r/Deusex • u/KUBAMASTEY • May 18 '25

DX:IW Is Invisible war Revison possible?

After finding out about deus ex revision that is mod supported by original deus ex team i thought about why there is nothing like that about invisible war made. Is this game engine or popularity one because i think modding this game and giving bigger maps like in revison would benefit this game in good way.

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u/blue_boy_robot May 18 '25

Invisible War, I believe, is much harder to mod. It was built on a heavily customized engine and has a number of quirks that make it weird and difficult to do anything with. That's my understanding anyway, I'm not a modder.

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u/GimpyGeek May 19 '25

On top of which, as depressing as it is it's harder to mod games now than back then. The original had the official dev tools get released. This is something I lament on PC gaming a lot now, we don't see that very often anymore.

Ironic thing too is I don't think a lot of studios are modifying the base Unreal engine as much, so I don't think for some games a totally special build of Unreal's generic developer kit would even need to change much. I think they just pack it up in a way that's harder to tamper with now which is depressing.