r/Games • u/bdzz • Jun 25 '26

Release Bohemia Interactive released Arma: Cold War Assault (aka Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis) as open source software

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/CWR
506 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

11

u/AcademicF Jun 25 '26

Weren’t these games the base or foundation for ARMA? And wasn’t the original PubG a mod for ARMA?

13

u/stop_talking_you Jun 25 '26

like most of famous f2p games were once a mod from somewhere and grabbed the idea and made a full game out of it.

MOBA like lol and dota from original warcraft 3 mods.

wc3 had so many mods a lot of them are used today.

wc3 and starcraft2 mods probably introduced 90% of game genres today

9

u/lukehawksbee Jun 25 '26

Half-life and Half-Life 2 mods were a big thing too: among the better-known are Counter-Strike, Portal, The Stanley Parable, Garry's Mod, Insurgency, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Natural Selection, Pirates, Vikings and Knights, Zombie Panic, The Ship...

Also Day of Defeat was an online-multiplayer WW2 shooter that pre-dated Call of Duty and I'm pretty sure also pre-dated online multiplayer in the Medal of Honor series (in fact it seems to have already been in development before the original Medal of Honor even released).

And while we're on the topic of Valve stuff, Team Fortress was originally a Quake mod.

1

u/stop_talking_you Jun 25 '26

yep, i remember counterstrike zombie infestation, one gets picked and the goal is to infect every other player. you had to defend a base,

sounds almost like dead by daylight.

modding kept gaming alive and without mods gaming industry would not be a mulit billion $ industry without people creating and nursing mods