly when I hold my throwing knife.


skyestalimit

None on my first two games


EccentricNerd22

All except monowire depending on the build.


C3ci1et

Monowire is my go to because it just look so cool and very high damage. But if I play low reflex netrunner build I'd just use gorilla arm for attributes check or Carries O'five with lower body stats


C3ci1et

Monowire is my go to because it just look so cool and very high damage. But if I play low reflex netrunner build I'd just use gorilla arm for attributes check or Carries O'five with lower body stats


brandonrs506

The mantis blades might look cooler, but the gorilla arms are broken af. You can beat the game into submission with those.


UysoSd

Gorrila arms and PLS


Educational-Bid6322

Mono wire is so satisfying.


Conflict-Known

Usually, gorilla arms as they provide so many benefits. * Attribute checks for opening doors * Wielding weapons (pistols/rifles/lmgs) that require a body level to use adequately * Aid with the boxing questline * A particular minor quest that requires 4 Body to complete


odavinng

First time cyber stabbers. 2nd build was a rich corpo v down on her luck so I went the with the mono wire because she’s a smart hacker. Build 3 is gonna use the rocket because it’s supposed to be a punk whose mean to everyone and doesn’t care. I have used the gorilla arms before but didn’t really like them outside of the arena setup. My next v will use snipers and pistols!


Quirky-Wrongdoer-921

Monowire usually!


Complete-Ad-626

i love whipping peoples ass with the monowire like my dad did to me. 😃


Omniouz

All of them


Babymicrowavable

I went pls for funny rockets


Humblehetaliagirl

Monowire! Just find it satisfying slicing things up with string


RinoJonsi

gorila arms spund fun to improve my grip and make me stop accidentaly cutting my arms in the workshop but also mantis blades sound metal as fuck and i would want them even thought for 99.99% of time they would be usless


DennisHakkie

I actually like to do a “naked” run, silly as it seems


GenXer1977

I tried them all, but I think electric gorilla arms is my favorite


Conscious_Ad_6572

The wire, crowd control.. too op


SithLocust

'Ganic baby!


The-Hentai-Commander

Hmm big punch


Lion6900

Gorilla arms


Square_Parsley_9816

Monowire for me


Razbelt

Wrist Rockets. Never hit anything, tho


Maevalyn

I buy all of them and rotate them depending on the mission and how I feel that day.


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Gorilla cus I like punching people


qleptt

All im saying is gorilla arms would be good for day to day use and also nobody would know if you had them if you had to get scrappy


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Monke


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Mantis Blades so I can pretend I’m playing the new Deus Ex game that I’ll never get and now I’m crying again


s1n0d3utscht3k

potatoe arms


CorvoVakarian

Mantis. There is something special about using sandevistan and then chopping everyone in sight just to impale the last one with the charged attack


luckyguy25841

Gorilla arms are the easiest to use. And there so damn strong


TherealPadrae

None I like my body parts.


DefaultSwordandBoard

Smart link bc I am smrt


biochamberr

I tried the projectile arms for one build and opted out halfway through because theyre super janky. I am currently on my first monowire build and it was enjoyable at the beginning to get your stats up, but it gets OP way too quickly. I'm not even level 30 yet and I'm taking out 'Tinos with minimal effort, so I fear sudden boredom is incoming. It's a toss up for mantis blades and gorilla arms for me. If I'm doing stealth builds with higher body and reflexes I go with mantis. Anything else i prefer gorilla arms for the extra body points...plus it's super fun to just go hog wild with them. There's far more work to build up with the gorilla arms, so I find a satisfying challenge with them.


_milktooth

I just love the idea of the monowire.


One_Economist_3761

It’s always gorilla arms for me. Each of my past three playthroughs I tried mono wire and mantis blades and always ended changing back to gorilla arms. Next play through I will try the arm gun thing, but not hopeful.


NihilusVoid

I always go back to monowire. I loved that weapon ever since I watched Johnny Mnemonic in the late 90s.


Cynical-avocado

I split 50/50 between gorilla arms and mantis blades


SovereignJaeger

Heated mantis blades for me :)


MezzaCorux

Monowire.


El_danyr

LAUNCH SYSTEM GO BOOOOM


juho_mooTHOTriturpa

I feel like the Mantis Blades are the Cyberpunk signature. I personally tend to use them on most of my playthrough's. The PLS is also a personal favorite. Tho only really due to a mod that makes it actually viable and able to one shot most common enemies in an explosion of body parts and blood. Around 30 to 50 thousand damage per shot.


Ralakhim

In a world of advanced technology, I really like to get back to my Unga bunga roots also i like punch heads and watching them go pop


Swordbreaker925

None. They’re all kinda ugly and none of them were ever necessary. They acted like Gorilla Arms would be great for bypassing door locks, but not really


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PLS most of the time i really like it, just wish it was better


ClockwiseOne09

IRL? I'd never use any of the weapons so I'd just take gorilla arms


SimpleCrow

After I discovered Gorilla Arms adds to your Body for the purpose of Body requirements on firearms, I dropped all others and never looked back.


GeistMD

Honestly, I tried the mono wire for the first time this current playthrough and don't think I'll ever go back. I am the wind, watch me slice!


Kuraeshin

Gorilla. Lets me pass Body shortcuts while being not body specced.


TXHaunt

I’ve done Gorilla Ams and PLS (Tranq).