November 17th, 2020 Livestream
Q&A: Would Official Mod Support use Steam Workshop?
This question was possibly duplicated with a more recent answer: October 3rd, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Will the game eventually feature Steam Workshop support for Mods? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzGBJPjFrFo
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as well would official mod support use steam workshop or like factory in-game mod installation allow epic games people to install them we would have to come up with some solution that, everyone can, use the mods right and and that's, you know we're on epic and steam now but we may be on other things in the future who knows right, so we we want it we want it so that it's easy for everyone to access, and we also don't want to encourage this kind of like fragmentation in the modern community where if we have workshop then people might only just create for workshop, and and then another chunk of the community or people who don't own any of the other platforms are they don't get mods just because the modders don't want to make mods for anything other than workshop and it gets kind of weird, and then if modders want to support workshop and everyone else then they have to like take care of these two platform things so there's a couple things to think about there, but I it's not something that we've stopped to decide and figure out what we're doing yet there yet but, there's gonna be I think there's definitely gonna be some solution for people to install it regardless of where they are and there's even the reality where we don't use workshop and we only use that other method that's a reality a possibility but we'll see when we get closer and we'd also work with the current modding community to figure out what works best for them as well because there's there's a like there's different parties here right there's both like the people that want to install mods there's our from our aspect how we want to handle it and then the modern community because we want to we don't want to like on the modern community and be like yeah they spend so much time working on the mods right now and then be like all right now you have to change completely how you upload mods like we don't want to do that we want to work together with them yeah exactly and it's like, you know I know like workshop workshop is pretty easy to use but even if you look at the modding community there are a few unofficial modding communities tools and repository and everything it's insanely easy to use yeah it's just an app you just launch the game with a different application and that's it you can get any mod you want it's really really easy it's super clever so