As it stands now, the modding framework is powerful enough to support the scope of this project, and the official release of VU 1.0 will be here Very Soon™. We've been working closely together with the VU Devs, NoFaTe and Kiwidog, actively supporting the development by doing feature requests, quality assurance, writing documentation, writing tools, etc. Together we started working on the codebase for the mod, working name BF3:Realitymod.Įver since then, the project has slowly but steadily been growing, and we're now a team of around 20 people, including designers, movie makers, sysadmins, etc. After about a year or so of creating proofs of concepts in VU, we were joined by FoolHen, who has also been playing PR and loved the idea of a PR-style mod for BF3. We were both interested in the idea of developing a Project Reality style mod and decided to do something about it. VU had gained some public attention about 3 years ago, there’s been some small fun mods etc, but the framework back then wasn’t stable and documented enough to support big scale mods, so the project went back into development mode.Ībout that time, I teamed up with Powback, who’s been into Frostbite reversing and modding since before Battlefield 3, most famously known for the MapEditor for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. 'Venice' being the internal codename for Battlefield 3. Unfortunately EA / DICE never released any modding tools for the Frostbite powered games, stating 'We think it's going to be too big of a challenge for people to make a mod'.Īs it happens, there's a small but dedicated modding scene for BF3, that has been working on a powerful modding-interface which goes by the name of Venice Unleashed (VU).

Since PR has been getting old and a lot of the old players / communities were losing interest over the time, I found myself dreaming of a PR style mod for a newer Battlefield. My name is 3ti65, I've been playing PR since 0.65 (about 12 years).

Battlefield 3 bots mod