Unsurprisingly, there are already nude mods for Midnight Suns
Now when will someone mod Tony Stark to give him a goatee?
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Given how quickly nude mods for Spider-Man Remastered followed the wall-crawler’s appearance on PC, it should be no surprise that modders have set to work removing the superhero underoos ofMarvel’s Midnight Sunsas well. While mods for the XCOM games are traditionally apretty big deal, theonlymods I can find for Firaxis’s latest are the horny ones. ItsModDB entryremains empty and there’s no page for it at all onNexusModsyet.
The eternally thirsty modders of theLoversLab forum, however, wasted no time, and within a day of its release had discovered nude meshes in the game’s files, added nipples, and made thefirst nude mod(initially for Magik, before addingCaptain Marvel, Nico, and the Hunter). A more tastefulhalf-nude modquickly followed, for those who’d rather have the ladies of the Midnight Suns merely topless while hanging out at the Abbey. Mods for male Midnight Sunssanstrunks have yet to appear, despiterequests, but I’m sure it won’t be long.
It’s always fascinating to see how determined modders manage these feats. In the case of Midnight Suns, which was made in Unreal Engine 4.26, that meant first using UModel to extract the assets so they could be modified. File encryption is supposed to prevent that, but encryption keys for Unreal Engine games arereadily availableonline.
Those assets could then be imported into other software like open-source 3D graphics toolsetBlenderfor editing, though not without issue, as one modderdiscoveredwhen characters' heads went missing and they developed additional bone sockets. The solution was to “set the scale of the object to 0.01 and also change the name of both the object and the armature to ‘armature’, so that Blender doesn’t add an extra bone at the root”, they discovered, which also fixed the missing head problem. “Apparently, the head wasn’t actually invisible; it was just so gigantic that the game was placing it far up in the sky somewhere.”
The inventiveness of modders, whether those serving the horny slice of the audience or otherwise, is always impressive. Back in 2021, Luke Winkie went on a journey tomeet the modders determined to add nudity to the least likely games, finding that even pixel-art sandbox sim Starbound and sci-fi grand strategy game Stellaris weren’t safe from their attention. For a game like Midnight Suns, where half the cast wear skin-tight fetishwear and also you can unlock swimsuits for them—no, really, it’s a heck of a thing—it was only a matter of time.
The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Jody’s first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia’s first radio show about videogames,Zed Games. He’s written forRock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue,GamesRadar,Zam,Glixel,Five Out of Ten Magazine, andPlayboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody’s first article for PC Gamer was about theaudio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he’s written aboutwhy Silent Hill belongs on PC,why Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, andhow weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.
FF14 is finally fixing the fact my carefully-constructed portraits keep reverting to a goddamn driver’s licence photo whenever I change my goddamn gear
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s first patch adds some Mass Effect flair to your wardrobe
Genshin Impact’s missing English voice acting returns in its latest trailer, but players aren’t sure if they should celebrate yet
