You don't have to runs mods at all, and complaining about how its such a bother.It's your choice to run them or not. And the reality is while some are rather cool, if you cant figure how to rename a folder in windows to save yourself the effort of having to reinstall mods (especially purely cosmetic mods ship skins and the like) you needs to turn in your 'leet' status pin and simply admit that thou is NOOB! There very few mods that actually require any real update from patch to patch. Generally a small load but its another thing that can go wrong. It is more trouble then its worth and they all put an additional load on my machine and my game. I finally stopped running any mods at all about 3 or 4 patches back. And whats amazing is how conveniently simple it is to stop cheat mods by changing the label on a folder. Because the one thing you can absolutely count on from those who would cheat is they are LAZY, else they d not be running cheats to begin with. However yes, it is a bother and the reason it's a bother is to mess up the cheat makers. Because most time its the same mods but most player cant seem to figure out how to rename a folder. You may not need to re-download the mods at all. and rename your old mods to the current version. Humm, ok, so go to your mods folder for world of warships. Having to reinstall all mods every patch is just absolutely unnecessary and a huge waste of time and resources. If an update does cause issues, you disable the offending mod(s) and then and only then do you have to wait for an update and only for that mod. Other games that I play, and have played, all allow mods to remain in place, and if an update doesn't bork them, everything keeps working. Why WG Players accept this out-dated and silly Mod system is beyond me.

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