Mod Organizer 2 detects conflicts right away, making it the clear winner here. If a mod breaks a game, you can just unsubscribe from that mod and your game will be just fine again. ModDB is just a website, so it cannot do any of this on its own. But you can download mods from here manually, and then manage them with Mod Organizer 2.
Malware being uploaded to ModDB disguised as mods has been a problem in the past, but it has been brought to our attention that they have since stepped up their game here. Nexus Mods and Steam Workshop have both been scanning uploads for malware for a long time.
Steam Workshop is dependent on, well, Steam. It is a massive, widely used platform around the globe, with a scheduled weekly maintenance period but also its fair share of service outages as expected for a platform this size. And when Steam is down, Workshop is usually down too. ModDB and Nexus Mods have no such issues.
As you can see, there is no clear winner. As usual, the herd of mindless drones imploring that all games should only use Steam and Steam Workshop are wrong. Never sell your soul to a corporation, it does no good for you. So this is the most versatile and detailed solution for both players and mod uploaders. As a website, there are pros and cons it has versus Nexus Mods, with the main benefit being better download speeds compared to free Nexus Mods users, but some may find Nexus easier to use, especially mod authors.
Of course, you can use both! A more recent one is mod. Far more convenient than server side modding in the past. Not many games use mod. Regarding the Malware issue, we have AV checks that use about different criteria to determine if a file is a virus or not. If it meets enough of these checks, we always remove it and our content moderators do manually check every file.
The one or two times it has been escalated and reported to the editorial team, it has always been actioned. The initial information in the article was sourced from one particular piece of malware disguised as a mod that had been uploaded for a long time, though it has since been removed. Download Speeds. Thanks for reading! How did you like this post? Misery 2. Essential Skyrim Mods Guide. Notify of. Most Voted Newest Oldest. Change language.
Install Steam. Store Page. Global Achievements. Im skeptical when it comes to downloading from other people meaning not the official developer,publisher, or site. These might be dumb questions, but I really want to know : Questions: Is it safe to download files from moddb?
Can you get virus from it? Or keylogging program attached it unknowingly and get ur information stolen? Couldn't they just upload viruses with the game files if they wanted? Thank you. Showing 1 - 6 of 6 comments. Axeknight View Profile View Posts.
I have a happy virus free computer. Seeing as moddb has been around for a long, long time, and I have downloaded mods for lots of games for years, I'd say it's as safe as it gets. They are established communities - It's as safe to get mods there as it is from the Taleworlds official forums. Same can happen everywhere else. Parrhesiastes View Profile View Posts.
This is a good question and I'll throw in my two-cents just for balance. I'm not a huge modding fan but I have tried a few that were made available through Steam.
For games I've played to death, having new mods can be a great way to breathe some new life into them. In my mind, it comes down to risk exposure. Everything you download from anywhere has some inherent risks associated with it. Bad people can't come over to your house and type code into your computer very easily so they'll find a way to get it on there by slipping it in along with other stuff. Even the best software protection in the world can only protect you from threats that are already known about.
In case you hadn't heard, some of the people you should be concerned about are very clever. Who or where you get your downloads from is of critical importance when you take these considerations into account.
Steam is a corporation, you can go look up all sorts of information about who they are and where they work. They have a company and a reputation to protect. This means, they will go to great lengths to ensure that you aren't getting any nasty surprises in the stuff you get from them An annonymous site with annonymous users has little to lose, so why should they care?
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