I wouldn’t hold my breath. It would be a pretty major feature. If it’s not released or even announced, it’s not coming.
Which is a shame, because I have fond memories of playing user made modules. Twoflower, if you’re reading this, you rule.
I loved making modules over in NWN toolmaker. I was even a featured module maker back in 2003 for a "cheat" module that let you make your own weapons and armor or edit the current weapons or armor that you have.
It may sound common now, but there wasn't such a thing back in the day.
The reason I'm hoping for something like this is because they have this feature for the Divinity Engine 2. BG3 runs on an updated version of that, Divinity 4.0 engine.
So hopefully it won't be too much of a hardship once they get things where they want it to be. After all, I assume they have something in-house that they use to do something similar. So, with luck, they can package that.
If they don't, then maybe we can get something from the modding community.
I am actively working on completely disregarding the fact that something like this does not yet exist, mostly due to how bitter I am over the plot in the Wyrmway.
I'm getting my god damn dragon adventure, by hook or by crook, and if I have to learn to mod and model from scratch, that's what I'll do. Currently on day 4 of... however many it will be.
They have said in interviews that a world builder would be effectively impossible because terrain is all custom art. We might get encounter builders, but don't expect to build your own location.
That's about par for the course for most engines.
I don't think anyone realistically expects Mario Maker but just the tools to make things a little easier.
Never Winter Nights had an incredibly robust set of tools, arguably the best ever, so I think that's what many are hoping for even if it's not realistic.
I agree fully. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, though.
I've been spending a lot of my time trying to get others to contact the producer to recommend the feature.
It's hard to imagine the extra life that this game would have if we had something on par to the builder with NWN. I'd hope that we'd see campaign DLC on the level of what people have done with the fallout series. Campaigns that could be even longer and larger than the main quest should be doable with a small team of dedicated folks.
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