My thoughts on what Ollie mentioned.
ST and I began this work over a year ago with the first pack. Then, we have been editing the new addons since May once O2 was released. Now this is no joke when I say that I spent almost every single night from 9-10 pm to 2-4 am working on this stuff since then. Now add in weekends, "sick" days, etc. Now then add in ST's time, which is probably more than mine. Now add Evis and Joe's time working on weapons, planes, tanks etc. The mines must have taken forever to function as perfectly as they do.... amazing stuff. Then factor in all the beta testers time. The total hours spent on this would make your head spin.
All of this to make something we've been wanting for ourselves to play with. We made this for ourselves first. I've been wanting a good Nam era FPS for years. Now I have it. It may not be "perfect" and some areas may be weak, but by god I think it's pretty damn good. I barely know what more than 4 hours of sleep feels like anymore... just so all the textures would be as prefect as i could get them. Try making seamless textures in O2 for uniforms, more annoying than I care to mention. Now do uniforms for about 20 or so units. Then try the weapons.... from scratch.
I could care less who wants what, what people like, who thinks it sucks, but the complaining and whining really bother me. Yes, my whining here is probably bad taste, but hey.... when in Rome....This was an immense amount of effort. Some people think you snap your fingers and it's done. Far from it. There are a lot of mods out there, some are looking really good, and release units as they are made, or hoard them for final release, but I've yet to see a better overall mod or conversion. Some do have better weapons or sounds, or have tanks and such, but Like ST said we could have spent literally years perfecting this, but there had to be a cutoff date. I seriously doubt than many mods will ever see the light of day in the end. I think this pack was an amazing accomplishment by all involved.
We had no budget. No real "freetime", and no incentive other than the fact that we wanted to make it so we could "play army" in the vietnam era. If we'd had a budget and were able to work full time on it... it'd have been perfect.
But since this was a free addon, I suggest people just accept the fact that you get what you pay for and either deal with the small imperfections and possibly make a comment on what you find.
As for asking for units, weapons, vehicles, changes, etc.... work with what you have and be grateful you have these addons. People are already whining about release dates for the next set of packs? This has barely been out for a few days.
The only real consolation is that the people who have been waiting for something like this will appreciate it. The others will just complain, ask for more, or nitpick the hell out of it just to see how many times they can post " ...it should have been done this way...." I'm speaking generally of all the forums.
All I can say is, I can really see why people drop out. There's just no pleasing people anymore
Topic: SEB Nam Pack 2: Released. (Read 43305 times)