Ask Anything About SOMA

[Thomas]

About Steam Workshop/Mods
1. Will mods hosted exclusively on the Workshop be accessible to GOG users (if the modder doesn't specifically provide a non-Steam version)?

2. If Valve reintroduces its paid mod scheme, will FG endorse paid mods for SOMA?

3. Now that the Workshop is being used to host mods, are there any new legal standards or guidelines that modders will have to be conscious of that they might not have had to worry about so much before?

4. It was mentioned that there are now dedicated mod folders whose contents will take precedence over their equivalents in the base game. Does this mean that we could have multiple mods installed which are all independent from each other and without "contaminating" the base game? Will modders still occasionally need to modify the base files, or is this now circumvented entirely?

1) There are no trivial ways I know (non-trivial being for example to have other people send you the data), it will be up to the modder where to share it. Mods still works the same as they did before, so can just compress a folder and pass that along.
2) We'll look into that when the time comes. It is thorny issue.
3) Not that I know of.
4) Modders should never have to mess with the basic game content, the only thing that needs to remain the same is the exe. So will be able have lots of total conversations installed at the same time.