Given how shortly nude mods for Spider-Man Remastered adopted the wall-crawler’s look on PC, it ought to be no shock that modders have set to work eradicating the superhero underoos of Marvel’s Midnight Suns as nicely. Whereas mods for the XCOM video games are historically a fairly large deal, the solely mods I can discover for Firaxis’s newest are the attractive ones. Its ModDB entry (opens in new tab) stays empty and there is not any web page for it in any respect on NexusMods (opens in new tab) but.
The eternally thirsty modders of the LoversLab discussion board (opens in new tab), nevertheless, wasted no time, and inside a day of its launch had found nude meshes within the recreation’s recordsdata, added nipples, and made the primary nude mod (opens in new tab) (initially for Magik, earlier than including Captain Marvel, Nico, and the Hunter (opens in new tab)). A extra tasteful half-nude mod (opens in new tab) shortly adopted, for individuals who’d fairly have the women of the Midnight Suns merely topless whereas hanging out on the Abbey. Mods for male Midnight Suns sans trunks have but to seem, regardless of requests (opens in new tab), however I am certain it will not be lengthy.
It is at all times fascinating to see how decided modders handle these feats. Within the case of Midnight Suns, which was made in Unreal Engine 4.26, that meant first utilizing UModel to extract the belongings in order that they might be modified. File encryption is meant to forestall that, however encryption keys for Unreal Engine video games are available (opens in new tab) on-line.
These belongings might then be imported into different software program like open-source 3D graphics toolset Blender (opens in new tab) for modifying, although not with out subject, as one modder found (opens in new tab) when characters’ heads went lacking they usually developed further bone sockets. The answer was to “set the dimensions of the item to 0.01 and likewise change the identify of each the item and the armature to ‘armature’, in order that Blender would not add an additional bone on the root”, they found, which additionally fastened the lacking head drawback. “Apparently, the top wasn’t truly invisible; it was simply so gigantic that the sport was inserting it far up within the sky someplace.”
The inventiveness of modders, whether or not these serving the attractive slice of the viewers or in any other case, is at all times spectacular. Again in 2021, Luke Winkie went on a journey to satisfy the modders decided so as to add nudity to the least doubtless video games, discovering that even pixel-art sandbox sim Starbound and sci-fi grand technique recreation Stellaris weren’t secure from their consideration. For a recreation like Midnight Suns, the place half the forged put on skin-tight fetishwear and likewise you may unlock swimsuits for them—no, actually, it is a heck of a factor—it was solely a matter of time.
