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I was doing some thinking. Like BF1942, Age of Empires 2 is one of my all time favourite games, and it has enjoyed a renaissance over the past 10 years because a team of fans created an unofficial expansion, which caught the attention of Steam, who released the game on their platform and the rest is history.
This so far is a pipe dream of mine but I was wondering if people on here would be interested in creating an unofficial expansion for BF1942? Team SiMPLE are basically the central BF1942 community, you have the most active server, and have even created custom maps. But what about an expansion? Obviously this would be a "mod", but with the simple addition of new vehicles, weapons, nations, etc while still retaining the vanilla BF1942 vibe.
Some ideas for expansions would include:
- South East Asian theatre (Burma, Singapore, Malaya) - could feature the addition of Australia and India
- Battles in the early stages of WWII circa 1939/1940 - could feature Poland
- Greece
- Finnish Winter War
- China/Manchuria
- An Eastern front one that introduces Hungary and Romania
- Naval Battles (Malta, Leyte Gulf, others)
- Special operations
- Maybe one on amphibious assaults - choose from Tarawa, Saipan, Dieppe, Operation Sea Lion, any of the other four D-Day beaches
Your thoughts?
Today I installed and played BF1942 for the first time in nearly a decade. My switch to Mac in that period is what stopped me from playing, but recently I've suddenly found myself feeling nostalgic for the game and voila, I managed to get it working.
I thought I'd thank SiMPLE for keeping the community and the game alive, and also for providing the free download of the game. I remember your servers from 10 years ago, and back then the game was past its "prime" (even after the brief revival following the free download on Origin), so it takes real commitment to keep running servers for a game not so many people play nowadays.
Maybe one day BF1942 will see true revival, the way Age of Empires 2 did, and if that happens, you guys deserve credit for keeping the community going when it was at its lowest.
On a side note, I like how you've modded the game with custom loading screens, an aura around flags being captured on the map, and a more, ahem, "historically accurate" flag for 1940s Germany.
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