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Cyberpunk 2 director says "mature games" used to mainly be about killing and sex, but The Witcher 3 was part of a "broader process" to change that as devs grew older

"In that era between The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3, mature games were mostly associated with two things."

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I just experienced super-smooth Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra settings on a Mac, but the developers say there’s more to ‘squeeze out’ of Apple Silicon

How CD Projekt RED turned a MacBook Pro into a gaming laptop for Cyberpunk 2077

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CDPR can't help itself, channels Terraria with yet another Cyberpunk 2077 update coming this month: "We have been cooking for you in secret for a bit"

Cyberpunk 2 associate game director Pawel Sasko is "taking care of the update personally"

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Cyberpunk 2 associate game director reveals his greatest development secret: 10 hour loops of music like "Epic Sax Guy" that "gives me insane focus and clarity"

Some people like lofi, others prefer 15 year old memes

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Before he was Cyberpunk 2's associate director and was just "employee #86," CDPR dev says it took him 46 tries to beat an infamous boss in The Witcher 2: "I was losing my mind"

Draug is no slouch, even for the developer whose job it was to beat him

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Cyberpunk 2 director is "quite sure" people haven't found all of the secrets in The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077

There might still be Easter Eggs hiding in Night City

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CDPR vet reflects on a classic RPG problem: The stats-over-fashion "clown meta" in Cyberpunk 2077, which lots of players hated but almost nobody knew how to fix

It had to exist

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Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 developers made "elaborate" secrets because they knew players would use guides and "share with the community"

Secrets that might have been impossible to find before the internet

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CD Projekt's Pawel Sasko tells the inspiring tale of how an Estonian beet farmer in Australia became a senior quest designer on The Witcher 4

CD Projekt really likes to hire modders.

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Years ago CDPR found a farmer who was remaking The Witcher inside The Witcher 3, brought him from Australia to Poland, and now he's working on The Witcher 4

From a beetroot farm to CDPR's Warsaw-based headquarters

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The Witcher 4 is in the 'most advanced' state of development among all the games currently underway at CD Projekt, ahead of The Witcher remake and Cyberpunk 2

Don't start holding your breath just yet, though.

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"Go and learn how to mod": CD Projekt lead says "half" of the people making quests for Cyberpunk 2 right now are former modders

The Cyberpunk 2077 sequel has a lot of modder power under the hood

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Cyberpunk 2 director says CP 2077's catastrophic launch 'crushed' the developers and the subsequent redemption arc was basically 'group therapy'

"I know how success feels because I've already shipped games that were really cherished."

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Cyberpunk 2 director recalls that making Phantom Liberty was like "group therapy" after 2077's "crushing" launch

Paweł Sasko remembers a particularly hard time at CD Projekt Red

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Cyberpunk 2 director thought he was getting fired - just before he was asked to help lead the RPG sequel and set up CDPR's new studio

Pawel Sasko went on a rollercoaster of emotions

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The Witcher 4 is "the most advanced" game CD Projekt is working on right now, ahead of Cyberpunk 2 and The Witcher remake

CDPR has a busy slate, but The Witcher 4 is at its head

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The first quest CD Projekt made for The Witcher 3 led to the best one in the RPG: "There are quests that are not that great, and we're very much aware of that"

The Bloody Baron's roots lead right back to Skellige

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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty couldn't have been as good 'if the initial reception of the game wasn’t as negative', says lead quest designer

As one Idris Elba might say, the game is fixed.

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Cyberpunk 2077 sequel director cites Baldur's Gate 2 as his biggest inspiration, with "five or six" playthroughs totaling 1,500 hours under his belt

The BioWare sequel is what got Pawel Sasko into game development

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CD Projekt doesn't feel 'threatened' by Larian's move into Warsaw: 'The more, the merrier'

Is there room in Poland's capital for two major RPG studios? CD Projekt says yes.

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Heaping praise on The Witcher 3's vast new modding tool, Cyberpunk 2077 sequel lead says some of the "best devs in CD Projekt are former modders"

REDkit lets players create entire questlines and items

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'Thank you so much for the second chance chooms': Cyberpunk 2077's developers enjoy a well-earned bask as the game finally hits Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam

"Started at the bottom, now we are here."

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CDPR says the Witcher 4 is being 'intensively worked on' but Cyberpunk 2's still in the 'fairly early stages'

"Most managers and most directors who worked on Cyberpunk and Phantom Liberty are on Cyberpunk [2]."

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Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says CDPR has explored AI generation, but bots just can't compare to writers: "The gap in quality, specifically, is huge"

There's still a "gigantic, really long way to go" before AI-generated characters are as good as the real thing

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How are CD Projekt's side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject 'over 90%' of their pitches

Just use the good ideas. Simple as.

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