Honestly, the best tip for Cyberpunk 2077 (if you ask me) is to refrain from purchasing the game. Cyberpunk 2077 is not yet finished and is so buggy that developer CD Projekt Red has apologized and offered to refund the purchase price. By the end of my review of Cyberpunk 2077, I can assure you that the bugs in Cyberpunk 2077 are something you'll have to get used to.

But if you're reading this, you've already decided to dive into Johnny Silverhand's world and visit Afterlife. Well, you're in it now: this game can get pretty confusing.

Having completed a good portion of Cyberpunk 2077's main storyline, I've learned a lot about how to live, thrive, and die in Night City. This is especially true if you chose the Normal difficulty level. This is especially true if you chose difficulty Normal. I did, and I found the game to be remarkably forgiving of recklessness, distraction, or both.

Aside from accepting bugs and glitches as a fact of life, here are seven things I wish someone had told me when I started out as a street punk.

Cyberpunk 2077 offers a lot of options for building your character, from cosmetics to status points. These are essentially character classes. The three options are Corp, Nomad, and Street Kid, which is a more trivial matter than one might expect.

Even when on the streets of Night City, the street kid dialog option was not very useful. It felt more like a condiment than anything else and was quite annoying. So pick the personality you enjoy the most.

Most of Cyberpunk 2077 can be completed with some skill (or even less if you set it to "normal," where the enemy AI is less challenging), but you often run out of RAM. No, I don't mean memory to keep Cyberpunk 2077 running smoothly (or not), but in-game points that can be used for hacks.

So when you fill up your attribute points ahead of time, don't assume you can get by with less intelligence. Enemy AI is suspect, so it's probably not worth sacrificing Intelligence to max Body and Reflexes; Cool is another attribute to watch out for, as it helps with stealth play.

The central storyline of Cyberpunk 2077 may seem very urgent, but if you want to get the most out of this game, you should take the optional side quests early on. As I have found, the mainline quests in Cyberpunk are surprisingly quick.

I realized this after I had finished most of the Act 2 quests and learned that Act 3 was on the smaller side. Cyberpunk 2077 has a secret ending, which is unlocked by completing the "Blistering Love" mission for Johnny and Panem.

Many of the technical environments in Cyberpunk 2077 can be a mixed bag, but if you see a rectangular interface on a wall, approach it and press X to see if you can jack in.

To make money, however, you need to increase your intelligence so that you can use as many access points as possible. Then, opt to spend your skill points on extended network interfaces (to make it easier to find access points) and advanced data mining (to increase your chances of a quick hack from an access point).

From there, it is a matter of understanding the rules of the breech protocol. Look at the "Sequence required for upload" on the right side of the page: these are the Daemons you are trying to upload, and in many cases there are a bunch of Eurodollars (Eddies) that you can get with the correct Daemon. In the left grid, click in order starting with the first row, the next pick must be from the same column as the first pick. Then pick the third pick, from the same row as the second pick. Pick 4, from the same row as pick 3. The process is repeated. There is a limit to the number of picks. With proper planning, you can upload more than one daemon at a time.

This may depend on the platform, but I have found that the larger environments in Night City look much worse when the world is up to speed.

Yes, in a game with ads that have you sprinting through neon-lit streets, Cyberpunk 2077 works much better when you move at a slower pace; if you have a PS5, Xbox Series X, or a PC with a brand new GPU, playing faster and looser You may be able to.

The same advice applies to drives, but this time we're not talking about bugs. The faster you drive (and these cars don't handle very well), the more likely you are to accidentally hit a small pylon, another car, or a pedestrian.

Perhaps the funniest part of Cyberpunk 2077's gameplay is that you can shoot an enemy in the head five times, only to see him run right up and attack you. I am not saying that these hit-and-run bullets are worthless; they do more damage than a hit to the leg, for example, but they are not a one-hit kill.

Also, the time spent trying to get a clean headshot would be better spent evading, reloading, or healing.

This is not just about glitches. I noticed that the automatic quick save in Cyberpunk 2077 often happens long before or after I hit save. So, go into the menu and flex your triangle (on PlayStation), Y (on Xbox), and F5 (on PC) clicking muscles.

That way, if "Cyberpunk 2077" crashes hard, glitches in a detrimental way, or does something you were hoping to avoid, you're ready to reload and rock and roll.