Cyberpunk 2077 by no means acquired a New Game Plus mode like CD Projekt’s predecessor The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as a result of it will “break the approach the recreation is constructed.”
Talking to DualShockers, Cyberpunk 2077 quest director and its sequel’s affiliate recreation director Paweł Sasko gave a considerably imprecise rationalization for why the now beloved role-playing recreation did not obtain New Game Plus in its greater than three years of updates.
“For us, it’s actually essential that when you’ve parts in a recreation, all of them work collectively and so they all work effectively and so they all make sense,” Sasko stated. “The factor is, Cyberpunk could be very particular in relation to its development.
“It’s extremely troublesome to determine a approach the place New Game Plus might be achieved in a approach that doesn’t utterly break the approach the recreation is constructed.”
Sasko referenced Bethesda’s newest RPG Starfield and its New Game Plus system, which really ties into the general story and has a logical rationalization for the way and why the complete world is resetting, and appeared to recommend this was the solely choice for incorporating the New Game Plus mechanic.
He did not handle why Cyberpunk 2077 could not have a extra conventional technique of New Game Plus, nonetheless, that merely sees the participant restart the story whereas retaining talents or expertise. That is how The Witcher 3’s model of the system labored, because it had no story connection or rationalization for the reset in anyway and simply allowed gamers to expertise the recreation once more with just a few extras.
Sasko even admitted Cyberpunk 2077 was designed to be replayed, which might recommend this model of New Game Plus would work effectively.
“It’s to be replayed. It’s to strive totally different life paths, strive totally different romances, strive totally different builds,” he stated. “There’s so many issues that you would be able to at the least, twice or thrice, have a really assorted expertise in 2077. So that is one other reply, the recreation was constructed to be replayed that approach.”
Followers nonetheless holding out hope for a New Game Plus mode should not maintain their breath, as CD Projekt introduced there isn’t a longer a devoted Cyberpunk 2077 staff working at the studio as staff as a substitute turned their consideration to its sequel and, predominantly, the subsequent Witcher recreation.
That is to not say it will not obtain any assist in the future, nonetheless, as CD Projekt confirmed to IGN that Cyberpunk 2077 will nonetheless get the lengthy promised FidelityFX Tremendous Decision 3 (FSR3) assist in some unspecified time in the future.
Improvement was wound down after the launch of its first and solely enlargement, Phantom Liberty, in September 2023. It got here after the game-changing Replace 2.0, which utterly revamped Cyberpunk 2077 with options resembling a brand new perk system and improved AI, and was adopted by one other huge replace in 2.1 however solely minor adjustments afterwards.
In our 9/10 evaluate, IGN stated: “Cyberpunk 2077 throws you into an attractive, dense cityscape and gives a staggering quantity of flexibility in the way you select to take it from there.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.