Success
Part of the reason for the mod's widespread success is that in most cases it did not change the core gameplay of the host game, but extended it with admin and referee functionality, as well as other visual and administrative details that improved the game experience for both server administrators and players. These changes also made it much easier (and in some cases possible) to host competitive events for the game, particularly over the internet. For some games, there were also additional variations on gameplay provided such as with Soldier of Fortune 2, adding the OSP++ and SoF2++ game modes as well as the VIP game type.
The OSP team worked on several other mods for Quake II that made it to varying levels of completeness. These include APC (canceled), Mutilator (canceled), Rocket Olympics and a Quake II ngLog mod.
In late 2004, derean announced his intention to develop a mod for Doom 3, however a month later decided to cease development. The EMZ team took the Doom 3 OSP alpha code and used its concepts as the basis for a new mod, while managing to keep a similar feel to OSP's mods.
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