You Won’t Be Modding Titanfall on PC
Titanfall is looking like it’ll be a fun sci-fi arcade shooter and a great boon to Xbox 360 and Xbox One. PC gamers will also be able to pick it up, and, if Call of Duty has been anything to go by, it’ll be a pretty nice experience through that as well. One things for certain though: you won’t be downloading mods for the game any time soon, probably not at all.
Vince Zampella confirmed that mod support wouldn’t be included with Titanfall at launch via Twitter:
@unreal_tubby @Titanfallgame not at launch for sure, will have to evaluate after launch
— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) December 28, 2013
Of course, it being added later down the line is something of a pipe dream. Games have proven time and time again that if you let people build stuff, they’ll do it. What are they waiting for? Who is benefiting by waiting? The obvious answer involves DLC, although that might just be a little cynical. More likely they’re treating the PC port as a side project and have only budgeted a certain amount of resources. Adding mod support would likely be quite a big undertaking, especially if the PC side of things is being handled by a small team.
Titanfall is due out early this year.
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