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Cyberware Malfunction: Quickhack Effects and How to Obtain

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This is a guide to Cyberware Malfunction, a Quickhack in Cyberpunk 2077. Read on to learn this quickhack's effects, rarities, stats, and how to obtain Cyberware Malfunction.

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Cyberware Malfunction Overview

Cyberware Malfunction

Install Type		Mod
Quickhack Type		Control
RAM Cost		Quickhack Cost: 4 Tier 2: 4 TIer 3: 4 Tier 4: 4 Tier 5: 4
Duration		51 sec
Cooldown		0 sec
Upload Time		0.3 sec
Price		Tier 2: 11908 Tier 3: 20139 Tier 4: 41553 Tier 5: 76295
What better way to discourage an enemy than by making them carry around literal pounds of dead weight.

Cyberware Malfunction Effects

Stats

611		Electrical Damage

Effects

Description	・What better way to discourage an enemy than by making them carry around literal pounds of dead weight.
Tier 2	・Stacks up to 8 times. Disables enemy cyberware for 10 sec. and increases all damage against the affected enemy by 5%.
Tier 3	・At 2 stacks, permanently disables enemy cyberware.
Tier 4	・At 3 stacks, deals Electrical damage over time. The amount of damage increases with each subsequent stack.

How to Get Cyberware Malfunction

Purchased From Shops

Each shop has a fixed pool of items which can show up, with some legendary items also purchasable at specific shops. If the Cyberware Malfunction is not present when visiting a shop, simply exit, use Skip Time to go 24 hours ahead, and repeat until Cyberware Malfunction is available.

Vendor	Rarity
Netrunner (Japantown)	Uncommon
Netrunner (Japantown)	Rare
Netrunner (Vista Del Rey)	Uncommon
Netrunner (Vista Del Rey)	Rare
Netrunner (Coastview)	Uncommon
Netrunner (Coastview)	Rare
Dewdrop Inn	Uncommon

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Cyberware Malfunction	Detonate Grenade	Memory Wipe
Overheat	Ping	Reboot Optics
Request Backup	Short Circuit	Sonic Shock
Suicide	Synapse Burnout	System Reset
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4 Anonymousover 3 years

This is not true "as reward from Nix during Kold Mirage" you only get Reboot Optics, System Reset, Sonic Shock, Short Circuit, and Memory Wipe.

3 Jericho Thracealmost 4 years

The Epic Variant of Cyberware Malfunction can be Obtained as Reward from Nix after Completing the "Kold Mirage" Sidequest by hacking Nix´s Laptop and jailbreak the Bartmoss Cyberdeck without losing the Data.

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