In a brand new Evening Metropolis Wire tonight, CD Undertaking Pink performed the strongest card they’ve of their Cyberpunk 2077 deck, that being Keanu “Nicest Man In Hollywood” Reeves. America’s bad-ass actor dad performed semi-imaginary rock anarchist (I do know I am being reductive, do not go away feedback) Johnny Silverhand in the primary sport, and he popped as much as affirm he is again for 2023’s growth – which we now know is formally known as Phantom Liberty.
There’s additionally the Edgerunner replace dropping right this moment, a tie-in for the Netflix anime Edgrunners (extra information on that was additionally revealed tonight), and free-to-play mini sport that includes Roach the horse, as a result of all of us like Roach the horse.
Phantom Liberty, which appears like a joke identify I would make up if I had been inventing a pretend Kojima sport, appears to contain V making some type of cope with the President. Not less than I feel it is the President, and I feel that is her within the header picture. Anyway, V takes an oath that ol’ Silverhand is not on board with. It sounds, the truth is, like V turns into some type of cop. Keanu actually sounded excited, though he, too, wasn’t actually giving a lot away. I can not inform, although, from the trailer, if this confirms any of the alleged leaks from earlier this 12 months. The very best I can determine is a “perhaps??”.
New(ish) sport director Gabriel Amatangelo dished a couple of extra particulars on the Edgerunner replace, which is out right this moment. It is a tie-in to the upcoming Netflix anime, and is usually cosmetics. There are, in line with Amatangelo, Easter eggs and a quest that seeds the present in there, however the headline options had been a brand new jacket that’s the similar because the yellow jacket of the primary character within the Edgerunner anime, and a gun additionally impressed by the present.
The replace additionally provides a wardrobe with piece-by-piece transmogrification in your garments, i.e. you may change the visible on a chunk of clothes so your V seems like a cool individual slightly than a hurricaine in a thrift store. Additional beauty updates embody some new bits and items like new hair, and the flexibility to alter your face on the ripperdocs round city. Additionally: you may put a cat in your photograph mode photos now. Amatangelo says the following largest updates can be “an entire overhaul to the cop system in addition to vehicle-to-vehicle fight.”
In different “hey, bear in mind we make stuff you are not indignant about?” information, there’s an in-game arcade sport, which is, confusingly, additionally now an out-of-game free-to-play cell sport. It is a side-scrolling limitless runner that includes your favorite CDPR affiliated horse from The Witcher collection. You’ll be able to obtain it now. I imply, it is cute and all, however you’d have thought they’d different priorities.
Following a bunch of patches to get Cyberpunk 2077 really working, it is a minimum of good to see that sport is now in a state the place it is getting new stuff. How transformative Phantom Liberty can be does, after all, stay to be seen.