CD Projekt Crimson does not remorse making Cyberpunk 2077 a first-person solely recreation, in comparison with the third-person Witcher franchise, however the developer is but to make up its thoughts round Cyberpunk 2, codenamed Orion.
Talking in the course of the CD Projekt Crimson Investor Day presentation, Cyberpunk 2077 quest director Paweł Sasko, who can be engaged on Orion, was requested if CD Projekt Crimson would take into account including a third-person to first-person toggle within the new recreation, and if the developer regrets not together with one within the present Cyberpunk.
“There are not any regrets on our half,” he stated. “What we wished was for Cyberpunk to have its personal id and to be noticeable as this totally different factor. As of late it is YouTube, Twitch, and screenshots that promote video games, and that is the way in which one can use to point out that id and individuality to gamers.”
Sasko continued: “I wished to say that the first-person perspective is the principle traits for Cyberpunk and its notion by the gamers too. It is also noticeably totally different from The Witcher, and this helped us craft the product id as such.”
The search director did not give an excessive amount of away surrounding Orion, however did counsel CD Projekt Crimson is but to make its thoughts up on this entrance. After explaining why the staff solely included a first-person mode in Cyberpunk 2077, Sasko added: “However for Orion we’re but to see.”
The sequel continues to be years away, after all, as CD Projekt Crimson is presently specializing in the subsequent Witcher recreation, Polaris, which can be launched in 2025 on the earliest. Orion can be developed on the firm’s new North American studios, that are nonetheless within the strategy of being constructed.
Improvement on Orion has formally begun, nevertheless. CD Projekt Crimson’s chief artistic officer Adam Badowski additionally stated in the course of the presentation that it has entered a “conceptual design degree”.
The Investor Day presentation was a comparatively busy one for CD Projekt Crimson, although maybe not as busy as 2022’s once they introduced 5 new video games. Nonetheless, the developer did reveal a live-action Cyberpunk undertaking, confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 had surpassed 25 million items bought, and that CEO Adam Kiciński was stepping down.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.