That really sucks. Leave it to Maddoc to screw up a great engine.
I'm sorry come again?

a great engine? not quite so, the engine in a2 although fundementally the same as a1 I think had to built from the ground up, they may use the same ideas, but I don't think they were the same engine, otherwise all macdoc would need do was have created the sods/texutres/odf's and mssions, something the modders do without a paycheck and without acesss to the engine.