This Week In Modding: Take-Two Goes After Modders, Mass Effect 2 Gets Harder, And More
It’s been a busy week in modding, with new creations from a wide variety of games being shared this week. A whole lot of them caught our eye, such as a recreated suicide mission for Mass Effect 2 and a standalone successor to an old Half-Life mod.
However, the biggest news this week didn’t centre around the creation of a mod, but rather an attack on its creator. A modder behind some of the most popular VR mods out there has received a DMCA from Take-Two, threatening some of his work.
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We open with some pretty unsurprising news this week: Take-Two is at it again. Not content with giving classic GTA modders a headache, the company is now coming after a creator of VR GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mafia mods. Luke Ross is well known for his incredible VR work, but has now been issued with a cease and desist.
Ross has defended himself, stating that he didn’t use Take-Two’s software to create the mods, nor do they replace the official releases of the games. It remains to be seen if Take-Two backs down this time, given the amount of independent work that goes into Ross’ mods.
In some more positive news, a popular Half-Life mod has just been released as a standalone game. Snow War, a 14-year-old mod for the original Half-Life, has been completely revamped and launched on its own, not requiring Half-Life to be downloaded at all. As you can see in the trailer, indie dev Gnomecraft has done a great job of breathing some new life into the mod, making it look much more like a game that would release in 2023. Snow War has certainly come a long way in 14 years.
Mass Effect 2’s suicide mission is a pain in the ass the first time you do it. An amazingly designed pain
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