it appears that old mods that uses the animations file or any data folder file works in DE just fine.
So the game still uses .dat files?
Then wtf are they waiting for; change the draw distance back to it's mediocre glory.
Why haven't modders from the GTA 3D era get hired positions?
R* is not Valve, old Epic, or old Bethesda.
Valve, despite Half-Life's importance and success, was still made on modding and modders. Their biggest titles today are sequels to mods; Counter-Strike & DOTA respectively.
PC developers used to (
and some still do. but can't do anything about it because the suits hate it) understand what a modding community did for them; adding longetivity and goodwill to their games.
DooM might not be around making id money today if it wasn't for Carmack releasing WAD/map editors for free, or giving away the DooM source code. Those old games are still getting active mod support to this day and that has kept DooM relevant and beloved way past it's expiration date.
Any dev that was worth it followed suit, and thus when you bought a game on PC, you also got map editors and software to modify the game to your liking.
Today, because all these companies are now beholden to stock-holders who demand you give nothing for free and charge as much as you can for anything you can get away with, modders are treated like vermin; daring to give people extended value for their purchases. Value that they could've profited from.
Because Valve is the only relevant gaming company that's still private, they can still employ old practices and hire people from the community who stand out. Oddly enough, they didn't lose money or go bankrupt, as the bean counters in EA/Activision/Ubisoft swear will happen if they give Joe Schmoe editing software.
R* are a different beast altogether though.
As I've said earlier in another post, they are autistic about their privacy with their games.
The only official mod support they ever added to GTA in the III era was a folder to drop 256x256 res skins for the default outfit for Tommy or Claude.
Every map/script/model/texture mod was a result of modders making the tools needed to access game files and edit the game themselves (
which as a result, tends to make your game unstable and crash-prone since making tools for closed source applications is really hard and yields finicky outcomes).
And they don't like it. They never did.
The only time they ever recognized the modding scene for their games was when a lone dev gave a modder named Odie (RIP) a shoutout for his very popular Vice City mods that added stunt parks to relatively unused areas of the map.
At other times they would mention they'd seen old-school bike stunt videos, but never really spoke enthusiastically about it.
When a mod team for a total conversion mod called "Myriad Islands" was starting out and posted early screenshots of their progress, some members would mention that they had received emails from R* asking for them to kindly cease developing their mod or face legal action. Most people didn't believe them; love for R* was at an all-time high and autists would hear nothing that spoke negatively about R*.
But as time went on and more and more members of the community begged R* for proper tools, R* would simply make each consecutive game release on PC harder to modify. In an old interview, they said it wasn't done out of malice towards their loyal fans, but more as an anti-piracy measure and as a way to prevent players from messing up their games by playing in ways that could produce non-intended effects and results.
It's ironic that a developer that popularized the open-world genre despise people who play their games in any other way than the linear way intended.
So yeah, do you think that R* are going to hire the people who purposely go against their wishes? LOL.
Shame, because there is some great talent throughout the years that has come up on the scene.
Guys like NTAuthority, DK22Pac, Alexander Blade, whoever it was that made CLEO...
Looks like someone datamined the Switch version and found not only the mission scripts as seen in the PC release, but stuff related to scripts, text, and internal tools.
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LMAO R*; you get what you fucking deserve.
Nearly 20 years of refusing to share or lend your fans a hand for their own enjoyment, and now some tard company you hired for cheap is letting everyone sniff your panties and touch your stuff.
