Far Cry source code has leaked online

Technology@lemmy.world – 154 points – 1 years ago

Source code for the original Far Cry, released back in 2004, has popped up online.Entitled "Far Cry 1.34 Complete", the…

Nice, somebody please make a fork where you can bind quick save and load to fucking buttons.

Some reasonable AI and less of the bullshit monsters would be nice too.

I have a better idea: Crytek should open source it so people can legally do those things

I thought they fully sold the license to Ubisoft? Ubisoft would violently execute an employee on the spot if they suggested open sourcing something that will net them anything more than $0.23 per year.

No idea, but open sourcing old game engines certainly hasn't harmed iD Software's income. It sure has gained them near-universal praise though.

Gotta love FPS-based AI

It'll be fun to see all of the ports of it to random systems in the next few years

Just dropping in to ask for them to make a full Blood Dragon game. That DLC was so awesome.

Either it got taken down or I can't find it.

https://lemmy.world/comment/796205 https://archive.org/download/far-cry-1.34-complete/far-cry-1.34-complete_archive.torrent

Thanks. And here's the Archive meta page for the Far Cry source. Commentary suggests it's not exactly in a working state, but it could get there.