Cyberpunk 2077’s one-and-done growth, Phantom Liberty, arrived on September 26, 2023, bringing with it a brand new story and a brand new location to discover. However followers have discovered one other distinctive addition the growth introduces: a refined reference to a different open-world sport additionally set in a fictional tackle California.
Early on in Phantom Liberty, V should make a cellphone name to a sure character to get the plot shifting. As some followers have identified, there’s a cryptic set of numbers scratched into the cellphone:
2 x 9
1 x 9 L
1 x 6
1 x 7
2 x 45
Cyberpunk sleuths have been fast to name out the similarity to a very epic quick meals order in 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Early on in San Andreas, CJ, Candy, Ryder, and Massive Smoke hit up a Cluckin’ Bell, one among GTA’s quick meals parodies. Whereas everybody else orders one meal, Massive Smoke takes the chance to get in his day’s-worth of energy with the next order:
I’ll have two quantity 9s, a quantity 9 giant, a quantity 6 with additional dip, a quantity 7, two quantity 45s, one with cheese, and a big soda.
Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t any stranger to online game references and easter eggs. In the course of the Delamain facet quest, a sure homicidal AI sounds an terrible lot like one other digital girl vulnerable to killing. Naturally, there are a number of references to The Witcher 3 which, like Cyberpunk, was additionally developed by CD Projekt Crimson. There are different San Andreas references in Cyberpunk too, similar to one other occasion of Massive Smoke’s order at a Capitan Caliente restaurant, and a recreation of Grove Road, a key San Andreas location, within the Santo Domingo district of Night time Metropolis.
The identical cellphone in Phantom Liberty may also be used to dial up different cute sport references, similar to The Witcher 3’s theme.
It’s good to see refined nods and references to gaming’s current previous. I simply want they didn’t make me so rattling hungry.