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Techland is working on an unannounced AAA Open World Action-RPG in a fantasy setting

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Techland is working on a new game:
Some of the staff are compossed of previous CD Projekt RED devs

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Are you ready to begin a new, thrilling journey with Techland?
We are hiring for the unannounced AAA Open World Action-RPG in a fantasy setting!
Join us now! techland.net/job-offers
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PSES

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We can be sure that it is a new IP that is not related to DL and will come to the current generation of consoles (PS5/XS) only, right?
 
Uzupedro

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The fantasy RPG team's staff includes:
  • Karolina Stachyra – Narrative director who previously worked with CD Projekt RED on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, plus its downloadable content.
  • Arkadiusz Borowik – Narrative lead who previously worked with CD Projekt RED on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, plus its downloadable content.
In just the last few months, the team was also joined by:
  • Bartosz Ochman – Open world director who previously worked on Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.
  • Mario Maltezos – Creative director who previously worked with companies like Ubisoft (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Warner Bros. (Mad Max), and Microsoft.
  • David McClure – Lead game designer previously associated with Arkane Studios (DEATHLOOP), Deep Silver, and Playground Games.
  • Kevin Quaid – Lead animator with over eight years of experience at Guerrilla Games, working on titles such as Horizon Zero Dawn and its expansion, "The Frozen Wilds."
  • Marcin Surosz – Lead user interface / user experience designer with amazing skill in defining players' needs, formerly with People Can Fly.
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vixolus

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Perhaps they can build dynamic resolution and upscaling in their engine too
 
DarrenM

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Big fan of both Dying Light games, so I'm definitely excited to see what they can do with an RPG.
 

Raigor

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Good to see they are continuing with their Chrome engine instead of dumping it and go full UE5
 
anexanhume

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That staff list including CDPR vets is a good pedigree. This will be on my radar based on that description and leadership alone.
 
quail_lad

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I was never interested in Dying Light's setting or genre, but the mechanics and systems always seemed really interesting. Bringing those things into a fantasy setting definitely has me interested.
 
Senjuro

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Open world so much the default these days that it would be more useful to announce when a AAA game doesn't have it.
 
krakenking189

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Concept art is interesting because it strikes me as not Western or Eastern European fantasy. I honestly was expecting it to be inspired by Slavic fantasy kinda like Witcher but it's not. It reminds me of Central America from the foliage and the ruined temple (I think). Specifically the Mayan ruins on the coast. Another detail that I noticed is that the character seems to be similarly dressed as a conquistador.

Well I like that it's a new fantasy setting rather than generic Western European fantasy. I hope Techland can deliver on this because more diverse fantasy settings are always great
 
TheBlackSwordsman

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I wasn't interested in Dying Light, but I think a fantasy game with that kind of traversal could be interesting.

Just no first person, please.
 
YukiroCTX

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Sounds interesting. Really enjoyed dying light 2, I thought the game could have done with better story/writing but the gameplay was really fun in first person. It's mostly a melee like game, putting it in a fantasy like setting would be cool especially if they keep some of the parkour stuff. I like fantasy more than Zombie setting.
 
wafflebrain

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So the open world director worked on 2077 and Witcher 3. Well this being fantasy based at least inspires more confidence the open world will be stronger than 2077's.

The narrative director and leads from Witcher 2 and 3 (plus dlc) has me optimistic about the story.
 
Sacrilicious

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Uzupedro said:
Karolina Stachyra – Narrative director who previously worked with CD Projekt RED on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, plus its downloadable content.
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Very interesting.

She was one of the two writers of the Bloody Baron storyline, plus the senior writer for Hearts of Stone.

She's one of the best in the industry (imo) and it's exciting to see her involved in this.
 
Blade30

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Uzupedro said:
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  • Karolina Stachyra – Narrative director who previously worked with CD Projekt RED on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, plus its downloadable content.
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Huh, there are some great devs working on this. I wasn't really interested on this game before but this info has definitely piqued my interest now, the story in Witcher 3 DLCs were fantastic.
 
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