I fear that the same thing will happen with - especially with console support for mods. Including what I would say is the majority of the 'really popular' ones. In my last playthrough of XCOM 2, about 75% of the mods I used were hosted solely on Steam. So they stopped bothering to post it to the Nexus as well. So for many mod authors, posting solely to Steam captured most of their intended audience. Steam is integrated with XCOM 2 such that you add a mod, automagically the mod appears in the list the next time the game starts. The fact that people like BeagleRush (who I briefly argued with on this very topic) and other XCOM 2 gurus saw no advantage to the Nexus - when using NMM would had made their lives so much easier - is also very telling.īut there was just a vastly bigger audience on Steam than on the Nexus, and no additional software was required to install mods if you were on Steam. NMM supported multiple profiles for XCOM 2, so one could have a different sets of mods for different saves (and of course allows the user to determine if and when to update mods). This is in spite of the fact that Steam automatically updates any mods updated on the client - and XCOM 2 was highly likely to make your save game unplayable if any of the mods used were changed or removed. The only contact Scott has had with Bethesda community manager Matt Grandstaff was consulting during the Skyrim paid mods fiasco, and once when a Nexus Mods submission leaked an official DLC.

When XCOM 2 was released, almost all mods for XCOM 2 were posted on both Nexus and Steam, but as time went on more and more of the mods were posted only on Steam.

Mods were also hosted on Steam, but my recollection was that it was less so than on the Nexus. I give my permission for someone else to port my mods to. Recall that Nexus was the hosting source for the Long War mod (and many others) for XCOM 1, so there was a well-established history for XCOM mods on the Nexus. My mods wont work on consoles or would not be acceptable on according to their rules. That's a lot of content to sift through to say the least, but let's focus on the graphic mods for now. I base this on modding for XCom 2, as now almost all the mods are, or were, being posted only to Steam rather than to the Nexus. Since Fallout 4's release, the modding community has been hard at work, making it the second-most popular game on the Nexus Mods site with a total of 35.1 thousand () mods to its name. I'm very worried for the Nexus, and I fear that eventually many (most) of the most popular mods will end up hosted solely on. Available from the Nexus Mods website, just like most of the mods on our list, it will handle everything. The Nexus has a much better established history for Bethesda mods, but. Replacing the Nexus Mod Manager is Vortex, a newer program for organizing your mod loadout.

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