{"id":1701984,"date":"2026-09-26T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Ko9puUgsWhMQ2d97Y9Z98T"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:36:38","slug":"it-took-cd-projekt-two-years-to-design-phantom-libertys-chimera-tank-boss-fight-we-were-iterating-over-and-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/it-took-cd-projekt-two-years-to-design-phantom-libertys-chimera-tank-boss-fight-we-were-iterating-over-and-over\/","title":{"rendered":"It took CD Projekt two years to design Phantom Liberty’s Chimera Tank boss fight: ‘We were iterating over and over’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most striking early sequences in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty<\/a> is its Chimera Tank boss fight, in which V and President Myers battle an enormous, Ghost in the Shell-inspired spider-tank in the bowels of a Barghest facility. The battle forms the explosive culmination of Phantom Liberty’s opening act, and CD Projekt recently revealed just what it took to get the sequence where they wanted it.<\/p>\n

Speaking on CD Projekt’s official AnsweRED podcast<\/a> (via Eurogamer<\/a>), Phantom Liberty’s game director Gabe Amatangelo, and creative director Igor Sarzy\u0144ski discussed various production challenges the studio faced during Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>‘s creation, bringing up the Chimera Tank as an example. “Sometimes we’re making content that’s a nexus point of different disciplines, the Chimera is a great example of that,” Amatangelo said. “It was gameplay, narrative, art, worldbuilding.”<\/p>\n

Amatangelo explained that CD Projekt wanted the Chimera Tank to “terrify” players with its weapons, and that there were “so many moving parts” to balance appropriately for the sequence to work. “Sometimes it was too gameplay [focussed], sometimes it was too narrative, sometimes too art direction. It was about striking a balance and I think the three of us got into it and went: ‘Okay, beat-by-beat, let’s do this.'”<\/p>\n

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