There's a bunch of secret dialogue in Cyberpunk 2077's main quest if you beat Phantom Liberty first, and some of it feels like groundwork for future Cyberpunk stories
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty seriously impressed me with its RPG reactivity—the written-in bits that show CD Projekt Red anticipated and accounted for players' actions. The goofy rocket guy easter egg was certainly fun, but I'm thinking more in terms of life path-exclusive dialogue or main game events that get a nod in Phantom Liberty.
It turns out this goes both ways, though, with special dialogue in 2077's main quest if you beat the expansion first, with at least two of those scenes providing insight into the setting's mysterious Blackwall: the barrier between the normal internet and a cyberspace dominated by highly advanced AIs that outgrew their programming. Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty spoilers ahead.
The first instance of unique dialogue I noticed was when talking to Arasaka flunky Anders Hellman after finishing the critical path portion of Panam's questline. V gets the opportunity to tell the architect of Arasaka's Johnny Silverhand-storing Relic about their encounters with the anti-AI Blackwall in Phantom Liberty, with the scientist seemingly spooked by behavior he never accounted for from his creation. You can watch this new version of the scene in a YouTube video from The Dissassociative [sic] Den.
The next scene, demoed here by Alasadi on YouTube, builds on the Blackwall connection, with interesting implications for the Cyberpunk lore and possibly CD Prjoekt's follow-up Cyberpunk game, Project Orion. In the lead-up to the Mikoshi assault in Cyberpunk's endgame, hacker-turned-rogue AI Alt Cunningham will mention the AI tech V found in Phantom Liberty: «You have encountered entities from the other side, not so?»
Alt goes on to provide some insight into those entities: «In colliding with your reality,
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