Cyberpunk 2077
Blocktober 1 - Bartłomiej PyrkoOct 3, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsThis month we’re participating in Blocktober to highlight the work of our talented Level Designers! First up is Bartłomiej Pyrko, sharing a behind-the-scenes look at the level design for the gig “The Man Who Killed Jason Foreman”. First, I wanted to determine the dimensions and general flow of the area with an early, very basic, and raw version of the blockout. The entire boss fight was designed with a minimum of three exits from each room, encouraging continuous movement in a circular pattern — and with plenty of cover spots for the player. This design was made to give the player freedom of movement throughout the whole battle. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted a pretty tough boss here. The entire hotel was designed to be unsettling, with a touch of horror mixed in, and for the final fight, I wanted to create a true hell on earth: a dense atmosphere with flickering, burning red lights, home to a deadly and quick boss. During development, it was crucial for me to go through multiple iterations with an Environment Artist, Lighting Artist, and Sound Designers to ensure we achieved an uneasy and even disturbing atmosphere. The tension builds into a tense and dreadful nightmare for the boss fight — followed by relief once players discover Leon Rinder’s condition afterwards. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35210272/9fea96083d16122ebb37971d42658c25e15e8b3e.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35210272/c3ea1196f5401e9d9aeca525a54de0554ce6b7dd.png Bartłomiej Pyrko: https://x.com/BartPyrko https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyrko https://www.instagram.com/bartekpyrko https://www.threads.net/@bartekpyrko?xmtCyberpunk 2077 engine lead says some of its legendary launch bugs happened because the alternative was even worse: 'Either you show a T-pose, or you hard crash… we prefer not to hard crash'Oct 1, 2024 - PC Gamers someone who played Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time only after it got its big 2.0 overhaul, I feel confident saying that it's one of my favourite RPGs of the last decade. A veritable banger that I almost immediately picked up again—this time to 100% the game with a Netrunner build—as soon as I finished it the first time... Read more.Still feeling burned by Cyberpunk 2077's release? CD Projekt knows that trust might be "lost forever", but hopes you'll try The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077's sequelOct 1, 2024 - VG247Cyberpunk 2077's developers still have hope that they can restore the faith of anyone still struggling to trust CD Projekt again following Cyberpunk 2077's notoriously rocky release all those years ago - with The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk's sequel and project Hadar set to take over this mission from Phantom Liberty. Read more Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 24 Sep — 1 October 2024Oct 1, 2024 - SteamDB * EA SPORTS FC™ 25; * Steam Deck; * Monster Hunter Wilds; * Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2; * Crusader Kings III; * Black Myth: Wukong; * DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO; * Cyberpunk 2077; * The Forever Winter; * Tiny Glade; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDBCyberpunk 2077's devs "briefly workshopped" a quest that saw you "essentially able to do millions of things at once" as a constructSep 27, 2024 - VG247Cyberpunk 2077's developers once brainstormed ideas for a quest in which the player "became a construct, essentially able to do millions of things at once" via some Superhot-style time mechanics, similar to those a modder has just managed to add to the game. Read more Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 17 Sep — 24 September 2024Sep 24, 2024 - SteamDB * EA SPORTS FC™ 25; * Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2; * Steam Deck; * Frostpunk 2; * God of War Ragnarök; * FINAL FANTASY XVI; * Black Myth: Wukong; * Cyberpunk 2077; * ELDEN RING; * Call of Duty®; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDBNetflix announces a new Cyberpunk animated series during Geeked Week—though I've got a feeling if it was Studio Trigger making it again, we'd know by nowSep 20, 2024 - PC GamerIt's official—Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a second animated series... Read more.Good news, Cyberpunk Edgerunners fans, Netflix and CD Projekt are bringing us a new animated project set in Night CitySep 20, 2024 - VG247Following the runaway success of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Netflix and CD Projekt have now teased as part of Nextflix's Geeked week that another Cyberpunk 2077 animated project is on the way. Read more Cyberpunk 2077 finally has official support for AMD's FSR 3Sep 12, 2024 - PC GamerIt's been quite a wait, but support for AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation—FSR 3, as it's more conveniently known—has finally arrived in Cyberpunk 2077... Read more.Patch 2.13Sep 12, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsPatch 2.13 for Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty is live. This update includes support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation. Keep in mind that despite the version mismatch between PC and console, Cross Progression will still function properly. Check out the list of changes below for details: Added support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation. More information can be found in this article on the Support website. Added support for Intel Xe Super Sampling 1.3. It will now be possible to enable both DLAA and DLSS Ray Reconstruction at the same time. Added a new "Utilities" tab in Settings and moved HDD Mode, Hybrid CPU Utilization and AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) options there. Other stability and visual fixes. It’s All About You! — Edgerunners Special: Wish We Could Go To The Moon TogetherSep 11, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsOn September 13th, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners turns 2 years old To kick off the celebrations earlier, we've asked you to capture the bittersweet love story of David and Lucy, our star-crossed lovers, for our "It's All About You" episode. Welcome to the Moon: Thank you for staying with us and expressing your love for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners in the most creative ways possible. Don't forget to check out our gallery to see more works, and, of course, share your creations with us: http://cdpred.ly/AAY. See you in the next episode!A new Cyberpunk 2077 board game crowdfunding campaign hit its goal in 10 minutes and is now well past a million dollarsSep 4, 2024 - PC GamerThis is either a symbol of Cyberpunk 2077's wildly reversed reputation or perhaps the board game audience's endless hunger for throwing money at games with lots of components and a bunch of little plastic guys. A fundraiser for Cyberpunk 2077 – The Board Game by Go On Board hit its target of $100,000 in just 10 minutes and four seconds. It's now past the $1.9 million mark and continuing to rise... Read more.Ви, Джеки, Джуди и Панам: CD Projekt RED представила настольную игру Cyberpunk 2077Sep 3, 2024 - Gamemag.ruCD Projekt RED выпустила трейлер настольной игры Cyberpunk 2077 и открыла сбор средств на платформе Gamefound. Компания планировала собрать на проект около 100 тысяч долларов в течение нескольких дней, однако цель была достигнута буквально за десять минут. Cyberpunk 2077 board game casually strolls its cybernetic robo-legs past crowdfunding campaign goal in about ten minutes, is now over 1000% eddied upSep 3, 2024 - VG247Cyberpunk 2077 fans, it would seem, love a good board game. They love em so much, in fact, that a new official one from CD Projekt and Go On Board - inventively dubbed Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game - has not only surpassed the $100,000 crowdfunding goal its campaign launched with today, it's raised over 10x that much cash. As a number of CD Projekt devs have pointed out, it took only 10 minutes and 4 seconds for the board game to raise that $100k, which is pretty damn impressive, and, as of writing, the total now sits at a cool $1,017,379. That's over 1,000% of the funding goal - a concept which is breaking my brain a bit - from just over 6,300 backers. So what are those backers so keen to lob their eddies at? Read more CD Projekt CEO confirms the developer is 'definitely planning to do more in terms of animation' after the success of Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersSep 3, 2024 - PC GamerCD Projekt Red (CDPR) co-CEO Michal Nowakowski confirmed during a recent earnings call that the team will be looking at further animation projects within the world of Cyberpunk, mostly thanks to the overwhelming success of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners... Read more.Wahey, The Witcher 4 has had "substantial progress" made on it, with CD Projekt "gearing up" to put the game into full productionAug 29, 2024 - VG247CD Projekt has revealed that the game codenamed project Polaris - that "first instalment in the new Witcher saga" that we've all been referring to as The Witcher 4 just to make thing a bit less confusing until a proper name is slapped on it - is just about ready to enter full production. According to joint CEO Michał Nowakowski in a press release detailing the studio's latest earnings figures and progress on its current projects, preproduction on Polaris is on track to wrap up soon, with the developers "nearing a major milestone" that'll mark this point. So, as of right now, CD Projekt is "gearing up" to launch into that next phase. In an earnings video that adds the this smorgasbord of witchery info, CD Projekt CFO Piotr Nielubowicz added that in the first half of 2024, the Polaris development team has "made substantial progress", which will allow that step into full production to be taken "soon". Read more Продолжение Cyberpunk 2077 могут позиционировать как экшен-RPGAug 27, 2024 - Gamemag.ruCD Projekt RED недавно разместила новые вакансии, которые могут указывать на то, что Cyberpunk 2 будет позиционироваться как экшен-RPG — специалистов с опытом работы над такими играми студия сейчас ищет. Black Myth: Wukong is currently Steam's most played game as it continues to break recordsAug 20, 2024 - VG247As I write this, Black Myth: Wukong, the action adventure from China’s Game Science studio, is the most played game on Steam by player count. There are currently 1,400,932 players in-game (with a peak of 1,443,570), surpassing the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG and all the usual games that occupy Steam’s top five. Wukong’s launch was already predicted to be strong, with the game being Steam’s number one seller for several weeks, but the concurrent player figures are quite staggering for a single-player, offline game. Read more Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 13 Aug — 20 August 2024Aug 20, 2024 - SteamDB * Black Myth: Wukong; * Steam Deck; * Sins of a Solar Empire II; * Cyberpunk 2077; * Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2; * Cult of the Lamb; * shapez 2; * Crime Scene Cleaner; * ELDEN RING; * Persona 5 Royal; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDBStruggling to see everything Cyberpunk 2077 has to offer? A new mod will help you check out all the game's best hidden gemsAug 18, 2024 - VG247Cyberpunk 2077 is a big game with lots to discover, but not all of it is easy to see or find - luckily, a new mod should help you see even the smallest of moments. While it's been almost four years since Cyberpunk 2077 came out, there are still plenty of easter eggs fans are finding even now, with some still yet to be discovered. Of course, even though there are some that still need to be found, it can be difficult to see all of the ones that players are already aware of, as well as some of the game's more unique events. After all, Night City isn't exactly small, and if you don't know where something is, how are you meant to find it? Well, if you're someone that wants to see as much of what there is to see in Night City as possible, you might want to check out the new and quite popular Hidden Gems Map mod. The mod in question, made by Mad Cat MKII, is a simple one: on your map, you'll now find icons that cover all kinds of "hidden gems, easter eggs, unique loot and curious events" that can be found across the game (thanks, PCGamesN). As noted in the description, it's "especially useful to veteran players who wish to find hidden gems they just can't remember" the locations of. Essentially, maybe don't download this one if you like to discover things on your own without any help, but if you're that dedicated a completionist, this might whittle down a few hours of Google searches and driving around Night City. Read more The Witcher 3 Now Has a Higher Daily Concurrent Player Peak Than Cyberpunk 2077 on SteamFeb 18, 2021 - GitHypCD Projekt Red's launch of Cyberpunk 2077 made history when it became the first singleplayer game to break 1 million concurrent players on Steam back in December.
But after a record-breaking start, performance issues and bugs quickly halted Cyberpunk's hype train, resulting in the game losing 79% of its players in the first month.
Now, two months after its release, Cyberpunk 2077 is seeing its player counts dip below CDPR's six-year-old RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
After falling from its #1 spot on Steam, this week Cyberpunk 2077 peaked at #29 with The Witcher 3 jumping ahead to #27… and despite maintaining Mostly Positive reviews, CDPR's new IP keeps losing players -- now down 96% since launch.
In the past 48-hours, Cyberpunk 2077 peaked with just 27k concurrent players on Steam -- 20% less than The Witcher 3's peak of 34k players over the same time frame.
Even last week's Lunar New Year sale on Steam (which cut $10 off Cyberpunk's $60 price) didn't have a positive impact on the game's declining player base who seem to have run out of things to do in Night City or are waiting for major bug fixes, new content, or multiplayer.Cyberpunk 2077's Player Base Has Declined 3x Faster Than The Witcher 3’s Launch on SteamJan 4, 2021 - GitHypSince the divisive launch of Cyberpunk 2077 last month, CD Projekt Red's new futuristic RPG was pulled from the PlayStation Store with both Microsoft and Sony offering full refunds – something we've never seen happen to a triple-A game.
However, without the same performance issues that ruined its launch on consoles, Cyberpunk 2077 has done much better on PC, debuting at #1 on Steam with over 1 million players and maintaining Mostly Positive feedback from over 300k player reviews.
Unfortunately, Cyberpunk 2077 hasn't been able to maintain its player base on Steam. And when comparing the new IP to CDPR's previous biggest game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the dev/publisher could be in even more trouble.
When Cyberpunk 2077 launched a little over 3 weeks ago, it became the first singleplayer game ever to break 1 million concurrent players on Steam. But over this past weekend, Cyberpunk continued its decline, struggling to peak at 225k players.
While that 79% drop in players is worrying, most singleplayer games typically lose around the same amount of players, if not even more, after their first month on Steam. Open-world games like Cyberpunk are usually the exception, and compared to The Witcher 3, CDPR's new digital playground certainly isn't doing as well at keeping players interested in coming back for more.
Although CDPR's previous hit only peaked with 92k players during its launch back in May 2015, The Witcher 3 was still able to retain over half its player base with a peak of 55k players online a month later. It took 3 whole months before Witcher 3 lost more than 79% of its players on Steam.
At the start of 2020, hype for Cyberpunk and a sale helped Witcher 3 break its own all-time peak record with 103k concurrent players on Steam. One month later, it again only lost 40% of its players. One year later, and it still hasn't lost more than 74% of its player base since peaking in January.
Even more recently, The Witcher 3's player base has started to increase again due to another sale and players likely returning to say, "¡Hola!" to Geralt of Rivia after their buggy trip to Night City.
CDPR has a proven track record of fixing their games on PC post-launch, and one of the biggest reasons Cyberpunk 2077 still maintains a positive average score on Steam is because in many ways the retail version of the game already looks better than the game's reveal back in 2018.
Cyberpunk 2077's player counts are sure to spike again as more bugs are fixed and when the game goes on sale -- we've already seen it happen numerous times in the past with Witcher games. But with the developer now having to focus on trying to fix the last-gen console versions, we're probably going to have to wait even longer for new content and multiplayer to help revive the player base.Cyberpunk 2077 Becomes Steam’s Biggest Singleplayer Launch Ever with Over 1 Million Concurrent PlayersDec 10, 2020 - GitHypWe knew CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 was going to be big based on early viewer counts, but with over 1 million players on its first day, the futuristic RPG crushed almost every record on Steam and has lived up to the hype.
For the past 5 years, Steam’s biggest singleplayer launch record was held by Bethesda’s Fallout 4 with a peak of 472k players. Earlier this year, Terraria just barely topped Fallout with 485k players.
Easily doubling the previous record held by singleplayer games, Cyberpunk 2077’s peak of 1 million players put it at #1 on Steam today, even topping Steam’s three biggest multiplayer games Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
Cyberpunk 2077 also peaked with over 1 million concurrent viewers on Twitch and had 10x more players than CDPR's previous biggest game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which peaked with 100k players during a Steam sale earlier this year.Almost Half a Million Viewers Tuned in to CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Reveal Live on TwitchAug 28, 2018 - GitHypWith CD Projekt Red only showing gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 to the media behind-closed-doors at E3 and Gamescom this year, gamers have been dying to get a first look at what's next from the developer of The Witcher and Gwent.
Thankfully, CDPR hosted a mysterious stream on Twitch earlier today entitled “DATA TRANSMISSION IN PROGRESS_” and after 9 hours of cryptic code running on the screen, the devs finally revealed what everyone has been wanting years to see: 48-minutes of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay.
CDPR’s official stream on Twitch saw a peak of 288k viewers -- while there were a total of 459k concurrent viewers watching when factoring in restreams -- making Cyberpunk 2077 the most watched game on Twitch yesterday.
And so far, just under 100k viewers have watched the VOD on CDPR’s official Twitch channel and another 2.6 million views have been racked up on the official YouTube video.
But Cyberpunk’s reveal wasn’t just the most watched game on Twitch yesterday topping Fortnite’s peak of 305k viewers… it was also the most watched stream for a newly released or upcoming game this year, doubling the peaks of new games such as God of War (283k), Sea of Thieves (259k), and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s (204k) first look.
Still with no release date for Cyberpunk 2077; now, we’ll just have to wait and see if Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 can top CDPR’s stream when it releases in just two more months on October 28, 2018.
Considering Cyberpunk 2077 is looking at a 2019 release and that many of Twitch's top streamers will likely all be playing the new open world game from Rockstar on Day 1, RDR2 has a better shot than any other game of topping CDPR's stream as the most watched on Twitch by the end of this year.
After falling from its #1 spot on Steam, this week Cyberpunk 2077 peaked at #29 with The Witcher 3 jumping ahead to #27… and despite maintaining Mostly Positive reviews, CDPR's new IP keeps losing players -- now down 96% since launch.
In the past 48-hours, Cyberpunk 2077 peaked with just 27k concurrent players on Steam -- 20% less than The Witcher 3's peak of 34k players over the same time frame.
Even last week's Lunar New Year sale on Steam (which cut $10 off Cyberpunk's $60 price) didn't have a positive impact on the game's declining player base who seem to have run out of things to do in Night City or are waiting for major bug fixes, new content, or multiplayer.Cyberpunk 2077's Player Base Has Declined 3x Faster Than The Witcher 3’s Launch on SteamJan 4, 2021 - GitHypSince the divisive launch of Cyberpunk 2077 last month, CD Projekt Red's new futuristic RPG was pulled from the PlayStation Store with both Microsoft and Sony offering full refunds – something we've never seen happen to a triple-A game.
However, without the same performance issues that ruined its launch on consoles, Cyberpunk 2077 has done much better on PC, debuting at #1 on Steam with over 1 million players and maintaining Mostly Positive feedback from over 300k player reviews.
Unfortunately, Cyberpunk 2077 hasn't been able to maintain its player base on Steam. And when comparing the new IP to CDPR's previous biggest game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the dev/publisher could be in even more trouble.
When Cyberpunk 2077 launched a little over 3 weeks ago, it became the first singleplayer game ever to break 1 million concurrent players on Steam. But over this past weekend, Cyberpunk continued its decline, struggling to peak at 225k players.
While that 79% drop in players is worrying, most singleplayer games typically lose around the same amount of players, if not even more, after their first month on Steam. Open-world games like Cyberpunk are usually the exception, and compared to The Witcher 3, CDPR's new digital playground certainly isn't doing as well at keeping players interested in coming back for more.
Although CDPR's previous hit only peaked with 92k players during its launch back in May 2015, The Witcher 3 was still able to retain over half its player base with a peak of 55k players online a month later. It took 3 whole months before Witcher 3 lost more than 79% of its players on Steam.
At the start of 2020, hype for Cyberpunk and a sale helped Witcher 3 break its own all-time peak record with 103k concurrent players on Steam. One month later, it again only lost 40% of its players. One year later, and it still hasn't lost more than 74% of its player base since peaking in January.
Even more recently, The Witcher 3's player base has started to increase again due to another sale and players likely returning to say, "¡Hola!" to Geralt of Rivia after their buggy trip to Night City.
CDPR has a proven track record of fixing their games on PC post-launch, and one of the biggest reasons Cyberpunk 2077 still maintains a positive average score on Steam is because in many ways the retail version of the game already looks better than the game's reveal back in 2018.
Cyberpunk 2077's player counts are sure to spike again as more bugs are fixed and when the game goes on sale -- we've already seen it happen numerous times in the past with Witcher games. But with the developer now having to focus on trying to fix the last-gen console versions, we're probably going to have to wait even longer for new content and multiplayer to help revive the player base.Cyberpunk 2077 Becomes Steam’s Biggest Singleplayer Launch Ever with Over 1 Million Concurrent PlayersDec 10, 2020 - GitHypWe knew CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 was going to be big based on early viewer counts, but with over 1 million players on its first day, the futuristic RPG crushed almost every record on Steam and has lived up to the hype.
For the past 5 years, Steam’s biggest singleplayer launch record was held by Bethesda’s Fallout 4 with a peak of 472k players. Earlier this year, Terraria just barely topped Fallout with 485k players.
Easily doubling the previous record held by singleplayer games, Cyberpunk 2077’s peak of 1 million players put it at #1 on Steam today, even topping Steam’s three biggest multiplayer games Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
Cyberpunk 2077 also peaked with over 1 million concurrent viewers on Twitch and had 10x more players than CDPR's previous biggest game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which peaked with 100k players during a Steam sale earlier this year.Almost Half a Million Viewers Tuned in to CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Reveal Live on TwitchAug 28, 2018 - GitHypWith CD Projekt Red only showing gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 to the media behind-closed-doors at E3 and Gamescom this year, gamers have been dying to get a first look at what's next from the developer of The Witcher and Gwent.
Thankfully, CDPR hosted a mysterious stream on Twitch earlier today entitled “DATA TRANSMISSION IN PROGRESS_” and after 9 hours of cryptic code running on the screen, the devs finally revealed what everyone has been wanting years to see: 48-minutes of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay.
CDPR’s official stream on Twitch saw a peak of 288k viewers -- while there were a total of 459k concurrent viewers watching when factoring in restreams -- making Cyberpunk 2077 the most watched game on Twitch yesterday.
And so far, just under 100k viewers have watched the VOD on CDPR’s official Twitch channel and another 2.6 million views have been racked up on the official YouTube video.
But Cyberpunk’s reveal wasn’t just the most watched game on Twitch yesterday topping Fortnite’s peak of 305k viewers… it was also the most watched stream for a newly released or upcoming game this year, doubling the peaks of new games such as God of War (283k), Sea of Thieves (259k), and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s (204k) first look.
Still with no release date for Cyberpunk 2077; now, we’ll just have to wait and see if Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 can top CDPR’s stream when it releases in just two more months on October 28, 2018.
Considering Cyberpunk 2077 is looking at a 2019 release and that many of Twitch's top streamers will likely all be playing the new open world game from Rockstar on Day 1, RDR2 has a better shot than any other game of topping CDPR's stream as the most watched on Twitch by the end of this year.
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