Steam, Mods, and You!

[Deathkingo]

I (my friend) just built my computer, and I'm all sorts of ready to jump into the great computer games of yesteryear that I missed out on because I have a mac (boooo!). One of these games is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. Been looking at reviews on it and it seems like a pretty good buy, and the mods for it look impressive as well. Question is: if I bought the game through steam, could I still use the mods, or would I have to search for the actual game?

Thanks!

 

[hazabaza1]

Pretty sure you can mod it. I've modded steam New Vegas to hell, so it shouldn't not work.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Google is your friend. Seek out instructions on how to install the mods you want.

 

[Motiv_]

I dunno about Stalker, but I've modded Half Life 2 and Killing Floor quite a bit, you simply install the mods and restart steam.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Steam is very mod friendly, there's at least four Source mods I got off Steam instead of downloading them. To play a mod, you have to install it and restart Steam.

It's not hard at all to install mods. Look up "(insert game here) mods" on Google. Depending on the game you're installing, they probably have different mod installation, so look that up.

A good place to look up mods is called MODDB. (I've downloaded countless stuff on there, no viruses.)

 

[Pielikey]

Steam works pretty well with mods. of any game, really. I currently modded my steam copies of Just Cause 2 and RACE 07.

Dunno how it is on Macs, but I would assume it's probably the same story.

 

[MisterShine]

I've personally used several mods with my Steam version of Shadow of Cherynobl(?) and Call of Pripyat, so yes you'll be fine with those. The only thing is when you read the instructions for installing mods, it will tell you to put the mod files where you installed the game, and will usually give you the default directory (c:/program files/insertgamenamehere), you just need to make sure you install it to the appropriate file in the Steam directory, as thats where Steam stores all of the game data together.

I've never seen a mod not work with the Steam version, you just need to edit the install path.

Hope that helps.