Doom 3 BFG Edition didn’t exactly make a graceful landing on PC. For one, it crushed the original version flat as Doom 1’s not-exactly-3D character models – leaving mod users without a convenient front door into Doom 3’s rather impressive library of user creations. Happily, however, id and Bethesda took the resulting outrage quite seriously and relisted Doom 3: The Version From Before Incessant Subtitles Took Over The World in short order. Further, they continued to promise that BFG Edition’s source code was on the way. And now, they’ve delivered.

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Yesterday, we brought you word of a really neat Thief total conversion mod for Doom 3. You probably gazed upon it, felt your excitement glands emit a mucus concoction of pure glee, and downloaded it as quickly as your lovestruck heart could handle. But then you remembered something: Doom 3 was released back when games still came in boxes. Your copy, unfortunately, has probably been devoured by this cluttered meatspace we call reality. Now normally, this would be the part where Steam comes to the rescue. There is, however, one teensy-weensy little problem: vanilla Doom 3’s been abruptly pulled from Steam. You can grab the BFG Edition, but it takes to mods like a Cyberdemon face to, well, a BFG. So I got in touch with id/Bethesda about the issue, and here’s what they said.

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Doom 3’s source code has been helping make pioneering advances in the science of monster closets since late last year. You’d think, then, that letting players tinker around in the upcoming BFG Edition’s infinitely-shotgunable innards would be as simple as one, two, flashlight-removal-mod-because-you’re-too-hardcore-for-seeing. Unfortunately, however, that’s definitely not the case. Right now, in fact, even John Carmack’s stumped. See, BFG may look like Doom 3 and sound like Doom 3 and – I verified this during QuakeCon while no one was looking – taste like Doom 3, but its ones and zeroes definitely aren’t the same.

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