This post is to clear up some misunderstanding about the future of the series and why nothing appears to be happening.
Some Background History
In the case of the NOLF franchise, the publisher paid Monolith Productions $x million for the development of each game in the series. The publisher holds the rights to the NOLF franchise, not Monolith. The original owner of the rights was Fox Interactive.
However I believe that Monolith do own the characters (but they did let the trademark on Cate Archer expire in 2004, see:
http://www.nolfgirl.com/community/trademarks.php#cate)
March 2003: Vivendi Universal Games acquires Fox Interactive - Rights to NOLF franchise transfer to Vivendi.
The trademarks are still active, see:
http://www.nolfgirl.com/community/trademarks.php#1NOLF
August 2004: Warner Bros. acquires Monolith Productions - Monolith are allowed (by Warner) to complete outstanding projects (mainly F.E.A.R. for Vivendi).
All Warner have are the trademarks for Contract J.A.C.K and A Spy in H.A.R.M.'S Way (both still live), see:
Contract J.A.C.K. & A Spy in H.A.R.M.'S Way:
http://www.nolfgirl.com/community/trademarks.php#SPY
Note: A trademark is not the same thing as a licence and distribution rights.
What could happen..
1. Warner acquires the rights from Vivendi and Monolith develops NOLF 3. Unlikely to happen because Vivendi Universal Games and Warner Bros are competitors.
OR
2. Monolith and Warner develop and publish a game “in the style of” NOLF (much like Project Origin – exactly the same situation). The game would have a different name, (to avoid legal action).
OR
3. Vivendi works with a new developer on NOLF 3 (completely new development & writing team, new game engine).
OR
4. Both 2 & 3 at the same time (which is what is happening with Project Origin and Vivendi's next F.E.A.R. game).
OR
5. Nothing (not the preferred option of course).
Or.. someone has a (very) large lottery win, buys the rights from Vivendi and contracts Warner (with Monolith) to develop and publish NOLF 3. ~$35 million
might cover it..
Server name: nolfgirl.com – Team DM
I have put up a server which allows you to play Team Deathmatch on the normal DM maps (the pad, chillkill etc etc). The server will appear under the NOLF AM listings on Gamespy.
You
do not have to install any mods to be able to play on the server and the only quirk is that you will not see the map thumbnail pictures on the map loading screen. Enjoy
New Files
Johnny LaRue has been hard at work producing NOLF 2 Single Player Levels for your playing enjoyment.
HARM is using a flower nursery in northern Michigan as a front to conceal its secret project. This mod includes custom skins, & custom textures.
Cate Archer is imprisoned in a Soviet outpost & must escape. Includes increased blood spray/splatter, custom skins, modified sniper rifle, molotov cocktails & cinematics.
Gallery Update
It's been a while but the Gallery has been updated! You too can email me your submissions or updates. I think some of you have aged about 3+ years since your last update!
News
Lastly, since the post by Chris Miller (Executive Producer of the series) in our forum there has been all sorts of chatter about updates to the existing games and hope for additions to the series. Feel free to continue to express your ideas, opinions or concerns (gameplay or other) in the forums for
all to hear. You never know who may be listening..
There is also a new petition for a NOLF 3, you can sign in support of this at
www.nolf4ever.com. The creators of this petition decided to launch this on behalf of the NOLF Community in hopes to catch the attention of the
almighty.
Good Luck and God Speed..
A popular member of the NOLF 1 Community, Die Hard (best known as [JAB] Die Hard), unfortunately passed away on 18th September 2006 from a suspected heart attack, aged 53. I played with and against Die Hard many times and he was always a class act, both in and out of the game.
Die Hard left four children, one of whom also played NOLF under the name Fighter. I would like to pass on my condolences to Fighter and his family.
Please feel free to post your tributes in
this thread.
NOLF Plus v0.94 Beta released.
NOLF Plus v0.94 Beta has been released for NOLF 1.
Important: If you downloaded this file before 11:20pm GMT 9th July 2006 please download it again, as the download has been corrected to fix a small problem.
New Fixes added since v0.93:- Zip Cord Exploit (another variant)
- Pic Exploit
- Corrector Jumping
- Additional key multiplayer files checked
- The Pad DM - Box Hack & Mountain climbing
- Exploit checking Blizzard AM changed
- Exploit checking Hydro AM changed
- Periodic updates of client ammo from the server
- Ping time update frequency reduced to reduce bandwidth usage
New Features added since v0.93:- Server console commands to control Armor and Health Settings
- ListClients server console command
- Ban Manager now includes column sorting
See
http://nolfplus.nolfgirl.com for more information.
