The Launcher and Updater

[titsmcgee852]

This seems like it's been a long time coming. Did it take a lot of work to plan and implement?

[Frontliner]

It's still sad that all PC gaming is nowadays(this applies to console gaming as well) are the re-iterations of existing franchises, be it CoD, Battlefield or Medal of Honor, to name the most prominent culprits. And even more, the continued focus on making games as easy and "accessible" as possible, while simultaneously denying players to mod the game as they please; the worst example being ofc Modern Warfare 2, with Peer2Peer hosting(for a PC game!) instead of servers, no modding and left out things such as the ability to lean around corners("the game isn't balanced for lean") which has been in every CoD before.

Sorry for the off-topic but new games have less of a lifespan than a field of crop, and that effect is even desired.

[AncientMan]

This seems like it's been a long time coming. Did it take a lot of work to plan and implement?

The first commit of the launcher was Sunday 20/5/2012 at 5:47:04 AM. But there was a LOT of work done before this, planning stuff for the launcher, development work on other things to get the mod ready, etc. So it's easily been over a year of development, probably since the end of 2011, can't quite remember. But I did take few months off at the end of last year when university was getting a bit full on with the work load, and I don't work on it full time (got that good old real life to deal with ).

If it was full time work, 5 days a week, that sort of stuff, it would probably be around 3-4 months all up. But, that's not "just" for the launcher and updater, it's for the overall "RealityFramework", which includes a lot of other things, development tools, etc. Perhaps I might make a blog post about all that stuff soon, because there's some pretty, pretty badass stuff that goes on behind the scenes that the public would never see otherwise

[jorge_prargentina]

excuse me, the implementation of this launcher affect game performance? I will have some visual or audio improvement? I'm really interested in using this launcher

[-=anders=-]

excuse me, the implementation of this launcher affect game performance? I will have some visual or audio improvement? I'm really interested in using this launcher

Not affecting performance. Still same settings as 0.98. And you Will have no choice but to use this launcher.

[qs-racer]

For update, it implement FTP or torrent protocol ?

[farna]

Absolutely amazing!
Good job, looks so professional!

[CopyCat]

Faaantastic

He took my favorite word

/CC

[DoomKillsU]

[DDS]

Great to see this. Wish it included controls settings as well. I always have trouble with some keys getting messed up.

[Nugiman]

Would be awesome if we would have that updater now already. Then the waiting time for 1.0 wouldn't be so long, because DEVs could integrate little bits every now and then, like french forces on marlin oder a new vehicle.
A pity we have to wait so long with the current version and then, when 1.0 is released, we all die because of its awesomness and can't enjoy it anymore!

[Rhino]

Would be awesome if we would have that updater now already. Then the waiting time for 1.0 wouldn't be so long, because DEVs could integrate little bits every now and then, like french forces on marlin oder a new vehicle.
A pity we have to wait so long with the current version and then, when 1.0 is released, we all die because of its awesomness and can't enjoy it anymore!

It really isn't that simple... For starters the entire file formatting of v1.0 has changed from previous releases, pretty much everything has been tweaked in one way or another and pretty much everything relies on many other bits of code, objects, textures etc, all of which are out of date in v0.98 and not in sync with v1.0 resulting in massive errors from trying to back port that would need fixing and I'm not going to even bother going into all the other reasons but to put it simply, doing this would take the same amount of time to get v1.0 ready and would only delay the other additions in v1.0...

This is not to mention the updater is still quite some way off from being released to the public, only the other day the updater on my PC and a few other devs/testers was hung in limbo between two versions and it took AM's know how and some manual intervention to get it out of that state as even restarting the installer process from scratch didn't solve the problem. That issue multiplied over our entire playerbase would have been a disaster.

[CR8Z]

One question with the updater and new goodies: Do we get fries with that?

Can't wait! Thanks for the updates!

[waldov]

A lot more professional now things like this will attract a lot more players.

[Megagoth1702]

Wow,

holy shit I am impressed with this! So much cleverness is in this project! Love the fact that you can update parts of files inside of zip archives, jesus christ it's so simple but so little people use it.

I think this is the most advanced and genius way to update stuff.


Awesome work, I am stunned by the rounded corners of the buttons!

[titsmcgee852]

Has this been tested with the steam version of bf2?

[RUSSIAN147]

Has this been tested with the steam version of bf2?

Yes would like to know this

[AncientMan]

Of course it has, it's been tested with all versions of BF2

[Dzawa]

where i can download this launcher??

[RazoR41]

where i can download this launcher??

You can't download it yet.