Cyberpunk 2077
While I’m not really convinced to reinstall Cyberpunk 2077 just to mess around with a few new cars and photo mode features after Update 2.3, there are some curious things that players have found hidden and changed with the launch of the new patch.
We see this pretty often, stealth, fun things added to the game like say, a secret Balatro quest. But this? This is something else, and it feels like it at least could be teasing something big.
It appears that Update 2.3 added a dozen and a half new ads that are promoting a casino in Pacifica, the region where Phantom Liberty takes place. There was, of course, a casino that was part of a mission in that campaign, and there is also a defunct casino on the map, the North Oak Casino and Resort, that lies dormant and was not used.
New billboard
The idea here is that a future plan for Cyberpunk may be to open up that casino in a future patch, which would be actual new content rather than just adding new car and photo and cosmetic things.
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A few weird things have happened with this find, with some of the initial posters deleting their claims but I mean, you can see some of the banners. And in the files, there are actually 18 new banners you can find:
Cyberpunk 2077
It would seem that this is about a Pacifica casino, not one of the other ones, but if this is planned for the future, yet again, I warn people to manage expectations. I can see them adding in the Phantom Liberty mission-based casino area and then unlocking something like say, a number of gambling minigames that you can spend your hard earned cash on. Roulette, Poker, Blackjack, Slots, whatever. I do not think this would be say, some giant mission chain involving a casino robbery or whatever high expectations people may have for it. Adding a way to gamble (and a new place to take photos!) seems more along the lines of something a patch 2.4 might offer. Though opening up a whole new area like this would be significant in and of itself.
There is a good amount of space between these updates, but at this point it’s pretty clear that we should never believe that CDPR is done adding things to Cyberpunk 2077. And they are also pretty clear about teasing future content (a new car in this patch was teased in a Cyberpunk comic, for instance). I do expect something to come of this.
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