First off, it is a pleasure to write, as the Dawn of Darkness Mod Team, how much we appreciate your encouragement and love as well as supportive feedback to our mod in the making! All of those who have and those who silently follow us, thank you!
Our journey moving forward hath now started with the sandbox build, as several of you already know. Now that we have received an ENORMOUS number of pieces and results of other artists talents, we are making fine timing with the integrating aspect. However, this is NOT to say we are in a hurry, as there is no deadline set for this mod to be finished nor for even its first release out to the public, the Public Beta.
We are still in our larvae/pre-alpha stages so to speak so much has yet to be complete. To name a few, we still need to incorporate some UI, AI, Tech Tree build, as well as animations for some new units in the future. Nonetheless, we are still making great progress, all thanks to the wonderful artists who made the pieces of work we share for your eyes to see.
So far, we are picking up some momentum as we are working on Thunder Warriors, Solar Auxilia, and still in stages for the Legiones Astartes. But we also got the Talons of the Emperor started as well and right now, it's mainly testing (which we could use some additional Beta testers) to see what the game will allow for without choking the engine, so new units are still being added and will for much of the time to come since we still need AI worked.
Now here's where I need to address something. We have in the past received some negative and invalid opinions on what we are doing in THAT regard. Let me just say that there is NO WAY any full overhaul and added race mod is going to be successful in a timely manner without the approach our team is taking, which is to network with other artists for their 3D content. If you are told otherwise that person is lying through their teeth. To meet the standards of huge and ambitious mods like this one or 40k mods like Ultimate Apocalypse, Unification mod, etc., it is going to require a gigantic joint effort, even from non-team affiliates. The bigger the mod, the more community involvement is needed to pull off what is desired in practical timing. It's unrealistic not to take this approach, I don't care who you are or how good of a modder you may be.
I say this because I have upon browsing this website, seen a comment on one of the trending and popular mods that a dev mentioned something about it being a "shame" for other modders to take content from other mods or locations without the drive to make something new. I have a message for that dev who said this, and you know who you are. The mod in which you are making contradicts that statement 100% since all your mod happens to be is a MASSIVE cargo ship of a byproduct of said content from other created commons, by which you did not authentically create yourself.
Much of the community unfortunately keeps their mouth shut because of their fear or apprehension towards the other DoW mod devs but I for one am not afraid nor worried about said individuals, for they hold no authority to make new rules up as they go, and I will not be silent when it comes to pointing out the obvious truth. This is a COMMUNITY, not a segregated district. With that said, we as DoD hold to integrity AT ALL TIMES. We are very quick to credit the artists for their brilliance and if possible, personally thank them for their generosity, WITHOUT asking for anything in return for monetary gain.
I know and understand that was a lot to say, however, it was something that needed to be addressed due to how many times I have had people from the old dev team I was a part of talk massive amounts of shit about me along with what our team is accomplishing. It still remains unclear why they find it necessary to paint us out to be these bad guys. It won't go unabated, and rest assure we will continue to do our thing THE RIGHT WAY.
Time may yield the opportunity for people to have a change of heart. Who's to say that we won't have more and more interested enthusiasts to join in our efforts? Regardless of who all hops aboard in our efforts, we are several strong and will deliver to the community!
In the meantime, that's what we have for the year 2024 so far! Over the summer, now that most of us are out for the break, there should be a pickup of pace so stay tuned for more action! I'll see you all around and please, if you are new here, please feel free to follow our discord link to the Community server where this mod will be discussed about in deeper detail, as well as much more 30k/40k related topics, discussions, and fan comradery. Discord.gg
Thank you all for stopping by!
-Kim
Awesome news, thanks
Holy based