Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty update pushes CPUs harder in the best way

A new Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberware mod has been released for the new 2.0 update and Phantom Liberty expansion, adding cyberware slots and more.

Early in the DLC's main story for, V is faced with a difficult choice without a lot of time to make a well-thought-out decision. As is often the case with much of the game, there are many decisions that have to be handled which can affect other things down the line, and particularly when trying to roleplay it can be hard to know what the right choice is. Dogtown residents Jacob and Taylor may talk tough, but whether they deserve the maximum punishment for their actions is ultimately up to the player to decide.

Players have discovered another Easter egg in Cyberpunk 2077‘s latest expansion, Phantom Liberty. The Easter egg this time around references CD Projekt RED’s other major title, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

CD Projekt have detailed Cyberpunk 2077 2.01, the game's first patch following update 2.0, which implemented a top-to-bottom reset of the once-ailing but at present, rather triumphant sci-fi RPG. According to the provisional changelog, the latest update encompasses general performance improvements and minor fixes plus a fatal bug which sees V falling through an elevator floor to their death when the performance falls too low. Now that's what I call a plunging frame-rate.

Cyberpunk 2077 has been on a lot of people’s minds lately. The recent release of the Phantom Liberty DLC and the big 2.0 update has brought the game back into the fore (not that it ever truly left). However, it looks as though CD Projekt Red is ready to move onto something else.

There are several gigs that you can grab while playing through Cyberpunk 2077. For those working through the Phantom Liberty expansion and operating Dogtown, one of the bigger ones you can grab for Mr. Hands is called Heaviest of Hearts, where you need to talk to a DA agent on behalf of Michael.

Cyberpunk 2077 is, finally, having its big launch moment. On Tuesday, buoyed by the 2.0 patch and expansion Phantom Liberty, the game hit its highest peak playercount since 2020. We loved Phantom Liberty, saying in our review that it's "CD Projekt firing on all cylinders to tell a great RPG story." It's been a long but impressive comeback for Cyberpunk, and the fact that the game is finally getting universal praise made me wonder if CD Projekt was reconsidering its plan to move on to a new game. After all, The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone was good, but Blood & Wine was even better…

Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update arrived last week alongside new (and truly excellent) expansion Phantom Liberty, bringing a host of tweaks and improvements in an impressive climax to the originally technically-troubled and artistically-questionable game’s quite staggering redemption arc.

With the release of Phantom Liberty, thousands of players are flocking back to the game.

There is nothing more consistently satisfying in an RPG than the feeling of unlocking a new skill. Grand story decisions are few and far between, but the RPG skill tree is always there with you, feeding you little power boosts, hinting at new ways you might be able to attack each encounter — if only you gained just a little more XP, and more cash for a key weapon or cybernetic upgrade.

Phantom Liberty, the long-awaited expansion to CD Projekt's flagship game Cyberpunk 2077, will debut on Tuesday on current generation consoles and PCs.

Cyberpunk 2077's popularity has spiked following the release of Update 2.0, with the game rocketing to eighth place on Steam's most played games list ahead of expansion Phantom Liberty's launch on September 26.