: Many players reported that applying the 1.01 update caused the game to crash on the "Stone Cold" splash screen if mods were already installed.
Today, dedicated forums like and PWM (Pro Wrestling Mods) still feature stickied guides on acquiring and patching v101. Meanwhile, 2K has moved on to the 2K Battlegrounds and 2K22+ engine, leaving WWE 2K16 as a time capsule of the mid-2010s wrestling scene—kept alive only by the controversial, exclusive work of CODEX. wwe 2k16 update v101codex exclusive