The new “Witcher” confirms that Unreal 5 is in development, and Ciri may be the protagonist – Game – cnBeta.COM

Today, CDPR officially announced that a new “Witcher” game is in development, will use Unreal Engine 5, and cooperate with the developers of Epic Game. The official subtitle of the new work has not been announced, and the specific release date has not been announced yet. In addition, we learned that the cooperation between CDPR and Epic refers to the engine development level, not the actual game content. The official Twitter of “The Witcher” also stated that the new work is not an Epic exclusive work.

It is also worth noting that the official main visual map is not Geralt’s wolf school badge, but the cat school, which is likely to imply that this work will feature Ciri as the protagonist.

In the seventh volume of the original novel “Lady of the Lake”, Ciri is imprisoned by the bounty hunter Leo Bonnet, who wears three witcher badges (wolves, cats and griffins, Leo Bonnet) on his chest. Bonnet claims they came from three witchers killed by themselves). In the end, Leo Bonnet was defeated by Ciri, who had overcome his fear. Ciri took away the three witcher badges and gave the wolf school to Geralt, the griffin school to Yennefer, and himself. Leaving the Cat School badge.

At the same time, it is interesting that in The Witcher 3, the shape of Ciri’s blood tank is also a cat school badge, and in the game, Ciri has a cat school badge on his waist all the time.

Of course, the above information is only speculation, the official has not officially announced the details of this work, everything is still subject to the information officially announced by CDPR.

Click on the big picture to see that the badge ears, whiskers and mouth are cat-shaped

Ciri’s life slot in the 3rd generation

Official original text:

We are very excited to announce that a new Witcher game title is in development, opening a new chapter in the series.

This is an exciting time for us. We’re migrating from REDengine to Unreal Engine 5, starting a multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games. This collaboration covers not only development licensing, but also related technical development for Unreal Engine 5 and possible subsequent versions of Unreal Engine. We will work closely with the developers of Epic Game with the main goal of adapting the cooperating engine for the open world gaming experience.

At this time, we don’t have any more information about the game (e.g. development timeframe, release time, etc.) to share.

REDengine — the technology Cyberpunk 2077 was built on — is still being used in the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 expansion.