Codemasters have made an official statement on mod support of their evolving DiRT Rally title.
Countless small mods regarding the force feedback, FOV and other details have been released lately and Codemasters are semi-sanctioning these, while pointing out that some kind of mods are off limits in terms of support.
First up I feel like we need to clear the air on the mod support issue following the round of news stories this week. We???re not saying no to the inclusion of it and it???s something we???re still actively looking into, adding it in mid early access wouldn???t make sense for the way we are building the game though and if it was to happen it wouldn???t be until towards the end of that period.
When we use the term ???mod support??? we???re talking about proper Steam Workshop integration, if we were to add it we would want the system to be as easy to use as possible so more people can enjoy it and that seems like the best way.
As for what kind of things we???ll allow you to mod we???re still working that out but we???re not going to be able to do things like let you add in cars we don???t hold a licence for to do something crazy like race LMP1 car up Pikes Peak (as cool as that would be).
The only thing we do have an issue with is the kind of mods that enable you to set faster times. We see those more as cheats and if something gives you an unfair advantage over everybody else then we???re not cool with that ??? If you???re using anything like that then we won???t allow your times on our leaderboards, you may even find yourself unable to take part in our online events and leagues too.
There are plenty of mods out there for DiRT Rally at the moment: FOV mods, FFB mods, not to mention all the wraps for various cars and you???re all completely welcome to create, share and download things like that. We might not be able to add Steam Workshop support for all of them, but we don???t have a problem with them and we even try out some of the popular ones ourselves.
That???s where we???re at with mod support as of today, not off the cards by any means. We???re just working out what we can do and that goes for the rest of the feedback and feature requests we???ve been getting from you since launch.
The Early-Access beta of DiRT Rally is??available on Steam,??selling for 32,99???.
