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"Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I reinstalled BG3 just because I heard about mods coming to console.

I bought it at launch. Played it until my saves deleted themselves right at the start of Act 3. I was broken. It was such a slog for me to get that far. I had to Claw for every inch of progress.

With mods tho. I can cheat. And boy I love cheating. I grew up with Action Replay, GameShark, Game Genie, etc. I've missed them terribly.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Play the games how you want to have fun, and anyone who says otherwise is dead wrong. I've dabbled in "cheating" myself, whether it's giving myself 60 pts for starting traits in Zomboid, or building really unbalanced maps in AoE II and preventing the computers from ever advancing, it's fun to sometimes modify the rules to benefit me unilaterally.

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Games are about fun. As long as you're having fun then where's the harm?

I don't play online games much. And I've never even tried to cheat when I did. I know the difference.

But if it's a single player game and I'm having trouble? Hell yeah I'll cheat. Proudly.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It bothers me that stuff like GTA V or Red Dead doesn’t have cheat codes. Memorizing the whole list for San Andreas made you a god when playing with your friends and taking turns. Single player should let you turn on all the wacky physics and crazy mechanics you want

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, I wouldn't cheat if I were playing with other humans, but sometimes I want to explore depths of a game that time just doesn't permit, so I gotta skip the grind and get right to the part where I'm unkillable. And yeah, if you're having fun, that is the point!

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

I am a singleplayer cheater, and all the times in the past that I lost massive progress because of glitches and crashes is one of the major contributing factors to it.

[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did you ever find out how your saves got deleted? Been facing save-related troubles with a similar impact when cross playing between PC and ROG Ally

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I just heard that right after launch it started happening and apparently they fixed it without much fanfare. At least on single platforms. Like I'm just on Xbox.

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I dont have an answer, just want to commiserate as I also had two different characters vanish to corruption or some such