Cyberpunk 2077's sequel is now Cyberpunk 2, and is therefore about burial mounds, bows and pottery

Project present successful pre-production

Cyberpunk 2077's sequel has shed its Project Orion codename and volition present beryllium known as... Cyberpunk 2. CD Projekt revealed the sanction alteration successful their latest net results, according to which the caller Cyberpunk RPG has conscionable entered pre-production - astir defined, the constituent successful a game's gestation erstwhile designers, artists, programmers and truthful distant conscionable to soma retired the concept, but earlier they've really started making thing that's expected to signifier portion of the finished game. There are present 96 radical moving connected the thing, versus 422 for The Witcher 4, 49 connected multiplayer Witcher spin-off Project Sirius, and 19 for an unannounced archetypal game, Project Hadar.

The grousing, dilettante scholar volition entity that this is scant worldly for a quality post, particularly fixed that CD Projekt are offering nary guarantees that "Cyberpunk 2" volition beryllium the project's last sanction - arsenic they commented to the Verge, Cyberpunk 2 "just means it's different crippled successful the Cyberpunk universe." But the dextrous maven of online news-mongering volition announcement that "Cyberpunk 2" is, successful fact, an highly compact and subtle portion of worldbuilding.

After all, Cyberpunk 2077 is acceptable successful the twelvemonth 2077 CE. By logical extrapolation, Cyberpunk 2 is acceptable successful the twelvemonth 2. Combine that with a hint from Cyberpunk tabletop creator Mike Pondsmith that nu-Cyberpunk volition instrumentality spot successful Chicago, and we tin marque deductions astir Cyberpunk 2's mounting by copy-pasting bits of this randomly googled Living History Of Illinois, with its trust-inspiring emblem of a sickly and loquacious bald eagle attempting to disentangle itself from a discarded shield.

Here is what the nauseous avian scholars of the Living History of Illinois deliberation occurred successful the years 500 BC to 900 AD: maize agriculture, village-building, burial mounds, pottery, and the invention of the bow and arrow. That's beauteous overmuch a video game, close there. But is it a Cyberpunk game? I person present completed a forensic control+F hunt connected that PDF respective 100 times, and tin disclose zero notation of "ripperdocs", "braindancing", oregon "taxi missions that are secretly amended than the main storyline". If the indigenous peoples who lived connected the banks of what would aboriginal beryllium called the Mississippi River had entree to aerodynes and quickhacking, they kept it connected the down-low. Possibly alternatively of aerodynes they had barfing bald eagles.

CD Projekt person yet to explicitly corroborate thing astir the caller Cyberpunk's setting, beyond saying that they privation to research problems similar homelessness and the wealthiness gap. I'd email them a nexus to this report, asking for a statement, but I emotion CD Projekt similar my precise ain children, and bash not privation to encumber them with immoderate abject nonsense. You, connected the different hand, are invited to permission a comment.