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Battlefield Pirates Hoists Mod Mainbrace
Ant writes "The Battlefield: Pirates v0.31 modification for Battlefield 1942 is now available for download. You can be either be a pirate or a zombie pirate (skeleton), and this neat mod allows you to use various boats (e.g., galleons), various guns, cannons, balloons, kegs, grenades, stone throwing axes, muskets, cutlasses, etc - there are screenshots of the Beta on the official site." What other Battlefield 1942 mods are worth checking out?
Haven't played the Pirates mod yet, but I assume that as with other BF mods, the real struggle will be building any type of regular server/player base for it. With the exception of an extremely limited group of "premier" mods, i.e. Desert Combat and Eve of Destruction (in the pre-BF:Vietnam days) most mods don't garner enough interest to achieve critical mass in terms of user and host support. The end result is a wide variety of interesting (and even well-designed and executed) mods with no real playability, precisely because not enough people regularly play them. (And we all know how much fun a solo game of BF is.) I suppose/assume these mods might be fun for LAN parties or the like, but for gamers like myself who have no local opponents and rely on the greater community of complete strangers for regular opponents, these mods invariably become momentarily intriguing but quickly discarded diversions.