I was an early adopter of Cyberpunk 2077 on the Xbox Series X, and actually enjoyed it for a while - though I didn't ever finish it. I recently picked up Phantom Liberty with the intention of going back to it.
Turns out, getting to the new DLC isn't very easy, nor does CD Projekt Red seem to understand the idea that some players may be returning after a long absence. The first thing I had to do was completely re-spec my character's perks and implants, which alone almost led me to quit. Then I had to wait for the call to go to the entrance to Dogtown. When I arrived, there were a large number of enemies who instantly took me down. I thought I was just going to a new district, no muss no fuss.
Next I started a new game and asked it to fast forward to Phantom Liberty. I created a new character quickly (nudity warning!) and got a recap of the main story from Johnny, which doesn't appear if you just play through the main game. I then grabbed a nearby motorcycle, drove to Dogtown - and got gunned down again.
Around that point, the game actually crashed so I cut the feed, reloaded my original character, and then took about an hour offline to reteach myself how to play and eliminate the very tough set of enemies guarding the area.
Here's the first part of my experience, which shows two different ways to get near the Phantom Liberty kickoff point as well as the re-spec process:
After beating down most of the baddies (again, it took AN HOUR), I reloaded only to run into a massive glitch. When you load a game, nearby straggler enemies are dormant (as you can only save when not in active combat) - but when I found the Songbird and started talking to her, they went ballistic. The first eight minutes are very funny as shots blast through and around us while she explains the DLC's premise. As soon as the game resumed to give me a new perk ability tree, I was toast.
I reloaded, took out the enemies, and then played through this interaction again as well as much of the intro to Phantom Liberty leading to the main title appearing:
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