Filter/Search by game version. New "game version" field for uploaded files.

[kameyojodido]

Hello,

 

I think I am not the first one to ask or suggest this. (i.e here)

 

If we could have an option to filter file mods by game version it would be very useful especially for alpha or beta games, or recently released games with lots of bugs and lots of updates and patches (like TES5, Fallout, The Witcher, Cyberpunk, etc).

 

Mod files could have a tag or field to choose the game versions when uploaded, and when searching by game versions it will filter the mods between those versions.

 

Maybe it would be a little bit hard to implement for all current games, but I think it would be very beneficiary for everyone, both moders and users. Moders could use that tag/field to maintain easily different version of mods for different game versions. And users will find easily the correct mod version for their games, by searching mods by game version, meaning less repetitive questions in the Comment sections, less time spent explaining in the Description and/or Download page which mod version is for which game version, etc etc. Is a win-win for everyone.

 

It would maybe make more sense to start implementing this for the most mod-downloaded games.

 

Kind regards,

kameyo

 

PS: examples

 

 

 

 

[Pickysaurus]

This is something we've already discussed internally. While it may not end up being a searchable/filterable attribute, the information would likely be available on each file. We've not got any concrete plans for implementing it though, so it's all subject to change. I do agree that game version info would be pretty handy. The only problem is some game devs use nonsensical versions :P

[kameyojodido]

This is something we've already discussed internally. While it may not end up being a searchable/filterable attribute, the information would likely be available on each file. We've not got any concrete plans for implementing it though, so it's all subject to change. I do agree that game version info would be pretty handy. The only problem is some game devs use nonsensical versions :tongue:

Hi Pickysaurus, thanks for your quick reply, did not expect an answer that fast xD

 

Glad to hear it has been talked, and might arrive some day :)

 

And I agree, some game versions are quite peculiar :D

 

It could be a "custom" field instead of generic drop menu v1.0, 1.1, 2.0, etc (with a note for the moders to try to follow the nomenclature of the game versions) ?

 

But I must insist in the "searchable/filterable attribute" :P if each file has the game version attribute, it would be pretty useful to be able to search by game version.

 

Wish you a happy holiday!

[Pickysaurus]

 

This is something we've already discussed internally. While it may not end up being a searchable/filterable attribute, the information9 would likely be available on each file. We've not got any concrete plans for implementing it though, so it's all subject to change. I do agree that game version info would be pretty handy. The only problem is some game devs use nonsensical versions :tongue:

Hi Pickysaurus, thanks for your quick reply, did not expect an answer that fast xD

 

Glad to hear it has been talked, and might arrive some day :smile:

 

And I agree, some game versions are quite peculiar :D

 

It could be a "custom" field instead of generic drop menu v1.0, 1.1, 2.0, etc (with a note for the moders to try to follow the nomenclature of the game versions) ?

 

But I must insist in the "searchable/filterable attribute" :tongue: if each file has the game version attribute, it would be pretty useful to be able to search by game version.

 

Wish you a happy holiday!

 

 

The search (currently) looks at mod pages and this would be a file attribute. So if the mod has a current version that works with Game 1.1 but an old version that works with Game 1.0 it would be a bit weird to display it that way.

 

You also have to remember that although most games have a version number, some devs like to use names for PR (Monster Hunter World Iceborne is an example off the top of my head). If a mod was compatible with Iceborne at release (say v1.2.0) it may not work with a future update (1.2.1) so just putting Iceborne as the version would be kind useless.

 

My thinking is we rely on the game version detected by Vortex as the baseline, but as I say it's not something we've put much thought into yet as it's a ways off before we'll be able to add it. There are several other site features and fixes we really want to do for you guys before QoL stuff like this.

[kameyojodido]

 

 

This is something we've already discussed internally. While it may not end up being a searchable/filterable attribute, the information9 would likely be available on each file. We've not got any concrete plans for implementing it though, so it's all subject to change. I do agree that game version info would be pretty handy. The only problem is some game devs use nonsensical versions :tongue:

Hi Pickysaurus, thanks for your quick reply, did not expect an answer that fast xD

 

Glad to hear it has been talked, and might arrive some day :smile:

 

And I agree, some game versions are quite peculiar :D

 

It could be a "custom" field instead of generic drop menu v1.0, 1.1, 2.0, etc (with a note for the moders to try to follow the nomenclature of the game versions) ?

 

But I must insist in the "searchable/filterable attribute" :tongue: if each file has the game version attribute, it would be pretty useful to be able to search by game version.

 

Wish you a happy holiday!

 

 

The search (currently) looks at mod pages and this would be a file attribute. So if the mod has a current version that works with Game 1.1 but an old version that works with Game 1.0 it would be a bit weird to display it that way.

 

You also have to remember that although most games have a version number, some devs like to use names for PR (Monster Hunter World Iceborne is an example off the top of my head). If a mod was compatible with Iceborne at release (say v1.2.0) it may not work with a future update (1.2.1) so just putting Iceborne as the version would be kind useless.

 

My thinking is we rely on the game version detected by Vortex as the baseline, but as I say it's not something we've put much thought into yet as it's a ways off before we'll be able to add it. There are several other site features and fixes we really want to do for you guys before QoL stuff like this.

 

Oh ok I get your point, I did not considered the actual "search by mod page" will not work with file attributes. Thanks for explaining it a bit deeper.

Looking forward for those new features you mentioned ;)

[solonlost]

I'd say that especially in combination with vortex, the ability to track which game version a mod is compatible with is becoming more and more important.

 

As for games with nonsensical versioning, maybe just allow for that by making it possible for a game to have freetext versioning where the chronology is manually defined. It would only be neccesary for a few games after all?