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Cyberpunk 2077’s E3 2018 demo was faked, developers were aware of the game’s issues

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At E3 2018, Cyberpunk 2077 impressed a lot of people with its vertical slice demo. However, it appears that this demo was “fake”, and that it did not showcase the things that players could do in this game.

Now we all know that E3 demos are basically vertical slices of a game. However, this feels more like Anthem. Similar to Anthem, CDPR showcased things that were never really implemented in the game. Basically, it faked numerous features.

As Jason Schreier noted, CD Projekt hadn’t yet finalized and coded the underlying gameplay systems that were shown in the E3 2018 demo. This explains why so many features, such as car ambushes, are missing from the final game.

In addition, it appears that the developers were fully aware of the bugs and issues that plagued the game.

“As the launch date drew closer, everyone at the studio knew the game was in rough shape and needed more time, according to several people familiar with the development. Chunks of dialogue were missing. Some actions didn’t work properly. When management announced in October that the game had “gone gold” — that it was ready to be pressed to discs — there were still major bugs being discovered. The game was delayed another three weeks as exhausted programmers scrambled to fix as much as they could.”

CD Projekt RED has issued a second official apology about the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, and shared a roadmap. As the developers claimed, they can fix many of the game’s glitches and graphical issues. However, we really don’t know whether they will also add any of the missing content.

121 thoughts on “Cyberpunk 2077’s E3 2018 demo was faked, developers were aware of the game’s issues”

  3. You guys remember wall running? Yeah it was never in the game. They never had time to. It was part of the fake demo.

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    1. yes and the dialogue choices in the game? Well that scene from the 2018 demo was by far the one with the most choices the rest are a huge downgrade, the whole thing was faked.

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  4. When the most “consumer friendly ” company only invites the influencers and not the consumers .. the signs are always there folks .This is best example company go public and shekels people get you by the balls.

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    1. BUT WE GOT A BUNCH OF STREAMERS DUDE….WE GOT KEANU REEVES DUDE AND HE IS BREATHTAKING…i know we changed the original version of johny silverhand which was cooler but WE GOT REFUSED THAT COMMIE VEGAN BAND DUDE, WE GOT MUMBLE RAP, WHY DONT YOU LKE IT.

      Fcking cdprojekt sht

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          1. F*ck you it wasn’t the Devz it was the higher-ups that fecked everybody over which people just can’t seem to get through their thick fecking skulls.

      2. wait, the Johny Silverhand is CP77 is not the same from the tabletop?

        I havent played the pen-n-pare rpg so I am not familiar with the original character, but videogame Johnny never felt to me as something that came from the 80s/90s, he seemed a lot more modernized, a lot more Keanu-ish.

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      3. see? “HE IS WHOLESOME HE IS SO NICE HE SHAKED OUR HANDS AFTER WE DONE MOTION CAPTURING”

        And? He still sucks. Stop hiring people because they are nice, hire them because they are good.

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    2. BUT WE GOT A BUNCH OF STREAMERS DUDE….WE GOT KEANU REEVES DUDE AND HE IS BREATHTAKING…i know we changed the original version of johny silverhand which was cooler but WE GOT REFUSED THAT COMMIE VEGAN BADN DUDE, WE GOT MUMBLE RAP, WHY DONT YOU LKE IT.

      Fcking cdprojekt sh*t

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        1. i wasnt moron, this one got censored by the site so john edited and approved it. Couldnt wait for that to happen so i said it atain with censoring myself.

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  5. “At E3 2018, Cyberpunk 2077 impressed a lot of people with its vertical
    slice demo. However, it appears that this demo was “fake”, and that it
    did not showcase the things that players could do in this game.”

    Thats what a vertical slice means, its a proof of concept. Its not the exact game. Most companies show a specially prepared E3 slice of the game, this isnt news. Its how things work since basically e3 existed. Theres no insight or news in scrheiers acrticle

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    1. The difference here is that the vertical slice had fake gameplay mechanics (because the devs hadn’t figured out ways to add them to the game at that time. Wall running is a perfect example of that). This is similar to Anthem, which also showcased fake gameplay mechanics.

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      1. Its not fake. Game development changes as it goes on. You may want to implement certain things or elements, then you realize it doesnt actually work or makes sense. Same thing that was with Witcher 3 and its imaginary downgrade. They showed a piece of the game ealry in development, then found out you cant actually have the entire game be like that, its not feasible. You take a bit from one part and add it to another. These were all videos that were showed years in advanced, before the games came out. Its natural and common to change stuff.

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          1. Its not about fanboyism, its about having the slightest clue about how games work and are developed. What we saw in 2013 was exactly like with cyberpunk. A specially prepared small slice of the game, with loads of sharpness and made to impress at E3.

            Then when they actually had to make the entire game, with all the areas and everything in it, all the gameplay and systems, you cant always shoot for what you had in mind at the beggining.

            They didnt downgrade the game because what we saw in 2013 never existed outside that small area. You didnt have a game outside what you saw there.

          2. They claimed that you could complete the main quest at the time they showed that demo…

          3. ” its about having the slightest clue about how games work and are developed. ”

            Which is what cdpr didnt have the slighed clue apparently because they were developing this game for 7 years and this is the result.

          5. “its about having the slightest clue about how games work and are developed” LOL! talk about a condescending fanboy. So why were the majority of E3 trailers non-misleading? It’s not about the development of the game but about how they want to MARKET their game. There are just companies like CDPR and Ubicrap which rely on misleading their customers for hype and get high sales then their are companies like Rockstar and Bethesda which only show what their games would look like and what you can do in it. Say whatever you want about Bethesda now, but, as far as I can remember, they never showed any misleading gameplay or graphics in their E3 trailers. At worst, not to the extent of Ubicrap and CDPR (Not sure about FO76 coz I didn’t touch anything about that dumpster fire).

          6. Dude, seriously, STFU, putting Rockstar with Bethesda destroys all your credibility of knowing anything. Bethesda is a sh*te company that uses a weak as fck tired old a*s engine in their games, and fo76 was a joke and a half, and the company lied through their t*ts.

          7. LOL! I was talking “specifically” about how they don’t misrepresent their games on their trailers, idiot. There’s nowhere in my comment that I praised them other than that aspect XD. Calm the f*ck down hater monger XD AHAHA!

        7. It is fake, that’s what these videos are. Always have been. Ubisoft is notorious for overhyping their games through CGI videos. This is nothing new and its why I don’t bother watching non-gameplay trailers.

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      2. Which is normal you colossal moron. FFS stop commenting on things you clearly don’t understand.
        Unfinished games have show reels/vertical slices all the time. They include features that are incomplete/not yet implimented. During development things get cut, changed, and added. There is a reason why there are disclaimers (in development, does not reepresent final product/gameplay, or subject to change)
        So kindly stick to the facts and stop trying to sound like you know what you’re talking about when you don’t.
        CDP screwed up a lot, but having some halfwit throw baseless accusations in the mix helps no one and nothing.

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      3. Wow, by this token this game could’ve ended up being a text-based adventure and you’d still justify that as long as that line of text is present in the gameplay demo.

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    2. LOL! yeah, because companies that made that a tradition was never called out by anyone /s 0_0 (Sony/Killzone 2, SEGA/Aliens : Colonial Marines, Ubicrap/almost every game they made, Hello Games/NMS). Give CDPR a pass, they’re the greatest video game company ever, right? AHAHAHAHA!

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      1. Its not about getting a pass or not. Its about being aware that everytime you see an E3 presentation, you should always keep this in mind – thats not the game, thats a specially prepared E3 piece. Thats what their shooting for, and over the years it has the potential to change.

        Its just about understanding how things work instead of spending years yelling downgrade, downgrade and calling vertical slices “fake”

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    3. it is NOT a proof of concept. those two terms have completely different meanings:
      1.https:// en .wikipedia .org/wiki/Proof_of_concept
      2.https:// en .wikipedia .org/wiki/Vertical_slice

      POC is a barebones, very basic presentation of an idea, a concept.
      for example, It is when Jeff Kaplan was showing the artwork and describing his vision for a new FPS to the Blizzard execs. that’s POC.

      Vertical slice is a demo of an almost complete game. Maybe a few things will change or removed until its release, but it is still the representation of how the final game will look and play.

      Remember the first gameplay trailer of OW? there were some changes until its final release, but the art design and the core game mechanics were exactly the same. that’s a vertical slice of a game.

      .

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        1. Overwatch. First playable demo came out at Blizzcon 2014, and the final game came out in 2016. It went through some changes, but the core gameplay, artstyle, etc remained the same. that is what makes it a game slice, not a proof of concept.

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  9. and here i thought the game should have been delayed to at least february 2021, according to devs in the last year when they saw the state the game was they estimated the game not to be ready before 2022.

    what a fiasco

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  12. We all know that now. After false advertising countless of times, receiving 200 awards, throw them in our face with every opportunity, and stilling from people millions.

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  15. First of all it’s not John making those claims, it’s the CDPR developers in the article he cites that are making those claims that the demo was made specifically for E3. So unless you’re claiming to know more than people who actually worked there, you are “ignorant children”.

    Also I hope you’re getting paid to shill and damage control like this. Because you shouldn’t be shilling for free.

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  16. They really did everything wrong and tried to mislead their customers.. is there any precise point where a company becomes too big where it stops caring for its reputation?

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  21. CDPR has a self-appointed fanboy army every bit as vile, emotionally incontinent and wilfully deluded as the Ponies and Xbots are.

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      1. Try the comments section under the fake apology video from the CEO or the official forums. And official subreddit as well (some zealots made a separate subreddit called r/lowsodiumcyberpunk where any criticism is banned on the spot, it’s all just rosy glasses and unicorns there). A whole lot of delusional people.

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  22. The game isn’t garbage it was just too ambitious and didn’t get finished. The gunplay is great and the main parts of the game work well. the sh*t outside that is just very poorly done. A liitle bit of work on the ai and a tiny bit more polish and the game wouldn’t have gotten a 1/10 of the hate. If they delayed the game till next summer we would all be sucking them off. It wasn’t that far off.

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    1. the game was allright. I’ve played games with better shooting elements, Fear, and games with better told stories the witcher 3. this was a 7 to me,it wasn’t as bad as say superman 64.

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  23. I absolutely had a blast with this game. Well worth the $60 I dropped on it. Already got 150+ hours in it and I’m looking forward to putting in some more once they drop more content.

    🙂

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      1. Yeah sometimes I think people in the comments at DSO hate gaming more than they like it. Its super easy to troll by saying you actually like a game, never mind if the game is actually better than it is being credited as. But the overreactions in the comments is half the reason I come to this website, so am I any better than them?

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      2. if the game is flopout 76, mass effect androgenous kinda mess and its medicore, and dissapointing, yes worth the downvote.

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      3. That’s DSOG for ya. Very disgusting comment sections. How can you thumb someone down for liking a game is beyond me. Usually the people doing sh*to like that NEVER played the game. They love to pick a part a corpse like vultures.

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      1. I posted <3 but it got deleted. Maybe it wasn't long enough.

        Anyway I just wanted you to know someone less than 3's you.

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  25. i have always mentioned do not trust CDPR. lmao there were so many CDPR shoe lickers and now you all got fooled.

    anyhow cyberpunk is still the best selling game and they already made profit on the first day when the game released. they saved themselves by scamming gamers with false advertising. not just recoup all the cost but they probably runaway with a huge bag of gold

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  26. Where? Apparently I was one of these shills just for pointing out some of the good things in the game and then you blocked me like a little b*tch.

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      1. I do now ever since Cyberpunk came out. I’ve never seen more autistic screeching about a game. Its embarrassing to share some of their opinions.

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  27. I’ll get around to playing it eventually…… When it’s free on GOG or Epic store in several years!
    Figured from the start this game was overrated.

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    1. It’s already free on GOG if you know what I mean. Mind you I actually bought the game on GOG and refunded it 20 days later. GOG 30-day return policy is actually a good one. Just don’t play it via GOG Galaxy as it counts your playtime. There is an actual playcount timer in the game itself.

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  28. I was sick of hearing about the game non stop for years. I always said they were the annoying person at the party that bragged about their things. I thought it was annoying and seeing the game launch and ruin their reputation people left and right were deep throating was priceless. Sure I still enjoyed the game for what it was… but hope this is a lesson learned. next game… just shut the hell up and work on it. They slow stroked everybodys hot dogs for years and got covered in in asparagus loads of hate and betrayal. ahhhh so sweet! Also goes to show most people will comment and go with the hive mind opinion even if it isn’t their own. so many people praise Witcher 3 and it’s honestly nothing mindblowing amazing. You know this if you look at the trophy’s/achievements it shows only 30-40% of people on consoles and pc even beat the story. if the game was that great people would have finished it.

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    1. “if the game was that great people would have finished it.”

      Most single player games are like that, which is why they are slowly dying.

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        1. I think i was wrong in that statement, as long as you already paid, it is already funded, but the phenomenom is real, majority of players don’t go far in these games.

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          1. hell I got games i’ve never even started. still haven’t started valkyrie chronicles 4,and I bought that two years ago half off.

          2. Add to that, the whole excuse of why CP77 main quest is almost 40 hs is because most people (casuals) didnt finish Witcher 3

          3. took me about 124 hours to complete everything. it was a ok game overall. give it a 6.5 rating out of 10. don’t see myself going back to this one in the future though.

          4. 124 hs for all? that sounds like a pain like the Skellige map in Witcher 3… the extra [!] quests are so repetetive and boring, kudos to you.

          5. you remember all the question mark icons on the map on witcher 3…man that game took forever to 100%. I want a AAA shadowrun game to play next.

          6. the story was boring and progressed slowly not to mention the whole side missions were not that great
            not like skyrim

          7. F*ck Skyrim that game was an absolute POS if it wasn’t for the modding community the game would have died out a year after it was created.

          1. A lot of single player games are full of bloat. They would be way better if they were trimmed some. AC games and the FF 7 remake are full of stuff just to extend playtime.

    2. i agree with you

      witcher 3 promised alot and didn’t deliver and in the end feels like a good game but not as highly praised as people make it out to be

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    4. You are delusional asshat if you don’t think the Witcher 3 was an amazing game or even a great game. It won 350 Awards the most awards given to any one game at one time. The story alone was phenomenal and the side quests we’re original.

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      2. Says the user with a Witcher avatar…not bias at all…imagine thinking that awards are a meassure for quality…CP77 also got a lot of “awards” with the previews.

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  31. This whole industry is now utter sh_t. I’d rather go back and play some old classics rather than the garbage they are constantly shovelling out nowadays.

    Seriously DSOG you moderate that word! you have very strange standards.

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    1. It’s because of Google’s draconian censorship rules as a condition for the site using Google Analytics so to host adverts to help pay the bills and also using Disqus. Blame Google, not DSOG.

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  32. Why feed the trolls?

    CD PROJEKT RED Head of Studio Responds to Cyberpunk 2077 Insider Report

    https://wccftech.com/cd-projekt-red-head-of-studio-responds-to-cyberpunk-2077-insider-report/

    At 167 hours so far I’m enjoying it with a 3080, full RT Psycho and DLSS Quality. I’ve had one quest bug where a door didn’t open, which was resolved by golf clubbing a tool box across the floor forcing the door to open. An NPC screamed then shot off into the sky like a firework never to be seen again. I drove a few meters after buying the most expensive in game car before it took flight, with me still in it. I’ve died to a particularly vicious garbage bag and had ~5 NPCs take the T pose as their script had crashed. Definately not the most buggy release.

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