CD Projekt Red may insist that it's done working on but that may only be half the story. Having been released in an unfinished state back in 2020, the studio has worked tirelessly over the last three years to deliver the product that was initially promised to consumers, concluding with the launch of the excellent 2.0 Update and. As CDPR looks to the future, game director Gabe Amatangelo explains that there could still be some room to grow in some very small ways.
Speaking on the podcast, when asked if the studio is developing anything new for, Amatangelo explained that there "" but insisted that nothing big is in the pipeline.
The director notes that if an opportunity were to present itself and someone at the company was invested enough in the idea, he could see dedicating some time to patching it into . Despite this reassurance, Amatangelo made it clear that CDPR is more focused on other projects so no other major updates are currently planned.
While Amatangelo doesn't elaborate too much on the point, the director does note that CDPR is largely funneling its resources into several other major projects, including a sequel to . Codenamed «Project Orion,» next to nothing is known about the game's development but the studio has confirmed that it's been designated a sizable team as it enters into full-scale production. A release window has yet to be provided but given how long the original game took, it's highly likely that the sequel is still quite a few years away from launch.
currently has 17 developers still attached to it while Project Orion has a team of 47.
isn't the only franchise CDPR is actively working on though as the studio has confirmed that it's primary focus at the moment in , the next entry in the beloved fantasy RPG franchise. Bearing the codename «The Witcher: Polaris,» the sequel will be the start of a new saga and will be built using Unreal Engine 5. Much like Project Orion, internal reports state that the next game is approximately three years away from shipping.
As for, those players who may want some kind of substantial update may just need to do it themselves. Even before the 2.0 Update revitalized the community,fans have spent years creating some extensive mods that overhaul nearly every aspect of Night City. While they may not be official, it's still a way of breathing new life into an otherwise completed product.
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While one might think that Ripperdocs are some of the most trained and responsible professionals in , one fan shares their discovery that suggests even they can get it wrong sometimes. Through V's journey through the underworld of Night City, they'll be able to meet up with several surgeons who specialize in equipping cybernetic augmentations to the protagonist's body, making them significantly more powerful in the process. One such upgrade is the Sandevistan operating system which works wonders if it's installed correctly.
A long-standing mystery finally has a satisfactory solution — but it wasn't answered by. 's massive, game-changing DLC resolved many secrets, answering a number of lingering questions about people, places, and things otherwise unexplained. But it couldn't turn over every stone. The setting still retains a lot of mystique. Whether someone at CD Projekt Red is saving these secrets for the sequel to , or no one's come up with a good answer yet, varies from case to case.
Ubisoft opens up about new content for Assassin's Creed Mirage, confirming that it won't get any DLC, but the devs may not be done exploring Basim's story. This latest title in the franchise received considerable recognition from new and long-term fans of the hooded protagonists. With Assassin's Creed Mirage, the franchise went back to its roots by offering a compelling and story-driven narrative that die-hard AC fans were waiting for.
Helldivers 2 troops are currently hammering away at the latest Major Order to successfully defend at least ten planets from both bugs and bots, but all those last-minute, oil-drenched extractions might not contribute to the liberation effort as the game's systems are now "suffering a minor outage."
Despite not being a recent release, Cyberpunk 2077 remains among the best-looking open-world released to date, thanks not only to the amazing post-launch support provided by CD Projekt Red but also thanks to the hard work of modders who continue improving the game's already excellent visuals.
A hidden detail makes one of the game's more disturbing braindances even more eerie. Throughout CD Projekt Red's sci-fi RPG, players are able to relive moments from other Night City residents' perspectives through a virtual reality-type recording called braindances, which lets V feel their emotional states and anything they physically felt, as well as watching events unfold. In the universe, this is used as a major form of entertainment covering adult content, adrenaline chasers, and more, but V often uses them as ways to help with investigations, rewinding the footage and inspecting it on different levels to find clues.
Almost 200 new gigs have been added to , with the intent of helping players find some of the game's biggest secrets. While playing CD Projekt Red's sci-fi RPG, there are several easy-to-find side activities, such as gigs, which are marked on the map or activated via calls on the Holocom for players to get involved in. Despite this, the world of Night City is so rich and layered that there are bound to be elements that players don't discover upon their initial playthrough, regardless of how many hundreds of hours players may find themselves sinking into the game.
A mod lets players fully immerse themselves in the streets of Night City. CD Project Red's sci-fi RPG already had a first-person narrative for its majority, with players only able to swap to third person for driving, to make players feel like they were exploring its rich world, but a Virtual Reality mod has taken advantage of this to take things a step further.
Johnny Silverhand is one of the most popular characters in so players wishing they could hang out more with Keanu Reeves' rockstar are in luck because a new mod makes him far more social. In the vanilla version of CD Projekt Red's RPG, the projection of Johnny's consciousness, which is embedded in protagonist V's head, appears throughout the story to both offer advice to players and just offer his thoughts on the current state of Night City. Unfortunately, those wanting to relax with Silverhand can only do so in V's original apartment, even if they own other properties.
has addressed a key bug that made completing a particular side quest impossible, but even with that out of the way, actually progressing past this particular bottleneck is far from simple. Although released in a generally polished state, some mostly minor problems have been addressed in several post-launch patches. The biggest bug was actually introduced in one of these updates rather than being present at the launch, forcing those with physical discs to reinstall and complete a quest on the 1.0 version to tick the box and leaving digital players up the creek.
There is no shortage of poorly released games. We’ve seen quite a few that just failed to hit the mark. Few games manage to recover and truly turn things around. Among that short list is CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. However, looking at the game now, we can see just how much the game has transformed into a more optimized and thrilling gameplay experience.