Ironically, Techland’s first foray into the open world zombie apocalypse genre, Dead Island, remained on gamers’ radars more because of its moddability than its story or combat, so it’s puzzling as to why Techland would actively undermine Dying Light’s mod-friendliness.īut gamers aren’t stupid, and many are apparently still playing Dying Light v1.2.0 (the new patch is v1.2.1), liklely because it could be modded, much to Techland’s chagrin.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, for instance, is still selling even today despite being nearly four years old, thanks to its thriving mod community that has added everything from new weapons and armour to entirely new areas and massive visual overhauls. That’s a blow for anyone who didn’t appreciate the film grain filter Techland used to make the game look more cinematic, and who downloaded a mod that removed it.Īccording to Reddit the studio issued takedown notices to media sites that host modifications for the game. That’s quite a heavy-handed use of copyright law to stop people from changing the game according to their whims, something that has worked well for other games.
Developer Techland apparently doesn’t like gamers modifying its latest zombie smash-fest Dying Light, and has issued a patch that prevents them from doing exactly that.ĭying Light’s first PC patch – released on Friday – introduced an anti-cheating mechanism that prevents the game’s files from being modified in any way, but it also stops modders from changing anything they don’t like.
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