03-29-2022, 10:41 AM | #21 | |
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Re: Please Help: Cyberpunk Style Humanity
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03-29-2022, 11:15 AM | #22 |
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Re: Please Help: Cyberpunk Style Humanity
I don't know, I still think that "Humanity" is a core concept in Cyb2020/Red but it must be a game theme in addition to being a game mechanic.
Cyberpunk has deadly encounters and health mechanics to reflect permanent injuries. Installing Cyberware is a both a power level check, a game style balance AND a player choice.
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03-29-2022, 11:37 AM | #23 |
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Re: Please Help: Cyberpunk Style Humanity
Not true. Cyberware was being bought with cash and humanity. Which given that humanity can be bought with points is the same thing with extra steps.
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03-30-2022, 02:22 AM | #24 |
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Re: Please Help: Cyberpunk Style Humanity
Regarding CP2020, wasn’t recently revealed (retconned) in Red/2077 that all the cyber psychosis stuff was just from faulty prototypes being pushed onto users?
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03-30-2022, 03:22 AM | #25 |
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03-30-2022, 03:25 AM | #26 | |
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03-30-2022, 10:55 AM | #27 |
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Re: Please Help: Cyberpunk Style Humanity
Red only applies the humanity cost to voluntary cyberware, not to medical/corrective cyberware. The idea being that fixing a problem makes you “whole” and doesn’t affect your sense of self, but upgrading is treating your body like a thing and if people are just things then over time moral worth stops applying to them. Basically.
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03-30-2022, 11:17 AM | #28 | |
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Of course, cyberware needn't be voluntary to cause cyberpsychosis - one of the cyberpsychos you need to pacify as one of the "Cyberpsycho Sighting" sidejobs is a person who Maelstrom thugs kidnapped and purposefully heavily-implanted just for fun (although in that case, arguably the cyberpsychotic break was due to the character essentially being tortured, rather than just having too many implants). Of course, several of those missions involve characters who may well have suffered psychotic breaks for reasons largely unrelated to their cyberware - I believe the former Tyger Claw who was hunting and killing his old associates had recently found out said associates had murdered his girlfriend, for example, and there's a war veteran who's daughter was turned into a "Doll" by one of the gangs (I think the Tyger Claws, again), and is similarly hunting down and killing them.
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