✍🏼 Last Update: August 8, 2025
🧙🏻‍♂️ Created For Game Version v2.3

➕ New Rating System implemented
➕ Added more categories -> better sorting
➕ Added category descriptions

🔜 Adding the actual guide / tutorial
🔜 Adding the mod authors nicknames
🔜 Fix expand stutter on mobile

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Mod Source:
🌐 NexusMods.com/Games/Cyberpunk2077

Installation:
🚦 No specific load order was set
📦 I installed all mods with Vortex Mod Manager
🙏🏼 These mods work together as long as you follow the installation instructions provided on Nexus
🤹🏻 Some mods require other mods to work properly, always check the "Requirements" tab on Nexus

❓ Leave a comment on YouTube under the Trailer if you are having troubles and I'll do my best to assist

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Performance:
🏃‍♂️‍➡️ Running at 4K HDR 60FPS locked with V-Sync
🪬 I only use frame generation but no upscaling
🌞 RTX and PT are activated
⚙️ All graphic settings are maxed out with every mod listed below installed
🕵️‍♂️ It took a lot of extra fine tuning of various modding files to get the experience showcased in the Trailer
⌛️ Take your time with this list and read the descriptions of the mods on Nexus

My System:
🧬 Intel Core i9-14900KF (3.20 GHz)
🔮 ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 4090
🦾 Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 64GB (6000 MHz)
💾 Samsung NVMe 990 Pro
🖥️ BenQ PD3220U (4K HDR)

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🧑‍💻 The Good Stuff!

🥇 = Amazing;
🥈 = Great;
🥉 = Good;

🔓 = Requirements;

👉🏼 Based of the actual impact in-game / overall quality of the mod

👏🏼 Please give credits to the creators if you enjoy their content

🫵🏼 Have fun exploring!

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🔒 Requirements:
☝🏼 Always check on Nexus, there will be more Requirements needed!

🔓 Input Loader
📖 This plugin is needed for merging files in the background, required by a lot of mods.
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🔓 Material and Texture Override
📖 Enables the game to load new materials.
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🔓 The Lamp Lighter - Streetlamp Time Control
📖 Allows you to extend the time that streetlamps are "on" in-game by setting their on/off times.
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🔓 Equipment-EX
📖 Powerful transmog system and outfit manager.
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🔓 Virtual Atelier
📖 A framework for other modders, that allows them to add virtual stores in-game for their modded clothes items.
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🌅 Visuals & Graphics:
💁🏼‍♂️ These mods drastically improve texture quality, lighting / shadows, weather and fixes some nasty vanilla bugs.

🥇 Cyberpunk 2077 HD Reworked Project
📖 Aims to improve the graphics by reworking game assets to better quality.
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🥇 Environment Textures Overhaul
📖 Mod replaces a lot of low quality textures, while trying to match vanilla look.
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🥇 Preem Water
📖 More natural looking water with a few options to play with!
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🥇 Nova City 2
📖 Bring Night City to life with a custom weather, lighting and exposure overhaul.
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🥈 Nova Rain
📖 Subtle, realistic rain. No more in-your-face particles and rain that shines in the shadows of the night.
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🥇 Vision LUT: Kodak - HDR Support
📖 Kodak's world-famous Vision 3 Motion Picture films stock brought to Cyberpunk.
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🥈 ReLUX: Lighting Redux - Accurate Lighting
📖 Removes fake GI bounces and random sources to bring a more grounded look to Night City.
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🥉 Always Best Quality
📖 Ensures most aspects of the game always looks in it's best quality.
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🥇 Decals Flickering Fix
📖 Mod fixes flickering that occurs when multiple decals are projected onto the same area.
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🥈 Enable Advert Animations
📖 Animated ads are static in specified regions, this mod allows the animation of the ads to be played.
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🥈 Fix Advert Animations
📖 Some of the advertisements have bugs (flickering, misplaced, etc.) when animated. This mod fixes them.
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🥇 General Shadows Fixes
📖 Adds missing environmental shadows across the entire game and fixes a bunch of visual problems.
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🥇 Improved Distant Shadows And Reflections
📖 Makes almost every distant object shadow casting and fixes volumetric fog leaking.
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🥇 Full Ray Tracing Including V
📖 Mod that includes V in ray tracing, so you can see yourself reflected in the surfaces.
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🥇 Preem Fixes
📖 Fixes the common path tracing shadow bug on cloth mesh. Optional HD textures.
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🥇 reGlass
📖 Adds Super E3 Vehicle reflections.
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🥉 Improved Vehicle Glass Destruction Effects
📖 Improves vehicle glass shatter effect, V and NPCs.
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🥇 Improved Vehicle Lights Draw Distance
📖 Increases headlights range for traffic and player vehicles. Only recommended with PT!
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🥇 Better Building Windows
📖 Replaces the interior windows textures with higher res ones.
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🥇 No More Milky Glass Plus Eyes AO
📖 This mod changes the blending factor of reflections to make materials less milky.
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🥉 More Blood Splatters
📖 This mod unleashes the vanilla blood system with a customizable script.
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🥇 Fire and Explosions Texture Overhaul
📖 Makes Fire textures great quality from any viewing distance!
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🥇 Smoke Texture Overhaul
📖 Upscales existing smoke and adds custom smoke and dust effects.
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🚯 Effect Remover:
💁🏼‍♂️ With these mods you can completely remove the vanilla game effects like glitches, overlays,...

🥉 FX Begone
📖 Modular Effects Removal.
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🥉 Relic Effect Periods
📖 Increases time spans between sickness effects by Relic, I use the option to block the whole effect.
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🥉 No more passenger Johnny
📖 Remove passenger Johnny when you driving.
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🥇 UTILITIES - RVC00N's Toolbox
📖 Collection of small utility mods, random removers, recolors and other stuff!
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🕑 Time Saver:
💁🏼‍♂️ With these installed the game loads directly into the Savegame.

🥇 Skip Main Menu
📖 Allows you to bypass the lengthy Cyberpunk2077 launch time and load directly into the main menu or saved game.
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🥇 Load Begone (Skip Intro Splash Videos and More - FOMOD)
📖 Remove loading videos, speed up animations, hide loading videos, and more! No more waiting around.
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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Crowd Population & Traffic:
💁🏼‍♂️ Overall increases population variety / density and makes the world more belivable.

🥇 Nova Traffic (CET)
📖 Dynamic traffic replacement, adding new vehicles to traffic, including modded vehicles!
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🥇 Crowd E3 2018 Restored
📖 Adds back E3 2018 crowds.
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🥇 Psycho Crowds and Traffic Improvements
📖 Ini tweaks and density mods that overhaul the crowd / traffic system. World feels more alive.
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🥇 Disappearing NPC and Vehicle Fix
📖 Fixes NPCs and vehicles often vanishing into thin air.
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🥇 Responsive V
📖 V reacts dynamically with contextual voice lines and animations to open world events.
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🥇 Responsive NPCs
📖 Dynamic NPC reactions: what you wear, drive, and do matters.
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🎮 Regular Gameplay:
💁🏼‍♂️ This selection of mods overhauls the on-foot gameplay, adds new features and improves immersion.

🥇 Faster Vehicle Knockback Animation
📖 Makes V get up faster after being hit by a car.
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🥇 Enable Finisher Ragdolls
📖 Allows NPCs to have collisions and ragdoll behaviour when killed with finishers.
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🥇 Reduced Ragdoll Force
📖 Reduced ragdoll force for more realism.
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🥇 Ragdoll Physics Overhaul
📖 Revamps the self-collision ragdolls, leading to more believable and varied procedural animations.
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🥉 TV Mute Control
📖 Adds a Mute / Unmute option along side the Off / Previous Channel / Next Channel options on TVs.
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🥉 Nova Scanner
📖 A new take on the scanner. Minimal and immersive.
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🥉 Kiroshi Optics Night Vision Mod
📖 Adds a night vision mode to Kiroshi optics implants.
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🥇 Simple Flashlight
📖 Adds a simple toggleable flashlight to the game.
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🥇 Always First Equip
📖 Repeats firstEquip animation each time you equip your weapon or press a hotkey.
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🥇 Immersive First Person
📖 Improved body presence and free look.
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🥇 Immersive Breathing
📖 Breathes a bit more life to V.
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🥇 Player Breathing System Active Only When Sprinting
📖 Toggles the player breathing system on when sprinting and off when not.
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🥇 Smooth Movement
📖 Adds inertia to grounded movement to make strafing smoother.
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🥈 Sit Anywhere
📖 This mod lets you sit down almost anywhere you want.
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🥇 FreeFly (Noclip)
📖 NoClip / Flying mod that lets you get anywhere, I use it for the cinematic camera shots.
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🚗 Driving Gameplay:
💁🏼‍♂️ Completely turns Cyberpunk into a wet dream for car freaks, even beats some racing sims, no exaggeration.

🥇 Virtual Car Dealer
📖 Very basic framework which allows you to add any vehicle to a simple virtual shop using TweakXL.
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🥇 Dynamic License Plates
📖 Adding over 30 Custom License Plates for Gangs, Characters, and more!
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🥉 Forbidden Vehicle Movement No More
📖 Disables areas that force the player to instantly stop at full speed/get out of the car.
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🥇 Anti-whiplash driving camera
📖 This mod improves the driving experience by fixing the constant whiplashing.
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🥈 Better Bike Animations
📖 Improved motorcycle animations for the serious bike rider! Male + Female versions.
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🥈 Windswept
📖 Adds a subtle movement to the hair while riding motorcycles.
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🥇 Vehicle Exit Fix for 2.3
📖 Fixes the slight kickback / roll after exiting vehicle and the bike tilt / lean bug.
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🥇 Fixed NPC Vehicle Reactions
📖 Fixes NPC vehicle dodge reactions. No more jumping in-front of your car!
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🥇 Realistic Car Crashes
📖 Mod brings more realistic car collisions to Cyberpunk 2077.
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🥈 Vehicle No Despawn
📖 Stops vehicle from despawning when moving far from them.
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🥇 Limited Slip Differential
📖 Gives the possibility control drift by acceleration and provokes countersteering.
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🥇 Slope Traction Factor
📖 Mod revamp slope traction reduction factor and make them more relistic.
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🥇 Dynamic Downforce
📖 Mod revamp dynamic downforce helper for vehicles and adds effect for bikes and traffic.
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🥇 Dynamic Gravity Modifier
📖 Increases gravity effect and reduces the bounciness and groun liftoff for vehicles.
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🥇 True Grip - Slope Traction and Handbrake Handling Fix
📖 Drastically improves the driving experience by disabeling uphillhelper and traction boost.
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🥉 Vehicle Repair Hotkey
📖 Low effort hotkey for vehicle repair.
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🥇 Enhanced Vehicle System
📖 This mod provides full control over vehicles: headlights, power states, engine on / off and more.
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🥈 Extended and Improved Headlights
📖 This mod lets you tweak the range, brightness and durability of vehicle headlights.
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🥇 Authentic Shift
📖 It's amazing how a simple audio mod changed the whole driving experience.
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🥇 Semi-automatic Transmission
📖 Gives you a choice between an automatic and a semi-automatic transmission type.
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🥇 Cyber Drift
📖 Mod improves in game drift model, expands angle range of drift and makes it smoother.
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🥇 Whip Wizard
📖 Puts full vehicle customization at your fingertips, tweak stance, engine audio, lights, windows and more.
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🥇 No Camera Auto Centering
📖 Disables camera auto centering while driving in TPP or FPP mode.
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🥇 Driving First Person Camera Tweaks
📖 This mod gives some much needed weight and inertia to first person driving.
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🥇 Third-Person (TPP) Vehicle Camera Tool
📖 Fixes broken TPP camera positioning for vehicles by providing a customizable script.
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🥇 Shift (Customizable Dynamic Vehicle Camera)
📖 Feature-rich vehicle camera overhaul mod that lets you customize camera’s angles, FOV, shake, and responsiveness.
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🏍️💨 Favourite Vehicles:
💁🏼‍♂️ My personal selection, a lot more going to be added.

🥇 Porsche 993 RWB Rotana (1995)
📖 Bring the 1993 Porsche 993 RWB Rotana to your garage a slammed, wide-body built by Akira Nakai.
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🥇 Mercedes AMG GT R (2017)
📖 2017 Mercedes AMG GT-R, supports Virtual Car Dealer and colors can be personalized.
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🥇 Toyota Corolla Hatchback Formula Drift (2019)
📖 Bring the 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback FD to your garage.
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🥇 Porsche 996 GT3 Mk.1
📖 Very high quality Porsche 996 GT3.
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🥇 Lamborghini Diablo VT Custom Widebody
📖 Again very high quality here, add the Diablo Custom Widebody to your garage.
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🥇 Ferrari F40 ZEPHYR Custom
📖 Extremely customizable Ferrari F40 ZEPHY.
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🥇 BMW M4 CS (2018)
📖 Super high quality BMW M4 CS, mirror reflections and tons of tuning parts via in-game menu.
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🥇 BMW M5 G90 (2024)
📖 Add the BMW M5 G90 to your garage, high quality mirror reflections, excellent interior.
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🥇 Ford GT40 Mk1
📖 A true car legend! Add the Ford GT40 Mk1 to your garage, amazing attention to detail.
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🥇 Nissan 240SX S13 (1993)
📖 Adds a '93 Nissan 240SX to the game.
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🥇 Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale
📖 Probably one of the best car mods when it comes to details and features.
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🥇 Porsche Carrera GT (2003)
📖 Add the Porsche Carrera GT 2003 to your garage, very realistic model and tons of features.
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🥇 Enzo Ferrari - ArchiveXL
📖 Enzo Ferrari, Stock Version with very high quality exterior and interior.
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🥇 Nissan Fairlady Z S30
📖 Add the Nissan Fairlady Z S30 in 3 variants to your garage.
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🥈 Nissan GTR R35 (2017)
📖 Simply Godzilla, the 2017 Nissan GTR R35.
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🥇 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL
📖 A real classic, insane quality and fits perfectly into the world of Cyberpunk.
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🔫 Favourite Weapons:
💁🏼‍♂️ Mod Your Iron — Rule the Neon Nation!

🥈 Colt Python (.357 Magnum)
📖 Adds the original Colt Python (.357 Magnum) to your inventory, features also the bullets in the cylinder.
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🥇 Desert Eagle
📖 Premium quality Desert Eagle, visibile bullet when cocking the gun.
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🥇 SG-09 R
📖 Adds the Silver Ghost from Resident Evil 4 Remake to your inventory.
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🥇 Samurai Edge
📖 Adds the Samurai Edge from Resident Evil to your inventory.
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🫦 Appearances:
💁🏼‍♂️ Ugly in real life? Atleast you can get an in-game upgrade.

🥇 KS: UV Texture Framework
📖 Allows the use of standalone body skins and tattoo overlays with 3d effects and glow.
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🥇 VTK Vanilla HD Body for FemV
📖 A HD body staying faithful to FemV's vanilla appearance.
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🥇 UNIVERSAL SKIN TONE: Realistic Textures
📖 A realistic in-deep texture rework of Fem V's Head and Body. Includes 72 skin tones.
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🥇 Breast Jiggle Physics
📖 Enables jiggle physics for first person perspective, third person camera mods and photomode.
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🥉 Jab Begone
📖 Remove the injection site scarring from your right forearm.
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🥉 Link Begone
📖 Removes the personal link from V's head and left palm.
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🥉 Ballistic Coprocessor Modifications
📖 Modifies the Ballistic Coprocessor (WeaponGrip).
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🥇 Visual Holsters (Automatic Clothes Swap)
📖 Automatically equips or unequips visibly holstered / stowed weapon items.
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🥇 Subleader Hair Pack - CCXL
📖 Adds new hairs to the character creator (FemV only).
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🥇 Preem Hair
📖 High res hair texture and modified alpha matte for more detailed strands.
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🥇 Appearance Menu Mod
📖 Ultimate Photo Mode Helper. Spawn Companions. Change Appearances. Decorate Your House. Direct Your Actors.
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🥉 Character Customization Anywhere
📖 A simple mod that lets you open the character customization screen at any time using a hotkey.
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🌍 Locations:
💁🏼‍♂️ Too many cars, too many tickets? Download a garage... or mansion.

🥈 Japantown Garage
📖 Adds a two car garage to V's Japantown Apartment.
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🥈 Wellsprings Garage Workshop DLC
📖 This modification for the Cyberpunk 2077 game is a very simple but clean overhaul for a Garage / Workshop in the Wellsprings district.
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🥈 Wellsprings Additional Subtractions
📖 Wellsprings Garage Workshop DLC AddOn: An extra clean and cleared out version of the original Mod.
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🥇 V's Edgerunners Mansion - Apartment DLC
📖 This mod lets you purchase and access V's Mansion. Also adds new sitting, sleeping, wardrobe and shower interactions to it.
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🥇 V's Mansion Redux - NeoZen
📖 V's Edgerunners Mansion AddOn: A noir neokitsch mansion for your V!
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🔊 Audio:
💁🏼‍♂️ Very useful audio mods that help reduce annoying sounds and simply gives you more control.

🥇 InfiniteWave: Car Sound Framework
📖 Makes it possible to use custom engine sounds as replacers of original or modded cars.
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🥇 SFX Toggle (Mute Sounds and Combat Music)
📖 Toggle and mute any in-game SFX with Mod Settings.
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🥇 Quieter TV Ads
📖 Reduces the volume of ambient TV advertisements.
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🥇 Quiet Menus
📖 This mod will reduce the volume (gain -9 dB) for all TV ads.
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🥇 Skeler Radio (RadioExt)
📖 Adds a radio station featuring songs with Skeler. Tracks will generally be dreamy and atmospheric with emotive melodies. Perfect for a more chill, slightly downbeat long drives.
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🥇 Skip Radio Song
📖 This mod allows you to simply skip the current song playing on the radio by pressing a button of your choosing.
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🧰 Utilities:
💁🏼‍♂️ With all those upgardes it's time to obtain control.

🥉 Simple Menu - An In-Game UI including Hotkeys
📖 A user interface that provides gameplay, cheat and utility features to be executed by a press of a button.
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🥉 Game Entity Examiner Tool
📖 Supports examining / controlling a lot of world objects, such as lights, doors, lifts and more.
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🥉 Conflict Begone (Archive Conflict Checker - User Mod Support)
📖 This mod references manually added compatibility data and does not cover all potential conflicts.
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🥇 Miscellaneous Settings Unlocker
📖 Unlocks hidden settings including "Astonishing Crowds", "Global Illumination Range", "Slow HDD Mode", "Anti-Aliasing" and more.
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🥇 Weather Switcher (Change Weather - Control Time - Customize Clouds)
📖 Realtime weather switching, cloud customization, time control, and engine toggles.
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🖱️ User Interface:
💁🏼‍♂️ Alter the UI for more style, with options to remove it completely for total immersion.

🥇 Mod Settings
📖 Adds a redscript-configurable "Mod Settings" page to the main menu that any mod can add a page to.
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🥈 Game Settings Menu Sorting Tool - CET
📖 Sort your settings menu categories so they appear in the order you prefer.
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🥉 HUD Painter
📖 Adds a new menu where you can customize the game color theme.
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🥇 Circlemap Widgets - a circular Minimap
📖 A circle minimap instead of the square original with extras like compass and widgets.
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🥇 Limited HUD
📖 Hides main HUD widgets by default and shows them only on certain events (configurable).
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🥇 Realistic Map
📖 Replaces the default map with a High-Res Render of the actual map. 4k, 8k, 16k, and 32k.
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