The beta key for the final Modiverse update that includes unfinished cars is "kjmodbetatesters"
This game was dead on arrival. Let me get this out of the way, [b]Modiverse wasn't meant to be a scam, it was abandoned likely from fear.[/b]
The origins of this game (at least according to the creator, KillerJim) was that there was a dispute between KillerJim and the creator of Pavlov VR. What the dispute was about was never revealed, but it ended with Jim deciding to create a VR game being a direct competitor to Pavlov VR. Over the course of development, people were offered access to a closed beta for modders, but the majority of them didn't have VR setups so the game's direction was changed to be similar to both Pavlov and Garry's Mod.
Unfortunately the game was given hardly any help by experienced developers as they were more interested in making their own games than helping develop mods and community features for someone else's. This leads to the major first problem, the majority of modders for this game were beginners, Jim didn't hire anyone experienced enough to create interesting mods. As for the beginners, they asked for help with more advanced mods and instead of being given direct help they were instead told to "get good." An example of this is when I tried hiring an experienced developer to create functioning doors for the game. They worked in the editor but broke in-game. I asked for help but instead was just repeatedly told it should be working absolutely fine as supposedly everything made in Unreal should work in Modiverse right out of the box, which clearly wasn't the case here. [b]The game has it's own function set that is hardly explained at all.[/b]
Alongside the lack of help, the modders were given hardly documentation. Modiverse has a website that has pages ready for documentation but most of them are either empty or have brief descriptions of functions but don't guide you through how to implement and use them in your projects.
Third major problem is that KillerJim is hardly active on Discord, he stays silent for months and then when he's active for five minutes all he says is that "The update is next week" and that week never arrives. Instead that update is left unfinished and locked to beta testers. It's never going to be pushed to the public branch of the game. Here's his own words about being a lazy developer: [b]"♥♥♥♥ off; literally spent 1 year of my life building a game that nobody would write any mods for.. with a community that just wanted "more".."[/b] Even though this "more" stuff was literally asking for BASIC FUNCTIONS of a sandbox game. (Info provided by Apple Scout 727)
And now for a list of smaller things that add up to why the game died;
-Lack of controller support, so it's not going to be optimized for the Steam Deck
-Lack of VR support, the code is there but KillerJim refuses to enable it
-Feature requests have been ignored, so no player-scaling, no offline support, no LUA code support (Nanos World supports it, so it is TOO doable in Unreal Engine, Red!)
-Bug reports are also ignored, and there is quite a lot of them
We know that KillerJim has a full-time job and a family to support, but it's no excuse for him to not admit his game is dead. There is nobody playing it anymore, it's peak amount of players was around 20 during a beta test. [b]Modiverse is dead.[/b]
If you're wanting a sandbox game that is actually getting active support, I have two games for you. S&Box is the official successor to Garry's Mod and already has everything this game lacks. As for Unreal Engine, keep an eye on Nanos World as it aims to also have everything this game lacks as well and is constantly being updated unlike Modiverse by the team that developed Just Cause 2 Multiplayer on Steam.
S&Box Discord: https://discord.gg/sbox
Nanos World Discord: https://discord.gg/zJC3NpA3
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1841660/nanos_world/
