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Posted November 27, 2017
Modding is...
It's one of the things that defines PC gaming – keeping our favorite games alive (and better!), bringing us together as a community, a way to explore our passions, sometimes an open door into the industry of our dreams.

So it only stands to reason that Nexus Mods – the biggest, most active modding network out there right now – has a very special place in our hearts… The Nexus Mods site has just undergone a huge redesign and we took the occasion to say thanks to the PC gaming community together!
Check out the letter to the community below, and drop by /r/PCMasterRace to enter the massive Game & Gear giveaway where you can win from among $3,000 worth of GOG.com games, as well as hardware and gear from MSI and CORSAIR!

One more thing, from all of us to you: stay great, stay passionate, and keep modding on! <3

A message from Nexus Mods

In celebration of our new site design, we have teamed up with GOG.com, MSI, Corsair, and PCMasterRace to share our love for PC gaming worldwide through a massive giveaway! Before we get into the juicy details though, I wanted to take a quick trip down memory lane and look at some of the previous designs we've used at Nexus Mods before reaching this point.

See the news for more

Throughout all the various names and aesthetics of this site, our community has always been a driving force in our success. It is your passion and dedication that keeps us going and allows us to continue growing. Which brings me to the point of this little stroll down memory lane!

As I mentioned at the start, we have joined forces with some great companies in the gaming world to bring you a chance to win some incredible loot. We feel we've picked companies that shared a similar mindset to our own.

The folks over at GOG.com were immediately on board with the cooperation. Modding wouldn't be possible without the freedom to do what you want with the games you own, and it's a great way to get involved and explore your passion for gaming. These are ideas both GOG and Nexus Mods very firmly believe in.

Similarly, CORSAIR and MSI were both excited to work with us and have made offerings that are more than generous. CORSAIR is offering a full peripheral set to bring glory to your gaming setup, and MSI wants to help bring your system into the modern age with a few serious hardware upgrades.

Finally, we have decided to host the event on the PCMasterRace subreddit to reach an even bigger audience of PC gaming enthusiasts. Modding is a hobby with its roots dating back to some of the earliest PC games. While the use of mods has recently opened up to other platforms, on no other platform can you dig into a game's engine and bend it to your will like you can on the PC, and the PCMasterRace subreddit is chock full of posts that elevate our favorite platform.

This is more than just a celebration of our new design. It is a celebration of modding and PC gaming as well!

Thank you for all your support over the years. We look forward to providing a place to share and discuss mods for many more years to come. Head on over and enter the contest for your shot at some glorious prizes!
Post edited November 27, 2017 by Konrad
Posted November 29, 2017
Nothing involving the Nexus's new look can be a celebration, it's a mobile-first-design-paradgm clusterfuck. :P

Also, not exactly interested in having my real name or picture used for promotions. Whose idea was that?! If they could allow a username, that might be my excuse to finally make a Reddit account. But no, that wouldn't be exploitative enough, would it? I bet someone's thinking "in this day and age, your privacy is already compromised in a dozen NSA databases, so who cares about eroding it further?" >.>

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EndlessKnight: I suspect that GOG is walking a tightrope with certain companies, trying to get them to accept the risk of no DRM on newer games
"Risk." Publishers are such complete scumsucking ingrates to their own customers. But hey, gotta please the shareholders by going the whole distance putting profits over people. *puke*

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All the above notwithstanding, free stuff is generally nice, and it's a pretty good giveaway for the people who have already naively signed over all their personal information to social media corporations to abuse as they wish, but it's certainly not worth the further erosion of online privacy for the rest of us, and never will be.
Posted November 29, 2017
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GOG.com: Modding is...
It's one of the things that defines PC gaming – keeping our favorite games alive...
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richlind33: If you really wanted to keep favorites alive, you wouldn't take them off the store and bundle them with overpriced "enhanced" editions.
Is that GOG's fault or Beamdog's?
Posted November 29, 2017
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Spectre: MoDB doesn't have proper menus and the people uploading them stick their files in random places. Skins in mod sections maps in addons section. The menu bars and search sections being at odds with each other. People putting the wrong mods in the wrong games sections.
The download info box doesn't have a section to tell people about people about prerequisites. So when you get a map that needs an addon or mod or both to work you have to hope that person putting the file there decides so mention it.

I could also complain about gog not listing the game version on the downloads page.
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nightcraw1er.488: Are we talking about the same site, moddb? Each mod has its own page with metadata on the right such as webpage of author, and a row of options at the top, each has a description and files section, files list each of the versions of the mod in question. I have only found one mods (GTA mod) which was hosted offsite, all other provide downloads under files. Mods are provided either as compressed files or installers. It's all very simple. There are no sections for skins (which I haven't actually come across), maps etc, each has its own page. Let's take news item one from the main page, new vegas mega mod, has a summary, a detailed set of instructions, then a files tab where you can see each releases version uploaded. I don't know how they can make this any simpler which is why I ask again, are we talking about the same site:
http://www.moddb.com
Since I was trying to find new mods I can spoon feed you the problem.

On the <i>files</i> and on the <i>addon</i> pages there is a drop down menu that looks more or less like the same list.
If you were to click mods you would find skins,skins are not mods, and mods for the sequel to the game.
I don't want those, I want mods. If i'm looking at addons I don't want map packs or skins either.

If you look at this <i>zombie mod addon </i>. Can you see where prerequisites are mentioned. I can't.
At least the author was kind enough to put a readme file in the mod. Plenty of others haven't !

It says,
"You MUST have Men of War 1.17.5 installed, and Zombie Mod 1.2.2 in order to use this mod."

So it is infact an addon for a mod or a mod of a mod. Pity that wasn't placed in the description or info box before I downloaded it.
The exe from gog says its 1.0 but ingame says 1.17.5 further confusing matters.

On the first version of his addon it states this.
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Nahkommando Mar 31 2017

That could mean your mod files are corrupted; A secondary cause could be that you have an old mod version. You should have the 1.2.2 version of the mod, but should work on the 1.2 beta version as well. Can't assure that it will work on the old 1.1 version.

camiloter Apr 11 2017

Where do i find the 1.2.2 version of the mod?

Nahkommando
Creator
Nahkommando Apr 16 2017

Unfortunately, that version is no longer for download, at least not on the mod page here at moddb :S"
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Post edited November 29, 2017 by Spectre
Posted November 29, 2017
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EndlessKnight: I suspect that GOG is walking a tightrope with certain companies, trying to get them to accept the risk of no DRM on newer games
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Jemolk: "Risk." Publishers are such complete scumsucking ingrates to their own customers. But hey, gotta please the shareholders by going the whole distance putting profits over people. *puke*

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All the above notwithstanding, free stuff is generally nice, and it's a pretty good giveaway for the people who have already naively signed over all their personal information to social media corporations to abuse as they wish, but it's certainly not worth the further erosion of online privacy for the rest of us, and never will be.
I entirely agree when it comes to the avoidance of sharing social media info with corporations and I agree that a large percentage of corporations do indeed care more for their shareholders than their customers. To clarify, I was stating the viewpoint of many game publishers, not agreeing with it. This is important to keep in mind, when contemplating their motives, after all. :)
Posted November 29, 2017
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BoxOfSnoo: [...] Every other forum I ever go to seems way more toxic than Reddit... (of course you have to choose your areas on Reddit too).
The Reddit areas I have visited in the past... let's say they don't compare favorably with the communities of Kingdom of Loathing or SkySaga (the latter one was recently shut down, sadly). It might still be that they are above average, but I'm not so keen on average when I get the choice.
I'm not trying to belittle Reddit - I'm sure their mods are doing tremendous work - but it is so much nicer to have a community that's well behaved in the first place than one that's just well moderated.
Posted November 29, 2017
I never made a reddit account. Sure it cuts down on entries to three but that is better than 0 entries (no reddit account or facebook or twitter). I own Neverwinter Nights from GOG and Stardew Valley. I got a EVGA GTX 1080 ti so I don't want that 1070 ti because a 2nd GPU screws up my system (tried it with a 970 for phys-x and I just had problems). I dunno the chipset for either of the 2 motherboards (I need the LGA-2011v3 socket and min support for 32 GB RAM with at least 2 PCI-E slots that don't overlap a dual-slot for my GPU otherwise, new CPU and heatsink), so I am hoping for the preipheral set. There is no way I want to spend $190 & tax on a new windows 10 key. IF I won a key for a game I own, I would put it in one of the regular giveaways.
Posted November 29, 2017
I love it. Nexus mods and GOG make a lot of sense together and both have certainly played positive roles in my own gaming history.

It's also great to have positive current events in the gaming industry that contrast the last while of unsavory things like EA microtransactions and Steam/Bethesda trying to sell the efforts of the modding community.

So thanks Nexus mods for being a great resource, and thanks GOG for being classy as usual.

Cheers,
Legion
Posted November 29, 2017
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BoxOfSnoo: [...] Every other forum I ever go to seems way more toxic than Reddit... (of course you have to choose your areas on Reddit too).
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HeartsAndRainbows: The Reddit areas I have visited in the past... let's say they don't compare favorably with the communities of Kingdom of Loathing or SkySaga (the latter one was recently shut down, sadly). It might still be that they are above average, but I'm not so keen on average when I get the choice.
I'm not trying to belittle Reddit - I'm sure their mods are doing tremendous work - but it is so much nicer to have a community that's well behaved in the first place than one that's just well moderated.
Again, it really depends on which part of reddit you frequent. In particular, stay away from the default subs, and avoid subs that are known to be nasty (like the one I've referenced a couple times already); some communities on reddit are actually well behaved.

And again, reddit isn't just one community; it's thousands of separate communities, each with their own rules and moderators.
Posted November 29, 2017
Not into these social media circle jerks. Fun for the people that are, I guess.
Posted November 29, 2017
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nightcraw1er.488: Are we talking about the same site, moddb? Each mod has its own page with metadata on the right such as webpage of author, and a row of options at the top, each has a description and files section, files list each of the versions of the mod in question. I have only found one mods (GTA mod) which was hosted offsite, all other provide downloads under files. Mods are provided either as compressed files or installers. It's all very simple. There are no sections for skins (which I haven't actually come across), maps etc, each has its own page. Let's take news item one from the main page, new vegas mega mod, has a summary, a detailed set of instructions, then a files tab where you can see each releases version uploaded. I don't know how they can make this any simpler which is why I ask again, are we talking about the same site:
http://www.moddb.com
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Spectre: Since I was trying to find new mods I can spoon feed you the problem.

On the <i>files</i> and on the <i>addon</i> pages there is a drop down menu that looks more or less like the same list.
If you were to click mods you would find skins,skins are not mods, and mods for the sequel to the game.
I don't want those, I want mods. If i'm looking at addons I don't want map packs or skins either.

If you look at this <i>zombie mod addon </i>. Can you see where prerequisites are mentioned. I can't.
At least the author was kind enough to put a readme file in the mod. Plenty of others haven't !

It says,
"You MUST have Men of War 1.17.5 installed, and Zombie Mod 1.2.2 in order to use this mod."

So it is infact an addon for a mod or a mod of a mod. Pity that wasn't placed in the description or info box before I downloaded it.
The exe from gog says its 1.0 but ingame says 1.17.5 further confusing matters.

On the first version of his addon it states this.
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Nahkommando Mar 31 2017

That could mean your mod files are corrupted; A secondary cause could be that you have an old mod version. You should have the 1.2.2 version of the mod, but should work on the 1.2 beta version as well. Can't assure that it will work on the old 1.1 version.

camiloter Apr 11 2017

Where do i find the 1.2.2 version of the mod?

Nahkommando
Creator
Nahkommando Apr 16 2017

Unfortunately, that version is no longer for download, at least not on the mod page here at moddb :S"
Do you know what, in all the years of using the site I haven't used, or even looked at that drop down box, but yes I see what you mean there. This is of course to do with the site being free I.e. no employees to go through and check things.
Skins are mods however, mod just means a modification to the original game could be anything from a texture to a new engine.
I think you will find the term addon is there to show a mod based on another work, there are quite a few examples of this (in fact almost all elder scrolls use obse so an add-on of another mod. That being said for a while now nexus have had a pop up with dependancies, maybe something like that is in the works for moddb, you would have to ask them.
The gog version number has been highlighted and gog have recently changed all their versioning system, though it's still a pain, this is however nothing to do with moddb.
The comment posted refers to an older version of the mod, as indicated by the latest file provided being v2 rather than v1.2, no point commenting on old information.
Now I know the site can do with some work, and it's not always easy to setup these thngs, but it is a free site where people post free content, so you can't really expect the same level as a commercial venture, if you want that to use steam workshop and pay £10 for your mod and still get no support or help. Heck 10 years back you would have been hex editing files and such like to do modding!
Posted November 29, 2017
I agree; modding is a great way to value and work upon great products, something unique to gaming. That's why it would be great to see direct modding support on GoG Galaxy, similar to Steam's Workshop. Perhaps Nexus could be part of it.
Posted November 29, 2017
Thanks for the giveaway. Sadly I can't enter it since I don't have a use for a reddit account. I wish that gog would also accept entries through gog forums. Though I understand this is not a giveaway for current gog users. Its more about bringing new users to gog.

Nexus mods does offer some interesting mods but sadly most mods are part of Steamwork system and never uploaded to Nexus mods or other modding websites. Nice cooperation with gog though.

Also Nexus has to put a lot of work in to ability to filter the mods available on their site. Currently its very hard to siphon through them all.

Edit: Personally I prefer using the http://www.moddb.com/ which offers a lot more mods, especially total conversion mods.
Post edited November 29, 2017 by Matruchus
Posted November 29, 2017
This is great! Thank you!
Posted November 29, 2017
Here's another one who won't sign up to another site only to enter a contest. Not cool, GOG. Please avoid such practices in the future.
Posted November 29, 2017
I don't need 3000 dollars worth of GOG games (my gaming collection is probably worth that much and I don't want to double my backlog) and already have all the gear I want, so I'm just gonna say that modding is what games PC games better than console games and what can make a great game fantastic and remove the flaws from an otherwise really good game.

Also, I feel compelled to mention my own first and only mod for The Witcher Enhanced Edition that I did, because I love modding and in particular The Malkavian Mod for Deus Ex by MadGangster. It's similar to and a tribute to The Malkavian Mod and is called The Weird World of the Witcher (works with all versions, I think, though only tested it on my GOG version). No bugs or issues with other mods, it's entirely self-contained and doesn't change any files.

It's available on nexusmods and moddb, https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/732/? and http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-weird-world-of-the-witcher
Post edited November 29, 2017 by hurvl
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