It’s all over. After the implementation of Art Update 2.0 Art Cyberpunk 2077 and run the extension Ghost of Freedom, the CD Projekt RED team is ready to leave this adventure in the Night City and focus on the next objective. This, however, involves an unprecedented change in the history of the developer: after using REDengine, its own graphics engine, for many years, the studio will start work in Unreal Engine 5 with the next big part of the Witcher saga..
We already knew that the developers were planning to develop a new The Witcher game with UE5, but we didn’t know the reasons behind this decision. Now Cyberpunk 2077 director Gabe Amatangelo has resolved this doubt in an interview given PC gamer. “It’s not starting from scratch” explains the pro, referring to the graphics engine change. “A lot of times when you’re doing things like Ray Reconstruction (the REDengine feature), there’s a lot of methodologies that you can apply to new graphics engines. Architecture configuration learning and strategy.
“And if you look at the things that Unreal does well and the things that REDengine does well, there are some similarities and some gaps, but brilliant engineers are like what you crazy creatives want to do in the future that we know. .’ , there aren’t many options. Let’s go strategic (on Unreal Engine 5)“, the director continues. But it’s not limited to using UE5 features or keeping those offered by REDengine, as the Epic Games engine can be improved with a tool from the guys at CD Projekt RED: “Similarly, there are some things that REDengine does better , than Unreal, which is what we’re working with Epic to basically bring to that engine. Thus goes both ways…”
“It’s all about economies of scale: obviously you can do all these amazing things on both (engines),” Amontangelo continues. “There are many nuances behind it, but it all boils down to ways of approaching things further. Not necessarily better – it can be just as good – but do more. “Sometimes it’s about scale.”
“Play Cyberpunk 2”
Be that as it may, the team is finally done with Cyberpunk 2077 and thus can now look to their next projects. We know that part of the research focuses on the aforementioned The Witcher game, whose official title has not yet been revealed, but the developers They’re also thinking about Cyberpunk 2. For now, we have no choice but to wait for news from CD Projekt RED to learn more about their upcoming titles.
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