Eve of Destruction (series)

Eve of Destruction (EoD), 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 sticks booby traps 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 zones.

Eve of Destruction Classic
Game: Battlefield 1942

First release: 0.10, released as "10% demo", June 8, 2003

First stable release: 0.31 patch, March 14, 2004

Current release: 2.10 patch and full, April 1, 2010

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
Music & Audio: samples of music of the sixties or from movies can be heard on radios on several maps, and even while driving vehicles or aircrafts, that are turned on/off by co-pilot or front passenger through the use of "attack" function (usually left mouse button).

Pinups: On some US bases many playmate's 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 Knuth and December, 1969, featuring Gloria Root.

Awards and mentions

 * PC Gamer's "Mod of the Year 2003".
 * FilePlanet'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. Note: only original EoD maps considered 

Eve of Destruction Vietnam
Game: Battlefield Vietnam

First stable release: October 26, 2004

Latest release: 0.16, 2010

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. It is unknown is development will continue.

Eve of Destruction 2
Game: Battlefield 2

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.