No new romances in PL or 1.7

[.Esík]

After CDPR releases Phantom Liberty and patch 1.7, there will be no new romance options. No songbird, no president, no nobody. Confirmed by tweet below:

https://imgur.com/a/d8nUpFl

[John Warhammer]

Doesn't bother me. Would be nice if they added some things like the phone overhaul mod does to the existing romances. Plus songbird is theorized to be an existing character who is likely in their 80s by now. Said character uses different platforms when net running for privacy reasons.

[.Esík]

Originally posted by Dusty:

Doesn't bother me. Would be nice if they added some things like the phone overhaul mod does to the existing romances. Plus songbird is theorized to be an existing character who is likely in their 80s by now. Said character uses different platforms when net running for privacy reasons.

I dont mind either. I have my girl Judy anyway. It is just info for horny people out here xd

[Crimsomrider]

Sounds like great news to me, because then the current partners carry more meaning and might be continuing the relationships in the sequel. Kinda like Triss was in Witcher.

[EricHVela]

I'm in the "Digital romances are silly" crowd. Tried a romance. Went back to romancing nobody. This is usually the path I take in most games that offer "be nice to someone and you're in their bed" mechanics. (At least, I gave it a shot.)

There's a game out there where, if you're nice to everyone, you end up with someone as the thing most dear to you in a hostage situation near the end of the first primary arc and you don't even remember who the person is.

I just want to be civil with the pixel people. That's not flirting.

[Arani]

Originally posted by .Esík:

After CDPR releases Phantom Liberty and patch 1.7, there will be no new romance options. No songbird, no president, no nobody. Confirmed by tweet below:

https://imgur.com/a/d8nUpFl

Sadge. :<

[EricHVela]

Originally posted by Dravic:

No new romances in PL or 1.7
After CDPR releases Phantom Liberty and patch 1.7, there will be no new romance options. No songbird, no president, no nobody. Confirmed by tweet below:

The screenshot of a tweet that you linked does not confirm any such thing. They were clearly talking about changes in the base game, not about the content of the expansion.

You took that and run with it making huge leap to conclude that... the expansion itself has no new romantic content.

"V's going to be focused on the intrigue they got themselves into."

Reads to me like V won't have any time for romance.

[Dravic]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

"V's going to be focused on the intrigue they got themselves into."

Reads to me like V won't have any time for romance.

Yeah yeah, I had to find the original tweet and read through the thread because the author of this community forum post didn't include important context which supports their theory.

[Zero McDol]

I'd prefer quality over quantity. To me, it would be far better if the existing romances had more depth to them vs more romances added in. The same goes for the Joytoy content; quantity is good but quality is better.

Just my two cents.

[.Esík]

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

I'd prefer quality over quantity. To me, it would be far better if the existing romances had more depth to them vs more romances added in. The same goes for the Joytoy content; quantity is good but quality is better.

Just my two cents.

+1. I really dont need new character to have feelings to. If they add new random messages, chit chat and things like this to Judy/Panam it would be enough. That is all you need, some warm text when you ride trough nigh city looking for purpose.

[Arani]

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

I'd prefer quality over quantity. To me, it would be far better if the existing romances had more depth to them vs more romances added in. The same goes for the Joytoy content; quantity is good but quality is better.

Just my two cents.

I feel this way about everything. It's why open world games always rub me the wrong way. I don't need 40 000 000 miles of area. I'm fine with 10 miles of area if it has 1000x more content. Back around 10 years ago, I used to draw these parallels between BioWare and Bethesda, because they both made RPG's that focused on the opposite things. BioWare was all about story, characters, gameplay. With a far more linear experience but everything in it felt absolutely polished, interesting, full of emotions and story and worth exploring. Meanwhile Bethesda was all about massive empty worlds where there was nothing interesting to do, nothing worth exploring, and the deepest characters and most interesting story all put together was the equivalent of the most boring, plain NPC and trashiest single quest you could find in a BioWare game.

But then BioWare started emulating Bethesda, started focusing on huge open worlds with tons and tons of grind, and lost sight of their stories and characters and gameplay. And we all know the rest.

Oh and also agree on the developing existing romances part.