I think i know what's working with these lifepaths. The main changes happen right at the start where your background sets up a really specific 30-60 minute intro mission which teaches different mechanics depending on if youre sneaking through corpo offices doing spy stuff running street hustles or handling nomad smuggling routes in the badlands. After that opening its mostly about timing your special dialogue options which pop up pretty regularly like every 10-15 minutes of gameplay, and knowing exactly when to use them.

Worth noting that corpo paths specifically give you some really nice advantages especially during infiltration missions where you can completely bypass certain security checkpoints if you time your corporate speech checks right. The war pigs quest is definitely worth tracking down since it gets you that sweet apparition pistol, and you'll have about 38% more unique corporate dialogue options compared to other paths. For optimal positioning during dialogue-heavy missions stay aware of when those corpo options appear since they often give you the cleanest solution.

The thing with street kid and nomad paths is while they dont have quite as many mechanical advantages their dialogue patterns are super consistent. Street kids can talk their way through gang encounters, nomads know exactly when to leverage vehicle knowledge, but the real trick is watching for those blue dialogue prompts since they signal your background-specific options. Just remember that after act 1, all the paths merge into the same main story beats, but those background-specific interactions keep coming up regularly if youre paying attention to the timing.