A useful BF1942 client mod: bf42plus

Contributed by: Jeff Rivett (site admin) Thursday, August 01 2024 @ 07:09 AM PDT

For the last couple of weeks, I've been evaluating a Battlefield 1942 client tool called bf1942plus[*1] .

bf42plus inserts itself into the BF1942 process during startup, and its features can be controlled with a config file or using client console commands.

Here are a few of the features of bf42plus:

• Assign more and different colours to player names.
• Fix crash when the game is minimized.
• Fix other windows getting resized when the game is launched.
• Center kill message now shows who teamkilled you.
• Fix a loading screen crash caused by a bug in the game's memory allocator.
• Speed up reconnecting to servers on map change.
• Changing mod when joining a server from the serverlist is faster.
• Nametags are lowered when u get close to other players so you can see them more easily.
• Yellow server messages are immediatedly copied to the console so one isn't lost if it is overwritten by another.
• Message when someone connects to the server.
• Show player IDs in chat and/or in kill messages.
• Show player IDs in nametags.
• Show in the console who started a vote or voted.

There's now a link to bf42plus on the Files page on this site.

NOTE: this mod has some features that are considered cheats on some servers. I currently don't see any reason to ban its use on TPU.

Take a look! I'm finding the player name colour function to be particularly useful.

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[*1] https://github.com/uuuzbf/bf42plus