Revive Heroes (Battlefield Heroes)... It's NOT Back!

I received a private message a few weeks back which made mention that a team of gamers were bringing back 'Battlefield Heroes'.

I started playing BFH back in the close 'beta' phase and absolutely enjoyed it, pushing my Core2Duo CPU, RAM and GPU to the absolute limits. I didn't have the funds at the time to upgrade my PC whatsoever... and BFH was a game I got interested in from the get-go. I played it almost nightly as I was that addicted to it. Over the years I made a lot of friends from the game, created a BFH clan, battled against other clans... and overall enjoyed the game greatly. I had 6 characters, 3 on each side, 1 of each class... and all were max level (level 30). It took a lot of time/effort/playing/rage-quitting to get them all at max levels. I could play each class well, and enjoyed swapping between them all, depending what support my team mates required.

After EA/DICE closed BFH officially back in 2015, I've heard rumors that another 'clone' was being made... but didn't really hear much else after-the-fact.

Since the recent private message I received from an old BFH player, I was intrigued to see if in fact this time it wasn't just a rumor, so I checked out their web site (reviveheroes.com), joined their discord server, lurked, read updates from their #bfheroes channels... and now? It seems the revive team have got it back up and running (for the most part) and development on the game/system/network are in constant development... which is awesome!

Although I have not taken the plunge and jumped in to download/install and attempt to play this game once again... I have kept up with their announcements, and in the future when it is more stable, will sign up and create new characters and play BFH once again. Although the game is a back-dated build from what the last build version was that EA/DICE had us install, it seems to be functioning for the most part according to youtube video posts like this one.

The modder scene always surprises me with how they can 'revive' a game and make it playable again... which makes a lot of us old 'beta' testers/player excited to get the chance to be able to play it once again... revived!

Interested in playing BFH (again)? Check out reviveheroes.com. Sign up, join their discord server for chatter and news/updates... download/install and enjoy the game once again! (I know I will be at some stage).

Great work to all the 'Revive Network' development team that will bring back what I (and many others) greatly enjoyed... BFH!

-soul.

*EDIT - October 2107, well it seems that DICE have stepped in and threatened legal action, so the 'revive network' have closed down, the discord server was ultimately closed, and all web pages taken down also...

You can read about it on all the following links...

https://reviveheroes.com/
http://www.pcgamer.com/ea-tells-battlefield-revive-team-to-stop-distributing-copies-of-our-game-clients/
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/308523/EA_shuts_down_community_project_to_revive_classic_Battlefield_multiplayer.php
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-shuts-mod-re-enabled-multiplayer-battlefield-2-2142-heroes/
https://kotaku.com/ea-asks-fans-to-stop-keeping-old-battlefield-games-aliv-1819890602
etc...

Such a shame, as it was a great game... no I didn't play the revived version due to an influx of hackers (SMH), but some day I may have again.

-soul.
 

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Knights Of Sang, New Logo Creation And Banner Graphics

I was approached via a recommendation via the Twitch community for some graphic design, specifically a logo for a visual representation and branding. I was given a rough run down on what was required, and came up with an extremely rough sketch (as you can see below) in the color scheme presented to me.

A shield, a blood drop inside/on the shield, and two overlapping swords behind the shield, with the colors, crimson red/red/black/grey/white. It was noted that a lower banner underneath 'Sang' was also required as well as bold text, so with the specifications given I began creating.

After a creative burst, and based from the sketch that was roughly drawn, I put together the logo, piece by piece, then found a font (from about 1000 on my system) that was most fitting.

With some slight tweaks with some back and forth conversation of the requester, a final logo was compiled/saved and submitted for approval. The requester was extremely happy with the final logo and signed off on it there and then, you can see the final logo below...

Once the logo was completed, it was requested that some Twitch graphics were also needed, so by using the newly created logo to theme by, I created a Twitch/Twitter banner (multi-purpose), as well as some Twitch profile banners.

After a few revisions, change of layout, etc with talks with the requester, the ending graphic is as below...

With the new banner, also came the custom Twitch profile banners which are themed to match in with the newly created logo and main banner, you can also see these below...

You can also check out the themed graphics on his Twitch page at www.twitch.tv/sangltp.Whether the profile banner graphics are on white or dark background, they look great, and again, the requester was extremely happy with the outcome on all the graphics presented to him.

I enjoy being creative and putting together the visions of the requester with style and color schemes... and get satisfaction that the requester is happy with the final graphics presented.

Got a vision in mind? Want custom graphics like what you see above? Feel free to contact me on my social contact links on the main page of my blog (top right).

Until next time...

-soul.

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