Ok so i have this question thats really bugging me. How do you get esf to be as good looking as the picture of buu on the site main page? is it esf 1.3 or something or is it mod? And 1 more off topic question, how come there are no servers on esf 1.3?

maybe the picture is edited via Photoshop? just to look nice?

What you see on the main site is ESF:Final

Its ESF 1.3 in generall but if you considder the Open Beta as 1.3 then Final is 1.4

Its still in production and if you want to get it to look like that then you need to hack the Half Life game engine as we did ^^;

Oh haha ok. So any tutorial on how to hack it or file to dl?

Hacking does not mean to open a game and change it to your whim. Thats only one interpretation of the word.

Hacking in general is a term that lets you bypass a set system with your own. In our case we took the HL SDK thats freely available and coded in support for all the features that we have. Then we simply instructed the SDK to use our features instead of the default HL ones.

Think of it as AMXX pluggins. The way AMXX works is that it intercepts the commands going from the DLL file of the mod to the HL engine itself and it can freely change those commands. With that you can get stuff like ranking pluggins, or even a RPG level system for a game that didnt have it to begin with.

ECX itself is nothing more than 1 big hack of ESF.

So if you want to hack your way into great GFX youll need:
- The HL SDK or the mod edited version of the SDK (basically the mods source)
- Knowledge of C++
- Knowledge of graphics programming (In ESFs case Open GL librarys, but you could do Direct X to)
- Even more knowledge of coding and stuff you can do with the code
- knowledge of the HL engine structure and its way of handling data

The list goes on but thats what i came up with in the last 20 seconds XD

Oh ok i see. You know i always thought that hacking was nothing more than just changing alot of values on a program or server to get what you want, but what youre saying is all mods are actually hacks? So you guys have these "hacks" (or mods) on your download page or no? and if you could do almost anything with mods would it be possible to enable bots without crashing the game on esf 1.3? because i know the animal ai is possible so player bots should be possible too right?

The bots are working in teh ESF Final inteam version. But that version is not yet released to the public.

Same for the Animal AI.

The reason the bots crash the Open Beta is because the bots used in the open beta are the same as the bots used in 1.2

Meaning they are not compatible. If you wish to play a stable release then 1.2 is what you want. Other than that youll just have to wait for ESF Final like everyone else.