Jump to content

User:Jonerworm/Eve of Destruction

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eve of Destruction (EoD)
Developer(s)EoD Devs Team
EngineRefractor 2
Platform(s)
Release
  • 2003 (Classic)
  • 2004 (Vietnam)
  • 2005 (BF2)
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, Multiplayer
This page is about game modifications for "Battlefield" series. For standalone game "Eve of Destruction", see User:Jonerworm/Eve of Destruction:Redux.

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.[1]

The name of the series of mods was inspired by P. F. Sloan's protest song[2] released in 1965.

Features

[edit]

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 2.50, 210 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. The mod also includes "fun" maps, like Jocosiness, an oval archipelago with surrounding road with many speeding vehicles, and arcade style physics, as well as a map with teams of "superheroes", composed of comedy and action movie's characters.


Coop: in "Coop" game mode, in which the game engine simulates other players (bots), artificial intelligence was recoded to coordinate disembarking of bots from medivac helicopters by launching "colored smoke grenades" on landing zones.

Eve of Destruction Classic

[edit]

Game: Battlefield 1942

First release: 0.10, released as "10% demo", June 6, 2003[3]

First stable release: 0.31 patch, March 14, 2004[4]

Current release: 2.51 Hotfix, September 1, 2012

EoD Classic was the first EoD mod developed for the Battlefield Series. EA released Battlefield 1942 in 2002, and just some months later of that year[3] Goetterfunke founded the EoD team to create a Vietnam modification for Battlefield 1942.[5] At the beginning it was called simply "Eve of Destruction", without "Classic" qualification adopted since the beginning of development of EoD2.[5]

Historic Details and References

[edit]

Eve of destruction has many cultural and historic references: Music & Audio: samples of music of the sixties or from movies can be heard on radios on several maps, and even while driving some vehicles or even flying certain helicopters, that are turned on/off by co-pilot or front passenger through the use of "attack" function (usually left mouse button).

Pinups: Playboy magazine's playmates are part of American military culture dipicted in media like Coppola's Apocalypse Now 1979, 2001 film, and on some US bases many playmate covers and posters can be found:

Armies: include USA/South VN allies, as well as North VN allies and factions:

The Superheroes Team include action and parody movies' heroes, like Stalone's John Rambo, Chuck Norris, Charlie Sheen's Topper Harley and Mr. Bean.

Awards and mentions

[edit]
  • PC Gamer's "Mod of the Year 2003".[6]
  • FilePlanet's "Best New Mod 2003".[7]
  • 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."[8]

Releases

[edit]

List of all releases available showing the number of new maps at each release.

Click "show" to expand the table and "hide" to collapse again.

Note: only original EoD maps considered[4][9][10]

Development Discontinued

[edit]

The EoD Devs Team announced[11] on January 19, 2013, through its leader Lotte, that EoD development would cease and he would focus on a "commercial stand-alone game on a new game engine with complete new content and its own code.", and the game engine of his choice will be Unity. The official website would be "frozen" once the new game is hosted in its own new domain, and on January 24, 2014, Lotte launched [12]the new game's official domain, EOD-GAME.COM, using the brand of "Eve of Destruction: Redux", inferring a sequence to the series.

Eve of Destruction Vietnam

[edit]

Game: Battlefield Vietnam

First stable release: October 26, 2004

Latest release: 0.16 full, September 15 plus 0.17 hotfix, September 17, 2010, and 0.20 hotfix, February 5, 2011

In 2004, Battlefield: Vietnam was released, and the mod started to be ported to this game version. It was ignored for a long time, but a new version (including coop support, two new maps, and crash fixes) was released on Sept. 15th, 2010, followed by a 0.17 hotfix two days later. On Feb. 5th, 2011, as hotfix 0.20 was being released, it was announced that there would be no further releases.[13]

Eve of Destruction 2

[edit]

Game: Battlefield 2

First stable release: 1.00, 2007

Current release: 2.0, 2008

Third EoD mod developed for the Battlefield Series.

It has been announced on Project Reality Forums[14] a collaboration between EoD 2 and Project Reality developers to create "Project Reality: Vietnam" mod. It has been confirmed in an announcement[15] by Trahn Lee Liao, lead EoD 2 developer. Since the original announcement was made on April Fool's Day, it was also confirmed in another post[16] on Project Reality Forums as well.

Releases

[edit]
Year Version Description
2007 1.00 Full
2008 2.00 Full

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Eve of Destruction official website". EoD Devs Team. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  2. ^ "About EoD - Eve of Destruction · The Indochina Vietnam Conflict 1946–1973". EoD Devs Team. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Eve of Destruction Demo 10%". Gamespy. Archived from the original on June 8, 2003. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
  4. ^ a b "EoD 2.50 Changelog". EoD Devs Team. August 25, 2012. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Eve of Destruction History". EoD Devs Team. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
  6. ^ "Eve of Destruction v.3 Limited-Time Alpha Test". FilePlanet. Archived from the original on September 26, 2004. Retrieved January 21, 2010. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; August 26, 2004 suggested (help)
  7. ^ "FilePlanet's Best of 2003". FilePlanet. Archived from the original on February 9, 2004. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  8. ^ "10th Annual PC Gamer Awards". PC Gamer. Future Publishing. March 2003. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |trans_title=, |laydate=, |laysummary=, and |laysource= (help)
  9. ^ "EoD Classic - General Info's". dTM. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  10. ^ "EoD Classic - Missions". dTM. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  11. ^ Lotte.EoDRedux, a.k.a. Lotte.EoD-1 (January 19, 2013). "Eve of Destruction 3". EoD Devs Team. Retrieved January 29, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Lotte.EoDRedux, a.k.a. Lotte.EoD-1 (January 24, 2014). "EoD Redux website online". EoD Devs Team. Retrieved February 2, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "EoD BF-V". EoD Forums. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
  14. ^ "Project Reality Vietnam Announced!". Project Reality Forums. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  15. ^ "Project Reality: Vietnam". EoD Devs Team. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  16. ^ "Project Reality: Vietnam Update". Project Reality Forums. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
[edit]


Category:2003 video games Category:Battlefield 1942 mods Category:Battlefield 2 mods Category:First-person shooters Category:OS X games Category:Multiplayer online games Category:Windows games Category:First-person shooter multiplayer online games Category:Video game franchises introduced in 2003

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jonerworm/Eve_of_Destruction&oldid=688638742"