#1 2013-10-12 23:36:32

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Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

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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#2 2013-10-13 00:06:10

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

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 .

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#3 2013-10-13 03:55:55

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

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.

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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...

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#5 2013-11-02 09:30:20

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- 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?

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#6 2013-11-02 15:39:40

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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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#7 2013-11-02 16:13:09

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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

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#8 2013-11-03 20:34:37

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

What is the range of AA guns?

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#9 2013-11-03 20:39:16

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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 tongue )

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you are still new numbnuts

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#11 2013-11-03 22:44:58

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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 smile

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#12 2013-11-04 02:58:32

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

how many meters the visible distance is?

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how many meters the visible distance is?

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

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i never had fog

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#15 2013-11-04 17:23:55

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

sunny-штаны wrote:
joint wrote:

how many meters the visible distance is?

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

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

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

joint wrote:
sunny-штаны wrote:
joint wrote:

how many meters the visible distance is?

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

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

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

wow

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i guess fog depends on map size

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

i never had fog


Cheater!!!

Calm down..

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#20 2013-11-05 19:32:45

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Re: Battlefield 1942 Questions & Answers

what happened with torture box server?

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what happened with torture box server?

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

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#22 2013-11-05 20:12:50

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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 :-)

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

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

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Denny wrote:

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

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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?

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#27 2013-11-06 12:24:33

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your brain melted from thc long time ago smile

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Moonlight wrote:
Denny wrote:

he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more big_smile 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

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Timmos wrote:
Moonlight wrote:
Denny wrote:

he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more big_smile 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

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Timmos wrote:
Moonlight wrote:
Denny wrote:

he created rage server which is in Canada, he probably likes yankies more big_smile 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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