Steamworks Development - New! Version Control For Steam Workshop Mods - Steam News
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New Steam APIs and Workshop item options work together for better control as games and mods get updated

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41334665

Steam adds support for branch-specific Workshop mod versions

This should save mod authors and users a huge headache due to not needing to worry about updates breaking everything*.

  • Provided the developer has enabled and set up the relevant feature set.
  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    That’s how it works. A mod provides builds tied to specific beta branches, and a player is given whichever mod build is most closely tagged to the branch they have installed.

    The announcement mentions how confusing the nomenclature is, but Steam still refers to branches as “betas” because that’s what a lot of the existing documentation uses, even though it’s just as common these days for branches to be used to provide access to old game versions.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Not all games make it easy for people to get access to old versions via the beta system. Some, you just have to go the appid for the specific version and access it via the steam console. It would be nice if this encourages more game devs to enable beta versions for at least the most commonly used versions for mods.

      • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        Yeah but that’s on game devs to enable it. A lot of devs don’t want to because they have deal with people complaining about bugs and issues on older versions that are already fixed in newer versions.