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r/cyberpunkgame•
MaxFool

PSA: skill tree is not a tree

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Despite their choice to present perk nodes as connecting to each other in a skill tree fashion, that is just an illusion. If you have enough attribute points, you can pick any perk, it does not have to connect to any previous perks. So for example if you have invested heavily in crafting and have level 20 technical attribute points, you don't have to spend any other perk points in engineering and can go straight to picking level 20 perks which give great bonuses to tech weapons.

So don't waste your perk points in a node you don't want thinking you need it to get access to a higher node you want. I don't mind this system, but I certainly would have wanted to know it works like that and not the way it's graphically represented.

Posted Dec 15, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

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Ryastor•

Oh, wow, thank you so much. I didn't realize this.

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djau444•

Why would this bother anyone, there are multiple attributes that need to be progressed anyway.

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GruLol•

I do not remember anyone saying it is like a tree. Also when you look at individual perks it says unblocked at 10/12/14/whatever number so I don't know when idea about a tree come from. I knew it is not a tree first I looked at it.

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MaxFoolOP•

If it's not a tree, why do the nodes connect to each other? The point in presenting them that way in skill trees is to make you understand which nodes you need to have to get to the node you want. If you can pick and choose freely there is no point in connecting them visually, it will only confuse people when they start the game and make them think they need to connect the nodes, and many won't notice it until they have spent several points in perks they don't actually want.

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Blazing-uk•

It's quite clearly a thematic choice. It's like a circuit board, anyone who actually reads the tooltips understands that it isnt a tree. Skills are just gated by stat level.

Is outrage fishing fun?

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vegetaalex66•

I also had no idea and am grateful for this thread. I did actually read the tooltips. It was still possible they were gated by stat level and connection in the tree. Also there is no outrage here, just a guy helping out others with a tip, lol

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MaxFoolOP•

Is outrage fishing fun?

The reason I made this thread was:

Oh, wow, thank you so much. I didn't realize this.

It's rather obvious that many people will make the same mistake I did, and if they are made aware of this they might actually be a little bit less frustrated with the game.

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