Officerrule

You can don't worry, you can mod anything you could have modded in Emergency 4, the guys over at emergency-forum are working everything out, and they have already found a few things about the editing and adding of vehicles. The problem is the layout of the folder is completely different, with different file names and different file extensions, that's why its confusing. 

Wow... this community really isn't what it used to be... 

You got a point, but you have to remember that nobody here explicitly stated that EM5 would be a steaming pile of shit.

We all have our hopes for the game. Some of us are just trying to play it safe with EM5.

I may have over-exaggerated a tiny bit to get my point across, its not so much people saying its a bad game, more just the feeling of a stigma around it. I would have thought people would be verbally really glad and excited that we're finally getting Emergency 5 in this community, the game that has taken 7/8 years to come out - I guess we'll start to see this excitement when the game is released. 

Offtopic: this is what companies like EA have done to the gaming industry, everyone's sceptical of games in development now rather then out-right excited for them, damn you EA, damn you to hell! 

Emergency 4 was a success because the way players get evolved whit the game and the emergency community.

And it is important to refer and not to forget the game was very improved whit the modifications the emergency community create and share for FREE to everyone.

Los Angeles Modification totally re-imagine the game concept of emergency 4 and gave us more than we can possible imagine when we bought the game. And that is thanks to Hoppah not to the Ralph Stock and team.

What the community did whit the Emergency 4 can do whit the Emergency 5 and 6, 7, 8... Modding for fun and for the people. Together Yes we can. 

Whilst I agree and so do they themselves agree that the modding community added to the game in leaps and bounds, if It wasn't for "Ralph Stock and team" you or I or anyone at all would have a game to be able to do this in the first place - once again getting that feeling your just flipping 16t off, they're giving you this opportunity, the LA mod wouldn't even be a thing without Emergency 4/3/2/1.

Will Emergency 5 live up to the expectations a few mods show in EM4 today? no, probably not, that is not because Emergency 5 is a bad game, that's because the mods go into depths that the team at 16t wouldn't be able to do without focusing their sale base too much. They've said we'll be able to mod Emergency 5 more and easier then any other Emergency game before; with the improved editor, an SDK, and with the new graphics engine and accompanying shadows and lighting effects giving an extremely improved visual immersion experience.

If it wasn't for 16t all of this wouldn't be possible at all, and people saying "graphics isn't everything" whilst I agree, it is still important to improve on previous games, having a better graphics engine allows for a more visually pleasing experience, in my opinion people started creating units way too high quality for Emergency 4, like putting a car from GTA V into San Andreas, it just graphically looks horrifically out of place and way too good graphically for the game it was put on. 

At least with Emergency 5 we WILL have amazing looking vehicles, personnel, equipment that all visually fit snug with the base game, as if they were made for the base game itself. 

I guess It's just annoying that 16t gets a lot of flack for things that the modding community already do, and have more time and less pressure to do. They're giving us a game that so far by information stated, videos witnessed, images seen is stunning, and I know people and going to love one way or another.

Also, yes, working on the assumption that something isn't going to be great means that you can never be disappointed, I guess I personally just don't look at life that way, whether I get scolded or rewarded is I guess a part of looking at life the way I do... 

I don't understand why there are veterans of the Emergency series acting as if Emergency 5 is going to be utterly bad. I don't remember this force of negative thought through the development of emergency 4, I don't understand what triggered this bad aura around this game...

The only thing I can think of that's been truly bad about this game is the marketing scheme and that isn't even done by Sixteen Tons, its as if your burning a company that made all of this possible with little reason at all, I understand apprehension into over-hyping a game that might not live up to extreme expectations but nether-the-less - the game is CONFIRMED to have better functionality compared to any of its predecessors by the developer studio themselves.

The screenshots given to us show the extremely enhanced graphic qualities of the game which Deep Silver and 16t have both said have not been edited in anyway. 

Interviews have confirmed more modding possibilities then ever before, through a completely new editor software which is easier to use.

Video has shown some of the game play during a development build of the game during Gamecom, and I was thrown away with the improvements too the game. 

They've mentioned the ability to upgrade and improve upon your base, they've mentioned brand new emergency scenarios like mountain rescues. New and improved AI systems...

There's most likely a lot more to this game, I just don't understand at all the complete negativity towards it - I mean It's as if you've given up on 16t completely as a development studio, that's what it feels like to me anyway.

Genuinely feel as if this community is slowly getting further and further away from each other.

(Also on a side note, I am also glad that models won't be able to be ported straight into the new game... I feel if it were possible modders would just recreate Emergency 4 in Emergency 5... which I think is personally a bit of an insult to the developers)

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Never-mind, I really don't want an argument. I'd be happy there's an Emergency 5 coming out at all especially with these incredible improvements rather then complaining that a European Emergency RTS game which has always been European isn't turning American -.-

November 2014* Its being released this year not in a years time. Only 2 additional weeks after the 30th of October, I'd much rather have a much more polished and thought out game than a game rushed for quick bucks. Genuinely think Emergency 5 is going to be amazing.

I found a official game store in Belgium where you can pre order it. So I guess it will be available in English. Release date is 1 october doh.

That doesn't make sense, do you mean it'll be available for pre-order in English as of the 1st? Sixteen Tons are saying the release is the 30th of October?

I've tried Emailing multiple departments about the ability to pre-order the deluxe edition in english, they say there's going to be a deluxe edition in English but won't comment on when its available for pre-order.

I think its extremely unfair to say they're being cheap and lazy... it is by all means no where near cheap or easy to create a game based on a completely different and new engine. As I said before, we've not seen a lot-. what we have seen is mostly the same thing repeated again and again by different people. Give it some time and when they're ready to release some official info then it would be best to comment on the quality of the game.

But I do see a problem with this... see if they changed things I guarantee you there would be people upset over the fact that things aren't as they were, so in a way they can't really win... even then we don't know what they've changed, by the looks of screenshots and information people can be handcuffed now... which is nice.

 

 

Each person in the game has a particular goal or exercise during the day various activities from. It encounters a traffic accident, they will be disturbed in their daily routine, stops at the roadside, ogled the forces and taking pictures with their mobile phone.

This is something new, pedestrians are now somewhat simulated and are no longer just aimlessly walking about, also that they can ogle scenes is a great idea as It was very basically hinted in EM4, now pedestrians seem to have somewhat of life in them. Also its confirmed that vehicles will pull over to responding emergency vehicles.

About the ability to toggle both lights and sirens... I agree I don't know why they still haven't given that ability and I do really hope they read these messages and add that ability into the base game.

And like theparanoid said, this isn't a game based on American responders, its based on European responders and as such they develop their game that way, that is where creators come in and modify the game to simulate American responder styles (or any other country) rather then the European/German style the base game comes with. 

I stand with the hooper, I don't see anything new in this version that is crying out this will make this game revolutionary to me.  While modding it appeals to me, and it seems like the map editing context will be easier, that is the only thing that I see of it that has me going at this time.. The gameplay concept is in fact a revisit of the original versions of the titles where you "advanced" along the game, it is a good premise that I frankly prefer overall, but nothing new.. It looks prettier, but to me pretty doesnt always equate to a game which has tons of depth and replay value.. I hope they make a way to bridge the content otherwise the modding community will take a serious hit in the transfer.  Face the facts, most people cannot afford professional software for a hobby, hell most people would not want to purchase such software to be able to mod a game... Depending on the ability to mod this game will dictate it's fate imo most people don't want to play a game with original content in it, not for a very long time anyway.....  I personally won't continue onto EM5 if I am having to reinvent the wheel for everything that I could possibly want to do.  This has nothing to do with being lazy, it has to do with time constraints and the reality that I should not have to remake all my content just because they've taken it upon themselves to make my content incompatible....  Really most of the "features" they speak of being so great in the new game should be capable of being altered onto our existing models/skins accordingly... 

 

Just my thoughts on this but I'm not sure yet on this one.

My point is the current models/textures used in EM4 seem no where near detailed enough to comfortably fit into the new and improved graphics engine that EM5 is built from, like putting a GTA SA vehicle into GTA V-. its just going to stick out like a sore under-developed thumb. Yes not everyone has heaps of time on their hands or money to spend on development software, but I'd honestly wait a few more months then have a mod that utilizes models made for a game that was released 8 years ago and, non-the-less are no where near the standard models the base game provides.

just look at the videos and screenshots, nothing from EM4 is going to fit into this game without looking completely out of place, the characters, cars, buildings, props, equipment, effects, animations all are highly improved and extremely detailed compared to its 8 year old predecessor.

I stand by my nothing new.   Not one item you mention is new to me. I know off all that.  I even look at stuff that only been in German. 

 

Of course this video mention all what you did.  It in English

 

 

It about 5 days old

Good that you know - by all means I didn't mean nobody looked, there's most likely leaps and bounds of stuff we've yet see.

 

 

I just hope there's AT LEAST a way to convert EM4's model format to whatever format the new game use

This is what I don't get... Its blatantly obvious that the models required in EM5 are vastly more detailed then those made in EM4, by most if any mods. What would be the point of just converting models if they aren't taking advantage of at least the basic improvements of model details, scaling, material textures etc that Emergency 5 offers? 

Lets start to face it, Emergency 5 in terms of what it is built from is brand new, they've said themselves there isn't a piece of Emergency 4 used in the new adaptation. Its been 8 years since Emergency 4 was released, and I can stand corrected, but Emergency 3 wasn't that different from Emergency 4, especially in the engine department. The change between EM4 to EM5 is similar to most game series that have lived on vibrantly to meet different eras of modding (GTA is a perfect example), and this is it, this a new era of modding Emergency, where we (you creators) may and most likely will have to start from scratch.

In terms of not seeing anything new... keeping in mind all we've seen are a few videos, most of which are showing the exact same thing. Of course like Schrodinger's cat we don't know whether the game is good or bad until we open the box, so at the moment... it is both, until people make somewhat of a universal / collective agreement on its fate-. which can't be done until we have all gotten and played the game. 

You can do some digging to read some information about EM5, a lot of stuff I haven't seen posted here such as; There are no mission maps anymore, there are only detailed maps of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich which have both dynamicly created emergencies (medical emergencies, fires, crimes, car accidents, drownings etc.); and larger scripted emergencies which are the missions, now called events- such as riots, plane crashes, avalanches etc. 

The map opens up as you play, as you complete missions (events) more and more of the map will become open to the player (that is if I read what I read, correctly)

Now that missions are no longer separate, but all part of the same game (I.E no going back to a menu), the campaign is based on an achievement system.

Plus tons of other stuff that right now I really can't be arsed to type out. 

thats only my personal gui hha so not updated yet, but there's plenty more people have missed

What like the supply lines connected to the hydrants ? yeah I saw it

I cant see the picture it just comes up with an x and "Post Image" ?!?, Although when I do see it its bound to be amazing

I know Doesdmonkey is fine and well but i now think this mod is dead we have had no cofermation that hes comming back nor whats happioning no one accturnly posts on teh topic anymore so there nothign to do with this modifaction, i was look forwerd to it then when it started dieing i got more and more disapointed i hope he come bac with some information on whats going on or

This is an exerlant mod but there is something you could do:

More police vehicles

Police van to have wheels

paramedics and police officer skins

Ladder engines re-done (becuase the ladders ontop looks rather wired)

Thats it but once agen sofar so good

Does anyone know whats happiond with the mod becuase we havnt had any updates from it for a while, im not forcign updates its just we havnt heard from Doesdmonkey for a while now and this topic is dieing rapidly.

He isnt relesing it becuase hes not allowed to so theres nothing to wait about.

Yer right. Its ether:

Massive Update

Hes been ill for a while

Personal Problems

or hes having computer/Program probelms

anyway Hope hes back soon.

Im getting worried now he hasnt been on for about a month and iv never known someone having a comen illness for a month

Thats brillient and are you going ot add a centre ladder?

I thought id ask you summing as the topic isnt as lively as it used to be

Are you going to add a K-9 Unit they use german shepherds and cocker spainals

theres transport vehicle is normaly Volvo V70 with a cage in the back

anyway hope this topic gets as lively as it used to.

Is the mod dead becuase we havnt had any updates for a while NOT Asking for any im just worried abouts whats on because he hasnt posted a comment or update for a while I know he has his own life like anyone els

Still is the reskin still a WiP?

Is this mod still a WiP Becuase there hasnt been replys for a while now