Mod support

Jump back to quoted post15 Jul 2021, 17:11 PMTiger Baron

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the modding community is what has kept the original game and I would argue the series in general afloat all these years.

Jump back to quoted post15 Jul 2021, 17:43 PMKieselberg

I disagree on this one regarding coh2. Most people played normal mp.

For coh1 it kept some hardcore fans alive

Jump back to quoted post15 Jul 2021, 21:24 PMTiger Baron

You might wanna check the server browser then, most lobbies from what I've noticed while playing were using mods.

Jump back to quoted post1 Aug 2021, 23:27 PMdonofsandiego

I think that they really should open up the game for modders. They gain everything and lose nothing from it. Sure, there's the possibility of modders being able to find out that maybe the devs took a shortcut in creating a unit by copy pasting it, but really who cares? Locking down the modding scene is basically locking yourself out of having your *own playerbase* increase the amount of players playing your game *for free*.

For example, my introduction to the Total War series was through Total War: Medieval 2. Why is that? Because I was a fan of Lord of the Rings, and someone had made a total conversion mod for that game that turned it into a lord of the rings rts. And do you know what happened? I found out I liked the series, and I bought multiple other titles in it.

I really hope relic keeps this perspective in mind.

Jump back to quoted post2 Aug 2021, 18:17 PMTiger Baron

I don't understand your argument about the shortcut of creating a unit, if it's done properly and it works, doesn't bug out and so forth like the Sturmtiger, ZiS 3 Field Gun, IR HT and so forth then what's the problem exactly?

Those units were just lazily made in my opinion and that's why there's problems with them, not that they took shortcuts.

But in reality as it's evident with Games Workshop's zero tolerance policy on fan content made about 40k companies want to milk every possible source for money and don't really care that the fans are basically doing free advertisement for them.

If that wasn't the case then CoH2 would have been fully moddable like CoH is by now but instead they decided to cut model editing and importing back in 2013 when somebody ported over some CoH models to the game and sell 5 dollar premium commanders which they nerfed after a month to sell the next batch of OP shit.

Jump back to quoted post2 Aug 2021, 20:12 PMdonofsandiego

You misunderstand me. I had heard that CoH2 had mod support like CoH1 until modders found that Guards troops were copy pasted from CoH 1 rangers, voicelines and all, and because they were embarrassed of that they clamped down on modding to only be able to use the mod tools.

That's why I was saying "who gives a f*ck about that just let people mod freely".

Jump back to quoted post3 Aug 2021, 08:57 AMTiger Baron

I have never even heard of such a thing before, do you have a link or something to the person saying that?

Because if not I'd call it false information and just feeding a myth.

Jump back to quoted post3 Aug 2021, 16:48 PMdonofsandiego

Not at the moment, but considering that we're both referencing modding and CoH1 rangers, it sounds like we've both got the same event in mind. Now either I've got something wrong or you do. Do you have a comment to link on your version of why the mod tools got locked down, lest you spread myths yourself?

Jump back to quoted post3 Aug 2021, 17:14 PMOrangePest

It's more to do with segas policy iirc, they did the same thing with total war warhammer.

Jump back to quoted post3 Aug 2021, 17:14 PMOrangePest

It's more to do with segas policy iirc, they did the same thing with total war warhammer.