CD Projekt Purple will not be utilizing REDengine for The Witcher 4, however the developer’s vice chairman of know-how has made it clear the engine is not why Cyberpunk 2077 suffered.
It is fairly uncommon for many builders to make use of their very own engines. Sq. Enix lengthy struggled with its Luminous Engine, the one Ultimate Fantasy 15 was made in, for instance, and Kingdom Hearts 3 even began off there earlier than making the swap to Unreal Engine. CD Projekt Purple too made the choice to develop The Witcher 4, or no matter it is known as, in Unreal Engine 5, main some to suspect that the developer needs to keep away from one other Cyberpunk state of affairs. However in a brand new interview from Eurogamer with Charles Tremblay, the VP of know-how made it clear that the change is not due to the developer not liking its personal engine.
“I do know lots of people are inquisitive about it, so I will attempt to clarify,” Tremblay stated, noting that it has been a “very polarising query on the whole, for the corporate and for everybody.” The developer shared that regardless of what many imagine, REDengine wasn’t the principle purpose as to why Cyberpunk 2077 had such a troublesome improvement, and even the principle purpose why CD Projekt Purple is shifting to Unreal Engine. “The very first thing I need to say once more, to make certain, 100% clear, is that the entire crew, myself included, are extraordinarily happy with the engine we constructed for Cyberpunk. So it isn’t about, ‘That is so unhealthy that we have to swap’ and, you understand, ‘Kill me now’ – that’s not true. That’s not true, and this isn’t why the choice was made to change.”
Tremblay stated it was just because it needs to have a number of initiatives in improvement directly, i.e. this upcoming Witcher recreation, Cyberpunk’s sequel codenamed Orion, and a very new IP codenamed Hadar. “The way in which we constructed stuff up to now was very one-sided, like one challenge at a time. We pushed the restrict – but additionally we noticed that if we needed to have a multi-project on the similar time, constructing in parallel, sharing know-how collectively, it isn’t simple.”
He went on to say that “the thought was that we will push the know-how, we will lastly have all of the technical folks within the firm working collectively on totally different initiatives, slightly than tremendous centralised into one know-how that may very difficultly be shared between different initiatives.”
It clearly nonetheless stays to be seen whether or not the subsequent Witcher recreation even has a easy improvement or not, the sport solely began manufacturing this month in spite of everything, however hopefully as Tremblay notes having the ability to have the technical facet of the devs working extra collaboratively will make it a bit simpler.