Game developers Cyberpunk 2077, which is one of the most anticipated games of 2023, shared the main features of the new graphics in their game, which is provided by their own RED Engine 4. The authors also explained how much they had to improve their technologies since the last major project The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Studio representatives CD Projekt RED, which is completing the development of the game Cyberpunk 2077, was previously said to be very tired of the Witcher universe after working on three similar games in a row, and instead of swords they wanted to work on guns and first-person views. According to Gamebomb.ru, the authors of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt“Revealed new features of their RED Engine 4 engine, which formed the basis of Cyberpunk 2077. Game producer Richard Borzymowski said that the studio did not want to leave the technology from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt unchanged, and therefore decided to almost completely redo it your engine to achieve a wow effect for gamers. In addition, Borzhimovsky noted that the studio simply could not have developed the Cyberpunk 2077, with its first-person view and great verticality in the open world, on the old version of the engine.
Borzhimovsky highlighted several key features of the new RED Engine 4 graphics engine, such as a completely new global lighting. In the open world of Cyberpunk 2077, there is a dynamic change of day and night, and at night the city of Night City is covered with lights, and does not look like it is in daylight. In addition, weather effects, such as raindrops, for which you need to work additionally with reflections, greatly influence the look of the game environment. Also, the RED Engine 4 fully supports RTX ray tracing technology, and the advanced version of Ambient occlusion, which creates a realistic display of gaming interiors. Finally, in the new version of the engine, the authors seriously worked on the physics and destructibility of the environment in the open world, including even the walls of buildings that can be shot from heavy weapons.
It is interesting that earlier the CD Projekt RED studio said that the game Cyberpunk 2077 is likely to become the largest and most beautiful on the current generation of gaming platforms, and will summarize the peculiar result of an entire generation. According to Gamebomb.ru, the release of Cyberpunk 2077 is scheduled for April 16 on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
