This was the first HER(Hajas Extreme Realism) I made, but I had made it based on the original game, with the intention of playing on my LAN with family and friends only. The main idea was to make the game more realistic and better balanced so that anyone playing on my LAN, even with Rank 1, would have equal playing conditions against the others.
With the completely unexpected success of HER Airborne for Medal of Honor Airborne I thought why not publish it as well, and so I did. But since I hadn’t really developed it as a mod, but rather a direct modification to the main game, it didn’t please the community very much. The reason I did it this way was because I would never play Battlefield 2 again without HER, so there would be no need to create the mod files and duplicate all the maps to run on my LAN.
But to have a wider reach, I ended up creating a mod soon after so that it could be run like any other mod, without touching the original game in February 2008. And the result was actually more impressive than with HER Airborne.
Firstly, to use the original maps in any mod, it was necessary to copy them into the mod folder, and with that, all the mods released had an unnecessary copy of all the maps, generating gigantic files without the slightest need. And for the time, each megabyte less meant many minutes less download time. And the first version of HER Battlefield 2 was only 16kb.
Because of its small size, many people downloaded it to try it out and loved it, although many didn’t believe that I was able to modify the gameplay and balance of the entire game with such small files.
A large German news site that I don’t get back to, but I believe it was PCGames.de, published an article comparing HER Battlefield 2 with a large and perhaps the most famous mod in the history of BF2, Project Reality, which was also a realism mod. In short, they said that despite all the effort and size of Project Reality in delivering realistic gameplay, they made a joke saying that Project Reality, which at the time was around 6GB, hadn’t managed to do what HER Battlefield 2 did with only 16kb.
This generated an absurd repercussion about my mod, from many Project Reality fans coming to insult my mod to others defending it and agreeing with the article. This was a big surprise, because I had never even dedicated myself to promoting it, as at the time I was focused on Call of Duty Frontlines, which was already a huge success.
To add to my surprise, HER Battlefield 2 was even selected to appear on German TV’s GIGA TV, a gaming and technology show.
The latest version of HER Battlefield 2 was released in April 2010 with only 320kb. Soon after, an addon called Euro Force Map Pack was released to fix the two new tanks from the maps in the latest update, so that the Challenger 2 & Leopard 2A6 tanks are as strong as the others.
Main Features
- All Weapons are Deadly Now (Pistols Inclued)
- Anti-Tank a lot more powerfull, so infantary aren’t “unarmed” targets anymore
- Damage of Tanks shots are a lot more powerfull
- Well balanced weapons to give a nice and fun gameplay
- And Yeah! Now you can play as Sniper if you wish!
- Blood FX
- More Bots to Play on COOP MODE in LAN
- New Bot Names (Clan members from BC, 3rL and NER)
- Euro Force Map Pack as Addon
ModDB Page
On ModDB you can check the entire development history of HER Battlefield 2 and more details.
