Can the GOG version get Sam4_Unrestricted.exe too?

[PikaCommando]

Let our DRM-free comrades enjoy the fruits of modding too.

[ScrapedOffRoad(Maddogge)]

My understanding is no, at least at this time and for the foreseeable future. Just like with co-op, modding is apparently tied into the Steam client via the workshop. I have the GOG version but bought it at release knowing full well that I'd not be able to play co-op, but since that is usually dead within a few months I didn't care. I did hope however we'd be able to play mods and did ask since they are SP but that turned out not to be the case. I honestly don't see them doing more coding just to allow that.

[PikaCommando]

Originally posted by ScrapedOffRoad(Maddogge):

My understanding is no, at least at this time and for the foreseeable future. Just like with co-op, modding is apparently tied into the Steam client via the workshop. I have the GOG version but bought it at release knowing full well that I'd not be able to play co-op, but since that is usually dead within a few months I didn't care. I did hope however we'd be able to play mods and did ask since they are SP but that turned out not to be the case. I honestly don't see them doing more coding just to allow that.

While the ability to create mods is tied to Steam (only because SED is currently only available on Steam), the ability to pack, share, and play mods is not.

If you put in a custom mod's .gro file (that can be uploaded to/downloaded from anywhere like Mediafire or MEGA or even Discord) in Content\SeriousSam4, it should appear in-game through the unrestricted executable even without an online connection to Steam since it's reading directly from your local files.

[Emily Howard]

It was, and probably is, a way to get hands on workshop content with external tools so this isn't an excuse to refuse buyers on other platforms to play the game with mods.

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Would definitely be nice. If loading mods without Steam is as easy as PikaCommando says, there is no reason not to include the unrestricted .exe in the GOG release as well.

All this locking of content behind a singular platform these days really sucks, especially when it comes to mods.

[alex.brown111]

There is a way to download this mod:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2464669721

and dune and play it with GOG version ?

I have GOG version only.

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Originally posted by alex.brown111:

There is a way to download this mod:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2464669721

and dune and play it with GOG version ?

I have GOG version only.

Not unless Croteam includes the unrestricted exe in the GOG release.

[pac85]

I strongly agree, I don't see any reason for not including it.

[Virgile "VILE"]

Seriously come on Croteam!
It's unfair !

[Kyle07]

Oh, I think I should unwhishlist SS4 on GOG. :0

[MrElix3r]

+1

[ace]

Guess i bought the game on the wrong digital store...

[Kyle07]

Refund?

[a.j]

This is serious-ly unfair.

[Grandma Jenkins]

doesn’t that erase the whole point of gog in the first place

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Originally posted by Coplezeego:

doesn’t that erase the whole point of gog in the first place

The point of GOG is to be able to play games without any pre-requisites. Once you download the installers, you can disconnect from the internet, don't have to have any client installed, don't have to be logged in anywhere etc.

Gating mods behind a single platform has nothing to do with it. Especially when the mods could easily be used anyway as PikaCommando described, if the GOG version simply got the unrestricted .exe too.