About this mod
Small Packs of save files for Quick Starts with almost Blank, Unmodified, Unedited characters with Act 1 miss-able gear to jump through the initial part of the game and get to the Meat.
- Permissions and credits
Purge mods & install video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqiF-kh138
Download the archetype/gender you want, unzip, copy "ManualSave-(#)" folder, that is inside the description folder, to your games save folder.
These are minimalist runs to get through Act 1 and open Act 2. They contain Only the missables, granteds and some random pickups from the very early missions.
Starting Attributes: Body 5 Reflex 5 Tech 7 Intel 4 Cool 4 ; Level 8 with 4-5 Street Cred, 4 unspent attribute points, 10-14 gained skill levels & unspent perk points.
The reason for the stat distribution is to optimize the (fairly small) amount of combat & experience gain in the required early portions.
.Zip file for each character type includes 5 save files.
1. Act 1 Meeting Meredith (subsequent saves have Synapse Burnout)
2. Act 1 Meeting with Royce (subsequent saves have Chaos Pistol & possible Meredith 'romance'- Royce killed & Brick saved)
3. Act 1 PoNR The Heist (Subsequent saves have Yorinobu's shirt & slacks, Iguana egg & Satori)
4. Act 2 Fresh start (just out of the bath after 1st conflict scene with V & Johnny)
5. Act 2 Post Heroes (most things in apartment gathered, has Jackie's Nazare' Arch & both La Chigona Dorada)
Each character type's save files are sequential so they will not interfere with eachother (these will overwrite other saves if those numbered saves already exist-make backups first).
If continuing unmodified, I recommend changing appearance to suit at a Ripperdoc, finding Skippy, then following Delemains Epistrophy mission line, as it is great for unlocking the city areas and gaining some fairly easy exp.