Desert Combat

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Desert Combat is a popular mod, founded by Frank Delise, Brian Holinka and Tim Brophy, for the hit first-person shooter (FPS) computer game Battlefield 1942. DC brings the game's setting to modern warfare in the Middle East, providing the player with the opportunity to drive modern vehicles such as M2 Bradleys and fly F-14 Tomcats from aircraft carriers. The game pits the United States against Iraq.

There have been mods for DC as well. Desert Combat Extended modifies gameplay (still arcade style) and new content, such as new armies. Desert Combat Realism Mod modifies gameplay and features to make combat more realistic. There have been several other smaller modifications to the DC as well such as Enhanced DC, DC High Power, and 21st Century Warfare.

DC Final was released as a semi-official continued development of the mod, and includes previously unreleased original DC content and work of some of the original Desert Combat team members. It was not an official release of Trauma Studios or of the Desert Combat team, but some former members were involved in the release.

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Player Views

Many players consider Desert Combat to be the best mod since Counter-Strike. Many servers still play today, offering a wide variety of maps and server styles to choose from.

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Media Attention

Desert Combat has been on many reputable news websites such as CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, and various computer magizines

here is a quote from the CNN website

CNN.com (Mar 25, 2003) "Desert Combat" is still a work in progress, but more than 250,000 people have already downloaded it. And traffic to the game's official site has increased by roughly 15,000 page views per day since the beginning of the war.

While it currently focuses exclusively on the 1991 Gulf War, team leader Frank DeLise said the game will eventually include missions from Somalia, Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Players can choose to fight for either the U.S. led coalition or the Iraqi side. (Ironically, players from Germany, which opposes the U.S. action, often tend to play as Iraqi soldiers.) Stumbling across a scud in Stumbling across a scud in "Desert Combat".

A new version of "Desert Combat" will be released next week and will include new weapons for both sides (including scud missiles and A-10 attack planes) and a mission to find and destroy (or, if you're the Iraqis, defend) a chemical weapons plant.

"Desert Combat", which was overwhelmingly voted last year's most popular mod, is a free download for now, though that might change with future versions.

"We've been approached by multiple publishers to try and sell it," said DeLise, "so it's probably not going to be a mod for long. It'll be more of an expansion pack."

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Awards

  • DesertCombat Final - Best New Mod of 2004 (fileplanet)
  • Best Mod of 2003: Desert Combat (fileplanet)
  • GameSpy's 2003 Best PC Game Mod
  • FilePlanet's Best New Mod for 2002
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Trauma Studios

Template:Main On September 1, 2004, Digital Illusions CE bought Trauma Studios, the developers of the Desert Combat Battlefield 1942 Modification. Trauma Studios was working with DICE on Battlefield 2, but shortly before the release, DICE closed down Trauma Studios.

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Player Trends

The Desert Combat modification acquired a gain in popularity since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces.

Due to the multiplayer team-based concept of Desert Combat, around 10-32 people per team may be present during any single game (as opposed to games such as Counter-Strike which can accommodate far fewer players). Cooperation, tactics and leadership are vital aspects to a certain team's victory. Some of the strategies employed include airdropping, vehicle rush, ambushing, and others which are common in the original Battlefield 1942.

Players of Desert Combat on the Internet comment that Desert Combat fosters a sense of esprit-de-corps and sportsmanship among its players.

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Weapons

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Vehicles

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Coalition

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Opposition

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Other

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Maps

  • DC Battle of 73 Easting
  • DC Khafji Docks
  • DC Lost Village
  • DC Medina Ridge
  • DC Oil Fields
  • DC Desert Shield
  • DC Basrah's Edge
  • DC Basrah Night
  • DC No Fly Zone
  • DC Weapon Bunkers
  • DC Sea Rigs
  • DC Al Nas
  • DC Cornered
  • DC Dustbowl
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Desert Combat Realism Mod

Desert Combat Realism Mod (abbreviated DCR, DCRM, DC Realism) began as "Tanelorn's DC Game Balance Mod" with early versions being released under that name. With the addition of MisterD the mod restarted with a number of new people and became much more ambitions in scope. The mod originally focused on simply realism, but expanded to add a large amount of content, including original music, voice acting, dozens of new game objects, original maps, as well as some of highest level of new game features in the form of codings. Highlights include it being the only mod, and of the few games ever to attempt a realistic approach to equipment functionality in a modern combat settings. Some highlights including beating Battlefield 2 to be the first Battlefield game to have the LAV-25, AH-1 Cobra, and pilot helmets. The mods community size numbered in the thousands during its hey day, with a full server not uncommon during a new release. With the gradual tapering down in the number of Desert Combat and players of to new games (such as Battlefield 2 released in June 2005 for example) its time in the spot light has drawn to a close. In November of 2005, the once active forums and website were shut down.

DCR is a realism mod, and the focus is on making Desert Combat more accurate to reality. Features originally just things such as removing parachutes from basic soldiers and having selectable ammo types for tanks and other AFVs. These were still quite ground breaking at the time, as no other mod had managed to code these features. Many of the team members were part of FO, who also did beta testing.

The initial versions initially only required Desert Combat, though later versions also used Desert Combat Final as well. The final version would actually include more content then Desert Combat final did, with the 1.0 version of the mod weighing in at over 200 megs.

The mod went through several versions, eventually culminating in a 'Marine' expansion pack. Some of the notable game items include original music and voice acting. Many other game features were impressive coding features. For example, a laser targeter that called in an actual air-strike was implemented. One a target was selected, the player would hear real military voices, such as one might hear on the radio of a pilot getting ready to drop a weapon, and at the right time large explosion in said area.

Other smaller touches, such as an actual modeled and skinned boom box playing in an aircraft Hangar created many memorable moments for fans of the game. Other game items were simply very well done modeled and skinned game items. The Marine LAV-25, the AH-1 Cobra, M167-VADS and many new weapon systems. Also of note were nearly a dozen various customizations to Russian weapons, NCO squad commands, and many new firearms and personal weapons. A complete M60 machine gun, complete with ultra high-quality sound was among the highlights. Tracer rounds for the SMAW, a flare gun and helmet for pilots, wound effects, 3-round burst for the M16A2, and countless other details set DCR apart not only from other mods, but any official game available during its period.

The link below to the developers page indicates that this mod was discontinued on 20 October 2005.

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External links

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