Quote from: skullywag on July 15, 2016, 07:56:21 AM No, hes asking if mods and scenarios posted to steam will be available to him, the answer is wholly dependant on getting a steam key, same as all the other questions, the answer was to wait until that info is made clear by the only one who knows, Tynan, and as per the support thread, keys will available at a particular url. Now we know.



So the actual answer now we know we are all getting steam keys is if you are willing to get the steam version by using your key then yes you can have those mods and scenarios.



Its more complicated than that. Games available on Steam AND other platforms often can't use the same mods, because Steam modifies the game's .EXE and adds its own DRM. Mods made for Steam have to be Steam-compatible, which limits options and generally puts a wall between mods made for Steam versus mods made for non-Steam versions of a game such that a mod made for the Steam version won't work for a non-Steam version and vice-versa.



Depends entirely on the game, not every game on Steam gets DRM'ed, Prison Architech was an example of this,for quite a while you could buy it on Steam, download it on Steam, but run it without Steam (although checking just now that appears to have changed)Secondly, for workshop mods, it really depends on how they're packaged, but unless its done in a convolouted way, its fairly simple to extract them and i dont see a reason why you wouldn't be able to use extracted steam mods on a non steam version. A game like Space Engineers for instance, you need to extract them from the mod file, with something like 7zip, and then you're free to use them as local/offline mods. It also shouldn't matter what .exe its run on, as long as the folder contents, rather than the .exe, are the same.So, if I have Alpha 14 on Steam and a non steam Alpha 14, as long as the other files are the same (since mods don't change the .exe) I see no reason why mods wouldn't work interchangably with either version (with the way rimworld does mods) So for alpha 14 on Steam I could download a mod from the workshop and have it work, or I could download it from say, here, and put it in the right place and it'll work.The only downside is, some people might host their mods only on the workshop, and if they do that, unless you have the game for steam, you can't download anything from the workshop, unless, say, you get a friend who has it on steam to send you the mod files.