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CDPR Blames Lack Of Cyberpunk 2077 DLC On Move To Unreal (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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CDPR is eager to move on from the Red Engine, explaining why Phantom Liberty is the only Cyberpunk 2077 DLC.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Blame is too laden a word here.

TL;DR: CDPR have opted to shutter their in-house engine, Red Engine (which CP2077 was built on) in favour of a partnership with Unreal. Most of their devs have now switched to Unreal; with only those left on the upcoming CP2077 release still using Red Engine 4.

They have opted to no longer work at all on the Red Engine projects; ergo they either port CP to Unreal (an incomprehensibly large task given that Unreal doesn’t support many features that Red does, or at least not in the way Red does - not a slight on Unreal, simple reality of different engines, especially internal vs external tooling), or cease further development of CP. They opted for the latter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Logically this is a solid move for them, but I always hate to see more games on Unreal. Consolidation of the industry into one engine is not good overall, and any company that still works with its own engine I have a lot of respect for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This is a great point. Gamers as a whole should not really want every game ever to be on UE, not because it's a bad engine, but a) it's owned by Epic, and b) that's fucking boring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is a good and bad thing. Suck cyberpunk is basically over after this dlc but good that they are moving away from red.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I really enjoyed Cyberpunk. As long as they make a sequel in Unreal it's all good. I'm not ready for it to end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm doing one more playthrough once PL comes out. I may not even get the DLC, but the enhanced mechanics that come in the update to the base game should be interesting. Perhaps closer to what was in my mind at launch (and yes, I enjoyed the game then anyway).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As long as the move to Unreal contains no epic store exclusive agreement baked in, this is good news overall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Would be a bit weird as they own GOG.