Trauma Studios, developers of Desert Combat, one of the best FPS mods of the past several years, signed a contract with Digital Illusions (developers of the Battlefield 1942 games) to produce a commercial mod for ‘an upcoming product.’ Since as far as anyone is aware DICE has only one product upcoming, Battlefield Vietnam, it seems likely that’s what the mod will be for. On the one hand this is great news, the developers of Desert Combat deserve to be rewarded for their excellent work – their mod is arguably more fun than the original Battlefield game, and they’ve been regularly updating and adding content to their mod for over a year. On the other hand, I’ll be bummed (but not surprised) if the superb and free Desert Combat falls by the wayside.
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My profound hope is that they somehow integrate DC into whatever they have them do. I would pay for DC as a standalone game.
They can’t just let it whither on the vine. Seems to me that DICE probably just wants to cash in on the popularity of DC. In some way that is.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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I agree that I would pay for a commercial quality retail release of DC. My hope is that’s what they’re doing, with the more advanced Battlefield 1942:Vietnam engine powering it.
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