Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel May Truly Have Multiplayer

The Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, at present codenamed Orion, is an entire thriller. Apart from the truth that it’s in improvement, we all know nearly nothing concerning the venture. One factor we do know is that developer CD Projekt Crimson is significantly fascinated with bringing multiplayer into the combo this time round.

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Multiplayer was initially deliberate for the 2020 open-world first-person shooter, however due to the sport’s disastrous launch, the workforce needed to go all-hands-on-deck to place out the numerous fires raging on the neon-soaked streets of Cyberpunk 2077‘s Night time Metropolis. In consequence, no matter multiplayer CDPR had cooking within the improvement oven needed to get taken out and cooled off in order that the sport itself might attain a playable state, one thing the builders executed with aplomb. With Cyberpunk 2077 accomplished and the studio shifting on to different tasks—which embody a sequel to the 2020 sport—CDPR has multiplayer on the mind once more.

CDPR is ‘contemplating’ multiplayer for Cyberpunk 2077

In an interview with Reuters, joint CDPR CEOs Adam Badowski and Michal Nowakowski talked briefly concerning the myriad different video games the studio has in improvement proper now. Neither gave many specifics about these tasks, however each confirmed that the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel is at present “within the conceptual part,” with the plan to have roughly 80 builders engaged on it by the top of the 12 months. Nowakowski additionally mentioned that the corporate is “contemplating together with multiplayer parts” within the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, however once more, he didn’t make clear this assertion. He did define one factor the workforce is trying into: leverage the facility of AI.

“We predict that [artificial intelligence] is one thing that may assist enhance sure processes in sport manufacturing, however not change individuals,” Nowakowski mentioned. That sounds good, however solely time will inform how AI is used within the firm’s video games going ahead.

Kotaku reached out to CDPR for remark.

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Badowski and Nowakowski’s feedback on multiplayer echo CDPR’s place in October 2022, when the corporate revealed its intention to convey multiplayer to its upcoming video games, of which there are 5 within the works that we all know of. It’s unclear what type multiplayer will take when it arrives within the Polish studio’s in-development video games, however no less than we all know it’s actual and (doubtlessly) coming. Let’s simply hope that, like CD Projekt Crimson has already promised, its builders gained’t should crunch to make all of it occur.