Eurogamer held a live Q&A session with Pete Hines of Bethesda. There was a lot of "no comment" going on, but among the results:<blockquote>Q: Will the PS3 version receive Trophy support in the future?
Pete Hines: It's going to happen, just not sure when. We'll let folks know when we have something more definitive.
Q: Will there be a patch to add southpaw controls for the left-handed people out there? And what about a fix for the various PC niggles?
Pete Hines: Well on the 360 the console itself actually handles that. You change it in your control options, so we don't bother doing it in the game. I'll have to check on how PS3 works.
As far as fixes, there's a PC update coming out later today that will address a few PC-specific things that have come up. Can't give you any details yet beyond that as far as what else might be in the works for any of the three platforms.
Q: What happened to the Fallout 3 toolset we heard about over the summer. Are there still plans for one? Might we even see one for console? Or are mods still a privilege reserved for PC gamers?
Pete Hines: Well, let's start with the last part first. Developers aren't in charge of what content can appear on a console. That's up to the console manufacturer. You should understand that the things we allow people to edit/change in our games is pretty off-the-charts. We're not taking "make a map" here. We're talking "I downloaded this mod and it deleted 2/3rds of the game world and replaced it with mole rats.
So I don't see consoles making that leap for quite a while until they can better protect and control the amount of content users create and remove things that could be harmful to the unwitting end-user who thought they were getting X but got something else instead.
As far as our tools, no word yet on that. As soon as we know for sure, we'll let you know.</blockquote>So, who wants to be the first to make the world-of-molerats mod for PC?
Thanks to Ranne.
Pete Hines: It's going to happen, just not sure when. We'll let folks know when we have something more definitive.
Q: Will there be a patch to add southpaw controls for the left-handed people out there? And what about a fix for the various PC niggles?
Pete Hines: Well on the 360 the console itself actually handles that. You change it in your control options, so we don't bother doing it in the game. I'll have to check on how PS3 works.
As far as fixes, there's a PC update coming out later today that will address a few PC-specific things that have come up. Can't give you any details yet beyond that as far as what else might be in the works for any of the three platforms.
Q: What happened to the Fallout 3 toolset we heard about over the summer. Are there still plans for one? Might we even see one for console? Or are mods still a privilege reserved for PC gamers?
Pete Hines: Well, let's start with the last part first. Developers aren't in charge of what content can appear on a console. That's up to the console manufacturer. You should understand that the things we allow people to edit/change in our games is pretty off-the-charts. We're not taking "make a map" here. We're talking "I downloaded this mod and it deleted 2/3rds of the game world and replaced it with mole rats.
So I don't see consoles making that leap for quite a while until they can better protect and control the amount of content users create and remove things that could be harmful to the unwitting end-user who thought they were getting X but got something else instead.
As far as our tools, no word yet on that. As soon as we know for sure, we'll let you know.</blockquote>So, who wants to be the first to make the world-of-molerats mod for PC?
Thanks to Ranne.
