Some BIG Rumors from a big Polish journalist, a NEW character teased via a new Cyberpunk 2077 Funko Pop release, some new Cyberpunk Red developments in the form of new art, Cyberpunk multiplayer and more will all be discussed in today’s Cyberpunk 2077 News episode!
Starting off today’s episode we have some Cyberpunk 2077 Funko Pops officially being announced at the London Toy Fair by Funko in collaboration with CD PROJEKT RED. The official image they showed includes two Male V figures, 1 which glows in the dark and both retracting the Nanowire cable from their arms, 2 of Johnny Silverhand, as well as one female V statue sporting the mantis blades.
Now there was also another image of a Cyberpunk 2077 Funko Pop which have yet to hear about. This character’s name is Takamura. I hadn’t heard about this guy from the lore so I asked the expert herself MadQueen if she had, and she didn’t so this is likely a new character for 2077 or that will be featured first in the tabletop Cyberpunk Red.
My first assumption about this character is he is most definitely from Arasaka, since Arasaka employees wear all black, as well as the obvious in his name sounding Japanese. He looks somewhat similar to the Arasaka employee being ran over in the CE statue, but the eye augmentations and facial hair do differ between the two.
Next we have a Rumor I wanted to mention coming from Borys Niespielak, who is apparently as renowed as Jason Schreier in Poland. I want to preamble this part of the video with the fact that these are currently rumors and should be taken with a huge grain of salt. These were posted via a user who translated the podcast from polish to English in the Triple S League Discord server. There’s one point in particular I wanted to address out of all of them from this as it aligns with recent delay statements.
The rumor in question is that the biggest of Cyberpunk 2077s technical problems are being caused by the first version of the Xbox One from 2013, and that if these problems weren’t solved by January, there would be a delay. Obviously, there was a delay, so the issue may be the original Xbox, although there is a parallel rumor from this podcast mentioning that Cyberpunk at GDC 2019 had no way of running properly on current gen overall.
There were other rumors via the translation, including Ciri being the main character for a CDPR game in the future that was supposed to be exclusive to Sony, which makes no sense to me judging by how close the studio is to Microsoft, and their presence at Microsoft conferences, that the main story is shorter than The Witcher 3’s but is satisfying on second or third runs, and that the main storyline is finished.
Next, we have an article from GamesRadar analyzing the Cyberpunk 2077 delay. In the article they mention that due to the scale, density and seamless world building CD PROJEKT RED is attempting to immerse the player in, the delay was an inevitable.
Quest Designer Patrick Mills, likens the quest development process to trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together, but the pieces of the puzzle keep changing shape as you place more of them in. He’s mentioned in the past it’s a lot of work and revision.
We all know the Witcher 3 went through a couple of delays, and Cyberpunk 2077 looks substantially more complex in not only it’s vertically expansive world but also its gameplay approach.
Next up we have Cyberpunk 2077 Multiplayer news. Now in the last video regarding the delay and a teleconference with investors by CDPR about the delay, I made mention of how CD PROJEKT RED clarified that the next triple A RPG game that they were making is actually Codenamed Cyberpunk online but will be a Cyberpunk multiplayer experience. I wanted to come back and address it because we had been speculating for a long time, that CD PROJEKT RED was doing 3 cyberpunk projects, and now we have confirmation of this. We have the standalone single player story driven RPG coming September 17th, we have the DLCs and Expansions that will be coming post launch, and now we have what will likely be a standalone Cyberpunk Online game. It’s still classified as a Triple A RPG, so that just goes to show that this will be an online mode with RPG elements in it, likely using assets from 2077. Now originally this was scheduled for 2021 like previously mentioned but with the delay of Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk Online will likely now have a release date of 2022 at the earliest.
Cyberpunk 2077 Family!
Channel: MadQueen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBY7QJO9x6k
Channel: Last Known Meal: https://www.youtube.com/user/LastKnownMeal
Channel: Triple S League: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMWKb-id2icjihQdTL0btuw
SOURCES –
Polish Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VunwbHa_HQ
GamesRadar Article – https://www.gamesradar.com/it-wasnt-a-question-of-if-cyberpunk-2077-would-be-delayed-but-rather-a-question-of-when/