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Desert Combat Mod Developers Sign Commercial Deal

Posted by simoniker on from the much-like-counterstrike dept.

Ianing writes "Continuing the trend of developers supporting/hiring mod teams, Battlefield 1942 developer Digital Illusions has signed Trauma Studios, creators of the non-commercial Desert Combat mod for BF1942, to collaborate on Digital Illusions' series of Battlefield games." Blue's News adds that "The game involved is not mentioned, though Battlefield Vietnam comes to mind when reading that: 'This new collaboration is for one of Digital Illusions' previously announced projects'."

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  1. What a great mod!!! by trompete · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good for them. I've played that mod for a year, and I'm very impressed at what they were able to put out. Their mod was so good that EA tried to release their own mod like it (Secret Weapons of WW2) that sucked ass. Didn't a similar thing happen with CounterStrike and half-life?

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    More than enough BS
  2. If DICE wanted to support Mods... by PerpetualMotion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    they would release a goddamn SDK. Almost every suggestion/idea is shot down because of engine limitations. The mods out now are (mostly) skins and minor tweaks at best.
    An artifical horizion is one of the most widely wanted features, and would be client side and probally optional, but hasn't happened because it wasn't in Vanilla.

    Instead, they hire DICE, and will probally direct them to drop support for the BF1942 mod, and put their full attention onto their insiders copy of BF Vietnam, so people will have to BUY the next version of the MOD.

    This isn't a good thing, its an evil corprate thing.