Can You Beat CYBERPUNK With Only Grenades?

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[@jacksonhinkle5765]

The fact that Smasher is so heavily armored that anti-personnel grenades don’t even dent him is hilarious and makes perfect sense. He’s basically a walking tank, so why would a grenade designed to shred flesh and bone hurt him?

[@vavra222]

True, but then again, AbraHam took him down with his bare, fleshy fists... one punch at a time.

[@vBUMPERv]

EMP grenades worked well for me

[@ValGuard4801]

He may not even have organic pieces other than maybe his brain and spine left

[@declicitous1763]

@@ValGuard4801he has like 4% flesh left, it’s definitely his brain

[@antiope-d9780]

​@@ValGuard4801 Smasher canonically has a Sadi, since that replaces the spine its probably only his brain left

[@marcjustinpascasio9955]

Cyberpunk is just awesome man, I remember cars crashing to one another because of my sheer presence while walking in the street in Japantown.

[@abrahamsandwich]

So real haha!

[@sirtijedem]

this playstyle with like the mod for more complex and not instant enemy awarness seems like it would be a blast(no pun intended)

[@craftmaster300]

Doing this challenge in 2.0 would be a REAL challenge

[@patient0500]

The firebomb academy is proud

[@Spooksreal]

Fun fact: as long as you don't directly hit an enemy with a granade you won't be detected

[@abrahamsandwich]

Huh interesting!

[@ruane211]

Post 2.0 patch this would be super hard.

[@zacharyellis4843]

Grenade build so much fun so satisfying

[@majora8127]

you should try legendary weapons only. It sounds easy but I think it might be a challenge, especially in early game

[@stanimir4197]

it is easy - on the 1st mission, you let jackie kill 'em all. Then, you run to NCPD and collect the 'mission data shard', get enough gold to buy a legendary weapon off the melee weapon merchant near the flat (15k or irrc). And that's solves it, you can upgrade the weapon and just level up normally at that point; Pay $10k at all foods, buy a legendary satara and you have one of the most overpowered weapons.

[@albertnobbs5049]

Sandevistan + stickies = superawesomefuntime

[@abrahamsandwich]

Agreed 👍🏻

[@shadowwind0078]

never forget to mention the sub thing I have watched a few of your vids and always forgot too

[@abrahamsandwich]

Good to know! Thanks, I appreciate the support!

[@TK-en2hq]

my first time through I blew up brick without knowing what the detonator was for.

[@requiescat42]

so anyway i started blasting

[@kysimple1313]

Can you beat cyberpunk with one of the best forms of damage in the entire game? Er yeah probably.

[@kumulskiy_desantnik]

i cleared the secret ending with only grenades. GASH and ozob nose are op

[@abrahamsandwich]

It’s honestly so fun!

[@SqualidsargeStudios]

it's a same that the current game you can't do fun builds like these anymore...

[@laraib4138]

You didn't added Yorinobu and Saburo tap dancing in the video 😔. By the way would love to see a hands only challenge.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha, I’m trying to come up with other just as dumb jokes!

[@laraib4138]

@@abrahamsandwich the tap dancing joke was hilarious I laughed my ass off the first time I heard it and the scene matched perfectly 😂😂, btw love your videos.

[@YeosinMusic]

it would be fun to see how it looks to beat Cyberpunk 2077 using knives only

[@grifsin]

Yo, I've pretty much played my current playthrough this way - it's so much fun, tho it requires stealth (or at least I required it, but I'm not the best at the game) and quite a bit of practice with aiming the weird reticle you get.

[@MonstertruckBadass]

@@grifsin The perk that returns your knife on crit hit/kill is a must.

[@blair2251]

A knife only build is actually extremely strong ever since the ninjutsu rework. The bleed and poison damage is SO good.

[@YeosinMusic]

@@blair2251 indeed, knife builds are so fun and strong

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah could be a little too easy haha!

[@jacobh2629]

I think you avoided combat by not doing the reaper ending lol

[@cjputasso]

the Ozob mission is actually an Easter egg for the Brazilian fans of a cyberpunk RPG campaign. Love to see it in action. 🇧🇷

[@saintlucus2359]

Really when you think about it, the Johnny Silverhand memory is part of the run because you are just using a really big grenade in the elevators

[@LeeAndrewVideos]

"Its going to be a banger..... OK I will shut up" you had me laughing hard on that one, I just think you caught me off guard! :)

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha thanks! Glad you like my dumb humor!

[@yrga7195]

Would love to see a "grenade launcher" type of weapon that uses your grenades as ammo and obviously deals damage based on the grenade type along with their effects and probably additional bonus effects based on grenade launcher rarity

[@pencilduster2938]

I think instant detonation opon hitting the enemy would be cool

[@somerandombumframe4360]

Get a shotgun with a wide spread like the Headsman, throw the grenade at an enemy, don't move your mouse, shotgun it in the air when it's close to the enemy. Basically a bootleg RPG. If you do it with Ozob's Nose from Ozob's mission it's particularly ridiculous. You can also use a pistol (there's actually an achievement for doing that) but it's much more consistent with a shotgun. Just be careful not to catch yourself with the blast lol

[@combatpanda4264]

Dont the missile arms already do that. You have thermal rounds, chemical rounds, and emps rounds that explode on impact. Plus infinite ammo

[@pencilduster2938]

@@combatpanda4264 yes but think about the people that have no skill

[@ledocteur7701]

@@combatpanda4264 yes, but the missile arm sucks. what I want is a M32 rotary grenade launcher, or even just a thumper. an RPG like the one Panam uses would be amazing, but I can see why they decided not to include something like that.

[@DillonMeyer]

In 2.0, grenades are now charge based rather than a consumable, so that's nice. Now this challenge is much more doable, and definitely a lot more fun. You do sort of lose the ability to just spam them everywhere though. Grenades also have many ways to directly increase their damage, and even explosion radius. Also you definitely had one grenade during Johnny's segment at the start. It was just a really, really, really big grenade. And you did use it.

[@kebobbed777]

ITS BEEN POSTED!! Next he will beat 2077 using a sandwich as an input device

[@abrahamsandwich]

That would be funny!

[@KliffUndersnIII]

This vid exploded onto my feed. I felt like a missile, charged with excitement, I blasted the play button. Such a dynamite performance. This video was definitely, the bomb.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thanks man! I love making these!

[@shinocampo1850]

It was such a blast

[@blackshard641]

A real banger, no doubt.

[@HazeZeus]

No one let this man on a plane.

[@sanguinius6815]

Great video keep em coming! Would love to see a bit more about the builds whether you just mention build defining perks as you get them or in batches throughout the video. Would help give us a better sense of your progression during the run

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah I forgot to record spending a lot of my points so I couldn’t do all of it. I’ll probably do that in the future!

[@unoriginalname771]

“Hugs his father in the neck” got me

[@encaged314]

I appreciate that you have the boss battles in your challenge runs. This has me tempted to try a grenade run playthrough lol

[@abrahamsandwich]

It’s a good time!

[@MrLekorrigan]

It's actually insane how different the game experience can be, you had a bunch of pretty visible bug quite early, when I haven't seen once in weeks on my side

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah, I like them haha!

[@iloveowls1924]

Crackhead determination at his finest. Love it. Btw do u like owls? 🦉

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha! Yes I think 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ulukfuni]

throwing knives only challenge would be insane

[@SixWingZombi]

I've got a hilarious mental image of V running around Night City with a literal duffelbag full of nades.

[@DadGamingLtd]

I've always loved grenades, and almost always use a ton of them, regardless of my build. I especially love using them on my current pistol focused build. Dude is hiding behind a corner? Just lob a grenade past the corner and shoot it mid flight. As far as I can tell, it ups the explosive area and the damage. The dude definitely feels it.

[@aninternetuser4306]

This is very entertaining. I'm looking forward to your other hilarious challenges

[@thexlxx]

It would be cool if you did the secret ending for these challenges, with the mission being that hard and all it could really push the builds to their limits

[@abrahamsandwich]

That might be too hard for some haha!

[@qumanhero]

Awesome video man. Keep it up G

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thank you!

[@LordFluffy71]

My favorite part of grenades that just hitting someone with a grenade does a point of damage. Why didn't you use a lot of EMP grenades?

[@IGI_Media]

"Target has Corp Cyberware . . . and a rediculous amount of nades!!!" Nicely edited to avoid the "boring" with some nice nade explosion montages. Fantastic Vid bud !!!! P.S. where was that armadillo mod? inquiring minds want to know :)

[@abrahamsandwich]

The armadillo was where that guy in the box is. The mission where you get the iconic katana scalpel

[@Xero8644]

IF you did the Corpo path you could of just used the money that you get to preform the hit to buy all the food in the vendors as it does not take the items you have only the money you have, that way you could of had a lot more grenades at the start

[@xteven-11]

33:57 A missed opportunity to say “What a BLAST this run was” 🫡😪💥

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha! Whoops!

[@superiorrain9412]

Would be nice to see other endings but i love the challenge vids, keep them coming man!

[@abrahamsandwich]

I’ll probably do a poll in the future!

[@RRVCrinale]

I had an idea sort of as an open challenge to the comments section: the _Anime Accurate Cyberpsycho Run._ Sounds simple, right? Chromed up the ass, armed to the teeth, you versus Night City? Not so fast, choom. Here's what balances it out. 1: You are disallowed from retreating from fights, refusing fights, or using cover unless forced to by scripting. You have to barge in through the front door of all confrontations and are disallowed from using stealth. You _must_ emulate the full frontal assaults seen in Edgerunners. 2: You may only pick the weapons you start any fight with, and must use them until the magazine runs dry. 3: No reloading, ever, and any weapons you pick up in the middle of a fight, you must drop if you empty the magazine, or stop using them for a moment or two. You want to reload, you need to loot a weapon off a guy. 4: Looted weapons only. You do get to pick what three weapons you want to take with you into a slip back into cyber psychosis, but that's it. 5: Arm cyberware is only to be used after running out the mags on at least two of your three allowed starting weapons per rampage. This goes for other melee weaponry, too.

[@MetFreak42]

@25:48 Really, the point of getting Ozob's Nose is the fact you are killing bad guys with purple smoke and glitter confetti. That's just freakin fun and hillarious.

[@lobaoguara2332]

Could you do a sniper challenge where you try to beat enemies from as far away as possible?

[@rileymiller3154]

On a side note grenades are one of the only weapons that scale with your level outside of the arm implants and fist

[@FloridaMann123]

Would love to see this one revisited after the 2.0 changes to grenades.

[@VirtuousWanderer]

Wouldn't it be a more challenging challenge if he did everything for the secret ending?

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah probably, I was just tying to do it fast so did the first ending that let me fight smasher.

[@nicholaszollo4515]

This should be redone with the 2.0 update

[@ecbrown6151]

I do this for fun all the time, Sandevistan run in drop a bunch of nades and run out. Always amusing

[@DtWolfwood]

The qiant mk 4 is 12 sec for 25% time with 15 cool down. You can get the cool down to 2 seconds.

[@Peroroncīno-san]

how about no skills no armor and only a pistol

[@duhmitryov]

Lost my shit when sniper #3 blew himself up. I had that happen on my last playthrough. I went to go make a sandwich without pausing and eventually he aggroed right as I got back. I watched him dodge to the right and the window just blew out 😭😂

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha yeah he’s done it a lot to me!

[@nativecrisis3487]

Great video. It's funny becuase in the johnny and rouge ending, when I got up to Adam smasher I only used grenades and it took me like three minutes to kill him lmao.

[@RexDeorumYT]

I really struggled to figure out you were talking about Johnny, idk how you butchered that name so bad

[@nativecrisis3487]

@@RexDeorumYT I fixed it up, I didn't even reliase I did that lmao

[@rileymiller3154]

Hey there's this guy in pasifica that has a very powerful legendary iconic Sandi that reduces time to 10% for 6 seconds with a quick cool down time just in case you wanted a legendary iconic variant

[@abrahamsandwich]

That one is decent! I just wanted this one since it’s the most time slowed with a fast cool down!

[@rileymiller3154]

@@abrahamsandwich yeah I think it's the same one the guy in the edgerunner thing had or is at least a reference to it

[@morgan3392]

I'm interested to see how this challenge has changed in 2.0, now that grenades recharge, but you can only have 2.

[@Yunisca30]

You grenade! And YOU get a grenade! And YOU get a grenade! You all get GRENADES!! *everything explodes*

[@bergomynkia]

min 32:38, come to an end, you have decided to fail the challenge, just for Rebecca, using her weapon. I am touched, my eyes are bright 🥺

[@Torthrodhel]

It's perfectly possible to tank through the first forced pistol vehicle combat bit, with the van after the Dorset saving mission. I even managed to do it on a run without ever using a healing item (but I did begin with 6 body). Here's the trick. If you're hanging out the window of the car and look down and away from them, it makes their bullets really likely to hit the car instead of you. It's like cover. You take a few hits but not nearly enough to kill you. If you're doing a run where you can use healing items and with all the opportunity after that to build tankily, you can probably do all of the car combat sections without shooting anything. Probably. Not tested. I did try for that on my no-heal run but the one after Arasaka Tower was too rough to survive it. I didn't have all the levels and cyberware possible by then though so maybe if you did that? However the best 'exploit' would probably be to just allow yourself to use healing inhalers like you're meant to.

[@benjamintan6750]

you could have deconstructed your grenades before konpeki since it does let you bring in crafting components but not guns or grenades

[@isaacbrown7829]

be kinda neat to see a quickhack only run, unsure how easy or difficult it would be but it was for sure one of the most interesting mechanics of the game to me.

[@abrahamsandwich]

I definitely want to! But got another I’m working n now!

[@Some_big_black_guy]

It would be very easy though

[@akito6572]

This playstyle makes for a fun build if you add some (shot)guns to blow up grenades mid-air :D

[@jasenlun4395]

basically wizard built I SUMMON FIRE BALLS! THUNDER BOLTS!

[@nunyanunya4147]

did it myself... yes you can. if you have good speakers its VERY loud.

[@blas_de_lezo7375]

seams the real cheat is the huge amount of free healing you get. What about a run without healing items?

[@bearrett50kal17]

Kevduit did a naked with only grenades run and it was quite entertaining, just pointing out for anyone who enjoyed this video, it's a another entertaining Cyperpunk run to watch if you liked this one

[@aidynholtmeyer5792]

You should do it again now that the 2.0 update is out and you have a cooldown on them

[@Luna-Starwatcher]

I always liked how the grenades in this game weren't one shot, were more of a way to apply status effects or kick off a fight in a fun way. Throwing a grenade into a cluster of unaware enemies before using sandevistan is a blast (no pun intended)

[@Trekiros]

Stupid playthrough idea: the nudist playthrough. No gear (armor/weapons/cyberware/consumables) allowed except if the game forces you to have it.

[@WolfA4]

He is the evil midnight bomber, what bombs at midnight!

[@slickseviper9758]

what about can you beat cyberpunk using every weapon type only once (IE one kill with any overture variants one kill with grenades one stealth kill one thrown knife kill one proper knife kill etc etc)

[@abrahamsandwich]

Hmm maybe 🤔

[@ariesdemiurge]

Where the fuck were MaxTac while this cyberpsycho was runnin' around 'nading everything?!

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha true!

[@virotox]

8:10 i mean, a nuke is kinda like a grenade. a really big grenade!

[@KyleFinneyPhotography]

Honestly, this grenade only playthrough might be the most entertaining run. Seriously considering doing this myself since it looks so fun lol

[@abrahamsandwich]

It was a lot of fun!

[@naru3044]

“Plant your a$$ on the couch!” “Nuh uh”

[@stephenstonge7968]

This.. is essentially how l did my first playthrough. I found the blueprint for homing toxic grenades and could still disassemble drinks... so l basically was a crackhead pitcher for a while. 😂

[@flockingamer4957]

Beat cyber punk using only skippy XD

[@galaxy_panda_kat]

Justice for Rebecca 💖

[@SorAZkj]

Since 2.0 came out this is impossible

[@DMStraylight]

Projectile launcher only, and no cheating before you reach SC 20 to actually get it.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Hmm could be interesting!

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Entertaining challenge, but the reason it's easier than the others is that being a grenadier is one of the intended combat styles.

[@Vick-pp5qk]

Should totally try out “plastic pistol only”, pure insanity

[@green3814]

you talking about that pistol you get from river's side story?

[@JesterRosetherandombard67]

All foods you don't have to talk with anyone you can just start combat as soon as you walk in

[@abrahamsandwich]

True, I forget about that!

[@Ashlord__]

Cant remember the name but what about a run using only those vending machine weapons

[@abrahamsandwich]

Definitely going to happen!

[@Dymangel]

32:45 "And we took that personally"

[@Bistober]

4 grenades on 1 person was the max my game was dealing with before crashing

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah I knew my game didn’t like it but I continued to do it haha!

[@keiichi8191]

Bet your Engineering stat was nearly maxed out by the end of this.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yup!

[@LanceCSTCuddy]

Yo, these videos have been keeping me going the last few days. Keep it up, man. You’ve got the perfect vibe for these kinds of videos, and I loved the most recent bingo video, too. Thanks for helping me get through some tough times, man.

[@dyadica7151]

@8:04 Johnny does have one really big grenade in that sequence.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Fair point

[@deathbytouch4252]

Cyberpunk 2077 using only the slaught o matic

[@abrahamsandwich]

Definitely want to do this one!

[@theshinxgirl]

I wonder if this challenge would still be possible in the 2.0/2.01 Update lol.

[@abrahamsandwich]

I think it would be, it would just take a lot longer.

[@theshinxgirl]

@@abrahamsandwich now that I think about it yeah, just have to focus on Tech Ability tree to get all the throwable replenishment and capacity upgrades as soon as possible

[@N0strapapas]

As soon as I saw what this video was I was like "I hope he realizes the laser grenades will wreck the whole room." In my current, shotgun focused, built I have a pile of them and whenever I need to reload I chuck one and watch half of them die while I reload.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah I wish I had found them sooner they were cracked!

[@TheDugbo]

Justice for Rebecca!

[@bossdozz]

Aww man grenade only is my secret "alchemist" build

[@abrahamsandwich]

It’s definitely a lot of fun!

[@JETZcorp]

This run would definitely hit different after 2.0

[@abrahamsandwich]

Agreed!

[@COOLPEAK]

Justice for Rebecca

[@AndreaBassolino]

Go full random, what you pick, you use.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Hmm 🤔

[@fathearattack]

The light artillery play trough. Great video but I think you should be allowed to take the "pacifist" route on dialogue options (like the one with Royce when you pay him) but it's just my opinion.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah I just figure the point of these runs is to watch me suffer a bit so I want to make it harder if I can!

[@Bloodycupcake54]

Can you beat cyberpunk with no crashes?

[@abrahamsandwich]

Impossible haha! Honestly with a fresh install though, there would be no issues I think!

[@-zerocool-]

This game looks sickman, glad I have waited this long to play it.