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Shouldn't this article be deleted since, after all, every other BF1942 mod article seems to have been deleted? Nothing distinguishing about Desert Combat seems to set it apart from other prestigious BF1942 mods, like Forgotten Hope. If you delete one, you should delete all. - Johan

This articles has sources from CNN, the other articles don't BJTalk 17:42, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I found this article useful. As time goes on general web sources of information for games like this "atrophy" and information on them disappear (the authors' webpages have a link to a non-existent fileplanet pages and no definitive information on what was the last version of the mod). Information on the games becomes "historically significant". So I'd vote for a keep.
Now related to what I came here for - I read that a few of the developers continued and released a "Desert Combat Final" - but that is treated almost seperately as an "add on to the add-on". Yet the "latest version" box on the page here simply says "Final". Does that mean one should go looking for a "Desert Combat Final"? Does that really count as a "Desert Combat" version? Or just one of the many possible modified versions of the real final v0.7 version? I've found references to "Desert Combat Final" being v0.8 (requires v0.7) and "v8 Final Patch". IE: IF a person wanted to go play Desert Combat nowdays - what specific version should they go looking for? Are all servers either "DC-Final v0.8" or is there a pool ov v0.7 servers AND servers playing mods of the mod including "Final"?
CraigWyllie 04:03, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I think one of the news articles from the Desert Combat home page best explain it. [1], link to the homepage. I think the development team was split up at that point, I'm not sure if Desert Combat FINAL is an offical version of Desert Combat, but if it wasn't it was made as an 'unoffical final version' by several people who worked on Desert Combat, as I don't think DC v0.7 was considered finished. However, even if it is unoffical, and it is 'only' a mod, the Desert Combat homepage's article leads me to belive that it was only unoffical due to the fact that Trauma Studios became too tied up to work on it as a team. SaderBiscut 23:18, 20 June 2007 (UTC)


Desert Combat is the most advanced and polished of Battlefield 1942 mods. The map areas are far more intricate, though the gameplay is much faster due to more effective vehicles. The combat kits are more interesting, though they may not be as balanced. -Dan Smith

Added a few missing weapons/vehicles, cleaned/clarified links on a few others(process uncompleted due to Wikipedia's article text search shutting off partway through). Notes: I left the 'MH-53' Link I added as just that as I have no clue which variant it actually is. The game has it listed as simply 'MH-53' so I left it at that. PSS was left unlinked for a simple reason, I was unable to track down what the heck it actually is. It is used as the secondary weapon for the VSS Iraqi SpecOps weapons kit. It is a small, very quiet pistol with an eight-round clip. More details I do not know, part of why I couldn't figure out what it was to link to it. I'd have linked it anyway except PSS is a Disamb page for several unrelated things and would be deceptive. Didn't touch the maps, someone else can update to the new DC_Final mapslist. -Graptor

Went through the weapons again, finished what I started. Did some more research as to what the remaining unknown weapons were, and Changed links accordingly. Article for the Skorpion is missing as far as I can tell, but that's definetly the right gun. Tabuk Sniper Rifle according to my (admittedly somewhat cursory) research appears to be a specially made Iraqi rifle that consists of derivatives of several other designs, so I left that alone(source: http://www.pmulcahy.com/sniper_rifles/iraqi_sniper_rifles.htm ). I actually was able to track down the PSS this time as well. It expands to 'Pistolet Sptsialnyj Samozaryadnyj' according to http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg24-e.htm , which translates as 'Special Self-loading pistol'(a Designation I found on several other sites as well). Unable to find any other designation for it, so I left it unlinked for the time being. Someone else with more experience can figure out what to do with that. -Graptor

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[edit] added a "player trends" section

hi, added a player trends section about BF:DC

Debroglie 1 July 2005 18:34 (UTC)

"Desert Combat is the most advanced and polished of Battlefield 1942 mods. The map areas are far more intricate, though the gameplay is much faster due to more effective vehicles. The combat kits are more interesting, though they may not be as balanced. -Dan Smith"

This is BS, but the poster most likely knew this. The MOD contains virtually nothing that other MODs didn't do before, it only managed to pull off a huge fanbase in the US (Since it's about US invading Iraq..go figure.)


Incorrect, it was able to make air ground and sea combat mesh seemlessly and provide a fun experience with totally user created content in a modern warfare zone -Sgt Simpson

  • You are incorrect. Have you ever played any other mod or even BF1942 - the game they modded on?

I hardly belive (have played many mods to Galatic conquest to the Vietnam one) that such mods are polished or have made an impact on the 1942 community such as Desert Combat, considering that the DC mod outnumbers any other mod tenfold and the unmodded game for quite some time

  • Your statement that it was the most advanced is still incorrect, nomatter what your opinion on its status is. And you are incorrect in stating that it had more players then the unmodded game. Zarkow 11:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


source?

the damn server finder, count for ur self

[edit] Fix the Player trends section

Many DC only trends were formed, none are mentioned such as the pop n drop, ill post link later

[edit] Desert Conflict?

Why have they been moved into this article?, they already state that they are no way affiliated with Desert Combat or Tramua, and they are essentiallly a carbon copy of Desert Combat, so what is the point of them being in this article when their contents list is going to be more or less the same as the real Desert Combat? They should be moved back into their own article where they were IMO.

[edit] Clean-up

I did some reformatting, but most of my efforts were into correcting vocabulary and grammer. also, I deleted the subjective statements within the article, which basically mean that anything that indicated opinions were removed. remember, this is a online encyclopedia, not a forum for discussion. if you were to check the history, the changes under 202.156.6.54 were also mine - I forgot to log in. cheers.--Ariedartin 16:44, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Media Attention-section

It's written: "Desert Combat has been featured on many media websites such as CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, and other computer magazines. This is remarkable, considering that usually only the games themselves will attract media attention rather than their mods." First of all it's not correct in giving an impression that no other mods have repeated attension in computer-magazines. On the contrary, most magazines have mod-sections. Secondly the mod was on CNN and so on since the US was going into war with...Iraq. The mod is about the conflict of -91, but still had the very same topic.

Other mods have also been shown in [their] national mainstream media and surely would be even more so if their country went into war and a mod was about just that conflict... Zarkow 11:47, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


ok Desert Combat covers both gulf wars

Nop. Just the first one. I suppose one could take the "because their both in the desert and only 12 years apart" aproach, but Desert Combat is based on Desert Storm. SaderBiscut 19:24, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

look at some of the map names, the correspond to battles in gulf war 2 (especially DCF)

[edit] Proposed merge

DCX should NOT be merged into this page - although they have similar names and share content, they are entirely different. Just because Desert Combat is a modified version of Battlefield 1942 doesn't mean that their articles should be merged, by the same token just because DCX is a modified version of Desert Combat doesn't mean that those articles should be merged. Cynical 21:01, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

i was against it before, but then i realized that DCX was a DCom mod, and realism was in it, so im like what the hell, go ahead

There should be no merger, but this page should have an outline of what Desert Combat Extended is, because it was an earlier mod. Similar to Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on the Counter-Strike page. Dallas 13:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

i think DCX should be merged with DC, but in a different heading.

As the creator of DCX, I think it needs to be seperate. DCX is very different and is now actually larger than the DC mod itself. I intend on editing the DCX page itself to dig deeper into what DCX is and what it does so it's best to keep it seperate. -- Zeuser

[edit] Cleanup

I cleaned the article up a little, removing POV statements and bits which I felt went into too much detail: an external link would be more suitable for that. EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 10:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

nice clean up btw, i updated citations for cnn and washington post, but rueters, has ceased to exsist, as it is old news, there is a record of it exsisting here: http://www.desertcombat.com/?page=press

Sgt Simpson 06:26, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weapon list

  • The giant weapon list is ridiculous. I am taking it out. Wickethewok 21:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • In general, giant massive lists in articles are bad. They reduce readability and usefulness of an article. Its much better to convert what you can to prose and leave the rest out. Wickethewok 21:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I disagree. People ask about DC's features all the time. A feature list makes sense in an encyclopedia since it's a good reference point for all.

[edit] copyright

i just in essence wrote what it sayd on the desert combat site about DC, and apparently, im flagged for copyright infringment? i fail to see how

[2] BJTalk 08:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

still i fail to see

What you wrote has appeared at least on 3 different other sites before Wikipeida... BJTalk 13:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Quotes

"The way to Baghdad", displayed during loading screens... which shows real-life photos of the war in Iraq. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewwan1980 (talk • contribs) 12:22, 6 March 2008 (UTC)