[SPOILERS][RUMOR] Potential future DLC's

[madmidder]

*MAIN STORY AND SIDEQUESTS SPOILERS*
I posted more about how Night City map is not complete here and what have to be changed/fixed here​

Hey,

I saw some topic here about announced early 2021 free DLC. I doubt we'll see anything big, if there will be barber, new clothes and newgame+ we can be very happy. But I want to share what I found in my 175hours playtime. Everything is only rumor and nothing is confirmed, so do not expect anything till they announce it, but everything here is based on something what's "already in the game". So I'll not mention speculations(dreams) about vehicle customization, subway system etc.

1. Badlands/Arizona expansion
We'll most likely see map expansion and question is how big or small and will it be part of main story or different story like it was in Witcher 3? The Star (Aldecaldos) ending is more or less open, so I believe we'll see more Aldecaldos story. There is no way they can connect all endings, but endings like The Devil (if you don't accept Hellman offer), The Star (Aldecaldos) and Temperance (you'll play as Johnny, he leaves Night City) can be extended.

Is this only my dream because I'm Panam simp? Yes, BUT why you get full legendary armor set before you cross borders? This armor is not obtainable, you can loot it only in this mission and it will be deleted from your inventory right after last cinematic (btw there is also legendary weapon near Mikoshi, which is available only there as far I know). So CDPR made this legendary items just for memes? I doubt. I see here prepared sand for future main story expanding.

In story, you have to stop somewhere to meet rest of the Aldecaldos, so not necessary Tucson have to be in expansion. If you look on the Night City Integrate map, we can see cities like Santa Barbara, San Luis or DriftCity. Maybe Johnny is on the way there too. Who knows ;-)

2. Westbrook Casino and Club
Back in July 2020, official Cyberpunk Twitter shared this concept art and we already found this building is in the game. There is closed tunnel from North Oak to this complex and you can see it on the map. I guess we can expect something similar to The Diamond Casino from GTA V. Exterior looks like it's not just wasted asset, we can see nice textures, parasols, chairs or hot tubs. So I really believe we'll see it in the future. (video, screenshot, visible tunnel).

3. Jefferson Peralez storyline
For me best side story in the game and it's not closed. We know Jefferson Peralez win the Night City mayoral election with 70.7% of the total vote, but that's after you complete last mission (Path of Glory ending) but before last mission he is losing in polls by 20% (you can hear it in the radio). So something big happened and I believe we'll see what happened and who is controlling his mind. I know there are some rumors about Mr. Blue Eyes is rogue AI, etc etc, but nothing we can confirm right now.

4. MAX-TAC Storyline
Playing as MAX-TAC officer? Hell yeah! Announcement trailer back in 2013 was about MAX-TAC team securing cyberpsycho Melissa Rory, now we know she was forced to join MAX-TAC and fight cyberpsychos in Night City. But why this should be DLC? Well because she ask you to join MAX-TAC in sidequest Bullets and you can answer "I'll think about it". Yes, this confirm nothing, but for me it's same like Badlands expansion - It's ready for future story expansion. It'll be shame to not see more MAX-TAC missions, because I thought whole time we'll play as MAX-TAC officer after I saw teaser (before game was showed back in 2018 on Xbox E3 briefing) and.. their armor is cool, I need it!

That's all I found and I believe we can see everything I just mentioned in the future, but only number 1 will be paid expansion, others are only free DLC's with short side quests. Last week I posted thread about incomplete Night City map so there you can find more rumors, but they are based on nothing. If you found or I missed/forget to mention something or if you are Cyberpunk lore tryhard and know more, tell me please.

 

[CTPhipps]

My thoughts:

1. PUNKS IN SPACCCCCEE

You are given a ticket to head into space to rob a orbital casino that has a complicated plot similar to Blood and Wine related to your brain healing. Mr. Blue Eyes can cure you but you need to be able to do something that's as big a heist as the stealing of the chip in the first place. You'll get to deal with corpos and the super-super rich there.

2. North of the Map

We'll get an entire new district of Night City with the empty area above Watson.

3. Mystery Boxes

You can only get 70% of a link with Johnny. However, in the DLC, you can get up to 100% with Johnny which will unlock "Metastasis" where you and Johnny become one person. You can also find a full cure for your brain that you can't do in the main game.

 

[Metropolice]

4. MAX-TAC Storyline
Playing as MAX-TAC officer? Hell yeah! Announcement trailer back in 2013 was about MAX-TAC team securing cyberpsycho Melissa Rory, now we know she was forced to join MAX-TAC and fight cyberpsychos in Night City. But why this should be DLC? Well because she ask you to join MAX-TAC in sidequest Bullets and you can answer "I'll think about it". Yes, this confirm nothing, but for me it's same like Badlands expansion - It's ready for future story expansion. It'll be shame to not see more MAX-TAC missions, because I thought whole time we'll play as MAX-TAC officer after I saw teaser (before game was showed back in 2018 on Xbox E3 briefing) and.. their armor is cool, I need it!

I'm already moderately "lobbying" for this here and there including in its own dedicated thread at: https://forums.cdprojektred.com/ind...de-content-thoughts-and-discussions.10981127/

So I was somewhat happy to see it here as another idea for a DLC. I heavily agree. I think exploring sub faction (and letting us join them for their own smaller or moderate sub plots to play through, plus radiant quests and unique perks per faction maybe) won't in any notably way or form impede the main plot or the character. I for example think it will be perfectly fine to allow the player to join Trauma Team or MAX-TAC and see at least a mini-plot akin to a set of quests connected.

Some factions would make less sense or be more in collusion to the main plot (like Militech or Netwatch as simple example) but other (sub)factions? Easy peasy!

While I'm very for a DLC (or a set of them) where you can join different smaller factions like perhaps some gangs or other factions, I think it would be most iconic and fitting to pour the dev work and time into MAX-TAC because of the very first trailer and so on. It would also be, next to becoming an active trauma team member, among the most fitting or less intrusive choices in my eyes as far as I can imagine.

Many people would like it and if done right, such an addition would do the game well and enrich the city by adding more activities you can do, like going on duty for these factions after a particular point in the game and then any time for repeatable and also unique quests. Or unique aspects in the open world itself and changing how people react to you based on your outfits (like they would with TT and MT respectively). Throw in unique perks of being able to possibly 'arrest' non-lethally taken down cyberpsychos/gangoons or medically resurrect targets/VIPs based on the respective job and you're good to go for some different gameplay and roleplay.

 

[I_Willenbrock_I]

The mystery box sounds interesting but a mind merge like the twins have is rather creepy.

I would prefer a full stop to the process and Johnny can stay in your mind if he wants to, occasionally switching sides. In this case, V appears in the role of johnny and gives or just watches johnny shredding with his old band.

 

[Icinix]

The option to stop the relic from taking over your body - but you keep Johnny as the little voice in your head offering commentary and the occasional option to tell him to shut up.

 

[Barsenthor]

And how can any ending-dependable DLC be advertised?
We have a special post DLC that works only if you won’t side with Hanako during end mission?
For Paralez story also, it’s depends on doing side quest that would need to be explained do to backstory, or making him a cameo. It’s also depends on endings since I doubt that he would win in Arasaka ending.

As for Max-Tac no bad, but this game definitely doesn’t need any spin-offs dlc, if the endings stays as they are.
It would be even immersion breaking since who would think about joining police force with ticking bomb is his or her head?

 

[jahkin]

The option to stop the relic from taking over your body - but you keep Johnny as the little voice in your head offering commentary and the occasional option to tell him to shut up.

Johnny-Shut-the-fuck-up-FLC? Hm...without a 6 months expiration date??

Count me in!

 

[Barsenthor]

But I would take any DLC that doesn’t have Johnny and V is not going to die nevertheless what you do from deteriorating neurological disease.
Anything mid game? - just no, thank you, I will stand. England is fun with Eivor

 

[Metropolice]

It would be even immersion breaking since who would think about joining police force with ticking bomb is his or her head?

While that is a fair argument, I believe it would also make many of the side quests or trying to become rich or, alternatively, famous, moot and perhaps immersion breaking, just like buying expensive cars or so.

By that rigid idea, you'd have to "rush" through the main quest ASAP to have it remotely realistic. GIven how there is no actual time limiters for most quests that apply pressure and urge, we might as well go out of our way and allow a bit of leeway in what V, our main character, can do.

It also wouldn't be like "Oh, let's join the police force and expect a career even though I'm slowly dying!". MAX-TAC and Trauma Team are rather fitting examples of fitting (sub-)factions in my eyes because, how to put it, it would be easier under the right circumstances to end up in them or be employed fast due to skillset while seeing action fast. Given how for example MAX-TAC is described on the wiki page based on 2020 lore, MAX-TAC members themselves are described often as cyber punks or being on the edge of cyberpsychosis or chromed up as well given the work they do. I can see V fit right into that particular unit as a "booster" to their numbers, a reservist, a trusted new member recruited directly, etc. If I can hunt cyberpsychos for a fixer (Regina) under the pretext of trying to help them as side quests, you might as well allow me to do so with a badge for money or cred under different circumstances. There is also potential based on the whole cyberpsychosis topic and data shards (notes) you can already find. Or via NPCs you interact in the fixer-based cyberpsychosis topic and how grim it actually is. Call it spin-off or not, I see fitting potential to further explore this topic and present the player with a number of choices.

You obviously wouldn't go around as beat cop writing parking tickets, the gameplay would fit as it would be oriented towards action or investigation, or a mix there-of. You could as well argue V gets grim and wants an ending with a bang before possibly dying, due to the high chance of action in those units.

Please note: Not saying you or anyone has to like the idea before one gets me wrong - just saying how you could argue in favor of this or 'explain' it through this. Maybe I'm just a huge sucker for this. Blame the very first trailer released in 2013

 

[vinak]

I happen to agree with the idea that it's most logical to do the bulk of the game's content after the main quest and I'm hoping patches and DLC can facilitate that in the future.

Unless they change it so V has ~5 years left to live instead of weeks, otherwise, it just doesn't make sense to go off and do random stuff until after V finds a cure or has resigned themselves to only 6 months left and wants to go out with a bang.

Alternatively, they can make it possible to do most of the side content before the heist mission...or make it so V is only dying after some other point in the story as to not waste Johnny's dialogue during side content.

As such, I'm hoping most if not all of the major DLC content takes place after the main quest.
Maybe they can jury rig this game back into being about V instead of Johnny Silverhand.



As for what that DLC will be...

Crystal Palace will likely be a major DLC.

The Westbrook Casino could be a major or minor DLC expansion.

I can see a minor Max-Tac DLC. Expanding on the Cyberpsycho side missions. Maybe act as the antithesis to Regina Jones. She wants you to save the Cyberpsychos while Max-Tac will expect execution.

other than that, I want lifepath specific content at some point.
Gangs/corps should have more of a role in the game.
Solo/netrunner specific content.

 

[Maxisspl4774]

The westbrook and crystal palace can be connected as part of one major Expansion. F.e. You do the Crystal Palace heist and after it turns out that this mansion belongs to MR blue eyes. I think that one casino is too small to make full expansion from it, but joining both westbrook and crystal palace would make sense, Crystal palace is a space station so it can't be too big so it seems perfect for a expansion for 10/15 hours. I think that the first expansion will be smaller than the other one(s) because they're gonna release it pretty fast to keep us interested. The first Expansion have to be shipped before September when the big premieres are gonna start coming out, games like new fifa Assasins creed Far cry Cod Battlefield. Releasing The first expansion in that period would be suicide. I think that the first expansion will be released around april/may/june because otherwise we will forget about the game(have u seen any game where the first expansion comes out almost year after premiere?)
About possible storyline: i don't have any idea what will it be, but crystal palace seems as the best guess. I think that the first expansion Will end up with curing V, that would give free space for any expansion they want to do later. Any longer expansion that would take place midgame is senseless because of the game pacing so for me the poststory expansions seems as the only option they have now. After curing V they would be able to whatever they want. take V to completely new places and give us completely new storylines without having to bother about whole Relic thing.

 

[madmidder]

Crystal palace is a space station so it can't be too big

Haha, it's biggest space station in Cyberpunk universe, with each ring has a radius of 2.2 kilometers, big parks, restaurants, casinos, apartments and more. It's huge, I think we'll most likely see Westbrook Casino and Club as DLC and Crystal Palace will be expansion together with expended Badlands.

Still because of multiple different endings I have no idea how they can connect all these endings and funny is in only one ending you going back to Night City and in three you leaving. I'm really interested how they'll handle it.

My thoughts:
2. North of the Map

We'll get an entire new district of Night City with the empty area above Watson.

3. Mystery Boxes

You can only get 70% of a link with Johnny. However, in the DLC, you can get up to 100% with Johnny which will unlock "Metastasis" where you and Johnny become one person. You can also find a full cure for your brain that you can't do in the main game.

2. No idea what you mean, above Watson are Oil Fields, I doubt this location will be open in the future. It's not very interesting imho.

3. This can be possible, it's true you can go above 70% reputation with Johnny, but I really don't think we'll see more Johnny in the future. If there will be any story DLC following to Temperance ending you can hear his voice, it's not Keanu, it's V's voice. That's my guess, but I think we'll not see Keanu in the future.

 

[CTPhipps]

2. No idea what you mean, above Watson are Oil Fields, I doubt this location will be open in the future. It's not very interesting imho.

3. This can be possible, it's true you can go above 70% reputation with Johnny, but I really don't think we'll see more Johnny in the future. If there will be any story DLC following to Temperance ending you can hear his voice, it's not Keanu, it's V's voice. That's my guess, but I think we'll not see Keanu in the future.

1. Exactly. They can put an entire new district of Night City to replace them.

2. I agree that's probably what they will do.

 

[孤独麦客CE]

I WANT MY V ALIVE

 

[bartosi1]

what I was expecting from the first release was an AI takeover, a mini civil war within the city. Corporations could have been involved. Ending in a martial law, gigantic robots and destruction on the streets. The game was just missing the epic story I was expecting. I really enjoyed the whole Johnny silverhand story. it was awesome. However it needed to be complimented with another plot that came to an epic conclusion along with v's/johnnys story. Hopefully dlc can deliver a good story. you cant just drop the whole Johnny silverhand and v narrative and start new. so hopefully they build on it and deliver on a badass scale, a heart felt story of finally taking down corporate control and weave in an ai civil war. johnny can save the city or be a part of it. hopefully this first release was just a taste and the dlc has plans to create another big story. they can do a course correct and build on these characters in dlc, but I think the game we got was them shooting their load. and the dlc will be be even more disappointing because it wont add the heart felt substance and character building missions we expected from the first. they were so close but they put too much time into all the filler and fetch this or that. they must have completely ignored all the bashing of games with those exact type of missions for the last decade. its like they decided well , maybe there wasnt enough go fetch and thats why people dont like them? ya know we will fix that, yep its final, a whole 50 percent of cyberpunk will be devoted to mindeless go fetch missions. thats the reason people complained in the past. there werent enough. good meeting guys. all those missions would have been fine if they just put more time into the main story. becuase they were varied compared to the usual go fetch stuff. i think the multiple path thing was a huge mistake and this games main downfall. they should have just focused on one path and put more quality time into it. i do not want to see the dlc suffer the same fate.

 

[CTPhipps]

what I was expecting from the first release was an AI takeover, a mini civil war within the city. Corporations could have been involved. Ending in a martial law, gigantic robots and destruction on the streets.

I admit I kind of wish the story was LESS epic. The Side Gigs are pretty much what I wanted. Murder, blackmail, sex, and violence.

I feel like the game might have been better if instead of doing the microchip, you'd have a big story about Johnny Silverhand's death being investigated and do it about corporate blackmail instead of dying.

 

[madmidder]

1. Exactly. They can put an entire new district of Night City to replace them.

2. I agree that's probably what they will do.

Hm, why do you think there will be entire new district of Night City? If you look here, you can see there is nothing, no metro stations.

I really doubt we'll see any city expansion with new district or something like that. They can still make Night City bigger if they open Orbital Air Space Center, Westbrook Casino and Club, Night City stadium with Pacifica skyscrapers. Yeah if they open Crystal Palace, we'll most likely get Orbital Air Space Center too and I bet Westbrook Casino and Club is coming this year as free or cheap DLC (not expansion) with new activities.

If there will be map expansion, I guess they will give us more Badlands maybe with new city, like I said before - Santa Barbara, San Luis or DriftCity. Something way smaller, but future Night City expanding will not happen.

 

[CTPhipps]

Hm, why do you think there will be entire new district of Night City? If you look here, you can see there is nothing, no metro stations.

I think I'm not stating my point well. There's a big bunch of emptiness there they can put a new district.

The big lot of nothing there seems like it's there to place over when DLC are made.

Frankly, my interest is primarily Night City and I hope to see more of it.

 

[madmidder]

I think I'm not stating my point well. There's a big bunch of emptiness there they can put a new district.

The big lot of nothing there seems like it's there to place over when DLC are made.

Frankly, my interest is primarily Night City and I hope to see more of it.

Oh, ok. Well yeah, some spaces are "dead", I made map with inaccessible or empty places on the map. I posted more here, if you look on 7. Badlands highway screenshots I posted, there is a valley and it can be one of these.

 

[CTPhipps]

Oh, ok. Well yeah, some spaces are "dead", I made map with inaccessible or empty places on the map. I posted more here, if you look on 7. Badlands highway screenshots I posted, there is a valley and it can be one of these.

There's also a massive mansion estate near North Oaks you can't enter.