This week has been good for modding fans - unless you’re playing MultiVersus. Despite having a vibrant modding scene, the publishers don’t want streamers showcasing fan creations, and have been taking down streams that do use them.
Aside from that, there’s been a lot of joke mods floating about this week. So from Shrek in Stray to MultiVersus controversy, here are the biggest modding stories from the past seven days.
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Want to play as Walter White in MultiVersus? Better keep that to yourself. Players are having their streams taken down for playing with mods, with Warner Bros. issuing copyright strikes to a whole lot of content creators. This is apparently even affecting those who simply upload videos of their modded gameplay, with WB eager to put players off modding MultiVersus altogether. There’s no word on whether this will result in account bans from the game itself, so be careful out there with your Buff Pikachus and Saul Goodmans.
Need another excuse to replay Half-Life 2? Well, look no further than this VR mod. This fan-made VR support is set to launch on a Friday this September, although there’s no firm release date just yet. The mod will also improve textures, since players will be up close and personal with the game’s environment. The developers plan to port the whole City 17 trilogy to VR, making it so nearly every Half-Life game can be played like the popular Alyx spin-off. Maybe one day we’ll venture back to Black Mesa in VR.
Fallout 4’s stealth system kinda sucks. When one enemy detects you, they all communicate telepathically and immediately know your location. But now we have a mod that fixes that, making it so enemies have to actually see you to know
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