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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Battlefield Heroes, The War Is Over

I had played this game since "closed beta" (2009), and now after 6 years... the war is over. EA/EAsy are closing down the game.

From the beginnings the game style had potential, it was great fun, the game mechanics were enjoyable, and it was a unique third person cartoon style shooter. Weapon load-outs, abilities, taunt emotes, custom clothing/skins/etc... it was rather unique.... somewhat clunky, but unique.

Battlefield Heroes - War Is Over Heroes

I started off with three National and three Royal characters, one in each class, gunner, soldier and commando, and got every single one of them to max level (level 30).

I found each class as enjoyable as the next, and pretty much mastered them all. It was fun slaying opponents with a machine gun and rocket jumping over buildings as a gunner, lighting opponents on fire or blast striking as a soldier, and running around invisible and head shot sniping as a commando.

Along the way there were game-breaking game bugs, servers not being updated, a huge influx of hackers and pay-to-win update after update after update... and the game bugs still existed (as did the hackers).

Once the fun got sucked out of the game and EAsy neglected the game, a lot of players from the closed beta... up and left. I was one of them.

For what "BFH" was, it was greatly enjoyable for the most part, and it is a shame that it is now closing (as their other "free-to-play" titles are).

After months of little to no updates back in 2014, I gave the game until the end of 2014 before it was gone/kaput/dead. I posted on the "BFH" forums to show my concern and opinions about the game time and time again, but most was ignored... and quite a lot of the player base refused to believe that the "game was dying".

So now at this time... it's kind of a "told-you-so" scenario to those that didn't want to listen, even though the game will be playable until July 2015... I was correct in my prediction of them closing it all down "soon".

I met quite a lot of decent players across the Oceanic and Asia community, I played in a squad/team, played with/against other squads/teams... and it was enjoyable (apart from my ISP latency issues).

Greets go out to tN (Team Nads), db (dubbrothers), nSg (no sh*t gaming), all the independent players that were in game with me and/or use to rage against me and/or accuse me of hacking over and over and over. :D BOOM HEADSHOT!

All-in-all, it was fun while it lasted (6 years)... and I hope to see a similar (non pay-to-win) version of BFH in the future (hopefully not made by EA or EAsy).

-soul.

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