Sandevistan is one of the operating system in Cyberpunk 2077 which provide temporary effect that can be activate on demand.
Sandevistan’s default setting causes time to slow down for a certain amount of time.
The Crit Chance and Crit Damage of certain variations may be raised.
The user can modify Sandevistan to improve its duration, lower its cooldown, and achieve other beneficial effects.
However, many players facing issue with Sandevistan in Cyberpunk 2077 as it is not working or activating.
In this article, we will discuss why Cyberpunk 2077 Sandevistan not working or activating and how to fix it.
Why Cyberpunk 2077 Sandevistan Not Working?
Below are some of the problem players are facing in Cyberpunk 2077 Sandevistan:
“Sometimes it just stops working. I can’t toggle it on, and I have to save and reload to get it working again.”
“Kill animations throw me out of Sandevistan mode (and get me killed as I’m hoisting some poor chump in the air and I’m no longer moving super fast).”
“Trying to draw or change weapons while in Sandevistan mode slows movement to a crawl.”
Another Reddit user wrote,
“Since about 1 week my sandevistan button (E on PC) does not activate sandevistan.”
“I switched to beserk and quickhack cyberdeck and back to sandevistan but it didn’t help. Also reassigned E to another letter and back.”
How To Fix Cyberpunk 2077 Sandevistan Not Working Or Activating?
Below are some fixes and important points discussed in forum by Benino1:
It may have to do with sheathing and pulling out a weapon because it consistently seems to stop before combat or after combat.
I’ve noticed that before i want to start a fight and i want to activate sandevistan and draw out my weapon it suddenly doesn’t work.
Conversely the opposite happens too; I just come out of a fight, i put my sword back in and it won’t activate anymore. ( sword i’m using is Satori) I have not tested it with other weapons than the sword.
But during combat itself it doesn’t seem to break and I can activate it repeatedly for the duration of the fight.
I’ve driven around town in my car going from ncpd scanner to the next and at random it just stops working before i want to go into combat.
- At times it stops in the middle of a gig, i would be able to kill a bunch of enemies, look around, loot some stuff. but then when i ran into another enemy it suddenly didnt work anymore (while having exited combat before i ran into him)
- It may be related to movement speed. The transmission bug ( where it stops working after coming back from cyberspace into the voodoo boys hideout) is fixable by drinking alcohol and then activating sandevistan ( the slow time buff becomes the alcohol symbol and then works for some inexplicable reason)
- I’ve noticed that when I used cold blood in my build and get more movement speed it broke more often. I’m also playing a melee build that has a perk that increases movement speed after killing. Thing is tho, it breaks after being out combat for long or short ( seems random). I’m not too sure about this movement speed thing but it might be related.
- Quicksaving and Reloading makes it work again, but for a very short duration. Once it has happened the first time it will keep happening much more frequently.
- Restarting the game fixes it for a much longer time but, like entropy, it is unavoidable. It will keep happening after a while of playing.
- On some other posts i’ve seen suggestions like changing out sandevistan, sleeping, changing back, sleeping again as possible fixes, these do NOT work permanently, the bug comes back.
In general the hotkeys say that I should be holding down E to activate cyberware but that has never been the case for sandevistan, it has always activated on just a tap of E (Berserk etc do not have this problem).
This also causes sandevistan to activate during conversations and while funny at first it gets annoying after a while.
Maybe sandevistan not activating is related to that difference?
Changing the hotkey to a different key, that also taps, does not seem to affect it however and the bug returns like with E.
It doesn’t seem to be related to specific locations or quests or anything of the sort.
It just happens at any point and then keeps happening.
I could save the game before a ncpd place, restart the game and i would have no problems on that locations whereas before restarting it would break there.
After that some point added by KuroganeHammer:
- I’m almost 100% sure this is a 1.5 issue because I never had this problem before.
- On my game, at least, reloading a save always fixes it.
- You can’t activate Sandevistan during a phone call, and sometimes it is still blocked even after the phone call.
- Sandevistan Operating Systems and Synaptic Accelarator cyberware are in conflict, which is a known issue but it was never explained by CDPR if yes or no one is supposed to break the other. When I have both equipped, that’s usually when my Sandevistan bugs and can’t be activated until I reload a save.
Below fixes are provided by stjobe:
- It has a cooldown, so if you’ve used it recently, you have to wait for the cooldown to end before using it again.
- Yeah, the Mantis Blade 4-second kill animation is the worst; it can eat up large chunks of your Sandevistan time. So don’t use heavy attacks or leap attacks with Sandevistan; just sprint to them and light attack instead. You may still get the occasional kill animation, but it’s way less often.
- So don’t do that 🙂 Draw or change weapons first, activate Sandevistan after.
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