Darkest Hour Update

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Darkest Hour Updates - 9 Feb 2009


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Here we have the next update from the Darkest Hour team - including a subtle rebranding to "Darkest Hour: Europe 44-45". A little broadening of the horizons going on there, to reflect the wider target of the mod these days.

New features added this week include:

• Supersonic bullet snaps
• Grenade self-sacrifice (diving on them to protect your friends)
• New weapon textures
• New animations
• Many fixes

For the full details, click on the picture to jump over to the Darkest Hour website and see how the work is progressing!

 

[Yoshiro]

Ohh, new features sound interesting. Not sure if I'll like em yet, but we'll see

 

[Nestor Makhno]

Ohh, new features sound interesting. Not sure if I'll like em yet, but we'll see

Join the test team if you want to know, Yoshi, join the test team.

email here

 

[BlackLabel]

Grenade self-sacrifice (diving on them to protect your friends)

Nice, i can allready imagine it...

*bonk* nade lands in front of 2 guys

"You, jump on it gogogogo..."

"why me again ? i did last time..."

*BOOM*

 

[fOgGy]

Nice update! I'm really loving the new German winter uniforms (perhaps you could give the Germans full snow camo as well like in the pics below) and the Supersonic Bullet Snaps feature (I wonder if this will help to add suppressive fire to DH ?).

Plus the changing of the name from Darkest Hour: Normandy '44 to Europe '44-'41 is now a better title

Red Orchestra: Ostfront '41-'45
Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45
Mare Nostrum: North Africa '40-'43 ?

Another thing will the grenade sacrificer get extra points for risking his own life to protect team-mates from getting naded ?

 

[BlackLabel]

That fogy is indeed a good question.

As long as its not 5 points for sacrificing yourself. I mean that whould lead to hillarious situations i guess.

Maybe not reward it at all. In the end its something you do for the team...

 

[Nestor Makhno]

The German winter uniform is randomly assigned from various trousers and tops. So you could have all white.

Best thing about nade sacrificing.... your comrade dives on the nade at your feet. You calmly stand on his back. There is a loud bang - everything blurs, your ears ring and you walk away from a twitching pile of meat.

 

[fOgGy]

The DH German winter uniform would also be very good for RO cold-weathered snowy stock maps. RO current German winter uniforms don't look anything like winter uniforms.

 

[BlackLabel]

Somehow i still hope DH gets a steam realease. Whould be well deserved.

 

[Ol Dirty Mcgirt]

Once the official version is released it will be through steam. It was said in one of their updates (I think the one where they said it would be released on the 31st.) Hopefully this will bring a bigger crowd to RO/DH.

 

[Shurek]

Method of release has not been announced in any of the updates. I think you're referring to community speculation within that thread.

Stay tuned for more information...

 

[Nestor Makhno]

What he said.

 

[hwxlhrider]

I tried it for a couple hours, its ok. But I thought of the 3 or 4 maps I tried could have been better,they were really huge battle fields and no transportation.The realistic sounds were alot better than I expected.
I wonder about the standard maps I think 53 of them," where are the maps with closer quarters I mean house to house and street to street fighting!

 

[husbert]

than check this out
http://www.redorchestragame.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25794

edit: i see that you mean dh

than check stoumont out !

 

[BlackLabel]

Basicly i liked all the buldge maps for their combined arms/house to house combat. Its just awesome to make one house your stronghold with enemys attacking from all diffrent angels..In fact those maps MAKE people play carefully and teamoriented instead of creating a huge meatgrinder like lyes krovy....

 

[Sidus Preclarum]

Yeah, I find the gameplay provided by the Bulges map to be excellent.

 

[hwxlhrider]

I'm gettin some bugs on the house to house map I was just on, first nade resupply at the manor wouldn't resupply me, then when I got capped there wasn't a tk notification,so [what made the screen go black] I don't know if its friendly fire or not,I got rifle butted by a teammate so I know that tk damage is under control,and it was getting pretty sweet for a few minutes picking off targets at the ruins like fish in a barrel,but the germans always win...lol
Then the next game I got booted for tk's because they were attacking the bridge from the wrong direction, so they couldn't be teamates...I don't what that was about maybe doped up bots.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

What you need to bear in mind is that the version you are playing and the version that will be released (the one these threads are about) are very different things indeed.

So far only our testers and a few TW staffers have seen the version which will soon be released.

 

[hwxlhrider]

Thanks I didn't know that. But, they never released insurgency,its still a mod for a long time too! I checked out the test server for DarkestHour and it literally was the darkest map I ever tried , I didn't like it too much.And there wasn't any transportation,one of the reasons I didn't like it much. One of the other servers would cause a flamewar if I commented about tk's realistically.
And now when the MG gets kia you can pick up the gun but his ammo isn't there.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

I checked out the test server for DarkestHour

No, you didn't.