Vortex support added: Blade & Sorcery
We've been chatting with the team behind Blade & Sorcery about the official modding support included in update 6 of the game and are pleased to announce full Vortex support for Blade & Sorcery.
To start modding the game with Vortex, you'll need 0.18.11 or above and Blade & Sorcery 6.0 or above. Is it good to compress your os drive. Then you just need to click the 'Download with Manager' or 'Vortex' buttons found on the mod pages.
Vortex allows you to easily install and uninstall you..Meme Mania: Make memes and win a game of your choice!
Do you like memes? Do you like the idea of winning one of 3 GOG keys for a game of your choice? Then we have great news for you: submit a fresh modding and/or gaming related meme and one of the three game keys could be yours!
With our last Community Screenshot Event having been a great success, we thought it’s time to run another enticing event, this time centred around humour and fun in the form of modding memes!
Modding Memes
What we mean by that is, essen..Morrowind May Modathon 2019: Wrap-Up
Last month marked the launch of the fifth annual Morrowind May Modathon Modding Competition celebrating the 17th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and we are happy to say that the event has been a great success with a whopping ~230 new mods being uploaded by ~80 individual modders - veterans and newcomers alike!
To put this into perspective: not since 2004 have we seen this many mods being uploaded for Morrowind in a single month, proving once more that even 17 years af..Win a free game with GOG.com
Summer is here and our friends over at GOG.com are having their Summer Sale Festival. They've given us 100 keys for a bunch of awesome games to give away to our community.
If you're looking for something new to keep your appetite for gaming sated until the new E3 titles are released, here's your chance to pick up a new game for the low, low price of free!
There are a few rules you should be aware of before entering. It's pretty basic, but if you get it wrong your entry ..Vortex Support added: Sekiro, Resident Evil 2 (2019), and more!
Good news for our Sekiro, Resident Evil 2 (2019), Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines, Dawn of Man, and Surviving Mars communities!
As of version 0.18.5, our new mod manager Vortex now supports modding for all of the above games meaning you can use Vortex to mod 59 different games total.
Moreover, multi-variant mods - that’s mods that give you multiple options, such as different colours for armour replacers etc. - for many games, including the above (with the exception..Turning off the legacy API
Following the announcement 3 months ago, today is the day we'll be turning off our legacy modding API. This system has been fully replaced by the new Nexus Mods API and is therefore redundant.
What does this mean?
Any applications using this service will no longer be able to log in, retrieve mod information or handle downloads from our site. We've been working with the developers who maintain some of the most popular modding tools to help them make the transition to the new API..Morrowind May Modathon 2019: Release a mod and win prizes
It’s May and that means the annual Morrowind Modathon is back to celebrate the 17th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - and this time around there are not only achievements waiting to be unlocked but also a huge number of keys for AAA and indie games to be won! Last year's Modathon sparked the creation of many new and exciting Morrowind mods and we are all looking forward to seeing what our community will come up with this year.
The event will be running for one mont..Site Design Survey and Feedback Group
How do you feel about the design of the Nexus Mods website? Since our sites current design went live in 2017 we’ve been listening to all the feedback, both good and bad, we've received from the community. Armed with that and having now filled our UI/UX designer position at the Nexus Mods office, our designer has been tasked with going through the current site layout and looking for ways it can be improved.
We’ve spent some time looking at the analytics on our ..Screenshot Community Event: The Final Presentation
A few weeks ago we launched our first Screenshot Community Event giving everyone the opportunity to submit a screenshot for Skyrim, Skyrim SE, Enderal, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 depicting the event theme 'Conflict and Struggle' and potentially win one of three prizes which would be awarded at random to three different participants.
The turnout has been great with hundreds of screenshots having been submitted and we, the Nexus Mods team, as well as our co-organisers Excellentium and ..Screenshot Community Event: Thank you for participating!
Two weeks ago, we launched our first Screenshot Community Event giving everyone the opportunity to submit a screenshot for Skyrim, Skyrim SE, Enderal, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 depicting the event theme 'Conflict and Struggle' and potentially win one of three prizes.
The turnout has been great and we are happy to say that dozens of screenarchers - newcomers and veterans alike - have entered the event. We all - that is the Nexus Mods team as well as our co-hosts for the even..Carving adventures - Haem Projects
In this mod author feature, we’re joined by Dimonoider and gkalian who together make up Haem Projects. The duo behind the incredibly popular Project AHO and the recently released mod Carved Brink.
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Thank you both for taking the time to talk to us. Could you start by telling us a little about yourselves?
gkalian: Hello and thanks for the invitation. My name is Alex, I am an engineer from Russia, who became interested in the Elder Sc..From Modder to Professional Level Designer - Interview and AMA
Today we are talking to Dan Taylor, a professional level designer who has in the past worked for Eidos, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Rockstar (among others) on games such as Medal of Honor Heroes 2, Hitman: Sniper, or Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Dan - who started out as a modder for Morrowind, Skyrim, and Fallout New Vegas - has close to two decades of experience in the video game industry under his belt and his talk on Ten Principles for Good Level Design at the Game Developer's Conference 2013 is cu..Screenshot Community Event: Win one of three prizes!
Thank you, everyone, for your entries! The entry form is now closed and we will be making our picks for the jury selection during the next week.
The first Nexus Mods Screenshot Community Event is here! Submit your screenshots of Skyrim, Skyrim Special Edition, Enderal, Fallout 4, or Fallout 76 illustrating the event theme and seize your chance to win one of three £25 Steam Gift Cards (~$33 depending on exchange rates).
As we announced earlier this week, ..Screenshot Community Event: Coming Soon
Do you like screenshots? Do you like the idea of winning a £25 Steam Gift Card? If you do, then keep your eyes peeled for a special event launching on Friday, 22nd March.
For a while now we have been thinking about new ways to increase interaction with you guys - our Nexus Mods modding community - through engaging and fun events that we can run (semi-)regularly on our site, and, moreover, support members of our community who are devoting some of their free time to engage othe..The Patron of Patrols - Scrabbulor
Today we are talking to Scrabbulor who is most famous for his patrolling mods of the extra immersive variety: Immersive Patrols and Immersive Patrols SE.
BigBizkit: Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. To start this off, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself?
Scrabbulor: Thanks for the opportunity! Name's Ameer Mohamed. I'm a 28-year-old poultry farmer, born and raised on the sister islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
You are ..Nexus Mods is hiring for a Front End Developer
We have been on the lookout for a dedicated Front End Developer for a while now and despite interviewing several individuals, we're yet to find the right person.
I know that lots of our users do not always see all the site news that gets posted so I am reposting the job information, just in case it catches the eye of the exact right person at the exact right time! Here is the job specification:
Description
We are looking for an experienced front end developer to joi..The end-game portion which focuses on booking it to the helicopter is a where things get really hectic. Dying light ps4 target.2018 in review and 2019 in the view
I'm late. I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's already the middle of February and I haven't done my usual yearly keyboard bashing session where I smash out a semi-coherent review of the previous year and talk about what we hope to get done in this year. Truth be told, I wasn't sure if anyone really wanted to read through my banal twitterings or not and whether I would do this, so let me know at the end if my time (and yours) was worth it.
2018 in numbers
In short, Nex..More games in Donation Points store and minor changes
Since launching our Donation Points system last year we've given away over $81,000 worth of Donation Points (DP) to mod authors. Thankfully, the reaction to this system has been overwhelmingly positive and we're extremely happy with how it has turned out.
While mod authors can exchange their DP for straight up Pay Pal donations, we've also been very happy with how many mod authors have been exchanging their DP for video game keys that we've been providing in the DP store. It's great ..Towns and Cities - JK's Interview
Today we are talking to jkrojmal, a long-time member of the site and avid modder. If you have ever wanted your towns and cities in Skyrim and Skyrim SE to be more than they are in the base game, then you might have run into one or several of jkrojmal's mods. His series known as JK's Skyrim is one of the most popular city overhaul compilations to date and will definitely add a lot of uniqueness and flavour to the various holds.
BigBizkit: You are most famous for your various ..Vortex Support added: X4: Foundations, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Starsector, 7 Days to Die
Good news for our X4: Foundations, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Starsector, and 7 Days to Die communities!
Thanks to alexparlett, 6d306e73746572, LazyWizard, as well as nelson3219, who developed the respective extensions, our mod manager Vortex (which is currently in beta) now supports all four of those games (version 0.17.0 and newer).
If you are unsure about what a mod manager does, let me put it this way: Vortex gives you the ability to install an..
Hollow Knight Mod Installer
Steps to set up the mod installer:
- Verify/repair the game through Steam/whatever to make sure there isn't any modified file
- Start the mod installer and select your current Assembly-CSharp.dll
- Load mod bundles and have fun (hopefully)
Most of the time you don't need to run the installer with administrative privilegues. (Just normally double-click the .jar file)
Download
How are mod bundles built?
They are just zip archives. Take a look inside, the most things and the basic structure is self-explanatory.
If you have further questions ping me @zreshct
The MD5 hashes for the different versions can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h8MfvkZfoldLjeHrYqTzf12eyvPQlPbpm7pcidXWtNw/edit?usp=sharingThis list is not complete and you can use the comment feature to add missing hashes. Thanks!
Credits
- Icon: 753
- Background image: Team Cherry
- Elevate: jpassing
Steps to set up the mod installer:
- Verify/repair the game through Steam/whatever to make sure there isn't any modified file
- Start the mod installer and select your current Assembly-CSharp.dll
- Load mod bundles and have fun (hopefully)
Most of the time you don't need to run the installer with administrative privilegues. (Just normally double-click the .jar file)
Download
How are mod bundles built?
They are just zip archives. Take a look inside, the most things and the basic structure is self-explanatory.
If you have further questions ping me @zreshct
The MD5 hashes for the different versions can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h8MfvkZfoldLjeHrYqTzf12eyvPQlPbpm7pcidXWtNw/edit?usp=sharingThis list is not complete and you can use the comment feature to add missing hashes. Thanks!
Credits
- Icon: 753
- Background image: Team Cherry
- Elevate: jpassing
I have a confession. I’m using an invincibility mod to play through the brutal, boss-infested Metroidvania game Hollow Knight. I first played it back in February 2017, when it came out, completely mesmerised by its dark atmosphere and magical soundtrack. The first hour or two completely captivated me, wandering around the eerie catacombs of a strange, forgotten world. But I hit a wall pretty early on when I reached Hornet – one of the first major boss battles of the game.
Hornet zips around the battlefield. She can hurl her piercing needle at you and have it bounce back with a ghostly white thread. My reactions were not able to match her speedy attacks and I couldn’t accurately land a hit as she ran circles around me. After an hour, I finally defeated her, and then decided I needed a break. I left the world of Hollow Knight for a year, not really wanting to face the many boss battles that were yet to come.
I felt pretty low knowing that there was more of that beautiful subterranean world that I wouldn’t get to experience due to a lack of skill. I’ve never been that patient when it comes to learning combat patterns and sharpening my reflexes.
Fast forward to the beginning of this month, December 2018, which is when I decided to return to Hollow Knight, ready to face those mysterious biomes and the bug bosses that lurk in their depths. My return isn’t on account of me honing my skills in the months between my visits. The reason I’m back is that I’m able to play through the game equipped with a special weapon – a cheat.
The invincibility mod for Hollow Knight can be turned on and off in-game so whenever I’m having a problem with a difficult boss or area I can switch on the mod, deal with the enemy and move on.
I left the world of Hollow Knight, not wanting to face the many boss battles that were yet to come
I know, I know: I can hear your gasps of judgement from here. I understand that I’m not playing the game ‘correctly’ but I’m really enjoying my time with Hollow Knight with this mod and have zero regrets.
I had a similar experience with the tough-as-nails platformer Celeste, although there was no need to install a mod. Celeste has a variety of ‘assist’ options such as double jump, infinite grip, and invincibility so that anyone can enjoy the game regardless of their skill. Shadow of the Tomb Raider also has a great list of difficulty options so you can adjust the way you approach puzzles, exploration, and combat. As more games adopt this approach it communicates that we’re more accepting of people enjoy games for more than the challenges they offer.
By using this cheat in Hollow Knight, I finally get to experience the rest of the stunning world that the game has to offer, and there’s a lot of it. There’s the haunting orchestral soundtrack, the different bug characters, its gorgeously gloomy visuals, exploring the huge map, finding the hidden breakable walls, saving all the cute grub babies, and the small details like following the musical hums and loose pages that lead you to Cornifer the map maker.
By using this cheat in Hollow Knight, I finally get to experience the rest of the stunning world that the game has to offer
One aspect that surprised me the most about the game was its rich lore. The world of Hallownest has been long forgotten, its history sealed away in the dreams and memories of the characters. It tells the tales of fallen heroes, the wrath of gods, and the different histories of the bug colonies. What’s left of Hallownest is the husk of a civilisation as the majority of the population is now missing or dead.
My favourite part of the map is The City of Tears; a beautiful metropolis where it always rains. It was once the beating heart of the kingdom but now its mechanical elevators, endless libraries, and tram systems lie abandoned and empty. The music is quiet and sombre so you can hear the light pitter-patter of the rain. It’s a serene area where you can enjoy a short moment of peace before launching back into the surrounding enemy infested areas.
This is where I met my favourite character in the game, Quirrel, a bug equipped with a nail-sword and a mask perched on top of his head. Although he has a weapon, Quirrel tells you that he’s more of an observer than a warrior, a lonely wanderer who has lost his memory. You bump into Quirrel over the course of the game, finding him resting on a bench or at the edge of a lake gazing across the water. If you strike up a conversation he’ll always let you in on what he’s pondering at that moment.
In the City of Tears, he muses out loud about the endless rain that encompasses the city, and wonders where the water comes from being as we are so far underground. He asks questions about the world that make me want to find the answers. He really captures the whimsical nature of a true wanderer, one who can inspire curiosity in others.
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Hollow Knight Mod Installer 2
To think that I never would have met Quirrel because I didn’t want to cheat, and that to do so is usually looked down upon, is quite sad. I would never have got to explore this gloomy world, with its memorable characters and wealth of lore, I’d never even have got the chance to find out why it’s constantly raining in the City of Tears.
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