Most of the following information will be obsolete, including links.Ĭurrent HoxHud logo ' HoxHud Initialised' -HoxHud booting up. This section is kept only for archive purposes. HoxHud Warning: HoxHud is non-functional and discontinued. Care should still be taken, however, as a poorly-written or outdated script can easily cause the game to crash or suffer severe glitches. invulnerability, free cash, experience, or achievements, etc.) and are used only in single player or with the consent of the other players in one's lobby. It is important to note that most Lua-based modifications are not considered cheats as of February 2016, gameplay-altering mods, including rebalance mods, are condoned by Overkill so long as they do not amount to blatant cheating (i.e. Lua mods affect the structure of the game and range from HUD mods that reveal additional information (such as enemy health and damage) to small quality of life changes (such as being able to press a button once as opposed to being forced to hold it down during an interaction) to full game overhauls (which typically seek to address balance and difficulty issues) to malicious cheats (such as lootbag spawning or invulnerability).

so for Linux users) and associated files to inject, overwrite, or append code to the Lua scripts used by the game itself, whilst the game is running. This makes many simple mods significantly easier to use than they were before, though there are restrictions on the file types that can be loaded using this system in order to prevent malicious behaviour.

Such modifications have been unofficially supported by Overkill with the addition of the mod_overrides system (see Tools below) which allows the game to load unpacked assets from a special folder in place of archived files. Only has an impact on the mod user's experience, even if said player is the host.

The two most common types of clientside mod are texture and sound mods these modify the textures or sounds of various objects, characters or environment. Clientside (/mod_override) mods are generally safe to use in online play - they often have little (if any) impact on the experience of other users, and will be unnoticeable to other players.

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