Cyberpunk 2077‘s sequel has shed its Challenge Orion codename and can now be often known as… Cyberpunk 2. CD Projekt revealed the title change of their latest earnings results, in keeping with which the brand new Cyberpunk RPG has simply entered pre-production – roughly outlined, the purpose in a recreation’s gestation when designers, artists, programmers and so forth meet to flesh out the idea, however earlier than they’ve really began making something that is imagined to type a part of the completed recreation. There at the moment are 96 individuals engaged on the factor, versus 422 for The Witcher 4, 49 on multiplayer Witcher spin-off Challenge Sirius, and 19 for an unannounced authentic recreation, Challenge Hadar.
The grousing, dilettante reader will object that that is scant materials for a information publish, particularly on condition that CD Projekt are providing no ensures that “Cyberpunk 2” would be the venture’s ultimate title – as they commented to the Verge, Cyberpunk 2 “simply means it is one other recreation within the Cyberpunk universe.” However the dextrous maven of on-line news-mongering will discover that “Cyberpunk 2” is, in truth, a particularly compact and refined piece of worldbuilding.
In spite of everything, Cyberpunk 2077 is ready within the yr 2077 CE. By logical extrapolation, Cyberpunk 2 is ready within the yr 2. Mix that with a touch from Cyberpunk tabletop creator Mike Pondsmith that nu-Cyberpunk will take place in Chicago, and we are able to make deductions about Cyberpunk 2’s setting by copy-pasting bits of this randomly googled Living History Of Illinois, with its trust-inspiring emblem of a sickly and loquacious bald eagle making an attempt to disentangle itself from a discarded defend.
Here’s what the nauseous avian students of the Residing Historical past of Illinois assume occurred within the years 500 BC to 900 AD: maize agriculture, village-building, burial mounds, pottery, and the invention of the bow and arrow. That is just about a online game, proper there. However is it a Cyberpunk recreation? I’ve now accomplished a forensic management+F search on that PDF a number of hundred instances, and may disclose zero point out of “ripperdocs”, “braindancing”, or “taxi missions which are secretly higher than the principle storyline”. If the indigenous peoples who lived on the banks of what would later be known as the Mississippi River had entry to aerodynes and quickhacking, they saved it on the down-low. Presumably as a substitute of aerodynes they’d barfing bald eagles.
CD Projekt have but to explicitly verify something in regards to the new Cyberpunk’s setting, past saying that they want to explore problems like homelessness and the wealth gap. I might e-mail them a hyperlink to this report, asking for an announcement, however I really like CD Projekt like my very personal youngsters, and don’t want to encumber them with some abject nonsense. You, then again, are welcome to depart a remark.
