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It appeared that the user in question was in fact not actually banned. There seem to be some conflicting or contradictory information here. So if you want to stay up to date with C:S news, you might want to consider joining the Cities:Skylines subreddit or the /r/CitiesSkylines Discord server (sorry, no links because of forum rules).
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But it's perhaps worth noting that the major modders and Paradox staff have all chosen to publish information about the malicious mods on other media, not here. These forums are usually the best way to stay up to date with games published by Paradox Development Studios.
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In fact, this issue was only discovered because the malicious code was available on GitHub. GitHub is not a dangerous website (it's owned by Microsoft and is used for developing both Linux and Windows) and many legitimate modders use it to share their code. This does not mean you should avoid all mods that use GitHub for development. While reading about this issue, you will learn that the malicious modder was using GitHub for their code. (h/t: Paradox Interactive's Maddie via the r/Cities Skylines Discord server) If you want more details, a YouTube video has just been posted explaining why we should all stop using Network Extensions. A modder called cylis has kindly re-created all the roads in Network Extensions as ordinary assets, which is safer and uses less memory. If you're starting a new game, just avoid Network Extensions altogether. If you want to rescue existing savegames, use these mods: If you are still using it, it's really time to stop, so I'm not going to link to a safe version. The Network Extensions line of mods was created for good reasons in the early days of C:S, but its design means it's inherently likely to break savegames. To be honest, this is not entirely the malicious modder's fault. If you unsubscribe from the Network Extensions 3 mod, then your savegame will certainly break, which is annoying but better than having malware on your PC.
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At the time of writing, these are the latest trustworthy versions of affected major mods:Īlso, if you're not already using it, you should know that the old Loading Screen Mod was broken by the 1.14.x Airports patch, so anyone running C:S mods should subscribe to the Loading Screen Mod for Airports. For example, the Harmony Redesigned mod is malicious the original Harmony 2 mod is not and is necessary to make many popular mods work correctly. Going to this page, logging into Steam if necessary, and clicking 'Unsubscribe from all' will remove the most dangerous mods, though not all of them.Īll Most of these mods have very similar names to popular mods, which appears to be a deliberate attempt at deception. Deactivating them in the Content Manager is not enough at least one is reported to self-activate itself as soon as you start the game, overriding the Content Manager. If you use any of these mods, you should unsubscribe from them in Steam Workshop. Traffic Manager (Curated TMPE version 11.6.4.7-HWC).Since these accounts have reportedly been banned, they might repost the mods under new user names too. The mods are made by Steam users ' Holy Water', ' Chaos', and 'drok' (who are probably all the same person). It's now been reported by the NME website too. Circumventing Steam's security checks by updating the mods without going through Steam Workshop.įorum rules mean that I cannot link directly to the relevant posts, but you will find one of them as a discussion thread on the TMPE section of the Steam Workshop.Attempting to stop CO staff and other modders from investigating those bugs through both technical and legal measures.Deliberately and maliciously making other mods appear bugged.Earlier today the team behind one of the most popular and respected mods, Traffic Manager: President Edition (TM: PE) announced that they had discovered that several mods created by a rogue modder were causing serious harm, including: