Tag Archives: Steam Workshop

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation developer The Farm51 has opened up its hellish shooter to the community, by adding mod and Steam Workshop support into the mix. It’s also coming to Linux and Mac soon.

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Valve has added the Steam Workshop created Helm’s Deep Reborn map to the official Left 4 Dead 2 servers, alongside an update which fixes an issue with dedicated servers and workshop content. The map, as you’ve already figured out, adds Helm’s Deep from Lord of the Rings to the zombie shooter. It sounds kookie enough to make me want to try it despite being horrible at L4D2. Have a look at the map for yourself through here. Thanks, D’toid.

Valve has launched the Map Workshop for Counter-Strike: Global Offense. This will make it easier for players to access and shoot things on new maps, and discover new game modes designed by the community. Users can also vote for favorites and subscribe to any map or game mode, and Steam will even do the work for you by automatically downloading the map, and updating it “whenever the author makes a change.” Players will be able to form quick-matches, private matches through Play With Friends, and even play offline with AI bots. Check it all out through the Maps Workshop. Thanks, ragdron.

Managing your mods for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad just got a lot easier, thanks to the addition of Steam Workshop support.

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Croteam’s Serious Editor has joined the ranks of the Steam Workshop-compatible. The tools were in beta for a short time, so the suite has gone live with more than 60 mods already available, including multiplayer and survival mode maps, character skins, and weapon and enemy modifications. The Editor should be available to all Serious Sam 3 owners via the Tools section of their Steam library.

Steam Workshop, a submission path for game items created and sold by gamers, has turned one year old. After launching through Team Fortress 2, the Workshop now supports various titles including including Skyrim, Portal 2, Civilization V and more, each with varying models of player-created content. Valve said there are 16 shipped game titles which support Steam Workshop, with more on the way. To date, 300,000 items are available including full games made with GameMaker Studio, and downloaded over 55 million times.

Total War: Shogun 2 has fully embraced the modding community with a new Assembly Kit.

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Left 4 Dead 2 is getting Steam Workshop support as well as an “expanded scripting tool” so folks can create “deeper and more varied experiences inside of Left 4 Dead 2.” These features are planned for Linux users,” and will start in the middle of next month. More information is available through the Left 4 Dead blog. Thanks, PC Gamer.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has inspired over 10,000 mods through Steam Workshop. StrategyInformer flagged the milestone, noting that the lucky 10,000th upload is the Shannara Weapon Set. Skyrim mods span the whole gamut from simple tweaks like Mythor’s Moar Dragons to character creation suites to full, storied plug in modules to the inevitable near-nude costumes.

Torchlight 2 will not only eventually produce a set of official mod tools, it’s going to support Steam Workshop, making the promotion, acquisition and installation of these community-made delights a breeze.

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Scribblenauts Unlimited will launch with Steam Workshop on PC, 5th Cell announced today at PAX. A pre-show demonstration of the game detailed how players will be able to create objected, and the keyboard and mouse controls were also demoed. At present, the PC version supports WASD movement as well as click-to-move control with the mouse. The Steam version will feature Steam achievements and sharing through Steam Workshop. 5th Cell said over 300 puzzles will be included in the game, over 100,000 words and adjectives, and the Object Editor. Scribblenauts Unlimited is slated for release on 3DS, PC, and Wii U later this year. Via Polygon.

Valve business development director, Jason Holtman, has said the idea for the firm’s Greenlight was inspired by Team Fortress 2, its “hat manufacturing game… that’s awesome.”

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The Roguelike title Dungeons of Dredmor has received a bounty of new content today including a free expansion pack, and the release of the Dungeons of Dredmor Steam Workshop.

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Firaxis will replace Civilization V’s existing mod browser system with integrated Steam Workshop support. The grand strategy will be the seventh game to announce Workshop support after Team Fortress 2, Portal, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the forthcoming Toki Tori, Garry’s Mod and Gettysburg: Armored Warfare. More details on timing and early access are promised over the coming week.

Valve has detailed its community-driven plans for DOTA 2′s monetisation, and as expected, they involve hats.

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In a free expansion called You Have To Name The Expansion, Dungeons of Dredmor will add full Steam Workshop support for its flourishing mod scene.

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“Skyrim Steam Workshop downloads are over 13.6 million. PC mods FTW,” the Bethesda Game Studios Twitter announced earlier today. The figure does not include mods released outside the Bethesda-sanctioned Steam Workshop environment, suggesting the real figure is probably even more impressive than that. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim released in November last year and attracted millions of PC players with an average play time of 75 hours each. At time of writing it’s the third most popular game on Steam.

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Valve’s included a search functionality for Steam Workshop as part of a new update. The Workshop itself is now a top-level menu item in the community part of Steam. There’s a full list of changes here.

Bethesda has taken to the Bethblog to reassure modders the Creation Kit for Skyrim is still on it’s way, and according to the firm it’s “looking to have it near the end of the month.”

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On the occasion of its one year Manniversary, Valve has revealed that its user generated content sales system, Mann Co., has been a major earner for its participants.

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