CD Projekt Red right now announced an interesting partnership today with small studio Digital Scapes, with preliminary plans for them to work on upcoming mega-budget immersive sim Cyberpunk 2077. Digital Scapes lately made some waves by their work on Dying Light‘s surprisingly entertaining asymmetrical PvP mode whereas Techland centered on the single-player facet of the game.
Tempting as that sounds, the announcement says that Digital Scapes will “closely cooperate with CD Projekt Red on creating and optimising technological solutions for use in the development of Cyberpunk 2077”. Delightfully imprecise – that doesn’t imply a attainable multiplayer bonus mode is fully off the playing cards, however don’t go getting your hopes up – it’s attention-grabbing to take a position on, although.
As properly as their work on Dying Light’s multiplayer, Digital Scapes are notable for his or her work on R&D, telemetry and analytics, in keeping with an older version of their now-updated company blurb – stuff that may undoubtedly be helpful for a game as advanced as Cyberpunk 2077. Internal testing will solely inform you a lot by experiences however good telemetry can inform you an unlimited quantity about gamers – this video from wonderful YouTube channel “AI And Games” goes into the method of gathering and deciphering participant info.
Multiplayer continues to be an out of doors chance, nonetheless, and an exterior crew dealing with it could make sense. In an interview with CD Projekt Red’s Patrick Mills at E3, Eurogamer did get him to confess that attainable multiplayer was “in R&D”, however the studio had been nonetheless specializing in Cyberpunk 2077 as a single-player expertise.
So far, CD Projekt Red have managed to maintain a good lid of their game. Even after demoing it at E3, they saved the game out of the general public’s view till the top of August and their shock launch of the gameplay walkthrough video above. I might speculate till the cows come house on this specific partnership, however might simply as simply be blindsided by a bonus function (or nothing in any respect) when the game launches.
As for the large image on what’s taking place with Cyberpunk 2077, try Dave Irwin’s all-encompassing Wot We Know guide to the game.
