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I played BF1942 only offline as my net connections sucks and it's not popular at LAN centers here. Unfortunately the games single player is so terrible I did not touch game in a long time. It seemed like the developers intended it to be a pure multiplayer game with little thought given to singleplayer.

Recently I am considering reinstalling it again and trying to improve the singleplayer with mods. Does anyone have good suggestions ? I am particularly looking for mods that remove the single player AI's aimbot like accuracy and add realism to the game's arcadish combat. I also happen to have Battlefield Vietnam. So if there are good mods for it please do recommend some.

Sarevok wrote:I played BF1942 only offline as my net connections sucks and it's not popular at LAN centers here. Unfortunately the games single player is so terrible I did not touch game in a long time. It seemed like the developers intended it to be a pure multiplayer game with little thought given to singleplayer.

Uh, yeah. That was kind of the point. This is like complaining about Tribes having lackluster singleplayer support. BF1942 was designed with multiplayer in mind. If you want a singleplayer game with WW2 stuff, don't worry, there's about two million other games that will wet your whistle.

Recently I am considering reinstalling it again and trying to improve the singleplayer with mods. Does anyone have good suggestions ? I am particularly looking for mods that remove the single player AI's aimbot like accuracy and add realism to the game's arcadish combat. I also happen to have Battlefield Vietnam. So if there are good mods for it please do recommend some.

Okay, I'm lost. You loved the singleplayer action of Battlefield 1942 so much you went and bought Battlefield: Vietnam? At what point exactly did it dawn on you that the Battlefield FRANCHISE is oriented around Multiplayer gaming? As a result, there are virtually zero mods that alter the singleplayer experience. There are a handful of bots and map hacks floating around, but seriously, why not just get a different game? You know, one that was designed with Singleplayer in mind, like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, or the million other WW2 shooters that have been hoisted upon us in the last five years?

The only reason for single player was to give you a chance to look at the weapons, test out the maps and play with the planes, which are spawn-camped to high heck on most vanilla servers.


Seriously however check Battlefield SP mods from Planet Battlefield's link page. Most of them improve bot AI, still not great because writing decent AI is the hardest video game challenge these days.

As for actual mods... download BF1942 Forgotten Hope. The best BF1942 mod produced. It's what Battlefield 1942 should have been, it's got tanks, tank destroyers, mobile AT guns, Fighters, fighter bombers, scout planes, subs, destroyers, cruisers and the Bismark. It has Panzer's II's/III's/IV's/V's/even the VI(Panther, all three major subtypes A/D/G) and the VII(King Tiger/Royal Tiger) Jagpanzer versions, and that's just the German tank side of things.

Planes it has in the dozens, tanks it has over fifty, infantry weapons nearly a hundred. It is World War II from the French/German/Italian/Finland/Russian/American/Japanese/British side. Heck they even have the Polish & Canadian's in there!

Second Forgotten Hope. Personally I was much more an XWW2 fan, but things just got to the point where FH has much more stuff and a much larger player base without the realism being diminished too much. The AI never changes much though. Battlefield bots are dumber than bricks. They just shoot well, which seems to be an issue with a lot of EA games. Medal of Honor Allied Assault was horrible in that regard. Enemy soldiers would spot your bootlace slowly creeping through dense hedgerows from two clicks, then put a bullet into your brain before you even knew they were there.

FH does substantially beef up the system requirements though. There are several fun mods out there, but almost none support single player. Hydroracers, Empires, Desert Combat (this one does)...