Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X · 2013-10-12 23:36:32

fellow 42'ers ... post your bf1942 questions here ... maybe somebody will have the wisdom / will / motivation to answer them

yes, there are already several threads here containing potentially similar info, but no pure Q & A ones. i dont think one more topic will hurt, or scatter info too much

time will tell if this thread fails (¬‿¬)

a few self-replied to start off on :

- when was bf1942 released ?
september 2002, road to rome : february 2003, secret weapons : september 2003, on origin without rtr+sw : november 2012

- can speeds and distances be measured in bf1942 ?
console.showstats 1 in the console enables on-screen x, y, z coordinates and speed based on the metric system

- sizes of the biggest and smallest maps ?
in meters : midway, guadalcanal 4000 x 4000, berlin ~ 230 x 285, stalingrad ~ 280 x 415

- how fast and high can airplanes fly in bf1942 ?
all planes can reach roughly 900 meters above ground / sea level. top speeds for fighterplanes : near ground / sea level ~ 240 km/h, at max altitude ~ 340 km/h, dive from max altitude ~ 475 km/h

- how many original maps are there ?
without expansions : 21. expansions, road to rome : 6, secret weapons : 9

- is there bullet drop in bf1942 ?
no. shells do drop though

- what affects loading times from map to map ?
primarily cpu and storage (hdds, ssds etc.) the faster the better

- has the bf1942 game (client) been released for linux ?
no, but can be run under linux using the wine emulator

- is there a site somewhere showing current bf1942 servers ?
this shows most but not all : http://www.gametracker.com/search/bf194 … 0%23search

- is there a framerate limit in bf1942 ?
yes, per default the games upper limit is 100. higher or lower can easily be set using the renderer.lockfps command

- how many frames per second can a modern pc produce in bf1942 ?
depends on many things, but primarily cpu, gpu, resolution and graphics details settings. example : i7-3770k + radeon 7850 at 1920*1080, max details ... average ~ 500

- how many players are generally online ?
october 2013 (all mods, all expansions), average : daily high ~ 1000, daily low ~ 250

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questions i dont know the answer to :

- i assume there once was a competitive clan scene in usa ... when did it die ? was it similar to bfleague.eu ?

- ive heard about the legendary “ghetto berlin” server. where was it located ? how long did it exist ? when was it shut down ? was it berlin inf only ?

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say · 2013-10-13 00:06:10

Ghetto berlin was shut down during summer I guess beggining of august.Bunch of Us oldschoolers runned this server.I was beginning with this guys at 2003 at Gibgames san Jose server.If u know renegate w00kiE r@dio ...(live casting etc ) for more info ask Marco (jokers leader)Im sure he know more about Us scene .. He moved to bfliga.eu when Us one was already dead. TWL winter cup etc...

to server: IDk how long it was on but to be honest it was revived many times.Server was pure infantry with few mods .

Black Mamba · 2013-10-13 03:55:55

Ghetto Berlin was on a couple months ago. Host is Twitch, and it's hosted in the southern United States if I'm not mistaken. Hit him up on Xfire to know what the status of the server is. PM me for his Xfire.

moon' · 2013-10-13 10:21:24

The Observer wrote:

Ghetto Berlin was on a couple months ago. Host is Twitch, and it's hosted in the southern United States if I'm not mistaken. Hit him up on Xfire to know what the status of the server is. PM me for his Xfire.

I yesterday saw few people in Ghetto Berlin... 2/4 max...

libelli · 2013-11-02 09:30:20

X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X wrote:

- how fast and high can airplanes fly in bf1942 ?
all planes can reach roughly 900 meters above ground / sea level. top speeds for fighterplanes : near ground / sea level ~ 240 km/h, at max altitude ~ 340 km/h, dive from max altitude ~ 475 km/h

Does this mean that "air resistance" decreases with altitude? The higher you fly, the faster your horizontal speed will be?

X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X · 2013-11-02 15:39:40

to my knowledge, yes

it can be verified in many ways, for example :

by flying in a plane and measuring the time it takes to go from point a to b at low / high altitude

or by typing in :

console.showstats 1

in the console (open the console by pressing [~] or [½] or [§])

that command will display a lot of numbers on the screen, one of them : posSpeed is speed in meters per second

and position which is your location in the map 3d space in x, y, z coordinates (y is height / altitude)

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Denny · 2013-11-02 16:13:09

yes i think u go a bit faster when u reach almost maximal height, but compared to if u fly 50m above ground then its a big big advantage ofc

libelli · 2013-11-03 20:34:37

What is the range of AA guns?

Denny · 2013-11-03 20:39:16

i would say a few meters behind the fog ( i spent alot of time on aa guns at backflags in clan wars when i was new in clans )

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Timmos · 2013-11-03 21:27:23

you are still new numbnuts

ziba128 · 2013-11-03 22:44:58

libelli wrote:

What is the range of AA guns?

AA - 420 metres maximum, Flak - 360
Edit: useless info, as well as plane speed, ceiling and so on

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joint · 2013-11-04 02:58:32

how many meters the visible distance is?

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ziba128 · 2013-11-04 10:05:04

joint wrote:

how many meters the visible distance is?

It's different for all maps, didn't you notice?

Timmos · 2013-11-04 14:58:16

i never had fog

joint · 2013-11-04 17:23:55

sunny-штаны wrote:

joint wrote:
how many meters the visible distance is?
It's different for all maps, didn't you notice?

i though most of maps have same
and what is bigger one?

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X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X · 2013-11-04 21:10:39

joint wrote:

sunny-штаны wrote:
joint wrote:
how many meters the visible distance is?
It's different for all maps, didn't you notice?
i though most of maps have same
and what is bigger one?

just measured fog ranges in meters. the numbers are ingame visual estimates, using console.showstats values

they were measured from an objects surface and till it got completely hidden by fog

stalingrad 95
berlin 105
liberation of caen 180
battle of the bulge 210
omaha 250
tobruk 305
bocage 325
battleaxe 355
kharkov 355
kursk 355
market garden 355
iwo jima 360
coral sea 410
guadalcanal 445
aberdeen 455
el alamein 460
gazala 460
invasion of the philippines 485
midway 500
wake 500
battle of britain 520

joint · 2013-11-04 21:36:37

wow

Denny · 2013-11-05 13:02:14

i guess fog depends on map size

moon' · 2013-11-05 16:18:48

*####*|Ldr.|1614 wrote:

Timmos wrote:
i never had fog

Cheater!!!

Calm down..

joint · 2013-11-05 19:32:45

what happened with torture box server?

ziba128 · 2013-11-05 19:47:42

joint wrote:

what happened with torture box server?

3 weeks until deadline!
http://team-simple.org/forum/viewtopic. … 879#p34879

X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X · 2013-11-05 20:12:50

i said; "ill probably reveal the reason in three months or so." "probably" includes a small chance of a no, and it will be no. i wont reveal why it was shut down, ever :-) hope i dont ruin your lives by leaving you puzzled for all eternity :-)

tuia · 2013-11-05 20:18:45

It will be known as the greatest secret in the universe.

Denny · 2013-11-05 20:40:34

he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more or he tought they deserve some server

moon' · 2013-11-05 20:44:50

Denny wrote:

he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more or he tought they deserve some server

joint · 2013-11-05 22:14:25

what will change if you reveal your reasons, X? maybe some lives will be ruin by truth? is this a grand top secret mystery? maybe brains of persons who learn the truth will be melted?

Denny · 2013-11-06 12:24:33

your brain melted from thc long time ago

Timmos · 2013-11-06 19:08:50

Moonlight wrote:

Denny wrote:
he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more or he tought they deserve some server
http://www.memecreator.org/static/image … 543293.jpg

Moonlight played on TBT, x=x=x was just sick of that idiot that he shut down the whole server..

TY MOONSHIT

HoOK · 2013-11-06 19:34:09

Timmos wrote:

Moonlight wrote:
Denny wrote:
he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more or he tought they deserve some server
http://www.memecreator.org/static/image … 543293.jpg

Moonlight played on TBT, x=x=x was just sick of that idiot that he shut down the whole server..
TY MOONSHIT

+1

moon' · 2013-11-06 20:57:51

Timmos wrote:

Moonlight wrote:
Denny wrote:
he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more or he tought they deserve some server
http://www.memecreator.org/static/image … 543293.jpg

Moonlight played on TBT, x=x=x was just sick of that idiot that he shut down the whole server..
TY MOONSHIT

I play on RAGE too..

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