Cyberpunk 2077's Night City is now undeniably the best looking open-world city to-date

CG writes: In this video we take a drive around Night City’s freeway after the release of the Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty expansion (no spoilers) and 2.0 update. Nvidia introduced DLSS 3.5 alongside path tracing which when combined with ray tracing makes Night City’s lighting and shadows spectacular. It’s now undeniably the best looking open-world city environment we’ve seen to-date. It’s a shame there is limited interactions for the player, but still when things look this gorgeous, who cares right?

[Ristul]

Damn, looks great. I hope this game gets the same comeback story as No Mans Sky did, CD Project Red can work it's magic on this title I'm sure.

[bunt-custardly]

Didn't they say 2.0 and Phantom Liberty were the final major updates for this game as they shift onto the sequel?

[THEzRude]

Yee, they ditch their engine and start to use UE5 from now on.

[BrainSyphoned]

They killed the road map for the game. Night City will never develop further for story and missions. Unknown where the next game will take place.

[zeuanimals]

Well. It's gotta be Night City. It's central to the Cyberpunk world. Most of the world doesn't really operate like NC does. That's what gives it its gameplay potential, the fact that city is beyond fucked with gangs, corps and everyone else just trying to get their own slice of the pie all to end up as filling for the next pie.

[Sonic1881]

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and Baldur's Gate 3 is the best Western RPG out right now. No other Western rpgs comes close this year. Looking forward to patch 2.1 for cyberpunk

[bunt-custardly]

Wouldn't get too excited for 2.1 they might be saying "Remember that these are just the highlights, so stay tuned for more details!" but if there was anything notable they would have said already. Seems like a basic fixer update to me.

[Sonic1881]

I agree with you on the update but Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty is getting well received. I really enjoying this new update and this game is almost perfect now. The enemy A.I is top notch the loading screen is faster as well and DLSS works phenomenal. As a matter of fact it just passed up Starfield on Steam in just a few days. I think CDPR learned their lesson

https://www.gamespot.com/ar...

[bunt-custardly]

I am stealth/netrunner build who doesn't kill if possible and the opening of PL forces you into combat which I hate with a passion. Luckily once the mini prologue is over I am really loving the stealth now. Great verticality as well. The fact you cannot hide knocked out enemies means the stealth is far more fun. Good update which makes it feel completely different to the main game.

[P_Bomb]

@bunt
I’ve found that using a gun with an electric proc boosts my netrunning skill. Guess it counts the bolts as a hack? Interesting.

[thorstein]

@bunt

Exactly. This game forces you to be one thing and one thing only.

I wish I could be a stealth netrunner while the rest of the team does what they're trained to do. But this isn't the game for that. Hardly makes it an RPG, more an FPS with rpg elements.

[ChasterMies]

Better than New York City in Spider-man 2?

[Crows90]

Looking forward to jumping in so much. Glad to see so many great games this year. Sure we've had some huge disappointments like diablo 4. But also some great remakes and new games coming.

[RhinoGamer88]

Agreed... GTA VI your move!

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

I’m almost finished with Lies of P. Once done with that I’m jumping right back into this DLC

[ibrake4naps]

Looks too good not to explore in VR. I'll wait till either I upgrade my PC or maybe PS6...

[badz149]

yeah, but that fake faraway traffic is still an eyesore. at least now they are updated at a more reasonable framerates as to not look too jarring compared to launch

[anast]

This expansion is killing the current numbers on Steam. It passed Baldur's gate and almost relegated Starfield out of the top 10 current players.

[Wolfenstein51]

Currently replaying Cyberpunk on hard difficulty. I never play games on hard, but the game is balanced enough where the hard difficulty is just right. The DLC looks great and I will definitely buy it soon