Project Reality League: Hi guys, could you introduce yourselves and your roles in the German Forces community mod?

azn_chopsticks_boi: Hello, I am azn_chopsticks_boi and currently I am the German Mod leader.

BetterDeadThanRed: BetterDeadThanRed, former manager and founder of the project.

PRL: Can you explain what a PR "community mod" is, for anyone who doesn't know?

BDTR: A community mod involves a group of PR community members gathering together, and with the blessing of the PR devs, creating new content for Project Reality.

PRL: What is the German Forces mod and what are its goals?

BDTR: It started off with just a single thread made by somebody who seemed a little over ambitious, but I was intrigued by the idea and drew up a quick design plan for presentation, and what do you know, it worked. Our goals at this point are pretty simple: Get a simple release candidate put into one of the upcoming PR releases.

azn: Plain and simply, to bring the German Armed Forces into PR.

*please note, many of the renders shown throughout this article are Works In Progress*

PRL: What armies are the German Forces going to be fighting against?

azn: MEC, Insurgents, Russians, PLA.

PRL: Tell me about the classes and weapons in the German Forces army.

azn: The new weapons are the G36, Mg3, Mg4, RGW-60, Panzerfaust 3, KM2000, MP7A1 and many more.

BDTR: In keeping with PR standards, the basic classes will be the same, but dealing with the G36 and its powerful set of optics has forced us into a unique position: It is unfair for every kit to have a scope and a red dot sight, but it is unrealistic to do otherwise. In the end, we decided to do the balancing through map design, I.e. having the Germans as the attackers trying to fight their way out of a difficult position. Don't be surprised if an MG3 makes it in as a pickup kit though.

PRL: Tell me about the new vehicles, how many are there?

azn: There are a few being made such as the Dingo II and Puma IFV. Operation Peacekeeper has allowed us to use the Leopard 2A6 and Wolf.

BDTR: Vehicles were originally not going to be part of the first release, but the guys at OPK have generously donated their Leopard II model and a few of our teammates have already created a few other vehicles, so our first release may see the inclusion of a few more goodies than first expected. ;)

PRL: What maps are being worked on? Will any of them be 16 player?

BDTR: We have several people working on revamping some of the old PR maps and unused BF2 maps to the new PR standard, but I am really excited about seeing the return of Steel Thunder to the lineup.

azn: There are a few maps being made such as Ambush, a remake of Steel Thunder. There’s one more, but I can’t spill any secret yet ;) There will be 16p version of the maps made.

PRL: Anything else you want to tell me about the GF mod, anything I missed?

BDTR: You were pretty thorough, but if anybody out there wants to lend a hand, be sure to drop by the sub forum as we are always looking for help.

PRL: How close is the mod to being finished?

azn: Ha, everyone asked this question and the answer is when the faction is ready.

BDTR: Well, attaching a percentage value to completion is like attempting to do so to Project Reality. I'm willing to keep working on the project so long as the public holds interest, but if you want to know how long we are until completing our first release candidate, I would hope we will be finished in time for a v0.8 patch. At this point, the majority of the work is completed, it’s just a matter of touching up and tying up loose ends.

azn: I would say about 35% as of now.

PRL: Who are the people on the team and what are their roles/contributions?

azn: This is more of a group of people who volunteer, Pride, [R-MOD]Dylan, 77SiCaRiO77, Gumball, marcoelnk, [R-Con] kaijleor, [R-CON]Shiftys1023, Celica`, [R-MOD]KP. Celica re-skinned the EF uniforms to the Flecktarn camouflage pattern.

BDTR: Gumball, 77SiCaRiO77, and [R-MOD]Dylan have made some outstanding models and Pride has made skins of equal quality, but we still have plenty of people who aren't committed to the project help us out in numerous ways, and although their names are too numerous to mention, I thank them.

PRL: What has your biggest contribution to the mod been?

azn: It's a team effort and everyone has helped out in many ways :) without one there other would not be able to assist.

BDTR: I'm not going to lie, I am a talentless nave compared to these guys. I was the team’s founder and manager before passing the torch on to Azn.

PRL: What's the best thing about working on a mod like this?

azn: It's really fun and a very interesting experience.

BDTR: Definitely seeing all of the talent and generosity from the community members. I was really awed by the quality of work that emerged from these guys and the help that they gave one another.

PRL: What is your favorite PR community mod besides the GF?

azn: Russians and Israel and Dutch

BDTR: I really love the IDF mod. They have some really amazing work and have a really unique setup I can't wait to play.

Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) is a community mod for Project Reality. A PR community mod is a new set of factions, complete with weapons, vehicles, soldiers, and maps for the new factions to fight on. There are currently several community mods in production, all of which are created by teams of PR community members - not official PR developers who are of course busy creating the core PR mod. Once a community mod is complete and if it meets the standards of the official PR devs, it will be added to the core PR mod.

I contacted ZZEZ, the IDF's lead developer to ask him a few questions about the mod and let us know what we can expect to see down the line.

Project Reality League: Tell us about the PR community mods. What *is* a PR community mod and how did this idea come about?

ZZEZ: IDF PR community mod is a bunch of people interested in seeing IDF as a faction in a future PR build and are willing to spend their free time on making it happen. The idea came when THE.FIST originally posted his Micro Galil model in the community mod forum, I always had IDF community mod idea in my mind and decided to contact him and another guy, Lachtang, luckily they both said they'll be happy to work on it.

PRL: How did you come to be in charge of the IDF community mod? What is your role and what do you do for the mod?

ZZEZ: It just kinda happened that I have been made in charge, I was the one organizing it behind the scenes even before it was announced. My roles in the IDF community mods are: weapons coding, vehicles coding, organizing and assigning tasks to people.

PRL: What new content is the IDF mod bringing to PR?

(*note some of these screenshots show Works In Progress*)

ZZEZ: Well first there are the IDF soldiers, which are reskinned EU soldier models and MEC kits (fits really good!)