No mods?

[Keyboard Cowboy]

So I've come back to this game after some time where people were going "modding will make this game 10xbetter" and such nonsense just to see that there are no mods at all for this.
I wasn't expecting 1.13 but damn...nothing at all?
I guess even modding won't save this game. :(

[MrEvilRobot]

It's dead, now lets wait for the End Game...

[The LARP Bully]

If I recall correctly the modding capabilites of this game were far from what was expected, even by the modding community.

Most of what people wanted to change or expand upon was unchangable without source code, or without assistance from the developers. Someone from the Bears Pit (the people who did the JA 2 1.13 mod) could explain this alot better then I could. Basucally my understanding of the situation is that no help was provided. Probably becaues at the same time this was discovered, the developers were throwing a hissy fit over the negative steam reviews.

Only very minor changes are possible apparently. You can change existing assets, like change the damage of a weapon, or make it look like something else. Good example is that someone made a "throwing knife" by changing one of the pistols to an icon of a knife, and changed the stats around and the clip size to 1. But I don't think it was possible (or imo worth it) to change or create a proper throwing knife animation for it though.

As I said though, someone from the bears pit can probably explain it better, but I believe they are back to working on JA 2 mods.

[uncle nick]

Steam critics are very harsh. Why would anyone want to release their personal JAF mods on Steam? There is a perception now that the Steam community has come accross as very ungrateful to the whole game modification community.

Not sure if JAF source code will be released to Bearpit now. The IP has been sold to Nordic, and the new owners will probably want to do thier own thing with it.

[DANK EMPIRAR]

OUCH!!! And I had backed this, along with many others, hoping for a simple reboot of the old jagged Alliance 2 game since Back in Action was such a huge dissapointment... although not as bad as this game in some regards. Atleast we got a kickass zombie mod for Back in action.

[Incunabulum]

*sigh* I kind of expected this.

I posted way back when that they simply couldn't bank on nostalgia and that they weren't competing against JA2 but JA2 *1.13* and that even if they couldn't afford to add in all those features, to externalize as much as possible so that modders can continue to work on it.

What we all wanted was 1.13 with a better looking engine.

But everyone's gotta reinvent the wheel in this business. Gotta leave their mark on the industry.

[Keyboard Cowboy]

Originally posted by The LARP King:

If I recall correctly the modding capabilites of this game were far from what was expected, even by the modding community.

Most of what people wanted to change or expand upon was unchangable without source code, or without assistance from the developers. Someone from the Bears Pit (the people who did the JA 2 1.13 mod) could explain this alot better then I could. Basucally my understanding of the situation is that no help was provided. Probably becaues at the same time this was discovered, the developers were throwing a hissy fit over the negative steam reviews.

Only very minor changes are possible apparently. You can change existing assets, like change the damage of a weapon, or make it look like something else. Good example is that someone made a "throwing knife" by changing one of the pistols to an icon of a knife, and changed the stats around and the clip size to 1. But I don't think it was possible (or imo worth it) to change or create a proper throwing knife animation for it though.

As I said though, someone from the bears pit can probably explain it better, but I believe they are back to working on JA 2 mods.

That's not what others were saying though. It was mostly the argument that went something like this;
Mods will add and fix certain issues, just you watch!
Yeah, that didn't happen.

[Anderson]

This game is the main reason I don't kickstart games anymore, unless I am 95% sure they will deliver what is promised...