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As the leader of the mercenary company Rabbit's Raiders, it is my responsibility to make sure that my squadron is combat ready.One thing that would certainly help us practice would be a multiplayer mission editor for the simulator/pvp arena.Does CIG currently have plans to create a user friendly mission editor to create custom scenarios?asked by Rabbit

TL;DRA user-friendly mission editor is not planned for the dogfighting module at first, since polished modding tools are scheduled for after the game's release, though it is a long-term goal and can't be promised soon.

That's a great question, not off the bat on the Dogfighting module, but I wouldn't rule that out later on down the road in terms of allowing people to build their own encounter maps for Arena Commander, because that would be fairly easy to do.The only caveat is the modding side of the tools require a lot more polish than our internal dev tools, so in terms of those getting in people's hands, our current schedule is get the game out, and then get polished modding tools out after the game, because we make it work to a certain level, but then you've got to make the interface better, and a whole level of robustness.So I'm not so sure it would be easy to do that ahead of that sort of schedule, we'd be taking a significant chunk of the editor that you use in CryEngine and have it modified heavily for what we're doing.But I wouldn't necessarily rule it out, especially if we build some kind of mission builder separate, that could possibly happen. We'll think about that, it's a good suggestion. Can't promise it right away, but long term that would definitely be a goal.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 20. May 12th, 2014·
Published on this date.12 May 2014