Finding It Hard To Mod SOMA...

[Myster Stranger]

You know, I worked my ass off on Surface, it has monsters from Soma's beta content as well as Penumbra reworked and added in, incorporates a wide variety of new encounter styles, features a fun sci-fi story, open level format, and a dynamic soundtrack that I spent an immense amount of time coding and it's sitting at three stars on Steam right now, and a 6 on ModDB. And yet, I'm somehow finding myself spending this weekend working on a new custom story. Why? Why should I waste the time, the cynic in me says.

Well, because every once in a while, I go onto Youtube, and there's somebody playing through Surface, and they're excited, and they're smiling and saying it's awesome and fun, and that they're excited about where Soma modding's going. There is a receptive audience out there, a lot of people that want to see new, interesting experiences in Soma's engine, and if one is bubbling in your mind, than there'll be plenty of people who will be more than willing to play it. To be frank, while I do respect Fuga, it was a little too up-its-own-ass for me (no offense intended, WALP, ), but the screenshots for your stories all have me quite excited, along with the goofy voices, it looks like the kind of irreverent fun that's right up my alley. Sure, it can be disheartening to see the laziest mods on the most subscribed list, but that's how it was with Amnesia's first years too, but eventually, passionate stories will rise to the top.

Kreekakon is absolutely on point with this. If you have something to say through the awesome medium that Frictional Games have provided us, then say it, and hundreds of people will listen with open ears. And worst case scenario, if you happen to get swamped by a flood of test maps and get shoved off the most recent list and out of view (like Surface did, ), then I'll be glad to throw a like and a favorite your way, because your input has been extremely valuable to me as a modder, and it would be the least I could do.