Is Modding Disabled?

[Looter]

Created a couple of addons for Iron Front (using Eliteness and just renaming .ifa -> .pbo and back) and upon attempting to load them get "Wrong signature for <addon>" as if its checking all addons to see if they are signed by the Iron Front devs, so is modding effectively disabled in the engine right now until the devs release their version of the modding tools? after reviewing the code of most of IF, there shouldn't be any problems using the tools already available, but that's just conjecture. Anyone else had any luck loading their .ifa's? or do the developers have any comments, or are we still just waiting for IF-Specific tools?

[Mr Burns]

Small excerpt from the community Q&A we held with Deepsilver / AWAR the last saturday.
(quick translation from german)

Q: How about community mods, can the devs say something about it?
A: Not yet, but we´ll be glad to include good mods into IF.


Q: So atm it´s not possible to load mods in IF?
A: It is possible, but not without our help, as they need to be signed with our key.

Steffen told me they´d post an official statement about modding that same evening, but i couldn´t find it yet.
Seems we need to wait some longer.

[Looter]

Thanks for the quick reply, I must have missed that interview over the weekend. I figured it'd be something like that. Such a shame, I had just finished replacing the awful K98/Mosin sounds just to realize I cant load them yet .

A thought on the "we'll be glad to include good mods into IF", the reluctance of using stock bi mod tools, IF sig checking any addon attempting to load, and their anti-cheat "plans" kind of has me worried they want to setup some kind of restricted modding environment to minimize the chance of people hacking (which wouldn't work at all), but I hope they are just taking their time to develop their own set of tools or something, I guess we will see in the announcement.

[Phazon]

I think I wasted hours today trying various ways to get the game to load up a sound mod I've been working on as well, I thought I was doing something wrong but I guess not. They better sort this out soon.

[Looter]

I think I wasted hours today trying various ways to get the game to load up a sound mod I've been working on as well, I thought I was doing something wrong but I guess not. They better sort this out soon.

Glad to see I'm not the only one that was kind of confused at first, I really just hope they aren't going to try and change how the actual modding works in any way, Like only signing/loading certain "trusted" mods to keep multiplayer more consistent.

[Thromp]

What a fantastic idea ,
I hope this helps with anti cheat and speeding up stability of vanilla , I think Bis should seriously consider this method for A3.

[Looter]

What a fantastic idea ,
I hope this helps with anti cheat and speeding up stability of vanilla , I think Bis should seriously consider this method for A3.

i hope your trolling

[Gishank]

The devs "approving" mods is a very bad way to go about things and could very easily discourage people from modding.

[ProfTournesol]

The devs "approving" mods is a very bad way to go about things and could very easily discourage people from modding.

Exactly. That's the worst idea ever.

[Thromp]

I think in ofp and arma 1 , I would completely agree but since then , the numbers and variety are so few , I can't see major mods like ACE and Other major players disagreeing with consistency enforced by devs .

My two cents ,I crave mp stability and anything that allows for tighter anti cheat gets my vote .
Of course this method would have to prove stability and I have no real idea for IF devs intentions .