Can You Beat CYBERPUNK Without Attacking?

This run took so long and was difficult to find time to get it done, but here it is!
Check out my previous challenge runs!
• CYBERPUNK Challenge Runs
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[@abrahamsandwich]

So I forgot to mention in the intro, that I also won't be doing non-lethal takedowns. Been getting a lot of comments about it, and wanted to clear things up. If I could do them this game wouldn't be a challenge, so no point in doing the run. hope that makes sense! I'm going to stop replying to comments on this topic.

[@vinzo0913]

If you added a drink your name could be AbraHamLuncheon. Sorry, just thought I'd share my thoughts

[@xAshreal]

that and you also have bullets that normally arent lethal. kinda defeats the purpose haha good call to leave them out :)

[@angelman4374]

can you beat cybrerpunk without doing any side missions and assoult in progres. ony main jobs...

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah I think that’s totally possible!

[@angelman4374]

@@abrahamsandwich i would love to see it :)

[@karara5532]

Little did you know, Panam was also on a pacifist run

[@kikosawa]

truly a soulmate

[@kinsan89]

@@iamvmotherfucker 3edgy5me

[@thecatthatgotaway]

@@iamvmotherfucker so because my soulmate is lines of codes forming a picture on a screen that isn't even sentient, I'm stupid? Sounds like a skill issue buddy, git gud

[@thecatthatgotaway]

@@iamvmotherfucker clearly a skill issue, just get better man don't get mad and sad

[@thecatthatgotaway]

@@iamvmotherfucker the issue is to do with skill, i thought i made that clear bud

[@RowanTheTree]

Adam smasher when he tries to kill V but then feels his unrelenting love:

[@skyhisurvivor4724]

Adam Smasher short circuiting when he feels the unending love of Jesus Christ

[@gaelangaudette9576]

Johnny doesn't actually move anything. You can walk right through it, and if you look back at the spot where he appeared to grab that stool from, you'll see that it is in the same place it was when he appeared to grab it.

[@benjaminandrew9057]

Yeah he's kinda like in the movie The Invisible. Perception shows objects move but as soon as things are done and out of vision they go back to as if never moved.

[@WonderlandSnack]

@@benjaminandrew9057 actually it stays where your mind thinks it is until you touch the red stool and pops back

[@hotcocoaa6655]

God I REALLY enjoy watching challenge runs like these, they're so nice to just watch or have on in the background, but they're ALSO fun to watch if you're interested in doing these challenge runs and wanna know what this stuff is like.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Wow such a compliment! Glad you like them!

[@mmaaoorr]

@@abrahamsandwich Truly the only living legend

[@tropicalstorm24]

I honestly can't wait for the Slaught-O-Matic run💀

[@abrahamsandwich]

It’s gunna be tough!

[@Prplex.]

Rip

[@Dazza_Doo]

With Skippy?

[@justadummy8076]

Lol that’s what I did on my first ever run-through, I became a stealthy cyberdeck ninja using the stealth takedown but I’d always kill, & if I get caught I go guns blazing, quickhacks hacking, grenades flinging

[@hardcodedreborn9650]

​@@Dazza_Doonope, slot o matric from budget arms vending machine

[@brandon9689]

Crazy how Panam freezes up in combat. They must have nerfed Panam's aggression or fire rate. Probably because of how powerful Overwatch is.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah maybe 🤔

[@Dazza_Doo]

Overwatch - Meh ... useless, give me Skippy any day!

[@juliao9146]

I'm surprised how much you were able to do in this run, awesome job. Looking forward to the next one!

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thank you Julia!

[@viogo4690]

Possible Suggestion, Can you beat Cyberpunk with only Skippy without being a bad user? Essentially if Skippy asks you to return him run is over. Also an extra challenge with this, no need for it to be done, do Don't Fear the Reaper.

[@nicovelardita8619]

Installing the pacifist mod in the Optics cyberware makes the kill counting of Skippy freeze so it never asks you to take him back nor changes to Puppy-Loving mode Having that in mind you could easily cheese this run

[@viogo4690]

@@nicovelardita8619 Well then that isn't allowed. Didn't know that though so that's interesting.

[@TheZanzibarMan]

The difference between non-lethal and pacifist is rarely acknowledged in these types of runs, good job.

[@trkennel]

something like a sandevistan could’ve been useful here because while time is slowed, it slows down all your cooldowns too so you stay invis for much much longer

[@gustavsmg]

Especially with the 70% longer to see you

[@abrahamsandwich]

Maybe, but I wasn’t specked into reflexes. Also a lot of times I wanted to be in a combat state!

[@kronoscamron7412]

@@gustavsmg time slows for your enemies, not you, meaning the opposite , if you move in sandy, their detection will be much slower, to them its "what was that?" probably nothing !

[@Draugtaur]

so, Weyland is the strongest guy in the CP lore, not Smasher

[@abrahamsandwich]

Absolute mega CHAD!

[@kinsan89]

I feel like even a pacifist would finish off Adam Smasher

[@griplimit]

FYI if your a Corpo you can just walk in the Arasaka parade building if you persuade the guard on the far left.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Interesting 🤔

[@iamvmotherfucker]

Yeah and after you install the malware the whole building will be on high alert.

[@afriendofafriend5766]

There's so many little things you miss. When you're doing the fingers quest, if you don't want to wait in line, you can hack his computer and delete his schedule to put you next

[@rosshaikenleonen1416]

I have 3 complete corpo playthrough and I have no idea about this. WTF

[@andrei-cezarbleaje5519]

@@rosshaikenleonen1416 Because you never scaned the guard .

[@BenEphla]

Love the challenges you set for yourself, always great content from you dude ;)

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thank you!

[@mynameisntjoe3024]

it kinda reminds me of Black Morghan, he too didn't really kill his opponents unless he had to

[@gaelangaudette9576]

Do you mean Morgan Blackhand?

[@mynameisntjoe3024]

@@gaelangaudette9576 LOL, you're right mate

[@tripleshits]

black morghan 💀💀💀

[@peterbabicki8252]

_"You've been arrested for murder."_ _"I didn't kill anyone! I'm not a murderer! I just blinded people and let my friend kill them! I'm innocent!"_

[@abrahamsandwich]

🤷🏻‍♂️😬

[@STOPSYPHER]

I love how you cared so much about shooting the dude in the second Johnny segment, meanwhile you literally blow up 12,000 people with a nuclear bomb in the first sequence. Johnny silverhand alone is responsible for an event that’s only like 5x less intense as Hiroshima 😂

[@abrahamsandwich]

🤷🏻‍♂️well you know haha! Gotta do what I can!

[@green3814]

nah technically it's arasaka cuz their nuke was the one that blown up so

[@TheAnnoyedGoose]

I feel like we should consider the static discharge being used should be the guy getting struck by lightning for attacking a pacifist

[@brentrichards1200]

Johnny's memories have been modified, so you aren't actually killing anyone.

[@Leongon]

I don't understand why stealth knockouts don't count in this challenge. It literally puts people to sleep without causing damage. Only the dump box ones have you bash their head on the rim of the container if I remember, but regular ones just put the enemy to sleep without causing any visible harm.

[@Loserboy109]

it would make the run wayyyy easier that’s why

[@abrahamsandwich]

What he said 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[@gustavsmg]

Along with the police and maxtac being upgraded I'd LOVE to see some interesting work with netwatch being an issue somehow. Would be amazing if they were also a big deal. Like instead of ncpd missions there could be some really cool missions with netwatch I feel like somehow

[@abrahamsandwich]

I agree! I’d even like to see some random generated missions, so you can’t run out of things to do. It I doubt that would happen.

[@gustavsmg]

@@abrahamsandwich exactly!

[@justafox5356]

Watching Weyland solo Smasher made me wish he had more than like two lines of dialogue outside this mission. Even Nix gets two side jobs but the dude who follows you on one of the endings and is the son of a major character from Johnny’s past doesn’t even get a gig. Insulting.

[@Apple.Man.Gaming]

W to my man Weyland, was rooting for him to get the Smasher and not die

[@Ashidomus]

I found you yesterday, I watched all of your challenges and I can't wait for more. I might dip into some of your other series at some point as those challenges were so good. Keep up the great work man!

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thanks so much man! I’m excited to keep making these!

[@NotInsertIGN]

Brought me back to Cyberpunk I finished the game. Thanks man! Elden Ring still wants me to suffer though, not sure how much longer Cyberpunk will keep me.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Understandable, elden ring didn’t win GOTY for nothing!

[@pikadragon1520]

Yay! I'm early for once! Also, watching you made me get Cyberpunk and I'm having a lot of fun! Thanks!

[@abrahamsandwich]

Glad you like it! I think this game is great!

[@urusvesta1385]

its sad how weak is smasher for a final boss, i just russhed him with rare mantis blades and i didnt get down under 200 hp (hardest difficulty)

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah he’s a push over for sure.

[@dauntedcacti3713]

13:42 Johnny actually doesn’t move the chair it goes back to its normal position after Johnny completely disappears

[@mentalwig420]

You have loads of patience to do these runs

[@abrahamsandwich]

I almost gave up on the Oda fight but I’m glad I didn’t!

[@greendude0420]

Adam Smashmouth gets me everytime, also DMZ is pretty Grindy but more fun than Tarkov imo

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah been thinking of streaming it but not sure yet 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@FatalHog]

One run ide like to see is "can you beat cyberpunk with only stealth" Basically a pure stealth playthrough, the trick though being if you ever get seen by enemies you have to either die or load a new save. Personally I think this is bad enough especially for bosses, so maybe no weapon or cyberdeck restrictions

[@shimadag.956]

I have already watched a coupel of your videos but I think never wrote comment cause I thought you have a couple millions followers but apparently you dont so what I want to say is that I really Love your videos and appreciate your hard Work keep it up and btw. if its important to u its not cheating if its Impossible otherwise

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thanks man, glad you like the content!

[@takijeden7687]

>Beat Cyberpunk without killing >Nuke the city lol

[@abrahamsandwich]

I didn’t do it though haha!

[@joe970]

Weirdly enough i was thinking about this sort of challenge today...then come home to find this. There something i need to know....?

[@JosieJOK]

It’s unnecessarily hard. A sneak run where you’re allowed to choke people out and use non-lethal hacks (but not shoot them) would be hard enough on the highest difficulty without starting combat like a loon and then tanking ridiculous amounts of damage. It’s also not strictly a pacifist run, it’s a “let everyone else do the damage run.” Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely respect this challenge, and it was fun to watch, but I can’t imagine it was much fun to *play.*

[@medcen4955]

Wouldnt the zero damage run end at the nuke? A whole bunch o people took a whole bunch o damage. So much so it makes me wish for a nuclear winter :) (this is a joke)

[@JeepVsix]

15:24 don't have to be the gate, can just drive in, the car stops automaticly and disapears when you get out, at least it happend to me ones and since you repeated the disapearings i belive this to be repeatable as well

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah I think they just don’t was a car there for the cutscene and driving with Panam! Who knows🤷🏻‍♂️

[@damaxion5129]

Wish picking a life path actually did something like if you chose corpo you would start with and extra 10k or something and with streetkid you start with higher street kid and idk nomad has a car or something

[@rodhester2166]

I wonder if you just fired a gun at a wall with out hitting anyone, would that have made Panam shoot the other characters.. Maybe she was testing to see if V was worth her time.. lol

[@LeeAndrewVideos]

Loved this video! Always love the humor!

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thanks man! I enjoyed making this one!

[@afriendofafriend5766]

Not only can you get out of combat in the oda fight, you can kill him with stealth takedowns

[@Xegethra]

I guess if Jonny can lean on walls, sit in seats and even walk on the floor without just falling through them then he can't be completely unsolid. It's odd with holograms when they clearly do things like walk up stairs but oh no, can't open a door.....but you can touch the ground and the walls...I guess if a hologram has no "strength" but can otherwise touch things but not move them...but then there's the going through things, how can you not be able to touch things but also touch things and go through them. Holograms are inconsistent. Like ghosts, the rules seem to change for the scene.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Hey it’s kinda interesting how he interacts with the environment!

[@PlayerALH]

having v look like jesus and having a weapon called the holy bible that just burns people when damage is dealt to the player could be cool and weird at the same time.

[@grifsin]

So I'm at the Oda fight in the video and I low-key want to watch you suffer through that fight properly...sorry mate!

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha! It sucked so much!

[@AaronCorr]

I was kind of ecpecting for the feed to cut out and Smasher suddenly being dead of natural causes

[@bood3k11]

You could use katana and perk that lets you ricoshet bullets by blocking them with katana

[@TheWelmet95]

Weyland was the main character here. You are just NPC's in his world

[@TheNefastor]

Hold on a sec. Letting Jackie kill someone for you is *not* what a pacifist would do.

[@friccle_]

I think its funny cause in-universe, after months of senseless violence and murder, V now all of a sudden just goes “I dont commit big hurtie anymore!”

[@fable23]

Interesting run. I wonder if this would be possible with the changes made by 2.0? I can see a problem pretty much right away in the first driving section, as health items were reworked so you can't just stockpile and spam them anymore...

[@abrahamsandwich]

Well considering I just did it with a guitar I think I’d be okay on the first driving segment! But yeah the boss fights seem a lot less plausible.

[@Noise-Bomb]

I honestly still don't get how you guys see so many bugs in your playthroughs. I have almost 500h in the game since day one and haven't encountered stuff like this since 1.3 maybe 1.5. Maybe I'm just bad at finding them or I overlook them but man I would swear the game is totally fine for me except for some minor clipping texture or object if I search for them.

[@abrahamsandwich]

I goof around with mods so my game may be a little unstable. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@IGI_Media]

Order 66 to start the video . . like it !!! Hard to play as a pacifist, when you're in a game designed to make it OP to kill everyone. :)

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah it was super tricky!

[@FreebirthBoccara]

the hardest part about a pacifist run is that sometimes even withthe perks and mods to do non lethal damage... enemies just die..

[@mcboon3052]

No Cyberware and only one gun/weapon slot in the future maybe?

[@requiemagent3014]

Why didn't you combine the Qiant Sandy from Fingers with the invisibility? The slowdown time makes your invisibility significantly longer. Like at least double that if not even more. The Qiant also has a two second cool down with the heatsinks. So you can use the Sandy twice during a single invisibility use. Gives you like 40 seconds of invisibility or so. It's crazy.

[@abrahamsandwich]

I just didn’t need it to be longer. By the time I had it I only needed it for a couple situations. Also I needed to get in combat a lot and because I can’t shoot them, they need to see me.

[@Dazza_Doo]

I had invisibility and I never used it.. LOL - in fact I had Cyber stuff that I didn't know how to fit. Fun fact, if you put Skippy on Stone killer mode and then add the Non-lethal mode, Skippy doesn't lock up after 50 kills

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah that’s what I’ve herd! Kinda cool!

[@bignice9050]

I'm convinced he likes to make himself feel pain

[@abrahamsandwich]

🤔 maybe

[@HighTroop]

I just love the RWB Porsche, fits so well in the game...great video also!

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thank you! It’s kinda a dream to own one some day, I think there sick!

[@p0k3mn1]

You should have been able to attack robots and drones atleast imo

[@bigcheese370]

I’m convinced you don’t update your game cuz I dont see any of the glitches you have.

[@abrahamsandwich]

I play around with mods so my game is a little unstable I think. I like it though!

[@dyn9726]

Hey Abraham love the vid, i really enjoy it. I would like to suggest you do a OverPowered Builds Challenges like doing with specific weapons, similaryly like the Skyrim OP builds videos.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Could be a good idea!

[@meroplankton266]

as a pacifist myself I can confirm that, as a workaround, I often bring my friends along to do violence for me

[@Vartazian360]

The answer appears to be yes for most situations, but no 11:04

[@abrahamsandwich]

I was actually surprised how much I could do with out having to do word things like the micro generator!

[@zikzero6]

Not a bike, but she just can still ride it 😅

[@Anarkisti.]

What if you would have used people as meat shields when grabbing them and let them shoot each others? :D

[@abrahamsandwich]

So I tried that. They can’t damage each other 🤦🏻‍♂️ it was annoying haha!

[@Anarkisti.]

@@abrahamsandwich aa okay :D wtf why does the game say sometimes you can use enemies meat shields but then they can't damage them kinda lame :D

[@abrahamsandwich]

They get knocked down, but they don’t take damage 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Anarkisti.]

okay odd :D but must say that damn these yours challenge run videos have been enjoyable to watch when playing the game for myself recently cause you have good game knowledge and good commentary! :)

[@abrahamsandwich]

Thanks man!

[@TheMMObro]

When johnny moves things, just assume he's controlling the body there are a couple scenes where Johnny interacts with things and V mimicks the action. U definitely don't see V move that stool though

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah I wonder if it’s v moving it or Johnny messing with our vision and is moving a digital copy or something 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ruvend2581]

@@abrahamsandwich once johnny disappears the stool is where it actually stood without him interfering. You just imagine it

[@LarsEspen]

I absolutely love these kind of videoes, i wish i saw more of them, and it inspires me to try some of these challenges myself :)

[@robertharris6092]

21:55 its a turret. You cant "kill" a turret.

[@tylerdowns1470]

PLEASE DO A PUSH ONLY RUN. YOU CAN ONLY PUSH PEOPLE TO DEATH. PLEASE!!!!!

[@abrahamsandwich]

oh gosh, no clue if that would even be possible.

[@DrDAC-go7hs]

What is the Porsche mod in the intro? Edit: RWB mod, got it.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Just put it in the description if you need!

[@peniel2527]

I am so confused to why you didn’t do any non lethal takedowns.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Look at punned comment!

[@aaronlauretani8921]

I have no idea why your game is so much buggier than mine.

[@abrahamsandwich]

I goof with mods some times so I think there’s just some weird stuff going on. But I love it so I’ll take it!

[@GuardianKikko]

Would love to see a challenge where you use stealth as much as possible

[@abrahamsandwich]

Could be interesting! 🤔

[@afriendofafriend5766]

I've done a few stealth playthroughs. Sniper rifles, hacking, a d throwing knives. They were all very fun.

[@Ildun]

So it's not ok to deal damage but enemies survive but it's ok to let your companion kill them...I'm...appreciate you point this out in first few minutes.

[@BlackRainEntertain]

you know... cars ... are people too... 31:40 my game used to crash there pretty often too in the past. usualy that happends when nvidia wants to update a driver i think xD i didnt even know you could find weyland there at the end XD

[@VladimirDemidovIllusiveMan]

Did you check if being a pacifist unlocks anything related to the statue and FF:06:B5?

[@Johnny_Shields]

Use stealth non-lethal takedowns that don't have damage numbers with a rule to not reset if caught. And if you were going to use the static discharge, why not just grab the sleep cyberware? It might actually be possible to beat the game without a single damage number.

[@ZoeLycan]

dunno why for Placed and Oda you didnt went stealth and knock them out from behind. maybe take out the cyberpsychos same way for extra exp

[@salamanderavem3782]

Oh it’s already done…YAY didn’t know you did it..I love thes runs cause it’s always breaking the intention of the game

[@Sopranos990]

I’m stuck humming that combat theme where it’s like “ duh duh, duh duh duh duhhhhh”

[@mysterious_monolith_]

The challenge I set for my self on my current playthrough, is absolutely no netrunning, and I did not apply perk points or attributes until level 45/50. The reason I did that is because I know I can only reset my attribute points once per playthrough, and I wanted to experiment with some endgame build suggestions I've found on youtube. Drones & Robots were the most annoying thing to deal with since they aren't really susceptible to headshot damage multipliers, and I couldn't use short circuit on them. I found that the AGAOU Iconic throwable axe was great for drones, since it emits a shockwave on crits, and I have cockatrice eyes boosting crits.

[@CottonPuffFluffer]

Weird audio glitches

[@JJJnl]

When entering that arasaka base as a corpo you can just talk your way in by talking to the guard and they let you in without challenge , so you didn't need to jump 😉

[@tickledpickle5671]

40:34 Rogue is usin the special "Finger gun" from Dead Space 3. Yes... There is an achievement in DS3 where you literally... get a finger gun.. Complete with your character literally doing the "Pew Pew" and they "Shoot"... Did I mention said finger gun one-shots virtually everything in the game?

[@ScaroBloodblade]

@AbraHamSandwich, You do know that you could have just knocked people out since pacifism doesn't say that you aren't allowed to attack, Purist Pacifists are the one's who don't do any harm. I will admit this wasn't the best thing to watch since there was zero action, I love the video's and I do enjoy watching them but ones where you don't do anything to anyone can be very boring also don't do the Slaught-O-Matic challenge since there is a reoccurring bug that makes you automatically drop the gun over and over again.

[@maydaygremlin]

Ik this vid is 1 year old already but 26:25 "Subject is refusing to cooperate" im surprised he didn't yell "Thats what im saying!" lol

[@olafpayne]

This is how I played Skyrim and Oblivion. In Cyberpunk, I just want to drive around. How open is the world for diving without much story progress?

[@quietandsimple5134]

"And once again I check if my car will disappear against that fence" Dude... I sat there eating my dinner and smiling like I was just listening to a friend after watching all of your challenge runs over the last 2-3 days and seeing you do this over and over :D

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha thanks man! Glad you enjoyed!

[@ruvend2581]

The stool that Johnny moves actually never moves. Once Johnny disappears it is once again where it was before Johnny touched it

[@imaseal]

Yay! I’ve been waiting for another cyberpunk video

[@O-D-X]

Did you not even allow yourself to do the non lethal takedowns??? Because the first mission in the apartment is a breeze with the non lethal takedown which also does no damage number.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Yeah but that would be intentional taking them out 😬

[@O-D-X]

@@abrahamsandwich Even a pacifist monk will take out enemies with submission holds. The monk that you save on the one mission is just thankful you didn't kill anyone, and you wouldn't be able to use that in every mission, but it would have made a few of the missions less aggravating.

[@abrahamsandwich]

Haha exactly, when I watch challenge runs I want to see some suffering!

[@IknowimbadJg]

weyland is the only night city legend here

[@abrahamsandwich]

Agreed!

[@Chronix-]

Cyberpunk made it easy to do no-kill playthroughs. Try doing RDR2 no-kill. Good luck with that!

[@NoobyNot]

What's your pc specs? I'm curious as to what settings you run at!

[@abrahamsandwich]

I have a 3080ti 64gb ram and ryzen 7 3800 I usually keep my settings on preset medium.

[@slavik_toast]

Let me Guss ure cerakter is frech because why else should he run away from evry feihgt possible

[@476f7474]

Wow, you let Jackie shoot them? You're even directed to do sneak takeouts and those can of course be done non-lethally. So you could have done this without any casualties actually xD

[@darthplagueis13]

Man, am I glad that the final boss is just Adam Smasher and not Weyland. Otherwise, the game would be impossible.

[@progeniesofthetoiletpaperh6433]

after that run, Weyland should be the one at the top of the Afterlife. bro literally took all of Arasaka +Adam 😂

[@MazedAngel]

"yorinobu tries to kiss his dad"

[@NteyDK]

Why dony you allow yourself to stealthgrab enemy from back-nonlethal takedown? it does not do damage, and more pacifist than rely on jakie to kill an enemy?