Phantom Liberty Is Cyberpunk’s Solely Growth As a result of Of Unreal

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Purple says its upcoming growth, Phantom Liberty, will function the sport’s one and solely growth due to its “technological choice” to maneuver from CDPR’s personal REDengine know-how to Unreal 5.

Throughout a Q&A portion of CD Venture Purple’s earnings name on Wednesday (h/t Video Video games Chronicle), Michał Nowakowski, CD Projekt Purple’s senior vice chairman of enterprise, reiterated the developer’s beforehand acknowledged stance on not making a second growth to Cyberpunk 2077—no matter whether or not or not Phantom Liberty’s gross sales do gangbusters—saying “the choice [not to] had already been made.”

He continued:

As we’ve introduced a very long time in the past, we’re not going to make a second or third [Cyberpunk 2077] growth. That is the one growth of the sport, and it has nothing to do with the numbers and the way happy or not we’re with gross sales or something of the type. It’s a technological choice to be sincere. That is the final time we’re engaged on the REDengine in the meanwhile at the least, and within the foreseeable future as we’re engaged on the Unreal Engine from Epic. This was one of many key explanation why we determined this was the one [Cyberpunk expansion].

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Final 12 months, CDPR introduced its “multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Video games” to develop a brand new Witcher recreation in addition to a remake of the unique 2007 Witcher online game, which is being constructed from the bottom up in Unreal Engine 5 by Polish studio Idiot’s Idea.

Phantom Liberty, which is able to overhaul main gameplay mechanics and flesh out the Cyberpunk 2077 world alongside a free model 2.0 replace, will launch on September 26.