As someone who spent 2 hours fixing Reloaded II on steam deck because Sega purposely broke mods, I can agree with the statement “modding is still a massive pain in the ass” 200%
Eeh… I’d respectfully disagree on the anti-cheat being the only real hurdle right now.
Modding is still a massive pita and janky compared to windows, as an example.
Don’t get me wrong, Linux gaming has advanced entire geologic eras compared to where it was 10 years ago, 5 years ago, hell… even last year. I dont even have to reference protondb anymore, I just expect things to work in general, and they usually do, outside of the minority of games with asshole anticheat (most of that can even be run on linux, they just refuse to enable the option)
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah, I’ve spent so much time smashing my head against the wall trying to resolve issues that would be very simple to solve on windows, largely cause windows is the native platform for a lot of this shit so its just inherently easier there.
The best example of that was setting up Stalker Anomaly. Good god was that a fucking nightmare. Cyberpunks not to fun either trying to get the mods set up.
kritzkrieg@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Tbh, you’d think modding would be easier with Linux’s file system, but no, it’s pretty bad. I really do wonder why that is.
ag10n@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Linux is really good at sandboxing and containerizing things. Not to mention the display manager/server changes from system to system and is optional.
ggppjj@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As much as it frustrates me that this is the best option for various reasons, there is at least now a native nexusmods client.
Granted, if your game isn’t supported by it and given that it’s early days, I do still agree with you.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the new mod client from nexus will be great, but I’d wager it’d be another year before its in a non-test state.
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Doesn’t it currently only support like one or two games? I have a grandfathered premium account. It’s a must for me for the few games I used to mod. Not to mention all the other mod utilities that outright don’t work. Things the community has built. Not mad at them for not making another version of their apps.
Maybe one solution is for most games to have some kind of built in mod support? Bg3 basically did it. CP77 also kinda tried.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It only supports Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk at the moment iirc.
Cyberpunk is a good one though, cause it requires running external .exe files for some of the mods to install/run. Which I hope they get working, cause thats also kind of a problem games Skyrim/Fallout/Starfield have, in that the most essential mod is Script Extender, and trying to find a way to launch it on linux that will launch the game.
ggppjj@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Still very early days, yes. R2modman supports more games also.
It’s definitely helpful for games to support their own modders also, and I can understand why most don’t put in the effort.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
r2modman supports 4 games, 3 of which are relatively obscure.
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Fair