Oct 2, 2003 - Verdict: Desert Combat is the most popular mod for Battlefield 1942. Two that stand out to me are the Star Wars mod 'Galactic Conquest'.

1. Battlefield 1942 Star Wars Mod Download

Battlefield 1942 is a first-person shootervideo game developed by Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game can be played in single-player mode against the video game AI or in multiplayer mode against players on the Internet or in a local area network. It is a popular platform for mod developers, with a large number of released modifications that alter the gameplay and theme.

In-game, players assume the role of one of five classes of infantry: Scout, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, and Engineer. Players also have the ability to fly various World War IIfighter aircraft and bombers, navigate capital ships, submarines, and aircraft carriers, man coastal artillery defenses, drive tanks, APCs and jeeps, and take control of anti-aircraft guns and mounted machine guns.^[1]

Each battle takes place on one of several maps located in a variety of places and famous battlefields in all of the major theaters of World War II: the Pacific, European, North African, Eastern, and Italian Fronts. Combat is between the Axis Powers and the Allies. The location determines which nation-specific armies are used (for example, on the Wake Island map, it is Japan versus the United States, while on the El Alamein map, it is Germany versus the United Kingdom). The maps in Battlefield 1942 are based on real battles and are somewhat realistically portrayed.

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Gameplay[edit]

The gameplay of Battlefield 1942 generally has a more co-operative focus than previous games of this nature, as it is not only important to kill the opposition but to also hold certain 'control points' around the map. Capturing control points allows the team to reinforce itself by enabling players and vehicles to spawn in a given area. Additionally, capturing and controlling control points also reduces enemy reinforcements. Battlefield 1942 was one of the first mainstream games to represent a dramatic shift in FPS game play mentality not only favoring individualism, but simultaneously encouraging teamwork and coordination.

The default game play mode, Conquest, centers on the capture and control of control points; once a team captures a control point, its members can respawn from it. When a team loses control of all their control points, they cannot respawn. And if no one is alive, the team with no 'spawn' points or the popular term 'tickets' loses.

Games are composed of rounds. A team wins the round when the other team runs out of tickets. A team loses tickets when its members are killed, but also when the other team holds a majority of the capture points on the map (typically when one team holds more capture points than the other). Therefore, sometimes the winning team must hunt down straggling or hiding enemy forces at the end of a round.

Spawn tickets also play a vital role in the success of both teams. Every time a player on a team dies and respawns, their team loses one ticket. Every team starts each round with between 150 and 300 tickets, depending on the team's role (e.g., defense). Teams also gradually lose tickets depending on how many spawn points they control. As a general rule, the fewer spawn points controlled by a team, the more tickets they lose. For a team of 32 on a 64 player map, with 150 tickets, this means a little less than 5 re spawns or deaths on average for every player if they hold their starting spawn points.

Roles[edit]

The player can choose to play as either the Allied team or the Axis team. The Allies consists of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, while the Axis consists of Germany and Japan. Regardless of which nation is chosen by the player, there are five different roles of infantry that the player can assume the role: Scout, Assault, Medic, Anti-tank, and Engineer.

Each role has its own strength and weakness. For example, the scout role has long-range surveillance, high stopping power and the ability to provide spotting for artillery shelling against an enemy position (unlike other games with a similar feature, other player characters must also supply the artillery fire); however, the sniper rifle is not designed to be used in close-quarter combat and players frequently treat this role as just a plain sniper role by not providing spotting for artillery. Assault is the standard role, and provides very aggressive firepower. The Anti-tank role specializes against vehicles and tanks, but their main weapon is inaccurate against enemy infantry. The Medic role has the ability to heal (himself and other players), but his sub-machine gun has less stopping power than the Assault's weapons. The Engineer has the ability to repair damaged vehicles and stationary weapons, and they also have the ability to deploy explosives, which are highly effective against both enemy infantry and vehicles, and land mines, which destroy enemy vehicles on contact.

Development[edit]

The game was developed by a team of 14 people at Digital Illusions.^[2]Battlefield 1942 was built on the formula of the less well-known and successful Codename Eagle video game, set in an alternate historyWorld War I. It featured single and multiplayer modes. The earlier Refractor 1 engine had more arcade-style physics and a less realistic focus than its successor, Refractor 2, which was used in Battlefield 2. A Macintosh-compatible version of Battlefield 1942 was made and released by Aspyr Media in mid-2004. An Xbox version of the game was also announced in early 2001 but was cancelled almost two years later so Electronic Arts could more closely work on an expansion pack for the PC.^[3][4]

Expansions[edit]

Two expansion packs would be released for Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome (adding the Italian Front) and Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII, both adding various new gameplay modes, maps, and game concepts. The Road to Rome focuses on the Italian battles, allowing players to play as the Free French forces or as the Royal Italian Army.^[5]Secret Weapons of WWII focuses on prototypical, experimental, and rarely used weapons and vehicles (such as jet packs), and added subfactions to the German and British Armies, the German EliteTroops and British Commandos. Accompany each were patches to the base game that fixed bugs, and added extra content (such as the Battle of Britain map) to the base game. Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition includes the original game and Battlefield 1942: The Road To Rome, and the Battlefield 1942: World War II Anthology added Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII expansion pack. Battlefield 1942: The Complete Collection later added Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield Vietnam WWII Mod.

Reception[edit]

In the United States, Battlefield 1942 sold 680,000 copies and earned $27.1 million by August 2006. At the time, this led Edge to rank it as the country's 18th best-selling computer game released since January 2000. Combined sales of all Battlefield computer games, including Battlefield 1942, had reached 2.7 million units in the United States by August 2006.^[18] In December 2002, the game received a 'Gold' sales award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD),^[19] indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.^[20]

The game received 'generally favorable reviews', just one point shy of 'universal acclaim', according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[6] At 6th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, Battlefield 1942 received awards for Online Gameplay, Innovation in PC Gaming, PC Game of the Year, and Game of the Year. In March 2010 Battlefield 1942 was awarded with 'Swedish game of the decade' award at the computer game gala hosted by Swedish Games Industry.^[21]

Scott Osborne of GameSpot called it a 'comic book version of WWII.'^[12] Steve Butts of IGN praised the multiplayer, but said that 'the single player game leaves much to be desired.'^[15]

The editors of Computer Games Magazine named Battlefield 1942 the best computer game of 2002, tied with No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way. They called it 'a near-perfect balance between fun and realism'. It also won the magazine's 'Best Multiplayer' award.^[22] It likewise won PC Gamer US's '2002 Best Multiplayer Game' and overall '2002 Game of the Year' awards; the editors hailed it as 'the realization of our 'dream PC game' — multiplayer battles in which every interesting element of combat is playable by human teammates and opponents.'^[23]

Sequels[edit]

In March 2004, Battlefield Vietnam was released. In 2005, a sequel set in the modern era, Battlefield 2 was released. In 2006, a sequel set in the future era, Battlefield 2142 was released. On 8 July 2009, Battlefield 1943 was released for Xbox Live Arcade and on PlayStation Network one day later. The Battlefield: Bad Company series was launched in 2008, followed by Battlefield 3, in October 2011 on EA Games' Origin network. Battlefield 4 was released in October 2013. Battlefield Hardline, a cops and robbers style battlefield, launched on 17 March 2015. Battlefield 1, a World War I based title, was released on 21 October 2016. Battlefield V was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 20, 2018. This will be the first time since Battlefield 1943 that the series sees a return to a World War II theater of operations, and the first since Battlefield 1942 set outside the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.

Battlefield 1942 Star Wars Mod Download

Mods[edit]

An October 2004 public release from EA noted the game's modding community.^[24]PC Gamer described in October 2005 one particular mod Who Dares Wins as 'the last great mods before the Battlefield 1942 community moved over to Dice's Sequel. It's a fitting end to an era.'^[25]

Like Half-Life and some other popular FPS games, Battlefield 1942 spawned a number of mods. Most did not progress very far and were abandoned without ever producing a public release. Some are very limited and just include some gameplay changes or even a different loading screen while others are total conversions that modify content and gameplay extensively. A few mods have become popular and are nearly games in their own right. Early modifications of Battlefield 1942 were produced without a SDK. Later a 'Mod Development Kit', Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit, was produced by EA to help development of mods. With the release of the Battlefield 1942 sequel Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 2, some mods have released a new version or have continued development with that game. Battlefield Vietnam uses an updated version of the Refractor 2game engine. Some mods have switched to the computer games Söldner: Secret Wars, Half-Life 2 while others were releasing a standalone game after completed mod development for Battlefield 1942 (Eve of Destruction - REDUX^[26] and FinnWars^[27]).

• Battlefield 1918 was based on World War I between the Entente and Central Powers.
• Battlefield Interstate 1982, mentioned in 1UP'Free PC Games' December 2003 article. (Free PC Games '1UP.ORG' December 2003.)
• Battle G.I. Joe was reviewed on About.com, by Michael Klappenbach.^[28][29] The mod was also contacted by Hasbro for IP issues, as noted in Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005)^[30]
• BattleGroup42 mod aims for historical accuracy and teamplay,^[31] and one of the very few active mods for Battlefield 1942 as of 2018.^[32] It also released a sequel for Battlefield Vietnam (as BattleGroup42: Pacific) and Battlefield 2 (as BattleGroup Frontlines) respectively.
• Desert Combat, produced by Trauma Studios, was winner of FilePlanet's Best Mod of 2003 Award' and many other reviews and awards, such as the March 2003 PC Magazine.^{[citation needed]}PC Gamer described it as 'Desert Combat is set in the white-hot conflict zone of the Middle East and pits the United States against Iraq.'^[33] Articles noted it was helped by the Iraq War, which increased the number of page views to approximately 15,000 per day,^[34] or even between 20,000 to 70,000.^{[citation needed]} Desert Combat was pointed out as having two mods of its own, DC Extended and Desert Combat Realism in Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005)^[30]
• Eve Of Destruction was winner of PC Gamer 2003 Mod of the Year.^{[citation needed]} Dan Morris of PC Gamer noted in the March 2004 issue of PC Gamer, 'While Battlefield Vietnam was still a twinkle in its developers' eyes, this standout mod debuted to a rapturous reception from the Battlefield 1942 faithful.'^[35]
• Experience WWII was described in PC Gamer as having substantial changes to be historically accurate that directly impacts gameplay.^[33]
• FinnWars was featured in Pelit magazine in issue 9/2005, and PC Pelaaja in 2007. FinnWars is based in Winter and Continuation Wars between Finland and the Soviet Union, as well as Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany.
• Forgotten Hope, a 2003 mod that aimed at a high degree of historical accuracy, was noted for including over 250 new pieces of authentic equipment (at the time more than any other World War II-themed FPS).^[36] It was awarded the Macologist Mod of the Year Award by Inside Mac Games in 2006 after the mod was ported to the Mac.^[37] It was followed by its 2006 Battlefield 2 sequel, Forgotten Hope 2.
• Galactic Conquest was noted for its permission to blatantly use Lucasarts Star Wars universe material in Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005). It was mentioned in Edge in April 2004.^{[citation needed]}Galactic Conquest was reviewed on TechTV's X-Play show in 2004.^[38]
• HydroRacers was reviewed in PC Zone in 2004 by Tony Lamb, and also the Madison Courier in June 2004.^[39][40]
• Siege was pointed out in study by Utrecht University, both for its original concept, and its medieval warfare theme. Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005)^[30]
• SilentHeroes won the PC ACTION-Super Mod Award in edition 07/2006 of the German gaming-magazine PC ACTION.^[41] Also, it was featured on many Norwegian and Swedish media websites, including VG, Aftonbladet and IDG.^{[42][43][44][45]}
• Who Dares Wins was reviewed in the August 2005 UK edition of PC Gamer magazine, and a copy of version 0.2 was distributed with the magazine on DVD-ROM to its readers.^[25]

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

• Battlefield 1942 on IMDb
• 'Battlefield 1942 at EA Games'. Archived from the original on 2 June 2003. Retrieved 1 June 2015.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
• 'Battlefield 1942 at DICE'. Archived from the original on 21 July 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2003.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
• Battlefield 1942 at MobyGames

June 30th, 2014. That was the date my favorite game of all time was supposed to die. EA and DICE neglected us, the loyal fans who were stupid enough to buy every Battlefield ever released because of Battlefield 1942.

In 2014 EA and DICE stopped supporting Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142. – All the classic Battlefields – the games that actually got me into this franchise in the first place, the games are strictly being supported by the community now.

In 2012 they released BF1942 v1.612 for free on Origin as a 10 year anniversary thing, they didn’t bother to update anything within the game, they simply made it into another version so you had to download Origin in order to get it to work. A few old players returned for a little while, but they also let all the hackers in, who no longer required a CD-key in order to join.

In 2017 Battlefield 1942 turns 15 years old, but does it still hold up? I have played around 4000 hours of Battlefield 1942.

Prologue
I have been playing Battlefield since 2005, in 2004 when I was around 8 years old my parents divorced – my father was an alcoholic – one night he forgot his keys to our apartment, my mother had to call the police, she didn’t want to let him in, he almost destroyed the door – That’s when my mother told me we we’re moving, a week later we were gone, my entire idea of what a family was supposed to look like got destroyed, I lost most, if not all of my childhood friends as I couldn’t hold any of my appointments, changed schools and became joy deprived, and I guess my mother thought that giving me a new PC would cheer me up. – I found my actual first PC in a dumbster, inside of it there was a CD of Quake 3.

In December 2004 she gave me a game called Battlefield 1942 – I barely took notice of it, because with it came another game Battlefield Vietnam which totally had me hooked. Battlefield Vietnam was the first game that I really played for hours on end, around 1000 hours in total. I often accredit Vietnam for my great music taste. – It’s probably hard to believe for people who know me now – but back then I used to be a helicopter pilot. Today I mostly tank in 1942, my favorite song was “The Box Tops – The Letter”[link] by the way. I also love “The Kinks” and started listening to other 70s music while I played.

I often blamed myself for my parents leaving each other, I would often have to go down my bunkbed – then down the long hallway – into the livingroom so I could tell my parents to stop fighting, because I couldn’t sleep. I was always jealous of my sister, because she barely took notice of it as she was already sleeping. My parents had been together for almost 30 years. I stopped talking to my dad when I turned 18, he doesn’t realise alcohol ruined his brain, as well as his family, and his smoking also pretty much ruined my left lung. I literally get sick by being close to him.

My parents divorce made me into the gaming nerd that I am today (anyway enough about me, gosh – so egoistic…)

Battlefield 1942 (released 2002)
I no longer had sleepless nights because of my parents fighting, I barely knew any English at the time, Battlefield Vietnam had become increasingly less populated and I thought it was about time to move on. I was looking for another game to fill its shoes, that’s when I rediscovered Battlefield 1942.

I started skipping school and eventually got caught. I remember thinking “I must have been dropped on the floor as a child” – That’s how I came up with my nickname “Whoopz” All I wanted to do was play video games, and nobody could stop me!

Like Battlefield Vietnam has made me interested in 60s and 70s music, Battlefield 1942 would eventually make me interested in World War II and history in general, I decided to run my own infantry server around 2008 on 1.6 – I literally ran it from my laptop – This is where I would meet a lot of the players I still play with today.

Battlefield 1942 servers support up to 64 players by default (and yes, it is probably worth mentioning that there’s still up to 64 players on some servers, perhaps even more if we’re lucky) there’s 5 diffrent game modes: Conquest (CQ) Co-Op, Team Death Match (TDM) and Capture the Flag (CTF) as well as Objectives which was only added to one map – obviously Conquest is the big boy here.

Battlefield 1942 includes 5 diffrent classes: Assault, Anti-Tank, Scout, Medic and of course the Engineer, each with their own unique ability, for instance, the medic can obviously heal people while the engineer can repair tanks – I am of course the best engineer in the game, the scout can call for artillery and the anti-tank can be a jackass. Assault does the most damage and is pretty much the grunt of the game.

Some classes were actually removed from the game, including that of a Pilot which never saw the light of day. Nothing had been done on this scale before, some larger maps were eventually cut from the game due to technical limitations, some maps were even supposed to include tank factories due to the unrealistic tank spawning.

Battlefield 1942 includes 52 diffrent vehicular devices in total.(?)

Battlefield 1942 has 21 maps in total – 4 of which were added in version 1.6
(Coral Sea, Battle of Britain, Liberation of Caen and Operation Aberdeen)

Battlefield 1942 has 2 different expansion packs, Road to Rome, which was also included in the Deluxe Edition of the game, and Secret Weapons of WWII. Which added jetpacks, helicopters and jets to the mix.

There’s still somewhere between 250-300 people playing Battlefield 1942 everyday.
You can check the masterserver list hereif you dont believe me.

I remember the day my mother told me she was pregnant with my 2nd sister – obviously with another man than my dad – I was humming to the sound of the 1942 theme[link] that was a great day, that was 9 years ago. I still hum to the same good old theme.

“I remember the day my mother told me she was pregnant with my 2nd sister, I was humming to the sound of the 1942 theme, that was a great day, that was 9 years ago.”

The campaign is nothing special – it’s basically just singleplayer maps with AI controlled bots – but something unique for the campaign was the fact that it showed player specific stats, something which multiplayer has never done to the same kind of scale.
I accredit Battlefield 1942 to the fact that I learned English because of playing, some people even thought I was American at one point.

Competition
In 2012 I took a short break from the game, but as I knew, I would return again in 2013.
I finally got convinced to join BF-League[link] and decided to join a clan called = Joker$ = they were in desperate need of members, originally I joined as an infantry, but one day the leader told me “Whoopz you have to take a tank” I went 17-1, from that moment forth I was pretty much considered a permanent tanker in = Joker$ = I became a “sort of” Co-Leader of = Joker$ = brought in some members, but ended up in a disagreement with 2 other Co-Leaders over the fact of if we should play against {FG} a clan we could actually win against, or not, while the leader was on vacation in Italy. As it turns out 5 kings of one castle were just too many. I ended up getting kicked out of the clan. I had to talked somebody else about creating a clan. So I was considering leaving anyway.

In 2014 I would create that clan called “lop – lack of players” both alongside friends, Jazzy and Twigs. Who I had met on my server, but also alongside completely unknown players I had never talked to before, SleveN, Breaker, Viitapiru, RäKaN, MuSeN, LewiQ, M1ke, Sommarel, Quagmire, Gio, Uraw and Dmyorky2026. As well as Kobra who I played with in = Joker$ = The name is quite ironic, we didn’t know if we would have enough members in order to participate in the league, I think some of us thought we would be dead by the end of the season. I really think the name reflects on the current state of the game. The clan quickly became my extended family, I hate and love them all, our 3rd season as a team we won the league 2016.

“I love you all, but I love Quagmire the most” – SleveN 2017

Believe it or not, even in 2017 there’s still eSports in Battlefield 1942. BF-League has been around since 2007, back then it was largely dominated by German clans which is why you can still find a lot of spelling mistakes around their website, today it’s more of an international class.

The league isn’t especially innovative, it doesn’t really add anything new, it doesn’t really try too hard to add anything new – people fight over the hugh prize of a picture award, but for the 9 clans playing there I think it means the world. – Without the league they would all be dead by now. It seems like most players who play in the league aren’t that interested in playing public games anymore, so the community is relatively tight-knit, in generel people seem relatively uninterested in playing nowadays, recently we had 4 random public players join our teamspeak, a sign that the public servers might be dying.

The league admins recently added this new feature of “banning” certain maps, apparently because the clans aren’t good enough to play them. In addition they added more custom maps, that nobody I know wants to play. It doesn’t really matter which custom map you vote for, because they will always be the same pretty much every season. Recently my clan played a PCW (practise clan war) against a team with 3 league admins – we wanted to practise a map they had banned in the league – they thought we were trolling them, so they decided to all spawn snipers and teamkill each other to the point of -30 points like some kind of kindergarden. – disappointing from 3 league admins.

The standard games are as they have always been, 8vs8 Conquest.

Sunndae and Mace Windu created some awesome matchreports for ¤)ßmÇ(¤ back in 2015, I think they actually deserve some recognition for them, but then they became semi active and lost to lop – no more matchreports. Gué also created a nice player spotlight for 1 person (Shadowtrooper) – unless the rest are private.[link]

“Back in the day” we considered 2vs2 for “clan wars” which I consider kind of pathetic today, occasionally you can still find some of us playing 8vs8 at 1AM, just like it should’ve been back then. Dark souls 3 mods.

It’s probably worth mentioning there has also been other leagues, which unfortunately are no longer with us – CALeague – The Cyberathlete League also know as CAL, was created in March 2001. As well as TeamWarfare[link] (TWL) which still exist outside of 1942.

If you are not interested in the 8vs8 clan wars there’s also a 1vs1 tank or inf ladder you can participate in. You dont need to be in a current clan in order to join.

Modding
As always it’s worth mentioning the modding community. The modding community is still alive, largely thanks to 1942mods[link] at the time of writing this they recently held an event[link] with at least some 30 odd players – I really feel like we could have been so many more though – playing “Galatic Conquest” a Star Wars modification.

The first modification I ever installed for Battlefield 1942 was “Interstate 82″[link] a mod obviously inspired by the game with the same name released in 1999. IS82 is currently being updated with its new “Gold Map Pack”[link] by GoodDayToDie, definitely something worth checking out!

In 2014 GoodDayToDie tried connecting the diffrent communities within 1942 into something called bf1942communities similar to that of the “Revive Network”[link] for BF2. In the end it never really worked out for him – feels bad man.

Probably the most famous mod – and I think the one everyone wants to hear about is obviously Desert Combat – is it still alive? And here the answer would be yes indeed, there’s 2 large ukrainian communities as well as an American server called “EA 117 – DC Fan Favorites”[link] which is not associated with EA by the way. Personally I don’t know anything about the skill level as I have never played DC.

The last mod I would like to mention is “Battlefield Pirates” developed by Guy Smiley in 2003, it could have been the predecessor to the recently released Early-Acess game called “Blackwake” – Naval combat is obviously the big thing here – but it even includes more features such as the ability to defend a fortress or ride around in air balloons.

In 2015 my clan would held a small event called “One Dying Wish” our friend LewiQ was moving to Vietnam, and he really wanted to play Pirates, we managed to gather a small crew of at least 35 diffrent players. – Perhaps it’s about time we replicate that event. Sunndae created a short video from the event.

Battlefield 1942: Game of the Decade for me.

People keep saying they want a remake of Battlefield 1942 – I keep thinking “fuck no” please don’t ruin my appreciation for this game.

“Only a dead Whoopz is a good Whoopz” – Knaso 2017