Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty enlargement boasts the largest finances for a CD Projekt Crimson extra content material but. Talking to the Polish monetary information outlet Parkiet, the developer’s investor relations supervisor Marek Bugdoł recommended that it was the largest enlargement within the studio’s historical past when it comes to finances. The chief additionally said that the corporate feels “comfy” with the present work cycle on Phantom Liberty. Improvement on Cyberpunk 2077 was rushed to satisfy the 2021 launch date, leading to a myriad of technical points at launch.
Whereas not explicitly talked about, a sure chunk of the elevated finances might need gone in the direction of casting Idris Elba (The Suicide Squad, Molly’s Recreation) in a serious position for the Phantom Liberty enlargement. In it, he stars as Solomon Reed, an FIA agent for the “New United States of America,” a faction that the participant character, V, pledges allegiance to. Plot particulars are scarce, however a teaser from September revealed that Keanu Reeves might be reprising his position because the magnetic Johnny Silverhand, who finds V’s newfound oath a “unhealthy thought.” Count on tons of lifeless authorities officers, new characters, and an electrical whip, as you tackle an “not possible mission” of espionage and survival in Cyberpunk 2077’s upcoming enlargement.
Over on Cyberpunk 2077’s official subreddit, there was a small misunderstanding amongst members, who believed Phantom Liberty to be the “greatest enlargement” in CD Projekt Crimson’s historical past — earlier than Parkiet’s report was up to date. Nevertheless, group director Marcin Morton rose to the event and clarified that it was merely the largest budget-wise. “Simply wished to level out that this half is in regards to the greatest finances in the case of enlargement packs we have launched. We might be speaking extra in regards to the recreation scope-related particulars sooner or later,” his remark reads. Presently, CD Projekt Crimson’s greatest paid enlargement, when it comes to scope, is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Blood and Wine, which added round 40 hours of gameplay to the bottom recreation.
As beforehand reported, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty might be a paid enlargement. Whereas pricing hasn’t been set but, CDPR discovered it essential to make clear the element because the studio is thought for dropping a number of add-on content material for its titles. The free ones are coined the time period “DLCs,” whereas the bigger, long-term developed content material is known as an “enlargement.”
The long-dormant curiosity in Cyberpunk 2077 spiked after the premiere of the Netflix anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — at one level, attracting a million gamers each day, throughout each consoles and PC. In fact, part of this resurgence needed to do with the builders fixing a whole lot of the technical points, which prevented gamers from having expertise on the streets of Evening Metropolis. The same spike was seen with the participant rely of The Witcher 3 as effectively after the Henry Cavill-led live-action sequence dropped on Netflix.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty enlargement releases someday this yr on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence S/X.