Cyberpunk 2077 Attributes in Depth – Intelligence

We’re going to deep dive the Intelligence Attribute for Cyberpunk 2077.

Intelligence determines your net-running proficiency. In a nutshell, it determines your efficiency at hacking into enemies, systems, objects, etc… in order to use them to your benefit. There are two primary skills that make up the Intelligence attribute; Breach Protocol and Quickhacking.

First of all, every attribute starts at Level 3 and has a max level of 20. To begin the game, during character development, you can add 7 points, in any combination to your 5 attributes. For each attribute point that you add to your Intelligence, you will get the following:

• Increase cyberdeck RAM capacity by 4%
• Increases quick-hack damage by 0.5%
• Increase quick-hack duration by 1%

Intelligence Skills

The Intelligence Attribute, as we mentioned before, has 2 primary Skills, Breach Protocol and Quickhacking. Each skill has a variety of perks that you will build with Perk Points, that allow you to further refine your skillset in that area. Breach Protocol has 20 perks available and Quickhacking has 19 perks available. Let’s look at each of these skills in more detail.

Breach Protocol

Let’s go ahead now and look at the various perks within the Breach Protocol Skill Tree. Perks can be unlocked at specific levels and are either passive or active. Additionally, perks in some cases have multiple ranks.

LEVEL 1
NAME	EFFECT
Mass Vulnerability	Unlocks the Mass Vulnerability daemon, which reduces the Physical Resistance for all enemies in the network by 30% fpr 3 minutes. (2 Ranks)
Big Sleep	Unlocks the Big Sleep daemon, which disables all cameras in the network for 3 minutes. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 5
NAME	EFFECT
Almost In!	Increases the breach time for Breach Protocol by 20%. (2 Ranks)
Advanced Datamine	Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the amount of eurodollars acquired from Access Points by 50%. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 7
NAME	EFFECT
Mass Vulnerability: Resistances	Upgrades the Mass Vulnerability daemon, reducing all Resistances for enemies in the network by 30%.
Extended Network Interface	Automatically highlights nearby Access Points.
LEVEL 9
NAME	EFFECT
Datamine Mastermind	Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the amount of components acquired from Access Points by 50%. (2 Ranks)
Turret Shutdown	Unlocks the Turret Shutdown daemon, which disables security turrets in the network for 3 minutes. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 11
NAME	EFFECT
Total Recall	The ICEpick daemon reduces all quickhack costs by an additional 1 RAM unit(s).
LEVEL 12
NAME	EFFECT
Turret Tamer	Unlocks the Turret Tamer daemon, which sets the status of every turret in the network to friendly for 3 minutes. (2 Ranks)
Datamine Virtuoso	Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the chance to acquire a quickhack from Access Points by 50%. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 14
NAME	EFFECT
Efficiency	Uploading 3 or more daemons in the same Breach Protocol increases cyberdeck RAM recoverry rate by 3 unit(s) per 60 seconds. Last 5 minutes. (2 Ranks)
Cloud Cache	Competing a Breach Protocol reduces the RAM cost of your next quickhack by 1 time(s) the number of daemons uploaded. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 16
NAME	EFFECT
Mass Vulnerability: Quickhacks	Upgrades the Mass Vulnerability daemon, causing enemies in the network to also take 30% more damage from quickhacks.
Totaler Recall	The ICEpick daemon reduces all quickhack costs by an additional 1 RAM unit(s).
LEVEL 18
NAME	EFFECT
Head Start	Automatically uploads the first daemon in the list at the start of Breach Protocol.
Hackathon	Uploading 3 or more daemons in the same Breach Protocol shortens quickhack cooldowns by 33% for 5 minutes.
LEVEL 20
NAME	EFFECT
Compression	Reduces the lengths of the sequences required to upload daemons by 1. Cannot be reduced below 2.
Buffer Optimization	Increases the duration of daemon effects by 100%.
Transmigration	Increases the breach time of Breach Protocol by 50%.+5% per Perk level.

Quickhacking – Perks

Now we’ll look at the various perks within the Quickhacking Skill Tree. Perks can be unlocked at specific levels and are either passive or active. Additionally, perks in some cases have multiple ranks.

LEVEL 1
NAME	EFFECT
Bloodware	Quickhacks deal 10% more damage. (3 Ranks)
Biosynergy	Allows RAM to recover during combat. Recover 4 RAM units every 60 seconds. (3 Ranks)
LEVEL 5
NAME	EFFECT
Forget-Me-Not	Eliminating a target affected by a quickhack instantly recovers 1 RAM unit(s).
Hacker’s Manual	Unlocks Crafting Specs for Uncommon quickhacks.
I Spy	Reveals an enemy netrunner when they’re attempting to hack you.
LEVEL 7
NAME	EFFECT
Daisy Chain	Eliminating a target affected by a quickhack reduces the existing cooldowns for all other active quickhacks by 10%. (3 Ranks)
Weak Link	Reduces the required cyberdeck RAM for quickhacks used on devices by 1 unit(s). (3 Ranks)
LEVEL 9
NAME	EFFECT
Signal Support	Increases quickhack duration by 25%. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 11
NAME	EFFECT
Subliminal Message	Quickhacks deal 50% more damage to unaware targets. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 12
NAME	EFFECT
Diffusion	Quickhack spread distance is increased by 2 times.
Mnemonic	Reduces the cost of quickhacks used against an enemy already effected by a quickhack by 2 RAM units.
School Of Hard Hacks	Unlocks Crafting Specs for Rare quickhacks.
LEVEL 14
NAME	EFFECT
Plague	Quickhacks that spread can jump to 1 additional target(s). (3 Ranks)
LEVEL 16
NAME	EFFECT
Critical Error	Quickhacks can now deal Crit Hits based on your Crit Chance and Crit Damage stats.
Hacker Overlord	Unlocks Crafting Specs for Epic quickhacks.
LEVEL 18
NAME	EFFECT
Anamnesis	Available cyberdec RAM cannot drop below 2 unit(s). (3 Ranks)
LEVEL 20
NAME	EFFECT
Optimization	Reduces the cost of quickhacks by 1 RAM unit(s).
Bartmoss’ Legacy	Unlocks Crafting Specs for Legendary quickhacks.
Master RAM Liberator	Increases RAM recovery rate by 50%.+1% per Perk level.