One Expansion Isn’t Enough For Cyberpunk 2077
After this week's Night City Wire presentation, CD Projekt Red confirmed (quietly) that Phantom Liberty, the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion set to release next year, will be the only expansion the game gets. That’s a change from what CDPR said before the game’s release. Like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt before it, Cyberpunk 2077 was originally set to receive two. Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine are considered by many fans to be the best part of Geralt’s open-world adventure. Knowing that, I had held out hope that Cyberpunk could still become, roughly, what it looked like in E3 presentations.
But, a lot has changed since CDPR first sketched the RPG’s future. Cyberpunk 2077 launched amid a global pandemic. It was extremely buggy on the then brand new current gen hardware and barely playable on PS4 and Xbox One. Whole systems and features seen in trailers were missing from the game and Sony even took it off its storefront for a while. In addition to the challenges of changing its workflow to deal with COVID, CDPR also had to spend the year-and-a-half since launch getting Cyberpunk into the shape it should have been in in the first place.
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Watching this week’s Night City Wire, I saw plenty of reasons to feel hopeful about the game’s future. With the Edgerunners update, CDPR has added new features to the game to make it more customizable, like the ability to sculpt your character’s face in greater detail. CDPR has also divorced style from stats, adding the ability to keep your best armor active while wearing a different outfit, allowing players to express themselves better through the fashion so central to Cyberpunk fiction. The update also added new gigs, new weapons, and cross
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