{"id":126241,"date":"2024-03-14T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126241"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:27:19","slug":"doom-eternal-mod-support-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126241-doom-eternal-mod-support-update","title":{"rendered":"Doom Eternal mod support update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Doom Eternal mod support portal might be on the way based on changes to the game\u2019s Steam backend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to SteamDB, on Tuesday, March 12, changes were made to add the launch executable \u2018DOOMModePortal.exe\u2019 along with the description \u2018launch mod portal\u2019 to the game\u2019s files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Doom Eternal does have a modding community there has been little in the way of official support \u2013 so this potential update is an encouraging sign that it may be on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The potential release of modding support for Doom Eternal is further supported by comments made by producer Marty Stratton in 2019 in an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/preview\/2019\/06\/14\/id-talks-mod-support-integrating-more-traversal-and-the-controversial-neon-ui\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/preview\/2019\/06\/14\/id-talks-mod-support-integrating-more-traversal-and-the-controversial-neon-ui\">interview with Game Informer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve actually done things technically that are getting us closer to doing mod support, but it won\u2019t be immediate. I think longer term. We made technical decisions years ago that we\u2019re still moving away from, and they\u2019re getting us closer to those kinds of things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, it seems there is a strong case to be made for Doom Eternal soon officially getting mod support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doom Eternal is an epic FPS where players will battle the armies of hell as the Doom Slayer \u2013 carving their way through hordes of demons in frenetic, challenging combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/126240-new-game-studio-from-former-respawn-director\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/126240-new-game-studio-from-former-respawn-director\">New game studio from former Respawn Director<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on SteamDB has seemed to confirm that Doom Eternal will soon get mod support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":126242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26483,11390],"class_list":["post-126241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-doom-eternal","tag-mod-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}