Cyberpunk 2077 director confirms 2.0 and Phantom Liberty are final major updates

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty has been a huge success so far, with the new content, combined with all of the gameplay changes found in Update 2.0, earning CD Projekt Red its redemption moment following the base game's rocky launch. However, as we heard previously, CD Projekt Red does not have plans to continue working on RED Engine games, something that the studio reaffirmed this week. 

Cyberpunk 2077 director, Gabe Amatangelo, told PCGamer this week that “2.0 and Phantom Liberty are the last big updates” for the game. There will still be some additional patches to fix up any remaining issues. However, the bulk of the work on Cyberpunk 2077 is now finished and it will be CD Projekt Red's last RED Engine project for the foreseeable future.

Moving forward, CD Projekt Red is switching over to Unreal Engine 5 for a new Cyberpunk game and a new set of Witcher titles. While Cyberpunk 2077 did eventually turn out to be as good as we'd all hoped, the game's development was plagued with issues, in part due to the use of in-house proprietary engine technology and having to develop tools alongside the game. By switching to Unreal Engine, CD Projekt Red can get direct support from Epic Games, and it greatly increases the odds of hiring developers familiar with the tools being used to make the game.

A second Cyberpunk game is being developed at a new CD Projekt Red studio based in the US, codenamed as Project Orion.

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KitGuru Says: While it is a shame that we won't be getting any more content in Night City for the next while, the game we do have at this point is every bit as good as I wanted it to be initially. 

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