very elaborate trolling there, my tin-foil hat's off to you
In 5 paragraphs you didn't really manage to say anything substantial of that of value to this conversation at all. It also contains pure lies "scripted destruction" grab your shame-pillow folks, the guy just started tech-talking about things he does not understand, hilarious!
I think the so-called "computer whizzes" you talk about should spend 6-8 years making their own engine, dont you think? Or aren't they whizzy enough to do that? is it in fact so, that they can't really do anyhing except "tweak" already done games, games done by professional "whizzes"?
*smoked*
I don't need technical prowess to understand that all the destruction can be replicated in small scale in the BF2, it'd look pretty ugly and laggy, but it is do-able. I believe i saw a youtube video of someone trying to replicate the Frostbite Engine destruction in the BF2 engine a few years back. Sadly the closest he got was buildings disappearing after being destroyed and walls disappearing in a plume of rock and dust (Oh look, Frostbite Engine -1.0)
Why are people so attracted to talking about the Frostbite engine not being able to do any type of modding? The frostbite engine isn't moddable, period. When people argue about it; it gives me the gist of someone's actually thinking that EA, out of it's utmost charitable kindness, would magically put up a modding kit out for the community for modding just because they argued about the boring subject on a forum which they probably don't know exists.
Any battlefield game after the Refractor engines are dead through the eyes of people who wants mods. EA is not going to make modding tools for Frostbite. It's too unfriendly to modders, which is a major fault in that engine's design, because it destroys any type of community participation or contribution (Other than throwing money at EA for stupidly small content releases that give you a brief moment of satisfaction).
Stop this madness about the Frostbite engine's modding abilities (which is par to none) before Natty (Respectfully known as The Intellectually Advanced Overlord of FH2) comes in once more and begins another assault on our poor minds (Respectfully known as a slap fight). The Oogity mush i call my brain cannot withstand such a distraughtful subject that relates to the Frostbite Engine.
As for BF4, I just have the gist of it being a BF3 expansion. A very expensive expansion.