Character Creation | Cyberpunk 2077 Wiki

Easy

The right choice for players who just want to sit back and enjoy the story. Combat will not pose a challenge.

Normal

Enemies will have all the tools at their disposal to take V on, but primarily only enemies at a higher level will prove a challenge.

Hard

Combat will be a substantial challenge. The effective use of Perks, Cyberware, combat gadgets and Consumables will be essential to survival.

Very Hard

Buckle up for serious challenge. Careful character development and clever use of items, game mechanics and the environment will be necessary to help V make it on the streets of Night City.

Nomad

Roaming the Badlands, looting scrapyards, raiding fuel depots - life on the road wasn't easy. But growing up in a nomad clan has its perks. Honesty, integrity, and a love of freedom - qualities that few in Night City possess, and no amount of money can buy.

Streetkid

They say if you wonna understand the streets, you gotta live 'em, Gangs, fixers, dolls, small-time pushers - you were raised by them all. Down here the law of the jungle dictates the weak serve the strong - the only law in Night City you have vet to break.

Corpo

Few leave the corporate world with their lives - fewer still with their souls intact, You´ve been there - you've bent the rules, exploited secrets, and weaponized information. There's no such thing as a fair game, only winners and losers.

Set V's Appearance

This tab of the Character Creator in Cyberpunk 2077 gives players the opportunity to customize the head and face of their character. 

Players first pick a face preset, which can then be refined further by choosing from ten different options each for eye, nose, mouth, jaw and ear shapes, as well as adjustments for skin tone and eye colour, and options for hairstyles and color, scars and other options. 

Attributes or Primary Stats

During character creation you're going to get 7 points available to spend into your character. You can't put them all into one attribute, but you're going to be able to spread them across the five Attributes or Primary Stats which are Body, Intelligence, Reflexes, Technical Ability and Cool.

Attributes or Primary Stats are locked in once committed to and play a huge part in how your character performs. Every attribute passively influences your character be it with stats, what you can equip or with conversational checks wherein you'll have an extra option available to you during conversations based on your attribute being over a certain threshold. 

Each Attribute contains a set of Skills. Both Attributes and Skills provide different bonuses depending on your style of play. Skill levels increase as you perform activities associated them.
The maximum level of a Skill is limited by the level of the Attribute that it belongs to.

Intelligence represents the player's knowledge, hacking and netrunning abilities, while Reflexes govern the player's combat and driving skills and prowess. The Tech stat provides the character's skill with crafting and knowledge of various hardware, and Cool represents the character's willpower and interpersonal skills: how they present themselves to others, and how they are received. 

Unspent Attribute Points will be lost and will not carry over into the game.