Desert Combat: KIA.

[craig]

Nice to see they've finally admitted that the projects dead, even though they've been working for E.A. for months now.

The Desert Combat mod team has officially stated that Trama Studios will no longer work on the Desert Combat modification. Read on to see the Q&A posted on the Official Desert Combat Forums about this announcement.

1. Is this announcement concerning the next release of Desert Combat?

Yes and no. This release has the help of the DC devs and includes material donated by testers. It is the size and compilation of the next DC release. It is however not "Desert Combat".

2. Is this the last release of Desert Combat?

Yes and no. Officially: .7 was the last release. "DC Final" is an unofficial release created by some very dedicated DC developers (off the clock) and testers. Unfortunately Trauma studios is unable to continue Desert Combat as their schedules simply cannot handle it. Speculation about contracts is pure speculation and I cannot answer any questions about it.

3. Will work continue on this unofficial continuation mod for Desert Combat?

That is to be foreseen. It depends on how well this release is recieved. Although this is not official by Trauma studios, this is what the testers call the "next Desert Combat release". There's not a tester that doesn't disagree. This release is worthy of being called .8 - despite that it can't be

4. What will be in this unofficial release?

Well obviously some bug fixes. We are working with a skeleton crew and we can't get to every little thing on every map. But I think we got most of the big stuff.

Also some balancing things. The hummer is obviously fixed. I can't post the changelist. The bulk of the changes are cosmetic. The explosion effects have been revamped. There's a couple of new animations. The sounds are WAY cooler. The smoke trails for certain things have been revamped. Some new vehicle varients. A couple of innovative weapons for sure. New maps of course. We're still not sure what maps will make it - so I'm not going to list it.

It will be an AWESOME release. There are SOOO many refinements that it makes the game feel like modern combat. The old releases (to me) felt like a BF42 mod. Now its a whole new game.

5. When's it going to be released?

Can't say. We are ramping up testing and are going to push it through quick - but we want to make sure we get all the bugs out

 

[DarkStar]

Too bad. I always liked DC.

 

[Direwolf]

Sorta too bad, but DC is still a heck or a good game without constant fixing. It really has become something of its own now. And Battlefield 2 looks to take a stab at continuing its success.
The DC team has succeeded in every way possible.

 

[craig]

Personally I was a bigger fan of .2/.25 to the .7 version of the mod. The more toys they added the less fun it was tbh, and by the end the AH64 was too easy to fly.

 

[Direwolf]

I actually like that they made the choppers a little more accessible, because while theres always room for a good pilot it was frustrating when everyone crashed on the carrier.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Well I suppose the littlebird was easy to fly, but I like what they did with it still. I prefered the later versions with all the new stuff added in. Anyone got DCX? Thats rather fun to play as well.

I'm just looking forward to battlefield 2 now, looks like it will be a good game.

 

[Mac]

aye, battlefield 2 is going to rock.
There was a preivew of it in computer Gaming World and it had nothing but incredibleness in it

cant wait

 

[Direwolf]

Yeah, I saw that preview. Got me all hyped up. See the Gamespot videos showing off the dam level for some good examples of destructability.