DICE and DC Dev Team Sign Agreement

[Cdr]

Not totally BF42 related but; http://global.dice.se/press/pressreleases/?article=d04a8c1f-4064-4bb5-bcb3-c757d42dfa47

What are peoples views on this? Good or bad?

 

[Scooba da Bass]

More people playing BF42, mod or not can only be a good thing for the game as a whole. Hopefully this will help with that. Who knows, Dice might even give DC some kind of balance, which can only be a good thing.

 

[Cdr]

The problem I can see is them ditching DC and working on this 'new project'. Which knowing DICE will be a modern warfare expansion pack for BF:V. Maybe the next version of BF will be BF:Gulf War, and the'll contract it out to the DC team - who knows.

 

[Scooba da Bass]

Oh well, modern combat isn't fun anyway.

 

[Cask]

I'd say that a medieval mod would be fun but I expect melee combat would be painfully horrible due to the bf engine. Savage is the daddy for hand-to-hand anyway despite the latest patch making ranged weapons much better. Europe release at the end of this month hopefully

 

[Paradroid]

Oh well, modern combat isn't fun anyway.

Heh, too many HCs up your jacksie?

:touch:

 

[Scooba da Bass]

Modern combat with HCs and Slippers is lots of fun, if DC included those next release I'd be all over it.

 

[Deady]

Would it be safe to say the reasoning or hopes behind making a mod for a game are changing thesedays?

Ever since valve started buying fan made mods theres this air of "if we make this good we could make some money". A kind of commercial aim behind what used to be a purely volunteer "for the community" activity.

I'm not saying this is a bad thing, since it gets people into the industry and lets us the players get more fun from our vanilla games.

Just an observation about modern day mod making