He reasoned that, while the company is very much aware of how important modding can be for building up a game's longevity, "we're afraid of all the things that can come with releasing the code." However, recent sequel Battlefield 3 came with no official modding tools, causing an uproar from the modding community.Īt GDC Europe this week, Karl Magnus Troedsson, general manager at DICE, explained why this is the case - essentially, DICE is scared of the implications of giving players access to parts of the game's code. One of these in particular is DICE and its Battlefield franchise.īattlefield 2 had official modding tools in place, and the modding community helped to keep the popularity of the game churning for many years after its initial release. The success story behind this mod has led gamers to question why other big-name developers refuse to allow modding of their online multiplayer titles. It's one of several mods for Arma 3 that we'll be keeping an eye on as it progresses towards full release.Bohemia Interactive's ARMA 2 has received a significant boost in sales over the course of the last few months, all thanks to a certain popular zombie survival mod which is now even getting its own standalone version.
TpM writes that the team has been working on the ACSE mod for more than two years and says the project will release "when it's done, hopefully sooner than you'd expect." There's no doubt that a massive Arma 3 map like Altis offers up a wide variety of situations in which sound-and the way players are able to interpret it-plays a vital role in victory or defeat. As you can hear in the video the sounds change depending on where you are and what the terrain is like. The goal of the mod is to give detailed and specific sounds for different weapons based on distance, interior or exterior environments, or even if you fire off the last round from a magazine. NouberNou, as tpM reports in the official ACSE forum thread. The team behind ACSE features veterans of the earlier Advanced Combat Environment mod for Arma 2 and includes modders zGuba, Rocko, ViperMaul, and Mr. The ACSE is a standalone mod that alters weapon sounds to reflect a changing and dynamic battlefield, according to modder tpM, who also released the video above.
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