Hello folks,
Free World Armoury mod adds lots and lots of guns to the game. Mostly cold war oriented, and mostly pretty good.
Unfortunately, I was recently made aware that the licensing of several assets did not meet the bar for publishing as part of a mod. It's unclear to me whether these were acquired with the wrong licensing, or have since had their licensing changed due to use of trademarked brands, but we are where we are now and something needs to be done about it.
The mod is currently hidden from Steam workshop whilst this is figured out, but still available to those who have it downloaded.
The following assets will definitely be removed from FWA mod:
- M1 and M2 Carbine
- BAR
- M1928 Thompson
- MAS-49/56
There are also some other weapons where it's a bit more thorny and I'll need to unpick what actually needs to be removed, specifically around items like the M16A1. I'm still sizing the whole thing up.
I'm giving the heads up here now so there's time for modders who have used these assets to switch over to other guns within the mod or change to another mod. I also need to re-learn how to publish Arma 3 mods!
My original intuition here was to just unpublish the whole thing and be done with it, so credit to @half vessel to convince me to actually sort it out properly.