It is a new 12 months, and the devs at CD Projekt Pink are turning their eyes away from Cyberpunk 2077 to give attention to its upcoming sequel from the studio’s new Boston workplace. In a tweet, Cyberpunk narrative director Igor Sarzyński mentioned that the staff is able to “formally kickstart our Orion [the codename for Cyberpunk’s sequel] journey” within the wake of Cyberpunk the primary’s very profitable Phantom Liberty growth and a couple of.0 replace.
And gosh, they sound assured. In the identical tweet, Sarzyński declares that—in any case its trials and travails—”2077 was only a warm-up” for no matter CDPR has in thoughts for its subsequent Cyberpunk. That is each an eminently comprehensible factor for somebody enthusiastic about their subsequent venture to say and a profoundly wince-inducing factor to say about Cyberpunk 2077 specifically.
First day within the Boston workplace! So good to satisfy outdated associates and formally kickstart our Orion journey. I could not be extra excited for this venture and i am positive we will make it one thing particular. 2077 was only a warm-up 🔥January 8, 2024
In spite of everything, to cite a few of my colleagues at PCG, if Cyberpunk 2077 may be described as a “warm-up,” it is the sort the place you by accident obliterate your personal shinbone and must spend three years in restoration. The sport could also be using excessive on its 2023 redemption arc—and hey, I performed it myself for the primary time after 2.0 hit and liked each minute—however we will not actually fake the sport’s launch-out-of-nightmares and crunch did not occur, or that it did not subsequently require large labour to repair.
Nonetheless, I am an optimistic kind, and I am hoping that CDPR learnt the precise classes from Cyberpunk 2077, warm-up or not. My very own glorious expertise with the sport in its present state has left me predisposed to be very enthusiastic about Orion, no matter it seems to be, and I can not assist however be intrigued by the information that the devs are actually correctly heads-down on the work at hand as we enter the brand new 12 months. I simply need to hang around some extra with my finest buddy for all times Johnny Silverhand, to be completely sincere with you.
We’ll, in fact, study extra in regards to the numerous Cyberpunk and Witcher-related irons CDPR has within the fireplace as time goes on, and let’s hope the groups engaged on them are given on a regular basis they should end them this time spherical, particularly after the layoffs CDPR endured final 12 months. And if the corporate goes to place something out early, at the least have the forethought to take a leaf from my colleague Ted Litchfield’s ebook and name it early entry from the beginning. It does not matter how warmed up you’re, it is higher to stroll earlier than you run.
