Ever since the new Xbox (Beta) app for PC was first released, players have been questioning whether their favourite PC games, including Xbox Game Pass titles, will eventually get mod support. Now, it looks like Microsoft has begun rolling out this feature, with multiple games offering the ability to enable mods.
This was initially pointed out by Windows Central, which noted that non-Xbox Game Pass title Into The Breach was offering the feature. Other games with mod support such as State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition and Phantasy Star Online 2 have reportedly since been discovered as well.
It's worth noting that unlike Steam, there's no actual mod database embedded within the Xbox app at the time of writing. That said, we wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft implements something like this in the future.
Are you pleased to see mod support rolling out for Xbox for PC? Let us know in the comments.
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[source windowscentral.com, via neowin.net, onmsft.com]
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It's good that they're moving away from the W10 store and UWP. Now allowing executeables. UWP versions of the games were vastly inferior and had many problems.
See Quantum Break and Rise Of The Tomb Raider on Steam compared to W10 store.
UWP didn't allow mods, which it even recognised SLI as a mod, so no multi GPU support. Not to mention the inferior performance of UWP based games.
It's good they're trying to bring their platform up to other store quality, instead of "only" releasing on both and calling it a day.
This is pretty cool actually.
Very awesome, we're building a cross-platform modding SDK at mod.io designed specifically to integrate with stores like this to enable games to support mods in more places.
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