Cyberpunk 2077 Multiplayer Still Being Researched, But Not Guaranteed

While Cyberpunk 2077 is a single-player game, CD Projekt Red does have a team “messing around with a multiplayer portion,” although its addition to the much anticipated title is not guaranteed.Speaking to Tom Phillips at Eurogamer during Gamescom 2019, CD Projekt Red senior concept artist Marthe Jonkers discussed how there is a small team testing out different types of multiplayer in R&D, but “there was no pressure to force something which did not feel right.”

“We are doing R&D into multiplayer but we’re focusing on single-player experience, and that’s what you’ll get in 2020,” Jonkers said. “It doesn’t mean we’re saying no multiplayer, but it doesn’t mean we’re saying yes either. It’s still an R&D phase.”

The talk of potential multiplayer in Cyberpunk 2077 were brought back up last month when CD Projekt president Adam Kiciński and CEO Piotr Nielubowicz issued a statement that reportedly said one of the future Cyberpunk projects was a multiplayer mode for Cyberpunk 2077.

“If you add multiplayer functions it has to be right,” Jonkers continued. “Immersion is super important for us and we have to make sure everything fits together. The single-player experience, it all fits together. We’re not just going to slap some [multiplayer] feature in and that’ll be it.

“It’s possible if it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit. We would never make anything that’s not at least The Witcher standard for Cyberpunk. I don’t know what the future holds but we will make sure everything we make will be high quality.”

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CD Projekt has the bandwidth to tackle these projects as their team is up to around 400 people, allowing for team members to experiment as to what comes next for the franchise.

“The Witcher team was around 200, I don’t know the exact number. But we’re now around 400, so we can do a lot more – and that’s what we’re doing with Cyberpunk,” Jonkers concluded. “The Witcher was an open-world game, but now we have an open-world game with a whole different freedom of gameplay.

“The Witcher had Geralt and you stuck with this character, his fighting style, his relationships, his background. With this game we’re adding in this freedom with your character, what kind of relationships you want to engage in, a story which branches out in different directions, and multiple endings. A lot more ambitious, but a lot bigger team.”

Cyberpunk 2077 will be releasing on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on April 16, 2020. It will also be released on Google Stadia, although it is unclear if it will launch with the other platforms.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who can’t wait to play as Neo in Cyberpunk 2077. That’s how it works, right? You can correct him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.