Choosing your Character

When you create your new runner in Neocron, you will be asked to choose a profession, a class, a name, and your character's appearance. You will also be asked if you want to complete the Neocron tutorial. If this is your first runner it is definitely worth playing through the tutorial to get to grips with the basic controls of the game.

Character Professions

The professions selection list shown during the character creation process

The first step to creating a new runner is choosing a profession. Professions are customizable statistics templates that assign some of your points automatically (these can be changed later in the character creation process). Professions also impact some early missions and rewards that your character can collect, and impact your starting equipment. Although, this choice decides what character class and equipment you start with, you can always change you profession with loss of memory (LOM) pills, purchasable from Taylor's Biochem and other drug stores. Your character's profession will be listed against your runner when other people search for you on the CityCom, even if you never followed through with the profession and went down another path.

Below is a list of available professions.

• Assassin - A specialist in long distance fighting, limits class selection to Private Eye and Spy
• Beserker - A specialist in close combat melee and brawling, limits class selection to Private Eye and Gentank
• Driver - Capable of driving many bikes, tanks, gliders and even hoverbombers - limits class selection to Private Eye, Spy and Gentank
• Engineer - A constructor capable of turning blueprints and parts into constructed items, limits class selection to Private Eye, Spy and Monk
• Field Medic - A monk specializing in healing and protecting themselves and others
• Hacker - Somebody specializing in hacking, limits class selection to Private Eye, Spy and Monk
• Infiltrator - A reconnaissance specialist utilizing stealth to close in on their enemies. Limits class selection to Private Eye and Spy
• Inquisitor - A monk specializing in dealing damage
• Preacher - A hybrid monk capable of healing themselves and dealing damage to others
• Rigger - Specialises in remote fighting uses drones, limits class selection to Private Eye and Spy
• Scientist - A researcher who creates blueprints of items to be used by engineers, limits class selection to Spy and Monk
• Smuggler - A barterer who haggles to get the best possible price, limits class selection to Spy and Monk
• Soldier - A heavy weapons specialist, limits class selection to Gentank and Private Eye

Profession Classes are what decide you starting items, also what your points will be based in. If your new to the game, you are going to want to keep the points that it gives you. Personally I would start the game with a Berserker / Soldier / Assassin / Infiltrator / Inquisitor. Now the Inquisitor and the Berserker are very nice to start with, because they require no ammo to be bought for their weapons.

Character classes

The class selection screen during the character creation process

Once you have chosen your profession, the next screen during the character creation process will allow you to select an appropriate class, limited by your profession choice. On this screen you can also give your character a name and select a gender using the XX/XY options. The classes available are Private Eye, Spy, Tank and PSI Monk. This choice will generally define your playstyle and what items are available for you to use in game, and change your assignment of caps for your main statistics Intelligence, Strength, Constitution, Dexterity and PSI.

Spy

Main article Spy

This class is shown for its ability to construct and research items and is the ultimate in trade skilling classes - BUT its also very powerful in Player v Player combat (PvP) Base Skills Once Capped

Skill	Max level	Initial level	Initial subskill
Intelligence	100	5	78
Strength	40	2	10
Constitution	40	2	20
Dexterity	100	3	40
PSI	20	1	2

This class can also choose between the following Professions:

• Assassin

• Driver

• Engineer

• Hacker

• Rigger

• Scientist

• Smuggler

• Infiltrator

Private Eye

Main Article Private Eye

This character has an all round skill base and is basically supposed to be a 'jack of all trades' - but this isn't how this character has skilled out to be. It has a fairly large amount of PSI and is a very good self healer. It can use the top of the range weapons from the Assassin and Infiltrator fields - This is one of the 2 most powerful classes for 1v1 Combat.

Base Skills for PE

Skill	Max level	Initial level	Initial subskill
Intelligence	60	3	20
Strength	60	3	40
Constitution	65	3	10
Dexterity	80	3	78
PSI	35	1	2

This class can also choose between the following Professions

• Assassin

• Hacker

• Rigger

• Infiltrator

• Driver

• Engineer

• Soldier

• Berserker

Monk

Main Article Monk

This character can choose 4 different paths to plan out his life. He can devote himself to a tradeskill like research, construction or barter, short-changing his psi skills a bit. He can become a Inquisitor and deal insane amounts of damage, or he can become a Field Medic, and be nearly invincible and priceless to a team in combat. Or you can pick a Preacher, also known in game as a Hybrid. This class is hated within the Neocron community for being amazingly powerful, he can deal medium damage, while also filling the role of a Field Medic well enough to keep himself alive. 2.2 has seen a "nerf" to monks decreasing their popularity, with less damage and frequency to cast their spells.

Base Skills of a Monk

Skill	Max level	Initial level	Initial subskill
Intelligence	100	4	40
Strength	20	1	2
Constitution	45	1	10
Dexterity	35	2	20
PSI	100	5	78

This class can also choose between the following Professions

• Inquisitor

• Field Medic

• Preacher

• Scientist

• Engineer

• Smuggler

GenTank

Main Article Gentank

This character is known for its amazing strength and damage dealing capacity, It can take damage and deal it - teamed with a Field Medic this character is lethal. This character was one of the most feared classes in Neocron 1, In Neocron 2, it was rarely used - which was a shame because it was so powerful when mixed with the right group. This class takes real skill to use and master. In 2.2 tanks are able to make a come back with increased damage output and with balancing of other classes.

Base skills for GenTank

Skill	Max level	Initial level	Initial subskill
Intelligence	25	1	12
Strength	100	5	78
Constitution	100	4	40
Dexterity	75	2	20
PSI	0	0	0

This class can also choose between the following Professions

• Driver

• Berserker

• Soldier