Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Registered Member #727 Joined: [ 10:25 ] [ 12 Nov 2004 ]
OK, this time I tried getting through www.bf1942-fr.com, a site calling itself Battlefield Normandie. I knew from my earlier research that L'étranger posted something there, so this seemed like a good idea. It wasn't exactly a bad idea, but the info was not too interesting. My french isn't too good, but I tried.
2002-09-29 A forum post clarifies that a video where L'étranger participated used music from Interstate 76. This shows that L'étranger was already interested in Interstate around this time. Which is probably not big news, but anyway.
2002-11-07 L'étranger mentions Interstate and tries to recruit someone for it. At that time, he refers to it as Interstate Battlefield 1942, which is probably more a description than the actual name yet. This is the first mention of Interstate I was able to dig up so far.
2003-05-31 L'étranger publishes a video of Interstate here. First time interstate is really mentioned, as a front page news item, on this site.
2003-06-08 A guy named pika complains about the lack of L'étranger's mod. This is the first time someone complains about the delays in creating Interstate BTW, an unnice comment L makes about EOD (something along the lines of noobmod) causes a three page flamewar.
2003-06-06 L. posts screenshots to celebrate the launch of www.bf1982.com
2003-07-08 The screenshots showing first parts of the town system. This site, unlike others, also shows a screenshot illustrating a highway system. Looks nice, I wonder what ever happend to that? But there are more like this on the course of Interstate...
2003-07-17 A forum post again shows that L is very self confident and believes that he has made more progress than EOD. He also says that he has worked practically alone on the mod.
2003-08-22 Someone talks about a mod called streetwars, which could be a competitor to Interstate. The site linked to is replaced by something about the DMCA, so no idea what this all was about.
Obviously, most of the posts here deal with L'étranger, but on the other hand, he appears to be admin or moderator on that site, so he is the premier source for Interstate there. We also learn that the community on this site likes Interstate quite much.