Cyberpunk 2077 Fans Think They've Unraveled A Big DLC Secret - Kotaku

The teaser trailer for Cyberpunk 2077’s upcoming expansion Phantom Liberty was a brisk 58 seconds, and left fans scratching their chrome-plated heads over some key, unanswered questions: Why is V pledging allegiance to the New United States?

On the r/LowSodiumCyberpunk subreddit a few days ago, user Kyfigrigas brought up the strange connection between the title of Cyberpunk’s upcoming DLC, Phantom Liberty, and a seemingly unimportant name in a computer interface sequence at the end of “Dream On.” What’s more, the creepy political thriller vibes of the Peralez quest-line feel very resonant with what little we know about Phantom Liberty’s apparent focus on the political drama of Cyberpunk’s world.

Fans are drawing visual comparisons between Liberty Patel and the mysterious engram character seen in the Phantom Liberty trailer.

The engram in question appears around thirty seconds into the Phantom Liberty trailer.

If you’ve played the “Dream On” quest and have fished around a bit in Jefferson’s computer, you’ll learn that someone named Patel had worked with Jefferson’s election campaign, but was randomly fired by Jefferson—despite him having no memory of firing her due to the slow brain-erase process that unidentified actors are putting him through.

Similar names are one thing, but as many other Redditors noted, there are some thematic and narrative ties between “Dream On” and what, at least from the trailer, we know about Phantom Liberty.

“Not only does Johnny mention militech,” the OP states, “but he also mentions how similar his and V’s situation is to the Peralez’s, with their brains being messed with, which seems like just a straight hint towards the engram in the trailer being related to this imo.”.

There are some other speculative comments in the main Reddit thread, including one that dives into a potential name for an unidentified symbol flashed at least twice in “Dream On.” While this is all speculation, we do know that the “Dream On” quest ends without a complete resolution