Before being asked to direct the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, this director had only one thought in his mind: “Am I fired?”

The director of the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel was apparently convinced he would be fired before he was asked to direct the sequel.

Cyberpunk 2077 lead quest designer Pawel Sasko is currently set to direct the controversial RPG’s as-yet-untitled sequel, which is obviously a huge undertaking that will surely come with pressures (we all remember the state of its release). But before Sasko gets a chance to experience those pressures, he has another one to deal with first. The CD Projekt Red developer recently spoke on the Flow Games podcast, where he talked about whether he wants to stay at the studio, or if he wants to move on to something else (thanks, GamesRadar).

“When you’ve been at a company for a long time, there comes a time when you’re at a crossroads in your career and you’re like, ‘Should I take on another big project at this company, or should I go learn something new somewhere else?'” Sasko said on the podcast. It should be clear that this is not a serious thought, as he “[loves] He was too obsessed with the company”, but he asked himself the question anyway. After all, he was eventually asked to move to the United States to help CD Projekt Red set up a new studio in Boston to make the sequel, which he describes as “a chance to start something new, but you’re still at the same company.”

This kind of thing might be good news to a lot of people, but before he knew where his career was headed, he wasn’t sure what he was going to be asked. Sasco explained that he was invited to a one-on-one meeting with Gabe Amatangelo, the game director of Cyberpunk 2077, as a normal thing. The first red flag was that Amatangelo messaged him twice to make sure he would attend the in-person meeting, which Sasco called a “weird request.”

“So I got ready, went to the office, walked into the office, and there was the game director (my boss) and the CEO (his boss) sitting there,” Sasko went on to explain. “They were the two most important people in the company. I was thinking ‘Am I going to be fired? What is going on? What are these people doing here?'” Of course, he was actually asked to direct the sequel, an invitation he calls “very humbling.”

We know next to nothing about the sequel at this point, as its development can’t be expected to be very fast, but we do know that CD Projekt Red wants to make the sequel more American by getting the potholes covered properly.