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Intelligence
Cyberpunk 2077 Attribute

Netrunning, Smart Weapons, Monowire.
Intelligence determines your netrunning abilities. Progressing it improves your proficiency with Smart Weapons and allows you to unleash your full potential as a netrunner. It also enables you to access local subnets and show off your knowledge of the Net in dialogues. +1 Max RAM per 4 Attribute Points.

Intelligence is one of the five attributes in Cyberpunk 2077. It starts at 3 and caps at 20.

Its perk tree holds 38 perks (26 regular perks, 9 milestones and 3 master perks) across four tiers, unlocked at Intelligence 4, 9, 15 and 20.

Its skill is Netrunner, which levels from the weapons and actions the attribute governs.

Perks

Tier 1 (Intelligence 4)

Unlocked at Intelligence 4.

Tier 2 (Intelligence 9)

Unlocked at Intelligence 9.
Hack Queue
Milestone

+1 Max RAM.

Intelligence 92 ranks
Embedded Exploit
Milestone

+10% RAM recovery rate.

Intelligence 92 ranks
Acquisition Specialist
Milestone

10% larger target reticle for Smart weapons.

Intelligence 92 ranks
Data Recycler
Perk

After neutralizing an enemy, recover 80% of the RAM cost from all quickhacks remaining in their queue.

Intelligence 9
Feedback Loop
Perk

+25% RAM recovery rate for each quickhack currently in a queue.

Intelligence 9
Copy-Paste
Perk

When you're the target of an enemy netrunner, using a quickhack against them will also spread the quickhack's effect to their allies.

Intelligence 9
Counter-a-hack
Perk

When you're the target of an enemy netrunner, you are now able to counter quickhack them through walls and obstacles.

-1 RAM cost for such quickhacks.

Intelligence 9
Siphon
Perk

Monowire attacks recover 0.5 RAM.

Increases to 1 if the enemy is affected by or targeted by a quickhack.

Intelligence 9
ICEpick
Perk

-1 RAM cost for Combat quickhacks used on enemies affected by or targeted Control quickhacks, Covert quickhacks or the Distract Enemies quickhack.

Intelligence 9
Shadowrunner
Perk

-100% trace progress after performing a Takedown.

Intelligence 9
System Overwhelm
Perk

+7% quickhack damage for each unique quickhack and DOT effect affecting the target.

Intelligence 9
Speculation
Perk

Neutralizing an enemy with a Combat quickhack recovers RAM equal to 25% of the total cost of all quickhacks affecting the target.

Intelligence 9
Recirculation
Perk

+2 RAM after neutralizing an enemy with a Smart weapon.

If the enemy is affected by quickhacks, restores additional RAM equal to 50% of their total RAM cost.

Intelligence 9
Precision Subroutines
Perk

+2% accuracy with Smart weapons for each unit in your cyberdeck's max RAM.

Intelligence 9
No Escape
Perk

When using Smart weapons, if the target lock on an enemy is about to end, shooting them resets it.

Intelligence 9

Tier 3 (Intelligence 15)

Unlocked at Intelligence 15.
Queue Acceleration
Milestone

+1 max RAM.

Intelligence 153 ranks
Overclock
Milestone

+10% RAM recovery rate.

Intelligence 153 ranks
Target Lock Transfer
Milestone

10% larger targeting reticle for smart weapons.

Intelligence 153 ranks
Queue Prioritization
Perk

+50% upload speed for the first quickhack when you have at least 2 quickhacks queued on an enemy.

Intelligence 15
Finisher: Live Wire
Perk

Unlocks a Monowire Finisher.

The more quickhacks you have queued on an enemy, the more susceptible they are.

Restores 15% Health and 5 RAM.

Intelligence 15
Queue Hack_Root
Perk

-1 RAM cost for the first quickhack of each unique category (Covert, Combat, Control) second or later in the queue.

Intelligence 15
Blood Daemon
Perk

When Overlock is active: +40 Health for each quickhack queued on an enemy at the time you neutralize them.

Intelligence 15
Sublimation
Perk

When Overclock is active, all RAM recovery effects also regenerate Health.

Intelligence 15
Power Surge
Perk

Activating Overclock instantly restores Health equal to 5 times your max RAM.

Intelligence 15
Race Against Mind
Perk

When Overlock is active: increased quickhack damage as health decreases (max +50%). Health is measured when you begin upload.

Intelligence 15
Terminal Velocity
Perk

Increased projectile velocity and lock-on range for 10 sec. after neutralizing an enemy with smart weapon.

Stacks 3 times. New stacks reset duration. All stacks are removed when duration ends.

Intelligence 15
Targeting Prism
Perk

Enables multiple target locks when aiming and increases the number of simultaneous targets for all smart weapons by 1.

Intelligence 15

Master Perks (Intelligence 20)

Unlocked at Intelligence 20.