• Dnamro
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Topic: First Strike and Battlecry merger

It's official, First Strike is merging with Battlecry and will move to the Unreal 4 Engine.   Finally,  a free Star Wars stand-alone game will be developed.   We will post a news update soon on exactly what that means for First Strike on BF2142.

http://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-ba … team-merge

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Re: First Strike and Battlecry merger

Dnamro wrote:

It's official, First Strike is merging with Battlecry and will move to the Unreal 4 Engine.   Finally,  a free Star Wars stand-alone game will be developed.   We will post a news update soon on exactly what that means for First Strike on BF2142.

http://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-ba … team-merge

YAY im so happy.
I love this mod and star wars so much!!!!

Although, will Disney be okay with a standalone game??

  • Registered: 2010-11-02
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Re: First Strike and Battlecry merger

Dnamro wrote:

It's official, First Strike is merging with Battlecry and will move to the Unreal 4 Engine.   Finally,  a free Star Wars stand-alone game will be developed.   We will post a news update soon on exactly what that means for First Strike on BF2142.

http://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-ba … team-merge

Also, DNamro, we should have a way to share this game real wide.Maybe a facebook page

4 Reply by mechag2 (edited by mechag2 2014-08-21 13:39:31)

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Re: First Strike and Battlecry merger

Suh-WEET! First Strike must live on! Keeping an eye on this. Can't wait to see what happens. big_smile

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  • Dnamro
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Re: First Strike and Battlecry merger

All indications are that Disney will continue to honor the guidelines for free fan created projects that was in place with Lucas Arts.

Once we get closer to the first release, we will be sure to fully use social media.  We have an existing First Strike page and Battlecry is fully engaged with social media as well.

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Re: First Strike and Battlecry merger

Dnamro wrote:

All indications are that Disney will continue to honor the guidelines for free fan created projects that was in place with Lucas Arts.

Let's hope that they do.

Are you going to come up with a new name for the game or will it be called First Strike or Battlecry? If you need some help I should be able to help out with testing, I've also done some programming with C Sharp, not sure if that would help any with the Unreal 4 Engine.

  • Dnamro
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Re: First Strike and Battlecry merger

News posted on front page:

Greetings Troopers,

The First Strike team has decided to continue the mod on the Unreal 4 game engine to develop a free stand-alone Star Wars game -- and the best way to do that is to join forces with the BattleCry team.   Both teams are committed to developing a game that fans will love to play.   The First Strike team has many maps and models that just need to be ported, while the Battlecry team was already working on basic game play, so it just made sense to work together.    We are all excited on the possibilities that we can unleash with this new engine by teaming up together. 

With that being said, we have also decided to wrap up development work on BF2142 in order to focus on moving to the new game engine.   A final update will be released soon with the singleplayer kits changes.  We will also post unfinished work,  to include Hoth, and all the developed AI meshes separately in the event that a work around is found for the loss of master account server and someone wants to continue the mod for BF2142.