A year after its initial gameplay debut, CD Projekt RED treated Gamescom 2019 attendees to a new slice of Cyberpunk 2077 action, with Digital Foundry on site to check it out. The lack of assets at the time prevented us from sharing many of our thoughts, but the good news is that CDPR followed up on the event by releasing a 14-minute video showing some – but certainly not all – of the content. What we have on display here continues to impress, but it is somewhat surprising to see a presentation that isn’t a match for the Gamescom or E3 demos we saw in person.
Some have complained about the lack of detail and definition in the latest demo, despite CDPR supplying a 4K video encode to YouTube’s servers and there does seem to be an explanation for this: to our eyes and indeed our pixel counts, the new video footage is running at 1080p resolution before being upscaled to 4K. However, it is still operating at 30 frames per second.
It’s a bit of an oddity, as we saw the game running in real-time on a massive LED or LCD display, similar to the Gamescom 2018 showing – which was running at native 4K. While we can’t confirm pixel counts for sure, our showing was clearly running at a much higher resolution. Interestingly, the drop in resolution in the video has a big impact to the quality of the overall presentation.
Source: Eurogamer The new Cyberpunk 2077 video looks great – but the Gamescom demo was even better