I haven't written a blog for a jolly long time!

I think the subject of mods is not a bad one, and I have a unique perspective on it, being one of the peope tapping at the keyboard in order to fight for what they beleived in!

This, before you angry people get all flusterd, is not a glorification post. For I am a realist. Just a little bit of text to accompany, I hope, the final change in mod for all of us. We all deserve it.

For those who aren't privvy to myself of promod. I am carlisle, a person who plays CoD4. Who feared for his fun when DAMN was encroaching on europe. With basic modding and coding skills and reasonable connections I took in my hand to try and stop DAMN before it reached our sumptious plains. I intended very basic and simple changes to be made to Promod 3. These changes were what I thought the game needed and what the majority of people I queried had in mind also.

JUSZN (ed: Jasdev "JUSZN" Virde) was keen to help as he, as myself, was not a follower of the DAMN church. I was keen to let him as he is a top player and has a reach my greater than my own.

Few hours after bouncing ideas off eachother we started work, first job was to remove cooknades. That was easy and 1 to a 0 in the weapon config files. The next was to nerf the smg in such a-way that they weren't as powerful at long range. We did those to the best of our abilities. And Promod 4 was born.

I could write all day each decision each peice of code that was alterd, but that would be less interesting, and you know it for the most part.

What this is a massive thank you to all of those who has helped me, which is, quite frankly everybody who plays CoD4. There is no way on earth we would be here without motivation and support from these unsung hereos.

The thing I am personally most thankful is the support I personally recieved, and the chance to help the game. Anyone could of done what I have, anyone. I have a basic coding knowledge and even more basic modding knowledge. But these people gave me the benifit of the doubt and trusted what I churned out, dispite the fact that anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together could of done the same. I wouldn't of trusted a cock like me to do that. I am thankful that you did. So I can be pleased in myself that I helped this wonderful game and even wonderfulerer community.

Of couse there are people that offerd more than words for the project, JUSZN, Trivve, Raf1 and mavLP. These people put there time and heart into it, they worked for what we have today. Mav deserves his own bit, dispite our differences, on both view on the game and on coding. We managed to work together, well not so much work togther but do the work for myself and juszn and babysit me when I needed help. Same goes for trivve, we have had a rocky go of it all, but he has been a great help, dispite still in my opinion potentially fucking everything up at the end, and I am forever gratful for that. But this isn't about me, or any other of the people with extended effort in promod 4. Its about how the game will benifit. But this is clear and needs no words.

Obviously raf gets his own paragraph, the man who started the dream. Without him allowing us to use his name and providing us with the godly source code, this project would of got nowhere fast. It's his brand loyalty he created that made myselfs and JUSZN' job at the start 1 billion times easier. And despite our personal differences he put that behind him and put himself out to help us.

I am sorry if this sounds awfully glorified, it isn't supposed to. I'm just the man who put the last block on the pyramid, I emplore people not to forget the people who built the rest of it, it was so much more work than I put in.

I am sorry for the bitter end taste to this saga, the end is always what I had in mind. I am glad we are finally there.

Thanks once more! No way this could of been done without every, each one of you. I'm just the bloke who fiddled.

Good night, Much love,

-Jaymie "carlisle" Clifford.