TeamX Mod Nearing Completion

Post by **King of Creation** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:47 pm

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<a href="http://www.teamx.ru/index.shtml">TeamX</a>'s Fallout 2 mod, Fallout 2: A New Vision, is finally nearing completion. It has just entered the final testing phases, according to the TeamX front newspage.<blockquote>Rejoice, my fellow comrades! For the moment we've all been waiting and striving endlessly for has finally arrived: our first major mod has gone into testing!
 
 We've decided to divide the testing into two phases. The first phase commences today, and it will allow us to do a final refining of the mod's balance. In other worlds, we simply want to make sure we don't mess up the whole game with it :). The second phase will commence shortly, and will be concerned strictly with the final (well, at least we hope so :) version of the mod.</blockquote>The mod focuses on changing and expanding upon the areas of Arroyo, Klamath, The Den, and surrounding areas. There are some screenshots on their site which you can check out <a href="http://www.teamx.ru/eng/mod/index.shtml">here</a>.
 
 Looks great!
 Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.nma-fallout.com">NMA</A>

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:32 pm

Hopefully we'll get an english version.

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:34 pm

You can't have too much Fallout. Bring it on!

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:50 pm

You goddamn morons. That's the SAME news you posted before when I gave heads-up on #fallout about it. You are posting the same news twice!

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:53 pm

Looks like it. Seems like they only just put the translation up, though.

Setau · Post by **Setau** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:01 pm

Yeah, we just kind of forgot we had two versions of the website))

A new-and-improved translation of the whole site is up as well, so now you have a chance to read about us and the mod in actual english.

There, of couse, WILL BE an english version. At the moment we're just applying some finishing touches to the translation, so I reckon you'll be seeing the english version release shorlty after the two russian ones.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:52 pm

That's okay, take your time.

Setau · Post by **Setau** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:44 pm

No thanks,
Personally, I'd really rather see the mod before I die/
So let's hope we DON'T take our freakin' sweet little time.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:11 pm

TeamX was trying to get a mod out for how many years, again?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:03 pm

Setau wrote:No thanks,
Personally, I'd really rather see the mod before I die/
So let's hope we DON'T take our freakin' sweet little time.

That's nice to hear.

Setau · Post by **Setau** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:59 pm

ApTyp wrote:TeamX was trying to get a mod out for how many years, again?

Good question) The short answer would be - I have absolutely no idea. I joined the team as a translator and editor in January or something, and most of the work on the Russian versions ended soon after. I think the Russian release had already been late when I joined, so, based on bits and pieces I'd heard at the time, I’d say something round a year had already passed.
So, if my calculations are correct, we should release before our second anniversary.

Which reminds me - I have a deadline tomorrow. Drat. And yet I wonder why the whole thing is taking so long…

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:20 pm

That's not what I meant. TeamX is not 2 years old; it's a fucking dinosaur of the Fallout modding. Yes, I know it used to be UnDat Division mostly concerned with formats and utilities, but I have statements from ex-member describing very extensive mod design discussions going back to least 4 years ago.

Setau · Post by **Setau** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:12 pm

Well, that would be a yes and a no on my behalf.
It's like this - after the break-up of UnDat TeamX continued to work on the "other" mod that they'd thought up before. If I'm not mistaken, it was called "Last Hope". And that kept them busy for some time. But a lot of technical problems unravelled, and so all work on the mod was stopped in favor of in-depth research of the game's structure, the managing of scripts, whatever (and the funny things is that this research is what TeamX is most famous for so long, at least amongst the Russian Fallout commmunity). Then came the "mini-patch" period, and only AFTER ALL that did they return to the actual mod-building. But by that time they'd lost interest in "Last Hope", since it was mainly concerned with plot, characters and quests in a totaly new location, whilst the team now had the knowledge and ability to do so much more. So that's when the "New Vision" (formerly "THE Arroyo-Klamat Mod) was born. Something round two years ago.

Correctly me if I'm wrong. Because, although I am the one who wrote the last version of the team's history in English, I'm still confused. And there's not much that can be done about that.