This year’s Game Awards brought us gonks a brand new trailer for the upcoming, and only, DLC expected for CD Projekt Red’s adaptation of the classic cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game. The first trailer for Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty was a giant dose of mystery and, well, three months on there are still many questions. But at least we know a little bit more about what awaits us as we team up with Johnny Silverhand and a brand new character portrayed by none other than Idris Elba.
Phantom Liberty, the upcoming DLC for Cyberpunk 2077, was teased back in September with a brief trailer that left us with many questions about the fictional political state of the game’s world, and a message from Keanu that was…suitably Keanu. Since then, fans have had to take a break from hunting down other mysteries left unsolved in the game to try to connect the threads of seemingly related sidequests in the core game. It’s been messy, and there are still questions to be answered, and no theory could’ve predicted the appearance of Idris Elba.
Though Cyberpunk 2077 is in a much better position than where it was at launch, it’s still taken a long time for us to get anything besides patches to the many leaking holes of buggy code, quality of life updates, and a few nice additions like the ability to purchase apartments. The embarrassing state of the game on launch was rough enough for CDPR to completely end its multiplayer ambitions for the game, stating a need to focus on its strengths as a producer of single-player, narrative RPGs. CDPR is expected to deliver more Witcher and Cyberpunk in the near future, thankfully with a different engine.
Fan speculation around Phantom Liberty has lately circled around a politically charged side quest titled “Dream On,” where players were introduced to Jefferson and Elizabeth Peralez. There’s a ton of stuff to unpack in that new trailer, but few could’ve guessed another acclaimed actor would jump into Night City.
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