Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

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Posted on: October 7, 2023

Praefator

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Games: 126 Reviews: 9

Update 2.0 made it a boring game

In Update 2.0 (aka Phantom Liberty) CDPR decided to remove all the fun aspects of the game and push the players the way they wanted them to play it. No longer are the players allowed to have fun and express themselves. Before 2.0 I like playig stealth a lot. This was what the game sold me on. I could pretty much have the watch dogs hacking experience in a propper sci-fi RPG game. I could dispatch an entire location by just getting access one camera on the network, and no alarms would be triggered. I could infiltrate into a base knockout the boss grab him and leave the location without anyone knowing. Coming to 2.0 netrunning was properly ruined. Now your hacks can be traced even without a netrunner on the opposite side. Sometimes when not using quickhacks the game just lets all the enemies know where you are even without the hack tracing excuse. Everyone just knows where you are. The other thing that impacted me are quality of life features. No longer can you upgrade a weapon of your choice and no more removable mods. It goes as far as not allowing you to remove scopes from certain weapons. WHY CDPR!? Many weapons have been nerfed and their identity stripped off just because they were adding another weapon with similar stats later in the game. Who cares, CDPR? The more choice the better! Retroactive nerfs of gear... So let's put aside the situation where you had an old save with a lot amazing equipment that got nerfed. Fine! Let's assume you need to rebalance things. But why nerf equipment obtained on a fresh save? Long story short I really wanted a tier 5 weapon before act 2. So I worked my butt to craft a T5 unity which I got the specs from a vendor. Also found a T5 silencer, and scope. I was having a blast. Along comes Update 2.01 and nerfs them to T3... T3!!! All because the game thought it was too early to have this gun. There are more bad things but I'm running low on char limit. PS: Version 1.6 still available for download on the site for now. ;)

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Posted on: February 16, 2025

Bubete

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Games: 19 Reviews: 1

Best game and better dlc

happy ending? for folks like us?... wrong city wrong people This game has left me with an empty existence, and worse after watching edgerunners and finishing the dlc... I hope we have more content, in dlc, in new games and in series, I need more of this city, of V, of all the characters

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Posted on: October 10, 2023

DrowNoble

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Games: 262 Reviews: 6

Expansion and Revamp, Mixed Results

The revamp came with the expansion, so it's why I'm commenting on both here. Story wise, it is still top notch. If you want to load an old save and go to Dogtown, you can. If you want to start fresh and get boosted up to go to Dogtown, you can do that too. Basically if you enjoyed the story before, you'll enjoy this. There is more of a spy-thriller vibe, but it's still solidly Cyberpunk. Idris Elba was fantastic too. The revamp, however, is... mixed. While before you could spend points in Cool to be a stealthy assassin, that isn't going to happen anymore. Cool just helps buff how your cyberware "reduces detection" and only on some cyberware. Quickhacks almost ALWAYS lead to a trace and detection by every hostile in the area. You're now limited as to how much cyberware you can equip based off your Tech attribute and cyber capacity skill. So if you plan on speccing into a non-Tech build, don't expect to have a lot of cyberware installed. This can be crippling as cyberware is the primary way to boost armor, damage, etc as clothing is mostly cosmetic. I have found a few items giving some stats, but they are few and far between. Oh and the NCPD are out in force. Make sure to drive CAREFULLY cuz if you tap anything and they see it, you get 1 star wanted level and they start shooting. I know before they were scarce, but CDPR kinda went overboard on their presence. If they had left the base gameplay alone, this expansion would of been 4.5 outta 5. However, they broke a lot of potential builds so hence my new rating. Still enjoyed the story though and didn't regret the $30 I spent.

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Posted on: October 18, 2023

Wragan

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Games: 275 Reviews: 5

Expected more, still had (some) fun

Played and loved the base game from the start (pre-ordered), through all the mess at that time. Phantom Liberty is mid at best, but adds to the base game some awesome stuff - although many of these should have been in the base game from the start. The writing feels very weak. - from the get-go, the writers try so hard to make you think the way they want you to think about the new characters - this even goes to trying to force you by some lines of V (non-choice ones) - when a character whom not just you but also V barley know more than 30 min gets into danger V starts to hyperventing and babbling... - then sometimes A-B dialogue choices - it's either "I belive you and will follow you" or "I think you are lying but will never reveal why" - later it becomes obvious that those are there because almost all of the "twists" of the main story wouldn't even make you raise your eyebrow if you (or your V) just simply remain sceptical - the only really good parts were when you talk with Johnny about the stuff thats happening - because of these, I couldn't care less about the new ending if I wanted to Some of the characters had great potential, but they never go beyond some well made sketches. Idris Elba and his awesome performance (loved every minute with him on screen) are sooo wasted in this mimic of a story. The girl-who-is-the-key-to-everything feel... fostered (for the lack of a better word) by the writers for the whole story, with lackluster dialogue options - talking with her was a chore to get through from the start, regardless how hard the game was trying to tell me how amazing she was. The new gameplay elements are very good! - the new zone is awesome, feels really alive - Fun side quests! - the Air-drops are very fun, they feel rewarding - the car stealing mini-s should be in the base game, they feel like missing starter content (also very good) If you like the base game, the DLC is worth buying, at least on sale - but only because of the base game.

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Posted on: March 20, 2024

otreblA_SNAKE_IT

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Games: 63 Reviews: 4

Awesome, definitely worth it.

I am currently playing this DLC, and it's awesome. It seems like CDPR has a clearer view of the game now, what works and what they had to work on: everything seems more cohesive and coherent. I do hope that for the next Cyberpunk game they will follow this path. Defintely buy it and you will not regret it!

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