How likely do you think aquatica will break existing workshop mods?

[LuckyToShoot]

Would hate to see a modpocalypse...

[william_es]

I heard, on good opinion, that the sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.

[Lemon]

There's a 42.69% chance that at least 36.9% of the mods will not function correctly on Aquatica.

IMO a more interesting question is if Aquatica assets will exist on and be transferable to other maps. At present I believe the only way that could happen, without modifying the core game, is if the Aquatica DLC includes an Aquatica mod which has to be loaded on all other maps in any clusters which include Aquatica (or even other maps in single player). Otherwise Snail would need to update the core game (yikes) to support those assets on the other maps.

In either case I can imagine quite a few mods breaking, though I can't imagine why Snail would want to take on the responsibility of supporting this broken game for even one second. Based on the Snail/WC business model, they'll probably just release it, break a ton, and tell everyone "Good luck and thanks for the money, suckers!"

[Liralen]

If I wanted to play an underwater game, I'd buy Subnautica instead.

If Aquatica breaks my ASE game even if I don't buy it, I would leave Ark forever and never buy another game made by Snail/Wildcard.

[LuckyToShoot]

Originally posted by Lemon:

they'll probably just release it, break a ton, and tell everyone "Good luck and thanks for the money, suckers!"

Yeah, I can imagine that happening with snail. Just hoping it doesnt come to pass.

[Mathius]

I'm not a modder, but Legendarsreign who is head of one of the bigger ASE mods (Super Structures) seems to think it's not guaranteed to break anything.

We asked him if he's going to update the mod because right now his mod is on "bug fixes only" for ASE, and he said this:

Originally posted by Legendarsreign:

I’m not sure there will be a “need” to do so, but I’m also not sure if the dev kit will even be updated or not. The whole situation is weird the entirely AI trailer didn’t exactly make me think the quality of the DLC would be good either.

All in all, it’s still in bug fixes only mode and just because a DLC comes out does not mean the mod will suddenly break.

[SirSwerving]

Mods breaking? That sounds like a good time for Snail. I seriously doubt that they would care enough to not implement Aquatica in a non intrusive way that retains compatibility.

Either they sucker people into buying a DLC or they kill off the ASE playerbase so it won't compete with ASA.

[Mathius]

Originally posted by SirSwerving:

Mods breaking? That sounds like a good time for Snail. I seriously doubt that they would care enough to not implement Aquatica in a non intrusive way that retains compatibility.

Either they sucker people into buying a DLC or they kill off the ASE playerbase so it won't compete with ASA.

I still think this is a bizarre take. There are any number of easier ways they could kill mods, or ASE in general, starting by delisting it from the Steam store. (along with removing the devkit from EPIC)

Despite the fact that the trailer was low effort, building a map and reopening official servers requires manpower and capital.

They're trying to capitalize on the still healthy, ASE community, which WC decided to ignore.

[SirSwerving]

Another theory is that Aquatica was specially made mostly for the mobile edition of the game, but they decided to double dip into ASE to profit off the PC and probably Switch players.

[Mathius]

Originally posted by SirSwerving:

Another theory is that Aquatica was specially made mostly for the mobile edition of the game, but they decided to double dip into ASE to profit off the PC and probably Switch players.

That's possible, but it doesn't automatically mean it's bad.

I'm mean WC headed up The Center on ASA and it was outsourced, and it's a crime what they did to that map from the videos and screenshots I've seen.