Battlefront II doesn't come with modding tools, nor does EA actively support modding in any meaningful way.
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Is modding a form of expression for yourself that you'd engage in even if you weren't modding with the particular focus you have now?
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Our love affair with GoldenEye 007 hasn't cooled much in 20 years, and modding it or modding other games to look like it remains a popular pastime.
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The Oculus post includes a note about modding: We understand and appreciate the value that modding brings to Beat Saber when done so legally and within our policies.
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In the modding community, flavored nicotine "juices" are especially popular.
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God, don't you wish the real world was modding compatible?
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For James "Destauch" Hourigan, modding became a form of protest.
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In the 17 years since, Halo's modding scene has exploded.
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Modding can save broken games and gleefully break perfect ones.
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Bethesda [Game Studios] games (Skyrim, Fallout) are great for modding.
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Because this is his first modding project, it's a little overwhelming.
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Microsoft is also working on support for overlays, modding and more.
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For most of today's games, modding isn't an especially friendly process.
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The Android modding scene has always had some issues with security.
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She experimented with modding a desktop version of Super Mario Bros.
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"Right now [modders] are busy working away on how to unlock key parts of No Man's Sky so that more modding possibilities can be opened up," Robin Scott, founder of Nexus Mods, another modding website, said.
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Hoping to gain some insight into the female modding community, The Creators Project reached out to girlplaysgame, a gamer who is actively modding Xbox and PC titles such as Dragon Age: Inquisition, Destiny, Skyrim, Bioshock and Fallout.
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Jet4571: First modding was probably Quake 3, made a few simple maps.
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It also has an active modding community posting content on Steam Workshop.
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Did you design 'Laws of War' with the modding community in mind?
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It's also the biggest Android modding security nightmare I have ever seen.
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Earlier this week, Grand Theft Auto V publisher Take-Two Interactive killed the popular modding tool OpenIV with a cease-and-desist letter, which cited concerns that modding opens the door to player harassment in the game's online mode.
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Modding consoles is done for many reasons, and indeed piracy is among them.
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But here's the thing: it's not entirely clear that any modding is legal.
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All of that low-stakes freedom has made The Sims ripe for modding.
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If you've missed my other modding interviews, I've linked them at the bottom.
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I got into modding way back in the mid-90s with Unreal Tournament.
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And, of course, WarrantyVoider and crew who made me3explorer [a popular modding utility].
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Girafarig: Modding Stardew is actually very easy, granted you have the right tools.
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Average hours per week: 15 VICE: Why do you enjoy modding for Cortana?
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There are more effective options, but they mostly involve modding the system itself.
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So I have been modding games in some way since the late 90's.
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The modding tools for The Witcher 3 are not comparable to those of Skyrim.
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Or maybe you're ready to dip your toe into the GTA 5 modding waters.
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Dota Auto Chess is possible because of a culture of modding that spans decades.
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Average hours per week: 5–10 VICE: Why do you like modding for Cortana?
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Hundreds of industry workers credit modding Doom with getting them started in game development.
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Who were your modding influences, and what, if you can speculate, were their motivations?
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Those leaks do not appear to have been widely available to the console-modding community.
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Bradel told me he's been working on games, modding and otherwise, since he was 12.
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But Take-Two also ignited protest by banning the popular general-purpose modding system OpenIV.
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But as a fan, Romero has access to the same modding tools as anyone else.
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Robert Yang: I grew up modding my favorite video games like Starcraft or Half-Life.
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I always was interested in modding, especially remodeling, because of my general interests in designing.
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Hoad, who only started modding 18 months ago, now mods full-time for a living.
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As someone who got their start in game development through modding, I think this sucks.
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What TheRasteri had done here is a very neat trick and bit of hardware modding.
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On the surface it's just Luckey being his regular ol' self: a boy modding things together.
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Here's a list of some of our favorites, pulled from over two decades of modding tradition.
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There was perhaps one solitary erotic content [mod] for Alex before I joined the modding community.
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Rendering old games in the modern engine is something of an obsession for the modding community.
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She then used a modding kit for Bioware's game Neverwinter Nights to further develop her skills.
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As a result, the modding community has taken it upon themselves to make Murray's game better.
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Believe it or not, juggling chores, laundry, dinner and extensive modding is harder than it looks.
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Outside of yourself, do you have any insight into the subculture of female gamers modding games?
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I actually don't spend very much time with modding; playing the game is more fun for me.
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But Source's crowning achievement in the modding community is Garry Newman's Half-Life 2 mod, Garry's Mod.
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How'd you get into modding in the first place, and what'd it take to learn the ropes?
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And I can not give these two users (and the rest of the modding community) enough credit.
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My guess is that more people would make mods if they knew how to get into modding.
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Modding journalist Wololo runs a hacking website where he covers the trials and tribulations of the hacking community.
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Liu's original business, in 2014, was meticulously modding individual switches and replacing the springs in each by hand.
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Today developer Bethesda released an open beta for modding in the PC version of the post-apocalyptic RPG.
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To get started, Vento wrote up formulas and projected leveling curves before delving into the actual modding itself.
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This time around we've got news about Fortnite's latest Marvel tie-in, Epic Store exclusives, and Overwatch modding.
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In the early 21s, games modification—typically referred to as modding—was a foreign concept to many gamers.
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Like any other modding community, it's almost exclusively made up of hobbyists who mostly do it for fun.
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Now that we've gotten rid of the elephant in the room, how does modding fit into your life?
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There are seven nude mods for Stardew Valley in total on the popular modding community site Nexus Mods.
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Fortunately, Deus Ex has a fantastic modding community that's kept the game looking sharp in the modern age.
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It was only until I really got into modding that I began to think about stuff like that.
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Instead of spending time and energy complaining, we channel our efforts into modding things that suit our interests.
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I think modding is a great creative outlet and the barrier to learning to mod is pretty low.
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Modding is a popular means — particularly among PC gamers — to alter a game's look or functionality by installing modifications.
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In authentic modding style, Sigil will be released as a MEGAWAD file, the same as any other community mod.
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That also is the reason why The Witcher 3 has a far smaller modding community then Skyrim or Fallout.
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The developers also released an extensive modding kit for those of you who want to get real into it.
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Last year's Atlas update added more story, mystery, and a suite of features the modding community had already added.
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Video game modding, the DIY alteration of games, stretches all the way back to the altered game Castle Smurfenstein.
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That's why I like being part of the modding community—it's just a bunch of makers, builders, and creators.
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First released in 1993, id's cultural touchstone has remained relevant thanks to a modding scene that's still thriving today.
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Browsing these forums, it's apparent that the modding process is a lot like restoring old furniture or works of art.
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But if players don't like it, then I'll stick with modding, and I'll have video games as a backup plan.
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"We are excited finally to get modding to our PlayStation fans who have supported us for so long," says Bethesda.
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The Black Mesa project began around 2005 as a collaboration between a couple of modding groups with the same idea.
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He wants to "push [his] limits" and see what exploits, including memory modding, can be uploaded before Nintendo catches on.
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Modding is a fun hobby; there's always something which can be altered (with any game), whether it's cosmetic or gameplay.
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However, housework has really put a damper on my free time, so modding has been my main creative outlet lately.
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For years, game photographers on PCs have taken to modding games and using external tools to photograph these virtual worlds.
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You gain a real appreciation for modding after going through the frustrations and hard work of creating a mod yourself.
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The original Doom thrived on a strong modding community, and id is supporting that tradition here in a great way.
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But GTA Online's publisher is still going after people who enable cheating (as well as other modding options) in the game.
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Even so, it's eminently possible to enjoy the weird world of GTA V modding without going online or affecting other players.
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And modding itself, the thing that made the project possible in the first place, helps keep the fanbase involved and contributing.
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It's being able to rewrite history, which thanks to the thriving modding scene on TEW's forums, continues to be entirely possible.
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On top of that, the game is not very "modding friendly," the workflows are very complex in comparison to other games.
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It hurts my brain to think what my life would be like now, if Valve had the same attitude towards modding.
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In the event that modding is facilitated, likely through your own backend, mods may be censored and curated at your whim.
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We'll have to wait and see how the rest of the modding community continues to be affected by these legal proceedings.
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If Skelux is going to keep modding 3D Zelda games into Super Mario 64, Wind Waker would have to be next.
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Unfortunately, modding Minecraft can be a messy process, especially when all the different versions of the game are taken into account.
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The lack of free-to-play monetization also means the developers can fully embrace modding, letting players do what they want.
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Even with the added tones, I still can't find a skin tone that matches mine without modding it into the game.
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They don't know the joy of overly tweaking an operating system with Quicksilver or Alfred, or modding the user interface with Rainmeter.
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I had never actually messed with a game that had dedicated modding software—I'd mostly done retextures for Half-Life 2 before.
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The Valve-created Steam, an internet-based digital distribution platform for games, fosters an active modding subculture on its Steam Community pages.
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After modding my Super NES Classic, I proceeded to play one of my all-time favorite games, The Legend of the Mystical Ninja.
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Because the Zeitgeist was designed from the ground up — not by modding an existing bike model — it's going to be sold differently, too.
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But once you start modding guns, some clearer visuals regarding what gun it is you're fixing these new sights to would be useful.
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You can now dictate what users are allowed to do with your game's content, and whether any sort of modding will be allowed.
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Official modding tools first launched for the PC version of Fallout 4 back in April and came to the Xbox One in May.
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It's early days for Andromeda modding—no one's made any tools—so people are largely sharing faces made using the in-game options.
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"I think looking at modding is always one of the best ways a developer can put an ear to the ground," Redditor Bolty wrote.
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As explained in the video's description, Master0fHyrule achieved this horror show by modding Captain Falcon to do the Fortnite dance in Super Smash Bros.
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Denuvo's anti-piracy tech has been divisive in the gaming world, with some complaining that it restricts their gaming habits or stifles modding communities.
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I doubt the modding community will remain so vital if Beat Saber becomes more than just "big for VR" and reaches true mainstream status.
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And now she's in the park, behavior-modding bots as her private army, and figuring out her next move against the powers that be.
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ShockSlayer started modding as a young kid and was primarily focused on hardware and "portablizing stuff," which is modder lingo for making things portable.
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It is not intended for engaging in piracy or illicit modding, including mods that infringe on third-party IP rights or contain malicious code.
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Critics speculate that cloud gaming might eliminate the used game market and modding scene, and impact the ability to preserve games for future generations.
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Code Kingdom's newest product — CK for Modding — is a Minecraft-popularity-piggybacking subscription service that teaches Java through interactive videos and its online code editor.
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But, in fact, I had nearly no experience with programming, modding workflows and not even with the tools that I used for remodeling the meshes.
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Sun and Moon Producer Junichi Masuda didn't necessarily object to the modding community, instead encouraging interested players to apply for a job with the studio.
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Whichever side of the fence you're on, it's hard to deny the level of creativity and technological talent Pokémon modding has fostered over the years.
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Well, Reddit user Littlewolf128 decided to pay tribute to the 2001 console by modding their Nintendo Switch dock to look like a spice orange GameCube.
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This leaves things open for ZIL enthusiasts to tinker with the code and test it in-real time, packing on additions and modding existing games.
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I asked u/Celladoore, one of the mods for the Slime Girls subreddit, how she ended up modding such a unique, sticky corner of Reddit.
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Modding often involves encouraging people to install apps with powerful root permissions that could do very nasty, malicious things to a phone if they wanted.
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"The Curse of Tristram" is the kind of inspired, over-the-top modding project that could only be hatched in the mind of a fan.
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Despite women accounting for 44 percent of gamers in the US and 52 percent in the United Kingdom, the female modding community is rather small.
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They also have a very active modding community, which is why so many of us are still playing Skyrim five years after its initial release.
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Nintendo has tried to discourage people from modding their Switch consoles by issuing software updates that can ban people's Switch consoles from connecting to the internet.
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The whole reason OpenIV is so popular in the modding community is that it allows users to decrypt, read, and edit the game's proprietary file format.
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At this point Code Kingdoms estimates some 4,23 UK schools are using its micro:bit software, and a further 30 are using its software for Minecraft modding.
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In mid-2017, it successfully shut down three modding tools with cease-and-desist notices, convincing one of the teams to donate its proceeds to charity.
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The company says game modding is a $4 billion industry, but that modders generally don't make any money because they simply don't own the original games.
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"I doubt this project would've reached even a 5-year anniversary, let alone nearly 20, without the support of the modding scene," Tim "RedEnchilada" Bordelon said.
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Recently, Google experimented with light-field photography, modding one of the 16-camera circular "Jump" rigs that Google developed a few years ago with GoPro cameras.
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Modding and jailbreaking in 2019Image: Raspberry Pi FoundationThat's a whistle stop tour of how the land lies at the moment across a whole range of devices.
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We took it for a ride down to EV West, a boutique car garage that specializes in modding vintage cars to run electric, just like Garcia's.
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By then, Deadheads were already modding microphones, building their own preamps, experimenting with DATs, publishing phone book-length tape catalogs, and exploring internet-based distribution networks.
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It was an odd oversight by Rockstar Games, a studio known for being detail-oriented, but the modding community has since stepped up to fix this.
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I made a couple of mods for Fallout 4, but lately its been a busy time, and I've just been a regular gamer instead of modding.
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Instead, my options are to either buy another expensive piece of plastic or put the time and energy into modding and hacking machines I already own.
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We discussed his approach to modding, why he wanted to build stuff for folks looking for deeper interactions with the men of Stardew Valley, and more.
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Variety is what modding is all about, so I don't see the point in making a version of a mod that ten other people are making.
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Over the weekend, data miner and modding enthusiast KapuccinoHeck tweeted that they were recently perusing the online service's code and discovered a list of 22 SNES games.
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Many in the games business got their start in modding, disassembling their favourite games, sculpting them into something new and learning about digital artistry along the way.
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The PC modding community has had less than a year with Grand Theft Auto 5, and yet its creations continue to impress with their scope and ambition.
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They accomplished that and much more, garnering plenty of interest from other members of the Xbox modding scene fed up with the limitations of Microsoft's official service.
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After all, the benefit of modding is that it's on your own time, we can always go back and add those features—and we fully intend to.
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Its modding system was an accessible way to learn game design, and the popular Garry's Mod let people pose and move characters to make videos and comics.
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That means, of course, the game isn't complete, and you can expect updates like case modding, improved cable management, water cooling, and additional career content as development progresses.
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You could even say it's the brainchild of the Hot Wheels community online, which has seen several fans modding vehicles so they could mount a GoPro on top.
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His Steam clock says he's put 1,261 hours into Civilization V and 744 hours into Civilization VI. He's experimented with modding, but he only shared with his family.
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Because A.L.T. is a free fan wad made of resources shamelessly ripped from other commercial games (a proud modding tradition) by outsiders, it feels like a pirate transmission.
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All through Slitherine's acquisition of Master of Magic, back through Seravy's modding, even as far as early community mods, nobody's had access to Master of Magic's source code.
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It is mostly here, when Crowbar Collective throws away the script and writes its own destiny, that the spirit and creativity of the modding community shines the most.
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At the same time, power users — tech superfans — are hacking, modding, and just plain figuring out the tech we already have, sometimes mashing things together to create something new.
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If you're happy doing a little bit of DIY modding, meanwhile, then you can upgrade the battery inside your controller and get more wireless playing time in between chargers.
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This informative Instructables guide takes you through the process of modding an old cabinet and control deck, though it doesn't cover configuring the PC that ultimately runs it all.
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Chinese roboticist and entrepreneur Sun Tianqi has made it happen: modding a six-legged toy robot made by his company Vincross to carry a potted plant on its back.
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Newer games have more intense anti-modding encryptions, but Scires admits they're pretty easy to crack if you've been at it for long enough—in his case, three years.
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The example today comes from the Skyrim modding community, which creates all kinds of improvements for the classic fantasy adventure, from new items and better maps to complete overhauls.
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That means selling adapters for popular building blocks like LEGO, creating a modding kit aimed at Minecraft players and making its kits work with protocols like IFFFT and Scratch.
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Earlier this month, game publisher Take Two sent a letter to the developers of the OpenIV modding tool, in which it asked for the tool to be taken down.
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"Controlling what people do or say or think is impossible," he said, calling his modding tweets nothing more than a proof of concept about what might eventually be possible.
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There are limitations to what we can mod, and there is the extra limitation of what I have actually learned how to do so far in modding for Civilization.
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The Adams brothers teamed up with developer Kitfox Games (the studio behind Shrouded Isle) and its own modding community to update Dwarf Fortress' art style without abandoning its soul.
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ROM hacks, a proud tradition of modding old games, have existed for decades, and many users seem to be uploading pre-existing ones from the basins of the web.
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Grand Theft Auto V publisher Take-Two Interactive sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of OpenIV, a prominent GTA modding tool popularly used in GTAV's single player.
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Miniature racing enthusiasts starting modding Hot Wheels toys to accommodate the camera, even going so far as to design custom 3D-printed vehicles that were compatible with Hot Wheels tracks.
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Activision and Treyarch also introduced limited-time creative challenges for modding zombies, and promised new ways to play the game and updated seasonal themes based, in part, on player modifications.
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And while it's still working on that platform, it's also since shifted efforts to focus on serving the Minecraft modding community with a subscription service to help kids learn JavaScript.
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I love the retro-furturistic backdrop, I love the brand of humor, I love the lore, and honestly I'm just very familiar with Fallout 4 and modding at this point.
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As core behavior and functionality becomes associated with cloud computations, the associated data gradually stops existing on the client, and modding or analyzing anything relating to that data becomes impossible.
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He teamed up with his co-founder Nicholas Heriveaux, who'd spent 13 years working on 3D tech while modding games like Grand Theft Auto to insert his avatar and assets.
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Murphy: I had dabbled in Quake 1 modding in the past, so as soon as the mod tools were released I figured there would be a way to fix it.
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If games are about engaging with a world built for you by someone else, modding is about reaching into that world and taking a more collaborative role in constituting it.
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"The [No Man's Sky] modding community is only a few days old and is already tearing the game apart," John, a 30-year-old modder from the US told Motherboard.
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When I realized you could do all sorts of things with mods, I went out and bought a gaming PC (I was 100% Xbox 360/Xbone before I started modding).
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Some of their suggested approaches, culled from various corners of the internet, cost hundreds of dollars, require specialized cables, lean on professional-quality video monitors, or are only possible with modding.
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And as a testament to the seemingly limitless appeal of modding Doom, modder Edy Pagaza has gone and mashed the two together in a new mod appropriately called God Hand Doom.
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Natalie is an open-source mod in fantasy role-playing game Skyrim, one of the most popular games on Steam with one of the most active modding communities in video games.
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"Modding has been an important part of our games for over 10 years, and we hope to do even more in the coming year for all our players, regardless of platform."
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And while the Doom modding community is filled with many robust and fascinating works due to its size and history, there also is a lot of stuff that isn't very… good.
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The initial music selection is limited, but the developers have released expansion packs, and thanks to an extensive modding scene you can play with thousands more songs mapped by passionate fans.
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"A lot of modders were just interested in making their own house on their computer, or making their office or something," said LeBreton, who got his modding start making Doom levels.
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Its multiplayer abilities laid the groundwork for the eSports boom, its easily hacked data files popularized modding, and its novel shareware distribution model allowed it to reach an unprecedented number of computers.
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There are many legitimate reasons to jailbreak a video game console—modding the Switch allows greater customizability, the ability to side load bespoke apps, and the ability to play home-brew games.
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The discovery has raised hope that some of the criticisms of the retro console, such as a limited game library and poor image quality, could soon be addressed with third-party modding.
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Most newer action-adventure games have either no modding support or prohibitively complex tools, along with gameplay interactions that are automated in ways that would make it hard to expand on them.
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MacBook users can pick up the HyperJuice, but it requires a little bit of modding to make it compatible with the MagSafe charger and not everyone is comfortable getting their hands dirty.
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Although he said he plans to comply with the order to shutdown the modding platform, fans of OpenIV continue to bombard GTA's Steam store page with "overwhelmingly negative" reviews of the game.
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Emanuar's mods are popular in the modding community and have previously gone viral for showing how far he could push the boundaries on a classic game that was originally released in 1996.
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In an interview from April of 2015, GooD-NTS told Motherboard that GTA developer Rockstar Games "literally want modding dead," and as such, was using a new algorithm to encrypt GTA's files.
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He wanted to remake the second Diablo game and the Blizzard-supported modding software for StarCraft II is the only option for citizen programmers that want to do things with Blizzard games.
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The first Xbox only ever got internal tweaks intended to improve reliability and defend against modding, although Microsoft did quickly backtrack on its unwieldy original controller by switching to the smaller S model.
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There's just no way you can expect any studio to make a game to cater to everything every degenerate like me wants, but opening a game to modding means we can get closer.
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The game's modding scene helped nurture that impulse, Frewin told me, giving her a reason to stick around and find renewed inspiration long after the point when her interest may have otherwise waned.
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"I'm told Hollywood FX stuff, like with animatronics and more, can add at least a zero onto the highest fursuit prices," said O'Furr, which means some may hit six-figures after full modding.
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"The interest in modding No Man's Sky is massive because since the initial announcement people have been imagining all the crazy things they will be getting up to in this game," Shah said.
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In GTA Online, modding can be more morally ambiguous, like the Grand Theft Auto universe itself — it can make an old experience feel new again or give players a peek into the game's guts.
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Take-Two has been aggressive about shutting down cheating programs in the past, even going so far as to serve legal notice against modding programs used to tweak Grand Theft Auto's single player experience.
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It intrigued him in the same way that modding did, and to get some practical experience, he began intercepting or 'sniffing' the packets of data being transmitted between his computer and the MxO servers.
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Although Rockstar has cleared the air on what it deems acceptable as far as game modding goes, OpenIV still has the potential to affect GTA Online because it can manipulate all of GTAV's files.
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The taped-together appeal of Doom has also translated very well to its long-lasting modding scene —a scene that defines the experience of Doom probably more than the original commercial game these days.
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And you're unlikely to see much, if any, of this beyond what's found on Twitch streams and YouTube videos; memory modding requires jacking into Mario Maker 2, well out of reach for most players.
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The beauty of modding is that you can skip mods you don't like, or, if you simply must have them, you can edit them yourself to remove or alter the things you disapprove of.
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One Redditor has compiled an exhaustive list of promised features which didn't make it into the final release and it is these perceived gaps in the game which the modding community believes it can fill.
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Motherboard reached out to the fans on Reddit to see how they felt about the new update, the state of the game today, and to see if Hello Games was catching up with the modding community.
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Romero developed the 25th anniversary mod over the course of two years in his evenings and weekends using Doom Builder 2, a fan-made modding tool used to create and add new levels to the game.
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" Appeals need to show new moderation techniques — like auto-modding, or adding more moderators and new rules — over a period "of at least one month," Reddit wrote in its policy, "demonstrating meaningful reform of the community.
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Bundled into the PC version of the game was an option to install the Max FX tools, a suite of modding utilities that let players build their own levels and change the way the game played.
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Methanhydrat: I am a long time PC gamer, and came first into contact with the concept of modding around 1995, when building levels for the Star Wars game Dark Forces, together with my father and brother.
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Modding is a long established practice in the video game world, where dedicated fans take apart a game's code before adding their own tweaks and making them available for everyone to use—sometimes for a price.
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"We have undertaken analysis on pathways into cyber crime offending and can conclude that some young people who have an interest in online games may begin to participate in gaming cheat websites and 'modding'," Jones said.
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The Doom series is known for its busy modding scene, so it's appropriate that a Doom mod may have just shown us the way to get big budget first-person shooters to work on virtual reality headsets.
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He took it over from the original creator, Dan Upright, in 2005, and he's enlisted help from the game's active modding community, which spots bugs, creates new content, and develops tools for building things like game maps.
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I loved the original Doom when it came out in 1993, and I still play it occasionally 25 years later because the modding community keeps adding to and changing the game to make it new and different.
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When the series began, it was working with a relatively modest budget, and it was targeted at a mostly American audience: young men steeped in, or at least aware of, contemporary car modding and street racing culture.
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I'm still fairly new to modding and still have a lot to learn about engines, but this is how textures appear for a majority of games; features are arranged depending on the character model and other factors.
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An interest in synthesisers and electronic music soon followed and for the last 20 years, Hall has been part of the DIY synth scene, including building and modding synth systems both for himself and other electronic musicians.
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Definitely. I've been modding games since I was a kid, but I think for this one, I would guess it's gotten well over two or three hundred thousand players over the course of the past few days.
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Image: A screenshot from the upcoming srb222 453When Doom was released in 245 it was an undeniable boon to the game modding community, and among the many fan projects built on its bones was Sonic Robo Blast 22007.
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Players who already have OpenIV should still be able to use it, but Take-Two's decision basically killed one of the community's favorite modding tools, which for many players is the reason they still play the game today.
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As part of the massive fan and modding community which gave rise to Counter-Strike, Dear Esther, and the gay agenda of Robert Yang, I learned how to express and to moderate myself—crucial elements of ordinary socialization.
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" Clark-Bojin posts free tutorial clips on her Instagram every week, spends at least an hour a day answering questions from her followers, and has just published an E-book version of her how-to book "Pie Modding.
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Over the last couple of weeks since the hub's inception, lots of inventive creations, both old and new, have been uploaded, further proving that modding older games is just as relevant as it was a decade or so ago.
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"You need to separate your thinking between 'mods on consoles are bad for whatever reason', which is stupid, and 'mods on console are bad due to how it's affecting the PC modding community', which can be justified," he said.
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Featuring impressive leaps forward in lighting and animation, a robust physics system (one of the first in games), and a full suite of modding tools, Source soon became the technical foundation of Valve's work in the industry going forward.
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Many players took the action as an attack on the very idea of modding, particularly since OpenIV has served as a development tool and library for modders of the PC versions of GTA games for the better part of a decade.
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The freely available mods, which have been floating around the underground Street Fighter V modding scene for the past several weeks, depict longtime Street Fighter characters Chun Li and Cammy completely nude and Street Fighter V newcomer Laura partially topless.
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Jonathan: Originally, I was perfectly content with the Jewish characters and events already in the game, and I just wanted to correct a few historical inaccuracies here and there, but as I got better at modding, I decided to add more.
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Read more: UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers "No one should think that cyber crime is victimless or that they can get away with it," NCA's investigations manager Janey Young was quoted as saying.
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Last week Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive pissed off thousands of Grand Theft Auto V players when it sent a cease-and desist letter to Yuriy "Good-NDS" Krivoruchko, the developer of OpenIV, a popular Grand Theft Auto V modding tool.
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If those features are truly essential, there is always the option of modding your Switch with a custom D-pad and case (like this one from Basstop), although be warned that the replacement is apparently pretty tricky and will absolutely void your warranty.
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This is a more involved process than jailbreaking iOS, and you need to be familiar with the basics of building a PC or modding code on an existing one (or at least willing to learn either skill)—head to tonymacx86 for some inspiration.
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Console moddingPhoto: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Console modding, or jailbreaking, or whatever you want to call it remains popular—essentially unlocking your console so you can install pretty much anything you like, from retro game emulators to mods for specific modern-day titles.
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Either way, as I saw it, the point of modding tools was to enable and allow changes to the intentional design of the game, so I knew that it was well in the camp of the type of thing id wanted to enable.
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Attitudes have changed, however, and Solomon himself changed his stance partly on seeing the strength of the acclaimed "Long War" mod for Enemy Unknown, which managed to achieve greatness even while working within the severe limitations Firaxis placed on that game's modding capabilities.
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The modding and jailbreaking community is not as vibrant as it once was, as the tech giants lock…Read more ReadThe flip side is the same bug enabling the jailbreak also means all updated iPhones are a bit more vulnerable to hacking.
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If messing around with Doomba has rekindled your love of ripping and tearing, the Doomworld fansite recently put up a list of the best Doom mods of 2018 from the game's modding community, which is still going strong 25 years after its original release.[Polygon]
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This choice makes it easier for its Russian/Ukranian authors to get it out into the world and noticed in a well-established modding community for people halfway across the world, in ways that works more dependent on understanding language and cultural context could not.
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The itch hasn't left since, but there's no way Beswick could have predicted Ross would not only influence his decision to become a visual artist, but the 33-year-old would spend his spare hours modding trees for the city simulation game Cities: Skylines.
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If you've spent a significant amount of time on the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto 5, Grand Theft Auto 4, and Max Payne 3 over the last decade, there's a good chance you've used or used something created by the OpenIV modding tool.
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While some modders have enabled features like early unlocking of DLC characters and stages and easier survival mode, many players are harmlessly modding for fun (like putting in Overwatch character models) or using tools to help analyze their play to improve on a competitive level.
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Despite its London base and an initial focus on UK schools, Targett says the majority of Code Kingdom's business is outside the UK, with the US and Canada being its biggest markets — so it's planning a rapid expansion of its direct to consumer subscription modding product there.
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Nearly every piece of technology, including both hardware and software, carries with it some type of murky agreement regulating the behavior of consumers, whether it's to prevent them from modding a video game, jailbreaking a smartphone, or using a product in some way its creators never intended.
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Read more: 'Dead or Alive Xtreme 3' Bikini Malfunctions Are Too Hot for America DOA's "Softness Engine" has been controversial since the game's inception, and gamers doing what gamers do—modding games to see some virtual skin—seems to be a constant headache for Koei Tecmo.
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In an email to one customer, Hello Games revealed that it will be releasing patches this week and next which will "help to improve the experience further for players" but it is unlikely that the promised official modding tools will be released in the near future.
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While Murray and Hello Games are clearly worried about the impact mods will have on the experience of all gamers, the modding community believes the possibility of parallel universes and the ability to affect the way the game is played by everyone is not really feasible.
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Barely a month later, and with little promotion other than on Twitter, there's already an enthusiastic community of hundreds of security researchers and hackers all over the world who are playing with it, modding it, writing plugins to improve it, and helping each other out on a Slack channel.
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Image: GizmodoThe modding and jailbreaking community is not as vibrant as it once was, as the tech giants lock down their code with increasing efficiency, and amateur tinkerers are left wondering if the benefits outweigh the time and effort when it comes to unlocking a device's default operating system.
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"Emulators and modding tools were within easy reach for the GBA, and since I was fairly young with time to burn—I think I was around 11 or 12—I ended up going from simpler things like mapping to picking up scripting and programming relatively quickly," he says.
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What you have to keep in mind, is that you are trying to deploy something that is essentially a hack, to a game without any modding support whatsoever, for a lot of people with vastly different combinations of hardware, tools and other mods they are using with the game.
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While I was dabbling around with an editor to create a custom map for the original Counter-Strike, I quickly realized that I lacked the creativity and dedication to contribute anything valuable for other people and I just kept enjoying modding as a player instead of a developer.
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But it's not possible to play a full library on them without modding—and issues with certain games are likely to crop up, as Nintendo didn't design the console to work with every game in the system's library, but the 20 or so it included in the tiny plastic case.
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There are Terminator movie fans and then there are beautiful maniacs like this guy who recreated the entire Terminator 2 movie using Grand Theft Auto V. We already know that the GTA modding community is incredibly creative, but the dedication and attention to detail required by this project is mind blowing.
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As well as popularizing the first-person shooter genre (which lead to early FPS games being referred to as 'Doom-clones'), it also spawned a vibrant modding community which remains active a quarter of a century later — although typically these mods aren't created by someone who literally worked on the original game.
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We actually came pretty close to not being able to make the mod; we ran into a major issue with the custom map, and since it was uncharted territory in the modding scene, it took a major god-end to get us over that hurdle—in the form of [lead programmer] Mechano.
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It makes me wonder if perhaps this could be the spark that not only ignites VR, but inflames the passions of a modding community yet again — that a community that's hungry for more to play on these headsets might just go ahead and build something on top of what Valve does here.
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The pixel art renaissance of the past 5-10 years shows that people can still make really nice visuals at low fidelity… Modding has made Doom way more of an open canvas than almost any other game from the mid 1990s, and that openness means the game has changed along with me, to an extent.
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Just like there are subcultures of folks obsessing over mechanical keys, there are subcultures of people modding "cheese-grater" Macs so that they run more modern hardware, and high-end users choosing to set up a Hackintosh to keep their workflow but have a bit more flexibility over the machine they use as their main rig.
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The fact Murray laid out his fears about modding may suggest the he and Hello Games have bigger plans for multiplayer options in the No Man's Sky universe, and it is widely expected that Hello Games will release significant updates for the game in years to come, just like almost every other major video game these days.
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I tried to learn the basics, but back then, the modding scene was still young and it was hard, so for a while I enjoyed the fruits of all the talented modders out there, I think my first mods were messing around trying to learn how to reskin for GTA 4 and I managed to create a few basic mods for that.
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The gray market distribution of Google apps is something the Android modding scene has down to a science, and it's fairly easy to get Google apps on things that don't normally come with Google apps, like Amazon Kindle Fire devices, custom ROMs based on the open source Android code (like LineageOS), and on imported devices meant for the Google-free Chinese market.
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A well-known programming book publisher had gotten in touch with me to discuss writing a book about Doom 3 modding, so I had an excuse to email id to let them know that was happening, to introduce myself, and to ask if it was OK. I think their response was a relatively terse "this is fine," so though the book thing didn't go anywhere, I least got to find out we weren't on not-speaking-terms.
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