AlvinD wrote:God i miss what this place used to be. it saddens me that its near desolate now
I was just thinking the same thing recently. I don't come here often as I used to but when I do there isn't much going on so don't normally stay around long. I remember back when I used to be an active member of DXEditing forums before coming here. Man, that was a long time ago. I still keep thinking that I want to make at least one Deus Ex Mod but don't know if many would play it if I did. I was thinking like something like a few random single player missions or something. I did once had the idea for 2 big mods, but I am not going to make them now as they;d take far too long to make and I don;t have the time to spend hours on them like I would have years ago.
One was a kind of prequel where you could play as one of the main characters just prior to the start of Deus Ex, like play as Jock in Area 51 or Paul Denton when he was sent to assassinate Tracer Tong etc...
My other idea was a mod where it starts directly after the original endings, but instead JC decides to kill Bob Page, but doesn't want the Illuminati to gain power and goes back to Tracer Tong as he likes Tong, just not his overkill idea of destroying everything. A while after JCs return to Hong Kong, Tracer, Paul and JC receive a phone call from someone who sounds exactly like Bob Page. Not long after, Paul becomes very sick after he tries to install new Augmentations and his body violently rejects them, so Tracer decides to take him somewhere to recover. However, he never returns to Hong Kong and no one can get a hold of him.
I had a plot point about Morgan Everett being pissed over Area 51 (It is now run by the scientists and people at X-51) and vowing revenge on JC and you finding out in the end that Bob Page never died and that the Bob Page that JC blew up was a augmented version of him. I had over elaborate ideas for drivable cars, going to Japan to find a scientists that could help in finding Tracer Tong and Paul, then going to Antartica and seeing Paul in a similar way to how you find JC in Invisible War, then having a battle with Illuminati troops that try to kill JC, Tracer and Paul.
Just too bad I never got around to actually making much of those mods, although I did start to make a cowboy western type mod with new music, testures and meshes for schooners, wagons, steer skulls, guitars, conifer trees etc... but stopped it after I realised I was unable to do some things like make character meshes have hats that could be removed, didn';t have any horse meshes or didn't know if it was possible to get a NPC and player to get on and off and ride a horse or be able for the player to get into and to sail a canoe down a river etc... plus I didn't have meshes for period guns that I could use (I didn't know how to animate meshes then so didn't know how to make my own)