The future is bad.
The release date of Cyberpunk 2077 is postponed until September 2020, and now is the best time to consider playing Cyberpunk in its original form: as a desktop RPG.
From the dirty world seen in books like Phillip K. Dick's "Blade Runner" and William Gibson's Neuromancer, the main background of the cyberpunk world is the high-tech spread of Night City.
Here, the sky exudes cracked neon lights, a group of steel cast from flesh and bones, roaming through a fragmented urban wilderness, while large companies spread cyborg assassins from glittering skyscrapers.
The people of Night City mainly rely on their own seed-like corporate hegemons to maintain their livelihoods, and today they have reduced to high-tech hedonism, such as the beauty of biosculpting through the local Ripperdoc. Food is a weapon purchased from a vending machine, and a rich driving car driven by telepathy.
Beyond the city's borders, there is wasteland, an abandoned area composed of rotting ruins, barbaric gangs and nomadic nomads. Outside the dirty meat space, the virtual plain lingers like the dark world of cyberspace. Entering here without restraint will blow your brain like a tired CPU.
At the same time, the invisible digital ghost speaks through the chips on the skull. Plus, most people are obsessed with brain dance: shows like immersive virtual reality take you to the ubiquitous world, from exotic adventures to the sights and sounds of being a serial killer directly.
In this world, morality-a bit like reality-is completely relative. When you are passionate about survival, values such as good and evil mean troubles-in cyberpunk, your destiny may be worse than most situations.
Compared to most desktop brothers, cyberpunk isn't reduced to fantasy, heroic heroes, or even science fiction. It's always ingrained in its own dirty streets, where organ collections, character clones, and various cybernetic limbs are everywhere-usually nothing more than necessary to make them better kill and / or hackers.
Just like the theme of the entire cyberpunk game, the theme of the desktop RPG is more stylish than the future. Contrary to our splendid visions of technological progress or sincere gatherings of oppressors, human behavior has gone wrong. In Cyberpunk, you may not save anyone at all, including yourself.
Cyberpunk said that the future is here, my gosh, it's terrible.
However, it guarantees that in the night city, just like your laser eye and razor-tip finger, everything can change.
Dirty and fantasy heroes
Here you are someone like a hero. Unlike most new Lutheranians who have tried to count down in the past, or most people who are hungry for the next fugitive, you bring the future to its gleaming coil; prepare to dive: cross the network, break into the future, and not always It takes two-handed guns to shoot.
Cyberpunk has 9 character types. You may play Rockerboy to use songs and rhetoric to achieve success, or to play Netrunner: a cybernetic master hacker who gives a whole new meaning to the word brain burning. Maybe you can roam the technical barbarians of the warriors with nomads, or as a technique to repair meat and metal.
Mechanically, each character has a set of statistics, usually from 1 to 10, outlining everything from your combat skills to your overall level of calmness (yes, seriously).
Depending on the physical state that determines your body's toughness, you will also get health. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, HP in Cyberpunk includes a steep wound threshold. This means that if you suffer a lot of damage, all skill checks will be negatively corrected.
As you might expect, cyberpunk battles are brutal. In the original Cyberpunk desktop RPG, dismemberment and explosion were key parts of the battle. There are some terrible ways to go, especially when you consider the extended range that ordinary night market citizens might want to pack.
In addition to bare fists and a variety of explosive weapons, you can also use a variety of cyber weapons-including things like network optics to improve your vision, and the imaginative headline "Internet Audio", which can basically turn you Radio receiver for meat.
Be wary, though, as your futuristic tools can cause terrible cyberpsychiatry-it sounds like a bad thing for anyone, especially if the lunatic who clings to the metal case starts shooting at you.
In addition to fighting, you can also enjoy a hack called Netrunning in Cyberpunk. So, while other members of the group may sneak up on a company building, the network administrators of the group will be there, blowing up cyberspace. That said, this is a risky attempt; it is not only time consuming, but it may prevent you from defending your program. In addition, death in cyberspace can ruin your brain and leave you with nothing.
Although mirrored shadows and sturdy leather jackets won't help you defend against dragons, they are basically essential in cyberpunk. Even before it's deadlocked, you can do a calm and reputation check to see if you can scare your opponent. As everyone knows, in the face of losers, anyone who loses will get negative data because they are afraid to do better.
And this style can not only extend to clothes. It affects the flesh of the bones. Maybe you want to look at a local network technology chain store, such as the apt Bodyshoppe. Even free medical centers like Docs R Us ™.
One of these enhancements is something exotic-you can grab everything from the tail that grows out of the barrel to the shimmering scales. With the latter, your new skin will have a 10% chance of mutating to cancer.
Not to mention all the techniques that can be ported to the body. Whether it's using nervous system software to help you remember the date of your appointment, hearing enhancement or a 3-inch glass claw can stab you.
Future history
Cyberpunk was originally conceived by designer Mike Pondsmith in the 1980s, and so far it has seen two versions: Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk2020. As a result, Cyberpunk 2077 has even pushed the series to a distant future with its own standards of knowledge.
"Night City" will play an important role in the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 video game, which is a direct continuation of the Cyberpunk desktop RPG storyline, away from the previous version of Cyberpunk 2020 About 50 years.
Where to buy Cyberpunk
You can extract Cyberpunk Red in PDF format from DriveThruRPG, so you just need to pick up your own dice.
You can find paperback Cyberpunk 2020 on Amazon through third-party sellers, but it's not cheap. Attention should also be paid to the Talsorian store for replenishment of Cyberpunk 2020, but given the renewed interest, it is expected to be sold out soon.
The upcoming Cyberpunk red desktop RPG will be launched in 2045, before Cyberpunk 2077 takes place, and after the release of earlier desktop versions of Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk 2020. So it's a prequel to video game settings.
So how do you actually start playing games in the unreal world of cyberpunk RPGs? Well, it turns out that in addition to the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 and Red, we already have the new Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit, which is a starter kit for the latest version of the desktop RPG, with Predecessor characters, ground rules and lore ideal features for beginners.
The Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart toolkit takes place in the ashes of the Fourth Corporate War (same timeline as the upcoming Cyberpunk Red)-its name comes from the scarlet sky left by nuclear dust and space weapons.
All large companies have retreated to recalculate their assets, while everyone else is idle and in a broken, dangerous world. The joy of unfettered capitalism has never been more obvious.
The full version of Cyberpunk Red (instead of the Jumpstart suite) will land sometime in the future, and the release date has not been announced.
Even so, before the advent of Cyberpunk 2077, desktop RPGs still allowed you to plug that cable directly into the headphone jack and use pencil, dice, and cold imagination to open the way to the night city-no Xbox, PlayStation, PC or otherwise.
This article is from Dicebreaker, our nerd friend-check out their website for everything on the desktop and dice. They also have a very good YouTube channel.
