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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

It would be simply HUGE AWESOME to release as a standalone. Bear 2 things in mind about demand for this game.
#1 The new Star Wars Battlefront Game (and Star Wars Movie) is releasing in November; this will only re-fuel demand for decent Star Wars gameplay (Maps made that go along with new movie would be AWESOME)
#2 There are thousands of furious game players already upset about what has been stripped and is "missing" from the upcoming new game.
Your excellent design already has a lot of the things they are openly griping about missing from the upcoming new release; they just do not KNOW THAT THIS EXISTS!
#3 (When you are ready of course) There is a dirt cheap way that I would be willing to pay for myself that could get us tons of publicity. There is a service out there called "Fiverr" ( www.fiverr.com )
There is like a billion things on there that private contractors will do for 5, 10, 15 or 20 dollars (Coding and Computer work is one service, FYI)
I used them successfully to put up simple flyers around Famous College campuses and very heavy foot traffic spots in NYC and LA
My response rate was much more than I could have ever dreamed of and was well worth the 5 dollars - they even do the printing and pay for the paper and provide photo proof that they hung the flyers at the spots!
I am all over this if you need me, again, only when you would be ready-I will not "jump the gun"!
Your assistant if needed, Patrick "firemcd" the DERANGED FIREFIGHTER

"Chance favors the prepared mind!"
(I'm registered also over at the Battlecry Forums)

Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

As incredibly difficult the game is currently to setup, and that the only means to get BF2142 is either buy it second hand or download illegally - I really think it's essential to provide a stand alone version of First Strike.   It would include the BF2142 game engine, but the rest of the BF2142 game files would be stripped out, so the only thing you can do with it is play BF2142.   If we can change the menu to remove the custom game menu so players don't have the option to even try to switch to BF2 or play another mod, that would be ideal.    The installer would install First Strike,  all the game files needed to play, and the launcher.   The singleplayer profile would be set up and use the offline profile account.    The players would just install and start playing.   No extra setup needed. 

The setup needed to download and install BF2142 for free is daunting.   The download is a disk image.  So you have to mount it on a virtual drive and install it from there.   Then you have to run the crack to get a registration code.  Then you have to install the hacked BF2142.exe.  Then install the offline profile.   Good Grief!  That is way beyond what most players would be willing to deal with.

Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

Agreed! Standalone is the way to go. Harumph !  smile

"Chance favors the prepared mind!"
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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

I will have a fresh system available this weekend that I can do some testing with.

Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

Successful test!  I zipped up the files and set them up on a fresh system that did not have BF2142 installed and was able to load up First Strike.

Now, I just need to do some testing to see what files that I don't need to include from BF2142 and set up the installer so that it includes the launcher and sets up the offline singleplayer profile.  The tricky part will be to not over-right an existing profile.

The next public release will be stand alone

Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

Congrats, that is some serious progress right there.

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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

Nice!