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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Star Wars Outlaws is buggy!
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:43:01 -0700
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On 3/10/2025 4:47 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:39:15 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
> Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
>>> I bet Outlaws isn't moddable either, since Bethesda owns the IP for that.
>>
>> There are mods for "Star Wars: Outlaws"* on nexusmods, so you'd lose
>> that bet.
> 
> I figured. I was just making a whole running gag about Bethesda owning
> the patent for "open world games that have lots of bugs which then get
> corrected by the modding community instead of the developer."
> 
> As for losing the bet, I didn't lose a bet that the modders can't fix
> these problems with SW:Outlaws. At least not yet. Depends on how
> extensive access to the engine is.

Apperantly the "Snowdrop" engine it uses is not friendly to modding (one 
of the things I'm also worried about the Bethesda possibly going to 
UE5.)   Textures and graphics mods often don't depend on engine.

-- 
-Justisaur

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