Cyberpunk 2077’s story expansion,Phantom Liberty, launches tomorrow. Early reviews have been great, with high scores across the board. However, one early player warns fans not to threaten to walk away from the main mission, because the new characters will call your bluff.
After the long wait for more story content, you can throw it all away by telling your new companions that you’re going to walk. This will lock you out from playing through Phantom Liberty at all with your current character, forcing you to either go back to a previous save or make a new V entirely if you don’t have multiple save files.
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This was spotted byPC Gamer, who put it to the test by insisting they wanted nothing to do with Phantom Liberty’s story. Turns out, the DLC absolutely lets you play as a V who’s simply had enough, and just wants to return to the main quest in the base game. However, Phantom Liberty’s cast will just continue on without you, rather than wait around for you to have a change of heart, so you’ll be locking yourself out of the mission indefinitely.
It’ll be hard to accidentally end up on this doomed route since you get one chance to reconsider. Johnny even flashes in to make it abundantly clear that if you do this, there’s no going back. So if you fail the mission without meaning to, that’s on you, really.
Since this is a role-playing game, it’s great to see the devs take these kinds of players into account. Typically, NPCs are happy to put their problems on hold as long as you need. But nope, not in Phantom Liberty. But this makes sense - you’re a new player in Dogtown, so hardly the centre of anyone’s universe. Of course they’ll continue without you, it’s not like they’ve come to depend on you yet, anyway.
As per PC Gamer, you get the chance to leave the new story behind during the fourth mission, so quite early on into Phantom Liberty. If you choose this path (or rather, dead end), then you’re able to at least still walk around Dogtown. The only change noted so far is that you’ll get just one more text from Reed - Idris Elba’s character - before he cuts off contact. It remains to be seen if there are any other consequences, outside of presumably losing access to the new main story ending Phantom Liberty has promised.
Yet considering how long we’ve waited, it can be assumed that many of us will, indeed, want to dive into whatever story Phantom Liberty has for us. While we wait for it to go live tomorrow,the version 2.0 update is out now, so we can get to grips with the gameplay overhaul.
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