Battlefield 1942 Pirate Modification

Design

• Weapons
• Normal pistols become flintlock pistols
• One shot
• Each pirate carries approximately 4-6 pistols depending on class
• Knife becomes cutlass (longer reach)
• Bazooka becomes a canon
• Detpacks become powder kegs
• Automatic rifles are now simple rifles (accurate though)
• Wrench becomes mallet and nails
• Ships
• Landing craft spawn faster
• Planes removed
• Ships sit lower in the water/landing craft are made higher to facilitate boarding
• Submarine changed to one-man, melee vehicle (think barrel sub, minus the actual model)
• Scale down model (use the same one)
• Scale down collision box to allow for shallow water travel
• Vehicles removed
• Classes
• Captain (Assault)
• Weapons
• Parrot
• 6 flintlock pistols
• Cutlass
• Hook
• Characteristics
• Slow (peg leg)
• Relatively high HP
• Can’t climb ladders very well (boards ship slowly)
• Rifleman (Scout)
• Weapons
• Relatively accurate rifle (no scope)
• Dagger
• 4 flintlock pistols
• Telescope
• Characteristics
• Fast
• Relatively low HP
• Carpenter (Engineer)
• Weapons
• Cutlass
• 4 flintlock pistols
• Mallet and nails (repairs ship, but may be used as an offensive weapon)
• Shortened rifle?
• Characteristics
• Moderate speed
• Moderate HP
• Gunner (Anti-tank)
• Weapons
• Canon (sort of like land artillery)
• Running speed tremendously reduced when canon in use
• 4 flintlock pistols
• Powder keg (boom)
• Dagger
• Characteristics
• Moderate speed
• Moderate HP
• Sailor (Medic)
• Weapons
• Cutlass and dagger (hit twice in the same amount of time)
• 6 flintlock pistols
• 4 bottles of rum (medkit)
• Shortened rifle?
• Characteristics
• Relatively high HP
• Moderate speed

Proof-of-concept (April)

• Models remain the same
• Existing features modified with the exception of the parrot (which may not be feasible)
• Classes rearranged and renamed
• Make sure that the features can actually be changed

First revision (July)

• Models for boats, classes, and weapons added
• Features removed, added, or modified to facilitate gameplay

Second revision (August)

• New maps

Future revisions

• Ninjas
• Robots
• Zombies