CD Projekt has explained why Phantom Liberty will be Cyberpunk 2077’s only expansion | VGC - eviltoast
  • Kaldo@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    So the next cyberpunk game is going to be made in a brand new US-based studio, and the team will be working on a brand new (to them) engine.

    To me this sounds like either that we won’t see cyberpunk 2 at least until year 2033, or it’s going to be an even bigger mess at launch. I’m hoping they take their time with it, for a change.

    • Moghul@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      40
      ·
      1 year ago

      either that we won’t see cyberpunk 2 at least until year 2033, or it’s going to be an even bigger mess at launch

      Why not both

    • seejur@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 year ago

      I have (small) hopes it might be better: cp2077 had the unfortunate combo of:

      1. Using an engine which was il suited for a first person shooter.

      2. The engine was proprietary. So harder to onboard new employees, and worse than open source/existing engines.

      3. Released on the verge of the transition to the next console generation. I get it from a marketing perspective why they wanted to support ps4 etc, (still couldn’t find a ps5 at launch), but man was it a bad idea from a software perspective. I think this should be the main lesson: don’t trust cdpr on anything related to older hardware

    • JohnEdwa@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I’m sure dumping a new team to work on an engine they havent worked with before without giving them enough time will go fine, it’s not like we have any recent examples saying otherwise.

      …oh yeah, Mass Effect: Andromeda.

      • XTornado@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Oh that means the Expansion will come in a physical CD to install and no Downloadable Content at all. So nice of CDProjekt of bringing back the old times, were games were complete or mostly, and you didn’t need to download a day one patch or much anything , except some small stuff here and there.

        /s

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      This is an expansion, dlc is small add-ons. Same as the Witcher. They added loads of stuff for free, but then the two big expansion’s were paid for.

    • mind@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      They said this after all the issues with the launch as a way to say sorry.

      Their justification is that they aren’t calling it “DLC” but an “expansion” which is just their weasel word to go back on their promise.

    • Kaldo@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I actually don’t, or if I do wasn’t that just for small post launch additions and not fully fledged expansions? Same way you got those alternate costumes in witcher 3 for free but still had to buy hearts of stone,for example.

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    The hubris of this game’s development is the most interesting thing about it.