First time I’ll be playing Cyberpunk with mods! Every previous playthrough has been on my Series X, so I’m hoping some people here might have some expert must-have mods I need to grab?!
Appreciate any input!
First off, don’t be like me - either use a mod manager (Vortex with the cyberpunk extension), or be sure to disable automatic game updating - otherwise you’ll come back to your game after steam auto-updates it and wonder where all your mods went. 😅
Anyway, back to the list of mods I was running - no guarantee that they’re all 100% compatible with the latest update, but the vast majority of them should be. You also can’t go wrong checking out the Top of All Time list on Nexus - I’m sure there’s some larger overhauls there that are great, but not something I used.
- Vehicle Customizer
- lets you swap skins on player owned vehicles, so you can finally own those not-purchasable cool car colors that you find in the world.
- Pocket Radio
- lets you listen to the radio while on foot!!
- Sensible Stamina and Athletics
- I was playing a melee character and even so, didn’t get super high in athletics with this mod. I’d be scared to see how rough it is to level up athletics vanilla
- Immersive First Person
- Enhanced Weather
- Ragdoll Physics Overhaul
- Subdermal Armor Scaled Up
- Black Durable Synthetic Biker Coat
UI / Quality of Life mods:
- Limited HUD
- this gives you much more granular control over what appears, and also lets you configure UI elements based on game state (ie, show during combat or not during combat); combine with Muted Markers for even more customization.
- Minimal Markers
- Quest Untracker
- for untracking that “meet hanako at embers” quest without going into the menus
- No Camera Auto-Centering
- the camera re-centering after like 2 seconds when driving always bugged me, and this mod fixes it.
- Filter Saves by Lifepath and Type
- Smaller Item Arrows
Performance-increasing / bug fix / visual mods:
- Optimized Crowd & Traffic Density
- Optical Camo Bug Fixes
- Vanilla Billboard LODs Improved
- Misty Appearance Mod
- b/c honestly she should look way more goth than the vanilla game
Mods around increasing immersion, depending on your taste:
- Restrict Crafting/Upgrading to Inside Apartments
- what it says on the tin! I was trying to go back to my apartments pretty frequently to shower / sleep / etc so this was another way of nudging me back
- Street Vendors
- most of the street vendors will now trade with you!
Thank you so much for this! Your tips really help here. I’m almost ashamed (almost) to admit 99% of the games I’ve been playing so far have been non Steam games. So the, ah, ‘legit’ way of doing things is something I’m not so used to yet!
Sooo, are you able to explain how I turn automatic game updating off?
These are so great, I’m going to look through each mod you’ve recommended!
If you’d like to stop Steam from automatically updating a game, select “Only update this game when I launch it” from the game’s Library page > Properties > Updates.
So I think in addition to disabling auto-updates you have to play in offline mode once an update happens, or launch outside of Steam. at least, with Skyrim the script extender directly launched the exe so Steam’s “update on launch” wouldn’t happen, and I’m not quite sure what the correct way to do that for Cyberpunk is. 🤔
- Vehicle Customizer
Apart from the ones already mentioned I would definitely recommend Metro System for just wafting around the city. There’s also Virtual car dealer that lets you own some on-the-street vehicles, including some funky ones.
just FYI there is steamdeck magazine on kbin: @Steamdeck