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Witcher 3 devs actually used the game’s most popular mods for the remaster (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 71 points 2 months ago (12 children)

They're working with the creator of one mod, there doesn't seem to be anything untowards here

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Every recent remaster that saw passionate and committed modders called up and paid to canonise their contributions have been all the better for it. Aspyr releases come to mind.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    It's also why we have portal... It was originally a mod of half life 2

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No it wasn't. Narbacular Drop used the same level editor, but only certain level features work because the actual game is an entirely different custom engine. Tag, the game that Portal 2's gels come from, was also a custom engine.

    Both games were senior projects at a game design school near Valve, which is how they found them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But you have to admit without half life portal wouldn't exist...how much of the engine we can debate but it needed half life to exist

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

    Team fortress 2 as well

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sort of. Team Fortress was a Quake mod. Valve hired the team to port it to Half Life.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Yeah - after quake, it was released as an in-house half-life mod by the quake TF dev team (Team fortress classic). Then it was a standalone repack of the HL assets (TF1.5), and then the ground-up Source version that is TF2

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Really? Didn't know that one...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The original Team Fortress was a mod of HL1. TF2 was built on the Source engine directly by Valve, so it technically was never a mod, but it has its roots in the original mod.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    One layer of more complex - the original Team Fortress was quake, but there was an intermediate version (team fortress classic) developed by Valve as a mod to Half Life - then there was TF1.5, which was a standalone repack of the HL mod, then came TF2 developed on Source

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