“Dian Yu Ren Ke 2077”, developed by CD Projekt Red, caused a lot of controversy when it was first released in 2020 due to various bugs and performance problems. It was even so serious that it could not be played normally on the PS4 and Xbox One platforms. To such an extent, it even caused the PlayStation Store to open player refunds for a time. After that, the team continued to release large and small updates, gradually stabilizing the overall situation of the game, and next, in addition to the first DLC “Free Fantasy”, the game itself will soon receive a major update of version 2.0. But just recently, the team also confirmed again that this DLC will be the only large-scale expansion of this work, and carefully revealed the reasons behind it.
At the latest financial meeting of CD Projekt, Michał Nowakowski, chief business development vice president, said that the development team is currently replacing the long-used own game engine REDengine and using Unreal Engine 5 developed by Epic Games instead. This is the key reason why they will only make one DLC for Dian Yu Ren Ke 2077, which was developed with the old engine.
“As we announced a while ago, we’re not going to be working on a second or third expansion. That’s the only expansion for this game, and it has nothing to do with sales numbers, satisfaction, whatever.” Michał Nowakowski was asked how many copies of “Freedom Fantasy” will sell before the team is willing to develop more DLC
“Honestly, it was a technical decision. This is the last time we’ll be developing with REDengine, at least for now, and as you know, we’ll be using Epic’s REDengine for the foreseeable future. Unreal Engine. And that’s one of the key reasons why we decided to make Illusions the only expansion.”
Just in September 2022, the CD Projekt Red team clarified many rumors related to the poor evaluation of the early test of this “Dian Yu Ren Ke 2077” DLC. as the only extension. On the other hand, just after “Dian Yu Ren Ke 2077” was officially launched and caused a series of controversies, the multiplayer online mode that had entered the planning stage was subsequently completely cancelled, and it took many years after that Constantly adjust and correct the wrong content of the game.
“Dianyu Renke 2077 Free Illusion” will be officially launched on September 26. The time point of this DLC is set at the middle point of the plot of “Dianyu Renke 2077”. Players will have the opportunity to travel to an unprecedented The new area “Dog’s Life” that you have never seen before, and experience a large number of new plot stories, missions and commissions, plus more than 100 new weapons, transformations, vehicles and models, as well as new skills around the “sacred object” , while adjusting the character’s level cap to level 60.
In addition, players who have not purchased this DLC can also get a major update of version 2.0, adding redesigned skills and specialization systems, remodeling devices and capacity system updates, vehicle combat, combat AI improvements, new police systems, UI and UX improvements, loot, object and crafting revamps, plus new radio stations.
