Today, Vortex leaves that beta phase entirely and hits an official 1.0 stable release, allowing users to mod 69 different games, up from the 28 games that the Vortex alpha launched with and the 27 that NMM supports. With Vortex, we set out to learn from our previous mistakes and today I am happy to announce that Vortex is officially out of beta and has reached a 1.0 release.Īfter over 18 months of work in private, we released the alpha of Vortex in early 2018 followed by a beta phase in late 2018. When we first started work on Vortex we were very aware that, over the 6 years that we worked on Nexus Mod Manager, it remained in a state of permanent beta which reflected our lack of confidence in the software's ability to remain stable and provide a solid experience for all users.

Unfortunately, we considered this change a necessary act considering the mess that NMM was (and still is) in. Back towards the end of 2016 we began work on a new mod manager, Vortex, to replace the ageing Nexus Mod Manager.

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