Dataminers have found new, unused quest descriptions, which allows us to boldly claim that the Polish studio is slowly starting to move on from fixing the bugs to focus on the promised expansions.

Eurogamer reports that Cyberpunk’s 1.2 update has added new files to the game. These files have quest descriptions for content that isn’t yet in the first-person adventure. The name of these quests suggests they’ll be part of an upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 DLC expansion.

The already existing quests in the game are split into three categories: prologue, part one, and epilogue, followed by numbers to match in the game’s coding. However, the new quests that were brought in by Update 1.2 don’t follow this formula, as they are named story-ep1, hinting at the „very first large story-based DLC.” However, most of these new quests were previously meant to be part of the base game!

The street stories were unveiled by CD Projekt RED (CDPR) in early 2020. These are smaller quests that help us to explore the city. Cyberpunk 2077 was meant to include more than seventy of these at launch, only to be cut altogether. Going by the information available in the files, there’s a quest character called Wagner, the Kurtz Militia creating a hostage situation, a bomb in a swimming pool, and a hidden den of netrunners.

One of the quests from Mr Hands will have us rescue Anthony Anderson from the Scavengers gang. Anthony is held at an „unfinished church repurposed as a shelter” called Newcomers Haven. Mr Hands is located in Pacifica. The modder, romulus_is_here, who found the files, claims that most of these street stories in the first expansion might be located in this area of the city.

CDPR might soon have to talk about the expansions’ schedule.

Source: PSL