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 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 Tyler's Biochem 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 [[Construction|constructor] capable of turning blueprints and parts into constructed items, limits class selection to 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
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:
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
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
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
