Everything We Learned About Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty And Update 2.0 During Today's Night City Wire
gameinformer.comToday, CD Projekt Red announced during a special Night City Wire that Cyberpunk 2077's Update 2.0 will go live on September 21, for free, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. It also revealed new cinematics, gameplay and music details, and more about Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, which is out September 26. The entire Night City Wire ran for about 40 minutes but fortunately for you, we have everything you need to know about it summarized below.
Today's Night City Wire started with a new cinematic trailer for the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 expansion, Phantom Liberty, and it's gorgeous. Featuring the high-fidelity visuals of the rest of the game's cinematics, we see Idris Elba's retired spy Solomon Reed boarding a train out of Night City. On it, he speaks to Song So Mi (you might recognize her by her pseudonym Songbird), a new Cyberpunk 2077 Netrunner that players' V will encounter during Phantom Liberty.
Reed quickly realizes his leave has been compromised, potentially by Song So Mi, and after a short fight with various guards, he's shot. We then flash forward seven years and see Songbird on a ship in space with the President of the New United States of America, Rosalind Myers. Out of nowhere, a missile crashes into the spaceship as it's over Night City, and the ship goes down. And that's where this trailer ends and, presumably, where players' Phantom Liberty journey begins.
Elba spoke a bit about his character afterward, explaining that he's a complicated spy. You might know what he's capable of, but you don’t know if you can trust him. He also teases that with Phantom Liberty being a spy story, players must watch everything happening because not all is as it seems. Elba describes Reed as
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