Cyber ​​ElBuggado 2020 – leaked video testers of Cyberpunk 2077

We are in February they wrote about the hacker attack on the game studio CD Projekt, in which not only the source codes of their games were stolen, but also all sorts of other data, such as work emails and more. The stolen data was subsequently allegedly sold to an unknown buyer on the black market on the condition that it could not be spread anywhere else. But that didn’t seem to last. Over the weekend, we saw an alleged internal video of the developers from before the release of the game, which offers a collage of broken passages, edited in a rather humorous way. The video was allegedly called the “Cyber ​​ElBuggado 2020” by the creators themselves:

Of course, it is not possible to reliably verify the authenticity of this material, however, given the presence of footage from developer editors in the video, it is highly likely that the information about the video (disseminated over the weekend on game discussion forums and social networks) is true. After watching the video, journalist Jason Schreier recalled his article, according to which the developers knew very well that the game was not ready for release in 2020. This would be indicated by a shot in the video at 09:50, where the title “Cyberpunk 2077 (C) 2012 – 2022” flashes:

Similar internal montages arise during the development of all video games, I myself participated in the development of several large and small, where we hid similar shots from the development and saved for later looking back on the development. It is a fascinating look at the complex birth and evolution of video games, demonstrating the complexity and interconnectedness of its systems. In addition, it usually looks quite funny in retrospect, for example as a similar video of the Project CD from 2017, where they looked back at the development of The Sorcerer 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Ko_Vz6YTc

Unfortunately, such a video looks completely different, if many of those broken things remain in the finished game. In fact, it could now aggravate the Project CD in an impending lawsuit that the company cheated on its customers (as the video proves that the company was aware of the bad state of the game). Some footage comes from the early years of development, but others suggest that the video was created a few months before the game was released.

Some shots come from the early years of development.

After all, a huge difference is also noticeable between the console version pressed on the disk without a patch and after patching. The first of many shots from the video above is reminiscent of. The authenticity of the video was apparently somewhat unintentionally confirmed by one of the game’s producers, when he wrote in his (now deleted) tweet that these were footage “collected by the testing department during the years of development”:

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— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 6, 2021

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