Ahead-looking: We is perhaps a number of years away from the discharge of Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel, however due to Mike Pondsmith, creator of the unique Cyberpunk tabletop sport, we now know some particulars.
Pondsmith, who consulted with CD Projekt in the course of the growth of Cyberpunk 2077, was requested about his involvement with the sequel, codenamed Challenge Orion, on the Digital Dragons 2025 convention.
Pondsmith mentioned that whereas he wasn’t as immediately concerned with the sport this time round, he does assessment Orion’s scripts and has been to CD Projekt to try the event.
“Final week I used to be wandering round speaking to completely different departments, and seeing what they’d, ‘Oh look, that is the brand new cyberware, what do you suppose?’ ‘Oh yeah, that is fairly good, that works right here’,” he mentioned.
Pondsmith added that he had spent plenty of time speaking to the sport’s environmental designers, who instructed him that whereas the unique Evening Metropolis will nonetheless be a part of Orion, there will even be one other metropolis gamers can go to.
“I bear in mind it and going, ‘I perceive the texture that you are going for, and this actually does work, it would not really feel like Blade Runner, it feels extra like Chicago gone fallacious’. And I mentioned, ‘yeah, I can see this working,” Pondsmith defined.
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Pondsmith by no means particularly mentioned that the brand new location was a future model of Chicago; it is possible a distinct dystopian metropolis impressed by it. In accordance with Pondsmith himself, Evening Metropolis was a fusion of San Francisco, “ghetto” LA, Singapore, plenty of Sao Paulo, and Beijing, with CD Projekt Purple including components of Tokyo.
It should even be attention-grabbing to see how a lot Evening Metropolis has modified within the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel. Given how far expertise could have superior by the point Orion launches, count on one thing fairly particular. And one would think about CD Projekt will do all it will possibly to keep away from one other disastrous launch just like the one Cyberpunk 2077 endured – earlier than reaching an Overwhelmingly Constructive score on Steam 4 years later.
Proper now, CD Projekt’s consideration can be targeted on The Witcher 4, which was revealed in December. The corporate mentioned in 2024 that it could launch earlier than Orion, with nearly all of staff engaged on the Ciri-focused journey.
Earlier this 12 months, CD Projekt mentioned 84 of its 707 employees had been engaged on Orion. Because it’s nonetheless within the idea stage, do not count on to be enjoying it for a very long time but.
