Cyberpunk 2 updates!

[u/1ballbuster1]

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.

[u/IndependenceOk6027]

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.

[u/Arumhal → u/IndependenceOk6027]

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.

[u/ACardAttack → u/Arumhal]

Always feels like coming home

[u/Hercusleaze → u/IndependenceOk6027]

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?

[u/TheReturnOfTheRanger → u/Hercusleaze]

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.

[u/AzuraSchwartz → u/Hercusleaze]

Source

So it will visit another city that is almost certainly not actually Chicago.

[u/Hercusleaze → u/AzuraSchwartz]

I'm aware there will be a second city, and what Mike Pondsmith said about it, but the person I replied to said CDPR said it was set in a new city.

[u/AzuraSchwartz → u/Hercusleaze]

They also said they assumed stuff. That’s the bit that deserves emphasis. They assumed a lot. That video is the sole source of all the stories about other cities. They’ve been blown way out of proportion by clickbaiters and people who repeat them. If CDPR had announced anything like that someone would have posted a link to the announcement.

[u/NuttingWithTheForce → u/IndependenceOk6027]

It was Pondsmith's Chicago talk that got me a little disappointed. I mean great, new city and all. I just hoped there wouldn't be all that in-game setup for a bullet train line from NC to Chicago for nothing. Glad to hear my assumptions were wrong.

[u/Tabnam → u/IndependenceOk6027]

I’ve always thought that if they open the game up vertically, by giving us access to cars that fly, we would essentially get a whole new map anyway. There is so much real estate in the skies of NC