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chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Future updates to Terraria will break the mod. The mod was also not finished from what I understand. It has been adding content for those 10 years.

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Terraria’s devs ended new content development with their last update. Idk if they will still do bugfixes, but there is very few chances for a breaking change that would affect mods.

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    • Mora@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Terraria’s devs ended new content development with their last update.

      Well… that happened more than once before.

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      • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you say so.

        Strange how triple-slop games and idies do the opposite. The first promises years of content and can the project after barely a year, and the second promises stopping creating new content only to release a surprise new content patch out of nowhere 😆.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I can’t speak to Terraria specifically, but just with most games in general?

      An actual bugfix often means you changed the underlying guts of some system, some system that had appeared to work, but actually, had a fundamental flaw, even if minor.

      With that kind of a fix… well, often mods essentially work by creating their own uses of, or work-arounds for the old buggy system.

      So, when that system is reworked, to remove the bug… well now some of the guts of the mod may need to be reworked as well.

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• jaygray91@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not too surprised really. modding old games and the mod pack takes literal decades to finish. for example red alert 2, tiberium sun, CNC generals (and zero hour) just for the ones that interest me.

  bugs exists. modders fix bugs. especially so for games that are still getting updates, even one as scarcely updated as Terraria. I recall some long time ago the Terraria devs said the game is “finished” and then later on some big anniversary year they released a surprise update. my memory is faulty so don’t quote me

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tbf, there are mods that have just kept on getting more and more features and content added to them, and/or took a stupid amount of time to get to basically v1.0.

  Black Mesa Source, the HL1 remake in HL2 engine… pretty sure that took a decade, was originally a mod.

  Yes, by far most mods for most games are more… hah, ‘modular’, and tend to be basically just a single or few releases, but there are much more expansive mods of much larger scope, for many different games.

  Basically, most ‘total conversion’ mods tend to be more like that… years of development toward a kind of end goal state, because they are basically making an entirely or massively different game, based on whatever particular original game.

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