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submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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

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[-] Jaccident@lemm.ee 65 points 11 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.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 16 points 11 months ago

A shame, though. I remember them saying there will be more DLCs. To be fair, in their first teaser they said they'll release when it's ready which they also failed to do.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Part of me thinks/hopes they also aren't putting too much attention on it because they want their upcoming games to be more on the quality level of witcher 3 than CP2077. At least I hope.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That will definitely involve dropping last gen consoles from the support list…which is a move I hope they do

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yep, that's what I hope for as well. Witcher 3 is a masterpiece to this day. I'm curious about what the Witcher 1 remaster will look like. I recently made the original work with a controller on my Steam Deck and it feels very nostalgic.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

How did you get it running on your steam deck I'm actually almost done with a Witcher 3 playthrough right now just finishing up the last DLC and then I wanted to replay the first two but saw there's some issues

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago

Not sure where you've got it bought, but I pretty much installed it using Heroic (I have it on GOG), then added it to Steam as a non-Steam game (with Heroic it's a one click operation) and then simply found a Steam Input config that works well. I can check the config name if you want.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Damn I have it on steam, but I bet I can pick it up on sale for dirt cheap on GOG when I wanna play it. Maybe by then the steam version will work. Thanks

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