CD Projekt has confirmed that a new Witcher game is in development, "kicking off a new saga for the franchise."
The new game will be built using Unreal Engine 5 rather than CD Projekt's REDengine, which the studio said will begin "a multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games."
"It covers not only licensing, but technical development of Unreal Engine 5, as well as potential future versions of Unreal Engine, where relevant," CD Projekt said. "We'll closely collaborate with Epic Games’ developers with the primary goal being to help tailor the engine for open-world experiences."
CD Projekt said that the change to the new engine was made to help streamline the development process. "From the outset, we did not consider a typical licensing arrangement; both we and Epic see this as a long-term, fulfilling tech partnership," CD Projekt Red CTO Paweł Zawodny said. "It is vital for CD Projekt Red to have the technical direction of our next game decided from the earliest possible phase as in the past, we spent a lot of resources and energy to evolve and adapt REDengine with every subsequent game release.
"This cooperation is so exciting, because it will elevate development predictability and efficiency, while simultaneously granting us access to cutting-edge game development tools. I can’t wait for the great games we’re going to create using Unreal Engine 5!"
The studio also confirmed that despite the shift to a new engine, the new Witcher game is not planned as an Epic Games Store exclusive.
https://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-4-announced/
Don't fuck this up please don't fuck this up
Not paying for shit. Pirating it. Company burned all goodwill I had for it.
Name an RPG duo people like to shit on more than Bethesda and CDProjektred these days.
I'll probably still buy the next Elder Scrolls though, I don't utterly hate Bethesda yet. CDPR however burned me real hard with Cyberpunk. So much squandered potential.
Only Rockstar seem to consistently deliver on actually improving their release iteratively. Next thing I really look forwards to in this whole open world story-driven sort of space is probably GTA but I'm super concerned that they'll be too scared to do the kind of political satire that their games have been known for so far.
Yeah I love Western RPGS and I even gave Fallout76 a chance. Id be willing to throw my hat in with the opinon that Fallout76 right now is a better game than Cybperpunk ever was.
Im wary of Bethesda, but im not as burned by them as CDProjektred right now.
Its funny a couple years ago CDprojekt was on the Golden Boy level that rockstar is.
Lying will do that.
I never really felt like Bethesda have lied to me, although I missed the 76 dramas. CDPR outright lied hundreds of times and then just launched their broken ass heartless game. It's such a beautiful canvas for a game and they squandered it.
people saw 76 being a shit show a mile out. It was less lying and more completely misunderstanding what people wanted. It's supposedly pretty decent these days though
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