idStudio, the Official Development Kit for DOOM Eternal, Has Arrived!

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The official mod support is here, and according to id Software, we have the exact same tools that the studio used to create the game!

So it’s not only CD Projekt RED that can offer such a serious set of tools to the fans (although their case is a bit different, as they no longer use their old engine, as the Polish company has switched to Unreal Engine 5), but also id Software. DOOM Eternal has received a lot of mods in the almost four and a half years since its release (there are quite a few on Nexus Mods), but thanks to the support of mods and idStudio it is possible to create more complex mods than ever before.

And sharing them will be much easier, with an in-game mod browser (as seen in DOOM + DOOM II, which we’ve already reported on in the news). “Players will be able to browse, download and play mods published by their creators. For the creators, the portal also serves as a hub for managing and publishing their mods. And with the idStudio beta, we’re giving creators on Steam the same tools we used to create Doom Eternal,” said id Software’s Marty Stratton during his opening keynote at QuakeCon 2024. Hugo Martin added that these are professional track editing tools that will definitely take some time to learn.

Unsurprisingly, the Steam Workshop has been replaced with another built-in mod browser option so that DOOM Eternal can be used in the Windows Store version (which makes sense, since id Software is owned by Microsoft after acquiring ZeniMax Media, which owns Bethesda). idStudio tools are available on Steam, and mod support is already available on Steam, with mod support coming to the Microsoft Store soon. To access the mod preview on Steam, right-click on the game, select Properties, then pc-mod-preview under the Beta tab, and you’ll be able to play after the update.

Just don’t get a mod as serious as Fallout: London…

Source: PCGamer, Steam, id Software

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