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Galactic Conquest For Battlefield 1942 Released
An anonymous reader writes "The first public alpha of Galactic Conquest, a Star Wars mod for Battlefield 1942, has been released. It features Imperial troopers fighting against the Rebels on Hoth. You can choose from several infantry classes (sniper, light infantry, heavy infantry, anti-armor, and support), each of which is given a Star Wars feel. Useable vehicles in this version include snowspeeders, AT-STs, TIE fighters, TIE bombers, the Millennium Falcon, and various Hoth turret installations. Go give it a try if you're interested." Here are some mirrors for this 293mb unofficial (and possibly Lucas-baiting?) mod from Gamers Hell, Shortdog.us, AusGamers, and via BitTorrent.
Looks like team fortress classic in the star wars universe. But as it was with TFC it will be with this mod, the gamers will either make it great, or make it horribly lame. Keep that in mind next time you start the game up only to shoot your team mates into the back.
than the Desert Combat mod. Granted: the DC mod is a lot of fun, but it is way too easy for newbs to just be special ops. All of the DC weapons are way too accurate, making the machine guns as accurate as sniper rifles in the regular version. Also, anybody who can fly airplanes and helicopters owns whoever is on the ground in DC, which makes being ground forces rather useless.
The point to all of my rambling is that I hope that this mod attracts seasoned players and does not require one to fly in order to survive.
- A long-time BF1942 player.
More than enough BS
Don't fly in atmosphere. Though personally i don't care much what characters look in game like bf, what matters more is the balancing of them. Vehicles were always a bit like arcade spaceships in bf though.
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If I was Lucas Arts I'd be pretty miffed too.
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I think Josh said it best http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1491 [about making fps mods]
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Step Two: Pick a Hot Property
You have to base your mod on something, and nothing works better than somebody else's copyrighted property. Heck, George Lucas isn't going to mind if you steal his beloved characters for personal use. Neither is old Tolkien, who is probably burning in hell for writing such blasphemous nonsense. Here are a couple suggestions for possible mod material:
Star Wars
X-Men
Harry Potter
The Matrix
Lord of the Rings
Dragonball Z
Denver the Last Dinosaur
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GPL people want copyright to have teeth to protect the work of the people but for copyright to crumble when it infringes in their right.
I don't a Star Wars mod is fair use. Lucas Arts is in the Computer Game business. I think it would be less infringing if it was "Sienfeld" mod becasuse I doubt Jerry has any plans along those lines.
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This looks like an awesome mod! So good that it'll probably get shut down by George Lucas. After all, Lucasarts is probably planning their own multiplayer game.
I won't argue with you on the "fair use" bit--I don't really know or care. Suffice it to say that Star Wars _is_ a pretty deeply ingrained bit of popular culture, like Star Trek, or Mickey Mouse, or Betty Boop or whatever.
Regardless, if Lucas were to shut this down, it'd be cretinous to the extreme. It doesn't compete with the Star Wars mmormpgmorpgf or whatever it's called (connect, shoot shit up, quit, as opposed to connect, spend 80 bajillion hours running around looking for Jabba's Magic Spleen), and would turn away a lot of casual Star Wars fans (such as myself.)
In much of the same way that Paramount's ham-handed approach to shutting down Star Trek fan sites a few years ago made apathetic non-consumers out of otherwise potentially enthusiastic types, Lucas Arts' doing a nazi on things like this mod (which is taking an age to download!) would be a bit of a stupid move, coming hard on the heels of two utterly lackluster films in the franchise.
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Decipher's card lore is official SW universe. Read the top sections on these (one) (two) (three) cards. I swear, i know more about the SW universe from playing this game than reading all the books.
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