I'm REALLY pissed at Larian.
Why?
Larian talks about "We love Mods" but then they blocking the console + more stupid decisions.
1)
a console is not only used for cheating, its used by the devs themself so they can quickly test their own game/content.
imagine Larian would test their content without the console ... never! but for modders ( remember : they LOVE mods ... ) its okay to not give them tools to make their live easier! let them waste their free time
2)
people like Zanzer ( and many others here on the forum ) are working hard to give us high quality tables!
Zanzer did a AWESOME job with his scripts, his scripts are basically -emulating- the console.
and this is the problem, there is nothing wrong with the scripts from Zanzer but the game still has a chance to crash everytime you execute a emulated console command...
3)
Larian makes their OWN life super hard coz they work "stupid"
read THIS from some smart devs:
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Without it a given stack trace generated in the crash log will look like this
...
With it that stack trace might look like this
...
Maybe he likes delaying the 0.13 dev time by making us take hours more time to possibly figure out what the stack trace could have told us in 5 seconds
they are using a PDB to generate crashlogs = super "easy" to find and fix bug.
like they said with a symbolized stack trace you can locate problems in SECONDS instead of HOURS or maybe DAYS ...
imagine Larian would be smart enough to use this ... the game would be WAY MORE STABLE and probably be released some months earlier
3)
A PDB would not only help Larian itself, it would also help ANY modder and reverser.
for example we could properly investigate why Zanzers Table is crashing the game but without PDB its not worth it.
so yes the game might be really really good, but Larian itself are the same Fuckers like all the other devstudios.
Imagine you could just use console commands without crashing ...
"We love Mods" ... my ass - they only say that for marketing...
Sorry for the rant but it's the pure truth about Larian!