Nice to see the new cross-platform Nexus Mods app coming along. This latest update doesn't add new games but does making using it better.
They've done another big pass over the interface to make everything clearer. Each page now has a proper distinct header, distinct icon and a little bit of flavour text to help you easily know which area of the app you are in and what you can do there.
Toolbars are smarter with this release too as they've been made context aware, showing options that are actually relevant.
More from the changelog:
More Features
- Reworked file trees in the app to be more performant. This includes the "View Mods Files" and "External Changes" pages.
Technical Changes
- Added translations submitted by the community: Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese (Brazil).
- Updated the "Missing Game" flow to try and prevent duplicate reports of missing, unsupported games.
- Added the correct headers to API requests for Nexus Mods.
- Further developed the backend systems required to create and export collections.
- Further developed the backend system to make a game-agnostic load order system.
- General performance optimisations.
Bug Fixes
- Improved the way the app registers to handle Nexus Mods downloads on Linux.
- Fixed a bug where FOMODs would incorrectly report issues with some asset paths.
Nice to see the app register fix for Linux too!
Towards the end of May they also had a blog post up giving some background on the work being done, with Baldur's Gate 3 work picking up again to get it properly into their supported games list. Currently only Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk 2077 have full support.
We're still a long way off it replacing Vortex but it's getting there little by little. Having it open source and cross-platform is a nice boost for it.
More on the website.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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R Daneel Olivaw 2 days ago
I love the progress. Sad to think though that we're still SOOOOOO far off of it working with every game. Which is where it needs to be for mass adoption. For instance, I game all the time on linux, but have no interest in it, just because it only supports three games I don't play.
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Comandante Ñoñardo 2 days ago
Isn't that the platform for modding filled with censorship?
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R Daneel Olivaw 2 days ago
^ Censorship in what way? There's nsfw stuff everywhere if that's what you mean. If you mean something else, like censoring language, I'm not sure. I don't use it much since mods on linux can often be too much of a pain. Which is why I'd love for this to be open to more games!
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MadWolf 2 days ago
No, that is not what Comandante Ñoñardo means by Nexusmods censorship
For example, Starfield's pronoun-removal mod has been banned by NexusMods,
And other mods have been removed. I can give other examples, but
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=rules
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For example, Starfield's pronoun-removal mod has been banned by NexusMods,
And other mods have been removed. I can give other examples, but
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=rules
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Starfield's pronoun-removal modI looked it up. Has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of, and these days the competition is fierce. I'd be fine with banning that for the moronicness level alone.
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Does anyone recommend a good workflow for dealing appimage apps in kde? I know you can just download them and execute, but it would be nice to have them install somewhere standard with automatic launch menu integration and whatnot. Anyone recommend anything available on discovery for this?
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Gist is Nexusmods jumps in and kaboshes mods that either are or can be perceived as controversial. Sometimes they get it right. Sometimes they ban the equivalent of setting the localization flag to a different country.
Credit where credit is due as a "who cares, they're mods, don't download it if you don't like it" absolutist: they're starting to learn. Few times now they lock down the comment section instead to avoid the shitstorm and leave the mod up long as it's innocuous.
Credit where credit is due as a "who cares, they're mods, don't download it if you don't like it" absolutist: they're starting to learn. Few times now they lock down the comment section instead to avoid the shitstorm and leave the mod up long as it's innocuous.
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Thibug a day ago
Does anyone recommend a good workflow for dealing appimage apps in kde?
GearLever is a good app that manage AppImages for you. Once installed (available as a Flatpak) when you open an AppImage it will pop up and ask if you want to just launch it or add it to the system. It can also deal with auto updates if the AppImage provides an URL for it
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neolith a day ago
I looked it up. Has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of, and these days the competition is fierce. I'd be fine with banning that for the moronicness level alone.To be honest, I don't think that that is a good stance to take. Banning mods should not be supported just because one deems them as moronic.
There a couple of problems with this. The first one being that it is a slippery slope you don't want to be on. I agree with you, the mod is nothing to write home about – but that doesn't warrant a ban. Neither does the changing of pronouns. And I fear that while today some mods get banned that we don't like, tomorrow it might well be the ones we do.
The thing here is that while Nexusmods has some (albeit pretty vague) guidelines in place for submitting, those aren't applied the same to all mods in the slightest. There have been several cases where mods do exactly the same thing just with slightly different content where the mods ban one of them just because they don't like it. Take the mods for changing the flags in one of the Spiderman games for example.
I also think it bears repeating that those are singleplayer mods. No matter what someone installs on their system, and no matter if you, I or someone over at Nexusmods thinks it is in good or bad taste, has any effects or consequences on any other person. You only have to deal with said mod, if you actively go search for, install and use it. No one ever has to give it a second thought unless they do that.
I don't think banning mods that are not to our taste just because of that is something to strife for.
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Caldathras a day ago
@johnny-linux & @Thibug
I haven't tried GearLever yet. I use AppImagelauncher myself.
The only feature I haven't been able to get to work is the auto update. Not that I care much about that anyway. I prefer to have more manual control over the update process.
I haven't tried GearLever yet. I use AppImagelauncher myself.
The only feature I haven't been able to get to work is the auto update. Not that I care much about that anyway. I prefer to have more manual control over the update process.
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@neolith, I regret not having added some emoticons, but the spirit in which I said that was a bit subtle for the kind of flavouring they can give. I was intending a certain sarcastic levity, a mild hyperbole meant to convey my withering contempt. If I actually banned such a thing, it would not be for stupidity. Rather, it would be because I don't buy into the paradox of tolerance. The one group one need not tolerate is the intolerant, because they would break the whole tolerance system. There's a certain irony in your objecting to banning a mod that's not to my taste, which mod in turn is conveying the desire to ban things that are not to someone's taste. And let's not forget that if I were someone running a mod manager I would not be the government--I would have no responsibility to host a mod I don't like. If people want an obnoxious mod they can host it at obnoxiousmods.com, it's not my problem.
(Incidentally, what makes it stupid rather than merely intolerant is that apparently, the game by default sets the pronoun based on the body type you choose. So you don't even have to pay attention to its ability to set pronouns--you just ignore it if you're already doing the default. So the idea is that you go to the trouble of acquiring and activating this mod, just so you can be secure in the knowledge that you can no longer possibly do what you would never normally even notice you could do. The insecurity level this implies to me is staggering)
(Incidentally, what makes it stupid rather than merely intolerant is that apparently, the game by default sets the pronoun based on the body type you choose. So you don't even have to pay attention to its ability to set pronouns--you just ignore it if you're already doing the default. So the idea is that you go to the trouble of acquiring and activating this mod, just so you can be secure in the knowledge that you can no longer possibly do what you would never normally even notice you could do. The insecurity level this implies to me is staggering)
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Kadath 9 hours ago
While this is nice and all, until they add support for Bethesda games I am still going to be waiting.
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