Cyberpunk 2077 modders hired by CDPR to work on the game

Developer CD Projekt Red has rounded up a few modders to help the team troubleshoot Cyberpunk 2077 backend issues and work on official mod support.

The news comes from Twitch streamer and YouTuber Tyler McVicker, who spotted on a Discord server that Budapest-based custom development studio Yigsoft would be joining the ranks of CD Projekt Red. Yigsoft is best known for the open source tool WolvenKit, which allowed modders to edit any file in CDPR titles such as Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3.

According to Kotaku, Yigsoft will operate independently and retain its headquarters in Budapest. Hambalkó co-founder “Traderain” Bence, who broke the news on Discord, Cyberpunk 2077’s modding community, told the post that working with CDPR was “a long-held dream.”

When contacted for comment, a spokesperson for CDPR said the modding community is “very important” to the studio, so hiring Yigsoft made sense.

“We are working with Yigsoft on the development of Cyberpunk 2077 modding tools,” said a spokesperson for CDPR. “The modding community has always been very important to us and we are happy to work with them side by side to further expand the tools available to modders. We do not offer any further comments on the topic at this time.”

This should be seen as good news for the Cyberpunk 2077 community, especially since launching the game in the open world was difficult. The game continues to receive fixes that fix crashes and stabilize the experience. And earlier this month, CDPR revealed Cyberpunk 2077’s first set of free DLCs, which are purely cosmetic.