User:Jonerworm/Eve of Destruction

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.

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

Features
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
Game: Battlefield 1942

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

First stable release: 0.31 patch, March 14, 2004

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 Goetterfunke founded the EoD team to create a Vietnam modification for Battlefield 1942. At the beginning it was called simply "Eve of Destruction", without "Classic" qualification adopted since the beginning of development of EoD2.

Historic Details and References
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:
 * Playboy covers of April, 1969, featuring Sharon Kristie, and October, 1969, featuring Paulette Lindberg.
 * Playboy centerfolds of March, 1969, featuring Kathy MacDonald, September, 1969, featuring Shay Knuth and December, 1969, featuring Gloria Root.

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.
 * South Vietnam
 * US Army
 * 2 different Special Forces
 * The Navy Seals
 * ARVN
 * Australian Army
 * French Army
 * Superheroes
 * North Vietnam
 * NVA
 * Vietcong
 * Female Vietcong
 * Civil Vietcong
 * Russian Advisor
 * Phatet Laos

Awards and mentions

 * PC Gamer's "Mod of the Year 2003".
 * FilePlanet's "Best New Mod 2003".
 * 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."

Releases
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 

Development Discontinued
The EoD Devs Team announced 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 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
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.

Eve of Destruction 2
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 a collaboration between EoD 2 and Project Reality developers to create "Project Reality: Vietnam" mod. It has been confirmed in an announcement 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 on Project Reality Forums as well.