Amit
February 18th, 2013, 03:12 PM
That's right, folks. Dedicated servers for everyone. The mod tools are a bit barebones so far, but they still allow some decent changes like map layout , vehicle physics, and weapon properties.
Part of the community hasn't forgotten about Bad Company 2's existence in a sea of first-person shooters. For two years, NoFaTe and the community at Emulator Nexus have been working on reverse engineering the game and discovered not only that the maps can be modified with some effort, but that alongside the leaked server files, map layouts, vehicle handling and weapon multipliers could be altered to change the way the game plays out.
For the sake of simplicity, all it takes on the player side to be able to access a modified server (which can be setup by anyone, and many are currently up and running) is the download of a simple .dll file.
On the server side however, things are a bit more complicated. The software technically isn't a direct modification of the game files, but more a simulation which is run on both Windows or Linux-based servers.
Source (http://www.mordorhq.com/content.php?9-Forgotten-but-not-Abandoned-Bad-Company-2-returns-with-Mod-Tools)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NZ6qupWEg70
The video here displays a changed map layout, modified attack rockets physics and improved chopper handling.
Part of the community hasn't forgotten about Bad Company 2's existence in a sea of first-person shooters. For two years, NoFaTe and the community at Emulator Nexus have been working on reverse engineering the game and discovered not only that the maps can be modified with some effort, but that alongside the leaked server files, map layouts, vehicle handling and weapon multipliers could be altered to change the way the game plays out.
For the sake of simplicity, all it takes on the player side to be able to access a modified server (which can be setup by anyone, and many are currently up and running) is the download of a simple .dll file.
On the server side however, things are a bit more complicated. The software technically isn't a direct modification of the game files, but more a simulation which is run on both Windows or Linux-based servers.
Source (http://www.mordorhq.com/content.php?9-Forgotten-but-not-Abandoned-Bad-Company-2-returns-with-Mod-Tools)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NZ6qupWEg70
The video here displays a changed map layout, modified attack rockets physics and improved chopper handling.