EA Confirms No Mod Tools For Battlefield 3 (Too Complex)

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on July 6, 2011 AT 03:22am

EA has today confirmed that there will be no mod tools available for Battlefield 3 when it launches.

The reason why is that the Frostbite 2.0 engine is far to complex for people to understand.

EA Senior VP, Patrick Soderlund told German Magazine Gamestar;

“As of now, we are not going to make any modding tools.”

“If you look at the Frostbite engine, and how complex it is, it’s going
to be very difficult for people to mod the game because of the nature of
the set up of levels, of the destruction and all those things. It’s
quite tricky”

“So we think it’s going to be too big of a challenge for people to make a mod.”

Source: Gamestar

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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