CD Projekt RED Switches to Unreal Engine 5: The Future of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher

The recent release presents the first and at the same time the last expansion to Cyberpunk 2077 called Phantom Liberty official end of using the proprietary REDengine CD Projekt RED studio.

As we learned over a year and a half ago when the new Witcher was announced, will start using Unreal Engine 5.

This move between two engines, especially from one that the studio has been with for a considerable time, represents a major step. With him, however, many players were worried that he would be out for some time because of it will slow development upcoming studio projects. We currently know that they are primarily working on another Witcher, a remake of the first one, a new brand i Sequel to Cyberpunk.

The game director of Cyberpunk 2077, Gabe Amatangelo, denied the concerns in an interview with PCGamer.

Source: CD Projekt REDCD Projekt RED focuses on the new Witcher

He let it be known that switching to Unreal Engine 5 does not mean “starting from the beginning.” He rightly stated that a lot of the technology they created for their engine they can also apply in the new one.

„There are often many methodologies used to create these things like Ray Reconstruction that you can use in other engines as well. Knowledge and architecture settings.“

Knowing the ambitions of the creative people on the team, the studio’s engineers are said to have come up with the idea of ​​switching to Unreal Engine 5. With all the new technology and innovation, it seems like a logical step. Apparently, the team also touts the possibility of using new knowledge from work on Cyberpunk 2077 and immediately start working on the next project without having to rework their engine first.

Instead, they can focus on improving Unreal Engine 5 itself.

„There are also a few things that REDengine does better than Unreal that we’re working with Epic to bring over here,” said Gabe Amatangelo.

Moving to another engine also makes sense from a future point of view, when hiring people will be much easier and there will no longer be a training process, because many more people will be able to work with Unreal Engine 5.

Source: CD Projekt REDCD Projekt will lay off workers, the creators of The Witcher and Cyberpunk have an excess of employees

In other words, it looks like the development process at CD Projekt RED is fine. And that despite the recent layoffs.

2023-10-03 17:02:28
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