naw even skin is horrible idea. to prevent the spread of their “skin” they would certainly look into ending the spread of custom skins. more so if players can create custom skins it would take away the sales from theirs, hence even more restriction placed on modders.
abort asap. no battle pass or going to check out voobly.
Well, modders aint making new custom skins since is pretty hard to replicate the DE look compared to the HD. But i agree, i dont want modders to be more restricted.
Ew! No! I am going to be honest with you Microsoft, if you dare include this, I swear, I will NO LONGER help report bugs for PuP. (I am serious.) Please reconsider not including this.
I dont see any modders coming up with good original custom skin except for juggernaut… others including me just cut contents from Civ 3 and American conquest
arian made some great skins, and the other guy making new pikeman/mma skins. but thats beside the point isnt it. having almost no modders making skin doesnt make it okay to restrict modding, with or without skins.
I mean we all value different things but look at it this way, once this garbage is implemented and modders are restricted, likely people will leave over time and go back to HD/AOC, and you simply have less people with share your content with what you love.
if people is okay with the above because effect is not immediate or it doesn’t affect them as much, then they can be seen as selfish, ignorant, indifferent, short sighted, or combination of any of them.
Do you have a link for those skins? i searched but never found somthing other than skins from the campaigns
You completely missed the rome at war mod and its custom units.
yea theres that too, forgot about sapsan cause he isn’t an AOE2 player but just 3d artist in general
edit: @Zequielk took awhile to find this but its pretty hidden. Some fun sprite creation - #54 by LinkXLank
this guy make some great skins. for arian, search up arian on mod manager and his mod should show
what if it is implemented and modders are not restricted?
i don’t think its possible, given that MS is a business and they are not big hearted to not profit. I can however see them do the opposite, limit the mod protecting their sales by proclaiming that it is to “protect your purchase” on skins, thus limiting custom skins which would no doubt tie to many mods with custom units with custom skins.
if they are willing to allow custom skin content along side selling their stuff, then yes, but then think about whats stopping players from uploading it as mod and then everyone has them? what would you think the ywould do to prevent such thing from happening?
They will never takeaway the right to mod the game thats for sure… There are dharma, rome at war, lord of the rings mods which are very important to the overall growth of this game
I think what they will do is make civ specific skins like u_inf_persian_scout.smx and restrict it while keeping u_inf_all_scout.smx unrestricted for modders. This way modders can still mod the game the way they want but cant have access to battlepass stuff
Haha thanks for the shoutout and the compliment!
Making custom stuff that is similar-ish isnt as easy, but as long as nothing is restricted, the devs could do their thing and we keep doing ours.
Some ideas and concepts would probably be lost on the devs where the community could do better or different, just my hypothesis though.
I also dont think they will take away modding but it might get restrictions.lets say I pay for a unit skin and use that in my mod and publish it,then someone else can take that graphic and use it freely which would be bad for business.
Darma mod is a good example as it uses aoe3 units.if someone high up says mods cant use other aoe game assets then darma automatically becomes illegal.
Any game pass won’t make this game funnier as it doesnt have even the dynamic of games that possess such ‘‘feature’’
so restrict by name. then what if the uploader changes the file name? you can’t use it in base game/competitive game, and some are totally okay with it as long as they can use the skin another way.
I can imagine something like this:
Once you unlock a skin, you can equip it to an individual unit only via the Age Pass. Modders can take the graphic and include them in their mod, however they would have to create a datamod.
So the restriction would be that if you don’t own the skins, you would have to use a datamod and are not able to use them in campaigns and ranked.
I don’t think there’s any danger of that. Have you tried playing HD or Voobly since DE? They look awful and the lag is terrible.
I also can’t imagine people sacrificing the QOL stuff DE brought in order to play HD.
Exactly. No shift queuing and having to task villagers to everything manually after building stuff; it feels like driving an old car without power steering.
Just look at AOE 3 DE july PUP and youll have an idea… in AOE 3 every generic unit now has civ specific skin… I think they are also going to add this to AOE 2 but you have to work hard a bit to get them