The dust is settling from yesterday's major acquisitions of THQs bankruptcy. Most of the major IPs have been grabbed and today Crytek, purchaser of the Homefront license has released a statement regarding the future of the homefront series.
MP1st talks to Crytek about Hunt: Showdown's success, future title updates, inspiration behind weapons and more.
Crytek gives an update on their new Crysis game, confirming that it's still in development, with more to share down the road.
Yeah they really messed up by not adding the Multi-player to the Crysis Triogly because while the campaign was fun I really loved the Multi-player and couldn't wait to see what it was going to be like on current gen.
They could have dropped new maps and DLC and fans would have bought it up... -But they dropped the ball and did just the Campaign's with no new content or story, which was just crazy.
Anyway still hoping Crysis 4 is the whole Chicken Sandwhich with all the toppings.... Can't wait.
That's awesome. So how long till the studio closes and everyone gets fired?
Immersed Gamer writes: "Frans Bouma just received a Cease and Desist letter from Crytek, developers of Crysis. Did he pirate their game? Or maybe he infringed on their copyright? What horrible thing did Bouma do to deserve this? Well, he modded in a photo mode so that people could take beautiful pictures and share them on social media."
"from his Patreon page" Uhhhh yeah.......Oh gee and I wonder why that was problem? You know where this goes there Filip or perhaps you are just not quite yet.
It's astounding how quickly someone uniformed will take a side of soulless company just because a modder might be making some pocket change.
For your information: He puts all of his camera mode mods on GitHub, completely free of charge. His Patreon is nothing more than a way to tip him some cash for his work.
He says so himself on his GitHub page:
I do this for fun, not profit, but can't create cameras for games I don't own. I've therefore setup a Patreon page which allows you to safely support my work".
Are you following "mastershredder", or are you not quite there yet?
I did some digging and from what I can see it's probably the "early access" releases of his mods only through Patreon that may have stirred Crytek to send the C&D. Apart from that his mods are indeed available free of charge through his GitHub page.
It’s a non-profit mod tho. It confuses me cuz modders can do things like completely overhaul the art assets of a game or add licensed cars, but adding a photo mode seems to get the cease.
Rarely do you see something with so much potential (Crytek) shoot themselves in the foot so many times.
Instead of sending a C&D Crytek should thank him, for this, because this will lead to more people buying and playing the game.
Personally I think its great they picked it up--just hope they do story justice. This generation we have seen several attempts at Battlefield style gameplay and think Crytek could very well make Homefront 2 the forerunner of competition.
Crytek does know how to do shooters as every Crysis has solid gunplay no matter if you liked the design choices or not. They've teased vehicles here and there (tank level in original Crysis was probably best) and they definitely know how to do large levels (again, original Crysis). If they can put it all together though I can see myself having a blast.
Plus they've already been working on this for a while. Best thing though, it should be a next gen title so will look so nice (as was planned for '14 last I heard) and probably allow for some intense, higher player count fights (assuming around 64+ as next gen should allow consoles for PC player count at very least--going by BF3 standards).
Crysis 3 looks much better than 2 (which I still enjoyed) and can't wait to see what they're doing with Homefront 2. Cryengine really is insane and just think what another year will make it capable of (for consoles especially).
Right now the Battlefield series doesn't have any real competition, on consoles. Maybe Crytek can make something good with Homefront 2.
Homefront had HUGE potential. Flesh it out to 15 or 20 hours and you can tell an AMAZING story and also compete with the big boys. Hope they do a great job like I know they can!
Homefront is probably in my top 3 worst games I've played this entire generation. The 3 hour campaign felt like it took 30 hours to finish. Hopefully the sequel isn't as terrible.
Didn't play the first. But if Crytek is making the sequel there are two things you can count on. Insane graphics and an engaging story. Might put Homefront in my gamefly queue.