New Game Director appointed for Cyberpunk 2077

Gabriel Amatangelo has been named as the brand new Sport Director for Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Projekt. This follows the departure of the previous Quest Director for the title, Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, who left the corporate not too long ago.

Amatangelo has been with CD Projekt since January 2020, working as a Artistic Director on Cyberpunk 2077. Earlier than that, he labored as Design Director for Dragon Age: Inquisition’s DLC, and as Lead Designer on a number of expansions for Star Wars: The Previous Republic.

Amatangelo’s process now could be to work with the group at CD Projekt on the longer term expansions to Cyberpunk 2077. DLC that was promised final 12 months and has been placed on maintain whereas the builders repair the sport.

Adam Badowski, the previous Sport Director on Cyberpunk 2077, is claimed to now be engaged on different management duties inside CD Projekt. Amongst his duties is figure on the RED 2.0 transition, which is the brand new construction the corporate is shifting to that may see it engaged on a number of triple-A video games directly, as a substitute of manufacturing one each 5 years.

Cyberpunk 2077 launched final November in a dreadful state. The sport was stuffed with glitches, and induced last-gen consoles to crash and freeze usually. CD Projekt dedicated itself publicly to fixing these points, and has launched plenty of patches to this point. Nonetheless, the sport nonetheless hasn’t been relisted on the PlayStation Retailer. Sony took it down after every week as a result of many refund requests it obtained, and no phrase on when it could possibly return has been given.

Cyberpunk 2077 has served as a lesson for all different sport builders. The disastrous launch has led to numerous delays on video games, lots of which at the moment are slated to all launch directly later this 12 months. The occasion definitely induced a scare among the many builders who could beforehand have shipped a sport with just a few bugs in.

The fan base for Cyberpunk 2077 appears to benefit from the sport, although it nonetheless isn’t good. The DLC would be the actual draw for individuals who have discounted it to return again and take a look at it. Most individuals really feel that they had been cheated by it although, and should by no means purchase it once more.