Cid250

Yes but i'm speaking about new vehicle 3D models, and Soldiers with their weapons... WWII is just HUGE!!!. To get the same ammount of weapons than we have in CMX1 with the new quality level is a hard task... you need lots of 3D artists, 2D skin work, and animations. Will be great if Battlefront can get the good quality models of the comunity, and build an oficial patch adding the data and other features, but saving some work on the models.

What if you don't allow mods, but you give a list of features or quality requeriments for the models in order to be submitted by the fans to the developers?. I mean... not mods at all, but some content submited by the playerbase can be included in official expansions by battlefront?.

Really?. Which addon?

But... they can also sell expansions that includes the best models... if they keep the control of the add-on or integration with official game patchs. Don't know how was done on IL2 comunity... may be they published the 3D desing requirements, and the game developers were responsible to integrate only the best-quality vehicles in a official patch. May be what they need is to open a SDK to explain the poly limits, etc... and then the community can work under those bounds to submit their work to expect it included in the next patch release. A lot of people will make good quality donations, and the developer team can reduce his load of work by several orders of magnitude. Is a fact that the number of hours needed to model those high detailed units, are a lot... so, we will never se a game as much complete in units like the old CM. Will be a pity if this engine puts a limit on the diversity of units that we enjoyed in the earlier versions of CM. Please, consider the way of expansions with some player base colaboration that was done with the IL2 series.

It's too late to ask for it?. I hope that the developers consider to add tools for the player base to import fully new 3D models and animations. I ask for it because this game will enter in big problems in the future releases to model the full ammount of WWII vehicles availables in the earlier CM. There are many countries, and many weapon's diversity... too much to be modeled by a single game company. In the IL2-Sturmovik team they got nice models comming from their community that were released as expansions... and even today, there are many WWII airplanes not represented in the last version of IL2. Will be cool if we can work to expand this new Combat Mission release much more far than adding some new Skins and some Maps. Will be cool if the vehicle data, 3D models, and animations, can be expanded by the players. It's possible to consider it for the future expansions of this new engine?.

They keep secrecy may be as a method of keep the comunity quiet enought. Some times you need it to work without additional stress.

My support to this development. I hope that they keep the work on the idea, since it can be fantastic fot the CM comunity interested in WWII operational level. I don't know if the lack of news is intended or not... but Battlefront should update the info as soon as possible.