100 Unofficial Mods Released for 'No Man's Sky' (vice.com)

Eleven days after its release, No Man's Sky already has over 100 unofficial mods by fans intent on improving the game. "We don't have time to wait for official dev tools to fix what can be fixed by us," one modder told Motherboard. "We definitely want the official tools ASAP but honestly, the players need a game that actually launches and plays at decent FPS first." An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes the article: In an email to one customer, Hello Games revealed that it will be releasing patches this week and next which will "help to improve the experience further for players" but it is unlikely that the promised official modding tools will be released in the near future...

Among the [unofficial] mods available for anyone to download are ones to...replace the system font with one from Star Trek, disable annoying audio warnings, and replace a "Units Received" alert with "the Rick 'Wubba Lubba Dub Dub' sound bite from Rick and Morty"... The Instagram Filter Remover mod is among the most popular on the No Man's Sky Mods website promising to remove "the stupid Instagram filter from the game"...making everything sharper and clearer.
That last mod has been downloaded 17,655 times so far, and by Friday the site had almost 800,000 views and 60,000 downloads. There's two other mods that add Dr. Who sound clips into the game, and the article notes fans are clamoring for more, "including one request to replace all the voice lines in the game with William Shatner quotes."

Comments

Oh please

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"We don't have time to wait for official dev tools to fix what can be fixed by us," one modder told Motherboard.

Get a grip, buddy. It's a video game, not life-saving emergency surgery.

God forbid you aren't able to change the color of your spaceship or change the alert sound to "the Rick 'Wubba Lubba Dub Dub' sound" until next week- I mean, this shit is of critical importance!!

Re:Oh please

[King_TJ]

Sure, it's just a game... but it's also a $60 expense, which I think it's reasonable to expect plays as advertised.
There's way too much nonsense in the current game industry where you pay retail prices for new game releases that are really still only "beta" quality.

A lot of these mods are just minor changes or edits, sure.... But I saw at least 11 "fixes" posted there too.

Re:Oh please

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

Did it fix alt-tab in and out of fullscreen?

Did it let you build a host of robots to fend off drones? It is clear these drones are a grey goo scenario in progress with dozens covering every square mile of quadrillions of planets.

Fighting that is the real game.

Re:Shows you can underdeliver and people still buy

[UnknownSoldier]

> The industry is nothing but hype.

Bullshit. Not every developer is interested in form over function. While there certainly is drama such as This is Phil Fish, there are enough counter-examples:

* Braid
* Limbo
* Minecraft
* Path of Exile
* Terraria
* Trine

I don't remember seeing marketing for these games and yet they are some of the best around.

Great games focus on great gameplay. Shitty games focus more on marketing then development, which is ~95% of games and the games industry.

Re:Shows you can underdeliver and people still buy

[canajin56]

The game has a filter that dulls the colors so it looks like it's on old film, the so-called "instagram filter". There's also filters that adds CRT scanlines, chromatic aberration, and vignetting to really sell the "you're playing this on a faded CRT" feel. The mod doesn't add a sharpness filter, it removes the dull filter. Combined with the mod that removes the CRT filters you can potentially greatly increase the FPS. Or not change them at all. It really depends on whatever mysterious bullshit causes it to run shitty on your particular PC.