CD Projekt Red Announce New Game For The Witcher

CD Projekt Red announced the latest sequel to either games famous they are The Witcher.

Previously did updates massive for games Cyberpunk 2077 In February 2022, Projekt Red resumed its newest project.

This popular game in 2007 already has several other sequels, namely The Witcher, The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.

This announcement was welcomed by the fans of this series, considering that the third series, The Wild Hunt, was last released in 2015.

The Witcher New Series Announcement

The Witcher is games RPGs fantasy action developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt. 

Games it is based on the book series of the same name by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, and acts as a sequel to the book's story.

Tells the story of the main character named Gerald of Rivia, one of the Witches who can still survive on the Continent where he lives.

Gerald learns to be a monster hunter (monster slayer) at a Witcher school called “School of The Wolf.”

It is known that the school is one of the schools built by the Sorcerer group to protect the Continent's environment from the Monster attacks that haunt the Continent. 

Monsters are known to appear due to dimensional collisions in “The Conjunction of Spheres.”

A series that already has several sequels, spin off games. The Witcher film adaptation as well as other media such as Netflix adaptation it is very popular and won several awards.

Announcement regarding the latest series games this was announced at the official lama CD Project on March 21, 2022 then.

Regarding when games this will be released or even the original title we still can't get. Remember games The Witcher is only in the early stages of development games.

Mechanism games full details are still not known games what will it look like considering the announcement issued by Projekt Red just includes the official image.

The official picture only shows a photo of a medallion whose shape is unknown. Medallion on the Continent is used to describe the various schools that exist including the School of the Wolf.

But one thing is certain, this latest series will collaborate with Epic Games to create new technology.

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The Latest Series Will Use Unreal Engine 5

The collaboration between Projekt Red and Epic Games is a form of partnership in which games Furthermore, CD Projekt Red will use Unreal Engine technology, the newest Unreal Engine 5 technology.

It is known that the latest Unreal Engine is Unreal Engine 4 as used by games HyperFront.

Until now it is known that all games CD Projekt Red like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 2 and 3 using REDengine.

Use of REDengine against games it has been used by the developer since its release games Assassin of Kings.

Transfer of technology from REDengine to Unreal Engine 5 is the start of a partnership in the form of a partnership between CD Projekt Red and Epic Games for the next few years. 

The question about whether this system will also be used in Cyberpunk 2077 was also answered by CD Projekt Red along with this news release.

CD Projekt Red provides a clarification statement that The Witcher and games other new ones that will use this Unreal Engine 5.

Cyberpunk 2077 and its expansions games next time it will still use REDengine and will not experience any changes.

CD Projekt Red's CTO Pawel Zawodny said that CD Projekt Red would need to determine the technical direction of their company's next game from the earliest possible phase.

Zawodny added that Projekt Red was overwhelmed in developing and adapting REDengine for each games released by the company making it difficult for CD Projekt Red to focus on developing games.

This problem brought about the partnership between CD Projekt Red and Epic Games for the latest series of The Witcher. 

The form of the partnership in the form of developing Unreal Engine 5 technology is further known for game development open-world planned for The Witcher.

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Speculation of The Witcher for Single Platform

The existence of the use of the Unreal Engine has made many players speculate that The Witcher will become games exclusive to the Epic Games Store only.

Noted that games that Epic Games normally works with will usually be listed at Epic Games Store and become games which can be played only in one platforms.

However, this has been denied by CD Projekt Red where they have no plans to become The Witcher as single platform game.

As it is known games The Witcher uses quite a lot of platforms such as Xbox, PlayStation, and PC via Steam.

It is possible that you can play the next The Witcher series in various ways platforms others like Steam Decks like the previous 3 series.