Eve of Destruction (series)
Encyclopedia
Eve of Destruction 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.
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 stick
s booby trap
s etc. By the release of version 2.00, 150 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.
Coop: in "Coop" game mode, in which the game engine simulates other players (bots
), AI
was recoded to coordinate disembarking of bots from medivac helicopters by launching "colored smoke grenades" on landing zone
s.
First release: 0.10, released as "10% demo", June 6, 2003
First stable release: 0.31 patch, March 14, 2004
Current release: 2.31 patch, May 6th, 2011
EoD Classic was the first EoD mod developed for the Battlefield Series. EA released Battlefield 1942 in 2002, and just some months later (2003) Goetterfunke founded the EoD team to create a Vietnam modification for BF1942. At the beginning it was called simply "Eve of Destruction", without "Classic" qualification adopted since the beginning of development of EoD2. Today it is maintained mainly by one developer (Lotte).
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:
Click "show" to expand the table and "hide" to collapse again.
Note: only original EoD maps considered
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.
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.
Mod (computer gaming)
Mod or modification is a term generally applied to personal computer games , especially first-person shooters, role-playing games and real-time strategy games. Mods are made by the general public or a developer, and can be entirely new games in themselves, but mods are not standalone software and...
for the first-person shooter
First-person shooter
First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...
Battlefield Game Series. EoD is set in Indochina
Indochina
The Indochinese peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly southwest of China, and east of India. The name has its origins in the French, Indochine, as a combination of the names of "China" and "India", and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory...
, mainly Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, covering a historic period from 1949 through 1973, known as the Indochina Wars
Indochina Wars
The Indochina Wars were a series of wars fought in Southeast Asia from 1947 until 1979, between nationalist Vietnamese against French, American, and Chinese forces. The term "Indochina" originally referred to French Indochina, which included the current states of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In...
. 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
P. F. Sloan
P.F. Sloan is an American pop-rock singer and songwriter. He was very successful during the mid-1960s, writing, performing and producing Billboard top 20 hits for artists such as Barry McGuire, Jan & Dean, Herman's Hermits, Johnny Rivers, The Grass Roots and the Mamas and the Papas...
protest song released in 1965.
Maps: (also called "missions
Level (computer and video games)
A level, map, area, or world in a video game is the total space available to the player during the course of completing a discrete objective...
") 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 stick
Punji stick
The Punji stick or Punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake. It is a simple spike, made out of wood or bamboo, generally placed upright in the ground. Punji sticks are usually deployed in substantial numbers....
s booby trap
Booby trap
A booby trap is a device designed to harm or surprise a person, unknowingly triggered by the presence or actions of the victim. As the word trap implies, they often have some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it. However, in other cases the device is placed on busy roads or is...
s etc. By the release of version 2.00, 150 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
Vanilla software
Vanilla software is computer software that is not customized from its delivered form - i.e. it is used without any customizations applied to it...
" users some tactical advantage in migrating to this mod.
Coop: in "Coop" game mode, in which the game engine simulates other players (bots
Computer game bot
A bot, most prominently in the first-person shooter types , is a type of weak AI expert system software which for each instance of the program controls a player in deathmatch, team deathmatch and/or cooperative human player. Computer bots may play against other bots and/or human players in unison,...
), AI
Ai
AI, A.I., Ai, or ai may refer to:- Computers :* Artificial intelligence, a branch of computer science* Ad impression, in online advertising* .ai, the ISO Internet 2-letter country code for Anguilla...
was recoded to coordinate disembarking of bots from medivac helicopters by launching "colored smoke grenades" on landing zone
Landing Zone
A Landing Zone or "LZ" is a military term for any area where an aircraft can land.In the United States military, a landing zone is the actual point where aircraft land...
s.
Eve of Destruction Classic
Game: Battlefield 1942First release: 0.10, released as "10% demo", June 6, 2003
First stable release: 0.31 patch, March 14, 2004
Current release: 2.31 patch, May 6th, 2011
EoD Classic was the first EoD mod developed for the Battlefield Series. EA released Battlefield 1942 in 2002, and just some months later (2003) Goetterfunke founded the EoD team to create a Vietnam modification for BF1942. At the beginning it was called simply "Eve of Destruction", without "Classic" qualification adopted since the beginning of development of EoD2. Today it is maintained mainly by one developer (Lotte).
Historic Details and References
Eve of destrucion 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
Playmate
A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month . The PMOM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, as well as a short biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and...
are part of american military culture dipicted in media like Coppola's
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
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 KnuthShay KnuthShay Knuth was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for September 1969. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker...
and December, 1969, featuring Gloria RootGloria RootGloria Root was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1969 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.-Education:...
.
Awards and mentions
- PC GamerPC GamerPC Gamer is a magazine founded in Britain in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future Publishing. The magazine has several regional editions, with the UK and US editions becoming the best selling PC games magazines in their respective countries...
's "Mod of the Year 2003". - FilePlanetFilePlanetFilePlanet is a video game download service that provides demos, patches, mods and other gaming media and other gaming media downloads to its users. FilePlanet was launched, and is run by, GameSpy, which is now a subsidiary of IGN, and is one of the most used video game download sites on the...
'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.
| Version | Release | Description | New Maps | Maps Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.10 | 8-Jun-2003 | Release name Demo 10% - Client Full (149 MB) | 7 | 7 |
| 0.11 | 13-Jun-2003 | Release name Demo 11% | 0 | 7 |
| 0.12 | 15-Jun-2003 | Release name Alpha 12% - Client Full (180 MB) | Update (1 MB) | 0 | 7 |
| 0.20 | 13-Sep-2003 | Release name Alpha 0.2 - Client Full (269 MB) | 7 | 14 |
| 0.30 | 21-Feb-2004 | Release name Alpha 0.3 - Client Full (480 MB) | 7 | 21 |
| 0.31 | 14-Mar-2004 | Client Patch | 21 | |
| 0.40 | 18-Feb-2005 | ??? | 8 | 29 |
| 0.41 | 21-Apr-2005 | ??? | 29 | |
| 0.45 | 18-Feb-2006 | Client Full (680 MB) | 4 | 33 |
| 0.46 | 18-Feb-2006 | Client Full (680 MB) | 2 | 35 |
| 0.50 | 14-Oct-2006 | Client Full - Part 1 (458 MB) + Part 2 (535 MB) | 26 | 61 |
| 0.51 | 19-Nov-2006 | Client Patch (378 MB) | 6 | 67 |
| 0.60 | 26-Jan-2007 | Client Full - Part 1 + Part 2 | 7 | 74 |
| 0.61 | ??? | Client Full - Part 1 + Part 2 | 5 | 79 |
| 0.70 | 25-Jul-2007 | Client Full - Part 1 (641 MB) + Part 2 (571 MB) | 12 | 91 |
| 0.71 | 30-Aug-2007 | Client Patch (30 MB) | 91 | |
| 0.72 | 10-Sep-2007 | Client Patch | 1 | 92 |
| 0.80 | 9-Feb-2008 | Client Full - Part 1 (649 MB) + Part 2 (650 MB) + Part 3 (245 MB) | 4 | 96 |
| 0.81 | 11-May-2008 | Client Patch (366 MB) | 6 | 102 |
| 0.90 | 21-Jul-2008 | Client Full - Part 1 (649 MB) + Part 2 (650 MB) + Part 3 (600 MB) | 15 | 117 |
| 1.00 | 8-Nov-2008 | Client Full (1.93 GB) | 9 | 126 |
| 1.10 | 8-Apr-2009 | Client Patch (381 MB) | 13 | 139 |
| 1.20 | 17-Apr-2009 | Client Patch (26 MB) | 139 | |
| 1.50 | 14-Aug-2009 | Client Full - Parts 1 ~ 4 | 4 | 143 |
| 2.00 | 1-Jan-2010 | Client Full - Parts 1 ~ 5 (2.7 GB) | 7 | 150 |
| 2.10 | 1-Apr-2010 | Client Full - Parts 1 ~ 5 (2.77 GB) | 9 | 159 |
| 2.20 | 20-Sep-2010 | Client Full - Parts 1 ~ 3 (3.26 GB) | 15 | 174 |
| 2.30 | 01-Feb-2011 | Client Full - Parts 1 ~ 3 (3.38 GB) | 7 | 181 |
| 2.31 | 06-May-2011 | Client Patch (455MB) | 8 | 189 |
Note: only original EoD maps considered
Eve of Destruction Vietnam
Game: Battlefield VietnamFirst 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
Cooperative gameplay
Cooperative gameplay is a feature in video games that allows players to work together as teammates. It is distinct from other multiplayer modes, such as competitive multiplayer modes like player versus player or deathmatch...
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 2First 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
Project Reality
Project Reality is an unfinished series of tactical First-person shooter video games which aim to create a realistic combat environment and place great emphasis on teamwork and cooperation...
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.
Releases
| Year | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1.00 | Full |
| 2008 | 2.00 | Full |
External links
- Eve of Destruction official website
- EoD Classic at Moddb.com
- EoD2 at Moddb.com