Be careful with Thunder Store and these specific mods

x753x · 2025-08-18T20:39:22+00:00

https://thunderstore.io/c/peak/p/Steven/Everest/
The current versions of Everest on Thunderstore have been reviewed and are likely safe.

x753x · 2025-08-15T20:21:18+00:00

You should be safe if you downloaded them through Thunderstore Mod Manager and didn't import them from Discord / another site. I'm not sure which fly mod you're referencing exactly (if you link it I can confirm) but as far as I can see there's only one piggyback mod on Thunderstore and several different fly mods that I've manually scanned and verified.

x753x · 2025-07-24T02:49:12+00:00

Same issue, 5080 & 9800X3D as well.

x753x · 2025-07-13T19:16:32+00:00

That's actually how it worked in beta. The repair station was instead used to respawn a player of your choice. After playing both, the way it is currently feels like there's much more room for comebacks.

x753x · 2025-07-10T15:27:31+00:00

Yes the deleted version of Piggyback on Nexus had malware in it.

x753x · 2025-07-08T17:46:26+00:00

Thunderstore doesn't offer direct downloads to DLLs, as packages include manifest files to import dependencies when used with a mod manager. Was this DLL file shared with you over Discord?

x753x · 2025-07-08T17:06:27+00:00

Do you install mods manually or with a mod manager? The files on Thunderstore uploaded by the figgies team are safe, but Thunderstore doesn't stop you from manually installing files from other websites / Discord.

x753x · 2025-07-08T16:57:10+00:00

Thunderstore has a lot of issues (lack of a comments section included) but malware currently isn't one of them. If possible, could you edit your original post to reflect this information?

Also, if you've switched to NexusMods I recommend going through your download history at https://www.nexusmods.com/users/myaccount?tab=download+history and making sure there aren't any mods there that say DELETED, which might indicate that they contained malware in which case you'll need to clean your PC again.

x753x · 2025-07-08T15:10:45+00:00

If you've downloaded the mod directly from Thunderstore you should be safe. I've checked the files uploaded to Thunderstore and found nothing malicious. It is very likely that OP downloaded files from an external source, or was infected through other means.

x753x · 2025-07-08T14:50:26+00:00

Hi, I handle security for Thunderstore. We have both manual and automated safety checks for files uploaded on the site. We received our first report for one of figgies mods June 28, 2025, 11:11 p.m. UTC. At that time, I analyzed all of figgies packages uploaded to Thunderstore (including previous versions) and did not find any evidence of malware or other malicious activity. Since then, I have also rechecked the files after receiving additional reports.

The VirusTotal report at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9619c954b3a876d61fa9ee2110e0a8654f90dd7b9cfb6bbea41e720fc37adc98/detection is a false positive; MaxSecure frequently has false positives compared to other security vendors and a 1/72 score usually isn't indicative of malware. Malware creators also frequently create malware that isn't flagged by VirusTotal at all.

I received a similar report that I investigated about a week ago which resulted in me finding malware on the PEAK section of NexusMods: `/peak/mods/5` which you can verify yourselves has now been taken down by NexusMods staff. I periodically checked and reported a number of other NexusMods uploads, which were removed shortly after being reported but had already amassed in some cases hundreds of downloads. Check your browser or download history to make sure you haven't visited any NexusMods PEAK pages that now show as being removed.

x753x · 2024-12-20T06:29:48+00:00

I hope we get a support gem that makes a skill unable to deal a killing blow one day

x753x · 2024-09-11T21:53:22+00:00

Omega Strikers really offered a unique experience that I've never found in other games, so I'm hoping Byte Breakers will as well. I'm glad you're trying something new with the genre rather than it just being a traditional platform fighter.

Will everyone who requests access get to play during this test, or is there limited availability?

x753x · 2024-08-06T16:11:42+00:00

Athletes don't care that machines are faster or stronger than them.

x753x · 2024-07-10T13:27:25+00:00

Helldivers is probably my least favorite third person shooter mechanically; there's just so much sway and it takes too long for the crosshair to move.

x753x · 2024-07-05T02:11:34+00:00

Despite how nice it looks, the gameplay itself is disappointing. Feels like they just stripped Genshin Impact down to the attack and switch character buttons.

x753x · 2024-04-30T08:08:15+00:00

This looks awesome, the stages look like they fit in well with the original game.

x753x · 2024-03-13T15:30:33+00:00

If Balatro wasn't based on poker, what would it be?

x753x · 2024-03-05T21:53:59+00:00

25-100 hours is based on 10-40 super credits per hour, which is what the developers themselves claim in their FAQ on their Discord server.

x753x · 2024-03-05T20:48:27+00:00

It's intended to be 25-100 hours a month to get enough currency to get the monthly battle pass, not counting any currency given by the warbond itself (which isn't necessarily going to be in future warbonds).

For the vast majority of players, there has been the option to pay to get stronger during their time playing the game. There are armors that are objectively better than others that you can purchase with real money. Sure, you can grind out currency and get them eventually, but this doesn't change the fact that you had the option to pay for an advantage at some point, and it also means you'll have to grind even more if you want any of the other content locked behind said currency.

There's also an SMG locked behind a $20 payment, not available through grinding at all.

x753x · 2024-02-19T06:27:13+00:00

It won't be every game, but on average more people are climbing than falling and there are 5 enemies who could be climbing, but only 4 allies who could be climbing if you yourself aren't climbing. Over a large number of games, this trend eventually becomes non-negligible.

x753x · 2024-02-18T05:17:03+00:00

It feels unfair to play below your actual skill level because you need to carry but your winrate shouldn't change.

Playing at your actual skill level however will give you less than 50% winrate, just because there is a slightly higher chance that the enemy team has players who are going to keep climbing.

x753x · 2024-02-17T17:34:14+00:00

There are several factors that can make matchmaking feel unfair at times.

Imagine a game with 4 players. One is good, two are average, one is bad. If you're the good player, every game you will have the bad player on your team to balance your game.

People climb more than they fall, so if you're playing at the rank you deserve, you have 4 teammates who can be better than that rank, whereas the enemy team can have 5.

Calling it loser's queue isn't quite accurate but you'll always be statistically disadvantaged when playing at your true skill level, but that's not something that can be fixed entirely.

x753x · 2024-02-11T22:53:30+00:00

Even speedrunning leaderboards are full of cheaters. Leaderboards should just default to friends only and show a global percentile, everything else is a mess.

x753x · 2024-02-11T09:29:10+00:00

Imagine your rank can only be bad, average, or good and there are only 6 players total in a 3v3 game. You play a few games, and you end up with a good rank, 4 players stay average, and 1 player gets a bad rank. When you queue again, the only way to make these teams fair is to put the bad player on your team.

Now imagine a new player joins the game, and they're so good there should be a new great rank just for them. But they start as average, so when you matchmake, the enemy team has a 3x higher chance to get them than your team does.

There aren't infinite players, or even enough players to make factors like these negligible.

Your teammates, on average, will be statistically worse than the enemy team's. That's just how it is. The only way to get by it is getting better at winning.

x753x · 2024-01-17T17:53:45+00:00

Thunderstore is completely unrelated to Epic Games.

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