Forgotten Hope is a modification for Battlefield 1942 that concentrates on adding both a more realistic and more enjoyable playing experience than the original BF1942 and includes many new specially designed custom maps to play in. The mod includes over 250 new pieces of authentic equipment (more than any other Second World War FPS).
my problem is crashed to desktop when loading map :(
i love this mod
My favorite BF1942 mod!
FH gives an already awesome game the finishing touch!
This Mod is one of the best Gaming experiences ive had.
I remember buying Battlefield 1942 on sale a while back. It was great fun. I read somewhere on the internet about mods (this when I didnt know what mods where and did not play much PC games.) I was curious what they were, so I just googled it. This site what the first to come up so I looked at all the mods. Forgotten Hope looked very good so I downloaded and give it a try. It was so much fun that I stopped playing Xbox and other consoles and I was playing this mod so much. So much content from vehicles to maps and factions. The realism was good to, I loved driving Tiger II destroying American armor with out a scratch.
After 100s of hours of playing this, I stopped playing consoles completely and I decided to buy a gaming computer. So because of this mod, I got into PC gaming, Battlefield Games, and Modding.
Though, after upgrading my PC, I couldnt get this to work on windows 7.
But, at least I had lots of fun memories from this great mod.
in my opinion, this is the 2nd best BF1942 mod. It expands the original game so much and had very successful days.
Try it.
the mod is good as far as better graphics and handling, but utter rubbish as far as gameplay
bots even at rock bottom AI, still instant kill players while taking much more firepower to kill them, and ai is crazy biased that one teams bot will seize flags while the other does practically nothing at all
I'll be honest, after reading on multiple different sites that this is "the best mod for bf1942", I have to say that Forgotten Hope was a huge disappointment. The sheer amount of content can not be denied - the mod has about three to four times as much as the base game, and some of it, like tank and airplane models, are quite good. On the other hand, the mod adds lots of extra tedium in the name of "reality", for example, aircrafts carry very few bombs now and the ammo resupply radius at runways has been nerfed, and as a result, bombers spend 90% of their time flying back and forth to and from the base. Realistic, but not fun. The most notorious example has to be the way tank guns were butchered: crosshairs were removed from normal tank view, and a "realistic" tank sight was added, which while vaguely looks like a tank sight, has nothing realistic about it, it is inaccurate both vertically and horizontally, there seems to be no way to find the range with it, and it cannot zoom. Add to this that tank shells have no tracers whatsoever now and that you might hit an enemy tank but not penetrate its armor, in which case there will be no hit marker, and the result is a dysfunctional aiming system that also makes trajectory correction based on observing where the shells go nigh impossible. The extreme bloom on most handguns while moving, and the ridiculously long time it takes said bloom to disappear once the player stops should be mentioned, it punishes anything but staying still and camping.
Maps vary greatly in their quality, some are really good, others are somewhat low-quality. On quite a few of them that is supposed to have bot support, the AI is waypointed in such a half-assed way, that bot support might as well not exist. Examples for this are Coral Sea, where the japs will do fck all nothing, or Supercharge, when half of the German bots tend to get stuck at a specific point at the edge of the map. For some reason, the post-battle fluff text for custom maps is also copy-pasted from official maps, which is obviously quite dumb.
All in all, the mod adds some great stuff, but the quality of its content is inconsistent, and varies from great to outright gamebreakingly bad, and it could use a lot of polishing.
And one more thing, BF1942 does not like Windows 7 64 Bit, and even though the mod download says [Win7], it's not any more stable than the base game. The portable version crashes 100% of the time.
Unplayable for the Axis, even when it shouldn't be, like during the invasion of Poland. Could be a lot of fun, but at least the base game was reasonably balanced.
Anyway, I shouldn't have to feel like I need to cheat in order to win.
The Best BF1942 mod