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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is hilarious, a mod released within a week of the game's launch boosts it by 10 FPS. Why can modders do it but not the dev team?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Because they're free and can be counted on.

[–] moogs 7 points 1 year ago

Most likely because it makes the game look more potato than the Devs were willing to allow

[–] dyma 4 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna give the devs the benefit of the doubt and say maybe they don't want to ship compressed textures by default since plenty of people will need them to play on ultra settings, but a modder can cater to the smaller, dedicated fanbase on the steam deck. but idk I'm not a dev