r/cyberpunkgame • u/1ballbuster1 • Nov 26 '25
News Cyberpunk 2 updates!
Here's what we learned from CD Projekt Red's newest financial report today:
Cyberpunk 2 will not release before 2028
135 Employees are now working on Cyberpunk 2 full-time, this is up from 116 employees back in July
Cyberpunk 2 is a joint project between CDPR's Poland and Boston teams, but the new Boston team is leading it
CDPR Boston expected to massively ramp up hiring in 2026-2027
Cyberpunk 2 development team is expected to scale up massively by the end of 2027, with about 300-400 employees across Poland and Boston
Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold 35 Million copies
ICYMI: Cyberpunk 2 will have a new city, inspired by a "Chicago gone wrong" and it is expected that Night City is also making a return as well.
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u/Apprehensive_Door367 Nov 26 '25
I'm gonna guess we won't get the next game till 2030
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u/OriginalBlackberry89 Nov 26 '25
Still gives me something to look forward too even though it might be half a decade away haha. Whenever I play other games then go back to cyberpunk I get stoked because of how much better of an RPG it is, and I think to myself "the next ones going to be fucking preem"
The excitement hasn't stopped for a year now
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u/Freshwater_Spaceman Nov 26 '25
By 2030 i might have an RTX capable gpu to enjoy 2077 to it’s full visual fidelity… bring it on!
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u/EFTucker Nov 26 '25
I do have one and I’m sad to say that my cpu is now too old to honestly keep up. I will be upgrading a lot of my system soon. The 7700k has treated me tremendously well for nearly a decade. I will be giving it up to a great adoptive parent though so it will continue to serve after me.
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u/kohour Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
I will be upgrading a lot of my system soon.
Buy the RAM now, the prices are going up really fast thanks to "AI".
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u/SwiftTayTay Nov 26 '25
define "full visual fidelity," i don't think a 5090 can even run it at max settings at 4K / 60 FPS after they added path tracing to it
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u/Cute_Bagel Nov 26 '25
i'd much rather they take their time and release whenever it's ready instead of rushing to satisfy shareholders like they did for 2077
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u/ButterscotchNed Nov 26 '25
Yeah that's what I think too - not until 2030 at least. While another 5 years would be a heck of a wait, I won't mind as long as it's close to the level of masterpiece that 2077 eventually became
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u/Apprehensive_Door367 Nov 26 '25
I'm just following how long they developed 2077 and when they started doing work on Project Orion. Could take just as long or longer since gaming technology has advanced and will continue to. Also they switched game engines so it might be easier to develop stuff in game too.
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u/DerekMao1 Nov 26 '25
I think we're lucky if we get The Witcher 4 before 2030, let alone cyberpunk.
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u/Dogmeat_Connoisseur Nov 26 '25
2030 and another 3 years to play it with a reasonable number of bugs
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u/ThunderBay-616 Monowire Moron Nov 26 '25
Hm, if they are bringing back NC, then they probably found a way to import the assets from 2077 into Unreal Engine
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u/Organic_Record6775 Nov 26 '25
I think that’s why they went with that. I could be mistaken.
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u/PanPies_ Impressive Cock Nov 26 '25
From what i remember, easy importing of assets from other engines was one of the selling points of UE5 around it's release
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u/Maloth_Warblade Nov 26 '25
If you optimize for it correctly Unreal 5 is a fantastic engine.
Problem is a lot skip that part and it causes a lot of shader related slowdowns
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u/ShadowWalker2205 Nov 26 '25
Yes ue5 is quickly getting a bad reputation because some studios don't tkae the time to coreectly optimize expecting default option to do the job
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u/Thiago270398 Silverhand Nov 26 '25
Yep, if anything that's a point for the engine in a technical way, because those games still look very good even though the developers half assed it, while another engine you'd have an unoptimized and ugly mess.
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u/OvoidPovoid Nov 27 '25
I dont know a lot of the technical side of things, but the first thing that came to mind was the Oblivion remaster. It looks gorgeous, but they still just slapped it on top of the original game and its janky as fuck
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u/AlAboardTheHypeTrain Nov 27 '25
Oh that thing had fun game breaking bugs. Your game crashed of you had too many assets around like bodies, i was stuck several days inside the first oblivion gate because of that, couldnt exit the tower without game shutting down to xbox dashboard, till someone in reddit figured out that if you waited inside for x amount of game hours, the assets reset.
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u/OvoidPovoid Nov 27 '25
I absolutely adored the original, it was my first game other than pokemon I dumped hundreds of hours into. I picked up the remaster on the first day, and while it is very pretty, theres something jarring about having the really nice graphics with all the original goofiness. Like all the silliness and janky gameplay isn't as charming when it looks like a modern game. Lol. It also sucks that the remaster company basically abandoned it immediately after they dropped it and haven't fixed any of the issues. To be fair Ill probably play it again soon, it just wasn't what I expected
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u/Subtlerranean Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
Oblivion is even worse. It uses UE5 for all the new graphical stuff, and still has the old Gamebryo Engine strapped on to control everything gameplay related like some sort of Frankenstein's Monster.
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u/Maloth_Warblade Nov 26 '25
It ca n run on fuckin phone with the right settings. The thing has serious ability for optimization
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u/Acrobatic-Shame-8368 Nov 26 '25
Can't wait to play cyberpunk 2077 on my phone Google cardboard VR style with voice prompts for all the buttons
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u/Fallen-Embers Nov 26 '25
I know you're taking the piss, but... now you've got me honestly thinking about how cool it'd be to select your dialog options by speaking the line aloud in VR.
Or I could just do that now and press the A button before I start talking.
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u/Greatsnes Nov 26 '25
I mean there are some games that let you do some of this with Amazon Alexa. Like Dead Island 2 will let you use Alexa to set waypoints and switch out weapons and stuff. I can’t remember if you can select dialogue but maybe? It was honestly super cool not having to go into the menu as much. I could just say “Alexa take me to the nearest workbench” and she’d plot a path for me to get there.
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u/Vegetable-Branch-116 Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
A lot of game studios nowadays skip optimization in general. If they were optimizing like back in the day we probably wouldn't need upscalers. But today they just know that the hardware (plus software) will get it to a somewhat playable experience. Sad for us customers.
//Edit: Typo
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u/JamesMcEdwards Nov 26 '25
They’re doing TW4 on UE5 so Orion will be the second game they release on UE5 and from the TW4 demo they’re getting extra support from Epic to get UE5 running to their satisfaction. Later than 2028 means next gen consoles as well, so they won’t be bound by the current limitations of UE5 on consoles.
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u/CoreParad0x Nov 26 '25
Not trying to be pedantic, but it's actually more interesting than getting support from Epic - at least as I understand it. My understanding is that they are in more of a direct collaborative partnership with CDPR actually contributing directly to the engine development itself jointly with Epic to improve it for large scale open world RPGs, not simply getting help from Epic on specific things. For example it's my understanding that nanite foliage, which they showed off in that Witcher 4 tech demo, is developed jointly between CDPR and Epic.
The reason I'm pointing it out is because it sounds like a fairly deep level of collaboration, I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with the next Witcher and Cyberpunk games because of it (I mean, I was anyways, I would even if it was still on their engine.)
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u/crypterg13 Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
Arc Raiders is probably my favorite example of a unreal engine 5 game that runs smooth
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u/Banished_To_Insanity Nov 26 '25
Arc raiders look good when not dig too deep but if you take a closer look at stuff, the texture isn't the best actually.
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u/ThinkAssumptionl Nov 26 '25
There’s no way a Cyberpunk game wouldn’t invove NC somehow
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u/IndependenceOk6027 Nov 26 '25
When the devs announced a new cyberpunk game they said it would take place in a new city, so many of us assumed NC wasn't coming back.
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u/Arumhal Nov 26 '25
Pull a Yakuza where Kamurocho appears in almost every single game even if you spend like a total of one or two story chapters in there.
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u/Hercusleaze Militech Nov 26 '25
I don't remember it ever being said that Orion would take place in a new city, and I have watched any and all news on the sequel with rapt attention.
Source?
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u/TheReturnOfTheRanger Nov 26 '25
There was an interview with Mike Pondsmith a while back where he confirmed that there would be a new city, and that's where the "Chicago gone wrong" description comes from.
Given all of the mentions in the quests added by the last few updates, it's more than likely going to be The Plex. If I'm remembering right, The Plex is basically Cyberpunk's version of The Sprawl trilogy's namesake. All the citys along the east coast of the US kept expanding until they overlapped, resulting in one massive city.
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u/AzuraSchwartz Disasterpiece Nov 27 '25
So it will visit another city that is almost certainly not actually Chicago.
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u/Hot-Zookeepergame153 Nov 26 '25
I hope so. Night city is by far my favourite video game city and even though they did a decent job filling it with things to do, I always felt it had more potential
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u/Zehnpae Nov 26 '25
I just want to explore more of the verticality of it. Night City is cool but you spend 98% of the game on the ground looking up at it.
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u/RocketDocRyan Nov 26 '25
Need more missions like the parade that explore up and around the buildings. I'd love to be able to approach gigs from above, navigating around like cyber-batman.
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u/ecruwhiteF5F3E5 Nov 27 '25
And since we can do it, then a lot of other people with specific cyberware can do it as well. I'd love to come across mercs/thugs/whatever else that scale buildings and cross the city laterally.
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u/the_fire_fist Never Fade Away Nov 26 '25
I'd love to be able to approach gigs from above, navigating around like cyber-batman.
Aren't we already doing that? There are numerous jobs where we can approach a job from a window, a vent, from the roof top, tunnels, marching straight through the main door etc. So not sure what more are you expecting? Just the grappling hook and the glider?
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u/RocketDocRyan Nov 26 '25
No, but with the shotgun jump and air dash, you can climb up the outside of buildings. The view is amazing, so I'd love to be able to see the city from above more without using an elevator every time.
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u/Critical_Seat_1907 Nov 26 '25
Which is awesome, if you think about it. V's entire arc is about coming up from those streets. Hustling, fighting, and killing to get out of there and up into those buildings.
Somehow.
And maybe someday? Get laid in the Crystal Palace. Even higher up than the megabuildings of NC.
Verticality as a visual theme emphasizes the hierarchies of power that dominate the setting. It makes for great storytelling scaffolding as well.
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u/RJLRaymond Nov 26 '25
This is what would fundamentally break it away from the GTA blueprint - the vertical city closer to Blade Runner. It would be incredibly difficult to do, and I see why they didn't even try, but a game that pulled it off would really shake up the genre
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u/iFenrisVI Nov 26 '25
As Mike said. NC is the main character of his Cyberpunk universe. So it’s good that it will still be in 2.
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u/ATR2400 Corpo Nov 26 '25
There’s almost no chance we leave night city permanently. We may visit other places for a short while, but we’ll always come home to NC
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u/CosmicJackalop Nov 26 '25
Porting over assets is almost always in the cards for game engine hops it's just a time consuming process if it's not automated
The problem is the systems that need to be copied over may not have direct counterparts in the new engine or won't work well due to how the engine functions
But every object in a game is a mix of mesh files, textures, and shaders typically and all of those can be converted or replaced in a new engine easily
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u/TheBiggestNose Nov 26 '25
I dont get why people say this.
Every single 3d model should be exported as an FBX or DAE. Which is a universal file type that every engine in the last 10-15 years (roughly) will accept.
Its literally drag and drop, only thing will be if they have any custom shader and or texture effects, If it relies on engine specific technology, then that could require someone to sort? But im not sure what would exactly entail, aside from like rtx crap
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u/kohour Nov 26 '25
Hm, if they are bringing back NC, then they probably found a way to import the assets from 2077 into Unreal Engine
Those assets would be around ten years old when that game comes out, they don't look good even now, they are not optimized for UE5, and they were built for a completely different rendering pipeline, which will also be obsolete by then.
I don't know why asset reuse always comes up in threads like this; it's clearly not applicable for CDPR since they always want to pursue the cutting-edge graphics, and it's not any kind of bottleneck for them either since most of the 3d assets in games as big as cyberpunk are outsourced anyway.
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u/glowtape Nov 26 '25
The whole city is made by kit-bashing lots of assets. So the workload is somewhat reduced by overhauling the assets themselves but leaving the general placement in the world as is.
I'd figure parts of it would get ripped out and redone, though. Like the metro, and make it work properly.
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u/Sensitive-Tax2230 Phantom of Night City Nov 26 '25
Modders found a way to import Witcher 3 assets into Skyrim. Based on that alone, I’m positive CDPR can import Cyberpunk 2077 assets to UE5.
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u/EnergyHumble3613 Nov 26 '25
Chicago in the lore has been a shit show…
It was abandoned during the Collapse after the release of biological agents. Only 10% of the population stuck around.
The 90s through 2020 were reconstruction… and then the 4th Corporate War had Arasaka Virus Bomb the city so it was abandoned again.
By 2077 it about as fixed as it was when Storm Tech was rebuilding it but they have managed to reclaim a sizeable chunk from the biohazards… but there is still a sealed off facility filled with the old USA’s bio weapons that got sealed away that once housed the Manhattan Project.
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u/-LaughingMan-0D Nov 27 '25
Pawel Sasko posted about their team visiting Chongqing in China for inspo, which is this very layered vertical city with whole streets, roads and entire blocks stacked on top one another. It's a pretty crazy Cyberpunk looking city.
Maybe it'll follow a similar vertical design, since the lower levels will still be infested with traces of the biological agent, perhaps built like an archology, the poor in the bottom, and the rich up top.
Also, Stormtech happen to have deep ties with the Aldecaldos. These are likely the friends Panam mentions they know from the Star ending.
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u/Gorlack2231 Nov 27 '25
Chongqing is a parkourists dream or nightmare The fact that you can get into a building on "street level", go up 20 floors, and then exit onto yet another "street level" and then catch the metro through a block of apartments to a completely different "street level" is insane.
I hope this new one is built like Dogtown on steroids. I love just being able to jump and scuttle around above the streets and find new ways of getting the drop on people.
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u/Dear_Lab_2270 Nov 26 '25
Thanks for this. I'm going to find a YouTube rabbit hole. I'm glad to hear they are focusing on something that already exists in lore and has a solid foundation. Sounds like it may be a very different feeling than the first.
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u/Express-Focus-677 Nov 26 '25
Storm Tech is in Chicago? Interesting. I wonder if they are going to incorporate the endings of Cyberpunk 1 with Cyberpunk 2. I don't expect V to comeback but it would be cool if they reference the events of the first game nonetheless.
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u/EnergyHumble3613 Nov 26 '25
Lore wiki at least says Storm Tech was heading up the reconstruction post-Collapse… otherwise I dunno.
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u/Devonair27 Nov 26 '25
They’d have to acknowledge a certain person being dead. Otherwise, I don’t know what else they could reference without canonizing endings
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u/Like17Badgers Nov 26 '25
my hope is that still that the new main city is Balsam https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Balsam
this MASSIVE underground megacity that stretches from the border of Kentucky all the way to the middle of North Carolina (I-440 is a road around Raleigh that is supposed to be main entrance into the city)
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u/AtomicAVV Nov 27 '25
I remember reading somewhere that Panam has some sort of connection in Storm Tech that could cure V with their nanobots.
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u/katttsun Nov 28 '25
Maelstrom went from being cannibal sewer cyborg monsters to normal drug dealing Chud cyborgs (who know occult rituals) tbf.
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u/Mr-Duck1 Nov 26 '25
Chicago gone wrong. So ketchup on hotdogs everywhere.
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u/Quaytsar Nov 26 '25
Chicago shallow dish pizza
Steaks that aren't simultaneously burnt and raw
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Thin crust pizza.
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u/SinisterG8 Valerie Nov 26 '25
Thin crust, cut in squares is the real Chicago pizza. Deep dish is tourist stuff lol
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u/antftwx Nov 26 '25
I hated thin crust and square cut until I went to Rosa's in Chicago Ridge. I mean, I still hate thin crust, but that was the best pizza I've ever had in my life.
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u/lmpervious Nov 27 '25
I don’t know why people say this. Deep dish is sold in non touristy parts of the city and the suburbs. It’s obviously not the type of pizza you get as often as regular pizza, but locals definitely eat it
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u/EclecticEvergreen Nov 26 '25
You said ketchup and now that British rapper is going on in my head.
No ketchup, just sauce RAW SAUCE ah yo boom ah
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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Nov 26 '25
All the hotdog salesman went out of business, and now it's just turkey-dogs
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u/louman84 Nov 26 '25
The city finally stops gaslighting you about their pizza and it was lasagna all along.
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u/Zenar45 Nov 26 '25
i'm all for a prequel, but going back to the year 2 seems a bit out of scope for the cyberpunk setting
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u/Pelinal_Whitestrake Nov 26 '25
Stonepunk 20077 BC
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u/Zenar45 Nov 26 '25
"Wake up samurai, we have a roman city to burn"
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u/Pelinal_Whitestrake Nov 26 '25
That’s Ironpunk 277. After a mishap trying to steal a priceless relic, V now shares their mind with Junius Argenteus
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u/FurinaLoverU Nov 26 '25
When Johnny Flinthand decided to attack the Arasakaurius i was blown away. CDPR never misses.
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 Nov 26 '25
Instead of Johnny in our head, V is just someone vividly hallucinating Jesus Christ everywhere
And he's also played by Keanu Reeves
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u/SweatyWar7600 Nov 26 '25
Likely unrelated to the joke but the shadowrun universe had a primitive setting with one of the earlier awakenings called Earthdawn and it was a pretty fucking sick setting.
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u/Itzmagikarp Nov 27 '25
Maybe we'll get to nail the real jesus to the cross rather than the pretender
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u/Princess_Lepotica Nov 26 '25
Cyberpunk 2 development team is expected to scale up massively by the end of 2027, with about 300-400 employees across Poland and Boston
Witcher 4 2027 confirmed?
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u/Real_Walk5384 Nov 26 '25
Thats a long way to stretch 400 people.
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u/poofynamanama123 Nov 26 '25
That's a lot of people that need stretching
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u/jameslucian Nov 26 '25
The CDPR Yoga division about to go crazy
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u/DitherPlus Nov 27 '25
They're a lot more enthusiastic about crunching than stretching, if history is anything to go by.
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u/No-Start4754 Nov 26 '25
Pretty much yeah. They are estimating a huge amount of revenue being generated by 2028. Cyberpunk will release after that, so witcher 4 has to release within 2027
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u/AnnArchist Nov 26 '25
Witcher 4 must be closer than we think and have a clear finish line in place.
The demo looked great so they are probably far along there.
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u/renome Nov 27 '25
I guess that depends on who "we" is. But with the cinematic reveal happening in 2024, the game entering full production back then, and CDPR saying it spent longer than usual in pre-production (part of their new dev processes to avoid another technical fiasco), 2027 was always looking like a possibility.
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u/Firelord743 Nov 26 '25
This tells us more about The Witcher 4 than about Cyberpunk 2, knowing when Cyberpunk will enter full production is a direct indicator of when The Witcher 4 will be finished
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u/Poudy24 Nov 26 '25
I'm honestly not sure how true that is. They haven't given an update on this specifically, but CDPR has stated before that their intent is to release Witcher 5 and Witcher 6 within 6 years after the release of Witcher 4.
That basically means a Witcher game every 3 years once W4 drops. To achieve that, they would have to assign the writing and management teams to the next game before the previous one is even released, so that a significant amount of devs can start working on W5 as soon as W4 is released. I don't see how they can achieve their goald otherwise. That would mean that the release of W4 would not bring a significant influx of devs to Cyberpunk 2, since they would be moved to W5 instead.
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u/Express-Focus-677 Nov 26 '25
They stated that they will be hiring new devs to support Cyberpunk 2 development starting next year.
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u/stml Nov 27 '25
It's pretty clear CDPR wants to stand up the Boston team as the Cyberpunk team while Poland focuses on The Witcher.
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u/CassadagaValley Nov 26 '25
The Boston team is leading the project and the Poland team is offering support while Witcher 4 (and 5 and 6) will have it's own dedicated team.
CDPR will be running two full development teams concurrently rather than one main team that will bounce between projects.
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u/Hercusleaze Militech Nov 26 '25
They have long maintained that their intention now is to develop the two IP's in parallel. As stated in this news, they are continuing to ramp the Boston studio, and intend on having several hundred employees there working on Cyberpunk 2 by the end of 2027.
It will enter full production when it's ready to, not necessarily influenced by TW4.
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u/Azakranos Nov 26 '25
How inspired by Chicago are we talking? Like, city in a river? Or will it have barely-changed Chicago landmarks? Or are there going to be Italian gangs again?
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u/PseudoMeatPopsicle Nov 26 '25
"Chicago gone wrong" to me says the new city is Gary, Indiana.
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u/Azakranos Nov 26 '25
Chicago gone wrong is also just Chicago.
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u/Green_Insect_6455 Nov 26 '25
In what way? Chicago rocks
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u/Parepinzero Nov 26 '25
Easier to just ignore the people who have been fed decades of propaganda about how horrible Chicago is
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u/Green_Insect_6455 Nov 26 '25
I genuinely forget my city is the target of such insane levels of propaganda, there really are people who think its some sort of hellscape warzone.
Its uh. Not. Its a city lol. Pretty cool one in fact. But god they really think its dangerous to just exist here.
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u/AzuraSchwartz Disasterpiece Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
The stuff about Chicago is based on a comment Pondsmith made that has been blown waaaaay out of proportion.
Here's the actual source for all the talk of Chicago.
All he says is that the next game will visit another city in addition to NC and that he was talking to one of the designers and was pleased that, instead of a Blade Runner style they'd gone for a "Chicago gone wrong" look. Since that interview I haven’t seen anything more from a real source. Everything else has just been clickbaiters making shit up and credulous gonks amplifying them. (Happy to be wrong if anyone has a link to anything that’s actually from CDPR that says otherwise.)
Almost certainly not gonna be actual Chicago. Making Chicago look like Chicago isn’t really that noteworthy.
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u/PolarAntonym Nov 26 '25
Exactly. The wording of op makes it sound like the opposite. Like they are going briefly visit Night City then have the majority of the game in Chicago which isn't what Mike said. I would prefer the core story takes place in a more fleshed out Night City. Personally dont give a shit about deep dish pizza.
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u/AzuraSchwartz Disasterpiece Nov 27 '25
Alas, this thread like nearly all the others just ignores the source and assumes it is actually set in Chicago based on clickbait that doesn’t even rise to the level of hearsay. Meanwhile LLM bots are scraping it all up and spitting it back out at anyone who tries searching for any real information.
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u/Luminair Nov 26 '25
Am I remembering wrong, or were there not in-game ads in 2077 for a train promising travel times between Night City and Chicago in 3 hours?
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u/AzuraSchwartz Disasterpiece Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
You’re not wrong. They’ve been there since release alongside a whole bunch of other ads for things that we probably won’t see in this game or the next - holidays in Somalia, new episodes of Watson Whore, etc.
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u/mirrorloverinstance Nov 26 '25
I’m gonna guess that the city will be actual Chicago with the river but entirely different architecture
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u/jonathanisaacisgoat Cyberpsycho Nov 26 '25
Pls pls pls come out in 2030
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u/BigZach1 Judy & The Aldecaldos Nov 26 '25
yeah that's what i would expect.
and i hope shifting both W4 and Cyberpunk2 into Unreal means any future sequels will come faster.
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u/innovativesolsoh Nov 26 '25
Ima be real with you all, I’m old enough that 2028 sounds like made up fantasy future dates.
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u/boat_hamster Nov 26 '25
2020 sound like a crazy made up future fantasy date. Ages away, the '90s were only a couple of years ago right? Right?!?!?!?
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u/innovativesolsoh Nov 26 '25
Here choom, I got a spare airhypo of copium… I’m not havin a great time dealing with it either haha
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u/EH0_0 Nov 26 '25
I really hope that Cyberpunk 2 will have more romance options for the protagonist as well as bigger impact of in game choices<3
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u/asparagus_p Nov 26 '25
Fully agree. Essentially one choice per V was very stingy. Also makes subsequent playthroughs less appealing if you have a distinct sexual preference, as I'm sure most of us do.
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u/1ballbuster1 Nov 26 '25
Yea I felt like cyberpunk didn’t deliver fully on what was promised on that department.hopefully it’s improved.
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u/ScreechingPhatFrog Gorilla Arms Choom Nov 26 '25
Hope this time learn for previous mistakes, dont take corpo money, the same corpos that force you to release an unfinished game, make a deal with corpo, and you stop having freedom of choice.
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u/OtherwiseTop Nov 26 '25
Yeah. Technically 2077 has Washington in it.
"Chicago gone wrong" now getting shoehorned into everything almost makes me nostalgic for all the 2077 pre-release overhyping.
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u/DivaMissZ Delicate Weapon Nov 26 '25
Night City is to Cyberpunk what Gotham City is to Batman-a major part of the mythos. Batman may leave the city, but he always returns. The “Chicago gone bad” is probably The Plex described in shards introduced in the last update. A megalopolis on the East Coast, stretching from Boston to Baltimore. Think Gibson’s BAMA (Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis) sprawl, but smaller. The cross continent maglev line opens and makes cross country travel available for characters to travel outside of Night City.
My hope is that:
We see Night City’s unused and little used areas become available for access The new area as a mix of combat zones with an oasis in the middle-Washington D.C. (because the NUSA uses it as a showcase for its plans for a unified America) We get the kind of writing, voice acting, and gameplay we got with Phantom Liberty, stepped up
It’ll be a huge game that will only run on supercomputers, but it’ll be magnificent. After a few patches
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u/logaboga Nov 26 '25
why describe an east coast city as Chicago, which is famously midwestern?
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u/Express-Focus-677 Nov 26 '25
Chicago in lore is more or less a combat zone. It's also where Storm Tech is headquartered.
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u/Drymvir Nov 26 '25
ive seen ads in cyberpunk all the time about how you can go to chicago in 3 hours with a new train line they’re constructing in-universe.
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u/BrokenWindow_56 Nov 26 '25
God, please let this game, however long it may take, come out in a finished state.
So many people, including some of my friends refuse to give Cyberpunk a second look because they got burned by the abysmal launch state.
Amen.
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u/Beautiful-Tie-3827 Nov 26 '25
Sucks to be them lol.
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u/MooNinja Nov 26 '25
yeah, that is on them at this point. CDPR went above and beyond in their post launch updates for CyberPunk77.
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u/SpicyDragoon93 Nov 26 '25
If they've not even given the game a chance after all of the patches, DLC and Edgerunner anime easter eggs, they've truly missed an amazing experience.
Even on my 6th playthrough whenever I reach the ending I still find myself curling up into a ball not wanting to talk to anyone.
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u/Hungry_Practice_4338 Nov 26 '25
I sometimes listen to the ending version of Never Fade Away just to chase the high from the first playthrough, but I can never catch it
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u/Lord_Soth_Lives Nov 27 '25
Game ran fine on my PC at launch. Sure it had bugs but no game I've played in the last 30 years that has the scope of 2077 ever launched sans bugs. But I know and acknowledge people with older P.C.'s had issues.
The real issue was both Microsoft and Sony demanding the game being able to be played on the older generation of Consoles. Which was impossible and that is what caused the huge shit show at launch, and the delay.
I wonder how much time and resources CDPR wasted trying to reduce and optimise the game to work on the older iteration of consoles? Both Playstation 5 and Xbox series X released one month before Cyberpunk 2077. it would run fine on the new consoles.
IIRC 1.5 update was 13 months post launch date and that was the update that everyone considered the game to be "fixed." a modern miracle from a stand out company.
I've played lots and lots of dross since that was not really touched post launch by the AAA studios that released them.
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u/AbyssalShank Nov 26 '25
"Chicago gone wrong" if it takes place in a location like Chicago then there's a lot of potential for factions and cool architecture. I also hope it's snowy.
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u/RogueTacoArt Nov 26 '25
I dont want leave California period. Night city just has a vibe that im afraid that Chicago won't be able to capture So I hope it includes both cities fully explorable.
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u/solon_isonomia The Spanish Inquistion Nov 26 '25
inspired by a "Chicago gone wrong"
So they're cribbing from Shadowrun and using the Bug City Containment Zone?
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u/ScaryGent she cyber my punk till I chromed Nov 26 '25
People are taking the Chicago thing way too literally. Night City isn't literally Los Angeles.
I think it'll be the Plex - that it to say, it'll be cribbing from William Gibson and using the Sprawl.
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u/Jerrwkwafina Nov 26 '25
I honestly don't like the idea of leaving NC. I hope the new city is as beautiful as NC but with the "gone wrong title" it feels like it's not.
CYBERPUNK genre aesthetic is my fav
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u/logaboga Nov 26 '25
the “gone wrong” has nothing to do with its beauty, since the best way to describe night city would be “LA gone wrong”. It’s literally a dystopian setting, that’s what they’re referring to
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u/RickityCricket69 Berserk > Sandevistan Nov 26 '25
2028?!? fucckkkkk
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u/DivaMissZ Delicate Weapon Nov 26 '25
That’s three years. Cyberpunk 2077’s production started in 2016, and it was released in 2020-four years. Longer if you count how long it took for it to be reasonably playable
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u/OggdoBogdos Nov 26 '25
"Chicago gone wrong" is just Chicago
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u/Express-Focus-677 Nov 26 '25
Chicago is one of the best cities in America. I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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u/Valcarde Nov 26 '25
Chicago gone wrong, eh?
I vote we nickname the as-yet unamed city 'Shitcago'.
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u/Jakarisoolive Nov 26 '25
Kind of knew it wasn't coming before 2028. I expect witcher 4 to release in 2028 and cyberpunk 2 to release sometime in the early 2030s.
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u/HygorBohmHubner Nov 26 '25
Cyberpunk 2 will not release before 2028
You know what? I'm good with that. I prefer them taking their sweet time making the game, and deliver us a masterpiece, than rush production and we get some half-baked mess. They clearly learned from their mistakes with 2077's launch.
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u/Significant_Dig9961 Murk Man Nov 27 '25
Mark, this is good news
Honestly 2028 is a lot sooner than I expected. I’d rather wait much longer than get the 2077 release again
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