This guide will show you how one can create a male V within the character creator that appears like David Martinez, the protagonist of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime, in addition to where and how one can obtain different clothing items to match his outfit and Cyberware to play his construct!

Essential note: This guide goals to create as perfect and authentic character in Cyberpunk 2077 as possible. In each section below I’ll list some alternative options which will increase your construct’s power and features on the expense of being true to the anime character from the Edgerunners series.

Lifepath Selection

We all know that Lifepaths in Cyberpunk 2077 don’t provide significant unique opportunities, but when you desire to stay true to David’s character from Edgerunners, you will have to play with a Streetkid origin.

David is a typical kid from Santo Domingo. There’s hardly any higher option than Streetkid to play if role-play is your top priority. Plus, you will notice unique dialogue lines and a few mini events here and there that differ in comparison with other lifepaths.

If you will have already played that lifepath and need to explore other options, neither Corpo nor Nomad will break the David Martinez Construct you might be going for. It’s a matter of private preference and is dependent upon how much of a role-player you desire to be.

Character Creation Process and Notable Decisions

Some elements of David’s appearance have several great options while others don’t have a powerful match.

With what is offered within the character creator, clothing department and even gear, I’ll list every part you should use and explain why these are the most effective selections.

After all, at the tip I’ll summarize things and present you with a listing of things to do to get the most effective matching result.

Skin Tone and Skin Type

David’s skin tone is barely pinker than any of the choices available, but I feel Skin Tone 1 and a couple of offer an identical level of brightness.

There isn’t a transparent match for Skin Type. The fifth option offers very even skin with none blemishes that matches higher with the dearth of detail present within the anime style, however it comes with a beauty mark that David doesn’t have.

Type 1 has more details that match closer to what a median person looks like without adding anything more substantial.

Hair

David’s hair is characterised by being quite tall and spiky on the highest with a tough fade on the side that has a definite pattern. There are 3 hairstyles which are quite just like David’s hairdo, but each deviates in a single way and it’s also not possible to match the pattern in his fade.

Option 18 matches the most effective from the front by way of overall style, but David only has hair on the highest of his head; he doesn’t have the rat tail:

Option 15 nails it by way of overall volume and cut, while also featuring a novel fade on the neck. The one drawback is the hair is so much more styled and manicured, like a hedge at a Corpo’s house, in comparison with David’s random bush growing out of the sidewalk:

Option 38 lacks the quantity of David’s hair, however it’s probably the most accurate option in every other regard:

Eyes, Eyebrows, and Eyelashes

David has big brown eyes that aren’t set too wide or narrow, so Eyes 3 with the brownest color is what we’re after. His eyelashes are pretty pronounced though, to the extent that you just might even want to include a little bit of brown eye shadow.

I opted as an alternative to make his lashes a bit darker since eyelashes often are and it helps to intensify this trait without using makeup.

His eyebrows are very thin but angular. You get to select one. Eyebrows 2 gives you angularity while Eyebrows 3 gives you thinness.

Nose

David is an anime character, so he has a really small nose. It’s also pointed barely up since we are able to often see his nostrils. It isn’t shown to be slanted towards either side of his face, so we are able to easily rule those options out.

Noses 8 and 18 are quite similar and each encapsulate what we’re after, though I feel 18 accentuates those includes a bit an excessive amount of for a nose that ought to barely exist in any respect.

Jaw / Chin

David has a reasonably pointy chin and a more slender face than is basically possible with the character creator, though there are several Jaw options (1, 3, 13, and 19) that may move us in that direction. I had a tough time picking which Jaw is most fitting partially because the various options also make him look barely different ages as well.

For my part, 3 and 19 are barely higher because they’re larger, but neither is ideal.

Ears

David’s ears don’t stick out very far and have a sharp-ish bend about halfway up. Plainly the ears should not meant to be one in all his most important features like his hair. The bend will not be at all times present either, so I feel Ears 8 is among the finest options. None are really an amazing fit though.

Mouth, Teeth, and Beard

David doesn’t have lips or a beard, so we are able to turn the latter off and should resort to using the smallest lips available. You’ll find those on Mouth 10. David also has regular white teeth, so the default Teeth 00 are high quality.

Overall body appearance

Here is an overall appearance of David Martinez’s body type and features that I suggest for the closest match wit the anime character:

1. Male
2. Skin Tone 1
3. Skin Type 5 (1 is less smooth, but no mole)
4. Hairstyle 18 (15 and 38 also work well)
5. Hair Color 27 (brownest)
6. Eyes 3 (big)
7. Eye Color 1
8. Eyebrows 2 (3 can also be good)
9. Eyebrow Color 27 (brownest)
10. Eyelash Color 6 (darker brown)
11. Nose 8 (uniform, small, slight upward slant)
12. Mouth 10
13. Jaw 19 (1, 3, and 13 are also good)
14. Ears 8 (14 can also be good)
15. Beard Off
16. Cyberware Off
17. Facial Scars Off
18. Piercings Off
19. Teeth 00
20. Eye Makeup Off
21. Lip Makeup Style Off
22. Cheek Makeup Off
23. Blemishes Off
24. Nails Short
25. Nail Color 1
26. Body Tattoos Off
27. Body Scars Off

These selections match David’s appearance as best because it is feasible to do with the Character Creation tool in Cyberpunk 2077. We all know that for nearly all of the series David is a 17 years old teenager, but in the ultimate few episodes we see him a yr older, 18, and he has bulked up so much because of the brand new chrome he’s placed on his body.

You might attempt to copy the face and to some extend shoulder area of David’s cyberware upgrades from the ultimate episodes, but I leave that selection to you as not one of the options the sport offers looks close enough to call it a match, in my view.

David Martinez’s Clothing Outfit

This section concerns only the visual appearance of your character. Due to the newly released Wardrobe feature in Cyberpunk 2077, you possibly can transmog your gear and have one set of clothing to make you look cool and one other set to offer stats in your construct. The build-related clothing I actually have explained in a separate section further below on this guide.

Besides David’s Jacket, you’re on the mercy of RNG for the remainder of his clothing pieces, and similar to with the character creator, you’ll should make some major concessions. All shops cycle their available clothing every 24 hours, so that you’ll should keep skipping a day ahead to see if that shop has the available clothing in stock.

Outer Torso – Jacket

David’s Jacket is the one piece of his wardrobe that was added on to the sport. The yellow jacket was too unique for anyone to attempt to replicate, so to make things easier CD Projekt Red just added it to the sport.

You receive it as a part of a reward for a recent mission that was added with update 1.6. Try our dedicated guide on how one can obtain and complete this mission and receive David’s Jacket.

Inner Torso – shirt

David Martinez wears a black shirt and a necklace with a cross, we are able to replicate the previous, but not the latter. Within the later episodes, he has no shirt, so his shiny chrome could shine.

Because it’s demanding to seek out a full black short-sleeved shirt in the sport, my personal favorite is the GOG Galaxy promo t-shirt.

I’ll leave you to seek out the most effective match. For those who do, and need to share it with all of us, please leave a comment under this guide.

Pants

David wears long, blueish gray pants that bunch up at the underside. It’s difficult to get all of those traits in a single pair of pants, but I like to recommend the Caution Extra-Plastic Cargo Pants, which might be found on the clothing vendors in Charter Hill and Arroyo.

I couldn’t find a correct pair of pants that not less than remind me of the pants David wears throughout the show, so I leave that to you in the event you want the challenge.

Feet

I couldn’t find anything in any respect in the sport that appears even remotely near what David wears on his feet. Not the teenager David, nor the bulked-up one-year older David. Entirely as much as you.

The David Martinez Construct in Cyberpunk 2077

David’s Construct I like to recommend will concentrate on melee combat. Within the show we see David shooting with just a few different ranged weapons, but in the sport, to best utilize the Sandevistan operating system cyberwar, it’s best to concentrate on melee. Bullets don’t get affected by the Sandevistan.

David’s Attributes and Perks

Before we move onto the more fun part, the cyberwar, first it’s essential ensure you could equip that cyberwar. Among the really helpful perks below are also essential for the properly functioning David Martinez Construct.

Luckily, to match David’s construct, you want a number of points invested within the Body and Reflexes Attributes anyway. These will cover each the necessities of a few of the most effective cyberware implants and the perks you’ll wish to get contained in the skill trees.

Body Perks

Athletics:

• Pack Mule – Passive | 1 level – Increases carrying capability by 60.
• Regeneration – Passive | 1 level – Health slowly regenerates during combat.
• Wolverine – Passive | 3 levels | Requires Level 7 Body – Health regen prompts 20% faster during combat (at level 1).
• Epimorphosis – Passive | 3 levels | Requires Level 7 Body – Increases Health regen threshold from 60% to 65% in combat and to 100% out of combat (at level 1).
• Steel and Chrome – Passive | 2 levels | Requires Level 9 Body – Increases melee damage by 10% (at level 1).
• Invincible – Passive | 1 level | Requires Level 12 Body – Increases max Health by 15%.
• Tenacious V – Passive | 1 level | Requires Body 12 – Getting hit doesn’t interrupt Health regeneration.
• Marathoner -Passive | 1 level | Requires Level 14 Body – Sprinting doesn’t drain Stamina.
• Cardio Cure – Passive | 1 level | Requires Level 12 Body – Health regenerates 15% faster as you progress.
• Dog of War – Passive | 2 levels | Requires Level 16 Body – Increases Health regen in combat by 30% (at level 1).
• Steel Shell – Passive | 1 level | Requires Level 18 Body – Increases armor by 10%.
• Indestructible – Passive | 1 level | Requires Level 20 Body – Reduces all incoming damage by 10%.

Annihilation:

• Speed Demon – Passive | 1 level – You deal more damage the faster you’re moving.

Street Brawler:

• Increases Crit Damage after entering combat.
• Crushing Blows – Passive | 3 levels – Increases damage from Strong Attacks with Blunt Weapons by 10/20/30%.
• Flurry – Passive | 3 levels – Increases damage from combo attacks with Blunt Weapons by 30% / 40% / 50%.
• Dazed – Passive | 2 levels – All attacks with Blunt Weapons have a 15% / 30% probability to use Stun.
• Efficient Blows – Passive | 2 levels – Reduces the Stamina cost of all attacks with Blunt Weapons by 25% / 50%.
• Successful attacks with Blunt Weapons regenerate 3% / 5% Health over 2 seconds.
• Opportune Strike – Passive | 1 level – Increases damage with Blunt Weapons against enemies affected by Stun by 50%.
• Frenzy – Passive | 2 levels – Defeating an enemy increases damage with Blunt Weapons by 30/50% for five sec.

Reflex Perks

Cool Perks

Ninjutsu:

• Leg Up – Passive | 1 level. Movement speed after a successful takedown is increased by 30% for 10 sec.
• Assassin – Passive | 1 level. Deal 15% more damage to human enemies.
• From the Shadows – Trigger | 2 levels. Upon entering combat, Crit Probability increases by 10/20% for 7 sec.
• Cheat Death – Trigger | 1 level. When your Health drops below 50%, reduce all incoming damage by 50% for 10 sec. Cannot occur greater than once per minute.

Cold Blood:

• Cold Blood – Passive | 3 levels. After defeating an enemy, gain Cold Blood for 7 sec. and increase movement speed by 2%. Stacks as much as 1/2/3 time(s). The duration of every additional stack is 1 sec. shorter.
• Will to Survive – Passive | 2 levels.Increases All Resistances by 3/6% per stack of Cold Blood.
• Blood Brawl Passive | 2 levels. While Cold Blood is lively, increases damage with melee weapons by 5/10%.
• Rapid Bloodflow -Passive | 2 levels. Increases Health regen inside and outdoors combat by 5/10% per stack of Cold Blood.
• Coolagulant – Passive | 1 level. Stacks of Cold Blood are removed one after the other, not all of sudden.
• Predator – Passive | 2 levels. Increase attack speed by 10/30% per stack of Cold Blood.
• Pain Is An Illusion – Passive | 1 level. While Cold Blood is lively, reduces damage taken by 5%.
• Cold and Calculating – Passive | 2 levels. Landing a Crit Hit has 50% probability of applying a stack of Cold Blood.
• Critical Condition – Passive | 2 levels. Increases duration of Cold Blood by 25% / 50%
• Coldest Blood – Passive | 2 levels. Increases max stack amount for Cold Blood by 1/2.
• Bloodswell – Passive | 1 level. Upon receiving lethal damage while Cold Blood is lively, prevents death, consumes all stacks of Cold Blood, restoring 10% Health per stack and grants Damage Immunity for five sec. Playing cannot gain Cold Blood while perk is lively. Cooldown 15 sec.
• Merciless – Ultimate. While Cold Blood is lively, increases Crit Probability by 5% and Crit Damage by 25%. +1% Crit Probability and +3% Crit Damage per Perk level.

Other Attributes and Perks

David’s Cyberware

This section will take a better take a look at the available cyberware in Cyberpunk 2077 that matches David’s chrome. The goal here might be to copy David’s equipment as close as possible and never make the strongest construct.

I’ll leave some suggestions and proposals here and there for you to make a decision if you desire to deviate out of your selection with cyberware in an try to make a stronger construct to play with.

I’m listing all the very best tiers of apparatus, but you don’t have to attend for them to be accessible to you in the sport. You’ll be able to easily pick up the entire cyberware items at much lower tiers in the event you are starting a recent game and don’t have access to the Legendary and Iconic variants.

Quite a lot of ripperdocs in Night City will offer low tier implants. You’ll be able to easily pick up an important pieces early on for affordable after which swap out and upgrade them as you progress.

Please note that I actually have each one in all the Legendary and Iconic cyberware items locations listed and explained how one can get to them in my gigantic Legendary and Iconic Items Locations Guide for Cyberpunk 2077.

Operating System

Obviously, we start with the operating system. That is the most effective a part of David’s construct each within the show and in the sport when you desire to play a personality that matches his style and skills.

There are just a few Sandevistan cyberdecks available at the very best tier in the sport – Legendary. To best match David’s construct, you’d should go for the Qiant Sandevistan MK.4. Why? Due to its default short cooldown.

Chances are you’ll not have to activate it again in a single fight, but that’s what the show tells us – David can use his Sandevistan often. You might go for any of the opposite available Legendary and Iconic Sandevistan models in the event you want to:

To further come closer to David’s ability to activate the Sandy often, I like to recommend using mods that increase its duration and reduce its cooldown. There are other options to diminish the cyberware cooldown, don’t worry. You’ll have the ability to bring it further down.

Good mods you would use include Heatsink, Overclocked Processor, Tiger Paw, Neurotransmitters, Prototype Chip and others. Micro-Amplifier might be useful for some builds, but most often I feel you is not going to actually need it.

I might advise against increasing the duration of the Sandevistan’s effect, since it’s almost a waste of a mod slot with the small additional duration you get. For those who need more time, just go together with an operating system that provides it by default.

Frontal Cortex

Within the Frontal Cortex slot, one cyberware it is best to take profit from is the Heal-On-Kill, which restores your health for every defeated enemy. You might be fighting melee often, not from behind cover, so this is helpful.

The Heal-on-Kill Legendary Frontal Cortex implant is offered at Cassius Ryder’s Ripperdoc shop in Northside.

Ocular System

As just about everyone seems to be using it within the show and also you don’t have much of a selection for this slot, I like to recommend placing the Kiroshi Optics MK.3. There isn’t a greater version available in the sport yet.

You’ll be able to get this chrome piece from Victor in Little China, Watson.

Circulatory System

You might have a wide selection of options for the Circulatory system. To best match what David does within the show, you will have to go for the Syn-Lungs.

It is a cyberware that we actually see David placed on himself during his training.

The legendary version of this implant is in stock on the ripperdoc clinic in south-west Wellsprings in Heywood.

I like to recommend Bioconductor and Second Heart if you desire to complete your awesome “powerful tank construct that never drops”.

As an alternative of Second Heart, you possibly can equip your V with a Biomonitor. The Adrenaline Booster may be useful.

You’ll be able to get a legendary version of the Adrenaline Boosters from Charles in Kabuki. The Second Heart is offered on the ripperdock in Wellsprings, Heywood.

Immune System

You might be spending a number of your time fighting toe-to-toe together with your enemies. It’s helpful to have some protection. The Cataresist and Pain Editor are improbable options and can nicely match the brawler approach.

Each can be found from Fingers, watch out what you select within the mission involving him or he may refuse to sell you his inventory after that.

Nervous System

There aren’t any specifically required items to get for a David construct in these slots. I’d recommend you’re taking Kerenzikov and Reflex Turner as two decent options. Although I personally find it unnecessary, you possibly can slot a Nanorelays implant in your nervous system. It extends the lively time of your Sandevistan and Kerenzikov.

Integumentary System

That is where you stack up on Armor bonuses. Subdermal Armor is selection if you desire to match David’s stats from the later episodes of the show. There aren’t any specific items that you will have to select. Go together with what you will have available or personally prefer for these three slots.

Skeleton

In these two slots I feel now we have little competition for a David construct. Go for Synaptic Signal Optimizer and Microrotors.

The skeleton legendary Synaptic Signal Optimizer implant is offered at Nina Kraviz’s clinic in Charter Hill. The Microrotors yow will discover on the Kabuki ripperdoc.

Hands

Since this David construct is primarily specializing in brawler form of combat, it could not make much of a way to go for ranged guns boosters within the Hands slots, but here’s what I like to recommend: Smart Link and Ballistic Coprocessor.

Within the rare moments where you’ll wish to use guns, you will certainly profit from each of those implants. David does use a pistol and a shotgun within the series, although we mostly see him “play melee”.

Arms

That is where the fun begins! An absolute must-have are the Gorilla Arms cyberware here. David’s fast movement extends to all parts of his body, versus any shots he may fire with a gun.

For this reason the Gorilla Arms is probably the most efficient and lore-appropriate upgrade it is best to get.

We see young David talking to Maine in a single episode and discussing possibility of David obtaining Maine’s Gorilla Arms if or when he gets flatlined.

Within the later episodes, after Maine is gone, we see David sporting exactly this sort of cyberware. You’ll be able to get this implant from the Ripperdoc clinic within the south-west corner of Wellsprings in Heywood.

Some lore-friendly and quite powerful mods I like to recommend are Black-Market Battery or Rin3u Battery, Sensory Amplifier and depending in your personal construct, you may as well opt to make use of one in all the various knuckles upgrades to deal physical, fire, electrical, or poison damage.

You might also go for Monowire and (my personal favorite) Mantis Blades, in fact.

Legs

On this slot I might highly recommend that you just use the Reinforced Tendons. The double jump will not be something we ever see within the anime, but that is among the finest ever selections you’ll make for a cyberware implant in Cyberpunk 2077. For those who haven’t used it, trust me, you’ll like it. It becomes like second nature to you in just a few minutes.

Clothing Set for Stats

Earlier within the guide, I talked about David’s appearance. Now it’s time to debate potential gear that can profit this David construct.

You’ll be able to at all times go for a custom collection of random gear. And while leveling up and progressing that is arguably the most effective and most rational selection.

I would love to recommend the Solo clothing set. It has a ton of nice Crit boosts and bonuses related to doing damage. The set consists of 5 items they usually are all available for loot on this planet.

In truth, I actually have an amazing guide and walkthrough showing you ways and where to select up the entire Clothing items from the Solo Set in Cyberpunk 2077. The shirt is nearly clear black, which is a close-enough fit in the event you should not searching for an ideal match with David’s shirt.

As promised, I did my best to remain true to the anime character from the Cyberpunk Edgerunners series on Netflix. I hope you will have enjoyed this guide and am looking forward to see what builds you provide you with.

For those who are curious, take a look at my other guides from the Cyberpunk Edgerunners guides collection I actually have built because the release of the TV Series. It includes the entire list of all locations from Edgerunners in Cyberpunk 2077 and the total catalog of all weapons and cyberwar from Edgerunners in Cyberpunk 2077.