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.