CD Projekt RED lately introduced that it’s began working on the following new mainline The Witcher recreation, which would be the first in a brand new saga for the sequence, whereas additionally confirming that for the brand new undertaking and future titles, it’s additionally dropping its inner REDengine and adopting Unreal Engine 5 as a substitute. At the identical time, different particulars on its improvement are additionally coming via.
Recently on Twitter, CD Projekt RED’s Jason Slama – who labored on The Witcher 3 and Gwent: The Witcher Card Game – introduced that he’ll be serving as the sport director on The Witcher 4 (or no matter CDPR finally ends up calling it). In response to a tweet referring to the Polish firm’s troubling historical past with crunch and overworking its builders, Slama took a agency stance, stating that issues will likely be totally different with him as the sport director. “Never on my watch,” he wrote.
CD Projekt RED, as talked about, has an extended historical past with crunch. The developer crunched closely whereas creating The Witcher 3, after which it hoped to enhance its manufacturing and administration pipelines with a view to keep away from crunch for future tasks. In May 2019, the developer stated it was trying to enact new “non-obligatory” crunch insurance policies to work in direction of that.
Less than a 12 months later, nevertheless, with Cyberpunk 2077’s manufacturing ramping up, CD Projekt RED ended up mandating crunch (although extra time was, after all, paid as per Polish legal guidelines). Subsequent experiences would go on to shed mild on Cyberpunk 2077’s improvement points and the way they led to the measures taken by the studio.
As for the following The Witcher recreation, there’s no phrase but on when it’s going to launch, and there probably gained’t be for a while. It was lately confirmed, nevertheless, that regardless of CDPR’s new strategic settlement with Epic involving Unreal Engine, the sport gained’t be unique to the Epic Games Store (or some other single storefront) on PC.
I’m tremendous thrilled to announce that I’ve humbly been working to make sure the success of the following large AAA The Witcher recreation as its Game Director! Think you would be part of the staff? We have tons of roles open with the opportunity of distant work we might talk about! https://t.co/bBbxs0JMmq
— Jason Slama (@SlamaTwoFlags) March 21, 2022
Never on my watch!
— Jason Slama (@SlamaTwoFlags) March 21, 2022
