DO NOT BUY Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

DLC for Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty,

and as an avid fan of Cyberpunk 2077, I

knew I just had to play this expansion

pack. Unfortunately, so far it's been kind

of disappointing, bland, boring, and

lacking in luster. So if you were

expecting this DLC to dramatically change

the core gameplay mechanics of Cyberpunk

2077, then you'll be sorely disappointed.

Although the DLC does introduce some new

gameplay mechanics and a revamp of the

skill tree, The game mostly remains the

same as the original offering. As someone

who put over 150 hours into the original

Cyberpunk 2077, I'm kind of burnt out with

what the game currently has to offer,

even with the new DLC. So after you've

installed Phantom Liberty and load into

your game, you can either start a new game

or just continue from where you left off.

Last time I played this game was end of

2022. Before I finished the game, I had

one save and I loaded that save point and

I got a phone call. Telling me to go to

Dogtown, which is where the DLC will be

taking place. Dogtown is a really ugly,

destroyed, slummy kind of looking place

with destroyed buildings, and it just

looks kind of run-down in comparison to

Night City, which is a very beautiful city

with neon lights and very futuristic

cyberpunk vibes. I didn't really enjoy

being in Dogtown for the most part because

it just looks so ugly and dull and boring.

So I'm not really a big fan of the setting

of the new DLC. I prefer being in Night

City. But it was nice that they added on a

new part of the city, I guess. So the

beginning intro of Phantom Liberty is a

very long, slow, laborious, and tedious

process where you're basically running

through wreckages and scaffolding and

trying to get your way to the checkpoints

where it just tells you to go to this

place and then just basically sprint

towards it whilst taking out any enemies

on the way. Your task is to look for the

president whose aeroplane or spaceship

just crashed into the ground after being

shot down, and you have to help her and

escort her and keep her safe. Basically,

it involves just running to checkpoints

whilst you make sure she's following

behind you. And there's a lot of talking.

There's a lot of standing around in

elevators just waiting for the elevator to

go up or down whilst you stand there

having a bit of chitchat, either with

Johnny and his wise-ass little remarks,

which kind of get old and very annoying

very quickly. The core gameplay mechanics

of the main story in Phantom Liberty

basically is the same as what you would

expect from Cyberpunk. Go to the

objective, go into this room or this

outpost or this building, and then look

around for the other objectives. Either

using your scanning ability or talking to

someone or killing an enemy and stealing

whatever keycard or loot he has to

progress to the next checkpoint. And this

gets kind of tedious when you have to

enter a room and basically just scan

everything. This is not fun gameplay. I

don't know why CD Projekt Red thinks that

us gamers want to stand around scanning

things and just like analyzing objects and

get information about random objects in a

room. It's not fun, it's not entertaining.

I'd rather not do it. And then eventually

you are finally introduced to the new main

star of the show, Idris Elba, a British

actor who's been in quite a lot of really

big films. Seems like he has been

recruited to join Keanu Reeves in this

game to be the next main star in the game.

And I mean, he looks okay, I guess. He

looks like Idris Elba and everything, but

they gave him an American accent. And no

offense to his American accent skills,

they're okay, but sometimes I do hear the

British accent slightly slipping out. And

it is slightly immersion breaking. I think

it would have been better if they just let

him speak with a British accent, and maybe

he's like, I don't know, a British agent

from Britain who came to America to do

some espionage. But anyway, the American

accent does seem or sound kind of jarring.

But apart from that, his performance in

the game is pretty good and what you'd

expect from an actor of his tier grade.

So the main core of the story in this game

is basically the president's woman is

hiding out in some wrecked building, and

you've got Idris Elba to help you out do

missions and try and find out who's trying

to assassinate her and try and keep her

safe and try and find a solution to these

problems. And that's where the main core

and meat of the gameplay of Phantom

Liberty comes into play. You'll have a

bunch of different quest lines and side

quests that will take you all around

Dogtown, that amazingly destroyed-looking

slummy rubbish area which looks nowhere

near as good or fun to explore as Night

City. So I hope you're looking forward to

doing the same old things you were doing

in Cyberpunk 2077, such as sitting in a

car watching the character just talk to

himself or talk to you whilst you sit

there in the passenger seat not really

doing anything. Seems like Project CD

Projekt Red didn't really listen to the

players' feedback when everyone was

complaining, saying it's boring just

sitting here in the passenger seat, at

least let us drive like in GTA. There's

similar missions in GTA where you're

driving and the side character is in there

with you as a passenger and he's talking

to you, but at least in GTA they let you

drive the bloody car. In this game you

gotta sit there just staring at his face.

As for the combat of the game, it

basically feels pretty much the same as

the original game, but there are a few new

things. Thanks to the revamped skill tree,

there are a few new extra perks that you

can unlock by putting skill points into

it. That does make the gameplay feel a

little bit freshened up, but apart from

that, it's mostly just the same old stuff.

For example, I got this perk that

highlights a little diamond on the enemy,

and if I aim at it, it will reveal a weak

point on the enemy where if I continue

shooting into it, it will charge up like a

electric pulse explosion and just kill

them in one shot, which is pretty cool.

And there's many other new features such

as you can now double tap F to jump out of

a moving car, or you could slide out of

the moving car. And there's also weapons

added to the cars and vehicles, which is

kind of okay, I guess, but I don't really

care that much because I'm not really into

combat in a vehicle. I'd rather just get

down on my foot and shoot enemies with my

gun or my weapons. And I feel like they've

kind of missed an opportunity here where

they could have added a really in-depth

car customization gameplay feature. I

really feel like they could have taken

some inspiration from Starfield's

shipbuilding mechanics where you can build

your own ship and add guns onto it

wherever you want. I think it would have

been really cool if you can customize a

car and like change or upgrade the parts—

the engine, the exhaust, the tires, the

spoiler, stuff like that, bulletproof

windows maybe— and also add weapons to the

car or the vehicle and have like a massive

list and huge variety of different

weapons. That you can place anywhere on

the car, like on the sides, on the top.

Maybe have like quad shotguns on the roof

of the car. It would have been really cool

if you could modify the vehicles in this

game to that extent. Take it to a garage

and like modify everything, or maybe even

build your own custom car and choose from

a list of engine parts and exhausts and

body chassis. As of right now, all I can

see is there's some kind of police van

that has rocket launchers and there's some

machine guns on one of the cars. And I

guess that's okay and everything, it's a

bit of a gimmicky thing. It's fun for a

few minutes, like driving some of the

vehicles in Halo was kind of fun for a

bit, but then you'd rather just get out

and walk around on foot and use your

weapons like I said before. So the skill

tree in the game has completely been

revamped as you can see. It's now like a

tree system, whereas before it didn't have

these lines connecting to each other.

Before it was just like a load of

different random skills and you can just

put your points and click on them in any

order you want to. Now you've kind of got

an order you've got to follow, so you

begin at the bottom and then you branch

off into different things. For example,

Reflexes, you start off with one of these

new skills where you can do like a dashing

thing, and there's also different movement

things and skills. And also in Technical

Ability, you got things like Gearhead,

you got increased health for your

vehicles, increased damage on your

vehicle-mounted weapons. This one's new,

this one's pretty cool, it's called Car

Hacker. You can unlock vehicle quickhacks,

allowing you to remotely take control,

set off alarms, or even blow them up. And

at the end of the tree you got some pretty

cool new perks such as finisher moves for

the melee weapons. This one's pretty cool

with blunt weapons. You got like a

finishing attack that destroys the

enemies. But the problem with these skill

trees is that it kind of suffers the same

problem from the original game, whereas a

lot of these things you put your points

into just add incremental percentage

modifiers to your abilities, such as -25%

recoil whilst aiming, +20% effective range

and accuracy, +15% weapon swap speed,

-30% bullet spread. It's just kind of

boring because it's just like +20% this,

-10% that, and doesn't really feel like it

really dramatically changes the gameplay

for your playstyle in a huge way. You also

have these relic skills. For example,

you've got this one where you get 100%

crit chance, 25% armor penetration, weak

spot damage bonuses. Or you could go for

emergency cloaking and have more of a

stealth build with the relic skills, or

have like a mantis blade skill upgrade

thing. So it's nice they upgraded the

talent trees, the skill trees, and you can

really specialize into your own kind of

playstyle. And there's probably quite a

lot of different builds you can play

around creating for yourself. But really,

it doesn't really feel that massively

different from the previous skill tree.

It's just it looks different with the

different connecting branches, and there's

a few new perks that they've added. But

they've also removed some of the fun perks

that were in the original game. So it's

kind of annoying you have to pay £25 for

this DLC. I feel like they should have

just given it to us for free. I don't

really feel like this DLC adds a massively

huge amount of new content for it to be

worth the price tag. I mean, really, this

should have been part of the original game

when it first released. If this was part

of the original game, then the game

wouldn't have had such negative feedback

when it first came out. And it took,

what, 2, 3 years now to finally get to

this point? So if you're really like a

hardcore fan of this game and you really

stuck with it for all these years, then I

feel like us hardcore fans, we should be

given this free DLC as like a reward for

staying true to the game instead of just

ditching it like most people did because

the game was really glitchy and kind of

rubbish and bad when it first came out,

and it took over a year until the game

actually became good. So those are my

thoughts on the Cyberpunk 2077 DLC Phantom

Liberty. I think it's okay, and I'll

probably get around to playing it

eventually, but right now I'm too busy on

Starfield, which I feel like Starfield is

superior to Cyberpunk 2077 in almost every

single way. Starfield is very similar to

Cyberpunk, you could say, But I just find

Starfield to be a lot more interesting and

a lot more engaging and more of an

in-depth RPG shooter kind of game.