Published , by Charles Singletary Jr
Published , by Charles Singletary Jr
It turns out the cryptic pre-stream on the official CD Projekt Red Twitch channel was leading up to the reveal of a 48-minute gameplay demo for Cyberpunk 2077 that has previously only been shown behind closed doors. The demo is from Gamescom 2018 and includes a few changes from the E3 2018 demo.
After the livestream, the CD Projekt Red team sent out this message from the game director for Cyberpunk 2077:
“What we’re releasing today was recorded from a game deep in development.” — says Adam Badowski, Cyberpunk 2077 Game Director and CD PROJEKT RED Head of Studio. “Since many of the assets and mechanics in the current version of Cyberpunk 2077 are most likely to be modified, we initially decided to show this gameplay only to media. Elements like gunplay (both in terms of visuals and how RPG stats influence it), netrunning, car physics, or the game’s UI — everything’s pretty much still in the playtest phase and we felt uneasy about publicly committing to any particular design. Animation glitches, work-in-progress character facial expressions, early versions of locations — all this made us hesitant to release what you’re about to see.”
“However, we are also well aware that many of you want to see what the media saw.” — adds Badowski. “Although this is probably not the same game you’ll see on your screen when we launch, we still decided to share this 48-minute video with you. This is how Cyberpunk 2077 looks today. Let us know what you think!”
We also learned today that Cyberpunk 2077's current development build is 100% playable from start to finish. There's still a lot of work to be done, but we can see the game was even pretty far along in the gameplay demo above.