andrul: I originally bought the game on Steam and it installed PL automatically when it came out, never saw the red launcher even using mods through Nexus Vortex mod manager. Note they say the red launcher is necessary to run many mod. Had an issue with the game, installed a separate version through Galaxy (wanted to support CDP and have an offline copy) and ever since both installations required the red launcher and even the cp2077.exe would direct through it and a short time later It would only run without any mods.
Completely uninstalled both copies, downloaded the install files from my GOG library and kept getting checksum failures on all the files during install even after downloading them again. Downloaded offline installers through Galaxy and they installed but operates as if installed through Galaxy. Not what I wanted from an "Offline" installer at all.