One of the perks of being a cybernetic ninja (or cybernetic anything, really) is the ability chop and change your parts! While Ghostrunner 2 doesn’t have deep customization, it does allow players to equip protagonist Jack with new gloves. Since the game doesn’t explicitly tell you how to earn these cosmetics, here’s what you need to know to unlock new gloves in Ghostrunner 2.
New Glove, New Ghostrunner
You may suspect that unlocking gloves will require you to explore beyond Ghostrunner 2’s beaten paths, picking up collectibles tucked away in various corners of the world. That may be the case for swords and various non-cosmetic pick-ups like Audio Logs and Memory Shards, but gloves are an entirely different ball game.
If you want to unlock new gloves, you’ll first need to complete Chapter 4, “The Hacker’s Den.” After that, you’ll add famed cybervoid hacker Kira to your team. Beyond providing some advanced tech support on future missions, she also brings a unique game mode into the mix: RogueRunner.
As the name gives away, this game-within-a-game sees players boot into an in-game VR environment where Jack is tasked with completing a series of levels. Each one you finish will grant an upgrade to your build, like a mod that reduces your stamina consumption or boosts your speed after a kill. Some will grant extra lives, which obviously increase your chances of success. If you lose all your lives during one of these missions, you lose everything and must start from scratch.
Related: Ghostrunner – Zero Punctuation
Anyway, if you successfully complete entire stages (that means all the missions from start to finish) you’ll unlock new gloves for the main game of Ghostrunner 2. The stages get increasingly more difficult since you’ll have to start from Stage 1 every time, even if you just want the glove associated with Stage 2.
It can be especially challenging, but it shouldn’t be too much of a time-sink. Stages are generally quite fast and depending on the objectives you run up against, you could feasibly complete an entire stage in less than five minutes.
Of course, if that all sounds like just too much then you needn’t bother! Any new gloves you unlock are purely cosmetic, so they won’t affect Jack’s mechanics at all, and besides, you’ll only ever see a sliver of them anyway given that Ghostrunner 2 is a first-person game. Still, it’s nice to have the option to change up your look every once in a while, right?
