By 2027, the company plans to have more than 450 developers working on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel across its various studios.
CD Projekt RED has revealed in a new H1 report that the development team for The Witcher 4 has grown from 422 to 444 as of July.
CD Projekt RED PR manager Ola Sondej said that the studio was merely using Cyberpunk 2 as a way to talk about a new game in the series.
Codenamed Project Orion, the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, was revealed to have been in the early development stage last year.
CDPRED previously said it hadn't decided whether the sequel would follow in its predecessor's footsteps with a first-person camera.
The upcoming sequel's associate game director Paweł Sasko feels the first game " didn't push the envelope far enough in some places."
The sequel, which is currently in the conceptual design stage, will have around 80 people working on it by the end of the year.
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"I think these kinds of stories can take place anywhere that uber-capitalism develops, causing the collapse of societies," says CD Projekt RED's Magda Zych.
But quest director Paweł Sasko feels that "the first-person perspective is the main characteristic for Cyberpunk."
Cyberpunk 2077's launch and post-launch have been learning experiences for the developer- but what should be CDPR's biggest takeaways?
Update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty are the action RPG's last big updates, game director Gabe Amatangelo has reiterated.
