Spoiler Warning: The next article options minor spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s fourth principal mission: Lucretia My Reflection.
Cyberpunk 2077 gamers have discovered a brilliant sneaky reference to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hidden by CD Projekt contained in the Phantom Liberty enlargement.
As recorded in IGN’s Cyberpunk 2077 Easter Eggs and References Information, gamers will encounter a wall-mounted telephone in Phantom Liberty’s Lucretia My Reflection mission. Whereas this can be a one-off encounter the place gamers contact Idris Elba’s Solomon Reed for the primary time, going again to it and dialling a bunch of various telephone numbers will internet some fascinating outcomes.
Due to Cyberpunk 2077 being open-world, gamers can merely head again to the telephone inside Capitan Caliente every time they prefer to encounter the Witcher reference. By dialling one of many numbers scribbled on a post-it observe close by, 5745552377, the participant might be handled to The Witcher 3’s principal theme.
Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand smiles and provides a thumbs up on the profitable hit, as a crackly model of the music The Path performs over the telephone. You’ll be able to take a look at another enjoyable references discovered with Capitan Caliente’s telephone within the video above.
Phantom Liberty arrived September 26, with Replace 2.0 laying its basis just a few days earlier. It fully revamped Cyberpunk 2077 with options corresponding to a brand new perk system and improved AI and likewise introduced closure to an Elon Musk fan principle, a reference to the late racing legend Ken Block, and weird additions to the sport’s greatest thriller.
All this triggered a spike in Cyberpunk 2077’s reputation on Steam, a quantity that solely grew as gamers obtained their palms on Phantom Liberty, and gamers are discovering all types of neat Easter eggs and references within the new content material. Idris Elba’s Solomon Reed might be discovered deep undercover even earlier than the occasions of Phantom Liberty, for instance, and Dogtown has a harsh response to gamers driving police autos.
Bizarrely, CD Projekt even included a means for gamers to show down the occasions of the paid enlargement altogether, with sure dialogue choices locking the missions away for good.
In our 9/10 overview, IGN stated: “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty completes an immense turnaround for CD Projekt Pink’s future RPG kickstarted with the anime spin-off, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and its newest 2.0 Replace.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.