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Commando : Open Source [message #115064]

Thu, 16 September 2004 16:31

smwScott
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Why is Seaman bothering to move Commando to a new engine? He's just gonna work into a stall on that one, too, and by the team he has this much work done again, a new game engine will be out that will be that much better. I sense an endless loop...

Not really, it's downright silly to continue work on a mod for Renegade unless it's right on the verge of being released. Ren Alert, the most popular mod for Renegade, isn't getting nearly as many players as a lot of shitty, unpopular Half-Life mods. This certainly isn't because of quality, but because the game the mod is built off of was not very popular.

Just look at it this way. You can make two relatively identical mods (gameplay wise) for Renegade and Half-Life 2. With Renegade, you have to do a tremendous amount of scripting and hacking to the engine just to get it to do basic things that come standard in modern engines. You will probably spend more time and more work getting the mod out in a relatively stable form. After all this work, you will get a fairly small number of players compared to mods for more popular games. Now, if you made that same mod for Half-Life 2 then you wouldn't have spent nearly as much time coding and more time fine tuning the gameplay. The graphics would be uncomparably better, and it would be an overall much higher quality product. The best part is you will have many, many times the amount of players you would have with Ren.

Renegade is a great game. In my opinion it's the most underrated game ever. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a shitty basis for a successful mod.

-smwScott

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		Commando : Open Source By: Genocide on Thu, 16 September 2004 10:51
		Commando : Open Source By: Vitaminous on Thu, 16 September 2004 11:41
		Commando : Open Source By: icedog90 on Thu, 16 September 2004 13:03
		Commando : Open Source By: Sir Phoenixx on Thu, 16 September 2004 13:32
		Commando : Open Source By: SuperFlyingEngi on Thu, 16 September 2004 13:40
		Commando : Open Source By: glyde51 on Thu, 16 September 2004 13:44
		Commando : Open Source By: WNxCABAL on Thu, 16 September 2004 13:45
		Commando : Open Source By: Ferhago on Thu, 16 September 2004 13:53
		Commando : Open Source By: icedog90 on Thu, 16 September 2004 14:09
		Commando : Open Source By: smwScott on Thu, 16 September 2004 16:31
		Commando : Open Source By: Dante on Thu, 16 September 2004 21:23
		Commando : Open Source By: icedog90 on Thu, 16 September 2004 22:00
		Commando : Open Source By: Dante on Thu, 16 September 2004 22:01
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Fri, 17 September 2004 01:31
		Commando : Open Source By: PiMuRho on Fri, 17 September 2004 01:42
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Fri, 17 September 2004 01:49
		Commando : Open Source By: Sir Phoenixx on Fri, 17 September 2004 05:20
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Fri, 17 September 2004 05:24
		Commando : Open Source By: Renardin6 on Fri, 17 September 2004 07:26
		Commando : Open Source By: PiMuRho on Fri, 17 September 2004 07:29
		Commando : Open Source By: Sir Kane on Fri, 17 September 2004 07:32
		Commando : Open Source By: Dante on Fri, 17 September 2004 09:29
		Commando : Open Source By: PiMuRho on Fri, 17 September 2004 09:47
		Commando : Open Source By: Oblivion165 on Fri, 17 September 2004 09:53
		Commando : Open Source By: Demolition man on Fri, 17 September 2004 10:22
		Commando : Open Source By: Jaspah on Fri, 17 September 2004 11:27
		Commando : Open Source By: Sir Phoenixx on Fri, 17 September 2004 11:53
		Commando : Open Source By: Hav0c on Fri, 17 September 2004 12:00
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Fri, 17 September 2004 12:04
		Commando : Open Source By: icedog90 on Fri, 17 September 2004 12:20
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Fri, 17 September 2004 13:17
		Commando : Open Source By: PiMuRho on Fri, 17 September 2004 13:20
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Fri, 17 September 2004 13:26
		Commando : Open Source By: smwScott on Fri, 17 September 2004 14:04
		Commando : Open Source By: z310 on Fri, 17 September 2004 19:55
		Commando : Open Source By: PiMuRho on Fri, 17 September 2004 21:33
		Commando : Open Source By: icedog90 on Fri, 17 September 2004 21:37
		Commando : Open Source By: PiMuRho on Fri, 17 September 2004 23:20
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Sun, 19 September 2004 02:05
		Commando : Open Source By: Hav0c on Sun, 19 September 2004 02:06
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Sun, 19 September 2004 02:11
		Commando : Open Source By: Dan on Sun, 19 September 2004 02:54
		Commando : Open Source By: Hav0c on Sun, 19 September 2004 03:40
		Commando : Open Source By: icedog90 on Sun, 19 September 2004 17:01
		Commando : Open Source By: WNxCABAL on Mon, 20 September 2004 13:28
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Mon, 20 September 2004 13:35
		Commando : Open Source By: WNxCABAL on Mon, 20 September 2004 14:02
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Mon, 20 September 2004 14:30
		Commando : Open Source By: WNxCABAL on Mon, 20 September 2004 14:44
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Sun, 26 September 2004 12:11
		Commando : Open Source By: icedog90 on Mon, 27 September 2004 14:43
		Commando : Open Source By: Ferhago on Mon, 27 September 2004 16:36
		Commando : Open Source By: Deactivated on Tue, 28 September 2004 04:49
		Commando : Open Source By: tooncy on Tue, 28 September 2004 14:21

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