However, developer CD Projekt RED has now revealed that it has no plans for a Cyberpunk 2077 beta. On Twitter, a fan asked the official Cyberpunk 2077 account if testing will be open or closed when the game enters alpha or beta. The account said that the game’s development team has “no plans for closed/open beta.”
Some fans will be disappointed by the news, and not just because it means they won’t get to play the game before it is officially released to everyone. Many will have hoped that CD Projekt RED planned to host a Cyberpunk 2077 beta in order to ensure that the game runs as smoothly as possible. Cyberpunk 2077 will feature a massive open-world, and that means the development team may not have been able to scour every inch of it in order to sniff out, locate, and fix any bugs.
The game also features lots of moving parts, both figuratively and literally. From the many choices that players can have which affect the narrative to NPC reactions to the player character’s movements, Cyberpunk 2077 will be full of smaller features.
The more components brought to Cyberpunk 2077 means that there will be more scrutiny required of the development team to test and predict what may go wrong. It may be able to guess and fix an issue of dialogue not loading properly, but without players stress testing the game via beta, the studio may not be able to ascertain that a character with specific skills and weapons in a certain building will cause the game to glitch and fail to load a mission.
Nevertheless, despite the lack of a beta period, it’s possible that fans won’t have long to wait until they can play the game for themselves. Some of the new posts from the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account have led some fans to believe that a release date isn’t far off.
Cyberpunk 2077 is expected to release for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, but the game has yet to receive an official release date.
