Dark Biohazard: Submit your questions

[Dot50Cal]

C2keo will be appearing on the next podcast, so now is the time to get your questions in. Dominion may be answering questions via email as well, which we'll get on the podcast.

Some topics are off limits though, such as specifics on how they modified the engine, technical aspects of the game etc. Most everything else is fair game. If the community produces some good questions, we'll add them into our cache and read your question on the show :)

[doomed]

How long will the mod be? Will it be short (1-2 hours) or longer?

[rewak]

Will the basic layout of the game be the same (streets, RPD, sewers, etc) or will that be changed too?

How many boss fights will there be in the game? And how many of the bosses will be new?

And the obvious one i suppose, any estimates for a release date?

[Dot50Cal]

Great stuff so far guys :)

[Stu]

{i'm a little out of the loop on PC mods and what's allowed, but i still wouldn't mind knowing the guy's views on this one} Are you concerned that all of your work may end up being for nothing if Capcom get wind of the project?

Were there any particular PC mods for another games that inspired you to come up with this?

If you could only change ONE THING from Resident Evil 2 & 3 (gameplay mechanic, story, anything!), what would it be?

Would you consider looking into releasing this for the Dreamcast? It might be a dead console, but there's still a homebrew community out there, or at least people who still own their DC.

What's been the biggest difficulty you've faced in the development of Dark Biohazard?

What're your feelings about the current direction of the Resident Evil series? Are you disillusioned and that's what led you to working so hard on this project?

Sorry if that's too many questions Dot :)

[Ridley W. Hayes]

Why 'Dark' Biohazard?

Is the amount of rooms present in the mod limited by the amount of rooms on the data of RE2 & RE3 or can you make new rooms and integrate them into the mod data?

Can you improve the amount of poligons present in the models of enemies and characters?

Are you capable of modify the cutscenes and integrate them properly into the game?

Which exact version of the retail game I need to play the mod?

[riderkid]

how will players who cannot get the PC game resident evil 2 be able to play this mod. is it compatible with resident evil 3 which is available for direct download purchase from some sites?

[Dot50Cal]

rider, I can say already, nope. You'll have to have RE2 for PC. You can find it on ebay super cheap now :)

[RetroRain]

The talent is there. No doubt about that. You guys could put together a great mod, but here are a few things that I'm not crazy about.

- The new handgun animation. It's just horrible, even though I see what you were trying to do. You would be better off making the handgun pointing up, or down, but not across like that.

- The story. If you're going to make a quality mod, why not make a serious story? I'm not saying that it has to fit in to the current RE games, but make a more realistic story. The whole mixing of 1.5 elements and the final version of 2 and 3 is just not that great.

- I would suggest a name change as well. "Dark Biohazard." We already know that Biohazard is dark. That's the point of it. How about Biohazard: Dark Echoes, or something?

[Dot50Cal]

I think thats more fit for the general discussion thread, and not the questions topic. Its more suggestions than questions, really. Plus the tone is just negative ;(

[RetroRain]

Sorry for the negative tone, just wanted to point out what I saw wrong, and maybe hear their take on it.

[Twist]

The talent is there. No doubt about that. You guys could put together a great mod, but here are a few things that I'm not crazy about.

- The new handgun animation. It's just horrible, even though I see what you were trying to do. You would be better off making the handgun pointing up, or down, but not across like that.

- The story. If you're going to make a quality mod, why not make a serious story? I'm not saying that it has to fit in to the current RE games, but make a more realistic story. The whole mixing of 1.5 elements and the final version of 2 and 3 is just not that great.

- I would suggest a name change as well. "Dark Biohazard." We already know that Biohazard is dark. That's the point of it. How about Biohazard: Dark Echoes, or something?

Agreed, 100%

Bio Hazard: Stir of Echoe's?

[Dot50Cal]

Guys, its a bit rude to bring up a name change in an interview, don't you think? I mean, this is their game afterall. I ask that you guys try and keep down the negative tones in questions as well. Theres no need to slander the mod, since that gives the creators the impression that everything they are working on is garbage. If you want to be critical of the mod, please do that in the various topics we have for it on the forums.

So please, try to be respectful to the team and stop asking for name changes damnit!! :P

[riderkid]

ok if i can't ask that heres a better ?

* if the dark biohazard mod is a success will we see another mod based of of resident evil nemesis for the PC?

[A-J]

- Should we expect cameo's and surprise appearances from familiar faces ?

- How big will the mod file be once its launched, just curious ?

- Do you plan to launch it commercially, or atleast advertise it on major outlets or something ?

- What was your inspiration for this mod in the original place ?

- Why RE2 ? any specific reasons.

[doomed]

- Do you plan to launch it commercially

I think that's not possible.

[kevstah2004]

Since you turned the Police Station into an inferno are going to give Leon his proper re1.5 protective orange vest? it'd be cool it you could gradually drop his health inside a burning room if you haven't yet acquired it in the game.
On a plus note I manged to mod RE2 for the PS1 today :-) and it booted fine in ePSXe more preciously Beta2 quicker to test rooms with the location selector.
Kinda of unrelated but how do you manually adjust the DPI of an image?

[Helegad]

Why the hell did you use that annoying computer generated voice over in the second trailer?

[Spera01]

We know that you've taken areas from RE3 and put them into RE2/Dark Biohazard, if you've been able to take the areas, can you import the enemies from RE3 aswell? Like will we be seeing drain demos or gravedigger like foes in Dark Biohazard?

[riderkid]

with RE4 being on the PC will we expect a Mod to resident evil 4 as well?

and will there be any new weapons in dark biohazard

[nemesis_lover]

My questions are:

Will there be unlockables for the game?
Will the Nemesis his name on this game?

And finally, cheeky one I know:
DO YOU WANT A VOICE ACTOR, BECAUSE I'M FREE :D

[TheSelfishGene]

Appoximately how many man-hours have been invested in the mod so far? An estimate of course.

Are any new weapons planned on being introduced. And any from Biohazard 1.5, such as the hand grenades?

Will screens full of zombies (as seen in the trailer) be a common, or rare occurance?

Why was Dominion so dis-satisfied with the retail Biohazard 2? (The youtube history trailer mod said he was). Not to put the boot in at all, I'm just really curious, because I thought RE2 was fantastic. If this mod has been a decade in the making, then he obviously disliked retail RE2 at the time of it's release, which I think is a very rare opinion. Just curious, nothing more.

[alf717]

What type of guns will be present in the game? Will you feature new weapons or just tweak the current weapons used in Resident Evil 2?

Perhaps this is too soon to tell but will any copy of Resident Evil 2/ Biohazard 2 work with your mod? The SourceNext version works on a Vista x64 install as well as being compatible with today's hardware.

Resident Evil 2 uses a lot of CG to tell its story. While explaining the story of Dark Biohazard will you be using any of these techniques or will the story be restricted to just finding files to tell the story of Dark Biohazard?