Bad Company 2 Devs Have Nothing But Love For The Modding Community

The decision to leave modding support out of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 seemed strange, especially with DICE showing such strong support for the modding community in the past. As Van Dyke explains, it wasn’t a decision made out of spite, but simple realism.

“It wasn’t a thought-out decision in the sense that ‘no, we’re not releasing tools.’ Our feelings towards the modding community is not a negative one, but we had to be realistic in this situation.

“This version of Frostbite just really doesn’t support (modding),” Van Dyke explains. “The way our tools are setup for Frostbite currently – this isn’t the plan for the future – it’s all within a network structure, so we have servers, a network farm, hard drives all over the place, caching systems. For the development team it’s not even a realistic thing to try to pretend we could put out. So we just bit the bullet and were honest and were like, ‘This is not something we can do with this game.'”

So it’s a matter of tools, and the tools to allow modders to flex their creative muscle simply aren’t in place yet. Van Dyke goes on further added emphasis to that “yet.”