CD Projekt Red has spent the past several months discussing the future of the Witcher franchise, including a next-gen port of The Witcher 3 and the next Witcher saga. It's left Cyberpunk 2077 fans wondering whether CD Projekt Red had moved on from its most recent game. A new leak may indicate the opposite, however, as a massive amount of dialogue from what's described as Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming DLC has been shared online.
The files were originally shared on the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit /r/FF06B5, though the original has since been deleted. The files, which have been reviewed by Game Rant, include six main quest folders and seven additional quest folders full of dialogue text files. For example, the folder named "q301" contains text files with titles including, "holocall_hook," "border_investigation," "stadium," "crashsite," "shuttle_arrival," and more. The implication is that these files contain a substantial amount of dialogue from seven main missions included in an upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 DLC.
Without getting into too many details of the leaked dialogue, the plot of the DLC appears to heavily involve a character named Songbird. Songbird is a character that's absent from Cyberpunk 2077, though she has a fleshed-out model and a diverse range of customization options found within the game's files. Only taking the files into consideration, it would be easy to assume Songbird was a major character in Cyberpunk 2077. Her absence indicates she was either cut, or CD Projekt Red had big plans for her in the future.
Much of the dialogue is difficult to parse since it's removed from the context of the game. However, there's enough to say that players will be traveling into the Combat Zone of the Pacifica region, a region players have previously been kept out of. Further, there's a new epilogue for Cyberpunk 2077 involving Hanako, an expansion on the Arasaka ending.
It's going to take some time for Cyberpunk 2077 enthusiasts to parse through the leak, pick up meaningful pieces of dialogue, and evaluate how much of the DLC's story has been revealed. In the meantime, it's safe to say that CD Projekt Red has a substantial expansion for Cyberpunk 2077 in the works filled with new quests and content.
There's currently no official information regarding CD Projekt Red's plans for Cyberpunk 2077 going forward. The latest roadmap confirmed updates, improvements, and free DLCs in 2022, but no official announcements have been made since February's next-gen update. All Cyberpunk 2077 players can do is sit back and hope an announcement is coming soon, perhaps during the Summer Game Fest live event on June 9.
Cyberpunk 2077 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.