#ARMA 2 STAR WARS MOD MOD#
#ARMA 2 STAR WARS MOD MODS#

MoЕ™ickГЅ says on occasion the studio even has to revert a fix and leave something broken in the game if it impacts too many mods too negatively.Д«ohemia sells 'Creator DLC' for Arma 3 that came from the community and splits proceeds with the mod's makers Some of the mods people make are only possible because of certain quirks or bugs in the original code, so whenever Bohemia fixes those or changes the way something in the game works, it risks breaking any number of mods. It would also be easy for that same decision to be made a few times in succession, and before long, he figures the gap between the two toolsets would be vast and the modder tools would fall into disrepair.Д«ohemia also has to be mindful of how it rolls out new updates.

#ARMA 2 STAR WARS MOD MOD#

MoЕ™ickГЅ explains that if the developers were using their own separate tools, it would be too easy for them to add a key feature to the dev toolset and reason that they could make the mod equivalent later on. To ensure that, the company has made a conscious decision to build its games using the tools it makes available to modders. MoЕ™ickГЅ says the mod scene doesn't need much guidance from Bohemia, but it does need support and documentation. 'When we leave them in that petri dish for some time, DayZ can happen, or PUBG can happen.' 'It was really just about making sure modders can create, that they are not disturbed by us changing the game too much,' MoЕ™ickГЅ says.

'It was really just about making sure modders can create, that they are not disturbed by us changing the game too much' What started as inertia grew into something that could almost be construed as a philosophy for the studio. And while Bohemia isn't the company profiting the most off of this, it's worth noting that Brendan Greene - PlayerUnknown of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds fame - first proved out the template of the battle royale shooter subgenre in mods for Bohemia games like Arma 2 and DayZ.ДayZ started as a community mod for Arma 2

It also extended the number of hit Bohemia games, as the company's open-world survival shooter DayZ began life as a mod for Arma 2. Mod support did a lot more than extend the lifespan of Bohemia's hit games. So it extends the lifetime of the game beyond what official support could even do.' Arma 3 at this moment is seven years since being released, and I believe it still has half a million monthly players. 'Operation Flashpoint was around for four years. 'We always saw it as a way to prolong the game's lifespan,' MoЕ™ickГЅ says. And when the studio started hiring developers from the mod community, they naturally wanted to focus on features for the community even more. MoЕ™ickГЅ says that because the studio's follow-up games were based on the same engine, it was easier to leave it in and/or build on it rather than cut it out. 'Back in 2001 in Arma's grandfather, Operation Flashpoint, modding was almost accidental'ДЄfter that, the studio's support of modding was practically a matter of inertia. 'When one of the first modders brought the developers one of their mods on a floppy disk, they didn't even realize it was possible to mod the game it was just a collateral benefit of the open architecture of the whole project that others could hook their creations into it.' 'Back in 2001 in Arma's grandfather, Operation Flashpoint, modding was almost accidental,' MoЕ™ickГЅ says. Speaking with, Bohemia Interactive senior game designer Karel MoЕ™ickГЅ says the Arma studio's embrace of modding has been crucial for its success but not always something done by design. When Bohemia Interactive released Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis in 2001, the developers had no inkling of just how that game would shape the studio's future.

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