CD Projekt RED Used ‘Elaborate’ Secrets For Its RPGs As They Knew Players Would Look At Guides And Share Info

Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunter developer CD Projekt RED has revealed that it designed ‘elaborate’ secrets for its RPGs as they know players would look at and share guides with the community.

Pawl Sasko, the associate game director on the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, told the Flow Games podcast that “one of the things” he informs CDPR designers is that “you can’t see how [the game] will be received until you’ve seen the full path.”

We always take into account, and I always tell my designers: ‘watch your content being played by someone live. Watch YouTubers, watch streamers, because you will see how they think.’ There are so many things that we actually did in the game with a perspective of ‘someone will find it, and then other people will.’

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Sasko pointed to FF:06:B5, a “very, very elaborate puzzle” seen in Cyberpunk 2077. In fact, the puzzle had its own subreddit with filled conspiracy theories, with some 38,000 theorists decoding hexadecimals and combing over clues left in the base game. Sasko used this as an example of something “so complex that you can’t [solve] it on your own, it’s borderline impossible.”

Sometimes they’re incredibly close, and sometimes they’re completely far away, but it makes sense. There are things that you can find and unlock, and our assumption was that when you play, some people will spend a lot of time trying to work it out.

Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel is known as Project Orion and is being developed at a new CDPR studio based in Boston, US. The company recently said that out of all its upcoming projects, The Witcher 4 is the most advanced in terms of development, but even that is still years off.

[Source – Flow Podcast via Games Radar]