What do I miss, if I start new game directly with phantom liberty?

[Blitzwing]

What do I miss, if I start new game directly with phantom liberty?

[FedeAnderzen]

If you never played the game before you miss a lot of epic story and gameplay.

[n0mad23]

Tons and tons of content.

[TH3R4BB!T]

Is there an other way then not playing with PL?

[Blitzwing]

so I cant play the other content later`?

[Lemocon]

Do not skip to phantom liberty. The whole Story resolves around act 1! You canot play it later after skipping.

[n0mad23]

PL only begins if you play the main game after you do the Pacifica/Voodoo Boys sequence. In other words, Phantom Liberty occurs quite late in the game and adds further ending choices.

I'm pretty sure the option to jump straight to PL is mostly for players who don't want to have to replay the game before checking out the expansion.

[Blitzwing]

Originally posted by n0mad23:

PL only begins if you play the main game after you do the Pacifica/Voodoo Boys sequence. In other words, Phantom Liberty occurs quite late in the game and adds further ending choices.

I'm pretty sure the option to jump straight to PL is mostly for players who don't want to have to replay the game before checking out the expansion.

I did finis the game already prior to the DLC,
the old saves dont work with DLC.
would I miss anything by simply skip the start again?

[entropy]

Actually as for me its great to finish the game and then get back to "point of no return" to complete the Phantom Liberty part. In that case you will not miss any content from original story and can try some new endings after PL

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by Blitzwing:

Originally posted by n0mad23:

PL only begins if you play the main game after you do the Pacifica/Voodoo Boys sequence. In other words, Phantom Liberty occurs quite late in the game and adds further ending choices.

I'm pretty sure the option to jump straight to PL is mostly for players who don't want to have to replay the game before checking out the expansion.

I did finis the game already prior to the DLC,
the old saves dont work with DLC.
would I miss anything by simply skip the start again?

that depends.

do little changes to the game mean anything to you?
(changes to conversations. slight changes of placement ect)
did you play before 2.0? (ie, your old saves are 1.63 or earlier? Because the mechanics have changed quite a lot between 1.63 and 2.0. notably gear matters a lot less now than cyberware. crafting is no longer locked behind the tech tree. you have a cap for cyberware called 'capacity' and shards drop fo those to increase the amount of cyberware items you can get fitted. the perk trees have been changed to have threshold chunks, the main of which are at 9, 15 and 19/20)

are you the kind of person who is only interested in playing content once, and after that, you feel there is no replayability? (the story ect, bore you once you have done it once or twice already)

if you are the kind of player who prefers everything new, not old (content and story-wise) then yeah, go ahead and skip to the expansion.
Your V will be sitting reading a book at some table in Pacifica, and you can start the game (as if you already did the quest parts you needed to do to get to that point)

otherwise, you are going to miss out of slight changes to conversations here and there.

however, there are parts of the expansion that benefit from you already having done other chunks of the game.
options (conversation wise) and choices you can use to change one or two quests.

[n0mad23]

The skill tree (and a bunch of other things) are very different than they were pre-2.0, so playing the base game will give you a chance to get used to the differences.

[justfaded]

When's the best time to start and finish PL if you want everything to make as much sense as possible?

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by justfaded:

When's the best time to start and finish PL if you want everything to make as much sense as possible?

Again, it depends.

On my main V (Valerie, streetkid) I like to make sure that the last of the main quest parts I do is Pacifica.
(Because when I leave the church there, it triggers the relic malfunction that has Johnny take me to the hotel. It makes sense to me to have this event in Pacifica, so I don't get V's arse dragged across the whole map from the badlands lol. Its a short stagger from outside the church to the hotel further down the beach... )

Phantom Liberty is set up in such a way that the story makes sense, no matter if you start by skipping, or you start from scratch. If you befriend Johnny or ignore him.
What is different is how the two of you interact both during the story, and at the end.

Minor things like quest choices are added depending on previous events. Things V can say, that can ether provoke a reaction (surprise, being friendly, being violent, not asking for the money up front...) or offers other options.

You can start from scratch, plow thru the heist as fast as possible. Wake up in the shower. Go talk to Takemura at Toms Diner. Go help Judy, finish that section then delta right to Pacifica and dive right in (ignoring Goro and Panam) and still finish the expansion.

It depends on if you are there (playing) for just the gameplay, the full story experience or double dipping with story AND roleplaying. And which you prefer.
I roleplay, to the point I'll not fill every slot with chrome, not use overclock or edgerunner. Not min-max my V (lol) or copy builds. That's how I have fun.
(Roleplaying and walking around the city lol)