Modding

[greg62665]

Is it safe to use mods on esse with AE?

[Wolf Knight]

ask in that games forum.

[Had Matter]

I wonder what people do with all the time they save by using acronyms.

[ReBoot]

If the game in question got Steam workshop support, those mods are, obviously, safe by default.
Otherwise, it really depends. If those mods contain code, they may be not safe. Meaning you should make sure the source is trustworthy.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

If the game in question got Steam workshop support, those mods are, obviously, safe by default.
Otherwise, it really depends. If those mods contain code, they may be not safe. Meaning you should make sure the source is trustworthy.

That's a bit much there.
THere has never been a case of malicious modding for any game ever.
Sure, there are some bad apples out there, but modding communities are not where you will ever find malicious code. :P

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

If the game in question got Steam workshop support, those mods are, obviously, safe by default.
Otherwise, it really depends. If those mods contain code, they may be not safe. Meaning you should make sure the source is trustworthy.

That's a bit much there.
THere has never been a case of malicious modding for any game ever.
Sure, there are some bad apples out there, but modding communities are not where you will ever find malicious code. :P

Please make up your mind. Has there never been a single case, or are there bad apples? Those two statements are incompatible.

[davidb11]

Okay. Sorry.
What I meant to say was there are bad apples out there in general.
Sorry, I did not explain myself properly. That is my bad.

There are bad people out there, and they could do very bad things.
But the modding community is safe.

I've never once heard of a bad modder trying to destroy people via malicious code.
That's my point.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Okay. Sorry.
What I meant to say was there are bad apples out there in general.
Sorry, I did not explain myself properly. That is my bad.

There are bad people out there, and they could do very bad things.
But the modding community is safe.

I've never once heard of a bad modder trying to destroy people via malicious code.
That's my point.

Define "modding community'". I've seen mods hosted on shady-looking web sites, with English reading exactly like yer usual spam, looking about as trustworthy. Lacking an impressum of course. Would you consider such web sites parts of the modding community?

[davidb11]

Why are you so angry?
All I know is I have never ever in 20 years of modding games ever heard of evil mod makers. Period.

I've never seen shady websites in my entire run of using mods.
The Nexus and others are very well known and don't have bad people on them.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by davidb11:

I've never seen shady websites in my entire run of using mods.
The Nexus and others are very well known and don't have bad people on them.

What you just said, is an example of

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Otherwise, it really depends. If those mods contain code, they may be not safe. Meaning you should make sure the source is trustworthy.

not a contradiction. Nexus is trustworthy. ModDB is trustworthy. We agree that downloading mods from trustworthy sites, i.e. Nexus, is a safe ordeal. I think, we can close this pointless debate now.

[davidb11]

Alright. I apologize. I wasn't trying to start an argument.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Had Matter:

I wonder what people do with all the time they save by using acronyms.

Lol, that made me actually laugh out loud :)

[greg62665]

thank you everyone for the answers to my question

[Doctor Teo]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by Had Matter:

I wonder what people do with all the time they save by using acronyms.

Lol, that made me actually laugh out loud :)

Same. Was like "AE... Age of Empires, no, that's AoE. Wasn't there a movie called After Earth? If I google AE, I get some game from 1982. I think there's a series of games starting with Atelier, so maybe it's one of those?"

Anyways... ahem...

If this is an online or multiplayer game, typically any mod that only changes client side information is safe; this holds true for Dark Souls and many others, as anti-cheats don't typically detect stuff that only you can see. That is, if you have a mod that changes the color of your spells or makes everyone look like anime cat girls on your end, you're probably okay. If you have a mod that gives you the power to create your own spells with their own damage numbers, or make other people look like anime cat girls on THEIR end, that mod will likely trip some cheat detection.

If this is an offline game, non-safe mods are those from sketchy sources, and you might want to hesitate regarding ones that mess with Steam itself in some way. I know Beat Saber has a few mods that say they can download an older version of the game (so as to run other mods), but you typically can't download older versions when there's a newest version out unless the publisher okays it (like Minecraft), so is it even downloading a 'legal' version of the game at all? That's the kind of gray area you want to avoid.