WelrodKing

Oh my god! I just saw this Chris I’m such a huge fan of you’re work. I’ve always believed that you were the main lead behind the production of the Multiplayer For Rising Sun. I’ve envyed you’re work so much I remade the whole online portion. Can you talk about the process that went behind idea to implement online multiplayer in Rising Sun? Your work is the reason I self taught myself game development. I remade the whole MP on Rising Sun not to long ago with another old MOHRS player.

Here’s the remake of Shima Field we did. https://youtu.be/sUfIkqFsEQc

I could ask you a million questions about rising sun. But I just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me everyday.

Thank you for your reply I’m so honored. it’s part of a two man team project myself and Krypton1te did. We loved the game and the community the online MP created. It was small but passionate. I have videos of Calumpit Chaos and Death In The orient as well.

https://youtu.be/sn-7Sgw_zDE

https://youtu.be/zT5tMI7YfdY

The mod is for Day of Infamy on PC. If you’re ever interested in playing it let me know the servers files need some updating but should work overall.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=882255894&searchtext=

After Rising Sun shutdown online we tried for years to find new games nothing offered us a similar experience so taught ourselves Source engine. We moved to UE4 a lot later but picked the project back up when DOI came out giving us a chance to revisit the source maps we made. We did 6 from Rising Sun in This project and then converted 6 of the base game maps into more MOH arena style. I’d love to do more I’ve recently been brainstorming doing some remakes in UE4 with modern PBR elements and stuff but haven’t gotten very far the maps are my biggest inspiration.

Ok since I’m not sure I’ll have the opportunity again to pick your brain I’ve got a few Rising Sun questions that if you get a chance to answer id love to here a response but don’t feel obligated to answer them all.

1. Was the Welrod OSK a mistake or Balancing choice. Since it fires 8 rounds of 9mm normally.

2. Why was the choice made to remove the lmg nests in the online portion of multiplayer? It was such a small move that saved that game and made it such a great competitive game.

3. Since LAN is broken forever and online services have obviously stopped do you know anyway to bypass the server region list it would allow lan matches and let us play the game online again via xlink.

4. What’s your favorite MP map from RS?

5. Can you lead me to any portfolios or other past works on the level designers from Rising Sun? I’ve viewed those maps as the most incredibly designed maps ever. I’d love to see what else the level design team worked on after.

6. How much was quake a inspiration for MOH as a whole?

Wow incredible that the Welrod was a mistake. It turned into quake instagib but so much slower and tactical it led to a really great competitive game mode that required a lot of skill and precision.

The grenade lanes were so prevalent and so many high skill grenades won us clan battles on ps2nations competitive ladder I loved those nades.

I’ve talked to Ed who codeveloped the rising sun mod with me and he’s busy working on another project at the moment but ultimately our goal after the server went down was one day we’re gonna play our favorite game of all time together again. We ended up doing 6 of the 9 mp maps Idol assault was giving us some difficulties in Source but it’s started Solomon Showdown and Maurders at Midnight weren’t made they seemed like they would be visually hard to pull off with modern visual elements. Ultimately it’s been like a life goal of ours to have all those maps remade by us. I know I’d be willing to finish the project if you want to help out in any capacity we’d feel honored(unintentional pun) I can shoot you a discord friend request or steam or whatever. I’ll pm you my contact details. I can also get our server up and running Ed and I would love to get a game going with you and let you check out the project as it stands if you’re available at all. I’ll have it up and running again by this weekend.

I’m not sure if this is a dumb question but if you’re the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who the hell is the other Co-Chair?