Tue, Sep 20, 2011 | 13:46 BST
“As of now,” DICE doesn’t have plans to release mod tools for Battlefield 3
EA Europe VP Patrick Söderlund has said DICE doesn’t currently have plans to add modding tools to Battlefield 3, as it thinks the Frostbite 2 engine will make modding “too big a of a challenge” for people.
Hear that splat? Yeah, we did too. Somewhere, someone’s brain just exploded. All the way over here.
Speaking with the German site GameStar, Söderlund said with the destructible environments, modding for BF3 would just be too “tricky”.
“As of now, we are not going to make any modding tools,” said Söderlund. “If you look at the Frostbite engine, and how complex it is, it’s going to be very difficult for people to mod the game, because of the nature of the set up of levels, of the destruction and all those things… it’s quite tricky.
“So we think it’s going to be too big of a challenge for people to make a mod.”
We expect unofficial mods to start popping up not long after the game’s October release, with or without developer-sanctioned mod tools or not. Modders are an industrious crowd, ya know.
Upon release, the game will hit PS3 and Xbox 360 as well as PC.
Thanks, PC Gamer.
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Posted in: EA, Mods, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: battlefield 3, bf3, dice, mod tools, Patrick Soderlund
13 comments
#1
Dralen
05/07/11, 9:20 pm
Isn’t that part of the challenge that makes modding so fun?
#2
Hunam
05/07/11, 9:20 pm
Not really, code when it’s compiled is pretty useless to most modders.
#3
DuckOfDestiny
05/07/11, 9:21 pm
Correction: “It’s too much of a challenge for us to make a mod tool.”
#4
someguy2
05/07/11, 9:27 pm
I refer Erthazus to this comment on a forum topic:
“I’m pretty sure that DICE aren’t releasing modding tools for BF3 which is incredibly stupid.”
“sorry? can’t Hear you. DICE supports mods since Battlefield 1942.”
I guess that’s moot now.
#5
Lahanas
05/07/11, 9:28 pm
Νοbody gives a shit about mod tools anyway. Even without them, DICE seem to be focusing too much on the PC version, and that’s why they are gonna lose to MW3. The real battle is on consoles, that’s where you get attention and that’s where you make money
#6
Yoshi
05/07/11, 9:37 pm
I do believe they said a similar thing with BF2 however they released the mod tools a few months later after release.
#7
Erthazus
05/07/11, 9:38 pm
@4, GENIUS!
They didn’t supported any Battlefield game with mod tools at launch. DICE supported them later.
there are a lot of mods. One famous for Battlefield 2 is Project reality and this will be no different. Players will make them no matter what.
@Lahanas, “Νοbody gives a shit about mod tools anyway.”
only console freaks that don’t know how to play with mouse and keyboard and how to adapt mods on the server to play with friends.
Good luck.
“The real battle is on consoles”
with auto aim and controller? haha…
enjoy your Battlefield 3 with 24 players.
#8
YoungZer0
05/07/11, 9:41 pm
When was Battlefield 2 released again?
Just saying. No mod support since then.
#9
someguy2
05/07/11, 9:42 pm
@7 You may say that but I bet you that before the game’s release they intended on being mod tools for the game
#10
DSB
05/07/11, 9:49 pm
Translation: “We don’t want people making their own DLC”.
It’s par for the course, but it’s a shame that it’s like that these days. And I don’t think the publishers are really seeing the possibilities. You can let people have their cake and eat it too.
A modding community basically adds a lot of longevity and content that you don’t have to pay to produce. And you’ll still be able to sell lots of DLC, exclusively so until the modders get into gear.
Maybe it’s not worth the expense to build in that capacity, but I strongly doubt that.
#11
SwiftRanger
05/07/11, 10:03 pm
I can only hope MW3 does have mod tools (shouldn’t be hard for such an old engine), it would at least urge EA/Dice to keep up the competition.
Mod tools are essential for a PC online shooter, period. I am already fearing what they got in store for us with “dedicated” servers, betting it’s gonna be very restricted as well.
#12
McLovin85
06/07/11, 1:51 am
It’s the Frostbite 2 engine not 3….
#13
silkvg247
06/07/11, 1:36 pm
So long how before the modding community makes a modding tool for people to write mods. *rolls eyes at DICE*.