Status Update - April 2025 (Patreon)
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TL;DR:-HSR 3.2 has broken ALL mods and the fix will take a while.-UPDATE: People shared their opinions and suggestions, LOTS of them!I decided now I'm NOT quitting modding for Genshin, but I will quit HSR (seeing details below is recommended)-Blend files are still on hold, no ETA yet.
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Hey everyone! I think it's time for a "little" talk.First off, apologies for the update spam from WuWa posts, I was just making sure they were compatible with the current patches, Kuro stop messing the textures with your updates plz.
Second, there are some big issues going on... with Star Rail.In patch 3.2, Hoyo decided to update the game's engine and unfortunately it hit EVERY character mod that isn't just a texture mod. Here's a post made by Silent, one of the devs of the modding tools detailing what's happening with a Q&A: https://gamebanana.com/news/21904 Long story short, Mod devs are looking for a fix, there's GOOD progress so far but no ETA yet, this ISN'T a "change hashes" fix, XXMI or SRMI specifically has to be repurposed for this, until then all mods will stay broken. (I'll make sure to come back to the older mods and give them the fix whenever it's possible).
Speaking of HSR, I know I haven't been active with that game, there's plenty of reasons why but the big one is because it's kinda tiring to try keep up with the newer character releases, I could just ignore that and just go for whoever I want but it's quite notable that when I work on a character, specially a 5 star / S rank, that lost its banner a while ago, there's almost no interest on its mod, people who don't have the character simply won't be able to enjoy the mod. This ofc applies to every gacha I work on~
UPDATE:As many of you shared your thoughts and opinions, I quickly decided to drop HSR modding entirely, I will apply the 3.2 fix to all of my affected mods but after that, no more work will be put into that game, Apologies to those who were looking forward for more HSR BH mods.
Part of me is disappointed since I used to enjoy the game and looked forward to make more mods for it. However, I just can't support the direction the game is taking, the agressive powercreepness and balancing of new content based around the new characters and their lightcones making the game more predatory rubs me the wrong way, despite having spent a lot of money already for stronger old characters, I can't keep supporting the game, and making mods for it will just go against my thoughts. RIP.
Genshin will keep getting more BH mods!That game also did not received a Bottom Heavy mod for a while, I will soon come back to it!Was thinking of quitting Genshin as well since I dislike the game, but many of you expressed your opinions, and while plenty suggested to "not work on a game that I dislike for my mental health" it's really not that big of a 'damage to myself' if I keep making mods for it, what keeps my motivation is the fact that your experiences (subjectively) improve when you get to use my mods.I will take the slow route, like I said before, keeping up with newer releases is quite hard.Yes, I can work on whoever I want but I still want to target characters that had or still have some fanaticism and can be worth as a viable team member... Anybody plays Xinyan?Yes, I can keep doing more polls, is just that the Top 3 winners always has a character that currently has a banner or their banner just ended. I'll make more posts like the one for Soldier 0 Anby asking for the interest on the upcoming/current banner.
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Please don't take my opinions as an attack or something negative, if you enjoy these games that's totally fine! I just think I do a better job when I make mods for a game I play and care about... but most importantly one that doesn't make me uncomfortable with their direction.
This is very long already so to move forward and finish this off, I've been very happy with the work I've been pulling out lately and you guys always seem to have your expectations surpassed, which make all of this feel even better... wish I could keep doing this quality but in a faster rate ;v;
What about the Blend files tho?I keep seeing people requesting them, I still have plans for them! But they're taking longer than I expected, once there's a clear ETA planned I'll make an announcement going full detail, these will be distributed in a different way other than tiers, now that Patreon added a shoplist option for creators~
That's it! Thanks everyone once again for the MASSIVE support!Wish you all a great day~