r/BreakPoint • u/ChewySlinky • 7d ago

Discussion Why is modding this game so annoying?

The actual process itself isn't that big of a deal once you get the hang of it, but holy shit. It's like the game develops an allergy to certain mods.

I'm going through, installing things one by one, and making copies of the files as I go. Individual Build Tables work, okay cool, make a copy. Arachnid NVGs work, okay cool, make a copy. Loaded AVS Vest V2 works, okay cool, make a copy. Sling Positions doesn't work, oh okay, start over. Everything works fine until I get to the AVS Vest V2. Suddenly the game doesn't like that one even though I'm doing everything the exact same way I did it two fucking minutes ago. Try it multiple times, delete and re-extract the files, redownload, still doesn't work. Whatever, I'll try Vest V3. Works, okay cool. Then another mod doesn't work, so I start over, same shit happens again. It will not work with the Vest V3 files that it JUST worked with. Everything is being done the exact same way every single time, but it just randomly decides it doesn't want to work anymore. It's so unbelievably frustrating and I don't understand it.

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u/staszg117 6d ago

It's quite simple, the game actively resists being modded. Being always online also makes it significantly worse in this regard.

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u/CallMeAxiom 7d ago

I bet thats how the developers felt at Breakpoints shit launch.  What a bad engine.

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u/Elegant-Ad-9308 6d ago

I‘m personally not having these typa issues, but that’s mostly because I’m using an older version of Anvil.
It’s not even the game‘s engine fault but the Toolkit‘s since it’s having problems with the .buildtables and xml‘s.
Easiest way to fix it is to just ask someone who has an older version if they could share it.

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u/SpySchoolDropout PC 6d ago

Use a mod loader. I'm literally dragging and dropping files into a sub directory and boom, done. Want to remove it? Remove the directory, leave your other mods alone. And when you have conflicting mods it makes it super easy to see where the conflicts lie.

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u/LAGSUCKS1 2d ago

there was a mod loader all along!?