BF1942 Battle Plan - No Client Mods

BF1942 Battle Plan - No Client Mods
[Apr 19, 2003, 2:19 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

The Battlefield 1942 Website has details on what's to be included in the upcoming version 1.4 patch for DICE's World War II shooter. The update includes word that client-side mods are to be disabled in the future as part of their effort at eradicating cheating and exploits:

A note on cheating and exploits -- we've all seen how cheating can destroy the gameplay experience for everyone. EA and DICE take cheating seriously and we are taking an aggressive stance in preventing exploits which allow people to cheat. The biggest source of all BF cheats and exploits are client-side modifications. With the release of patch 1.4, we are disabling all client-side mods. Unfortunately, this means that the client side mods that aren't used for cheating will also be affected. DICE and EA have spent the past few months trying to engineer a solution which allows client-side mods to work while stopping the cheats. Ultimately it proved impossible to do so in such a way that prevented future client side mods from opening up new methods of cheating and exploitation. However, this doesn't mean that all mods are unusable. By making the mods into full server-side mods (Desert Combat for example), everyone can experience the cool factor that these mods offer.

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Let me try to explain this clearly....
Apr 19, 2003, 16:25

Sarcasmo

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Let me try to explain this clearly.... Apr 19, 2003, 16:25

Apr 19, 2003, 16:25

Sarcasmo

...for anyone who doesn't understand. If a mod is fully server side, you don't need to download ANYTHING. But that means heavy restrictions on what the mod can do. To have any new player models, weapons, vehicles, maps, wall/terrain textures, player skins, or sounds that didn't come on the game CD, you must download them. Your computer can't play sounds, or display graphics, that are not on your computer. Your computer is the client, the 32 player game you join is the server. Technology isn't readily available that would allow you to download and install the entire mod in the small amount of time it would take to join a server for that mod. So if EA is suggesting that DC be moved to the server side, what they are suggesting is that the DC team only use WW2 planes, weapons, map, soldiers, and sounds, to portray their vision of a modern warfare total conversion. So now I hope you understand the controversy.

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Apr 19, 2003Apr 19 2003

hmm

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Apr 19, 2003Apr 19 2003

Re: hmm

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