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This yr’s Game Awards introduced us gonks a model new trailer for the upcoming, and solely, DLC anticipated for CD Projekt Red’s adaptation of the traditional Cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying sport. The first trailer for Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty growth arrived three months in the past with an enormous dose of thriller and, properly, three months on there are nonetheless many questions. But not less than we now know slightly bit extra about what awaits us as we group up with Johnny Silverhand and Solomon Reed, a model new character portrayed by none aside from Idris Elba.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty – World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Phantom Liberty, the upcoming DLC for Cyberpunk 2077, was teased again in September with a short trailer that left us with many questions on the political state of the sport’s fictional world, and a message from Keanu that was…suitably Keanu. Since then, followers looking forward to DLC particulars have been creating theories that sure sidequests in the primary sport might maintain a clue as to the place Phantom Liberty will take us. It’s been messy, and there are nonetheless inquiries to be answered, and no idea might’ve predicted the looks of Idris Elba.
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Though Cyberpunk 2077 is in a significantly better place than the place it was at launch, it’s nonetheless taken a very long time for us to get something moreover patches to the various leaking holes of buggy code, high quality of life updates, and some good additions like the flexibility to buy flats. The embarrassing state of the sport on launch was tough sufficient for CDPR to utterly finish its multiplayer ambitions for the sport, stating a must concentrate on its strengths as a producer of single-player, narrative RPGs. CDPR is anticipated to ship extra Witcher and Cyberpunk within the close to future, fortunately with a distinct engine.
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Fan hypothesis round Phantom Liberty has these days circled round a politically charged facet quest titled “Dream On,” the place gamers have been launched to Jefferson and Elizabeth Peralez. There’s a ton of stuff to unpack in that new trailer, however we’ll clearly be stepping into bother with the New United States Of America, based mostly on the crashed jet airplane within the opening and Johnny Silverhand’s monologue scolding us for, as soon as once more, getting concerned with people he thinks we shouldn’t.
And whereas it’s not clear the place in Night City the DLC will happen, the trailer does showcase some new locations. Based on the brand new trailer, we are able to count on Phantom Liberty to drop subsequent yr.