When Avalanche confirmed before Christmas that there would be no Just Cause 3 multiplayer at launch, a sizeable portion of PC gaming’s population sighed. The map covers Westeros in the west to Qarth in the east, and a period stretching 300 years from Aegon’s Conquest to the time of Martin’s fourth book, A Feast for Crows.
This full conversion nudges the Swedish game of diplomacy and death, murder and marriage the short distance required to fit snugly within George Ah-Rah’s universe. Paradox may be hesitant about pairing up with HBO for the grand strategy Game of Thrones adaptation they were born to make, but their community has long since filled the throne.
Even since taking up residency at Valve, former modder IceFrog has found time to update the original – and some would say definitive – take on the idea. The precepts of the sequel can be found fully-formed here: the creeps, the levelling, the equipment and the Ancients.
The world-conquering, sport-redefining MOBA genre began as a custom scenario for one Blizzard RTS, Warcraft III, based on the ‘Aeon of Strife’ map of another, StarCraft. Download the 2GB base package, and you’ll have the swag bag ready to carry a growing haul of ingenious fan missions.
The Dark Mod was one of the more successful fan efforts made to plug that gap – an effort to twist the shadowy Doom 3 engine into something resembling Looking Glass’ minimalist stealth sim. We waited a long time for a fourth Thief sequel. Buy the fairly cheap Combined Operations package on Steam, and you’ll gain access to the quintessential multiplayer survival game: predicated on the tango of trust and suspicion danced by real human beings in a virtual post-Soviet state. There’s a best-selling, standalone game available now, of course, but there’s a compelling argument to be made that the Arma mod remains the most complete version yet. It’s still missing the game’s closing chapters on Xen, but if you can live without the giant baby boss fight you’ll find lots to love in this expanded, more detailed rendering of Gordon’s old workplace. Nearly a decade, a couple of Vapourware Of The Year awards and a mammoth effort from a 40-man team later, the mod was released as a standalone download. It’s a simple idea with obvious appeal: Half-Life 1 in the Source engine.
The game has been so utterly transformed under his direction that there are now two versions of the patch available: a basic version that sorts technical issues, and a ‘plus’ mod. Most of it’s been led by analytical chemist Werner Spahl, who has not only cleaned up glitches but dredged up half-finished quests, weapons and characters – eventually reinstating whole levels and recruiting fellow fans to record new voices. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Unofficial Patch 9.3Īnother exponent of the proud fan tradition of fixing wonderful western RPGs rushed to release by their publishers, Bloodlines’ unofficial patch represents 10 years of post-release support.
More than that, the mod dusted down ideas found in the game’s code – including a ditched organisation and the entire droid planet of M4-78 – for meatbags like us to enjoy. So they did: recruiting a team and setting about squashing the bugs in Chris Avellone’s anti-jedi journey through the galaxies. “Stop your moaning and finish it yourself”. Obsidian’s sequel was inspired, yes – but it simply wasn’t finished. Stoney and Zbyl2 were among KOTOR 2’s early detractors. The Sith Lords Restored Content mod (Knights of the Old Republic 2) DSFIX is also a platform, providing a structure for other modders to replace textures.
His mod tackles restrictive resolution and framerate limits, and allows UI-scaling to better fit high-res monitors. They did their best for the release – and luckily for us, Durante took up the torch afterwards. From Software, bless them, had never worked beyond the consoles before. But, though the rallying call for this wildly successful mod might have been realism, that’s really a misnomer – it’s a community fixated on teamwork and cooperation that makes Project Reality so vital.ĭark Souls: Prepare to Die, as it was named by the time it reached PC, was a mess.
Nearly every part of Battlefield 2 that has the capacity to be tweaked has been here ballistics reconfigured to reflect real-life damage, deviation and bullet drop.