Source Mods Moving To UDK

[Rukus.]

What is you guys' opinion on the cavalclade of good source mods moving from the source engine to the UDK, leaving the source versions of their game unupdated and unfinished?

Examples

• Age Of Chivalry
• Orion
• The Escape From New York L4D Mod

I personally think Valve needs to step it up unless they want Epic to overtake them in the mod world.

 

[Dutchoper72]

The Escape From New York L4D Mod

ooooooooooooo that looks interesting. But what ever works is ok by me.

 

[Sexy Beast]

Dystopia just released a massive update Yesterday which fixes numerous bugs and updates their engine to Orange Box standards. I can't find any mention of them switching to UDK anywhere on their site.

In fact combing their forum I found a quote from a member of their Dev team.

by Spire ? Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:09 pm
The UDK and Engine would be neat to work with, I've had more than enough of working with the source sdk for sure.

But please, don't be ridiculous. To port to another engine like that means we might as well scrap everything and start development over again from scratch in every way other than design. At that point, its not much of a port - more like a new game. Whatever the advantage may be, what you propose is simply huge, most especially for a game that is already just fine as-is. No.

Yes, Age Of Chivalry is going UDK...but it wont be a mod. They're releasing it commercially and probably over Steam I would imagine.

Orion is going full on UDK and dropping source, mostly due to a lack of communication from Valve.

The Escape From New York...I can't find any info on it so I can't comment.

 

[Rukus.]

Dropped Dys from the list, heard somewhere it was going UDK. Anyway, AoC went UDK (and commercial) because source could not keep up with crucial features. At least thats what the site says.

 

[Simon]

I think it's a bad move. I won't be using it unless it's source. If they do, then there won't be mods instantly avalible or admin for servers etc.

 

[Spitfire'd]

UDK...so instead of source they are using the unreal engine?

I would assume source versions would still be available to play unless developers are to the point where they want to charge money for the mod, and think they will actually make some when doing it.

Either way if more companies are making their engines available in the long term I think we all win, because there are people out there that just make some incredible mods.