Several legendary mods have never been updated to the modern Lua API of later BeamNG versions. Mods like the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX (old model), DJPlays' Maps , and the original Gavril Vertex physics tweaks work flawlessly on 0.17.0.2 but break on modern builds.

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