Bring Beta Modding To Classic

Beta modding is sick but I was wondering if the Dev can bring the modding ability to Classic. We can make big and better mods on Classic :). I would love to have more modding abilities in Classic!

 

(Or you could buy beta ;) )

 

Wishful thinkings

Just buy the beta. I think it's better than classic overall, it's worth your $$$

 

Great idea! Let's bring back modding to the crappy broken old game instead of perfecting the nice, fluid new one that already has modding support fully integrated! +1 rep thumbs up.

 

It would mean rewriting classic. Way too much work for the devs.

 

Because I love classicand enjoy it more than Beta, I would like to have beta modding in classic. But Aphelion3371 was right, it would be way too much work for the devs.

 

KAG Beta is basically the rewrite of KAG Classic to be better, and it certainly is better, both gameplay and modding.

 

I will like Beta better when KARPS comes out :D

 

I think it would actually be possible to emulate the gameplay of the alpha build of KAG in the current KAG build using modding. Have you considered that approach?

KAG Throwback Mod(TM)

 

Curiously, when @BC and I were ballsing around in the Zen server we discovered that altering the gravity value to something like 12 or 10 made the vertical movement "feel" more like classic. So yeah definitely something worth exploring, @hierbo, but incrementally.

 

I'll make it.

 

If you could make a classic mod for beta, that makes all classes how they were in classic ( no grapple, no water ammo, etc.. ) id literally send you money.

 

Whoa aph, that sounds like an offer nobody can refuse XD

 

Take note that you have to emulate Classic physics together with the textures. Plus the code is a bit messy.

 

Geti said that emulating classic in beta is nearly impossible due to the fact that classic's gameplay was comprised mainly of flukes, quirks, and glitches.

 

yeah but getis dumb man

geez its like u dont no that or somethin

 

Wow classic really sucked.

 

I think that may be a little extreme.

You'd be surprised how many games have very little in the way of a physics system in the form that most people imagine it. Oftentimes, developers will intentionally forgo putting in in the physics systems like those, due to their high overhead, and instead just code each interaction manually. That may sound far more tedious than using an out-of-the-box physics engine like box2d, and is, but they made it themselves, it does exactly what they want (at the time), and nothing else. Unfortunately, that method can be very restrictive; if you want to change how something works, it may be the result of an inscrutable tangle of interrelated rules you put together, thereby causing all manner of crazy side effects that you could not have foreseen from only a minor tweak. In fact, I believe I recall reading somewhere that this very issue was the reason they decided to rewrite large parts of this game (probably after much profanity); it was just no longer able to be extended upon in they ways they wanted to.