I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages

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• MonkeyTown@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I felt exactly the same way about Rimworld when 1.6 released after a wildly long time on 1.5. I’d just got it set up on a newly rebuilt gaming pc, and did all the work to manually download, install, and sort new copies of mods (not on steam, refuse to use it for anything other than finding mods - I’ve since found rimsort which has workshop access and steamcmd built in which is swanky af.) and then 1.6 dropped which would break literally all my mods because they changed how the game runs, and…

  I just said absolutely not and left it at 1.5 for a long time while I continued to play my perfectly good functional game (do some games not let you choose to update or not? If you -can- choose, why does this even matter? Fomo?). I recently updated everything, now that I have rimsort for the mods, and… yeah game is almost exactly the same, and runs the same, but some of the mods are built in now. And they added birds and water plants I guess. Yay. Taking two full days to set everything up again was so worth it… Most of it is junk I’ll never interact with, because the modded stuff I’m used to is superior. I haven’t even tried to go to space, that crap isn’t what I’m playing for (ridiculous base building and hoarding is, and “spreadsheets and warcrimes: the game” is exactly my jam for those two things).

  A lot of the newer mods are considerably better, though, so there IS that…

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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Articles with headlines like this are why gamers continue to feel so entitled.

  Like Jesus fuck.

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• DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I'll say it: They're targeting you, Mark.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve always worried about “updates” to prior entries when a new one is coming

  There’s a financial incentive to cripple the last game’s years of mod support so the next official entry isn’t compared to that, it’s compared to the base game

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s no conspiracy to break your mods. This is honestly ridiculous.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah bro, there’s now way checks notes Microsoft would do something like that…

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No shit, idiot.

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  • supersquirrel@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which is egregious because vanilla Bethesda games are meh

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And explains why this update that breaks mods is to push the same mods except paid and labeled “creations”…

      The Fallout 4 update’s due first, arriving on August 18th and “focusing on general Creations improvements”.

      They weren’t happy with people fixing their games for free, they want to get paid for it.

      Coincidentally, if America used original licensing laws, Fallout would have enter public domain a year or so ago, and anyone could make a full Fallout game by now and sell it.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ARK released an (incredibly buggy and half-baked) underwater-themed expansion for the original UE3 game some time after the UE5 remake was released. And several years after all the modders for the original game had moved on. It broke everything.

    Conan Exiles just did the same thing recently, though at least theirs was a free upgrade to a new engine so they had an excuse.

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