Mod support

[Starman99]

Will there be any modding support? I know this has been a big feature of other fallout games, and has extended the lifetime of games so much that people can still do something new in new vegas today.

Edit: I found a response [imgur.com] in the Obsidian forums about this, and while there's no official mod support, they're looking into it for future games.

[NeverSleeper]

Probably no official mod support, but that's never stopped the community before.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

TFW u realize the only reason people liked New Vegas was after 5 years of Mods.

RIP Obsidian.

[vonbleak]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

TFW u realize the only reason people liked New Vegas was after 5 years of Mods.

RIP Obsidian.

Not true at all - i played it when it first came out (after a few patches) and it was amazing with no mods... Of course only just recently i played it again with over 50 mods and it was even more amazing but the core game was still stunning...

And Obsidian has continued to make great games... honestly i cant think of 1 bad game they have ever made, buggy yes, but never bad, and recently Pillars 1 and 2 were awesome throwbacks to the Baldurs Gate days...And with this new game they seem to be going back to a Fallout style thing which looks wicked... Obsidian is alive and well my freind

[Starman99]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

TFW u realize the only reason people liked New Vegas was after 5 years of Mods.

RIP Obsidian.

You can't seriously believe people would mod a game for 5 years that they don't enjoy the core of.

[Armin46920]

Originally posted by Starman99:

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

TFW u realize the only reason people liked New Vegas was after 5 years of Mods.

RIP Obsidian.

You can't seriously believe people would mod a game for 5 years that they don't enjoy the core of.

Put atleast 400 hours into vanilla NV before modding it

[Ray]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

TFW u realize the only reason people liked New Vegas was after 5 years of Mods.

RIP Obsidian.

Bethesda doesn't care about you. They won't act in your interest just because you tribally hate their competition.
If you want Bethesda to make good games you should want their competition to succeed; that will push them to make better games.

Of course, you won't do that. Because fanboyism, and especially fanboy driven hatred, isn't rational. It won't let you see that the failures of this game gets your beloved Bethesda nothing. (If Obsidian cancelled this project tomorrow, no one would purchase FO76 as a result.).

Prove me wrong. Go ahead. Show me you can enjoy a game from a company, even though people put down your favorite game maker while praising said company. That would be for the best, and for your sake, I'd like to see you do it. But I doubt you can.

[Superman]

Don't ♥♥♥♥ this up Obsidian.

[maldyus_grm]

Originally posted by Ray:

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

TFW u realize the only reason people liked New Vegas was after 5 years of Mods.

RIP Obsidian.

Bethesda doesn't care about you. They won't act in your interest just because you tribally hate their competition.
If you want Bethesda to make good games you should want their competition to succeed; that will push them to make better games.

Of course, you won't do that. Because fanboyism, and especially fanboy driven hatred, isn't rational. It won't let you see that the failures of this game gets your beloved Bethesda nothing. (If Obsidian cancelled this project tomorrow, no one would purchase FO76 as a result.).

Prove me wrong. Go ahead. Show me you can enjoy a game from a company, even though people put down your favorite game maker while praising said company. That would be for the best, and for your sake, I'd like to see you do it. But I doubt you can.

Ray, take my humble advice: let him rot, like ,yesterday.

[alemismun]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

TFW u realize the only reason people liked New Vegas was after 5 years of Mods.

RIP Obsidian.

Ill take vanilla FNV any day over any other fallout game.

[Flippy]

This is a deciding factor for me. No kidding.

[Starman99]

Originally posted by Wurt:

Good games don't need mods, so hopefully it will be good.
Played NV for almost 2000 hrs before installing mods, and found them to be useless fluff even then.

Yeah, the most I use mods for are to expand the game - when I've done every quest and dlc multiple times, done everything there is to do multiple times, it's nice to have something new to see or do.

[gakusangi]

It's made with Unreal 4, so there's potential for people familiar with that engine to implement some mods. What really matters is that if people DO start modding, Obsidian needs to just let it happen. It's a single-player experience with no competitive multiplayer or even co-op for that matter. There's literally no reason not to let a modding community grow for this game and extend it's lifespan. Hell, there was even a Dark Souls modding community that kept the original game going for a while.

[darthokkata]

Originally posted by NeverSleeper:

Probably no official mod support, but that's never stopped the community before.

Why not?

I'm pretty sure Obsidian is aware of what kind of game they are releasing. There is every reason to do so for something like this.

Plus they have experience with that kind of community interaction. NV still has a strong modding scene and while it was great when it came out, it wouldn't still be nearly as relevant today if not for the modding community.

Seriously, New California was just recently released for NV, plus there are a few other huge mods being made.

It doesn't need to be at launch, but they'd be fools to not add modding tools to this at some point.

It could be the difference between this game being relevant for a year and being relevant for five years +.

Unless this game is a complete flop, I don't see why official mod support wouldn't eventually be a thing for this. It doesn't make sense for them not to do so.

[Mister Holdout]

I hope there is mod support.

People love modding their games.

[Starman99]

An update on this: I looked through Obsidian's forums for The Outer Worlds and found that the game will not have any official mod support because of the low budget, but they're open to the idea for any potential sequels.
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