Nosepoo2/'94

'94 is a 2019 war-based Roblox game created by nosepoo2. The game is set during the First Battle of Grozny, which started on December 22, 1994, which was an important event of the First Chechen War. The game utilizes modified open-sourced gun system called "Advanced Combat System (ACS)" which is popular among many military (Mostly MilSim) games on Roblox, e.g. "Syrian Shenanigians", "Breakify's Gun Test Place", "The Eastern War" and various military tycoon games. The experience takes inspirations from popular tactical shooters such as SQUAD, Escape From Tarkov and ArmaA III. The game is free-to-play and contains almost no limits for other players except for the faction system which requires them to join and pass the tryout/application in order to gain access to faction rooms. 
The original name was "Purgatory 1994" - A reference to the movie made by Alexander Nevzorov - "Чистилище" (1997) which is the first inspiration for nosepoo2. The movie is extremely (even beyond) brutal and takes places in Grozny during assault of the Russian Armed Forces on city, however it is not a documentary and controversial anti-war product marked as a military-drama. "Those who love war will love it more, those who hated it will now hate it even more, hopefuly the last ones are ninty-nine percent" (Quote of A. Nevzorov, printed on the back of VHS tape folder produced by ОRТ (Now: Rossiya 1). 
The game always had pretty low player activity and was varying from 60 to 80 players at maximum in February of 2023 when servers were capable of 50 players with server optimization turned on. Sometimes, the game was called dead when active players rate downed to 15 players or almost zero caused by unpleasant events and other problems such as the high amount of exploiters, extreme lag, generally poor optimization, etc. The lowest rating on game was 60% of thumbs up; also, massive attacks by large group of exploiters who started to terrorize players and developers, threats of doxxing, swatting, phishing and blackmailing. Eventually game was kept updated and revived many times, new developers joined the team and helped usually on volunteer ideals. The troubles passed and "Chechnya 1994" eventually made it to Roblox popular games page. The game was being called phenomena inside of community due to low activity for its genre yet fast-growing and permanent fan-base. The game visits started growing very fast after the first remake was published and grew from 3,600,000 visits in November 2023 visits to 5,500,000 visits in February 2024. 
=== List of developers: ===
* nosepoo2 - Owner [ PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA / HONG-KONG ]
* VASILI_ZAITSEV (aka RMM) - Co-Owner/Builder [ REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ] (Original account is terminated)
* Bloxy_Senator - Builder (Retired) [ RUSSIAN FEDERATION ]
* MrMarti76 - Importer/Asset contributor (Retired) [ REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA ]
* RobotTV122 - Scripter [ REPUBLIC OF UKRAINE ]
* MordorTac10 - Importer/ACS Scripting [ GREAT BRITAIN ]
* REX_DGFGAMER - ACS Scripting [ KINGDOM OF THAILAND (?) ]
== Backstory ==
Before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the Chechen conflict was Russia's most unpopular decision at the time, which caused resonance and active political splash in societies all around the world, as they included rare mentions and arguments over "who is right" in Chechen conflict, the legitimacy of Chechnya's independent state (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria,) and separatism inside of the Russian Federation. The story of "Chechnya 1994" and its prototypes starts later than events listed below, however if these events did not happen, the game could look a lot different or do not even exist. Ideas of making a Chechen war game firstly sprung up somewhere around late of May - September 2021 in the early period of the VASILl_ZAITSEV's Russian Federation ro-nation.
[[File:VasilisRussia90s2.png|left|thumb|"Black February" Constitutional crisis, refering to "Black October" (16th of February 2022)]]
VASILI_ZAITSEV's ro-nation was originally founded around late August - September of 2020 as a USSR (then: ROCKEDGE) which slowly progressed from the 1940s to 1980s, eventually dissolving the original Soviet State on April 26, forming the Russian Federation. During the period when the group de facto existed until it was closed, it was rich of history and activity, varying from ro-nation wars, incidents, political and diplomatic affiliations; (LARPing). One of the most notable incidents during this era was the "Third Chechen War," which occurred from March 12, 2022, having been organized by Cenger (aka Jeman235). The quality of game left a great impression for many of the participants and even drew great inspiration for the developers which affected Chechnya 1994's graphics design. In 2021, Bloxy_Senator (Then: MrColonel3737PC2) created a place called "ARMABLOX", inspired by ArmA III, few days later rebranding to "The Chechen War, 1994;" also under emotional feelings of learning about the history of the Chechen Wars
Around the November of 2022, VASILI_ZAITSEV and nosepoo2 teamed up and revived Purgatory 2024. On January 25, 2023, a post on VKontakte was made, Bloxy_Senator was surprised by such moment and contacted Vasili to join the development team, who was then accepted by nosepoo and got access to edit the game.
Although it is not clear to say if "Chechnya 1994" affected the whole internet or not, the game has affected the Roblox community in very massive, unique way for sure, leading to formation of specific fanbase and attracting various people with different kinds of media background.
== Gameplay ==
Gameplay does not contain unique or any other special elements and is extremely simple, nor any gamemodes presented in-game. De-facto objective is to assert domination on the global map by capturing points/positions of interest marked by letters, once position is captured it allows your team to spawn on it using interactive map located inside of spawn rooms for each team.
=== Teams ===
* Russian forces;
** Public: OMON, VDV, Federal Forces, Marines | Factions: 7th GAAD, FSK, Internal Forces.
* Chechen forces;
** Public: Partisans, National army, Volunteer corps, General Dudaev's army | Factions: Spetsnaz "Borz", Militia (Chechen National Army).
==History Game Versions==
* The game was originally called Purgatory 1994 in 2019
* Changed to Chechnya 1994 at December 2022
* Changed to '94 with the fourth remake version release in Summer of 2023 due to moderation related issues (Great Patriotic War memorial with T-34 tank on it)
==Trivia==
* Game used to have 2 Mi-8 transport helicopters for Russian forces team which got an update adding to them functional rocket pads and exhaust flares, helicopters were in-game since November 2022 and were removed because of technical issues in December of 2023;
* Factions are not always permanent and occasionly change.
* A badge "Sacred War" Can be obtained by finding PPSh-41 hidden on West of the Grozny, in earlier versions it was under the Great Patriotic War memorial, it got removed due to Robloxes guideliness.
* Voluntueer corps are mix of different units based off real organizations which took part in the war; UNA-UNSO, CMPC, "Grey Wolves", Georgian/Baltic/Other nationalistic cells or mercenaries.
* Perrell Laquarius Brown used to play '94 for few minutes on his live YouTube stream, Romanian community member by the nickname "Kalash" Donated his stream with message. Time code: 1:00:34
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