Jurassic Park mod for Crysis Wars

15 comments by Devotus_Mustelus on Nov 30th, 2009 digg this super bookmark

4 months ago I set a deadline for Dec 1st. It was a very tight deadline, because it left no room for screwing around. We had to work dedicated every moment we had to spare, for the next 4 months.. to make sure we'd see a release by Dec 1st.

However, for almost a month there was no progress on anything.
No updates to the Visitors Center, no updates to the characters.
Matthew Hodge had vanished, and looked like Muldoon would have to be redone from scratch by Adam.
Andriy disappeared again, when he was assigned to make Ellie Sattler. He still hasn't come back online, perhaps cause of his schooling.
And Adam was gone from the scene was well.

I had 4 people on my team stop working or working less at the same time. I still kept the deadline up, and insisted we'd just double our efforts, but its impossible.

We are nearly finishing Ian Malcolm and Robert Muldoon right around the deadline itself, but not Ellie Sattler. Not the dinosaurs.

But perhaps the biggest issues is actually not our artwork, but the CryEngine. Why?

Because even with our total assets not finished, we still have enough to release a beta demo.
Some basic gameplay, testing, etc. Why can't this be done for Dec 1st at least though?

CryEngine 2. That is why. Because cooperative gameplay in CE2 does not exist. People have to attempt to do a work around just to make it work.
There are at least 2 people I know who have done this, and both have been totally unreliable as a source for this mod.

1. Future Warrior; Willing to help us, especially after what happened with Fudsine, but lacks the most basic basic discipline to do anything, like the simple task of sending or responding to an email.
According to him he chooses not to respond purposely because he's in the "marines"; and he also claims now that he helps Fudsine, even though he IMs me and bashes Fudsine and offers me his help after he reads a post on Crymod, where I'm explaining what a douche bag Fudsine is.
So sorry Future Warrior, you're not lazy, you're just a dick wod.
2. Fudsine. Long story short, infantile prepubescent ego maniac. If you want to know what I mean, just try and use his A.I.

And with Fudsine, there are still horrific limitations to the A.I.
My idea for JP MP would not be possible without huge sacrifices, because his A.I. is truly only show.
Future Warrior claimed his didn't have the same issues, but then again I never saw actual proof, only a video of zombies which seemed to be able to focus only on one subject.

So I do not believe either of these dudes have actually accomplished the kind of clean working A.I. you'd expect in a cooperative game.

To make matters worse, I'm hearing about the Lost World Returns leaving CE2 because of animation and AI problems with dinosaurs. That just brings me more comfort to using CE2.

I tell you, if CE2 wasn't such a piece of shit; if there was more to this engine than bugs and eye candy... we'd probably have something for you today.

Then again perhaps if I can sacrifice the eye candy, I can move to an engine that is less problematic, if such an engine exists.