CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 may have just suffered from a hefty delay, but the company is promising it’s absolutely going to be worth the wait. In a new interview with OnMSFT, John Mamais, CD Projekt’s Head of Studio has opened up with some new details on the game.
He told the publication more about the side quests in the game, comparing Cyberpunk’s world to that of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
“We don’t have any simulator stuff or gameplay,” he told the publication. “In Witcher 3, we did the open-world elements very late in the development process when we only had two or three people working on it or something. Now there’s, like, 15 people doing these open-world quests.
“There’s a couple of layers. There’s a passive layer, which is the vendors, then there’s the STSs, which are the street stories. I think there’s around 75 street stories. Then there’s minor activities as well.”
Explaining more about these STSs, Mamais added: “The street stories are like little quests. There’s story but there’s not, like, advanced cinematic storytelling sequences so much. They’re a way to explore the world and level-up your character.”
Mamais also talked a little about the design of the game, teasing that there’s a lot to come from the world.
“There is some stuff that hasn’t been talked about such as the way that it’s been lit,” he said. “Our director keeps talking about the real-time global illumination system which we haven’t really seen in its full beauty yet. No one in the public has seen how it’s finally going to look. It’s going to look more breathtaking than we’ve seen so far.”
Speaking of sound design, he said: “The acoustic system that one of our sound programmers came up with is going to sound really realistic because of the way they’re using the geometry. It creates this reverb effect so that changes as the space changes. If I were a rich gamer, I’d definitely go out and buy a Dolby Atmos system to listen to this game. It’s going to be very immersive, deep, and beautiful-sounding.”
Colour me excited!
Cyberpunk 2077 will now release in September.
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