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CDPR's investor's conference: Interesting bits, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 4
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eyeball_kid
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Cyberpunk is such an enigma. It looks amazing, but we know so little about it.
It's great to hear it's at an "advanced stage", but it sounds like it won't be out until at least fall/winter of next year. In some ways it's better to just not hear about it.
It's great to hear it's at an "advanced stage", but it sounds like it won't be out until at least fall/winter of next year. In some ways it's better to just not hear about it.
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Conor_Fool
Banned
My hype level for Cyberpunk is difficult to contain.
Such a fucking incredible team, full of intelligence and humour.
Such a fucking incredible team, full of intelligence and humour.
After what I learned recently, it turns out we probably don't know anything.
And that release date is probably very optimistic.
I Eat Thumbtacks
Neo Member
CDPR explains their "Cyberpunk" trademark: https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/850022540042960896
I love these guys.
I love these guys.
I'm on the contrary - I feel they're going the typical corpo way...
Just because someone has good PR, doesn't mean you can completely trust them. With a trademarked term like Cyberpunk, CDP opens their door to creating brands/products such as Cyberpunk board games, Cyberpunk: The Drama, Cyberpunk: Gwent, etc etc. So if you, or any other dev, tries to release a game say called "Cyberpunk Love Story", you might be in trouble.
What they are doing is smart, as they're slowly building a perception that Cyberpunk = CDP. In ten years time, that perception might hold true.
what do you mean???
Warablo
Member
Witcher 2 did the traps thing a lot more.
Yeah, Ciri is a good character but it makes no sense. She's not a Witcher for one. And the point is playing an actual Witcher. Also she's the most powerful character in the entire world, she wouldn't struggle against a damn werewolf. They would have to strip her from all her powers and then have her go through the mutation for it to work, but that feels forced.
They binned all the preproduction stuff and started fresh after Blood and Wine. There's also a new game director.
Oh God. So it means that 2018 is pretty much impossible.
Why would they do that? Also, do you mean literally everything? What about story? I remember reading somewhere that story was already finished...
SpiceMelange
Member
You will be as much in trouble making a game named "Video game title: a cyberpunk adventure" as you would with "The Forest of Doom" in reference to the Doom trademark.
As in, you won't get in trouble at all.
The fuck? That sounds bad. So many years wasted.
I've heard second hand that the Witcher 3's codebase was a spaghetti mess.
They allegedly changed the engine for CP. Gien boskee's scoop, they probably built it anew.
And yeah, it was obvious TW3 engine was stitched together, they changed the lighting, twice, and then also changed the renderer once the game was alredy released. Then they changed it again for Blood and Wine.
Life is suffering ;(
Magic Mushroom
Member
And people were up in arms because CDPR decided against releasing RedKit to modders. They'd probably have to spend few years just to get all that tooling packaged together in a nice, user friendly way
Turin Turambar
Member
I wish for more spaghetti mess in engines!
Super fast loading times, only 1 crash in 200 hours, no big visual errors or problems, good streaming tech, very decent performance for the visuals.
johancruijff
Banned
this is approaching new generation (i know i know) of consoles isn't it?
Man, this does not sound good.
I am sure it will be amazing when it comes out.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Yeah, probably. It's more like it sounds it's a long way off and this has to rank as my most anticipated game. Patience is a virtue I guess.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Man, this does not sound good.
On the contrary i think its a positive. Reminds me of old Blizzard.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Yeah, Resi 4 turned out brilliantly as well after they scrapped earlier versions. I don't think it sounds bad in a "this game will turn out to be terrible" kinda way, but more like: "it sounds it's way off". I'm generally pretty patient, but I just can't wait to see something from this game. Cyberpunk is my jam.
Aangster
Member
If I may ask, would that be Mateusz Kanik and his role as director being replaced by another dev within CDPR?
In terms of changing the engine for CP 2077, would it still be built upon REDEngine?
Old Blizzard? They just did this with Titan -> Overwatch, and now seemingly with Diablo 4, even including the director switch.
Yes, Mateusz Kanik has been replaced as a game director, but he still works at CDPR.
Cyberpunk 2077 is using REDEngine 4 - the next iteration.
Peroroncino
Member
Spaghetti mess is the best mess confirmed!
Exentryk
Member
They gained a bunch of experience with Blood and Wine, like adding textures in a way that fewer draw calls were needed, and they were loading more of the data, so overall more efficient. They also improved the grass quality, and could have even more of it than the base game. The whole game is really very well optimised.
The main thing I want to see Witcher 4 improve tech wise is greater LOD distances (user editable so PC users can really go crazy and not see any pop in of textures if the can afford the power), and better lighting.
The main thing I want to see Witcher 4 improve tech wise is greater LOD distances (user editable so PC users can really go crazy and not see any pop in of textures if the can afford the power), and better lighting.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
But for all those testers they probably want them to have been a tester in the past right?
Magic Mushroom
Member
Nope. And we apparently we need to forget everything we know about in the first place. Except that it's cyberpunk.
FrankWza
Member
MadYarpen
Member
only one teaser, quite good actually.
Welp see you in 2077.
On the flip side, it's good that they are taking such measures to reach the extremely high quality bar they set for themselves, even if it adds an extra wait to the release.
FrankWza
Member
Dandy Lyin
Member
Yeah, the only other similar examples would be Warcraft Adventures and Starcraft Ghost... but they just canned them outright after extended development.