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Cyberpunk 2077 has a range of vehicles on offer, with the best handling ones ironically often being motorcycles. From the sentimentally precious ARCH Nazare of Jackie Welles, to the lightning fast Kusanagi!
In this video I attempt to break down and rank all 6 Ownable Motorcycle models from worst to best, in order to determine which are better for varying playthroughs. This list is of course my opinion, and I’m more than happy to hear how everybody elses differ from mine. But whether you agree with me or not, I hope this video provides you with a decent overview on this games motorcycles, and you learn a thing or two along the way…
You can check out more of my cyberpunk content on the channel. I’d specifically recommend my Shotguns Ranked video, if you’re planning on becoming the baddest mf in Night City!
https://youtu.be/DKwBJI4Y2qA
Alternatively, if you’re wanting to lean more into netrunning, here’s my overview and ranking for all Quickhacks in the game: https://youtu.be/brFKGlqgh80
Comment below your favourite Motorcycle and why! #cyberpunk2077 #motorcycle #ranking
Music:
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:46 Apollo
02:41 ARCH Nazare Racer
04:34 Scorpion’s Apollo
05:48 Kusanagi CT-3X
07:24 Jackie’s ARCH
08:47 ARCH Itsumade
10:47 Conclusion
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Every time I see the space Vespas from Book of Boba Fett I think of Jeremy Clarkson’s Vespa with all the mirrors in the Vietnam special
I used to have a yellow ducati so the Arch Nazare Racer is my favorite easily.
I wish the whole "cars and motorcycles" thing were almost a mini-game, you being able to customize the performance and aesthetics parts of your vehicle, get into races, delving into the the sub-culture of street race of Night City with an exclusive radio station just for that. So much potential there.
Jackie's bike, because Jackie.
I’m not exactly sure that stat data is accurate. I vividly remember consistently getting the kusanagi to over 190
CDPR dropped the ball with driving in this game. Every vehicle feels like it's on ice, and my bikes all randomly slip and jerk like they have minds of their own. I am the type to just use fast travel now because I can't be assed to deal with the driving physics, they're too frustrating.
+10:35 I got serious vibes of this from this little sequence : https://youtu.be/WBCQ0_ZNJf8?t=129
Scorpion's Bike is the best offloading vehicle in the game. The others fall apart when you even glance a rock. This tank of a motorcycle can survive even the worst off-road drivers.
The best part abt the Itsumade is that you can obtain it in Act 1, head over to All Foods (fast travel point) and there should be a parking lot with the big metal cargo boxes (you'll see it as soon as you spawn in) and scan the code pad, check the hacks and you'll see remote deactivate, I did encounter a bug which the bike didn't show up on my vehicle list, if you get the bike to despawn or something it should show up.
Jackie's arch and Scorpian's best cost and driveability!
#1 car: murk man caliburn
Pls rank skill perks.
this is a weird hill to die on but there is no way this game uses miles per hour. going 200 in the caliburn is nowhere near 200 miles, but it does feel like 200 kph, or about 120 mph. cdpr is also polish, so it makes sense. probably just a localising quirk
I spent far more time riding around Night City than I do driving. And I used to have a BMW 750 GS, and the Brennan Apollo reminded me so much of it. From what I can see and experience riding it, the developers seemed to have modelled it from the 1200 GS version and I swear the first time I got the Apollo, it sounded EXACTLY the same. Most of my riding time is spent on that, heh.
Allow me to share with how I would rank the bikes in Night City:
1. Apollo (It reminds so much of my old bike before I sold it off cause adulting is expensive)
2. Scorpion's Apollo (Again, memories cause on weekends or city rides I would actually take off all the carry boxes)
3. Kusanagi CT-3X (Just for the looks and the homage to Akira's bike, and to the Ghost In The Shell's character, Major Kusanagi. Also if you notice, when you mount or dismount, the bike's handle will actually extends or retract. Nice sci-fi feel)
4. Jackie's (Tuned) Arch (Arch bikes sounds grunty, amazing. Looks much more refined than the Nazare Racer)
5. ARCH Nazare racer (It's a nice bike, but a bit too loud in terms of looks for my taste which is ironic as being in Night City, the louder you are, the better(?))
6. ARCH Itsumade (the visuals are too much for my liking. Again, it sounds great but it's a bit much)
One last thing, I wish CDPR would add some kind of replayable minigame, like the fight clubs, and the illegal street racing, not just for cars, but bikes as well. Make it part of the quest, yes, but after completing it, make it accessible as a minigame or replayable minigame.
Loved the Kusanagi until I discovered the mission to get the Itsumade. My rational mind tells me there's really no difference in handling, etc. but I swear that bike fits V like a glove in my playthroughs.
I like the Kusanagi CT-3X because you can constantly Akira Slide all over the city.
Try the bike overhaul mod its upgrades the speed limits of the bikes
Watch Akira
I actually think we should force cd project red delay everything related to cyberpunk just like for a year or two until everything is perfect
Jackie's Arch is my favorite without question, but the Kusanagi and the Nazare are also really sweet.
Top blades next pleeeaas
My favorite motorbike in CP2077? The ones I ride out of random alleys on, having defeated their prior owners. I feel no shame at all in driving those like they're stolen, they cost nothing, and they're usually close by, in my experience.
The Itsumade motorcycle has the Japanese demon imagery, because the Itsumade is a fictional yokai, or demon of the 14th century. The name is pronounced ITSU-mah-day. In contermporary Japanese, it translates as "Until when?"
The issue of Johnny's memory being inaccurate about the model of motorcycle Rogue rode could easily be explained by that rough details of the motorcycle's frame and fairings being a recurring design for that company, with more subtle details being the difference between the periodic iterations. For the practical reason, it was an existing resource that the game developers could use in assembling the scene.
Same, mate, we need to talk about that gap in your education 😀
I hate that the bikes handle so much better than the cars, because for my second playthrough I want to do a corpo background who wants to go back to being a corpo, and live the lifestyle, cars included
But I love riding bikes much better
That tuned version of Jackie's bike should have actually been … well tuned. It's a real shame that you didn't get anything in terms of rewards for choosing your lifepath. For a Nomad, they could have given you the tuned version that had a higher speed thanks to you offering those recommendations as a Nomad. Every lifepath should have had a tangible bonus imo.
Depends where I am at. I love and use all the cars and motorcycles the game has to offer. Change vehicles per job. Also so change cloths to match my ride. As the most favorite hmmmm I have none I just love all the bikes..
I quit playing cyberpunk after my second 100% playthrough but I still cant stop watching your videos!!
you should rank all of the katanas in cyberpunk
Love the Kusanagi. The speed and design really do it for me. Also, the fact that Akira, despite not being cyberpunk itself, gives off a lot of Cyberpunk vibes.
I use Jackie's Arch until I can get the Kusanagi. That one is my favorite out of the bikes personally. The looks were what hooked me. And I like cruising the city. Only time I fast travel is when I'm in a big hurry, usually when I have a short time to play or know I need to get off soon.(my end session saves always are in my apartment)
btw you can get that last bike just by going there and typing the code
no need to do the quest
I wish more bikes could be seen driving around by NPCs, it's wierd your the only one
and my fav absolutely is the kusanagi
fastest, and coolest looking for me
i only got the Itsumade at the very end of my playthough and regret not getting it sooner, its SOOO fast and handles great
Weirdly, the two Apollos are top and bottom of my list. I love Scorpion's bike, it's my preferred way to get around the city – the lower top speed compared to the other bikes isn't much of an issue when you're weaving through traffic, and the Apollo just seems to corner so much better than the other bikes. The paid for version, however… yikes. Maybe it's just me, but between the sparkly purple and gold colour scheme and the box on the back, I feel like I'm moonlighting as a delivery rider for a drag queen pizza parlour.
The Kusanagi hugs the corners well, but needs more torque. The deceleration going up an incline is frustrating. The Arch has control issues, but the speed, pick up and Valentino aesthetic make up for that. I'll take the Arch all day.
I find the motorcycles in this game pretty much interchangeable, although I have an impression [maybe imaginary but I see you agree] that Scorpion's Apollo bike works better off-road. I love the look of the Kusanagi, and there's a mod that improves the speed and handling of all the bikes in the game. Does anybody else always put a helmet on V for motorcycle outings? Just me? Motorcycles are certainly the best vehicle for getting around Night City…I don't think it's a mystery why the game gives you one so early in Act 2.
just bought the Akira bike after using Jackie's bike for most of the game. It's a side grade. I want to get that Itsumade bike now
I can never seem to finish a playthrough without picking up the Yaiba Kusenagi even if I already have 3 or 4 other bikes
So I don’t know if this lock you out of the quest or if it’s a netrunner exclusive thing, but you can get the Tiger Claw bike before the heist. Just hack to deactivate the door an it’s yours. Was running out of kabuki after offing Buck for his ripper/scab shop, decided to try it out🤣
Aren’t there more bikes that just these? Like the ones the tygers use and the ones the animals?
I think there’s two types that look similar but feel different. The nazzare or something is more common but then there’s like something like 3-NE or something similar where it’s like buttery smooth at EVERYTHING and quite fast too.
Both have the raised chair looking seats. Idk if it’s possible to own them but anytime I see the 3NE one I use it until it despawns because it is easily the best vehicle I’ve found so far.
The best part of the Kusanagi is doing the iconic slide every time you have to stop or make a turn.
Hey, I'd just like to tell you a lil discovery I've found. So fun fact, turns out with guts you can negate fall damage. Very cool, right? Well you can also triple jump with it. Granted, you need to jump, double jump and then immediately shoot after the double jump to jump again, but it does grant you a SIGNIFIGANT boost in height. More-so then the other leg mods by a long shot. You can combine this with the athletics tree (reloading while sprinting and shooting), the cool tree (aerial take down + knive throws) and maybe a sandevistan just because it'll make you run faster with slowed time, I haven't tested if it will boost the jump distance or not (forgot to mention, you can also infinitely repeat it over long distances, working similar to the glider in breath of the wild [gradual drop off – extended aerial travel], of course the berserk + superhero landing could also be cool for this build, but I don't like the berserk in general so.. Also, the annihilation tree, cant believe I forgot about that.
With these perks, you can probably make the most roof-jumping vigilante build possible. I don't know, I found it pretty cool. You can gain height pretty consistently, and theres multiple travel points where you can start off your vigilantism roof jumping. Or you can just gain gradual height as you walk around Night City. Its very fun so far imo, I've been playing around with it for the past 3 hours. Its surprising how many details go into the night city rooftops.
The way it works is very simple I believe. One of the conditions to reset the double jump on your leg equipment is to touch ground. Guts does something very similar with its recoil, it has so much recoil that it eliminates any and all prior movement speed you had, by pushing you backwards no matter what. This is the reason that, of course it famously negates fall damage. But Guts' recoil is so strong that it completely resets the players movement, enough so that as long as you don't drag out your double jump (hence the "shoot immediately after pressing space on your first double jump") the game registers it as you touching the ground because its practically made you reset everything prior. The reason you can't fully drag out your first double jump is due to the fact that you no longer will have any control after the initial jump. Its such a short time frame that eventually, not even the recoil on the Guts shotgun will effect it. Thats my theory at least. Either way, you can jump from rooftop to rooftop (granted as long as said rooftop is not at a very far distance/at a higher vantage point then you). And it also gives you increased height. I thought this was an interesting strategy, I hope you at least test it out. If you want proof, I could send it to you via discord?
Sorry for the rant, its very possible that this is a shit video idea. But I do think the build has potential and there is multiple movement perks in the game. Maybe its just me that would have fun with this, but taking down small-time gangsters, doing NCPD missions and such from the rooftops makes me feel like fucken batman.
Edit: I forgot to mention, you could also scale night city using the various staircases up apartment buildings you can find.
Also, heres a TLDR tutorial on how to triple jump with guts
Jump > Double Jump > Shoot immediately after (Experiment with the timeframe you can do this in, usually it lasts maybe half a second or so for me? But I would recommend just testing shit). > Press space bar immediately after. As mentioned in the paragraphs, you can also repeat this near infinitely along long stretches (Not vertically unfortunately). You lose height but you gain a lot of distance + airtime.