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First Strike: Blastfest Event

25 Jun 2014 - 05:06 by TALON

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GREETINGS TROOPERS!

With the future of First Strike very much still up in the air due to the latest developments regarding cessation of server services from GameSpy, and EA concluding their support for BF2142, which means the end of the Master Server required to acquire multiplayer server browser access. We have decided to throw an event for what could very well be your last chance to experience First Strike as a full multiplayer game due to these services coming to an end at the end of June.

So we are pleased to bring you the First Strike: Blastfest event. This will take place this weekend and be played on both Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8pm BST (British Summer Time), and with it we hope to encourage enough numbers on to have one last hurrah before they close up shop. With good numbers we'll perhaps mix up co-op with our conquest maps so you can get the full spectrum of the maps available within First Strike. So head on this weekend for some great games. Also feel free to bob on for games any time this week, pop on our forums to inform people you intend to play and maybe we'll get some unscheduled games going too.

This does not necessarily mean the end of First Strike, but even if we do decide to look at solutions to circumvent the current issues facing all mods based on BF games no longer supported by EA, it will be a while before these solutions surface. Whatever we decide to do we will keep you guys informed.

But before we worry about that future, lets just get on this weekend and have some cracking games of First Strike.

See you on the Battlefield Troopers!

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What Does the Future Hold?

18 Jun 2014 - 08:06 by TALON

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Greetings Troopers!

Well there has been a bit of toing and froing from EA and DICE regarding the future of their older Battlefield titles since the announcement of GameSpy drawing their services to a close. One minute EA are going to save the games, and then they're not. What this means for the modding community as a whole and First Strike at this moment is still unclear.

Yes, we are looking into possible workarounds. We are facing two issues: GameSpy dropping support at the end of May 2014 and EA dropping Stats server support at the end of June 2014. GameSpy was under contract to provide the web based server management capability to help players find servers for BF2142 and BF2. Since EA is dropping support for BF2 and BF2142, they are no longer continuing the GameSpy contract. This is not a killer for First Strike. It means that players can no longer search for First Strike servers using the interface. Players will still be able to connect manually by I.P. address. We will post the address on the website with instructions prior to cessation of normal server services (now expected to be at the end of June). There are also other server managers that we are working with that are expected to eventually provide this service, such as GameRanger and Xfire.

The other problem of EA dropping server support means that the master server, which validates accounts and tracks stats will most likely be stopped. Without this server, only offline singleplayer will work with BF2142. Blue Entertainment, (website: http://revivebf2.com) has plans to run there own master account server for BF2 by the end of May. The group is planning to also do the same for BF2142, but they have not announced a target date for that game yet. We are reaching out to Blue Entertainment and other mod teams to figure out a solution for First Strike. We fully expect to find a solution at some point, but this is unlikely to happen before the end of June.

In any event, we are not quite finished with First Strike. Since the 1.6 release of First Strike, the limited number of Devs we still have have been busy with real life, so work on the mod has been slow. However, we have been working on fixing gameplay issues on Parmel, finalizing the Dathomir Prison Break map for release, check out the eye candy below:

We are also continuing our work on Hoth, though in these uncertain times we may not be sure to what end, but we can at least get some footage of the work so far out to you soon, so you can see what you could have if First Strike does manage to continue.

Either way, keep your eyes peeled for news on a few events that we'll be looking at putting together before the end of June so players can get on and have a few more well populated games of First Strike before EA pull the plug.

Until then...

See you on the Battlefield Troopers!