City 17 (mod)/Archive March,2007

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March 7,2007 - Team

Its been a damn long time since our last post and sorry about that. In fact the MOD hasn't died as some were speculating and in fact we are still full steam ahead! Now I'm very happy to announce the MOD going into it's Beta Stage. It's been about one year and five months since the mod has started and still a bit far from completion. In fact though plans have already started on the episode 2 area of the game. Also multiplayer has been worked out a bit whilst contacting our friends at the SourceForts team and Kg2btheway (Kevin Whipp) one of our members and sf member being very helpful through that all. However at this moment we might hold of on Multiplayer due to the SF team working on their V2.0 version at the moment as we would like to include many of our maps to that part of the MP area for City 17. Currently though the team cannot truly say when release is. We would just not feel happy to release something that is only half done or something that could of been better. So as to the release date we are planning Summer of this year and if we cant make that then Fall. We have been working quite a lot on models, sounds, maps, and even HDR lighting as we have modified some of the HDR tech you see in EP1. As also a result of the engine being limited to only two gameinfo within the gameinfo.txt file we have been forced to split the mod into Episodes. We wish we could honestly fit all that content in one game but sadly we just can't due to limitations. However nevertheless we will keep working and keep you informed about the mod and whats going on at GEAR as we are a full company now which i am also very glad to say and we have recruited new staff toward the mod and the future of GEAR's games. We will of course finish City 17 now also that we are a full fledged company but at the same time we'll let you know what we might have next after City 17!! We expect the Mod including all three episodes to be done about One year and a half from now so thats quite a long way to go and it also depends on Valve's release of EP2 and Ep3. Hopefully no more delays which in fact has pushed us quite back a lot.

Well after writing all his i hope you still all have interest in City 17 and in fact for my last gift we will be releasing a beta of the third map in the game. Release for that is known and once we get all the proper mod files in order then we can ship it out by next month. Perhaps May 15th. Other than that have a great day and thank you for supporting us in yet little ways but nonetheless its been helpful!