Let’s hope they learned how to properly pace development and to handle a launch this time around.
Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says
Submitted 10 months ago by abobla@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/cyberpunk-2-is-now-in-preproduction-cd-projekt-says/
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ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
cholesterol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just looking up what ‘preproduction’ actually means : They are in the planning stages, but they haven’t started ‘making’ the game yet. Cyberpunk (1) development took four years.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good. We need more dicks in video games.
abobla@lemm.ee 10 months ago
hell yeah
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
mount your friends
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t care.
Shut up about the game.
Don’t fucking say a thing about it until its like 6 months from launch.
Did they learn nothing from last time?!
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can start any time, for example ignore the news?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Learn what? They’ve been relativly silent throughout the 12 years from announcement to release.
iconic_admin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nice, only 12 more years to go.
JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me here just waiting to also not play the next one.
It’s just another flavor of starfield but somehow so much more shittier. Make me a game that doesn’t release looking like it’s a beta release. Then I may be interested.
pyre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
cyberpunk has nothing to do with starfield.
largely seamless world, fun combat, hand crafted locations, good writing, good story, good and memorable characters, engaging dialogs, multiple ways to finish quests, cool vehicles, and on and on…
oh and forget forcing the player to fast travel everywhere but traveling around in cyberpunk is actually fun so i pretty much never used it in the game despite having the option.
and it looks like no one directed any part of starfield, it’s literally the same as oblivion in terms of how every encounter and dialog unfolds, while starfield actually has direction and variety, well acted and performance captured interactive scenes. here’s a good comparison of two similar quests involving a trade with shady people.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 10 months ago
It’s just another flavor of starfield but somehow so much more shittier
How do you know if you haven’t played it?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You won’t play cyberpunk cause it released in a poor state? Its a different game now.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hopely, this game’s launch is better then the first one.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shouldn’t be hard unless the bar fell into an open hole in the ground
Natan_San@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I will put it on my calendar for 2035.
Zron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
By the time Cyberpunk 2 comes out, I’ll have my own Keanu installed in my brain.
Ghosthacked@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You won’t get Keanu. You’ll get trump
cletuspolybius@lemm.ee 10 months ago
By the time it gets fixed & playable, the remainder of Keanu’s body will also need a mind reinstall.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
They still haven’t totally fixed the first one.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I started the first one last month and encountered 3 game-breaking-reload-required bugs within the first hour. It still isn’t fixed after all these years.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Played until I was helping the cops and symping for corpo life. Aren’t we supposed to be punks off the street? The fuck are we helping cops for? CDPR can’t write.
Mim@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The fuck are we helping cops for?
Because the coppers have a vigilante system and pay me for fucking these specific groups of gangers and criminals up. And as Vespasian said: money doesn’t stink.
0xD@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Well I’m on my fifth playthrough and have encountered game-breaking bugs maybe 3 times :)
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I play on PC, and the only bug I’ve ever experianced was one time an NPC walked into the sidewalk. Other than that, it’s been smooth sailing.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
At least everyone knows not to trust this dev anymore and won’t buy the game until it’s actually finished
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months ago
lol, buy?
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Speak for yourself choom. I’ll buy that scop on launch day. (I only preorder RGG games cuz they have never missed)
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The first one was finished, and is a fantastic game.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CP2077 was not finished when it came out at the end of 2020.
This revisionist history of it being complete on release will get no traction here.
Redredme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was finished and buggy… it’s now finished, fixed and expanded.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was pretty damn solid. I didn’t finish it, I had fun running around blasting gang members.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Not feature complete to pre-release promises
You don’t have to lie to justify your purchase, you can enjoy it for what it is
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 10 months ago
Yeach . It had rocky start but damm disregarding bugs the praises were more than deserved. Literally the best action RPG that exists.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Yeah their greed is disgusting. I wander how many DLCs they’ll make for this next one before it’s finished
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Expansion packs have existed since the 90s at least. There were also special editions and stuff before DLCs were possible.
bizzle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looking forward to playing this in 10 years
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Maybe about time for me so start the first.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I hope that if this game is open world then the story at least matches it, unlike the first one.
There were just so many pointless distractions, and hardly any of them lead to anything interesting.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And so the endless cycle of the borderline CD projekt games continues. Everything is hyped beyond realistic expectations a decade before launch, the masses whipped in anticipation. The game developers are kneecapped by suits making technical changes and demands they don’t understand. The game is launched after sorely felt apologies for delays, as a messy distasteful buggy disaster. Then the devs get to finish the game during thn next five unars after sorely felt apologies for the buggy mess at launch. 5 more years later the game is hailed as a creative masterpiece, despite being held by bubblegum and paperclips under the hood and still being a subpar experience. Then CDPR announces a new game, and the cycle repeats.
We didn’t learn anything from “Bethesda’s magic”. What a mismanaged company.
PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Endless cycle? Wasn’t everything you described just cyberpunk? Did I miss something about their previous title releases?
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, you did. The last step of the cycle is that everyone forgets that this already happened before. The witcher, then the witcher 2, then witcher 3, then cyberpunk. Each was such a mess at launch that the press at the time thought the games would flop. Each time devs, not suits, pulled the games out of PR hell after the fact.
People forget that the console port of the first witcher game nearly bankrupted them.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 10 months ago
But I’m still one hour into the first one!
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think I got to the part where they show Johnny Sins doing mischief? I can never get past the fucking vision tutorials after getting the crawling toenail thumb or what ever that fucking bot is called. It’s a slog.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Let’s go, i need it haha
DogWater@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hurr durr WheN ITs ReAdY
umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
[deleted]ItsGatorSeason@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Most likely not since it will be made in Unreal Engine 5, though since everyone at CDProjektRed is working on Witcher 4, Unreal Engine 6 might be out and what the games made with. There were many reasons why CP2077 was broken as it was at launch, but one of the main reasons was due to using their own game engine and a ton of effort trying to support last Gen consoles.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I heard UE5 is also pretty shit. Can you correct me.
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If our wasn’t as broken as it was, it might not have ended up as good as it did.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 10 months ago
Yes. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think if it was really late stage capitalism they wouldn’t have fixed it nearly as good as they did and just called it a day.
Psythik@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Good god, just let it die already. Pass the reins on to someone who can actually make a decent CyberPunk game. I do not trust CDPR to make entertaining games anymore.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What are your gripes with it ? I’m not familiar with the universe it’s set in, but I loved the game
gerryflap@feddit.nl 10 months ago
What? The launch was definitely botched, but after all the updates it’s now a great game. Personally one of my favorites. Honestly I’m not sure if there are many studios who would do a better job than CDPR in making such a large scale Cyberpunk game.
Wahots@pawb.social 10 months ago
It still has some rough edges, even after the major updates. I liked the Panam ending a lot, arguably one of my favorite game endings ever, but the police spawn and logic is still terrible compared to the likes of older GTA games, and the cars still feel gross to drive. Just Cause 2 had better vehicle handling, and that’s a title from 2010.
vivendi@programming.dev 10 months ago
It has a LOT of content cut from the board game, and the world is still incredibly shallow outside scripted gameplay
If you consider this anything more than a FPS game with cyberpunk aesthetics, I weep for your perception of quality
Fucking Watch Dogs 2 had a more interactive world, for crying out loud
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Developed in UE5, I’m assuming? That’d be an unfortunate probability. CP2077 was the best looking game and the most immersive game I’ve ever played
ItsGatorSeason@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if UE6 is out by the time Witcher 4 launches.
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It is. But if you read interviews and watch the podcasts where they talk about it they seemed pretty confident they could make it look just as good. I’m skeptical but hopeful.
Genius@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Will Cyberpunk 2 have two cis women cosplaying as trans women with huge penises being praised on the CDPR Twitter account?
MITM0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ya, but we already had that
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Just finished another playthrough yesterday. The new ending for siding with the NUSA is sad as hell, really made me feel feelings
MITM0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder if there’s a NUSSR as well
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
There’s a USSR in Cyberpunk.
bappity@lemmy.world 10 months ago
cyberpunk more like depression simulator
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Turning T-poses and texture pop-in into depression and too many Panam booty screenshots
MTK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hate when sequels are prequals! We want 2078!
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m going to hold out for Cyberpunk 2222, personally.
Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
won’t fall for CD Projekt again
Psythik@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Seriously. I’ve lost all faith in this company.
They fixed the performance issues, but at the end of the day, the game is still boring as fuck. IDK how they did it, cause the CyberPunk aesthetic is right up my alley.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh no…
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
As long as there’s no stupid pre-launcher aka ad platform. I can load the game with its exe directly, for now
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You can skip the launcher by just using the launch argument to do so.
GluWu@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I just got 2077 after however many years. 50 hours, I know the end is like the next mission or two but I don’t want it to end. Easily my favorite game ever. Guess I’ll get another play through in 5 years before I play the sequel after its released and has a couple years of debugging.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
This one won’t have Path Tracing, the GPU will absorb light from the atmosphere and project it onto your screen at 15 fps.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Release date: 2077
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Spicy take: I hope they dump 2077’s engine and go Unreal.
I recently followed this guide to try and set up “optimized” PT in 2077, and on my lowly RTX 3090 it runs like cold molasses. Not a chance. RT reflections is all I can manage, and it looks… good.
Meanwhile, I’ve also been playing Satisfactory (an Unreal Engine game from a comparatively microscopic studio), and holy moly. Unreal’s dynamic lighting looks scary good. Like, I get light bounces and reflections and everything, and it runs at like quadruple the FPS in a massively complex scene.
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have good news for you. The first information released on the sequel was that it’s being built in unreal.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s what I get for not clicking through!
Good! I can see a ton of gamers complaining about this, but switching to anything but in-house is a great move IMO.