How to Reset Your Attributes and Refund Perks in Cyberpunk 2077

Open Character to change V's build in the Update 2.0 character system. You can refund individual perks for free. The Reset Attributes option redistributes the points you spent on the underlying stats, but you can use it only once on a character. Check which points your new build actually needs before confirming.

1. Decide which points you need to move

Attributes are the broad stats, such as Body and Intelligence. They open different perk tiers and affect which abilities you can buy. Perks are the individual upgrades inside those trees. If your current attribute is high enough for the perk you want, you can move perk points without using your attribute reset.

Open the relevant tree and check the requirement for your goal. Look at the rest of the branch as well. The main upgrade might be available, but a perk farther along it may need more points or an earlier purchase. If you have an unspent point that covers the missing requirement, try that before moving points out of another attribute.

2. Refund individual perks

1. Leave combat and open the Character menu.
2. Open the tree containing the perk you want to remove.
3. Highlight the perk and use the Refund input shown by the game.
4. If the refund is blocked by another purchased perk, remove the dependent perk first and work back down the branch.
5. Use the returned points to purchase your replacement perks.

Try this on one branch at a time if your current build mostly works. For example, if you rarely use an ability that you bought for a particular weapon, refund its points and try something you can use with the weapons you carry now. Since the refund is free, you can compare two setups without committing your attribute reset.

3. Use the one-time attribute reset

Open Character and look for Reset Attributes on the main attribute screen. Before selecting it, check the requirements for your core perks and note which equipment the new build needs. Make a manual save if you want to revisit the old setup. Returning to that save also rolls back any other progress you make after it.

Choose Reset Attributes, read the prompt, and confirm when ready. Reallocate your attributes to unlock the main perk tiers you need. Then open the relevant trees and buy the abilities that make the build work. If you are building a netrunner, for example, check the Intelligence requirements for the perks you want before distributing points across the other trees.

4. Test what changed before spending every point

Check your weapons and cyberware after the reset. Some equipment works better with certain attributes or perks, and you may have been relying on bonuses from the old setup. Pick a familiar encounter to test the new build so you can focus on whether your abilities work as expected.

Leave a few points available if you are unsure about the last part of the build. If your test shows that V struggles to move between cover, a mobility option may be a better purchase than another damage upgrade. If you are already surviving easily but taking too long to finish fights, check the perks that support your main weapon or attacks. Change one part and test it again so you can tell what helped.

5. Find out why a control is missing

If Reset Attributes is unavailable, check whether you already used it on this character and whether your platform and save are using the Update 2.0 character system. Older versions used different rules. If a perk refund is blocked, check for combat first and then check whether another bought perk requires it. Removing upgrades from the end of a branch usually makes the parent perk available to refund again.

If you already used the reset, see what your current attributes still allow. You can adjust individual perks, change weapons, or tune cyberware around a different role the character qualifies for. If you made a pre-reset save and want to compare two completely different attribute distributions, load that save and try the other build from the same starting point.

If you only wanted to test one weapon, keep your attribute reset available until you have tried it with the relevant perks. That gives you a clearer idea of whether a full rebuild is worth using.