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Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
Aha! I finally found a mod I'd stumbled over last year and wanted to post itt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QraNjbQFQ
It's a C&C1 total conversion featuring anime briefings and--though it may not come through in the trailer--Christian themes.

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Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry
Nope. Nope Nope NopeNopeNopeNOPENOPENOPE.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Nope. Nope Nope NopeNopeNopeNOPENOPENOPE.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry
It ain't happening. You can't pay me enough to play that when I finally start the C&C Mods thread.

Orv
May 4, 2011
More like Jobber Fett.

Kobbo_Fett
Dec 5, 2016

Boba? Never heard of 'im.

Orv posted:

More like Jobber Fett.

gently caress you say, punk?

Orv
May 4, 2011
Get back in your tongue hole. :colbert:

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

"Everyone please don't kinkshame them, jeez :rolleyes:"

Commander Keene
Dec 21, 2016

Faster than the others



Ah, so that's how the Nexus got to be such an echo chamber, they literally have it in their forum rules.

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

Jobbo_Fett posted:

It ain't happening. You can't pay me enough to play that when I finally start the C&C Mods thread.

It's probably the only big TD mod, you'd be doing history a disservice by not covering it!

I didn't get far when I tried it last year, ran into a difficulty spike pretty early...

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Mordja posted:

Aha! I finally found a mod I'd stumbled over last year and wanted to post itt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QraNjbQFQ
It's a C&C1 total conversion featuring anime briefings and--though it may not come through in the trailer--Christian themes.

When I saw "anime and christian themes" I was kinda hoping this would've been a Xenogears mod.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Leal posted:

When I saw "anime and christian themes" I was kinda hoping this would've been a Xenogears mod.

Or Evangelion.

StillFullyTerrible
Feb 16, 2020

you should have left Let's Play open for public view, Lowtax
It is of the "oops! can't show that in a christian manga!" variety.

Wrr
Aug 8, 2010


Mordja posted:

Aha! I finally found a mod I'd stumbled over last year and wanted to post itt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QraNjbQFQ
It's a C&C1 total conversion featuring anime briefings and--though it may not come through in the trailer--Christian themes.

Ehhh its not THAT anime. Thats barely anime at all.

Unless there is something way darker in the mod itself I don't care that as anime.

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAaaAAAaaAAaAA
AAAAAAAaAAAAAaaAAA
AAAA
AaAAaaA
AAaaAAAAaaaAAAAAAA
AaaAaaAAAaaaaaAA

Yeah I feel like there's some info being left out, what's the deal with that mod?

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Glagha posted:

Yeah I feel like there's some info being left out, what's the deal with that mod?

Spyro the Dragon attempts to take over the world by way of XCOM 2.

Also useless defenses and a difficulty level that far exceeds the lack of quick saves.

Also not conpatible with the remaster.

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
Check it, a mod for the original Red Alert (but not the remasters) that makes the entire campaign co-op.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-blue-alert

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Mordja posted:

Check it, a mod for the original Red Alert (but not the remasters) that makes the entire campaign co-op.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-blue-alert

Nice! Too bad its not for remastered :(

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
Hey, you remember Severance: Blade of Darkness, right? Early aughts PC hack-and-slash that some people compare to Dark Souls, actually re-released on Steam a couple days ago? Well how about a Who Wants To Be a Millionaire mod for it?


https://www.moddb.com/mods/qqsi-wwtbai-alpha-11

Mordja fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Oct 9, 2021

The Chad Jihad
Feb 24, 2007


What in the flying hell

ZeusCannon
Nov 5, 2009

BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH
Grimey Drawer

Mordja posted:

Hey, you remember Severance: Blade of Darkness, right? Early aughts PC hack-and-slash that some people compare to Dark Souls, actually re-released on Steam a couple days ago? Well how about a Who Wants To Be a Millionaire mod for it?


https://www.moddb.com/mods/qqsi-wwtbai-alpha-11

But where is the buttplug slot

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad



https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/73834

:hmmyes:

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDOv1W6-Cc

Ardryn
Oct 27, 2007

Rolling around at the speed of sound.



:eyepop:

ThingOne
Jul 30, 2011



Would you like some tofu?


Some madman's adding the Gargantuan Leviathan to Subnautica. I wish I could find a better video but it's a WIP so they only people who have access to it are the Youtubers the mod maker let test it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN5QxM0HQ9g&t=484s

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
I can;t stop thinking about thos beans

Veotax
May 16, 2006



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhJsfCCnvw

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
Thanks, my phone just blared "Oh my god, daddy!" In public

Kaiju Cage Match
Nov 5, 2012




Splicer posted:

Thanks, my phone just blared "Oh my god, daddy!" In public

What a shame.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate



He was a good man. *lip smack* What a rotten way to die.

Manager Hoyden
Mar 5, 2020

ThingOne posted:

Some madman's adding the Gargantuan Leviathan to Subnautica. I wish I could find a better video but it's a WIP so they only people who have access to it are the Youtubers the mod maker let test it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN5QxM0HQ9g&t=484s

Pretty cool but it sucks that no matter how big you make something in Subnautica, it will always look small due to the weird FOV issue

You can kind of fix it by using ReShade and enabling conformal stereographic perspective though

Raygereio
Nov 12, 2012
So here's some fun potential drama

The tl:dr is that Dragon Age Redesigned was a mod for Dragon Age: Origin that redid the meshes & textures of NPCs. It was quite popular for the textures alone. It was also bundled as a series of installer executables. After 11 years someone actually looked at those executables and it turns out it's likely they have been spreading malware.
From the nexus forum thread that's now hidden:
https://i.imgur.com/RCkFj6d.png
https://i.imgur.com/CqWeq0O.png


The same dude made FO3 Redesigned and FNV Redesigned which weren't bundled as executables. Perhaps those modding communities were less juicy of a target since fomod installers were the norm back then and an executable would have raised an eyebrow.
It does make me wonder how many more people have tried this trick. Mods having an installer executable is uncommon now I think, but I recall seeing it quite often 10 to 15 years ago.

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:
First poster is blowing a ton of hot air, second poster actually posts something substantial and, uh, yes. Yikes. Also, upnp is such a security nightmare…

However, it barely matters whether the mod is using an executable installer or not as many, many mods rely on loving with the game's binary as it runs. Like, there are several competing mod loaders for Unity games that work by having windows automatically load a .dll dropped in the game's folder, something so crazy wine doesn't replicate it. Mods are dlls as well, and frequently do not have their source code available with automatic builds in the open.

It's hilariously simple to drop harmful code into mods and claim that heuristics are false positives since a lot of what mods are doing screams malware already.

Raygereio
Nov 12, 2012
That's a fair point. A lot of modding is based on blind trust.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
So I installed that just a week ago. Is there a link to what I should do to secure my computer? I'm on Windows 10.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Raygereio posted:

That's a fair point. A lot of modding is based on blind trust.

it's a problem that's made worse by many AV vendors IMO, because a lot of files, especially executables packed by popular opensource packers get flagged as malware by default, for no reason other than because obviously malware distributors also use the free packers, so when the modded exe/dll tries to fire the "ultimateUnpacker" function or whatever, it gets flagged

at the end of the day, modding a game where mods are prone to fire false positives like that, people just dismiss it out of habit, and it's down to how much the user even trust the AV software anymore after constantly seeing false positives elsewhere

Skwirl posted:

So I installed that just a week ago. Is there a link to what I should do to secure my computer? I'm on Windows 10.

as with most malware, the only way to be 100% sure is a windows reinstall

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:
Well, from the details in the post it may no longer work properly. However, since it involves a dropper it may do whatever, including executing a mystery payload…

And that means the only way to be sure is to nuke Windows from orbit. The bitter truth is that you can't reasonably pronounce a system clean unless you have an exact snapshot from before a piece of malware made it onto the box.

In any case, disable upnp on your router or move it to a deny-by-default setting. It's the #1 way all those webcams in people's living spaces get opened to the Internet.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Would probably run a malwarebytes scan just to be safe, but if the malware is so unknown it may not have signatures for it and will need to be submitted to them.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Zil posted:

Would probably run a malwarebytes scan just to be safe, but if the malware is so unknown it may not have signatures for it and will need to be submitted to them.

It's apparently handwritten code according to those posts, so there's no way for any antivirus to recognize it.

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Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Neddy Seagoon posted:

It's apparently handwritten code according to those posts, so there's no way for any antivirus to recognize it.

Oh then yeah, flatten and reinstall is the way to go.

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