Heroes of the West (Western Front mod)

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Moskeeto

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I connected to both servers, but both had stock maps and decent number of players. Are they only running mod at random or when Donner pops up?

You can go into the server browser, sort the list by map name and scroll all the way to the bottom. WF- maps will be there. Makes it easy to find them. ;)
 

Lemonater47

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^ So bizarre that Games on net are running this mod considering they never gave a **** about their servers beforehand (no admins, customs, mutators, server could barely handle 48 players, etc), always seemed like a fire-and-forget job.

I just became admin for RO2 GON servers lol. I was for a couple of other games beforehand. Then I became part of this mod and needed a server to run it on. Got RO2 admin rights.

But yeah your right the other admins hadn't played the game in months. The servers can handle 64 players on a good day but the admins didn't like 64 players at all. Thought it was too many. Even Aussie/NZ some nights decides that everyone is gonna have 200 ping for a few games. And its always triple did hits with 64 players. But unreal 3 engine games aren't great at handling lots of stuff. You can have a really powerful server with an intel Xeon and the largest bandwidth money can buy and it still won't run well. Which is what we have.
 

Kleist

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IMO 40 player are perfect for RO2 for every map we currenty have.

64 could be fine for some maps, too. But for the most it is still too much and not a lot of fun.
 

Paulchen Panzer

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So i had Problems getting it up to work cause your config is complete wrong. Pls Correct ROGame... to WF pls.

After I edited it I tried it with downloading files per redirect look what happend:

donner.jpg


I know i`ve to install the files as client but would it possible to get it up to work per redirect? Think that would be the best solution.
 
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CommanderShepard

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nymets1104

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I just became admin for RO2 GON servers lol. I was for a couple of other games beforehand. Then I became part of this mod and needed a server to run it on. Got RIGHTS...

In that case. ..turn off that kill cam! :D
Also, played WF-Donner with one other human and neither of us could get bots to leave the spawn. All textures looked good though
 

r0tzbua

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I kinda have this WIP lying around:


(Sorry for the screen, it's very shiny, but I'm on my Mac and can't open the MAX file in Maya :D)

It's a WIP of a G43 High Poly, has quite some problem still (hard edges, missing stuff, inaccuracies, missing internals) I don't know if I come around fixing stuff in it, but I could fix the biggest problems and donate it if someone wants to put some work into it, what it needs:

  • Fixing the High Poly (Edges, Inaccuracies, Missing Elements like Internals)
  • Making the Low Poly
  • UV-Ing
  • Texture
 

Kleist

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I kinda have this WIP lying around:


(Sorry for the screen, it's very shiny, but I'm on my Mac and can't open the MAX file in Maya :D)

It's a WIP of a G43 High Poly

I really like to see that for IOM, too :D
The teamal ready have released some new weapons. But they seem to be very busy with the current work.
But with IOM i start to believe that we will see new weapons in RO2 at least and don't will be defeated in stalingrad.
Somewhere i have seen some early WIP pictures of a StG-44. Not sure but maybe AAZ have post it some time ago.

Those great work is useful for IOM and the Westfront Team
 
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r0tzbua

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Rotzbua,

i`d like to ask you things about Festung Europa and when the Aplha is finished. But i guess you`re not allowed to answer, right?
Can't answer anything about that, sorry. Like everywhere there is a NDA in place. I'm not involved in that project anymore though.
 

Raven1986

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I am still in my childhood concerning mapping with the new SDK. I haven't mapped since RO CA ceased. So I doubt I will be of much help there at the moment.

Concerning voices, I am fluent in German, no accent. If you tell me how I can record my voice with a Sennheiser headset in my own room and not a music studio I will gladly give my voice for this project. :)

I sent you a PM Moskeeto.
 
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Moskeeto

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Something we're thinking about doing is making a generic American uniform to suit most settings. Any idea how that could be done? We shouldn't be limited with just Rangers and Airborne, of course.

But I look online and only see a bunch of different uniforms with a bunch of different patches on their shoulders. Were there any uniforms without such markings?
 

KaiserJohannes

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As far as I know the US army had shoulder patches that showed the Division and below that the rank insignia patch. If you find a Division that fought in most of Normandy you can use that. For example Day of Defeat Source has the 3rd ID as Americans and all their stock maps are actual battles they fought - which is easy because the 3rd saw the most European fights.
 

Lemonater47

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Well there is a US army uniform in the game. Not just a US marine uniform. They were almost identical anyway.
 
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kapulA

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The best way, imho, would be to make a regular GI uniform without any patches, kinda like the rangers you have now but without any insignia, and create random shade variations of the khaki or green trousers and tunics. Add in helmet variations, such as different shades, damage states, netting on/off and you ought to have a pretty decent 'vanilla' grunt. For added grog appeal you can vary shades of equipment coloring as well :D
 

Lemonater47

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To make the Americans uniform look properly authentic the field jacket needs to be lengthened to the upper thighs rather than the hips.
 

hansenmann

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For some reason the mod doesn't seem to be working for me. I tried subscribing to the steam workshop, then I tried the manual install. Can somebody help me? :)
Nvm, i fixed it
 
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