Quickhacks are essential to the build of any Netrunner inCyberpunk 2077who wants to make a name for themselves in Night City, and some of the best Quickhacks on the market will topple empires within the right Cyberdeck. There is immense power in Quickhacks forCyberpunk 2077that should not be underestimated, as often the hack is mightier than the bullet.
Most enemies might choose to chrome-up with Sandevistans and powerful guns, but what of the V who has indulged in Intelligence and brought an army of Quickhacks? Now, that’s a V that’s going to burn Night City with the powers only a true Netrunner can possess.
8Memory Wipe
Keep Stealth Going by Preventing Enemies From Noticing V
Memory Wipe provides players with the ins that they need for total stealth gameplay, as it will make it so that players are untraceable, but only if players use it outside of combat. What this means is that targeted enemies are unable to notice the player, meaning they can get as close as they want todeal with a lethal strike.
Memory Wipe isn’t the best Quickhack, but it’s not the worst. Further variants like the Tier 5 and Iconic will reduce the upload time, and will even make it so that all enemies exit the combat state so that players can neutralize their enemies before they’ve even seen them coming, but it’s mainly a Quickhack for those who are dedicated to stealth.
7Cripple Movement
Disable Enemy Movement and Cyberware
Many of the gangs in Night City aredependent on cyberwareto get around, and as such, the Cripple Movement Quickhack is going to disable their ability to get around, making them easy targets to attack as they remain docile and vulnerable. On top of this, further variants of the Cripple Movement Quickhack will provide bonus damage to melee attacks, and even provide more health and RAM upon a Finisher.
The fact that players have an easy way to basically disable enemies and make it so that they can’t do anything other than watch V go cyberpsycho on them for over 13 seconds just proves that being a Netrunner can be extremely overpoweredin the right hands.
6Cyberware Malfunction
Disable Enemy Cyberware and Increase Their Vulnerability
Cyberware Malfunction might not totally cripple enemies like the Cripple Movement Quickhack, but it will serve a higher purpose against cyberpsychos and other criminals of Night City thathave too much chrome. Cyberware Malfunction will disable the cyberware of enemies, meaning those with Mantis Blades or Sandevistans are useless against the V that uses this Quickhack.
During these 10 seconds of vulnerability, those impacted by the Quickhack will also have a 5% increase in weakness to damage from all sources, so players can really go to town on them. Stacking this Quickhack means even more damage, and can totally disable the enemy’s cyberware and stack the damage dealt to them.
5Sonic Shock
Cloak Enemies From Others to Single Them Out for a Stealth Kill
With the right synergy with other Quickhacks, Sonic Shock can become alethal monster on the battlefield, as V hunts his enemies like ghosts. Stronger variants of Sonic Shock will allow players to cloak their targets from their allies, meaning that they are easy prey that other enemies ignore once players activate Sonic Shock to see them fry.
Sonic Shock might not deal the most efficient damage to kill them, but the stealth capabilities to effectively single out an enemy and kill them with a silenced weapon, or another Quickhack, makes it the perfect choice for the V who wants to stay in the shadows with each combat encounter.
4Contagion
Contagion is a lethal virus that will see players infect their enemies with toxic cyberware to damage them over a period of 6 to 8 seconds. During this team, enemies won’t know where the damage is coming from, and it can even stack between enemies totopple empiresof enemies before they even know what’s happening to them.
Combined with the Overheat Quickhack, the Tier 4 variant and above will combine this poison effect with burn to explode enemies, sending out different forms of deadly malware to enemies while also extending its time and damage dealt to make them all fall like dominos.
3Synapse Burnout
Deals Immense Physical Damage
For the brute Netrunners out there, Synapse Burnout is going to be the Quickhack for them. This is the perfect Quickhack tosynergize with the Overclockperk from the Intelligence Attribute, as it will increase the maximum damage bonus to an absurd 500%, as well as increase the time the enemy is affected. The Quickhack itself is lethal in all the right ways, providing near-instant death due to its stroke-like symptoms.
Uploading this Quickhack to an enemy might be a tad expensive, but the increase to damage is going to make sure that this is an enemy that isn’t getting back up, and if they are, they aren’t going to last much longer with the use of another Quickhack or a bullet to the brain.
2Suicide
Force Enemies to Take Their Own Lives
Perhaps the most morbid and yet the most hilarious of the Quickhacks is the Suicide Quickhack, which will force enemies to kill themselves. Those who upload this Quickhack will watch with a smirk as the enemy that they have hacked will subconsciously pull out their own gun and blow their heads off. It’s an efficient Quickhackfor those in the heat of battle, as the Iconic and Tier 5 variants provide a 10 and 20% health recovery to any enemy killed by this Quickhack.
Not only is it fun to watch as enemies inCyberpunk 2077put some iron in their mouths and pull the trigger, but it’s also equally as rewarding as it is sadistic, as players can recover their health by forcing enemies to take themselves out of the fight.
1Reboot Optics
Reset the Optics of an Enemy to Make Them Temporarily Blind
For beginner Netrunners, Reboot Optics is near-essential. To stealth players, there’s no greater Quickhack. While this isn’t a Quickhack to make enemies suffer from beyond the Blackwall, it’s still a nostalgic and early Quickhack that’s easy to obtain, and even easier to use, as all it does is upload a quick little hack to temporarily blind enemies for around 8 seconds, up to an extended 15 seconds.
It’s best used outside of combat so players can get behind their blind enemies and take them out via stealth, but even in combat, it can be pretty efficient, especially since getting a headshot on an impacted enemy will transfer the Quickhack to the closest one, while also providing a 30% damage buff thanks to the Iconic variant.
