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Fallout London's project lead is not taking the surprise drop of Fallout 4's update well: 'That has, for a lack of a better term, screwed us over' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)

For a company that relies 100% on modders for their games, you'd think they'd have an actual modding API built into their games by now.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

There's a pretty extensive API, capable of more than most games that advertise modding support, but it can't do literally everything anyone could think of, so people reverse engineer the game engine to make it possible to do even more things (hence it being called a script extender rather than the modding API). It's the mod reliant on reverse engineering the executable that break, not the ones using the modding API.

[–] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Imagine if Bethesda actually really listened to and catered to their modding community instead of just trying to monetize them. They would be legend right now.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

if bethesda relied 100% on modders then fo3 and new vegas and morrowind and oblivion and skyrim would have completely failed on console. did they?