A brand new Witcher sport is in growth
CD Projekt has confirmed {that a} new Witcher sport is in growth, “kicking off a
CD Projekt has confirmed {that a} new Witcher sport is in growth, “kicking off a brand new saga for the franchise.”
The brand new sport shall be constructed utilizing Unreal Engine 5 reasonably than CD Projekt’s REDengine, which the studio mentioned will start “a multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Video games.”
“It covers not solely licensing, however technical growth of Unreal Engine 5, in addition to potential future variations of Unreal Engine, the place related,” CD Projekt mentioned. “We’ll carefully collaborate with Epic Video games’ builders with the first purpose being to assist tailor the engine for open-world experiences.”
CD Projekt mentioned that the change to the brand new engine was made to assist streamline the event course of. “From the outset, we didn’t think about a typical licensing association; each we and Epic see this as a long-term, fulfilling tech partnership,” CD Projekt Pink CTO Paweł Zawodny mentioned. “It’s critical for CD Projekt Pink to have the technical path of our subsequent sport determined from the earliest potential part as prior to now, we spent plenty of assets and power to evolve and adapt REDengine with each subsequent sport launch.
“This cooperation is so thrilling, as a result of it can elevate growth predictability and effectivity, whereas concurrently granting us entry to cutting-edge sport growth instruments. I can’t watch for the good video games we’re going to create utilizing Unreal Engine 5!”
The studio additionally confirmed that regardless of the shift to a brand new engine, the brand new Witcher sport isn’t deliberate as an Epic Video games Retailer unique.
We’re not planning on making the sport unique to at least one storefront.March 21, 2022
CD Projekt has beforehand hinted {that a} new Witcher sport may very well be on the best way, however that is the primary time it has been formally confirmed. No different particulars have been revealed, however the teaser picture included with the announcement suggests, as we already anticipated, that the brand new sport is not going to characteristic Geralt. The snow-covered Witcher medallion is tough to make out however is unquestionably not from the College of the Wolf.
My preliminary impression was that the medallion had the looks of the College of the Cat, an outcast college that is apparently the one one which trains ladies and non-humans. It is also the medallion carried by Ciri in The Witcher 3, though she did not really earn it from the college, however took it from a bounty hunter employed to kill her—which may level to a post-Witcher 3 spinoff sequence.
Others, nonetheless, have famous that it seems to be extra akin to the College of the Lynx, which the Witcher wiki says got here to being shortly after the official finish of the Wolf College. It was based by veterans of the College of the Cat in partnership with Wolf College hothead Lambert and his lover, the sorceress Keira Metz. This is able to make for a superb followup sequence too, being explicitly post-Geralt however nonetheless leaving the door open to appearances by him and different Witcher trilogy supporting characters.
As a number of individuals have identified, the Lynx College historical past is unofficial—fanfic, you may say—however you would additionally argue that your entire Witcher videogame trilogy is fanfic. In that mild, it would not be fully out of the query to see this new college (or one thing prefer it) adopted as a stepping-off level for a brand new Witcher sport.
The underside line is that we actually do not know at this level and I count on it’s going to be a very long time earlier than we get any stable element. No matter it’s, hypothesis is enjoyable for now—and you may wager that we are going to be watching very carefully.