Battlefield 1942 Mods - Eve of Destruction (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Battlefield 1942 (Classic)Battlefield: Vietnam (Vietnam)Battlefield 2 (EoD2)All latest patches Eve of Destruction (EoD), is a series of free PC mods for the first-person shooter Battlefield Game Series. EoD is set in Indochina, mainly Vietnam, covering a historic period from 1949 through 1973, known as the Indochina Wars. It is developed and maintained by volunteers (EoD Devs Team) organized as a community . The name of the series of mods was inspired by P. F. Sloan's protest song released in 1965. Maps: (also called "missions") special attention was given to maps development, with the creation of a great variety of landscapes, like tropical jungles, urban and ruined cities, rural villages, rice paddies, trenches, swamps, rivers, beaches, waterfalls, day, sunset, eclipse, night, fog, even Punji sticks booby traps etc. By the release of version 2.00, 150 original maps where already developed (see releases). All maps from the original Battlefield 1942 game where ported in a "Vietnam fashion", with appropriate vegetation and buildings, giving "vanilla" users some tactical advantage in migrating to this mod. A-H1 Cobra helicopter 3D ModelCoop: in "Coop" game mode, in which the game engine simulates other players (bots), AI was recoded to coordinate disembarking of bots from medivac helicopters by launching "colored smoke grenades" on landing zones. Game: Battlefield 1942 First release: 0.10, released as "10% demo", June 8th, 2003 First stable release: 0.31 patch, March 14th, 2004 Current release: 2.10 patch and full, April 1st, 2010 EoD Classic was the first EoD mod developed for the Battlefield Series. EA released Battlefield 1942 in 2002, and just some months later (2003) Goetterfunke founded the EoD team to create a Vietnam modification for ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25899865