Cyberpunk 2077 Pre-Re-Announcement Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Morgoth]

September 2019 if we're lucky.

 

[eXalted]

+ the CD Projekt architecture skills, yes.

If they pull the Witcher 3 popularity miracle again, I hope a new wave of cyberpunk RPGs start rolling.

 

[Perkel]

+ the CD Projekt architecture skills, yes.

If they pull the Witcher 3 popularity miracle again, I hope a new wave of cyberpunk RPGs start rolling.

That is like saying that when they released TW3 suddenly companies will start to make RPGs with good writting or proper land design, characterization and so on. Which obviously won't happen.

Maybe next year e3 we will get teaser for CB2077. Hopefully it will be more punk than scifi and what i mean by that older cyberpunk stuff not neo-DeusEx kind of cyberpunk kind of scifi.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Punks don't have to be your audience, punk's over.

Do millennials even understand punk? The old cyberpunk stuff seems to be pretty removed from today's sensibilities. Hackers are evil now and corporations the good actors

 

[Perkel]

Punks don't have to be your audience, punk's over.

Do millennials even understand punk? The old cyberpunk stuff seems to be pretty removed from today's sensibilities. Hackers are evil now and corporations the good actors

I mean in early interview they got "that" what i was talking about but as i said earlier no company can walk ouf of TW3 success unchanged.

I mean they starting plan was basically firect conversion of cyberpunk game to computers but after TW3 i fully expect them to make TW3 with guns.

 

[eXalted]

That is like saying that when they released TW3 suddenly companies will start to make RPGs with good writting or proper land design, characterization and so on. Which obviously won't happen.

No, with Witcher 3 they will start making fantasy RPGs, oh wait, they've been making such games for eternity now.

 

[Duellist_D]

Punks don't have to be your audience, punk's over.

Do millennials even understand punk? The old cyberpunk stuff seems to be pretty removed from today's sensibilities. Hackers are evil now and corporations the good actors

The later ones?
Not so much.

Good example is how Shadowruns Fluff changed over the years.
Back then, it was a very gritty and shitty world, where you had to do your living by any means.

Nowadays, Runners (especially the ones by disgusting "Black Trenchcoat"-Style Players) are basically mirrorshades wearing wannabe-operators acting as deniable corporate cucks.

And IF CP2077 turns out to be a success (with all the retro80shype, it might has a good chance), we could very well get a lot more games in this Genre/Setting, but most will be cashcows and suck, like most of the shit in this age of "way-to-fucking-many videogame released each year".

 

[anus_pounder]

Punks don't have to be your audience, punk's over.

Do millennials even understand punk? The old cyberpunk stuff seems to be pretty removed from today's sensibilities. Hackers are evil now and corporations the good actors

Wait, is it? Aren't corporations and governments almost exclusively evil in fiction nowadays?

 

[HoboForEternity]

they're evil in real life too

 

[Infinitron]

http://wccftech.com/cd-projekt-red-gets-7-million-government/

CD Projekt RED Gets $7 Million from Polish Government To Research Seamless Multiplayer, City Creation

CD Projekt RED got the biggest cut of Poland’s 116 million PLN fund granted by the NCBR (National Center for Research of Development) to several of the most prominent Polish game developers.

All four proposals submitted by CD Projekt RED were approved, as well as an additional proposal for GOG.com focused on the creation of a “generic support cross-platform multiplayer gaming software for popular consoles and operating systems”. In total, the studio known for The Witcher series will receive 30 million PLN, which roughly amounts to $7 million. Adam Kiciński, President at CD Projekt RED, released this statement:

Developing videogames is a hyperinnovative activity, but also one which carries substantial financial risks, involves continuous R&D work and requires much experimentation and prototyping along the way. The GameINN program – a fruit of our industry’s collaborative efforts – will, in the coming years, enable Polish developers to carry out nearly 40 projects worth 191 million PLN. I am confident that the resulting innovative solutions will further elevate the quality of Polish videogames and enhance our competitiveness on the global stage. Indeed, our industry now has the potential to become the champion of the modern Polish economy.​

The official document shared by the NCBR gives us a decent amount of insight on each proposal. CDPR’s four proposals were focused on the following game development goals:

City Creation

Comprehensive technology for the creation of “live”, playable in real-time, cities of great scale based on the principles of artificial intelligence and automation and taking into account the development of innovative processes and tools supporting the creation of high-quality open world games.

Seamless Multiplayer

Comprehensive technology enables the creation of unique gameplay for many players, taking into account the search of opponents, session management, replication facilities, and support of a variety of game modes along with a unique set of dedicated tools.

Cinematic Feel

Comprehensive technology for providing a unique, film quality RPG with open world, also taking into account innovative solutions Process and unique set of dedicated tools.

Animation Excellence

Comprehensive technology enabling a significant increase in quality and production of complex face and body animations for open world RPG games, also taking into account the innovative process solutions and a unique set of dedicated tools.​

The Witcher 3 fans will undoubtedly argue that the game already sports greatly detailed cities, excellent animations and a “cinematic feel” of sorts, but at the same time it’s reassuring to see that the developers aren’t resting on their laurels and still want to push the boundaries further in all these categories.

The real new feature is seamless multiplayer, of course. No game by CDPR ever supported any form of multiplayer but at this point, we’re fairly certain Cyberpunk 2077 will be the first one. Fear not, however, for we can hazard a guess that it may be similar to Watch Dogs 2 with its seamless, but entirely optional coop/PvP multiplayer. It is doubtful that CD Projekt RED would want to alienate its massive customer base of single player fans.

 

[veevoir]

CD Projekt are the people who pull strings in Poland for real. Not jews, not Soros, not Vatican, not ex-communists.. only one shadowy organisation that always gets their money, doesn't matter which party rules.

 

[HoboForEternity]

marcin momot for president!

 

[vortex]

It's time to move to Poland and make some games.

 

[Gerrard]

So yeah, they just got that money which is meant for engine features development, and some people think this will come out next year?

 

[NeoKino]

I hope CDProjekt makes their SDK available to the public, if its anywhere decent it might be a great 3D engine for budding Video Game developers. Making games with it would probably take a lot of time and dedication but a new engine that can rival UE 4 would be such a boon to the scene.

Yes I know Cry engine exist but it is a piece of shit; hard to use, poor support, and the company that makes it are doing piss poor which adds doubt to the support problems mentioned earlier. Why would you use Cry engine when Unity and UE which have wider library of documentation exist? Small devs don't even have the resources to fully utilize many of the features that the engine boast.

So that leave us with UE and Unity if we want to create 3D games with entry programming Knowledge. Unity can't even handle multi threading, uses C# instead of C++, it's IDE is a fucking mess SAD! its so sloppy in the time to code one script you could run a marathon, teach a class of 200 how to make a hello world program using a shit language like Holy C (may god offer me forgiveness amen) and cuck a middle age Jewish man by having a secret affair with his wife. All those problems will lead to your games being buggy messes with poor framerate optimization.

UE is great but it needs a viable open competitor (It's practically Chinese software as tencent owns epic and plus although makes the source code available it is not open source), hopefully with the Potato Gov money they make a great engine that they are willing to share.

 

[Spectacle]

http://wccftech.com/cd-projekt-red-gets-7-million-government/

CD Projekt RED Gets $7 Million from Polish Government To Research Seamless Multiplayer, City Creation

CD Projekt RED got the biggest cut of Poland’s 116 million PLN fund granted by the NCBR (National Center for Research of Development) to several of the most prominent Polish game developers.

All four proposals submitted by CD Projekt RED were approved, as well as an additional proposal for GOG.com focused on the creation of a “generic support cross-platform multiplayer gaming software for popular consoles and operating systems”. In total, the studio known for The Witcher series will receive 30 million PLN, which roughly amounts to $7 million. Adam Kiciński, President at CD Projekt RED, released this statement:

Developing videogames is a hyperinnovative activity, but also one which carries substantial financial risks, involves continuous R&D work and requires much experimentation and prototyping along the way. The GameINN program – a fruit of our industry’s collaborative efforts – will, in the coming years, enable Polish developers to carry out nearly 40 projects worth 191 million PLN. I am confident that the resulting innovative solutions will further elevate the quality of Polish videogames and enhance our competitiveness on the global stage. Indeed, our industry now has the potential to become the champion of the modern Polish economy.​

The official document shared by the NCBR gives us a decent amount of insight on each proposal. CDPR’s four proposals were focused on the following game development goals:

City Creation

Comprehensive technology for the creation of “live”, playable in real-time, cities of great scale based on the principles of artificial intelligence and automation and taking into account the development of innovative processes and tools supporting the creation of high-quality open world games.

Seamless Multiplayer

Comprehensive technology enables the creation of unique gameplay for many players, taking into account the search of opponents, session management, replication facilities, and support of a variety of game modes along with a unique set of dedicated tools.

Cinematic Feel

Comprehensive technology for providing a unique, film quality RPG with open world, also taking into account innovative solutions Process and unique set of dedicated tools.

Animation Excellence

Comprehensive technology enabling a significant increase in quality and production of complex face and body animations for open world RPG games, also taking into account the innovative process solutions and a unique set of dedicated tools.​

The Witcher 3 fans will undoubtedly argue that the game already sports greatly detailed cities, excellent animations and a “cinematic feel” of sorts, but at the same time it’s reassuring to see that the developers aren’t resting on their laurels and still want to push the boundaries further in all these categories.

The real new feature is seamless multiplayer, of course. No game by CDPR ever supported any form of multiplayer but at this point, we’re fairly certain Cyberpunk 2077 will be the first one. Fear not, however, for we can hazard a guess that it may be similar to Watch Dogs 2 with its seamless, but entirely optional coop/PvP multiplayer. It is doubtful that CD Projekt RED would want to alienate its massive customer base of single player fans.

Each potato for CDprojekt research is one less potato available for gender studies.

 

[Duellist_D]

Finally some of our Krautmoniez allocated to a good cause.

 

[anus_pounder]

'Good cause' 'Multiplayer'

So. This is what it has come to...

 

[Grotesque]

glimpse of first footage of Cyberpunk 2077

[trolling ahead]

Spoiler

 

[eXalted]

And here is some more:

Spoiler

On a totally unrelated note. While searching for gifs I stumbled upon this:

Spoiler

I have no fucking idea what is that.

 

[Fry]

On a totally unrelated note. While searching for gifs I stumbled upon this:

Spoiler

I have no fucking idea what is that.

Someone really confused about how a rimjob works.

 

[Modron]

Suggest renaming gif to 2 potatoes 1 pole.

 

[DosBuster]

It's time to move to Poland and make some games.

Have fun working 6-7 days 10-12 hours a week for a year straight on a low wage!

 

[RoBoBOBR]

10-12 hours a week

12 hours a week DOES sound fun.

 

[DosBuster]

10-12 hours a week

12 hours a week DOES sound fun.

Lol, I haven't slept in a while as you can tell