This guide will show the top 10 mods to come out throughout 2023, aimed at enhancing gaming experiences. These mods, when installed, offer various improvements or additions to the original game, potentially altering its mechanics, graphics, or features.
1. Equipment-EX
The Equipment-EX is one of the most popular mods because it creates a dynamic outfit system that allows you to create different outfit combinations. It also adds more customizable clothing slots and you can easily switch to other costumes whenever you want. You can also use different head mouth, and armor pieces for your characters.
2. Cyberware-EX
The Cyberware-EX mod brings a secondary operating system slot and additional cyberware slots into the game. With this mod, you can use Quick Hacks with Berserk and Viston which allows you to slow down the time or neutering enemies. It also brings some added slots in each of the major categories of cyberwar. Along with these extra slots, you will also get some higher-tier perks. You can create deadly combos to rip our enemies off.
3. Enemies of Night City
The Enemies of Night City mod adds new abilities and weaknesses for the enemies in Cyberpunk 2077. It will overhaul your encounters with enemies. This mod will allow your enemies to reset the cooldowns on some of their abilities or buff themselves up. They can blend with the environment and also will become able to break your hold on them.
This mod will also give them new faction-defining resistances. But patch 2.0 breaks much of the functionality of this mod. This patch makes the enemy AI smarter and they will also use the toxic ammo. They can use Sand Viston to get up close to your face. The netrunners will be able to use quick hacks against you.
4. Survival System
With this mod, your character has to eat, sleep, and drink to prevent the debuffs from getting applied to your stats. Now you can see your current values for thirst, hunger, and tiredness on your HUD. Every drink and food item will show how much benefits it will give to your stats.
This mod will also show you the impacts of getting a good sleep. It will change how you play through the entire game by providing all the useful information.
5. Stealth Finishers
Stealth Finishers is a very simple mod and the patch 2.0 adds new animations for the finishers. Now you can use any finisher animation to immediately finish off the enemies after successfully sneaking behind them.
6. Quick Hack Sort by Slot
Quick Hack Sort by Slot is a game-changing mod as it makes by process of changing the quickhackc slot a lot simpler. With this mod, you don’t need to change all the quick hacks slots, instead, you can change just one if you want to.
7. Stealth Runner
The Stealth Runner mod brings in an optional stealth objective to all the jobs in Night City. Like Hero, where you need to rescue the civilians held captive on jobs. You will earn different rewards after completing these objectives.
If you fail any of the objectives, it will no longer appear on your HUD. But you might not use this mod because it hasn’t been updated for 2.0 or 2.1.
8. Night City Alive
The Night City Alive mod adds gang patrols and gang jobs around the Night City. You will find gang members roaming around in sports cars and they will start gang fights anywhere in the city. It will be an organic fight between two rival gangs or other ncpds. It will make the city scary and it will also allow the civilian to join these fights.
9. Preem Weaponsmith 2.0
The Preem Weaponsmith 2.0 is a significant mod that brings the ability to customize crafted weapons. With this mod, you can customize double-barreled weapons and fully automatic shotguns to get the best results out of them. You can also increase the number of swings per flurry of the melee weapons. This mod is incredibly fun to use and you can fulfil all your customization desires by customizing different weapons.
10. Deceptious Quest Core
Deceptious Quest Core is surely the best mod of the year, as it discovered how to implement quests into the game. It will allow you to have some deeper moments with your favorite characters and also add some new romance options. You can also buy a unique brain dance experience to make the location more immersive.
