Cyberpunk 2077 - Multiplayer is in the Works
 

CD Project Red recruits MP specialists for Cyberpunk 2077:

More information.

I don't get how multiplayer can work for this game, and for example for Dying Light 2, when you add decisions that can alter the game then multiplayer can ruin the experience too easily…..

I'd still prefer a witcher game similar to borderlands, you create a withcer and go take contracts with witcher pals….

Uh oh, not a good sign. Hopefully the single player experience will remain unaffected.

Well now that cyberpunk 2077 is officially an mmo i guess @joxer won't be able to play it per his mmo rule…..

I think a multiplayer mode, in this game, is completely unnecessary, plain and simple. Period.

Incoming lootboxes.

Can we not freak out about this? Please?

Too late :P

This news is just a cunning way to find out why @joxer is taking his longest break from the site for months isn't it.

Ughh, I don't like where this conversation is heading. Multiplayer seems to be the dearth of the single player experience, at least from my perspective.

By "his longest break from the site" you mean 12 hrs ??????

Lol, I shall rephrase.

His longest break from posting why XYZ game has content that is unacceptable and unforgivable :D

Yeah….

Folks. FOLKS. The game development is unaffected. The game is, in fact, probably 98.5% finished except for polishing, optimization, recording all the voice lines, etc. CDPR has been very explicit about single player being their #1 and only priority for launch, including in this very announcement when they said that they are focusing on launching the game in April, putting out free DLC for it, putting out additional (paid) single-player content for it, and THEN introducing some form of multiplayer.

Relax.

Btw, somebody on Reddit mentioned a Trauma Team multiplayer mode and that actually sounds pretty cool to me (despite me almost never playing multiplayer of any kind.) Naturally, the largest contingent is clamoring for co-op through the campaign, but I think that's very unlikely. But a more self-contained, Left for Dead like mode where you and a few peeps play a Trauma Team trying to get to clients while dealing with environmental threats (gangs, etc) and possibly competing Trauma Teams, now that's something I could see working.

On the other hand Bethesda went MP with ESO and we are waiting for a SP Elder Scrolls game for many years now.

I'll be probably like GTA V online. A separate multiplayer experience to get money from the players forever. I also believe that the base game will remain unaffected. This is not EA we're talking about.

Unless its a facebook phone game, I'm not buying!

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Could be fun. I also don't see it impacting the single-player at all. That's mostly finished at this point, and it sounds like the multiplayer is coming afterwards and from a separate team.

I don't have a problem with games having multiplayer. As long as it’s not a 5 hour single player campaign tacked on to an obviously multiplayer game which this obviously isn’t.

Besides this is CDPR. In a couple days they will release something saying Cyberpunk is a single player game first and foremost and everyone will rejoice and sing their praises again.

Normally, I hate MP, and it ruins SP games. But not always. I'm going with the GTA crowd here with my suspicions. I bet they're going the GTA route, which really didn't affect the SP in that game. Hopefully, they don't veer onto a path similar to Bethesda's.

This vid product is a gift. CDR Projekt can do no wrong.

If ever, as it is expected, this vid product is low on gameplay, watching the woke crowd defending their vid product on the simple ground it matches their ideology will be worthwhile.

Personally, I didn't even like the last Witcher game that much, though they created a nice world with some of the best dialogue I've heard in a video game.

You are tiresome.

LOL

I was under siege (family at small space) for weeks, the siege is over and now I'm grinding Ancestors.
No time for lousy news like this one. Who needs mmo?

I'm not gonna betatest till doomsday yet another mmo, probably named:
Cyberpunk 76.

The CDPR accountant begs to differ. :p

Article on PC Gamer: https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-20…er-eventually/

So they will provide all the free DLC and updates first, then do multi-player. Still, will there be less DLC because they want to work on multi-player? What about single player paid DLC?

This news just can't be good in my eyes. Best case is that it's only a little bit negative.

Joxer, just because a few of your elderly relatives didn't leave when they should have doesn't give you the right to chop them… oh! The GAME Ancestors! I gotta pay more attention to capitalization.

You read the article, but you didn't read the article. They say very explicitly that they will produce DLC AND "single player content" (your single player paid DLC) and "once we're done", produce multiplayer. They have never given any indication whatsoever that they would set aside planned single player content in favor of multiplayer functionality, and in fact have done the exact opposite countless times.

I think I'm the only one who find this good news lol - I wasn't going to play this but now that it's also going MP route, I might play it with hubby.

How to show dedication to SP products:

simple minded people could have thought it is achieved when releasing exclusively single player products.

It is not.

It is achieved when releasing MU products.

Usages:

They are many.

Job: show dedication to a job by taking up another.
Relationship: show dedication to a relationship by starting an affair
Life style: show dedication to a life style by adopting another


CDR Projekt is definitively a SP product dedicated studio.

But it does speak a bit to the type of game this may be. So, they're going more the GTA route. More of a shooter, as we already knew, really. But as others have kind of said, this path does sort of come with its own mindset. Personally, I don't need another GTA, if that's who they're squaring off with next.

The follow-up said:
The way I read that, they mean that the DLC will be free. There isn't any paid DLC.

What I'm worried about is that they've decided to multiplayer instead of paid DLC. Now maybe that's wrong. Maybe they are going to give us some Blood & Wine sized DLCs completely free. I rather doubt it, though. I think this time the paid DLC is being replaced by multiplayer.

Hmmm… it could also be that the base game is already as large as Witcher 3 + Heart of Stone + Blood & Wine. Maybe there's no paid DLC because the single player game is already crazy huge!

My guess is the free dlc will be like the 16 free dlcÂ’s they released for the Witcher 3 and the single player content will be like blood and wine which they will call expansions to make it appear that they don't charge for dlc.

No.
Sure, as CDR Projekt failed to developp their own PR model, they are trying to hijack Rockstar's.

But Rockstar never hid their MU features, they publicized them and they hyped them.

CDR Projekt rode the wave of the mass hysteria big, bad corps are killing SP, big, bad corps want SP dead. CDR Projekt were pictured as the last stronghold, the last hope.

Then the news about CP 2077 and its MU features was leaked to test waters.
And the planning of releases was scheduled to give an exit to all players who were chanting death to big, bad corps, they want SP dead, long live CDR Projekt, the last saviour of mankind.

Nothing to do with Rockstar's behaviour.

The conclusion is foregone once again: The unshaking players support to SP is going to morph into they do not mind MU as long as it is done the CDR Projekt way.

Big, bad corps should learn from CDR projekt the right way to support SP gaming.

Eh? Why wouldn't they call them expansions if that's what they are? If they release something that's comparable to Blood and Wine content-wise, I'd certainly call that an expansion.

That's just semantics. Whatever they call them, they make a distinction between the free and the "single player content" which comes after. Given the history of how they supported The Witcher 3, it's not a reach to expect that they mean something similar.

My point was the difference between them is obvious. You can't reasonably expect DLC over a certain size to be free.

Plus if this were any other AAA developer, they'd be nickel & diming us for each and every one of those smaller DLCs.