Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Stream Announcement

CD Projekt RED is presenting a new gameplay demo for their upcoming open world RPG Cyberpunk 2077 at this year’s Gamescom, and according to this official announcement, come August 30, 2019 we’ll be able to watch an edited version of this demo. And if you’d like to know what it’s all about beforehand, you might want to watch this IGN video:

And read this Rock Paper Shotgun article. A snippet:

See, a lotta games can have a strong character build that can rip through walls and hit hard, and are really good at shootin’ stuff, but high-tech future dystopia settings open up cool options for non-combat combat. So why wouldn’t you want to do that? In the demo V is sent to an abandoned mall that is not so abandoned, and sneaks past gangsters by making an automated robot sparring partner punch too hard. By causing a computerised weightlifting machine to crush the person using it. By sending cans of soda rattling out of a vending machine.

That’s pretty cool and all, and I like the imagination of this way more than pointing and pulling a trigger. But those are sleeker, more advanced variants of stuff we’ve seen before, even with the hacker flavour. But when V first connected to the mall’s local network to force open a locked door, they also triggered an alarm for an enemy netrunner who was already in the system. This netrunner started running interference. They started trying to get in V’s head. Oh, yes.

There’s also this Eurogamer article that touches on the fact that it’s still uncertain whether or not the game will feature multiplayer. And here’s the announcement itself:

Hey everyone!

We’re in Cologne, Germany, and gamescom is in full swing — we’ve already met with so many wonderful community members! For those of you at home — wherever home is — well, we’re not forgetting about you either.

Next week we’re going to host a stream during which we’ll unveil a 15-minute edit of what we’ve been showing to journalists and gamers here at gamescom, and then interview devs from the studio for additional information on what you just saw. Expect a lot of insight into the thought process behind creative decisions, information about Pacifica—one of the districts of Night City—and TONS of stuff on playstyles you’ll be able to adopt when you launch Cyberpunk 2077 next year.

This stream will be available for everyone to watch, so all of you, wherever you are, have a chance to feel a bit of gamescom — or any other trade show — at home. Hosting the entire thing will be our very own Hollie Bennett, our UK head of comms, and the dev line up will include some familiar faces you know and like.

There’s one additional announcement we have for you: we initially planned to showcase gameplay at PAX West, but there’s been a change of plans, and we’ll be streaming from Warsaw. The PAX cosplay contest is still on; we just won’t have the dev panel on-site this time around. There are many logistical (and some creative) reasons behind this decision, but the most important thing we want to say is that we’re sorry for the change of plans. We know that many of you waited to meet us face to face in Seattle and it bums us out that we won’t be able to see each other there.

Watch the stream August 30th, 8PM CEST (11AM PT) on the official CD PROJEKT RED Twitch and Mixer channels.