Here's the quick guide on how to get the glowing thermal Katana WITHOUT ANY MODS THAT CHANGE THE ARCHIVE FILES. 


							Important:  Please Back up the save file before editing




- The Glowing thermal Katana model acts as a weapon skin in-game just like you can get military, neon, and pimp variant of different firearms. Apparently the glowing model is stored as the military variant, you can change ANY katana into the glowing thermal katana by replacing the skin in your save. 

- You will need PixelRick's save editor, there are guides on nexus and youtube on how to use the editor

- link to download the editor PixelRick/CyberpunkSaveEditor · GitHub

- To get the glowing katana, you need to First get the katana you want in game, put it in a car stash and save. 

- Open the save editor, find the savefile that contain the katana and open it.

-Then click on inventory Tab to find your katana in the editor (your katana name will be different)

- Find ''Base""  and change the ''unknown string'' to military to get the glowing thermal katana. Then you can add a constant ""ThermalDamage"" if you want to add the heat distortion effect (additional effect such as heat distortion can not be stacked with other constants that also have additional effect such as "ElectricalDamage'' and ChemicalDamage").

- Save, load and enjoy your thermal katana.