Comments on: CrosuS: Mod Management

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[...] about 400Mb or so. Now, we’ve mentioned Isotx regarding their game manager/mod-updater thing CrosuS, but bar a name-check, I didn’t really pay any attention to this. Now, I’ve been [...]

By: Scotti

Scotti — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:48:01 +0000

Its a nice idea but it needs a little work. It also has a nice amount of indie games too. They update alot so maybe as time goes on it will improve. Its a program thats certainly welcomed but I do like the old fashioned way.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:41:25 +0000

I thought Natural Selection was moving towards a commercial release.

I stopped playing it years ago, so I might just be out of the loop a little bit.. I did enjoy the game a lot at the time.

I do see what Ging is saying though – ‘mod exclusives’ do seem to go against the whole idea of mods in the first place.

By: DoomMunky

DoomMunky — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:10:59 +0000

What they gotta do is get exclusive rights to the next Forgotten Hope or Natural Selection iteration: that’d push them into full view RIGHT quick.

I don’t do much mod-gaming, but a handy tool to manage them might change that.

By: Ging

Ging — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:07:37 +0000

I gave Crosus a bash a while ago, but as with Vapour (which it absorbed), I just found myself using “normal” distribution channels to get mods I wanted to try rather than looking via Crosus, so it just sort of got forgotten about.

I’ve had some discussions with some of the guys behind it at points and they seem to have some good ideas for it to help boost it’s popularity, though at the same time, some of the directions they want to go sound a bit odd to me and against the mod community “spirit” (exclusive, Crosus mods for instance). But they may have changed their minds about that.

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:37:21 +0000

Thats a shame. Still, might grab it for old times sake.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:27:31 +0000

Yeah. Nothing else was ever released.

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:11:57 +0000

Did you’s end up doing anything more with cassandra? or is it still just the training/intro level?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:39:48 +0000

Did that make you crossus?

That made me cry.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:37:08 +0000

“You can still download from various places online, if you wish.”

Yeah, I tried that – then I get the Steam/3rd party game-mod problem. I install it to the Deus Ex directory buried in my Steam folders, then it doesn’t show up in my ‘Games window’ (which isn’t to be expected anyway), so I try using the exe the mod creates, but then I just get an error message saying something like Steam isn’t installed, which is a HUGE LIE!!!

I was hoping something like CrosuS would help in this respect.

Anyway, I’ve just realised I turned this comments thread into a Tech forum. Sorry about that. ;)

By: Herb

Herb — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:35:30 +0000

I’d installed CrosuS a long time ago, and have been using it periodically. I think it’s pretty nice, since it does integrate with Steam (in that HL2 mods you install with CrosuS show up in the Steam Games window). However, the real draw for me is the collection of indie games that you can install and update from the program. One of their games got me hooked on Tower Defense games, just for a start. And it looks like Liquid War and The Battle for Wesnoth are in there… Maybe I need to lose a few more weekends in this collection.

My only gripe is that it seems to start up a bit slowly (or at least it did at some point, maybe I should check for updates). I don’t start it with Windows as a result, but I still launch it every time I’m looking for a mod or indie game. This is a small price to pay for managing my installs and updates programmatically.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:17:40 +0000

I haven’t actually done it yet :)

You can still download from various places online, if you wish.

EDIT: Actually, to save fucking around with Queues, it’s available here…
http://gillen.cream.org/CassandraPart1Setup.exe