If you know anything about it Ciberpunk 2077, an open game about committing crimes with the neo-John Wick, you know thrown roughly. Much of the game’s lifespan for eight months has been defined more by patches and upgrades than anything else. But this news can help: the developer, CD Projekt Red, is hiring some high-profile modders from the community.
Since its launch last December, Ciberpunk 2077 has received intermittent support from the developer, resources such as metadata and TweakDB file dumps. But the most useful tools come from the community.
The modifiers that will officially join CDPR are Traderain, Nightmarea, Blumster and rfuzzo. They are better known as the people behind them WolvesKit, a open source tool which allows modders to modify the big hits of CD Projekt Red, Ciberpunk 2077 i The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt In terms of Cyberpunk to modify resources, WolvenKit is the gold standard, which allows you to edit any game file and basically browse these files “without unpacking the files”.
“We will work on various projects related to the Ciberpunk 2077 backend and game modding support, “Traderain wrote in an ad on Ciberpunk 2077Discord modding community (via Reddit). “We are very excited about this and we hope we can help bring it about Ciberpunk 2077 to the next level! ”
Traderain and Nightmarea, whose respective names are Hambalkó Bence and Köte Ákos, co-founded and currently operating Yigsoft, a custom development studio based in Budapest. According to Bence, the modders crew will join CDPR under Yigsoft. Bence said Kotaku by e-mail, this company will remain operationally separate and will maintain its headquarters in Budapest
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“It’s been a long dream to work for CDPR, so it’s a dream come true,” Bence said Kotaku.
“We are working with Yigsoft on the development of Ciberpunk 2077 modification tools. The modding community has always been very important to us and we are excited to work with them side by side to further expand the tools available to modders, ”said a CD Projekt Red representative Kotaku in a statement.
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Yigsoft’s jump to the CDPR payroll isn’t the only case that a massive company that produces the games they modify gets a modder. Earlier this month, Stephanie Zachariadis, the lead writer of Ridiculous Ambition Fallout: London—An next “DLC size” Fallout 4 mod that aims to show what Negative consequence it looks like it was crossing the pond hired by Bethesda Game Studios. She will join the company as an associate mission designer.