Join us this weekend for the annual Halloween celebration! While our development team is busy polishing the upcoming Sicily release, back on the mainland the dead have risen once again and it's up to you to pound them back into the ground... or join the horde yourself. This weekend Haunted maps are returning back to the roster featuring a few touch ups, a new melee weapon, and a new character with an exquisite taste in headwear and a penchant for stabbing things with broken glass bottles. Make sure to visit Official Server #3 EU at 6:00 PM UTC this Sunday, October 27 for the Halloween map marathon.

Returning maps

• Haunted Pariserplatz Survival
• Haunted Flugplatz Survival
• Haunted Inferno Verde Survival
• Haunted Hattert Clash
• Haunted Fury Advance

New updates

• Mad Man role. He's faster, stronger, and more resilient survivor with a focus on melee.
• A new melee weapon: Glass Bottle.
• Reworked first person animations for maces.

Other non-Halloween additions

• Gorlitz Defence been added to the map roster. Apart from the change of the game mode, this new rendition of the classic map now features Poland (LWP).

After a short absence, we're back with a new update. This time a smaller one, but featuring a new armored map, a reworked infantry map and fixes for some long outstanding bugs.

Maps

Armored Yaryshivka

Reichswald

Changes

Black Day July

• Fixed some minor historical inaccuracies in roles.
• Moved Allied setup phase boundary back to prevent potential spawnkilling issues.
• Adjusted vehicle respawn timers to be more in line with other maps.

Cheneux

• Reworked the From Rahier, Farm and Crossroads objectives.
• Increased all Allied objective lockdown timers by 80 seconds.
• Added a static radio in Allied main spawn.
• Added some additional cover in the fields around the Farm objective.
• Reduced Axis StG44 availability significantly: Corporal can now only choose between G41 and G43, rather than G43 and StG. Axis Assault Trooper roles were reduced from 5 to 3.

Dog Green

• Removed time gain award from all objectives and instead set the map to a static 25 minute round timer.

Grain Elevator

• Added a new objective.
• Removed ticket bleed from the German team.
• Significantly increased starting tickets for the German team.

Mahknovo

• Removed a fence panel behind the Post Office objective to allow easier access to the objective.

Bug Fixes

Editor Click Delay

Mortar Animation Bug Fix

Inconsistencies Between Turret and Hull Schrzen

• Turret Schrzen now provides protection against AP bullets (PTRD) and HE shells under 8.5cm in caliber.
• Turret Schrzen now only defeats HEAT projectiles if the angle of incidence is over 45 degrees.
• Added protection to the rear of turrets where appropriate (mid to late-war Panzer IV and Panzer III models). Previously skirts on the rear of these vehicles was purely cosmestic and offered no benefits.

Italy Update Progress

• All new player models have been completed.
• All new vehicle models & animations have been completed.
• New maps are being finalized and polished after a number of successful internal playtests.
• Italian voice lines have been recorded, edited and completed. You can hear a sample of some of the voice lines below!

Happy Spring everyone! We're back with another toy for you to play with, along with some map updates!

Fallschirmjgergewehr 42 (ZF42)

• Les Champs de Losque
• Stoumont
• Dead Man's Corner
• Carentan Causeway

• Flakturm Tiergarten

Map Updates

Dzerzhinsky Tractor Factory

• Reworked Axis spawn.
• Added second street at the beginning of the map
• Detailed and expanded the courtyard/park
• Detailed the original street around the first objective.
• Added new building Apartment 5031 which serves as a new initial objective, grouped with reworked building Logistics Bureau.
• Added new buildings across the map, replacing many old static models with new ones.
• Significantly improved terrain detail with new textures and decolayers.
• Reworked South and West Commons locations with new trenchworks and dugouts.
• Reworked Administration Building and added new rooms and details.
• General detail pass across the map to increase visual fidelity and improve gameplay.
• Reworked objective layout and added 3 new objectives.

La Cambe

• Fixed floating props at the Trenches objective.

Olkhovatka

• Improved lighting.
• Added some additional statics around the map for more cover.
• Removed ticket bleed from Axis.
• Removed ticket capture bonus from taking the first objective to compensate for removal of ticket bleed.
• Reduced number of tanker roles on both teams to match the number of max tanks.
• Reworked tank loadouts:
• Increased Sovet max active tanks from 2 to 3.
• Increased KV1-E max spawns from 2 to 5.
• Removed the Panzer IVs.
• Increased the max active Tigers from 1 to 2.
• Increased the max spawns of the Tiger from 3 to 6.
• This rework is based on the actual units present in the battle (Olkhovatka was mainly a Tiger battle, with support from StuGs, StuHs and Panzer IIIN).

Ten Aard

• The far east broken bridge is no longer passable by infantry. This was basically the case before, but it would allow you to pass to the other side, but then be stuck inside a minefield from which there was no escape.

Italy Update

v11.6.9 Patch Notes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where players movement would be hobbled after going from prone to standing when holding the ZB-30.
• Fixed missing sleeve textures for some Soviet Rifleman roles.

Gameplay

• Fire and Move signals have had a number of changes to address exploits and usability:
• The signal transparency is now smoothly modulated based on timing & the viewing angle.
• The duration of signals has been reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.
• Signals will now be fully transparent if the player's viewing angle is within 2 degrees of the signal.
• The signal recipient radius has been reduced from 50 meters to 25 meters.

Maps

Pegasus Bridge

• Fixed a Danger Zone issue that could allow Allied squad leaders to rally on the German side of the bridge solo.
• Fixed an issue with the recapture behaviors of the Town Hall and Corner House objectives.

Maupertus Advance

• Increased Axis tickets slightly.

Armored Vieux

• Removed NW Farm cap.
• Tank balance changed.
• Fixed some floaters.
• Re-designed last cap.
• Added progressive spawns for both teams.

Armored Gran

• Added Sherman M4A3E8 for Allies and an extra Panther for Axis.
• Fixed Pak43 that were leaning to the side because of bad placement.
• Rebalanced some roles.
• Reduced +30% ratio to +5% as this had greatly imbalanced the map.

Armored La Champagne Advance

• This map makes a return!

Hello there! We're back with another small patch that introduces a number of bug fixes and level tweaks. If you ever noticed your turret sometimes rotating on its own when entering a tank, this old Red Orchestra bug is finally gone! But before we dive into the changelog, there's something we need to address.

Frequent Disconnects Issue

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where turrets and cannons would spontaneously rotate on entering them if they were used by another player earlier.
• Fixed a bug where players who disconnected from the game as spectator would be automatically assigned to the Axis upon rejoining.
• Fixed an exploit where it was possible to place constructions in invalid locations by switching to a smaller construction in the menu during the placement process.
• Fixed a bug where active objective spawns could be calculated incorrectly when the objective was linked to multiple active objectives.
• [Server maintenance] Fixed a number of errors that would spam the server logs.

Vehicles

• Slightly increased the BT-7 HE shell velocity (it was about ~10m/s slower than it should have been, according to sources).

Maps

Butovo

• Changed blocking boundaries in setup phase to delay Soviet tanks at the first objective.
• Reworked tank progression (Soviets will have fewer tanks at the final village, while some other Soviet models like the KV-1E and S will unlock earlier in the game).
• Added the Panzer IIIN as an additional fire support option for the Germans.
• Increased respawn timers on most Soviet tanks by 20-30 seconds.
• Removed Soviet objective spawn from the final village.
• Reworked objective Danger Zone influences around the final village.

Klin 1941

• Removed Axis ticket bleed from all objectives.
• Increased max active Panzer IIIJs from 2 to 3.
• Reduced respawn timers for Panzer IVF1 and BT7 tanks by 20-40 seconds.
• Reworked all objective Danger Zone influences.
• Reduced Axis and Allied tanker slots to match number of active tanks.

Kryuokovo

• Changed round time to 20 minutes.
• Removed time gain awards from capturing objectives.
• Reduced simultaneously available Soviet tanks from 2 to 1.
• Reduced respawn timers on all Soviet tanks by 30 seconds.
• Changed team balance ratio to be even.
• Added additional cover and spawn protection to final Axis spawn.

St. Marie du Mont

• Reworked NW, Eastern Road and Church objectives to unlock in a new order: Now when either road is taken, the Church will be unlocked and is grouped with them.
• Increased lockdown timers for the above objectives from 250 to 600 seconds.
• Reduced initial unlock timer for the Church to 60 seconds.
• Removed map-placed Axis HQ construction.
• Reworked all objective Danger Zone influences.
• Removed Allied ticket bleed from all objectives.
• Updated objective spawn locations to offer better cover.

Welcome back! This update is small, but tightly packed with a number of notable bug fixes, including the fixing of a 15(!) year old bug that has eluded us...until now!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a long-standing Red Orchestra bug (15+ years?) where projectiles would not spawn correctly when hipfiring while leaning in multiplayer mode.
• Fixed a bug where muting player's voice commands would not work.
• Fixed a bug where some constructions could be invulnerable to explosive damage if their origins were under the terrain.
• Fixed a bug where players would lose their session's kill count when disconnecting from the server.
• Fixed a bug where bipod simulations would not work in multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug where a version of the DP-27 would not have it's magazine spin during firing.
• Fixed a bug where resetting the game could cause the danger zone influences to be miscalculated.

Miscellaneous

• Increased the number of rounds in the belt of the M1919A6 and MG42 from 150 to 200.
• Sandbag constructions no longer automatically despawn if left unbuilt.
• Added a bipod turn sensitivity option to the control settings.
• The damage model of the HEAT projectiles of the StuH 42 and Sherman 105 have been brought to parity.
• The .50 cal now does less base damage to vehicles (i.e., you can no longer shoot a Panzer IV in the rear a handful of times and kill it).
• The PTRD has had it's base damage against vehicles reduced, but the chance to damage or destroy components has been increased.

Maps

Bremoy

• Optimized terrain and deco layers, hopefully increasing performance slightly.
• Added small team balance ratio in favor of the Allies.
• Reworked all objective danger zone influences.
• Removed Allied ticket bleed from first objective.
• Reduced Panther max spawns from infinite to 3.
• Reduced Sherman MkII respawn timer from 220 seconds to 180.
• Increased Sherman Firefly max spawns from 2 to 3 and reduced respawn timer to 180 seconds.
• Increased Stuart spawns from 1 to 5 and reduced respawn timer to 200 seconds.
• Increased max AT guns of all types for Allies from 1 to 2 and reduced the respawn timer to 120 seconds.
• Added Wolverine SP (British M10) with 3 spawns to Allies.

Gran Advance

• Infantry version of popular armored map.

Kriegstadt Push USA

• Recreated the classic 29th style US faction version (for funsies).

Wacht am Rhein

• Fixed bug where Axis would sometimes spawn under the terrain.
• Added a new objective.

Italy Update

v11.6.0

Weapon Overhauls

Winchester 1897

Enfield No. 4

Maps

Additions

Bremoy Advance

Changes

Armored Iskra

• Fixed an issue with the Axis initial spawn not deactivating after setup phase.

Bridgehead

• Added Volkssturm rifleman role and reduced number of Heer riflemen to 6.
• Added ammo pouch for FG42 roles.
• Added G43 to German AT role.
• Removed ZF41 from German sniper role (marksman role has these instead).
• Reduced number of Panther spawns from 10 to 5.
• Fixed bug with Canadian Squad Leaders having duplicate binoculars.
• Fixed an inconsistency with some roles using the base RO Kar98k model.

Champs d'Agonie

• Fixed corrupted map file.

Cheneux

• Added additional cover to the map, particularly around the first objective.
• Added a 3 minute delay before Sd.Kfz. 10/5 halftracks unlock.
• Reduced Allied respawn time to 8 seconds on the first objective only.
• Reduced capture requirements for first objective from 5 players to 3.

Flakturm Tiergarten

• Increased Axis ticket modifier by 2 (games were ended in draws too frequently).
• Fixed several floating static meshes.
• Fixed collision on plants inside of the University building.

Fury Advance:

• Changed Manor objective to deactivate when captured by Allies.
• Changed Stuart to unlock when Manor is captured.
• Added delay to initial Tiger spawn.

German Village

• Fixed incorrect rifle on Volkssturm AT loadouts.

Godolloi

• Increased Allied and Axis tickets slightly.
• Reduced all objective capture speeds.
• Changed all objectives to have minimum player requirements to capture.
• Reworked some objective capture areas such as Western Roadblock.

Jurques Dusk

• Rework of previous Jurques Day Two version with improved performance, new lighting and objectives.

Kriegstadt

• Added a limited number of logistic trucks back onto the map.
• Added constructions limits.
• Removed tank traps which locked German tanks into one street for the Ministry and Bridge objective.
• Moved Axis supply cache so it is not as vulnerable.
• Moved Flemingstrasse Axis Objective spawn back so it was out of arty range.
• Removed howitzers for both teams.
• Fixed bug which made Germans unable to capture Offices objective.

Olkhovatka

• Added some additional cover and detail near Soviet main spawn.
• Added a new building interior in the village.
• Added missing Combat Engineer role for Germans.
• Added PTRD and RPG grenade to the Russian AT role.
• Removed StuH 42, Pz III and earliest model of T-34 to simplify loadout.
• Increased Tiger respawn time and decreased availability.
• Reduced number of active tanks for the Germans from 5 to 3 and Russians from 4 to 2.
• Reduced German MG roles from 3 to 2.

Pointe du Hoc

• Added additional cover along the road and in the fields around the MG Position and Barn objectives.
• Increased map time limit from 40 to 45 minutes.
• Reduced Axis respawn time modifier on the last two objectives from 50 to 30 seconds.
• Fixed a bug where some Axis spawns were facing the wrong direction.
• Fixed a bug were certain objectives could stay enabled when not intended.

Road to Isigny

• Added Osttruppe rifleman role.
• Added construction limits.
• Added minimum player requirements to capture objectives.
• Fixed an issue where Axis could build AT guns behind artillery and minefield protection volumes.
• Reduced respawn timer of Marder III to 180 seconds from 400 seconds.
• Changed Pz IV Ausf. H to StuG III Ausf. G (352nd ID was equipped only with StuGs, Marders and Flakpanzers in reality).

Stoumont

• Added German sniper role with G43 ZF4.

Targnon Advance

• Added slight team balance skew in ratio of Attackers.
• Reduced player capture requirements for all objectives.

Ten Aard

• Increased Axis ticket modifier slightly.
• Reworked final Axis spawn minefield to offer better protection.
• Fixed some collision issues with some window statics.

Miscellaneous

• Set the default resolution for new installs to 1600x900 instead of 1024x768.
• Squads can now be locked with a minimum of 2 members instead of 3.

Were back again at long last with a new batch of weapons for you to get your mitts on! The team has been hard at work putting together the upcoming Italian update for the last several months. We are still aiming for a late 2023 release date, though realistically we may have to delay the release somewhat to make sure the release is as stable and polished as we would like. A reminder also that our Patreon supporters get exclusive access to development progress reports (screenshots) and exclusive access to (upcoming) Italian update beta tests. Your donations through Patreon keep the game servers and our development infrastructure running. If you can afford to, please consider becoming a patron! Without further preamble, here are the change log notes:

New Weapons

Karabiner 98k (ZF41) and Marksman role

Gewehr 98 variants

• Gewehr 98
• Vz. 24
• FN Model M1924

Degtyaryov machine gun DT-29

Mannlicher M95/30

Maschinenkarabiner 42(H)

Weapon Overhauls

• The Fallschirmjger 42 has had its first person animations completely remade, bringing the feel of the weapon more in line with our more recent overhauled weapons.

Miscellaneous

• The British vehicle voice lines have had a radio effect added to them to bring them in line with the other faction's vehicle voice lines.
• The M45 Quadmount now has a dramatically longer reload time to properly reflect the loading of 4 seperate ammo boxes.
• Vehicle gunners will now automatically alert the crew (via vehicle voice commands) that the gun is loaded after reloading a main cannon. This behavior can be changed in the settings menu.
• There is now a new "Use Native Item Names" option in the settings which uses the native weapon names used by the nation of origin.

Bug Fixes

• Fix for bug where cancelling artillery strikes were being refunded when they shouldn't have been
• Fixed an inconsistency in the spotting menu where the number & location of the options would change depending on what the level's game mode was.

Maps

Armored Kasserine Pass

• Reduced German tank spawn times across the board.
• Changed Panzer IV tank models from Late to Early type, to more accurately depict the historical setting.
• Increased Axis and Allied tickets significantly.

Armored Raid to Bastogne

• Fixed collision issues with certain trees/bushes in the mid-section of the map.

Armored Road to Leningrad

• Changed map name from the generic "Road to Leningrad" to "Iskra" (Spark) after the offensive it was based on.
• Changed tanks from 1944 models to more accurate early 1943 models.
• Changed objective layout to better suit the Advance game mode (previously it functioned more as a Clash map).
• Changed attacking team to Soviets.
• Added more detail around the map.
• Added a new final objective.
• Fixed areas where you could fall through the terrain.
• Fixed a bug where teams could run out of tickets before the time limit and no longer be able to spawn.

Berezina

• Increased German tickets slightly.
• Increased objective lockdown timers significantly when captured by attackers.
• Removed objective lockdown timers when recaptured by defenders.
• Reduced objective unlock timers by 20 seconds.
• Fixed pop-in for some objects such as trench supports.

Flakturm Tiergarten

• Reworked tank unlock progression. Allies start with SU-76M immediately and receive T-34-85 after a 3 minute delay. Germans start with Sd.Kfz. 251/22 immediately and unlock Tiger after a 3 minute delay.
• Changed SU-76M to use new LWP skin.
• Changed advancing spawn protection minefields to offer defenders additional time to retreat if they are inside of the area when the minefield activates.
• Fixed incorrect US ammo box texture on resupply boxes inside of the Flakturm.

Klin 1941

• Increased German tickets slightly.
• Increased lockdown timers of final objectives to 5 minutes.
• Removed rally point restrictions from trenches around the final objectives.

La Cambe

• Changed the first objective to disable upon capture.
• Added lockdown timers to all objectives upon capture.
• Fixed infamous floating fire emitter.
• Fixed blue static stove inside the old manor building.

Maupertus Advance

• Reduced all objective capture speeds.
• Reduced Axis respawn timer from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
• Fixed map boundaries preventing you from using flanks that were otherwise intended to be open.
• Fixed Axis initial spawns not spawning players in the correct position.

Pointe du Hoc

• Added Artillery Officer and Gunner roles to Axis.
• Limited WSS Rifleman roles to 8 (Artillery Gunner roles replace them as unlimited).
• Changed Allies to have +2% team ratio.
• Increased Axis respawn timer to 20 seconds from 15.
• Increased Allied Combat Engineer roles from 3 to 4.
• Removed requirement that objectives be cleared before capture.
• Fixed a bug where Higgins boats could spawn inside of eachother and launch into orbit.
• Fixed floating rocks on the beach.

Poteau Ambush

• Changed minefield boundaries to be more forgiving to both teams.
• Rebalanced Danger Zone influences of all objectives.

Rakowice

• Removed Soviet airstrip minefield, as it was much too close to the final objective and could block Germans from properly defending the final objective.
• Increased kill time of all minefields from 15 seconds to 20 to give vehicles a little more chance to back out.

Valko

• Increased max active Universal Carriers to 2 for Soviets.
• Added limited M3A1 Halftrack spawns to Soviets.

Hello again! We are back with another patch that adds a number of quality of life changes and fixes a long-standing bug around machine-gun deployment! As usual, many map tweaks and fixes as well!

Quality of Life

• Players will now resupply & reload players that are shouldering AT weapons with a single keypress.
• A message will be displayed to the team when a vehicle pool has been activated or destroyed.
• When using a shovel, players can now simply hold down the fire button to continue digging.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a long-standing bug where weapons could sometimes fire blanks after deploying due to a client-server desync.

Maps

Cambes en Plaine

• Reworked objective territory influences.
• The final objective can now be recaptured by the Axis.

Pegasus Bridge

• The Allies can now spawn from 2 approaches.
• Fixed a bug where Benouville and Corner House objective volumes were too large.
• Added new Axis initial spawn with a maximum of 12 spawns.
• Reworked objective territory influences.
• Reworked Bridge objective area.
• Increased tickets for both teams to account for additional fighting.

La Fiere Day

• Enabled Allies a limited construction of 57mm AT guns (historically delivered by gliders)
• Allied supply caches now have a lower limit.
• Added an Allied supply cache to the end of the Causeway objective.

La Fuellie Advance

• Fixed an issue where invisible geometry would block howitzer shells in some areas of the map.
• Slightly increased Allied tickets.

Wanne Advance

• Reworked objective territory influences.
• Slightly reduced the size of some objective capture areas.

Berezina Advance

• The Soviet main spawn now has territory influence.

Les Champs de Losque

• Fixed a bug where minefields on the south east side of the map would kill the player too quickly.

SDK

• Leveler-placed spawn points can now have a limited number of players spawn on them (`MaxSpawns`)

Gameplay

Grenades

• The amount of grenades that players spawn with has been increased from 1 to 2.

Developer Note

Satchel & Engine Fires

• The radius of resupply points attached to vehicles (i.e., logistics trucks) has been increased by ~1 meter.
• Satchels that explode on the tops of tanks and within range of the engine will no longer 100% start a fire in the engine. The likelihood of an engine fire is now determined by how close the explosion is to the engine.
• The likelihood of an engine fire spreading to the hull has been dramatically reduced.

Developer Note

Infantry Howitzers

• Reduced the reload time of all infantry howitzers from 12 seconds to 6 seconds.
• Reduced the resupply interval of all howitzers from 25 seconds to 12 seconds.

Developer Note

Maps

Berezina Advance

• Added 2 Combat Engineer roles for Soviets.
• Reduced max tanks for both teams, Soviets now have 2 tanks active at once, Germans have 3.
• Made BT7, Panzer III and Panzer IV Ausf. F1 spawns unlimited.
• Reduced max active logi trucks for both teams from 3 to 2.
• Implemented gun limit of 6 for Soviet light AT guns.

Cholm Advance

• Fixed issue where Axis would bleed tickets while still controlling objectives.
• Improved spawn protection minefield around Axis main spawn.
• Added additional cover to Axis main spawn.
• Disabled Karma collision on all wooden fences.

St Marie du Mont

• Added new Northwestern and Eastern Road objectives, replacing the old Stable objective.
• Added new spawn protection minefields for both teams.
• Added some additional light cover around the Church objective.
• Added artillery triggers to static radios on the map.
• Added additional logistics truck spawn for Axis.
• Reduced Axis main spawn cache limit from 8000 to 6000.
• Reworked Axis main spawn protection minefield.
• Reworked Danger Zone influences of all objectives.
• Reduced artillery strikes available to both teams significantly.
• Removed US Automatic Rifleman roles and instead increased Machine Gunners to 2.
• Fixed an off-grid BSP building that caused an invisible wall near the stables.

This update brings a number of quality of life changes to the squad system that have been requested by the community (and devs!) for a while. We've also snuck in some map fixes and some tweaks to the vehicles.

Squad System

• The squad panels in the UI are now colored differently depending on whether or not you are a part of the squad.
• While in a squad, you can now join another squad directly without needing to explicitly leave your existing squad, preserving any squad-only role you might have.
• Squad Assistants are no longer immediately promoted to be squad leader after the squad leader leaves.
• Squad Leader promotions are now prompts that must be accepted by the player being promoted (this stops malicious or careless squad leaders from bumping players off of their roles).
• A "no rally points" icon (i.e. mark of shame) is now displayed on the squad menu next to the names of squads who have not had a rally point for 60 seconds. This should help unassigned players choose an appropriate squad to join.

Maps

Hedgerow Hell

• Added new initial Axis main spawn.
• Streamlined design of final Axis main spawn to make it easier to navigate.
• Fixed a number of anomalous invisible walls.
• All objectives now require 2 or 3 players to capture.
• Reworked Bridge Defences capture area to include the nearby house (this should make the objective more defensible).
• Reduced Allied artillery strikes from 12 to 8.
• Increased Axis artillery cooldown from 15 seconds to 1 minute.

Godolloi

• Increased lockdown timers on all objectives.
• Slightly decreased the capture speed of all objectives.

Champs d'Agonie

• Fixed a bug where capture notifications wouldn't play when objectives were secured.
• Scaled back German anti-precap minefields across the board (they are still present but less oppressive than before).

Les Champs de Losque

• Removed "fake" supply cache props.
• Replaced weapon props with real weapon pick-ups.

Vehicles

• The M93 (76mm HVAP) projectile (found on the M18 Hellcat, M4A176W Sherman and M10 Wolverine) has had it's penetration capabilities increased to match contemporary penetration tables.
• APCs are now vulnerable to catching fire.
• APCs now have fuel tank hit points.
• Reworked Universal Carrier damage model to be consistent with other APCs (i.e., invulnerable to small arms, reduced resistance to penetrating shots)
• Added "tank steering" to the Sd.Kfz. 251, allowing the vehicle to make tight turns while nearly stationary.
• Added hit point for turret ammunition on the M16 Halftrack.
• Increased the likelihood of the ammunition detonating on the Sd.Kfz. 251/22 (Pakwagen) & Sd.Kfz 251/9 (Stummel) when hit with a penetrating shot.
• The Sd.Kfz. 234/1 now gets 2 magazines of APCR rounds. These rounds have a much higher penetration than the AP.
• Increased the damage and damage radius of the 20mm high-explosive round (found on the Sd.Kfz. 234/1, Wirbelwind etc.)

As you have probably heard, Sicily will be coming to Darkest Hour in 2023! This means a brand new Italian faction , new maps , weapons , vehicles and more! We have put together a little teaser to get everyone HYPE! This will be the largest update to DH in years, and our team is hard at work to bring everything together. We look forward to hitting the shores of Sicily with you later this year! [previewyoutube=RoUKiump-dQ;full][/previewyoutube] See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games P.S. If you want to keep up to date on the team's progress, over on Patreon we are giving our patrons regular updates and exclusive content like Italy playtest highlight reels and more!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an oversight where German machine-gunners would not have gloves on in first person.
• Fixed a visual bug where a floating bullet could be seen after picking up a DP-27 off the ground.
• Fixed an exploit where artillery could be spotted beyond the fog distance and on the ceiling of the world.

Gameplay

• Canceling a long-range artillery strike that hasn't yet started will no longer consume the strike (i.e., the strike is refunded and can be used at a later time).
• Increased the number of projectiles in canister shots from 20 to 50.
• Made standing recoil while hipfiring the MG42 and M1919A6 more consistent.

Maps

Fury Clash

• Increased most objective lock timers from 5 to 10 minutes.
• Added more minefield protection volumes.

Rhine River Advance

• Fixed doors on a few buildings preventing players from entering.
• Fixed bugged lighting on windmill mover.
• Fixed missing staircase in Honopel objective building.
• Fixed floating tree statics in the forest between Honopel and Refuel Area.
• Fixed bug with the fog ring causing some objects to pop rather than fade in and out of view.
• Removed M45 Quadmount construction from Allies.
• Reduced view distance by about 75 meters to improve performance.
• Reduced culling distance on static trees by about 40 meters to improve performance.
• Removed ineffective anti-portals from the level to improve performance.
• Added or optimized existing BSP netcuts to improve network performance.

Targnon Advance

• Improved capture volume for AT Gun Position objective and reduced player requirement from 5 to 3.
• Increased respawn timer for US M4A375W Sherman tank from 60 to 90 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a long-standing RO bug where the player's eye-height could de-sync after rapidly transitioning from standing to crouching and then to prone.
• Fixed a bug where the max vehicle counter would not be dynamically updated, resulting in strange behavior on the vehicle selection UI.
• Fixed a bug where Vehicle Pools would not be automatically destroyed if a recently spawned vehicle was spawn-killed.
• Fixed a bug where the `GiveCamera` command was available to all players, even in multi-player.

Vehicles

• The reload duration of Soviet DP-27 coaxial and hull machine-gun has been slightly reduced.

Map Removals

• Armored Debrecen Clash
• Armored Hunter's Woods Clash
• Armored Kommerscheidt Clash
• Armored Mannikkala Clash
• Armored Orel Clash
• Armored Panzerschlact Clash
• Armored Studzianki Clash
• Armored Tank Clash At Bastogne Advance
• Ginkel Health Push
• Jurques Clash
• Kriegstadt Push
• Merderet Advance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a long-standing RO bug where the player's eye-height could de-sync after rapidly transitioning from standing to crouching and then to prone.
• Fixed a bug where the max vehicle counter would not be dynamically updated, resulting in strange behavior on the vehicle selection UI.
• Fixed a bug where Vehicle Pools would not be automatically destroyed if a recently spawned vehicle was spawn-killed.
• Fixed a bug where the `GiveCamera` command was available to all players, even in multi-player.

Vehicles

• The duration of Soviet DP-27 coaxial and hull machine-guns has been slightly reduced.

Map Removals

• Armored Debrecen Clash
• Armored Hunter's Woods Clash
• Armored Kommerscheidt Clash
• Armored Mannikkala Clash
• Armored Orel Clash
• Armored Panzerschlact Clash
• Armored Studzianki Clash
• Armored Tank Clash At Bastogne Advance
• Ginkel Health Push
• Jurques Clash
• Kriegstadt Push
• Merderet Advance

At long last, the M1919A6 Browning Machine Gun has been completely overhauled! This means new model, first-person and third-person animations!

M1919A6 Browning Machine-Gun

• Overhauled first and third-person model, texture, animations and reload sounds.
• The M1919A6 can now be hip-fired after being readied (similar to the MG-42).
• Recoil pattern has been brought closer in line with other similar machine guns (the net effect is more recoil, but a wider and arguably more desirable beaten zone)
• The weapon has now been renamed to the M1919A6 Browning Machine-Gun (previous version was an ahistoric frankenstein's monster that didn't actually exist).

Patreon Returns!

Happy New Years! We are excited to be back, and we're coming in hot! This update brings a large number of balance tweaks to a number of levels, as well as plenty of long awaited bug fixes and gameplay adjustments. Of note, Ten Aard has been converted to Advance and has had many parts of the level detailed with new defensive positions.
In addition, Rederitz has been extended, adding a new town beyond the final bridge to fight for!
We are planning some very big things for 2023, including the addition of the Italian faction. We can't wait to get it in your hands!

Maps

Butovo Advance

• Fixed incorrect Waffen SS roles on the map, now uses Waffen Heer.
• Increased Axis tickets (map is currently ending in about 50 minutes on a full server, should be closer to 60 minutes for a battle of this scale).
• Added some additional cover around the North Woods objective approach.
• Vehicles can now drive through all wooden fences.
• Reduced respawn timer for Sd.Kfz. 251 from 120 to 90 seconds.

Caen Advance

• Main supply cache maximum reduced from 8000 to 4000 for both teams.
• Resupply rate for both teams brought down from 500 to 250.
• Added an extra Pak 38 so that both "lanes" can be covered.
• Added anti-tank construction limits.

Champs d'Agonie Advance

• Renamed the map from Champs to Champs d'Agonie (the original name of the map!)
• Reworked the map to be part of the Normandy breakout around St. Lo, now features Panzer Lehr and US 3rd Armored Division.
• Fixed a number of potential game-breaking objective progression bugs.
• Increased US Radio Operator roles to 2 and added pre-placed radios for Axis.

Cheneux Advance

• Added more cover for Allies at the first objective area, especially on the flanking fields and forest to the right (Allied perspective).
• Reworked the minefields to provide more spawn protection to the Allies at the start.
• Allowed the Allies to use their armor from the start, rather than be unlocked after capturing the first objective.
• Made the middle town objectives recapturable.

Jurques Advance

• Optimized the map through additional anti-portals, reduced static cull distances, BSP optimization and bringing in fog by about 100 meters.

Kommerscheidt Advance

• "Intersection" and "Road to Schmidt" objectives now deactivate when both are captured by the Axis, preventing situation where capturing them in the wrong order could cost the Axis team their objective spawn.

Rakowice Advance

• Added anti-tank construction limits.

Rederitz Advance

• Added new objective "Rederitz West", extending the map beyond the final bridge objective.

Stavelot Defense

* Increased Allies tickets. * Reduced King Tiger max spawns from 3 to 2.

Targnon Advance

* Fixed a bug where capturing the initial objective group in a certain order could break map progression.

Ten Aard Advance

* Converted the map to the Advance game mode. * Reworked objectives, objective spawns and danger zone. * Added anti-precap minefields to the map. * Added several new locations and interiors. * Added new trenches and defensive positions. * Added pre-placed radios around the map.

Weapons

• The MG42 hipfire recoil has been increased.
• Minor tweak to the M1 Garand's recoil animation to momentarily obstruct the peep sight, in line with other similar rifles.
• Self-loading rifles (e.g., Garand, SVT-40 etc.) will now be more difficult to control when firing rapidly.

Vehicles

• The Pakwagen (Sd.Kfz. 251/22) now requires a tank crewman to operate and can now be locked similar to other vehicles.

Gameplay

• Constructed grenade crates and Panzerfaust boxes are no longer locked to the opposing team.
• Players will now only have their weapons locked on team-kills unless they have had a previous team kill within the last 30 seconds.
• Anti-tank guns can now only be constructed on earthen terrain.
• * Disabled placement of all constructions within the danger zone to curb spawn camping, blocking entrances, and other unfair play involving logistics deep behind the lines.
• Ammunition crates are now visible to the enemy team when inside the enemy territory.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the wrong error message would be shown while trying to dig while prone.
• Reduced the cooldown on fire support markers from 10 seconds to 3 seconds.
• Fixed a bug where squad assistants could not user the spotting menu from within vehicles.
• Fixed a bug where the Commonwealth Radios did not have Mills bombs in their loadouts.

Year by year, bird by bird, we're adding new chapters and goodies to our Halloween vault. This year is not an exception and Halloween is coming back in style with a new survival map and a fresh supply of apocalyptic weapons. Make sure to hop in the game this week to not miss it!

Flugplatz Survival

Clubs and Maces

Gert Potsdam II

Halloween Maps

• Haunted Pariserpatz Survival
• Haunted Hattert Advance
• Haunted Fury Advance

New Weapons

Nagant M1895 (BraMit)

Mosin M91/30 (PE)

Weapon Changes

• The Enfield No.4 Mk.I (T) (No.32) has had it's scope zeroed to fire at the center middle post at 100m.
• Sped up some transition animations for the MG34 and DP27.
• Adjusted firing sounds for the Bren & Fallschirmjgergewehr 42.
• Increased Bazooka M9A1 penetration from 102mm to 126mm.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Bren carrier was still using the old Bren model.
• Fixed a bug where the Bren carrier's third person firing sound was always the distant variant.
• Fixed a bug where the ZB-30 was using the Bren's interface icon.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to cancel the ironsight animation on AT weapons by switching the firing range.
• Fixed a bug where an explicitly given shovel item would appear as wirecutters in the deploy menu.

Miscellaneous

• Removed the server-side behavior that would increase respawn times if the server was performing poorly.
• Increased respawn penalty timer for Allied automatic rifleman roles from 5 seconds to 14 seconds (now in line with German counterpart).

Its finally here! This update brings the long-awaited anti-tank weapon overhaul, the addition of new weapons, and a large number of gameplay tweaks. It has been a long hard road to get this update out, as weve had to develop new skills, tools and processes on top of creating all of the new assets. This release brings us ever closer to our long-standing quest of completely overhauling all of the infantry weapons to a higher standard.

Overhauled Weapons

M1A1 Bazooka

• Model, textures and animations have been completely remade.
• Reload duration has been reduced from 17 seconds to 8.3 seconds.
• Melee has been removed.
• Sights have been properly re-calibrated.

Raketenpanzerbchse 54 (Panzerschreck)

• Model, textures and animations have been completely remade.
• Reload duration has been reduced from 11 second to 9 seconds.
• Increased weapon sway.
• Reduced projectile spread considerably.
• Melee has been removed.
• Added 2 new skin variants (dunkelgelb and snow)

PIAT

• Model, textures and animations have been completely remade.
• Can now be deployed on its monopod similar to machine-guns.
• Must be deployed in order to reload.
• Reload speed has been reduced from 12 seconds to 5 seconds.
• Melee has been removed.

Bren Gun

• Model, textures, animations and sounds have been completely remade.
• Melee has been removed.

New Weapons

M9A1 Bazooka

Sturmgewehr 44 (ZF 4)

ZB vz. 30

Soviet and LWP Radio Operators

Weapon Changes

• Many weapons have had their rate of fire adjusted to better match their real life counterparts. In general, you may notice many sub-machine guns now fire very slightly slower.
• The MG42 can now be fired from the hip after being readied.
• The MG34 can now be fired from the hip without needing to be readied.
• The DP-27 can now be fired from the hip without needing to be readied.
• The DP-27 magazine now visibly spins as the magazine is emptied, allowing for the user to see roughly how much ammo is left a glance.
• Rocket weapons now use the SwitchFireMode (default X) command instead of the Deploy (default N) command to change the firing range. This change was made to accommodate the fact the PIAT can now be deployed.
• Added a new contextual hint that tells the player how to switch firing ranges on weapons that support it.
• Slightly lowered the horizontal recoil of the Fallschirmjgergewehr 42.
• Slightly lowered the fire rate of the Maschinenpistole 38/40/41.
• Added a recoil curve to the M1 Garand, so rapid successive shots will increase the recoil per shot.
• The Fallschirmjaegergewehr 42 can no longer be resupplied by friendlies. (This change is made because unlike the BAR and Bren, German squad doctrine did not require each member of the squad to carry ammunition for the weapon).
• All sniper rifles have had their sights zeroed for 100m. This should alleviate the feeling that sniper rifles consistently shoot too low.
• Many weapons have had their names changed to be more specific (e.g., sniper rifles will now display the name of the scope type being used).

Gameplay

• The mechanic where ammunition supplies would decrease as the round progressed has been removed.
• Squad leaders can now use their shovels so long as a squadmate is within 50 meters of them (increased from 25 meters)

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where players who were in vehicles or on anti-tank guns wouldnt be counted as a nearby squadmate for squad leaders trying to use their shovels to build.

Vehicles & Guns

• The APDS accuracy has been dramatically improved, in line with real-world data.

Miscellaneous

• The map voting system has been changed so that each player gets 1 vote, instead of voting power being a function of the players score. Legacy patrons are still granted extra voting power based on patronage tier, though the patron system will be phased out and replaced later this year.

Maps

Butovo Advance

• Fixed issue with the Panther entering an unspawnable state after Axis captured Pena River.
• Reworked final objective to be easier for Axis to capture.
• Reduced Axis ticket gain from capturing Pena River and North Woods objectives.

Fury Advance

• Fixed an issue that prevented Allied mortar operators from deploying around the starting area.

German Village Advance

• Fixed an issue where teams would be unable to mark targets for artillery thoughout most of the map.
• Fixed an exploit that could allow users to get outside of the map bounds.
• Increased Allied tickets slightly.
• Replaced flag statics on the map with new models from Matty.

Hedgerow Hell Advance

• Added missing Radio Operator role to Axis team.
• Replaced anachronistic Wirblewind with Sd.Kfz. 234/1 (20mm Armored Car).

Kasserine Pass Advance

• Fixed missing weapons for US Radio Operators.

Lutremange Domination

• Added territory nodes to both main spawns to allow for infantry to spawn in vehicles near the main spawn.
• Replaced Greyhound with Stuart and Easy 8 Sherman with M4A3 76W.
• Reduced intensity of artillery for both teams.

Lazur Chemical Plant Defence

• Expanded protection minefield for allied spawns to prevent spawn killing.
• Increased tickets for both teams significantly.
• Fixed a bug where many materials had incorrect impact effects.
• Fixed an issue where certain doors could not be destroyed with satchels.

Myshkova River Advance

• Updated lighting, terrain and objects on the map.
• Increased objective capture speed and reduced players needed from 8 to 6.
• Replaced G41 with SVT38 for Axis roles.
• Moved M34 grenades from Rifleman to Combat Engineer roles.
• Reduced amount of Axis SMGs available.

Noville Advance

• Swapped teams so that Axis are now attacking.
• Reworked objectives with new volumes and requirements to be more similar to Wanne.
• Added M18 Hellcats replacing previous US M10 Tank Destroyers.
• Added StuG 3 Ausf.G Assault Guns and Sd.Kfz. 251 Halftracks to Axis.
• Added objective spawns for both teams.
• Added additional spawn protection minefields for both teams.
• Added Radio Operators for both sides.
• Increased fog distance slightly to give better visibility on the map.

Rakowice Advance

• Removed large watchtowers from the map.
• Removed bunker blast door at airstrip.
• Fixed issue where players could respawn instantly in some cases.
• Removed grenades from Soviet Carbine Rifleman role and reduced role availability to 3.
• Added additional objects and changed terrain to provide more cover in certain areas.
• Replaced MP40 with MP41 for Axis Squad Leader role.
• Reduced time needed to capture objectives.

Rederitz Advance

• Implemented new Volkssturm Machinegunner role with ZB30.

Stoumont Advance

• Added missing Radio Operator role to Axis team.

Rhine River Clash

• Removed objectives neutralisation requirement, but halved capture rate (objectives will take the same amount of time to capture, but double neutral situations will be impossible).
• Increased objective lock down timers from 4 to 8 minutes.

Wanne Advance

• Reworked danger zone to reduce situations where team lines would be too close to an active objective.

Map Variation Removals

• Cambes en Plaine Clash (superseded by Advance version)
• Fury Clash (superseded by Advance version)
• German Village Defence (superseded by Advance version)
• Godolloi Push (superseded by Advance version)
• Hedgerow Hell Clash (superseded by Advance version)
• Jurques Day Two Advance (generally considered to be a worse version of the original)
• Noville Push (superseded by Advance version)
• Pariserplatz Push (superseded by Advance version)
• Reichswald Push (superseded by Advance version)
• Winter Stalemate Advance (the Clash version plays better)

What's Next!?

Attention! After listening to feedback from the community, we have decided to reinstate the squad leaders' shovel privileges that were revoked in a previous update. Squad leaders are now given a shovel just like everyone else. However, as a squad leader, you will not be able to use your shovel for building unless you have at least one squadmate near you. As for what's on the horizon: the team is getting ready to finally launch the much anticipated (and very late!) update that will see a number of major overhauls to the visuals of many weapons, particularly the anti-tank launchers such as the PIAT, Panzerschreck and Bazooka. The next time you hear from us, it will be with something big! The full details of this update's changes can be seen below.

Squad System

• Squad leaders are now issued shovels again, reverting a change made in v10.6.0.
• Squad leaders can only use their shovel for building if a squad member is within 25 meters.
• Unbuilt constructions will be automatically torn down and have their construction points .refunded to the nearest cache if placed by a squad leader that loses their squad leader status. This is an explot mitigation measure.
• Squad leaders can no longer be automatic riflemen (e.g., BAR, Bren gunners).

New Maps

Lutremange Domnation

Lazur Chemical Plant Defense

Map Changes

Rakowice Advance

• Added tunnel between Personnel Bunker and Hangar.

Leningrad Push

• Fixed a bug where the KV-1 was not able to be spawned.
• Replaced with Panzer III Ausf.L with the Panzer III Ausf.J.
• Removed the requirement to "clear" objectives and lowered the capture speed.

Cambes en Plaine Advance

• Slightly increased Allied tickets.

Pegasus Bridge Advance

• Increased anti-air gun limit timer to 30 minutes.

Donner Bolts

• Removed grenades for all roles
• Added an objective to the center of the map (the team that holds this at the end of the round will win)
• Reduced time limit from 20 minutes to 15 minutes

Stoumont Advance

• Slightly increased Allied tickets.
• Increased Axis lockdown timers on all objectives from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.

Wanne Advance

• Restored Sturmgewehr 44s to German Assault Trooper roles.
• The King Tiger will now unlock after the Germans capture the Woods objective.

Armored Vieux Advance

• Added new overview.
• Fixed a bug where objectives could break if certain objectives were recaptured.

Rhine River Clash

• Fixed a bug where active objectives could be inside an active minefield.
• US roles now are using the autumn variants.

German Village Advance

• The map has been converted from Defense game mode to Advance game mode.

Fox Green Defense

• Barbed wire fences are now destroyable with satchels.
• Increased the number of Combat Engineer and Anti-Tank roles for the US.
• Increased number of US avaialable artillery strikes.
• Increased the kill timer on minefields from 2 seconds to 10 seconds.
• The Higgins boats now spawn further away from a minefield.
• Fixed various terrain and collision bugs.

General

• Added an interface option for changing the Mute Menu keybind (default F3).
• Chambois has had its Map Size changed from Medium to Small.

Hello again! We're back with another update, and this one is high-impact!

Squad Leader Changes

• The squad leader no longer gets a shovel to build (the squad leader can still place constructions for squad members to build)
• Squad leaders can no longer occupy the following roles on Advance & Clash game modes:
  • Mortar Operator
  • Radio Operator
  • Anti-Tank Soldier
  • Sniper
  • Machine-Gunner

Gameplay

• Command text chat channel is now unavailable for squad leaders without subordinates
• You must have at least 3 squad members in order to call for off-map artillery
• All vehicles can be used as team-wide infantry spawn points so long as the vehicle is behind your team's safe zone
• If a vehicle is not in the safe zone, it can still be used as a spawn point for the first 20 seconds after it spawns
• "Permanent" spawn vehicles can no longer be spawned on if they are behind the enemy's safe zone
• Players killed within 7 seconds after spawning on vehicles will disable spawning on the vehicle for 30 seconds (note that the Higgins boats are excluded from this rule)

Interface

• Enemy map markers will now fade away slowly over time, making it easier to see which marks are most recent

Vehicles

• Added a new summer camouflage pattern for the M4A1 Sherman 76(W)

Miscellaneous

• Error messages are now displayed when the player tries to join a voice channel they do not have permission to access

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where players could be left in the command voice channel after dropping the role of squad leader
• Fixed a bug where some radios would not be visible on the map
• Fixed a bug where squads would sometimes be unable to create rally points after the round was reset

Maps

Armored Hill 112

• Fixed a bug where progression could be deadlocked after the Axis recaptured the first objective
• Replaced early version of Cromwell with late version

Armored La Champagne

• Brightened the map slightly
• Replaced all 2D trees with 3D ones
• Balanced tank loadouts by giving Allies more Fireflies and Achilles
• Added mipmaps to all textures previously missing them
• Added a number of radio around the map

Butovo Advance

• Fixed a bug where the Axis would lose their vehicle objective spawns after capturing a certain objective
• Reduced all Soviet KV type spawns by 1

Godolloi Advance

• Disabled Flak 88 construction
• Tightened gun limit restrictions for Axis
• Reduced the capacity of the Axis main base supply cache from 8000 to 4000

Les Champs de Losque

• Fixed a bug where the Allied main cache was absent
• Fixed a bug where the ladder at Courimette Farm would not work
• The M16 Halftrack no longer counts against the team's vehicle limit

Rabenheck Advance

• Fixed a bug where the bridge objective could become disabled and deadlock progression

Reichswald Advance

• Added missing Corporal and Sergeant roles for the Allies
• Added Radio Operators for both teams
• Gave the allies a Cromwell 95mm for bunker-busting
• Fixed incorrect weapon loadouts

Stoumont Advance

• Objectives captured by the Axis will be locked down for 270 seconds
• Objectives recaptured by the Allies will be locked down for 30 seconds

Smolensk Advance

• Expanded the final objective volume to include the village area
• Added a Soviet supply cache near the final objective

Quality of Life

• Paradrop
• Squad Rally Point
• Platoon HQ
• Objective Spawn
• Progression Spawn (Push-style spawn points)
• Main Spawn

Bug Fixes

• Fox Green Defence now has correct information on the map voting screen
• Fixed a bug where guns constructed by the enemy team could count against your own team's gun limit

v10.5.3 has been released! This update brings a number of bug fixes and numerous level tweaks and updates. Below are a list of all the changes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where vehicle respawn times could grow out of control after the maximum number of active vehicles was increased during the round (this caused the bug on Cambes en Plaine where Shermans could not be spawned after capturing the first objective)
• Fixed a bug where players that dropped the squad leader would be kicked from leadership roles on maps where those roles were not restricted
• Fixed a bug where it was impossible to kill drivers of the following vehicles with small arms:
  • Sd.Kfz 251 (and all variants)
  • T60
  • KV-1E
  • SU76-M
  • BA-64
  • BT-7

Gameplay

• Level designers can now set a custom limit to the amount of supply points at main caches.

Levels

Cambes en Plaine Advance

• Reduced max supply count of the Axis main cache from 8000 to 4000
• Prevented Axis main spawn from changing after a certain objective was captured

Fox Green

• Fixed terrain issues

Hill 112

• Increase Achilles spawns by 1
• Reduced Jagdpanther spawns from 6 to 4
• Increased Baron-sur-Odon lockdown time from 5 to 15 minutes
• Changed all trees to lower-poly versions
• Changed German roles from Panzerlehr to Waffen SS
• Added more cover and detail at Road to Baron-sur-Odon
• Various graphical bug fixes

La Feuillie

• Added new overview

Lyevs Krovy

• The number of tickets for both teams now scales with the player count

Pariserplatz Defence

• Removed German main supply cache
• Prevented construction of vehicle ammo
• Reduced IS-2 spawns from 6 to 4
• Reduced Pakwagen spawns from 3 to 2
• Reduced Soviet artillery strikes from 4 to 2
• Reduced Open Blitz (Logistics) spawns from 3 to 2

Rhine River

• Added progressive minefields for both teams

Smolensk Advance

• The number of tickets for both teams now scales with the player count

Armored Tractable

• The round will now end after 75 minutes has elapsed

Winter Manor

• Added wire obstacle fences to last objective
• Added foxholes and moved cover between Trenches and Road Approach objectives

Hello again! This update brings a new Advance version of the popular map Cambes en Plaine! In future updates, we plan on converting more Clash maps to Advance as we feel the maps tend to flow better and have a better sense of progression. The Clash versions will still be available while we see what players prefer. This update also has some loadout changes and a huge list of map changes and fixes, all of which can be seen below.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the paratrooper radio call-in would not work.

Weapons

• The M1897 shotgun now has tigher spread and does slightly more damage.

Loadouts

• The M3 Greasegun and Springfield are no longer available by default for US Radio Operators and Tank Hunters.
• The M1 Garand is now available by default for US Combat Engineers.
• Replaced the Thompson 20rd. with the M3 Greasegun for US Corporals.
• Soviet Tank Hunters no longer have access to the explosive satchel on every map.
• Adjusted availability of default Mosin Nagant variants on many Soviet roles.
• Soviet Assault Troopers now have access to the PPD-40 on most maps.
• German Radio Operators now have grenades.
• German Combat Engineers no longer have access to the Gebalte Ladung on every map.
• German Tank Hunters no longer have access to the Gebalte Ladung on every map.

Maps

Cambes en Plaine

• New Advance version is now available.

La Fiere

• Added advancing minefields for both teams.
• Fixed Causeway objective spawn locations.
• Decreased Axis Machine-gunner roles from 3 to 2.

Myshkova River

• Adjusted lighting to be less off-putting.
• KV-1E now properly activates on objective capture.
• Reduced the players required to capture the first two objectives from 8 to 6.
• Decreased Axis Machine-gunner roles from 3 to 2.
• More obstacle constructions are now available.

Freyneux

• Fixed a bug where the map would always end in a draw if the time limit was reached.

Eindhoven

• Changed game mode to Domination.

Kharkov

• Reduced artillery for both teams.
• Fixed objective bugs that were preventing Bridgehead and Church from closing.
• Fixed some holes that allowed players to get under the map.
• Added more cover for Guard's House objective.
• Added more tanks and tank slots to make the map suitable for the armoured server.
• Added sandbags around Church objective to give defenders more cover to hold objective.

Hill 112

• Baron-Sur-Odon is now recapturable.
• Re-balanced tank loadout.
• Edited objective layout and added a new objective.

Vieux

• Fixed missing last objective.
• Added more cover around the map.
• Replaced incorrect winter hedges with summer ones.
• Removed objective spawns due to persistent spawn camping.
• Added more radio triggers.

Debrecen

• Changed game mode to Domination.

KrivoiRog

• Changed game mode to Domination.

Carpiquet Airfield

• Added objectives spawns for Allies.
• The Allies now have 2 Churchill tanks.

Fox Green

• Added missing overview.
• Increased Allied artillery strikes from 2 to 4.

German Village

• Added missing overview.

La Feuillie

• Changed objective flow in the final caps so that only 2 objectives are open at once instead of 3.

Merderet

• Fixed a bug where the Allied victory song would be from a different faction.
• Fixed Axis main spawn issue that could cause tanks to spawn inside each other.
• Added SdKfz. 10/5 and SdKfz. 251 for the Axis.
• Reduced Tiger spawns to 2 but made 1 unlock just before Bridge objective.
• Removed duplicate Axis mortar role.

Valko

• Fixed a bug where the minefield timers were too short.

Pegasus Bridge

• Disabled construction of howitzers.

Hello, folks! We are back with another quality-of-life release that brings a number of much requested changes and a number of fixes to maps. We are excited for the coming weeks, as we have a large amount of new content that is nearing completion. We can't wait for you to get your hands on it. Keep an eye out for it soon! In the meantime, here is the change log!

Gameplay

• Fixed an exploit where players that were previously squad leaders could maintain their restricted role after leaving a squad or making someone else the squad leader (players that lose their SL status will be switched to the first unlimited non-leader role, typically Rifleman)
• When reloading, the player will now prioritize loading the fullest magazine available
• Removed the requirement that a certain percentage of reinforcements be lost in order to initiate a vote to retreat
• Air-burst grenades will no longer do less damage than grenades that have landed on the ground
• Fixed the construction placement radius of the Flak 88 to match it's footprint
• Eliminated the disparity between the fire rates of the G41, G43 and M1 Garand (all weapons are now capable of firing 4.65 rounds/second)

Miscellaneous

• Removed the "Extra Large" map category, as the voting category was too restrictive

Maps

Miscellaneous

• Added Radio Operator roles to over a dozen of maps that were missing them

Armored Kharkov Advance

• Fixed a bug where objective progression could become deadlocked

Armored Vieux Advance

• Increased capture time on all objectives
• Added Koenigstiger, Stummel, Sd.Kfz 10/5, Pakwagen, Hetzer and StuH 42 for the Axis
• Added Achilles for Allies
• Reduced the amount of Tigers from 2 to 1 and the number of Panthers from 6 to 3 for axis
• Reduced the amount of M3A1 Stuarts from 2 to 1
• Reduced the amount of Sherman Fireflies from 5 to 4
• Added some spawns to reduce travel times
• Fixed some floaters & terrain holes
• Increased brightness and fixed some lighting issues
• Added some new buildings and statics to Road to Caen, Haut, Railway Yard and South Farm
• Fixed a visual bug where binoculars would be displayed incorrectly
• Removed some low quality trenches
• Replaced a number of low quality trees with higher quality ones

Butovo Advance

• T34/76 and Panzer IV tanks are now unlimited
• The ISU-152 now unlocks earlier
• Added objective vehicle spawns

Champs Advance

• Fixed a bug where objective progression could become deadlocked

Flakturm Tiergarten Defence

• Added a construction restriction volume at the rear of the Flakturm

Fury Advance

• Fixed an issue where some objectives would not lock after being captured by the Allies
• Significantly reduced the lock timer when Germans recapture some objectives

Godolloi Advance

• Fixed a bug where objective progression could become deadlocked

La Feuillie Advance

• Restored halftrack MDVs for both teams

Myshkova River

• Removed the first two objectives
• Removed Vehicle Pool from constructions
• Combined Myshkova Intersection & Bridgehead into one objective
• Added objective spawns & pre-cap minefields
• Revised roles, vehicle loadout & artillery
• Static radios are now functional
• Replaced low-poly trees with higher quality ones
• Replaced static AT guns with usable ones
• Added Radio Operator for the Germans

Rhine River Clash

• Fixed a bug that caused an invisible wall around the Axis main spawn

St. Marie du Mont

• Fixed a notorious floating hedge
• Increased the number of artillery strikes available for both teams
• Removed pistols from American Rifleman roles

Our elves have been busy in the workshop this holiday season!
Introducing a brand new map, Les Champs de Losque! This is the first map by community member Cpt. Caverne. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the map's beta test earlier in the year and provided helpful feedback! We will monitor how the map plays and squash any bugs or game-play issues that might surface in the coming days. In addition to this brand new map, a new Clash version of Jurques has also been slipped in your stocking! You can see the full change log below. And now for a personal aside: It's around this time of year that we reflect on how we are so grateful to be able to work together and build on a game that has endured for over 13 years. The gaming landscape has changed so much since 2008, and it's an increasingly rare thing that a small dedicated group of people would continue to volunteer their precious time and talents to build upon and improve this free mod. Thank you to all of our developers and players, past, present, and future.
We hope you all stay warm and safe this season. See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

New Maps

• Jurques Clash
• Les Champs de Losque

Map Changes

Flakturm Tiergarten Defence

• Added some weak artillery for Allies.
• Gave Axis a single Panther that unlocks in the middle of the map.
• Removed Allied ticket gain from capturing objectives.
• Set tickets to use the scaling system.
• Fixed Axis spawn hint that would cause players to fall on spawn and break their legs.

Kommerscheidt Advance

• Implemented three lines of anti-precap minefields.
• Reduced Axis tickets factor to 27 from 30.
• Reduced Axis respawn interval by 5 seconds to help prevent them from losing momentum as easily.
• Fixed incorrect victory music for the Allies.
• Fixed typo in the Intersection objective name.
• Added a basic map description and preview image for practice mode.

La Fiere (Day)

• Hand-tuned the danger zone to make more sense.

Pariserplatz Defence

• Fixed an exploit that would allow players to get under the map.
• Placed some spawn hints on the other side of the Reichstag to help prevent the Allies getting bottlenecked in their spawn at the beginning of the round.

Rabenheck Advance

• Added a new objective at the bridge, plus new defensive emplacements to go with it (extended trench line, new bunker, cleared some trees and added some new cover for the Allies).
• Added anti-precap minefields behind each objective.
• Expanded minefield protection around initial Allied spawn.
• Implemented anti-tank gun limits.
• Reduced Allied respawn interval to 10 seconds from 30.
• Reduced Allied ticket bleed rate slightly.
• Rebalanced roles and tank loadouts.
• Removed a bugged minefield from the final objective.
• Gave both teams additional artillery strikes and added several static radios around the map.
• Fixed a bug with some fluid surfaces.
• Added new raindrop emitters to the river and other bodies of water.
• Fixed some bugged objective progression dependencies.

Simonskall Push

• Reduced respawn interval of both teams from 20 seconds to 10 seconds.
• Gave Allies a small amount of artillery and a radio operator.

St. Marie du Mont Advance

• Fixed incorrect victory music for the Allies.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where AT launchers could fail to spawn a projectile.

Hey, everyone! We got a couple of maps in store that are ready to receive their "trial by fire" before getting released into the wild. This Sunday @ 7 PM UTC we'll be running a beta test which will include the new Les Champs-de-Losque and the continuation of the battle for Jurques. Check the instructions below on how to participate. Everyone is welcome to join!
Jurques Clash
Les Champs-de-Losque Advance

How to participate in the beta testing?

Launch the game and join the beta server.[/olist]
After the event, don't forget to switch back to the normal version. You can do this by selecting `None` in the drop-down menu. Make sure to join us on Discord to share your thoughts about the upcoming features and report any bugs you find in the beta release. We appreciate your feedback! See you on the testing grounds, Darklight Games

Cagny Recon

Rabenheck

Full changelog

A new weekly patch has been released! Check the changelog for details: # Vehicles ## BT-7 - Removed the intermediate positions in the turret that made the tank wonky to operate. - Fixed the appearance of the destroyed mesh. - Fixed the speeds of wheels and treads. # Maps ## Konigplatz Push - Made team ratios even. - Reduced respawn intervals to 10 seconds. - Reduced tank counts for both teams. - Gave Soviets a small amount of artillery. - Added a limited amount of artillery for Soviet team. - Added static radios. ## Cheneux Advance/Push - Added satchel charges to US Combat Engineer role. ## Bridge Assault Push - Fixed roof textures. ## Armored Tractable Advance - Added new tanks for both sides. ## Armored La Feuille Advance - Allowed HQ and VP construction. ## Dom Pavlova Event - Added a special version of Dom Pavlova for a community event (you can find more details about the event on Discord). GitHub See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

The weekly patch is out! This update focuses on fixing a few visual bugs and updating Flakturm Tiergarten to sort out a number of gameplay issues it had. Flakturm has been known for its harsh first objective that would often turn into a meat grinder and leave Allied team locked at their main spawn. In this iteration, along with other tweaks, the initial part of the map has been expanded to give both teams more room to wiggle. Check the full changelog for details: # Bug fixes - Fixed missing textures on 3rd person RPG-43 mesh. - Fixed missing destroyed overlays (burnt effect) on various German vehicles and static meshes. - Fixed a bug where a player's off-map fire support marker would disappear if an "artillery hit" marker was created afterwards. # Maps ## Flakturm Tiergarten Defense - Expanded the initial part of the map (the University building and its nearby street are now accessible). - Re-balanced tank loadout. - Changed the objective layout and spawn point locations. - Removed a number of destroyable walls in Hertzalle to improve the flow in that area. - Added extra cover at crucial locations. - Added more accessible rooms at Sportsplatz Entrance objective. - Reduced the amount of Allied assault troopers to 4. ## Stavelot Push - Fixed the incorrect season setting (affects barrel overheating, and other miscellaneous mechanics). GItHub See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

A small hotfix has been released, fixing a few bugs and balancing issues discovered after the previous release. Check the changelog for details: [v10.2.668] ## Haunted Pariserplatz Survival - Fixed incorrectly set team ratio values in the previous patch. - Set new team ratios to +50%/-50% in favor of Zombie team. [v10.2.667] # Vehicles - [Stummel] Fixed the bug where players could enter non-existent passenger seats. - [Stummel] Fixed textures on the destroyed mesh. - Fixed the bug that made all half-track based vehicles drive slower since the previous release. # Maps ## Haunter Pariserplatz Survival - Reduced capture times on first 4 caps. - Increased resupply volumes sizes. - Changed team ratios to 60/40 (Zombies/Survivors). - Removed 1 SMG from Survivor team for low player counts. - Added more pickups in objectives. - Adjusted zombie spawn locations. ## Haunted Hattert Clash & Haunted Fury Clash - Reduced the amount of Berserker roles to 3. ## Armored Fruhlingserwachen Clash - Set tickets to infinite (map will end via caps or time limit), fixing an issue where a team could run out of reinforcements early and not be able to spawn until the map time limit ran out. ## Armored Lemberg Clash - Fixed a field texture that was missing mipmaps. - Increased round timer from 45 minutes to 60. GitHub See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Keep your eyes open and grab an extra pair of clean underwear: zombies are coming back to the battlefield this Halloween! At Darklight Games we like to dabble in dark arts, and we couldn't miss out on the opportunity to sneak some spooky stuff into the game once again. This year's Halloween event includes:

• A new map: Haunted Pariserplatz Survival.
• Haunted Hattert and Haunted Fury maps making a return.
• Unique Halloween vehicle skins and zombie characters (available on Haunted maps).
• Spooky zombie voice lines.
• And more

Survive the Pariserplatz

New features in v10.2

Maschinenpistole 3008

Sd.Kfz. 251/9 Ausf. D Stummel

• Armored Arad Clash
• Armored Balaton Clash
• Armored Bautzen Clash
• Armored Cagny Clash
• Armored Celles Clash
• Armored Freyneux Advance
• Armored Fruhlingserwachen Clash
• Armored La Feuillie Clash
• Armored Preaux Clash
• Barashka Clash
• Cambes-En-Plaine Clash
• Champs Advance
• Cheneux Advance
• Fury Clash
• Hattert Clash
• Kommerscheidt Advance
• La Gleize Advance
• Nuenen Clash
• Ogledow Clash
• Putot-en-Bessin Advance
• Stavelot Push
• Stoumont Advance
• Valko Advance
• Wanne Advance

Other Changes

• Reduced players max stamina by 20%. This change drops the maximum distance a player can cross in one go to 200 meters.
• Temprorary increased shovel damage for the duration of the Halloween event.
• Fixed the bug where internal squad orders were shown on compass for everyone on the team.
• Made half-tracks to be treated as armored vehicles in the code (half-tracks now use the same damage model as armored vehicles).

This is a weekly patch that includes recent bug fixes and miscellaneous small updates. Check the changelog for details: # Artillery - Reduced the global limit of available artillery guns to 3. - Fixed the bug where artillery markers weren't visible in singleplayer mode. # Weapons - Replaced PPS-43 sound with the original Red Orchestra sound that more closely resembles its real counterpart. - Reduced PPS-43 rate of fire to 650 RPM (was 700). # Vehicles - Fixed the bug where Soviet gunsights were missing a range setting readout. # Miscellaneous - Fixed the voice muting feature. - Fixed the bug where admins could overrun rally points while in "bogeyman" mode (invisible). # Maps ## Hurtgenwald Advance - Fixed broken spawn protection minefield that activated too early. - Increased lockdown timer on trench objectives to 720 seconds (was 360). ## Odessa Push - Fixed broken group objective reliances that prevented objectives from progressing if capped in a certain order. ## Putot-en-Bessin Advance - Increased Allied tank crewman count to 3, - Capped team vehicle limit at 2 and made the M7 Priest ignore the limit (allows Allies to use the Priest and still have 2 tanks active as before). ## Rakowice Advance - Temporarily fixed issue with off-map artillery strikes being marked as "unavailable". - Increased time before anti-precap minefields will kill you. ## Targnon Push - Added gloves to German roles that were previously missing them, such as Squad Leaders and Engineers. GitHub See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

In the previous release, we've started updating and expanding our STEN lineup, which included the reworked Mark II and the new Mark III. Today their younger and better looking sibling has arrived! The Mark V is now available to our British airborne units, and you can find it on Pegasus Bridge, Oosterbeek, and various Operation Market Garden maps.
The new SMG is sporting a unique feature: a small detachable bayonet.

Armored Frhlingserwachen Clash

Other Changes

Artillery

• Increased distance at which artillery splashes are considered too far off-target and not displayed on the map. The value has been bumped to 150 meters.
• Increased lifespan of fire requests to 5 minutes (previously 2.5).
• Artillery spotters can now see the hit markers for artillery splashes within range of their marked targets.

Constructions

• Reduced artillery gun costs to 1500.
• Fixed the bug that allowed limited constructions (e.g guns) to be replenished past the maximum amount.
• Set the maximum amount of allowed artillery guns to 4 per team.

Weapons

• Adjusted proportions on STEN magazine models.
• Updated textures on all STENs.

Characters

• Fixed the bug that made character faces disappear on dead bodies with winter head-gear.

Vehicles

• Reduced M7 Priest resupply delay to 10 seconds.

Maps

Armored Freyneux Advance

• Increased Allied tickets.
• Removed ticket bleed from Allies (map ends when all objectives are taken).
• Gave Allies a little more tank variety (Sherman Jumbo and 105).
• Set missing Win music.

Armored Krivoi Rog Clash

• Fixed bugs related to objectives.
• Increased Soviet artillery amount.
• Added a radio to both team's main spawns.
• Set Soviet ISU-152 count by 1.

Hurtgenwald Advance

• Reworked objectives and objective volumes.
• Reworked tank loadouts and made tanks unlock after the first 2 objectives are taken.
• Gave Allies an AT role to help clear Pillboxes and Pak guns at range.
• Increased Allied respawn speed.
• Increased Axis tickets slightly.
• Added spawn protection minefield to Allies.
• Added objective spawn for vehicles once Pak bunker is taken.

La Gleize Advance

• Reworked no-arty and restriction volumes around Axis main to be less restrictive.

Pegasus Bridge Advance

• Reduced Allied respawn timer.
• Increased Axis respawn timer at the bridge.
• Increased Allied team ratio slightly.
• Reduced Axis assault trooper role by 1.

Wanne Advance

• Fixed anti-portals that could cause graphical issues near Allied main spawn.

Stoumont Advance

• Made first objective not re-capturable.
• Removed wall along the road behind the Church.
• Replaced destroyed half-track static with Panther.
• Added AT gun limits.
• Disabled vehicle pool constructions.
• Reduced the amout of logistic trucks to 2 for both teams.
• Added a respawn penalty to Allies at the final objective.

Smolensk Advance

• Fixed static radios.
• Added artillery strikes for Allies.
• Disabled AT gun constructions.
• Removed duplicate Axis Squad Leader role.
• Reduced setup phase timer.
• Other minor fixes.

Klin 1941 Advance

• Added pre-placed AT guns into the bunkers on the final objective line.
• Implemented AT gun construction limits to reduce gun spam.
• Made the Pz.IV spawns unlimited, but with a slightly increased respawn timer.
• Increased tickets for both teams slightly.
• Increased ticket bleed for Soviets when both final objectives are taken.
• Added a small ticket bleed when a single one of the final objectives is taken in order to pressure Soviet team to counter-attack.
• Disabled collision on tiny rubble props in the trenches that causes players to bounce erratically.
• Disabled Karma collisions on static fences so that tanks can drive through them (a temporary change before proper destructible fences are put in place).
• Added artillery triggers to various static radios on the map.
• Added few destroyed vehicles on the approach to the final objective line to give Axis a bit of cover

Pariserplatz Defence

• Updated Axis spawn points.
• Changed respawn intervals for both teams.
• Adjusted ticket counts.
• Reduced Axis tank count.
• Reduced the maximum number of AT guns for Axis.

Arnhem Bridge Push

• Reduced map brightness.
• Fixed bug where vehicles would fly at last objective.

Armored Gran Advance

• Fixed bug that made Axis logistics non-functional.
• Reduction of logistic trucks to 2.
• Deactivated logistics until Hill objective is taken.
• Fixed several weird holes on the map at last cap.

Armored Hill 112 Advance

• Added pre-placed AT guns.
• Added objective deactivation on the first 2 caps.

Rederitz Advance

• Fixed collisions in trenches.
• Fixed the bug where some of the rocks had no collisions.

At long last, the artillery overhaul is ready! The new system has been designed from the ground up to be significantly easier and much more enjoyable to use! The primary changes are:

• All squad leaders are now capable of marking artillery targets
• Artillery pieces now have spotting scopes and range tables
• Artillery targets now display the range of the targets
• Kill feed messages are now sent to artillery operators for artillery kills
• The Artillery Observer role has been removed

Artillery Spotting

Spotting Scopes

Range Tables

Pack Howitzers

• 75mm Pack Howitzer M1
• 76mm regimental gun M1927
• 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschtz 18

Winter Outfits

Sten

Other changes

Gameplay

• Squad leaders can now instantly spawn on rally points that have one spawn remaining.
• Command voice lines are now available to all squad leaders (previously only available to Sergeant roles).
• Renamed the surrender feature to Retreat so players wont have to make the hard choice between pride and common sense. Theres no shame in a tactical retreat!

Visual Effects

• New impact effects for .50 caliber and PTRD bullets.

Characters

• Added volumetric epaulets for soviet and polish models
• Updated Brodie helmet with improved visuals and added a snowy variant.
• Fixed misaligned wrists on character animations.
• Fixed 3rd person shovel animations.

Vehicles

• Tiger Tank turret font armor has been reduced to a more accurate value, allowing it to be penetrated by the heavy armor piecing rounds of late-war Allied armor.

Weapons

M3 Grease Gun

• Reduced reverb on firing sound effect.
• Miscellaneous animation fixes.

M1 Garand

• Reduced sight bobbing in the idle iron-sighted animation.

RPG-43

• Added mini-parachute model.
• Miscellaneous sound and animation fixes.

Geballte Ladung

• Reduced damage radius from 22 meters to 18 meters.

Panzerfaust

• The Panzerfaust may no longer be fired from the hip.

Maps

Rederitz

• Added a trench network stretching across the entire right side of the map.
• Added more cover all around the map.
• Removed armored vehicles.
• Added a physical minefield on the right side of the first objective.

Bridgehead

• Added objective spawns.
• Removed all but one of the pre-placed Platoon HQ constructions.
• Limited anti-air and anti-tank gun constructions.
• Limited active tanks counts and crewman.
• Removed several Axis heavy tanks and reduced armor counts for both teams.
• Reduced Allied player count bias from 60% to 55%.
• Reduced view distance.
• Reduced supply amount.
• Reduced reinforcements for both teams.
• Objectives no longer give reinforcement rewards
• Objectives are no longer able to to be recaptured, and will no longer neutralize first.
• Objectives take longer to capture.
• Level ends with Allied victory if last objective is taken.
• Removed the random artillery on the last objective.

Barashka

• Merged Soviet anti-tank and sapper roles.
• Reduced Soviet assault roles from 8 to 6.

Cholm

• Removed German armored vehicles.
• Added German Mortar Operator role.
• Added German Radioman role.
• Reduce German spawn time by 5 seconds.
• Reduced Soviet T-34 and BT7 reinforcements.
• Added a single Soviet KV-1.

Grey Gods of War

• Added Axis spawn protection.

Kryukovo

• Added Axis main spawn protection.

Vossenack

• Increased fog distance.

Danzig

• Reduced round time to 14 minutes.

Dom Pavlova

• Reduced Soviet Machine-gunner rules from 3 to 1.

Lyes Krovy

• Removed Axis respawn bonus.
• Shifted team ratio in favor of the Germans.

Kreigstadt

• Removed German logistics trucks.
• Added German Panzer IV. Ausf. J.

Pariserplatz

• Plugged the infamous "noob hole" with a dead Tiger a memorial to all players that got stuck there.
• Fixed some Soviet roles being the early-war type.
• Merged Soviet anti-tank and sapper roles.
• Added Soviet SU-76 and lend-lease Sherman M4A2(76)W.
• Removed ISU-152.
• Reduced reinforcements and respawn times for a variety of other armored vehicles.

Prussia

• Reduced German spawn time.

Riga Docks

• Added Axis main spawn protection.

Salaca River

• Added Soviet amoeba camouflage sniper role.

Targnon

• Moved final Allied spawn to a safer area to prevent spawn-killing.

La Gleize

• Fixed the bug where one of active objectives ended up in a minefield area.

Gun Assault

• Fixed minefields
• Reduced team ratio for Allies.
• Opened up one of the hedges for an easier access from Axis main spawn to the AT Gun objective.
• Fixed spectator cameras.

Jurques

• Added more trenches.
• Added a cellar in one of the houses at the last objective.
• Various minor bug fixes.

Updating levels for today's event.

v9.13.2 Changelog

v9.13.3 Changelog

Hello, everyone! The new update is looming on the horizon. This Saturday @ 7 PM UTC we'll be running a final beta to get a feel for how the new artillery system will fare in a live game. The beta test will feature live rounds on Road to Isigny and Stoumont where squad leaders and artillery-men will have to leverage the new indirect fire system to get the upper hand. Mortars and new constructible artillery guns (M116 Pack Howitzer and LeIG18) will be at your disposal. Don't miss out on the action!

How to participate in the beta testing?

Launch the game and join the beta server.[/olist]
After the event, don't forget to switch back to the normal version. You can do this by selecting `None`. Make sure to join us on Discord to share your thoughts about the upcoming features and report any bugs you find in the beta release. We appreciate your feedback! See you on the testing grounds, Darklight Games

Changelog

Hey, everyone! The new update is live!

M3 Grease Gun

Bullet Impacts

Jurques Advance

Full Changelog

Hey everyone, Today marks the 77th anniversary of the largest sea and airborne operation in history and weve prepared a special release for the occasion. The main focus of this update is upping the quality of long-standing DH content, introducing new Normandy maps, and adding a few quality-of-life features. Come look at what we have in store!

Willys Jeep & GMC CCKW

M1 Garand

Pegasus Bridge Advance

Hedgerow Hell Advance

Map search feature

Full Change Log

Weapons

• Remastered M1 Garand model and animations.
• Added a feature that allows M1 Garand users to keep ammo after partial reload.
• Updated G41 reload animations, iron-sight view, and added a bayonet.
• Corrected SVT-41, G41, and G43 rifle animations to keep the bolt open.
• Added alternative SVT/AVT-40 reload animations (6 in total).
• Changed SVT-38 to use stripper clips and single rounds instead of magazines.
• Reduced M1 Carbine reload speed.
• Resized the M1928 drum mesh (the old one was too big).
• Adjusted BAR texture color.
• Other minors changes to various weapons.

Characters

• Adjusted third-person bolt-action reload animations to be in sync with first-person animations.
• Updated third-person shovel animations.
• Added a new third-person animation for M1 Garand reloads.

Vehicles

• Fully reworked GMC CCKW truck and Willys Jeep (with lots of new variants).
• Added Pak-38 w/ Tobruk housing (unique gun for Pegasus Bridge map)
• Reduced BA-64 maneuverability.

Interface

• Added a search bar to the map voting screen.
• Updated voting limits for all maps.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a long-standing Red Orchestra bug where firing a weapon would spontaneously switch to a recently acquired item, if that item was picked up during reload.
• Fixed a bug where auto-fire weapons in single-shot mode would play incorrect animations after releasing the fire button.

Maps

• New map!

• New map!

• Added 4 rifleman roles for Allied team equipped with SVT-40.
• Allies can now have 2 Universal Carriers active at the same time.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

• Added minefield protection for Axis.
• Added 2 assault roles for Axis.
• Shrunk down Town Hall objective.
• Moved Allied objective spawns farther back.
• Moved anti-precap minefields farther back.
• Optimization pass.
• Added Panzerfausts for Axis sergeant roles.
• Adding more cover around first three objectives.
• Made Panzer IV and Sherman 75mm spawns unlimited.

• Made first objective non-recapturable for Allied team.

• Reduced the amount of Axis supplies.
• Added extra cover and a static radio at Junction objective.
• Boosted Allied artillery.
• Reduced the number of Panzerfaust pickups.
• Miscellaneous minor changes to the map layout.

• Slightly rebalanced tank loadouts.
• Increased Allied and Axis max logistic trucks to 3.
• Reduced BA-64 spawns to 2 and increased respawn timer.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and tweaks.

• Fixed objective bug.
• Increased Allied reinforcements.
• Added Axis objective spawns.

• Added Greyhound armored car to Allies with 4 spawns.
• Increased Stuart spawns to 5.
• Increased Allied and Axis reinforcements by 2.

• Fixed a bug where Allies could spawn tanks inside main spawn corridors.

• Buffed allies: more tanks, more artillery, logistics, two Churchills, more Combat Engineer roles, new loadouts for SLs.
• Weakened Axis: limited logistjc trucks to 5, removed one tank hunter role, removed one MG role

Heyo! As the next release is closing in, we'll be running a beta test to iron out all the kinks and hear your feedback on the upcoming updates. Come and join us this Friday @ 7 PM UTC to try out the new M1 Garand and the overhauled Hedgerow Hell map. Everyone will be issued a mandatory Garand without exceptions!

How to participate in the beta testing?

Launch the game and join the beta server.[/olist]
To revert back to the normal version, select `None`. See you on the testing grounds, Darklight Games

Your head is so big because youre smart, dummy! Have you ever left your subordinates alone in a heat of a battle, or abandoned your squad leader when he needed you the most? How about neglecting your assistant duties? If the answer is yes, that means youre a tactical genius! You got places to be, big fish to fry; youre playing 5D chess while them fools are playing checkers. Theres just no time for all that nonsense. To fit all the intricate plans youre cooking up in your head, you must have an enormous cranium. So enormous in fact, that it might get a bit unwieldy. But worry not, when enemies will see your mighty balloon heading their way, they will surely surrender right away. Weve added a nifty indicator right next to the compass to help you keep track of your ever growing intellect. Keep an eye on it! See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Heyo, everyone! The new release is live!

Rhine River

Flakturm Tiergarten

Sneaky Rally Points

Hello there! The new update is live! This release brings a fresh new Advance map to our collection. The new map features snowy landscapes of rural Poland and the village of Rederitzone of the few strongholds positioned at the main line of Pomeranian Wall. Rederitz Advance is a mix of trench lines, woodsy areas, and house-to-house fighting; all packed into a lengthy, but straightforward Advance layout. This is our second map to include Polish Peoples Army, which now takes it's official place among Darkest Hour factions. The update also includes a boatload of map fixes and other various updates; look below for a detailed list. It's worth mentioning that some of our community members left their mark on the development of this level. We'd like to thank Rolandz and Rotzlffel for giving us a hand with testing and ironing out major bugs on Rederitz before the release.

Change Log

Maps

• New map.

• Updated map overview to include new farmhouse and forest areas.
• Increased interval timer between artillery calls to reduce artillery spam.
• Re-balanced ticket progression.
• Slowed the capture rate of the "Lower Wanne" objective.
• Moved Axis respawn time modifier to activate when "Defensive Line" objective is captured, increasing base Axis respawn interval to 18 seconds.

• Re-balanced tanks on the map using historical unit information (Credit to Ts4EVER for the research).
• Re-balanced objective layout, capture speeds and role loadouts.

• Fixed the bug where Axis half-tracks would never activate.

• Fixed bug where lockdown on middle objective would only activate when it was recaptured, not on first capture.
• Increased lockdown timer on middle objective to 6 minutes and slowed capture speed.
• Decreased respawn timer on logistic trucks to be in line with other maps.
• Made Panzer III Ausf. J and BT-7 spawns unlimited.

• Fixed bug where players would get stuck on stairs leading out of Soviet spawn on final objective.
• Fixed the bug where blocking volumes prevented artillery from functioning on the map.
• Added single artillery strike for Soviet team.
• Placed usable radios in Allied and Axis main spawns.
• Increased respawn timer on KV-1S to 90 seconds (was 60).
• Added spawn protection minefields to Axis main spawn, and progressive minefields to protect Soviet forward spawns.
• Moved Axis main spawn into a safer location.
• Created a new first objective near Axis main which unlocks a new spawn point.
• Changed objective volumes on "AT Position" and "Searchlight" to encompass the entire buildings, but switched the capture type to require the objectives be cleared.
• Increased round timer to 35 minutes (was 30).
• Fixed the bug that allowed Axis to spawn 3 tanks simultaneously.
• Re-balanced roles on both teams.
• Changed resupply volumes to give ammo every 20 seconds instead of every 2 minutes.

• Added new snow camo skins for the Marder, King Tiger and Jagdpanther.

• Added new snow camo skin for King Tiger.

• Evened out team balance ratios.
• Extended "Trenches" objective to cover more of the capture area and slowed the capture speed.
• Added cooldown timers to artillery on both teams.
• Gave Axis one additional MG role and moved StG 44 to assault trooper roles.

• Made Panzer III Ausf.J and BT-7 tank spawns unlimited.

• Added Marder III Ausf. M (snowy variant)

• Added Axis vehicle spawn that activates after "Central Square" objective.

• Role changes.

• Role and reinforcement adjustments.

• Fixed the bug where Axis reinforcements wouldn't drain at the final objective.
• Updated map overview.
• Balancing adjustments.

• Set Axis logistic truck to a reasonable spawn time (80 secs).
• Minor bug fixes.

• Added an additional logistic truck for Allied team (activates after Ruins objective).
• Minor bug and exploit fixes.

• Fixed an "off-map" exploit.

Vehicles

• Marder III Ausf.M: Added new camo variants.

Characters

• Added grey Polish tunic.
• Minor changes and improvements for Polish uniforms.

Miscellaneous

• Added Polish "merch" (interface art, flags, etc.).

Hello, everyone! We hope you're having a great 2021 so far. As our first release this year, we're excited to present you the new and updated BAR, a range of beautiful new M1 Carbines, and some other goodies.

Weapons

Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2

M1, M1A1, and M1/T17 Carbines

Volkssturmgewehr 1-5

Miscellaneous

• New Kongsberg Colten M/1914 pistol available for German troops.
• Sweeping changes to all weapon gun sight pictures to improve feel and consistency.
• All scoped (Textured and 3D) were updated to have proper magnification and field-of-viev.
• Reduced spread on all rifles.

Interface

Vehicles

Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B Camos

Sd.Kfz. 251 Whitewash Camo

Maps

Armored Voronezh Clash

Other map changes

• Added new farm near the final objective.
• Added south-facing windows to Manor and the nearby garage.
• Added snowy variants of the King Tiger and the Sd.Kfz. 251 Half-track.
• Added new M1/T17 carbine to Allied Corporal role.
• Hetzer now unlocks when Woods objective is captured.
• Implemented experimental ticket progression: Axis now start with 350 tickets and gain significantly more by capturing objectives, up to a maximum of 800 tickets for all objectives captured.

• Scaled down the downed glider to a sensible size.

• Valko Advance
• Kriegstadt Advance
• Konigsplatz Push
• Fallen Heroes Clash
• Armored Studzianki Clash
• Armored Bautzen Clash

Bug fixes

• Fixed the bug with Panzer IV F1 shells flying on wacky trajectories.
• Fixed the bug where pre-placed HQs would prevent players from building new HQs nearby after their destruction.

Happy Holidays, everyone! A new map will be joining our roster just in time for the holiday season. Some of you might be familiar with Road to Isigny, an old DH classic that's been off the radars for quite some time. Today it makes a comeback all brand new and shiny. The town of Isigny-sur-Mer was liberated by Allied forces on 9th of June, 1944 by a conjoined effort of 175th Infantry Regiment and 747th Tank Battalion. This map follows the advance of US troops along the road leading to the town, featuring a grassy terrain with lots of vegetation, borrow ditches, and lonely houses for players to take cover in. In this update, Road to Isigny received a complete rework and was expanded to accommodate the Advance game mode. Hurry up to the servers and check it out!



See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

A small update containing bug fixes, map updates, and some new sound effects.

Weapons

• New Panzerfaust firing sounds.
• New explosion sounds for Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and PIAT projectiles.

Bugfixes

• Fixed incorrect textures on Axis radio operators.
• Fixed the "black texture" bug on the Sd.Kfz. 234/1 (snowy variant).

Maps

• Added a new location leading up to Kaschade Offices.
• Moved the "anti-precap" minefield behind Fleminstrasse a bit further.

• Fixed the bug with the invisible ceiling hovering over the town.
• Added watchtower constructions.
• Slightly increased the draw distance.

• Fixed the bug where Axis main spawn would end up inside the Allied territory in the endgame.
• Changed the icon for the airborne spawn.

• Adjusted team ratios and available tanks.

• Changes to the tank balance and the objective layout.

• Updated to include new vehicles.

As the Halloween event concludes, we are back with another patch featuring various fixes and incremental updates. Check out the logs for the details:

Changelog v9.9.5

Changelog v9.9.4

Changelog v9.9.3

When theres no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. The Allied forces having been victorious at the end of the war in May 1945 find their battle is not quite over! Some months later, on Halloween night 1945 the last remnants of the Allied forces in Europe get reports that the Nazi undead have begun to emerge from their graves! There will be one last battle to fight with the outcome deciding the fate of humankindthe Final Reich will be the end result if the Allies are beaten. Join us this Halloween (Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November) for some Nazi Zombie killing fun on the newly arrived Haunted Hattert and Haunted Fury maps!
We'll see you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Hi, everyone! We have received numerous reports about reinforcements depleting too fast on Armored maps, and after reviewing the issue, we've decided to scrap ticket costs for vehicles completely. This system did provide very little benefit for the gameplay, and was unjustly punishing teams for mistakes of a few players in control of valuable assets. Losing a vehicle does not cost reinforcements anymore. Apart from changes to the reinforcement system, this patch includes several map updates and fixes. Here's the full changelog:

Maps

• La Cambe Advance:
  • New objective layout!
  • Reworked Axis main spawn.
  • Added proper minefields.
• Cambes-En-Plaine Clash:
  • Fixed a floating static mesh.
  • Fixed the fog range being trippy at lowest settings ("white screen" issue).
  • Fixed sergeant roles spawning with 2 sets of binoculars.
  • Captured Bren Carrier no longer counts towards the vehicle limit.
• Hurtgenwald Advance:
  • Swapped Allied roles to autumn counterparts.
  • Extended the minefields.
  • Rebalanced the team ratio numbers in Allied favor.
  • Reduced the fog range.
• Kriegstadt Advance:
  • Fixed the terrain visibility in incorrect places.
  • Increased reinforcemets for both sides.
  • Added radios on main spawns.
• Riga Docks Push:
  • Disabled bullet collision on a few fences.
• Poteau Ambush Advance:
  • Deleted a floating emitter.
  • Changed the skins of some of the foxholes for a better blend.
  • Disabled collisions on impassable bushes.
• Klin1941 Advance:
  • Reduced logistic truck respawn times.
• Makhnovo Advance:
  • Removed HQ behind the Church objective.
  • Reduced logistic respawn times to ~1 minute for both teams.
• Butovo Advance:
  • Reduced logistic truck respawn times and added +1 more to each team.
• Nuenen Clash:
  • Halftracks are no longer counted towards towards the vehicle limit.

Gameplay

• Removed reinforcement costs on all vehicles.

Bugfixes

• Fixed radio confirmations for artillery calls not working in multiplayer.
• Fixed an issue where US and Commonwealth tankers would have incorrecly textured first-person sleeves.

This small patch focuses on fixing a couple issues with the last release. We've also optimized the CambesEnPlaine map, which received a significant performance boost.

Changelog

• Cambes-en-Paine Clash:
  • Optimization pass.
  • Added 1 armored personnel carrier for each team.

• Fixed interface art for SU76 and T60.
• Fixed an issue where some weapon icons could appear blurry.
• Fixed an issue where low fog settings would result in zero visibility on certain maps.

Greetings everyone! After a few months since the last update, we are back again with a new massive release that features new vehicles, weapons, map updates, and more. Let's have a look at it.

Vehicles

New

• BA-64
• T-34/76 (M42 and M43 models)
• SU-76M
• BT-7
• Panzer III Ausf. J
• Panzer IV Ausf. G (early)
• Panzer IV Ausf. F1
• KV-1E
• T-60
• M4A2 Sherman

Weapons

New

• SVT-38
• MP-38
• Volkssturmkarabiner 98 (VK.98)

Updated

• M1928 Thompson, C96, M712, Sten, PPS-43, Korovin: New sounds.
• Mosin-Nagant: Received new, improved sights.

Maps

New

• Lyes Krovy Defence
• Krasnyi Oktyabr Defence
• Hurtgenwald Advance
• Grey Ghosts of War Stalemate
• Bridge Assault Stalemate

Updated

• Kriegstadt Advance: Opened up a previously blocked street before Kaschade Offices.
• San Valentino Advance: Gameplay and visual fixes.
• Omaha Beach Push: Fixed the bug where players were unable to call artillery.
• Gorlitz Push:
  • Opened up more streets.
  • Fixed exploits and minor bugs.
• Poteau Ambush:
  • Smoothed out the hill next to the town to make it look more realistic.
  • Added AT gun constructions.
  • Various fixes and adjustments.
• Putot-en-Bessin Advance:
  • Removed reinforcements bleed.
  • Removed first objective.

Characters

• Amoeba camouflage for Soviet troops.
• Volkssturm uniforms.

Constructions

• Pak-38 Anti-Tank Gun

Gameplay

• Adjustment of all health/damage related tank properties and shell characteristics for more consistency and to better reflect their real life counterparts.
• Reduced the amount of damage AT guns receive from armor-piercing shells.

Bugs

• Fixed the bug where certain maps caused clients to be stuck on the connection screen (thanks to the folks from the oldunreal.com forum for the solution).

Say hello to the Springfield M1903A1a long awaited addition to our bolt action rifle roster!
Despite being phased out during World War II in favor of M1 Garand, this rifle saw an extensive use in Pacific, African, and European theaters, as some of the U.S. front-line troops retained the M1903 and continued to use it alongside the M1 Garand. In the game it will be available in all U.S. Combat Engineer kits, and as a part of the rifleman's loadout for the U.S. Army Rangers (Hill 400, Pointe du Hoc, and other maps).

BONUS: New Kar98k variant

Change log

Hello, everyone! As you may already know, a couple weeks ago we have released the Fury map, which turned out to be quite an attraction with its lovely scenery and a kickin replica of the tank. In case someone missed the news or just in for a treat, we also prepared this amazing trailer for the occasion. The trailer was directed and produced by a community member and our good friend ChrisMo44, and it's a first one in the line up of videos featuring our latest and upcoming maps. Enjoy the show, and see you on the battlefield! [previewyoutube=bJUAnOQVIiY;full][/previewyoutube]

Theres a new map wed like to show you, and this one is quite special! We present to youthe Fury!
This brand new map is a loving homage to the original 2014 movie and was closely inspired by the events and locales depicted in it, from the aftermath of the Tiger encounter, to the iconic crossroads of the final showdown. All this scenery was made possible by our talented level designer Dolas, who already treated us in the past with another beautiful map Rabeneck!

Easy Eight

• AlteZiegelei Stalemate
• Celles Clash
• Freyneux Advance
• Preaux Clash
• Raid to Bastogne Advance

Credits

Level Design

Easy Eight

This patch brings us a couple changes to HEAT projectiles (which can now penetrate spaced armor) and a new take on our latest map! Meet La Fire Day Advancea continuation to the night variant that takes place during a German counterattack the following afternoon.

Changes

Maps

• New map La Fire Day Advance.
• Added an option to call a paradrop via a radio on La Fire Advance (the night version).

Vehicles

• HEAT projectiles now penetrate armored skirts (schrzen) at angles below 45 degrees.
• New vehicle hit effects for HEAT projectiles.
• Vehicle reload sounds can only be heard by nearby players and the crew inside.

A new update is out and we have something exciting to show you!

La Fire

Other changes

Maps

• Fixed reinforcements bug on Armored Freyneux Advance.
• Minor tweaks and fixes for some of the maps.

Vehicles

• Tank cannons now deal more consistent amounts of damage (removed damage randomization).
• Improved visuals of hatch fires.
• Corrected KV-1s top speed (it's slightly faster now).
• Armored side-skirts (Schrzen) now stop PTRD rounds.

As we had to temporarily remove some of the new goodies to fix a number of game breaking bugs, we are happy to announce that all of the recent additions are now back in the game! This patch also brings a little quality of life update for squad leaders: they now receive mandatory smoke grenades (if their squad is large enough).

Change log

Additional changes:

• Squad leaders can receive smoke grenades regardless of their class (excluding tank crewmen and mortar operators). A squad leader is required to have at least 4 members in his/hers squad for a regular smoke grenade, and 6 members for a colored one.
• Fixed a bug with the inventory that made it impossible to switch weapons on some of the axis classes.

In our efforts to bring back all the goods that were introduced in the previous major updateand to conclude our hunt for the game breaking bugs that were brought along with itwell be running beta testing events starting this Friday at 8 PM GMT. Feel free to join us!

How do i participate?

Changes

Unfortunately, our latest build ended up highly unstable, and we had to revert to the last stable version, which is v9.4.5. The servers have been restarted now. If you have trouble connecting, make sure your game has been updated in Steam (if the update does not initiate, try verifying the game files). Apologies for the inconvenience!

After the 9.5.0 release, we've been receiving a lot reports about frequent game crashes, as well as issues where a number of maps would inexplicably crash the game servers. After exhaustive investigation, it was determined that these issues are likely caused by some sort of bug in the games engine code which we are unable to properly diagnose nor directly fix (as modders, we cannot edit the engines underlying engine). In order to restore stability and resolve these game-breaking issues, we have decided to revert a significant portion of the new additions introduced in the v9.5.0 update. This step back is a temporary measure, and we will be incrementally reintroducing all the new weapons and uniforms in the days to come. We apologize for the inconvenience! See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Happy new year to all! Were hitting the ground running in 2020 with a huge update!

Weapons

New Weapons

• Pistolet wz. 35 Vis
• Mauser C96
• Browning High Power
• Nagant M1895 Revolver
• Beretta Model 38
• PPSH41 (Stick Magazine)
• Maschinenpistole 41(r)
• M1928 Thompson (20rd/30rd/50rd)
• Gebalte Ladung
• Korovin 41

Changes

• M1A1 Thompson has new animations, texture and sounds
• Maschinengewehr 34 has new firing sounds
• Gewehr 43 has new firing sounds
• Mauser C96 Schnellfeuer has been replaced by the semi-automatic version

Maps

New Maps

• Riga Docks (Push)
• Tula Outskirts (Push)

Changes

• Myshkova River
• Black Day July
• Tank Clash At Bastogne
• Road to Leningrand
• Debrecen
• Wanne
• Butovo
• St. Marie du Mont
• Makhnovo
• Ten Aard
• Olkhovatka
• Kriegstadt
• Radar Advance

Miscellaneous Changes

• Changed the main menu music and background image
• The text messages accompanying voice commands (eg. [VOICE] Basnett: Go, go go!) made by squadmates will have their names appear in green
• Surrender votes can now be initiated earlier and require less votes to pass
• Removed Rhine River Clash (RIP)
• Reduced the supply cost of the M1937 and M1942 anti-tank guns to 700 and 800, respectively

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the combat and support point icons were not displaying correctly
• Fixed a bug where the KV1-S did not have a proper preview image on the vehicle selection screen
• Fixed a bug where the Sd.Kfz. 251/22 (Pakwagen) did not have a proper preview image on the vehicle selection screen
• Fixed an oversight which gave the Jagdtiger insufficient armor

We hope everyone is having a good holiday season! We, of course, never rest, so here's some more goodies to put under your tree.

New Maps

• Wanne (Advance)
• Battle in House (Holiday Fun Map)
• Kruokovo (Push)

Other Changes

• Squad leaders can now place rally points unassisted within friendly territory
• Increased the squadmate rally point assist radius from 15m to 25m
• New tank destruction emitter with cook-off
• Fixed spawn points not working on Celles due to earlier gameplay logic change
• The AVT-40 barrel can now overheat
• Makhnovo is back!

We're proud to announce the latest addition to our armor lineup, the fearsome Flakpanzer IV "Wirbelwind"!
This vehicle is pretty much exactly what it looks like: a Flakvierling AA gun on top of a Panzer IV chassis. The vehicle was produced in small numbers during the war and was primary used for anti-aircraft duties. However, with its high rate of fire, the Wirbelwind can make mincemeat out of infantry and light vehicles caught out in the open, so don't underestimate it! The Wirbelwind can be found on the following maps:

• Balaton
• Bridgehead
• Cambes en Plaine
• La Gleize
• Ogeledow
• Stoumont
• Valko
• Champs

White Phosphorous

Weapon Adjustments

• Sub-machine gun spread has been slightly reduced
• Weapon sway has been adjusted to better reflect a weapon's weight and bulkiness
• Increased the bash & stab range
• Attaching a bayonet now has a greater effect on weapon sway
• Adjusted the field-of-view of some weapons to afford a better sight picture

Miscellaneous

• Added AVT-40, a fully automatic version of the SVT-40.
• Added Soviet 45mm AT gun.
• Increased mortar resupply interval from rally points to 30 seconds.
• Reduced the rally point "establishment" counter from 15 to 10. Squad leaders should no longer need to worry about abandoning their rally points when placing them on the move.
• Allied binoculars now have a unique skin.
• Squad signals and name tags are now hidden when looking down a 3D scope.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where squad rally point timers were not being reliably reset on round restart.
• Fixed a bug where German Combat Engineers had no weapon on Black Day July.
• Fixed a bug where the PPS43 sight was misaligned.

We're back again with another big update! v9.3.0 has a lot of things that have been in the works for a long while, so let's get to it!

St. Marie du Mont

Enfield No.2

Maps

Vehicles

Miscellaneous

We're back again, this time with an update that's slightly different from the usual! This time, we're focusing on some much needed love for Soviet armor, and the improvement of some explosion and impact effects.

The Highlights

• Added map DH-Armored_La_Feuillie_Clash.
• New explosion and smoke effects when vehicles are obliterated by rounds cooking off.
• New shell shatter effects.
• New bullet impact effects on players.
• Reduced the reload times of Soviet tank cannons.
• Improved the armor penetration capabilities of Soviet tank cannons (they were all under-performing compared to real-life counterparts).
• Added APCR round to T34/85.
• Fixed a bug where the Hetzer was unable to be resupplied.

What's Next?

A new tank server has launched! The server will only have armored and combined arms levels in rotation. A big thanks to the Good Guys (GG), Real Panzer (RP), Backis, Patison, and everyone else who helped to get things done. Try it out this weekend! Longer view distances (up to 4 km!!!!), lots of tanks, rallies, contructions, and nostalgic levels that have been improved! See you on the battlefield!

At long last, v9.1.0 is released! This feature update brings a lot of cool stuff weve been working on the last few months. The change log is extensive, but has pretty GIFs, so read on!

Weapon Overhaul

3D Scopes

Bolt-Action Reloading

Pistols

Automatics

Suppression Changes

Satchel Charges

Anti-Tank Gun Rotation

Overview Map Changes

• Friendly anti-tank guns are now visible on the map.
• Friendly danger zone boundary is now visible on the map.
• All vehicles that venture deep into the opposing teams territory will have their precise location visible on the map. This is done to counteract vehicles being used for extreme behind-the-lines sabotage, making it easier to combat such tactics. Anti-tank guns, supply caches and platoon HQ locations are spotted in the same manner.

Concertina Wire Changes

• Can now be cut by wire-cutters
• Added a unique placement sound
• Added an intermediate stage (has wooden pikes, but no wire)
• Added a cut stage (when cut by wire-cutters)
• Increased supply cost from 25 to 100
• Increased construction time from 2 to 4 digs
• Deconstruction with the shovel takes significantly longer while the wire is intact
• Can no longer be damaged by grenades
• Improved collision so players cannot dive over them

This Easter Sunday (April 21st) will be the first annual Easter Egg Hunt in Darkest Hour! Everyone can participate!

Before Sunday (early morning EST), players can submit egg paintings!

Rabenheck (Advance)

Ten Aard (Clash)

• Squad assistants now have access to the Command channel
• Resupply points are now displayed on the situation map
• Resupply points cost more to deploy, but now last longer
• Fixed a bug where vehicles could end up permanently reserved

Strap your helmets on tight! This update is going to blow your mind! We have put our heads together to make Darkest Hour even more a thinking man's shooter! Darkest Hour has always been a thinking-man's-shooter, but after this update, players will grow their cranium to unlimited proportions. Making headway in Darkest Hour will require players to be more headstrong. However, let's not get ahead of ourselves, here is the change log! Players will get smarter more quickly by achieving kills New players will have an easier time killing veteran players on killing sprees Players will now be able to rename their squad to 20 characters long, instead of 16 Do not let the update get to your head. As always, see you on the battlefield!

Darkest Hour: Europe 44-45 v9.0 has been released! This release is a ceremonial one, and a milestone in the games development, punctuating all of the work that has been done over the last year and a half. In that time, we have added and refined a number of new features and content including squad rally points, constructions, the new Advance game mode, and well over a dozen new maps!

New Trailer

A Momentous Occasion

This update we are releasing a number of new features, including Danger Zones, Hot Rally Points and the Rally Point Indicator! This update is a big step towards our version 9.0 milestone coming in just a little over a month. A big focus for 9.0 will be to solidify the features added in 8.0 and to better convey the games mechanics to new players. Without further adieu, here are the highlights!

Danger Zone

Rally Point Indicator

• If your squad has no rally points, the indicator will flash red.
• Displays the reason why placement may not be possible (eg. missing squadmate, cooldown etc.)
• When all placement conditions have been satisfied, the icon glows and displays a one-button prompt to place a rally point (will be useful for new squad leaders!)
• The indicator displays a yellow warning symbol when you are in the danger zone.

Misc Changes

• In an effort to stop grand theft logi, only Squad Leaders and Assistants can spawn and drive Logistics vehicles
• Low Reinforcement messages appear less often, but are now accompanied by a unique sound
• Tweaked the rules for activating objective spawns; objective spawns will generally be much further away from the frontlines, hopefully resulting in less instances of spawn killing.
• Changed the banned and session kicked messages to be less confusing
• Added the server name to the scoreboard

Servers

• Added ability to start kicking idle players once enough players are connected
• Added a command which unlocks the 10,000 Bps network speed cap
• Added a location string, so players can know where the server is located on the server browser

Friendly Fire

• Players who are forgiven for a team kill will now have their weapons unlocked if they have a past team kill which was punished
• Shooting a friendly soft vehicle will play an upsetting sound (to warn players against doing it)
• Removed the ability for players to damage the engine of friendly vehicles
• Added weapon locking for destroying friendly vehicles
• Added a message for when a player destroys a friendly vehicle
• A player who kills a friendly vehicle can no longer switch teams for 25 minutes
• Added a death message (Andy Kaufman) when a player destroys a friendly vehicle

Constructions

• Doubled the health of all sandbag constructions
• Dragons Teeth health increased from 750 to 1000
• Dragon's Teeth now take less damage from HE splash

Level Updates

• All work in progress maps now have a kill zone under the terrain
• Klin updated
  • Decreased number of reinforcements
  • Added windy snow emitters
  • Brightened the dark sky
  • Removed bloom and reduced the brightness of players
  • Fixed many other issues

• Salaca updated
  • Improved the Objective Spawns
  • Adjusted the end objectives locations and renamed

A small update released early this morning. Here are the...

Changes:

• Radar updated, several improvements, added objective spawns
• Slight damage and radius increase to satchel charges
• Moved smoke grenades to slot 4
• Moved shovel/wirecutters/satchels to slot 7
• Changes to Klin, Salaca, and Myshkova

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug on Hurtgenwald where players would be slain up on the hill
• Fixed a bug where players couldnt pick up satchels
• Fixed a bug with objective spawns which could crash the server

Got a hotfix for client crashes during level load and more! Changes:

• Updated the main menu to fix a client crash
• Added mortar observers to Stoumont Advance
• Removed Ami Go Home from Axis song list
• Moved Satchel Charges from slot "7" to slot "4"
• Moved Smoke Grenades from slot "2" to slot "7"
• Added slots as bindable keys on the control settings page
• Objective Spawns now have their own map icon (a square)
• Added objective spawns to Putot (objective spawns will work on Advance now)
• Netspeed changes:
  • New default is 10000
  • Users with less than 10000 netspeed will be updated to 10000
  • Adjusted netspeed values in the settings
• Several fixes to Putot

We are back at it! Here are the changes:

The Good

• New Main Menu
  • New background image
  • Handles different aspect ratios (4:3 & 16:9) better (no longer stretches image)
  • Now has a frame limiter (to help prevent coil whine on your hardware)
• Added a control for toggle run (no default bind, can be bound under Controls > Movement)
• Fixed a bug where constructions would be virtually immune to direct HE impact damage.
• Added an experimental feature to Hattert_Advance we are calling Objective Spawns
  • The nearest linked secured objectives act as a spawn point for the team
  • If no issues occur we will implement this feature on more Clash maps
• Increased the options for internet rate (now has experimental 30000 rate option)

The Bad

• Squad Leaders now receive 25 instead of 50 points when a squadmate spawns on their rally point. This change was made because squad leaders would almost always massively out-score the rest of their squad due to the high point value of players spawning on rally points.

The Ugly

• Removed DH_ATWeapons.u package
  • This package has been deprecated since v6.0 and was kept around for backwards compatibility with custom levels. However due to a bug in the UT2004 engine, it was discovered to be creating invalid references and data in map files which could lead to larger file sizes, instability, and made maintenance on these levels more difficult.
• Note To Server Administrators!
  • Custom levels that reference DH_ATWeapons.u will now require DH_ATWeapons.u as a custom file on the server. Either that, or the custom levels will need to be updated to remove these references (Contact [DH]Theel on our Discord for more information and instructions). You can download the DH_ATWeapons.u package here. Place the file in your servers DarkestHour/System folder.

We hope everyone had a good holiday break. 2019 is going to be a big year for Darkest Hour. We plan on polishing features we are happy with and making changes to features we are not. A big focus this year will be on brand new maps! Here is a recap of changes to DH in 2018: 2018 started with v8.0 (squads + construction + Advance) being just released in late 2017.

• By February, we added Assistant Squad Leaders and more constructions.
• In March, we had the frag grenade update, which reduced starting grenades to 1, max carriable to 3, and added grenade boxes.
• In April, we had changes to soft vehicles so they no longer instantly explode; giving soldiers a chance to bail out once the vehicle becomes disabled.
• We saw the 10th anniversary of Darkest Hour in June!
• In July, we had new construction (Dragons Teeth and Panzerfaust Crates) and a complete overhaul to the scoring system.
• In August, we saw improvements to blood and hit impacts on players.
• In September, we added a zoom-able overview map.
• In October, Theel launched his Patreon campaign.
• In November, he launched the London high performance server.
• Finally, in December we improved on the in-game chat and added squad merging.

We're back at it again! This update's a bit of a hodge-podge, but the tl;dr is that we've added a new squad merging functionality, a couple new work-in-progress maps, and made some balance changes, including a change that should make light vehicles much more fragile.

New Stuff

• Added DH-WIP_MyshkovaRiver_Advance
• Added DH-WIP_Klin1941_Advance
• Added a new control for placing a Rally Point (default key is: J)
• Added a new splash screen

Squad Merge

• As a squad leader, right-click another squad leader on the squad menu and select Request to Merge
• The squad leader that sent the merge request will become the new squad leader

Miscellaneous Changes

• Changes to soft vehicles (cars, trucks, halftracks):
  • Increased damage from small arms fire
  • Vehicles are now more easily disabled
  • Reduced engine health on cars and trucks
  • Halftracks now climb up slopes more effectively
• Updated DH-WIP_Cholm_Advance
  • Axis now have a new approach for the final objective
  • Second to last capture (Stronghold) can be captured from the ground level.
  • Added a couple weapon pickups
• Changes to several constructions:
  • Panzerfaust Crate:
    • Raised cost from 750 to 850
    • Lowered Panzerfaust count from 4 to 2
  • Increased cost of Grenade Crate from 300 to 400
  • Increased cost of Supply Cache from 250 to 500
  • Increased cost of Watchtower from 750 to 900
  • Platoon HQs can no longer be crushed by vehicles
  • Platoon HQs now take more damage from grenades and satchels
• All vehicles have had their reinforcement cost reduced
• Levels weapon pickups no longer respawn by default
• Reduced the high player count requirements for voting larger Advance levels

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where most functionality was broken in the Admin mutator.

We're back at it again! This time bringing a big quality-of-life improvement to the chat system. While typing, you are now able to cycle through chat modes by pressing the Tab button!
Since the RO1 days, there has been three buttons for initiating chat in certain channels (team, global, vehicle). When we added the squad chat channel, we had to take up another keybind on our already crowded default key mapping. The old system is just not tenable for extensibility and is very be cumbersome to use (e.g. accidentally hitting the wrong button and needing to hit escape and try again). Additionally, you can now simply hit your Enter key to start typing a message to your previously selected chat channel! Please note that backwards compatibility is maintained if you prefer to use the old system instead. Here are a few more notable tweaks and additions:

• There is now a colored line drawn between the player and the squad's current order marker on the situation map (this should help highlight the orders more prominently)
• All anti-tank guns now must be placed at least 15 meters from each other.
• All anti-tank guns have had their supply cost increased (in some cases significantly) in an effort to reduce AT gun spam.
• Increased the "block" time penalty for spawn kills on Platoon HQs from 15 to 30 seconds in an effort to reduce repeated spawn killing.
• Increased the duration of the " Have Won The Battle!" message from 5 seconds to 15 seconds.
• Fixed a bug where players would be told to wait for 5 seconds before voting for another map before they had voted for any maps.
• Fixed a bug where the crescent sandbag construction could seem to disappear if it was in your peripheral view.

Event This Thursday! @ 4pm EST (9pm GMT) @ Darklight Games London Server (185.38.151.35)
New London Server! Thanks to past and present Patrons, the new high-performance server has arrived! This server uses an i7-7700k processor, the best marketable CPU for single-threaded applications. This is also a dedicated server, not a virtual server, meaning the processing power is not shared. This means we can easily host multiple 64 player servers without seeing the tick rate drop! This server is not cheap, but we also got a very good deal. While the Patrons do pay for it, I want to be as responsible as possible with that money. This means that we promote the server and try our best to see that it is actually used. However, I also want to be fair to the community and not just use my developer authority to dictate player choice. Ultimately, it is the player's responsibility to choose which server to play on. So we have decided AGAINST doing a server white list, which would allow us to select which servers would show up on the server browser by default. However, it is our responsibility to give players accurate and useful information in making that choice. We hope to figure out a fair and accurate way to inform players of how a server performs and indicate that on the server browser. Until then, we can only inform players in announcements and ask that players choose responsibility, especially on weekends. Though there is no noticeable incentive for players to play on better performing servers. What we can offer is the London server will be running metrics; which is statistics of kills, deaths, damage types, and other information that we plan on making public via a web tool. Why London? DH has many European and North American players; ideally, we would have two server locations. However, until we can consistently fill multiple servers on weekends, one will have to do. That means selecting the best affordable location to make everyone happy. Let's play on the new server tomorrow night, prime time! Come join around 4pm EST (9pm GMT) Thursday the 15th, try out the server and get an early weekend Darkest Hour fix! See you on the battlefield, Theel

Hey folks, we're here again with another update! This one's short and sweet, here are the highlights:

New Stuff

• Added La Gleize (Advance) map
• Squad members can now volunteer to be the squad's assistant by right-clicking on the squad leader's name on the squad menu.

Bug Fixes!

• Fixed a bug where spawn points would be incorrectly positioned when the map was zoomed in.
• Fixed a bug where anti-tank rockets could kill Platoon HQs in one hit (it now takes 3 direct hits).

Tweaks!

• Adjustments and improvements to Noville (Advance) map (extended boundaries etc.)
• Slightly increased respawn times of players spawning as non-rifleman roles.
• Very slightly increased the spread of the MP40 (our telemetry found it overperforming at long ranges).
• Change team interval increased from 2 minutes to 5 minutes.
• Increased cost of vehicle pool constructions from 1250 to 1750.

Server Performance:

Survey Summary:

Darkest Hour: Europe 44-45

• Added Noville Advance

• Changed vote weight rewards to be more balanced based on the servers population

• The server self-optimization system now:
  • Self-optimization system is now mandatory and cannot be disabled
  • Persistent poor server performance will result in permanently higher respawn times until the end of the level
  • Critically poor server performance will force a map vote
  • Players will be notified of poor server performance more aggressively

• Increased minimum encroachment enemy count from 2 to 3
• Increased encroachment penalty block threshold from 10 to 15
• Increased encroachment penalty forgiveness per second from 2 to 5

• Fixed a bug where players who voted before the round ended would not appear to have their score-based voting power into account.

• The message shown to players who are session banned due to team-killing now more accurately reflects that nature and duration of the administrative action (players could be confused into believing they were permanently banned).

Got a new survey for you gentlemen. Please take some time and give your answers some thought. https://esurv.org/?u=DHLevelingQASurvey Thanks and see you on the battlefield!

I (Theel) am starting a Patreon Campaign. Patreon is a membership based crowdfunding platform that allows creators to get paid for their work. Essentially it allows people like you to donate to projects you support. For more information you can watch the “What is Patreon?” video here. This campaign will operate differently than our previous one. The primary difference is that I (Theel) will be the owner. The money will be for me personally to routinely work on Darkest Hour. The rest of the team has graciously agreed to support this Patreon campaign, so I would like to give special thanks to Basnett and Kashash for supporting me and Darkest Hour. This campaign will have patron tiers (lead, bronze, silver, and gold) which offer different benefits. If you’d like to support this campaign, just head on over to this page then create a patreon user, enter payment information, and pledge an amount. A successful campaign will mean that I will invest more time into Darkest Hour and players will see more content and hopefully Darkest Hour will remain on your Steam Library for years to come. Again, I’d like to thank Basnett and Kashash and also thank the community and future patrons. The specifics of the benefits include:

• Gain access to patron-only developer insights, news, and videos
• Be distinguished in game with the appropriate tier icon on the scoreboard
• Receive discord roles for the official DH discord server which give them access to Patron only channels
• Awarded additional votes (for map voting) which can bypass the 15 vote limit
  • Lead patrons are given 3 additional votes
  • Bronze patrons are given 7 additional votes
  • Silver patrons are given 15 additional votes
  • Gold patrons are given 25 additional votes

Transport Vehicles

• Are more vulnerable to high explosives (HE rounds can one-shot transport vehicles)
• Are more vulnerable to AP rounds (will disable them after one-hit regardless of engine hit or not)
• HTs now take 5 times more damage from Artillery
• Unarmored vehicles now take 8 times more damage from Artillery
• Unarmored vehicles have much less operating HP so they now become disabled after 200-300 damage (was 1000 before)
• Wheel damage slows the vehicles down more
• Increased engine health so unarmored vehicles can take a bit more small arms fire
• Increased turning ability of Jeep, Kubel, and GAZ when moving at slow speeds

Dragon’s Teeth

• Raised the cost from 200 to 250
• Can now be dug up anytime (no longer requires supply truck in range)
• Takes longer to construct
• Lowered the minimum damage required to harm (more things can damage them)

Quality of Life

• Various minor map improvements and organization
• Raised the minimum connection setting (NetSpeed)
• Sergeants, Corporals, Assault, and Combat Engineers spawn with extra ammo now

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Allied artillery marks could be seen by Axis on the situation map
• Fixed a bug where public voice chat would still be disabled when the round is over

Hopeful Fix

Situation Map

• Players can now zoom in on the deployment map with the mouse scroll wheel
• Players can now pan on the zoomed map by holding left mouse and dragging
• Players can now ‘activate’ the interactive map from the pop-up situation map by hitting their jump button (default: space bar) when viewing
• Players can now change spawn points from the pop-up situation map in interactive mode

Maps Galore

• Arad_Advance
• Arnhem_Bridge_Push
• Benouville_Advance
• Berezina_Advance
• BridgeAssault_Cutoff
• Chambois_Push
• Champs_Advance
• Cholm_Advance
• Dom-Pavlova_Advance
• Kasserine_Pass_Advance
• Leningrad_Push
• Leszinow_Advance
• Maupertus_Push
• Odessa_Push
• Ogledow_Clash
• Pegasus_Bridge_Push
• Pointe_Du_Hoc_Push
• Port-En-Bessin_Push
• Poteau_Ambush_Advance
• Prussia_Push
• Ramelle_Push
• Remagen_Push
• San_Valentino_Advance
• Schijndel_Advance
• Smolensk_Stalemate
• Turqueville_Push
• Winter_Stalemate_Clash
• Donner_Stalemate
• Radar_Advance

Bridgehead Updates

• Added new objective between First Bridge and Bridge Defenses
• Expanded boundaries near new objective
• Expanded boundaries West of Fortified Hill
• Added Schu mines to help reduce direct assaults on Fortified Hill
• Added pre-placed dragon’s teeth to funnel tanks
• Increased Axis reinforcements

New Map Vote System

• Each player always gets 1 vote, regardless of their score
• Players are rewarded an additional vote for each additional 1000 score to a maximum of 15 (eg. 11550 score is 11 votes, 18000 score is 15 votes)

Game Types

• Added a gametype “Clash” which is is the meeting engagement version of “Advance”. Advance maps that were meeting engagement style such as Hedgerow Hell have been renamed.
• “Advance” maps will no longer allow defenders to completely recapture the map’s objectives.
• Added a gametype “Stalemate” to indicate the map has all objectives open. These maps are notoriously hard to win on and thus are labeled Stalemate.

Weapons

• Ammo loadout is no longer affected by the team’s munition percentage

• Now has a faster firing animation which makes the weapon feel less “floaty”
• Slightly decreased accuracy
• Increased recoil

• Adjusted recoil values
• Changed FOV on the sights so the sights are larger
• Can now be resupplied by friendly players

Quality of Life

• Reduced the amount of reinforcements lost when vehicles are destroyed.
• Added a player threshold at which ‘all chat’ is disabled (default: 50) to cut down on noisy chatter when server has a lot of players
• Added ability for admin to gag specific players
• Removed the vote kick system, as it was completely ineffective
• Added 32 new victory songs
• Added VSync option in the display settings

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Axis Assault Roles had STG44s when they shouldn’t have
• Fixed a bug where players on the same server could hear different victory songs

Version 8.1.4 is here! We have some changes to the munitions, various improvements to constructions, and quality of life changes!
The Munition System: * Removed cache munition reward system * Changed the munition system to reward player score and players who do not die often. For details: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/commit/0d86db5676c52c7b629462ca234d100546755a55 Rallypoint Changes: * Increased the "enemy encroachment" radius from 25m to 50m. * Increased the "enemy encroachment" spawn time penalty from 10s to 15s. Dragons Teeth Changes: * Can now be dug up when there is a friendly supply truck nearby * Can now be easily destroyed by satchels and artillery * Can now be damaged by AP and HE direct hits * Can now be damaged by direct hits from Rockets and other AT weapons Watchtower Changes: * Can now be easily destroyed by satchels and artillery * Can now be damaged by AP and HE direct hits * Grenades no longer damage * Can now be damaged by direct hits from Rockets and other AT weapons Bridgehead Advance Changes: * Increased reinforcements for Allies * Removed Allied reinf bleed for first objectives * Worked on Honnopel area a bit more Lutremange Advance Changes: * Significant reduction in the FogFX * Destroyed the Rail Bridge * Replaced the middle bridge with jellysoda's bridge * Added sandbag cover all over the middle bridge * Other minor changes Improvements: * The 2 minutes round end time should no longer activate if the opposing team's reinforcements are over 50 (instead round will just end with the winner) * Moved the vehicle spawn for the Vehicle Pool Construction forward (should help prevent tanks such as Panther from spawning stuck) * Fixed a bug where the "press / to join a squad" message would be sent to spectating players See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Version 8.1.2 arrives with bullets and blood. This update focuses on munitions and blood effects.
Darkest Hour is all about having authentic combat situations and until now it has lacked low ammo situations. We decided to implement a munitions system that will decrease infantry starting ammo as the battle rages on; this way low ammo only becomes a problem late in the battle. Players will need to load up on ammo from ammo boxes, loot weapons, and if it comes to it engage with melee. It can be a burden to run out of ammo, so conserve your ammo, pick your targets, and resupply teammates when you can! The Munition System: Each team now has a munition percentage that can be viewed on the scoreboard. Munitions will decrease over time on Advance maps. Players spawn with a percentage of their maximum carrying capacity equal to their team’s munition percentage. Munitions does not yet affect tanks or vehicle weapons.

• Munitions drain at a rate of 1.66% a minute, so after 60 minutes, a team will be at minimum percentage
• Supply caches raise the minimum munition percentage by 10% (with a maximum of 30%)
• Removed ability for Machine Gunners, Anti-Tank Soldiers, and Tank Crewman to carry sharable extra ammo
• Only Riflemen spawn with shareable extra ammo (other roles can carry, but don’t spawn with it)

• Fixed a bug where the blood impact emitter was not spawning at the victim player
• Fixed a bug where the blood splatter projector would appear at any distance behind the target hit
• Increased the size of blood impact emitters for all weapons (pistols, rifles, mgs, 50cal)

• Lowered cost of grenade boxes (350 to 300)
• Increased cost of panzerfaust box (500 to 750)
• Changed distance that inventory spawners (grenade and panzerfaust boxes) so they can be placed closer together (15 to 1 meters)
• Lowered health of watchtower (500 to 400)
• Increased health of bunker (400 to 500)

• Players are no longer required to join or be in a squad to select the Tank Crewman role
• Objectives can now be set to have different lock down times depending on which team captured it
• MP40 should now recoil less when iron sighted (roughly 10% less)
• PPH41 should now recoil more when iron sighted (roughly 10% more)

• Added a Map Vote Hub level which servers should use to load up on (allows players to vote for the map they want instead of always being stuck on the same level after a crash)

v8.1.0 has arrived and this time we have a cocktail of improvements!
The big change players will notice right away is that we have a new scoring system! Players should notice some big changes to the scoreboard:

• Score is now split into two categories (Combat & Support)
• All scoring values have been inflated (a kill is now worth 100 points instead of just 1!) This allows us to award smaller point denominations for other actions (eg. reloading a friendly AT soldiers)
• More scoring events have been added. For example, completing Platoon HQ constructions and placing rally points will now awards a significant amount of points

We have scheduled anniversary events for Darkest Hour. This Saturday and Sunday (14-15th), we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Darkest Hour. We celebrate Darkest Hour every time we play, but scheduling events is more influential. We do not have an exact day to celebrate DH's anniversary, so we do so any time during the June-July months. So find some time and pop in this weekend and if you haven't already check out the changes!

We're back again with another update! To start off this list, there are a couple new constructions, the Dragon's Tooth, and the exciting new Vehicle Pool which allows a well organized team to deploy vehicles closer to the front-lines. In addition, the logistics mechanics have gotten a considerable number of tweaks to hopefully steer players toward more realistic behavior:

• Supply caches now generate less supplies and share a supply generation pool (the more caches you have, the less supplies will be generated per cache).
• Supply caches must now be placed 300 meters apart (was 200m).
• Each team's main spawn now contains a indestructible supply cache with a high capacity (8000) and regeneration rate.

• Player models now have LODs, which should increase client FPS dramatically on high population servers.
• Infantry can now carry multiple grenade types at once.
• Squad leaders and assistants are now able to see where their team's other squad leaders are on the situation map.
• Weapon pickups will no longer disappear if players are nearby.
• There is now an "auto-join squad" button (/), and a "squad menu" button (P).
• Unassigned players are now prompted to join squads.
• Unassigned players are no longer able to take roles other than Rifleman.

Darkest Hour: Europe ‘44-’45 update 8.0.9 is here!
The highlights this update are some design changes to vehicles such as the Opel Blitz, GMC, Jeep, Kubelwagen, and APCs such as M3A1 and Sd.Kfz 251 Halftracks. In addition, level optimization and polishing.

Vehicles

• Adjusted “spike timer” to 15 seconds (if engine is set on fire, spike timer determines how long until it explodes)
• Fixed an issue where a vehicle could be set on fire, but burn forever if friendlies were in the area

• Adjusted these vehicles to have a standard body health of 2000, making them harder to explode from small arms (Armoured APCs are still impervious to small arms)
• Adjusted engine health to be very low, making them the critical weak spot to aim for
• Added wheel hitpoints and a system which will make vehicles slower for having wheel damage (making wheels the secondary weak spot to aim for)
• Adjusted engine hitpoint sizes to be larger, to make them easier to hit
• Set these vehicles to only be spawnable by players that are in a squad
• Increased required speed to run over players from 30 kph to 35 kph
• Reduced explosion damage and radius
• Greyhound & Stuart have slightly reduced penetration ability at a distance
• Increased Panther’s side armor as it was weaker than intended
• Lowered view position of the Sherman hull machine gun to make it easier to tell where it is aiming

Maps

• Barashka (also adjusted balance)
• Putot en Bessin
• Makhnovo
• Baranovka Armoured (also adjusted balance)

• Removed Kubelwagens and Jeeps
• Axis are now able to field 2 tanks instead of 1

• Removed an undesired minefield in the northwest part of the level Increased reinforcements Removed several no arty volumes (relics from the Push version)

• Decreased Allied crewman roles to 3 Replaced the unfinished M22 Locust with a M5 Stuart

• Some balance changes to hopefully make the map worthy of keeping around Construction Reduce placement radius of barbed wire obstacle, so they can be closer together and closer to other objects

Infantry

• MG42 and MG34 deployed recoil has been reduced

Miscellaneous

• Changes to protocol for connecting to servers that are passworded:
• Players will now be required to enter the password each time (even on level change)
• Players will no longer get a black screen when connecting to a passworded server
• Players should no longer be required to change their name to join a passworded server
• New admin menu for the AdminMutator:
• New setting to change the server’s password in real time (WebAdmin requires a level change, this setting will be instantaneous)
• New toggleable setting to lock weapons so players cannot fire If you have use for any commands not yet implemented, please let us know!

Optimization

Survey

Darkest Hour: Europe ‘44-’45 update 8.0.7 has arrived!
This update is a blend of new content, updated maps, balance tweaks, optimization, and design changes.

Gameplay

• Decreased the amount of grenades players spawn with to one (1), while increasing the maximum grenades players can carry to three (3). This is also paired with the addition of a placeable grenade crate (see below). These change were made to reduce the ubiquitous grenade spam, while at the same time allowing well organized teams to have a matériel advantage.

Maps

• Significantly expanded the boundaries of the level.
• Objectives and spawn areas changed to better suit the new game mode.

• Added loading screen and overview.
• Added trenches to various locations
• Added vegetation around towns and added more houses
• Gave Allies an additional T34 and set Allies to Axis ratio to 60%

• Changed the final objective to be easier for Allies by moving Axis spawn and by increasing reinforcement interval

Construction

• Costs 350 supply
• Provides 15 grenades to teammates

Platoon HQ

• Can now be built closer to other friendly HQs (limit was 250 meters, now 200)
• Fixed an issue where the Allied HQ could be placed in a position that would block the exit

Supply Cache

• Now contains the amount of supplies used to place it after being constructed.
• Now deposits generated supplies more often (was every 20 seconds, now every 5 seconds)
• Now generates more supplies (was 100/minute, now 120/minute)

Infantry

• Players can now shovel 33% faster
• Players in the prone position now have less recoil (was 50% reduction, changed to 60%)
• Slightly reduced recoil of Sturmgewehr 44

Vehicles

• Tweaked truck (GMC, Opel, ZiS-5V) tire friction to increase traction
• Tweaked truck hand-brake performance so they will not “spin out” as easily
• Decreased vehicle impact damage threshold
• Adjusted truck health to be significantly higher (from 150 to 1000)
• Soft vehicles (cars, trucks, etc) will now blow up after 10 seconds if their engine is on fire

AT Guns

• Soviet AT guns can now aim slightly lower

Optimization

We're back again with another update! This update adds the long-awaited Squad Leader's Assistant role! Squad leaders can now assign a squad member as an assistant, allowing that player to place constructions and mark enemies on the situation map. This will allow the squad leader to focus on rally point placement and leading the squad into battle! More to come! See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

[img=https://i.imgur.com/OoL5rQw.jpg] Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 is getting another big update today! Here are some of the highlights!

Maps

• Added new Advance map "Butovo".

Gameplay

• Squad leaders are now able to call in artillery from radios.

Interface

• Calling artillery from radios is now more intuitive.
• Constructions are now divided into groups for easier menu navigation.
• Squad leaders are now able to spot enemies via the "command" menu.

Logistics Trucks

• Logistics trucks no longer generate supplies.
• Logistics trucks are now able to unload and load asupplies to or from nearby Supply Caches.

Supply Cache

• Supply Caches now generate supplies over time.
• Supply Caches must now be "dug" to be fully constructed.

Constructions

• Added Watchtower construction.
• Added Radio construction.
• Added Ammo Crate (Vehicles) construction..

Learn everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, about Darkest Hour's new Squad Rally Point mechanics from our new video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWwepskZNHE

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Darklight Games is proud to announce that Darkest Hour's new v8.0 update has now entered LIVE BETA! This means that the v8.0 update is now live on Steam for all to play! This update adds a number of exciting new features such as squads, constructions, and more. Since this is the largest and most technically ambitious update the game has ever seen, we are making sure to get it right! This is why we are releasing the game for our community to play while we work out any remaining kinks in a real-world environment. Be sure to join the 500+ strong Discord community to discuss the changes, make suggestions, or report any bugs! See you on the battlefield! Chat with us on Discord: http://discord.gg/EEwFhtk Support us on Patron: https://www.patreon.com/darkesthourgame Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkesthourgame Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darklight_games Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRNIWsgJDqsocwUHykvkBg P.S. A full changelog will be made available soon.

Want in on this Sunday's Beta test, but not sure how the squad system works? Here is a handy video that introduces the basics of how to join and lead squads. https://youtu.be/2AyDRl6kK20 Beta Schedule: http://steamcommunity.com/games/DH/events Get The Beta: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test Make sure to be there this Sunday the 22nd @ 5pm GMT for 128 player test!!!! See you on the battlefield!

Darkest Hour 8.0 is now beta! We have scheduled all the beta tests for 8.0 you can find them here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/DH/events Do not miss these beta tests. We are recording footage for the 8.0 trailer and we have opened the server to 128 slots. Spread the word, 128 slots! And help us put the 8.0 beta server to the test! We plan to release the 8.0 beta change log this Friday. We are less than a month away from the planned 8.0 release date of November 11th. We would like to thank those who helped test in Alpha and a special thanks to those who have reported issues we have since fixed. See you on the battlefield.

Yes it is only gameplay video - still no change-log . Check the in-video cards or description for more. Click the image for YouTube video: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVubVAqLWzg][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DH-Beta-1.jpg]

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Sunday Oct. 1st @ 5pm GMT (1pm EST) Join us for the test which will mark 8.0 feature complete and thrust us into Beta! This test is highlighted by the last new maps we plan to add for 8.0, a new high-performance server, and improvements across the board. Those not setup or that want to join and help us finalize 8.0 can learn how here: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test Those who want to discuss and report problems they found, can do so our discord here: https://discord.gg/pAqmTnJ So hop in and see us on the battlefield!

Help us fill the test server! We need full population tests! Test setup instructions: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test

Join us for another round of alpha testing. Since the last tests, we've got some new goodies:

• Foxholes!
• New M3 HT (replacing the old and a M16 variant)
• Bridgehead Advance

Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 now has an official Discord server! Click the link below to join the community! https://discord.gg/RKpwrbr See you there!

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Just a quick update so everyone knows what's going on with the progress of v8.0. The alpha tests we have had (and that you've been a part of!) have been great! The tests have shown us a few places where we need to improve and refine the mechanics. Most importantly, it has shown us that we are definitely on the right track. Some of the team have been developing Darkest Hour for 5 years, and we have never seen near-unanimous approval of any changes we've made to the game until now. The new mechanics create a dynamic, player-driven battlefield on top of the rock-solid and exciting combined arms combat that Darkest Hour is best known for. v8.0 is clearly the update that the game needs to stay fun, exciting, and relevant in 2017 and beyond. Excitement and motivation is at an all-time high as we hunker down to finalize the first beta (feature-complete) build for public testing. The next public play-test is likely to be in mid-to-late August. Assuming all goes well in that test and no game-breaking bugs are discovered, we will pivot towards creating a build for eventual public release of 8.0 in early Q4 of 2017. Thank you to everyone who has supported the game and our efforts in all ways, large and small. The best days are ahead of us.

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The beta server is now up and running, make sure to restart steam if you didn't get an update in the last couple minutes.

8.0 Alpha Test! Sunday July 9th @ 5pm GMT
We were not going to test this weekend, wanting to wait for more stuff to be complete, but we have new maps ready to test! If you want to join, remember to opt into beta and join the test server. For more instructions: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test (Don't forget to opt out of beta afterwards if you want to play live DH again) Since last test we've worked on:

• Improved various maps
• Adjustments to reinforcements and attrition
• Supply vehicles now generate supply over time
• Major changes to performance and handling of:
  • GMC Truck
  • Opel Blitz
  • Jeep
  • Kubel
• Added shovel sounds
• Added rally point swap ability (turn active RP into the inactive one and inactive becomes active)
• Removed reinforcement obscuring system (??? reinforcements during round)
• Removed restriction of # of dead bodies and made bodies stay for a given amount of time (default 30 seconds)
• Made enemy reinforcements hidden again (like in 5.1)
• Many bug fixes including:
  • Fixed Squad member notification messages that were not accurate
  • Fixed Allied Pawn skin/face texture on uniform
  • Fixed drawing issues with squad numbers and member locations on map
  • Fixed a bug where the SL could make a rally point alone

The server is up!
Join now and ask questions and learn about the changes! How to get the build: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test

Lets fill the server!

The next test date is this Saturday July 1st at 1pm EST (5pm GMT)

• Improvements to construction/logistics
• New default controls (and new control profiles)
• Pre-attached bayonets
• Tank locking system (work in progress)
• German shovel (spade)
• Dozens of other changes/fixes

We are super happy with the test on Sunday and motivation is up. However, we want to flesh things out a bit more for the next test. Fixing up the logistics and preparing more maps to be ready will take time. So we've decided to not test this coming weekend. And we will schedule the next test as soon as we are ready for one. So please be patient. As a distraction to the fact DH 8.0 isn't live, I'd like to offer a challenge to everyone. I want everyone to get a microphone and begin using it, conquer your shyness, and get more involved with communication. Play the live DH and try calling out some enemies and get used to using your voice. The 8.0 update is all about teamwork and teamwork without communication is like sex without genitals. See you gents on the battlefield!

This test was a huge success and I want to thank everyone for showing up. I had a blast! Tests will continue next weekend (we need time to fix stuff up). We managed to test (pretty much) full rounds of Lutremange, Putot, and Cambes, and even Stoumont_Cutoff at the end. All were amazingly fun and unique. As a SL there are so many things to do and we will be adjusting to make sure the SL isn't TOO overwhelmed. Also it seems voice communication is finally working. Local chat after 9 years, finally works! Still some bugs to work out, but otherwise we are moving towards filling in missing features. In the mean time head over to the steam discussion board and discuss ideas: http://steamcommunity.com/app/1280/discussions/ Again our 8.0 alpha change log is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CuBVYWKVHk4eM6wEdQpu0m1E_hLkRjrio4SPT7rCz2M/ And can be obtained by following this guide: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test Hope to see everyone next weekend!

The test went okay, pretty much what we expected, lots of bugs and a nasty client crash. Underneath that though, we saw the potential of the update. We want to fix the client crash and improve as much as we can tonight so we can give it another shot tomorrow. So we are asking if you guys would show up again tomorrow the same time! We really want to nearly fill the 64 player server, so please answer the call of duty! NEXT TEST: Sunday the 18th @ 1pm EST (5pm GMT) For those that missed out on today, you can join us tomorrow! How to get the 8.0 test version: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test After a few weeks we hope to be out of Alpha, but its going to be tough. Many of us are very busy with life stuff.

The 8.0 alpha testing starts in 1 hour, make sure to help us test this update! You can get setup to help test by following this guide. See you on the battlefield!

Hello gents, You can now download and get setup for the steam beta build, which is what we are using for the 8.0 Alpha test. There are a lot of things you need to know! How to get the steam beta build: https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test Note: Please remember you have to opt out of beta to play normal DH again!!! Resetting your controls: Once you are in the 8.0 alpha, some controls have been added/changed and to make use of them you need to go into your controls and select a control profile (then set your controls how you want). Changelog: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CuBVYWKVHk4eM6wEdQpu0m1E_hLkRjrio4SPT7rCz2M/edit?usp=sharing THIS IS AN ALPHA!!! Things are broken and unfinished! There will be bugs! Well I hope that was enough of a warning! Again the test is tomorrow (Saturday the 17th) at 1pm EST (5pm GMT).

Well it is past due, but it is time for 8.0 update testing! This update will be the largest update for the Darkest Hour mod yet and we are not even feature complete yet. Therefore, we are calling this 8.0 Alpha testing and those who help us test should not expect things to be final. The testing will go on as long as we need it to. To start things off, we are scheduling the first 8.0 test for Saturday the 17th, at 1pm EST. We expect the test to last a couple of hours or longer if things go well. We will be testing the squad system, rally points, construction, maps, and the new game type Advance. For a more complete list of changes so far, you can check out our work in progress change log here.

We're back at it again, this time with a small but important patch that fixes a couple of important bugs:

• Fixed an exploit where vehicle cannons could be reloaded faster than intended.
• Fixed a bug where TeamSay would not work when the player was dead.

Comrades, Darklight Games is now accepting monthly donations via Patreon, an online crowdfunding platform, to support continued development of Darkest Hour. Pledging as a little as $1 a month will get you exclusive access to our Patreon feed where we will post development updates and sneak peeks that can't be seen anywhere else! Click here to learn more about it and to pledge your support! Thank you, Darklight Games

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Comrades, Short and sweet this time: we have released a patch that fixes the persistent screen blurring bug that some players were experiencing. See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Check other Players footage (in video description and in-video cards) Click the image for YouTube video: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zmIupqoI4][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20170224-web.jpg]

Scum was streaming live with English commentary. Click the image for it: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDpzRAIaYuU][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20170224-web-768x432.jpg]

Another round on the house!
We will be testing 7.2.0 update this weekend. We will release the change log right before the test. To get the beta build, follow the simple instructions here (https://github.com/DarklightGames/DarkestHour/wiki/Beta-Test).

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There was a 4K one, but at 2K DH looks cool either ;) P.S. Join for next one(s) to improve our footage by your mighty presence ;) (click the image for YouTube video) [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U39AHrynsqo][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20161223-web.jpg]

Steam has started a player driven award system. We feel Darkest Hour deserves a "Test of Time" award, if you agree head to the store page here and nominate it.

A couple hours after release there was an event to celelebrate the new version - here is our footage ;) [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxA3f8RdmTI][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/thumb.jpg]

Urah! We are proud to release the latest version of Darkest Hour, which sees the addition of Ostfront units, weapons and vehicles. Of course, this also means the addition of four Ostfront maps, including the infamous fan favorite Kreigstadt (a.k.a. Berlin)! [img=http://i.imgur.com/G1qj7w6.jpg] A special thank you to the dozens of volunteers who donated their time to playtest the build! We have a variety of brand new vehicles and maps in the works, so like us on Facebook to keep up with our progress! To see a full list of the changes, you can find the change log here! See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Comrades! Our first public beta test for Darkest Hour 7.1 will start on Sunday, November 6th at 5:00 PM GMT! To join the fight, just follow these simple instructions! To keep up with our public testing events, be sure to join our public testing Steam group!
See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Hey guys! We've been pretty quiet as of late, due in large part to us working hard on update 7.1, which will see the addition of Eastern Front forces to Darkest Hour! We will be making a call for beta testers very soon, so keep your eyes out for that announcement coming in the next week or so! See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Sadly only 10 (sic!) players but for test ground was enough ;> Click the image for YouTube video (and read the video's description!) [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHvX-hYaFKs][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20161021-web.jpg]

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Development Roadmap

Next Update

Testing

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Haven't put the video from RO.PL FightNight after last Friday as usual, because there were not enough Fighters, but feeling lack of work well made I just did an "appendix" for FN, of course couldn't make quick extra event, so I joined the crowded server - 29th's - and this is what we captured for your joy ;) CLICK THE IMAGE FOR YouTube VIDEO: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTMrCmL0LLU][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/th29.-thumb-resize.jpg]

Darklight Games is currently looking to bring on an additional programmer to work on Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45! The successful applicant will work alongside experienced programmers and artists to develop new features and content in a highly collaborative remote environment!
We are accepting applications from anyone with demonstrable solo or collaborative game programming experience and an interest in realistic FPS gaming! Experience with any of the following are a bonus: * UnrealScript * Python * Django * Git * Jenkins CI * Lex & Yacc Don't wait, drop us a line at hello@darklightgames.com! Be sure to tell us about your strengths and game programming experience!

We are back again with another patch! Noteable bug fixes include:

• Fixed a critical bug where a server could become “stalled” (not allowing players to join teams and therefore unable to switch to a new map)
• Fixed a bug where mortar observers would sometimes be unable to mark mortar targets
• Fixed a bug where players could suppress teammates when firing in close proximity
• Fixed a bug that prevented Simonskall’s objectives from advancing properly
• Fixed some minor issues on Caen where players could get stuck on and under terrain

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As promised, we have fixed a number of the issues that arose from the D-day release. The largest complaint from players were the frequent crashes; after reviewing the code, we feel that the crashes were likely caused by out-of-date files sneaking their way into the build rather than any issues with the code itself; regardless, we do not expect the crashes will persist. Some noteable bug fixes include:

• Fix for cannons becoming "jammed"
• Fix for grenades appearing to not explode
• Fix for "dead nades" not dropping
• Fix for Artillery Officer being unable to request artillery on Bridgehead
• Fix for stance issues that would occur after using ladders
• Fix for assist-reload icon appearing over the heads of people who did not need them

To commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the D-day invasion of France, the Darklight Games team is proud to announce the release of v7.0.0! [img=http://darkesthour.darklightgames.com/public-relations/images/v7.0.0.png] In keeping with the spirit of the event, this update brings a total of 5 new Normandy levels: Vierville, St-Clement, La Cambe, Dead Man's Corner and Foucarville! The update also brings a whole bunch of new ear-candy, as we've replaced a dozen weapon sounds and completely replaced the American voices with professional voice recordings! And as always, we've made lots of changes and bug fixes, all of which can be seen in the change log! We had previously hinted that v7.0.0 would include a brand new squad system and map called Hedgerow Hell; unfortunately, we did not have enough time to finish them for the D-day update. Rest assured that this, and much more, will come in later updates! See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

The poll won [img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20160429-aa.jpg] So here is a video (click the image for YouTube footage): [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tzam7eM9-8][img=http://www.red.orchestra.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20160429-web-768x432.jpg]

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[img=http://i.imgur.com/cmgsq9d.jpg] Today we have released Darkest Hour 6.0.3, a small but worthy update bringing a new vehicle to the lines -- the Sd.Kfz.10/5, a half-track equipped with the terrifying 2cm FlaK 38. We have done some new things for this vehicle; some variants of this vehicle have armor plates, but small arms fire can still penetrate the soft spots. The vehicle should be used defensively and should avoid the chaotic front unless properly supported. Our next vehicle will be the Allied counter-part, the M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage, and a complete remake of the M3 Halftrack. As always, we have fixed a few bugs including the fix for the German uniform mishap that has been common since 6.0 released. See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games P.S. Keep your eyes peeled on our Facebook in the coming weeks for an exciting announcement regarding the future of the game.

Hello everyone! I'd like to inform you that for any reason you want to contact us and you don't like to use our standard Forum at red.orchestra.pl we have started our Facebook page you might be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLv6R1owNLg

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We are back again with another patch! We've listened to feedback regarding the new vehicle spawning system and have implemented a system that will eliminate an issue where multiple players could all expect to spawn the same tank, yet only one would actually get to. Vehicles are now "reserved" as soon as they are selected to spawn! We have also made changes that should eliminate the need to "lead" targets in close quarters. Looking ahead, the team will be starting the transition out of bug-fixing mode and into content-creation mode, including the addition of more maps and vehicles! Stay tuned! As a side note, the team has been having a lot of fun playing these past couple weeks! However, we have noticed that on certain servers, players are experiencing a considerable amount of lag when the player counts creep up past a certain threshold (~60). As a result, we are asking server administrators to gauge the performance of their servers and adjust their maximum player slots accordingly to ensure a stable and enjoyable experience for all players. See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games P.S. If you are experiencing an "Unknown Steam Error" when a server changes maps, fear not, there is a quick and easy fix! Simply follow these instructions!

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As promised, we have released patch 6.0.1 which addresses a number of the issues found since 6.0 dropped last week. This patch focuses mainly on fixing level issues such as low reinforcements values and problematic spawn point placements. There are, of course, a variety of other fixes as well which can be found in the change log. See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Hello everyone! We are happy to see everyone playing and discussing the new update! We here at Darklight have been having a blast, but our work is far from over. We recognize there are a number of issues that are hampering some players' experiences, and we are working quickly to resolve as many of them as we can. This Thursday, we will be releasing patch 6.0.1 which will address the low reinforcements on some levels, spawn placement issues and a number of small technical glitches that made their way into the 6.0.0 release. We will be releasing patches weekly (generally every Thursday) for the next month or so as we iron out the wrinkles left in the wake of this enormous update. We thank all of you for your patience and suggestions (and complaints!) thus far. As part of our new and open development process, you can track our progress on patch 6.0.1 on our GitHub. See you on the battlefield, Darklight Games

Four years. It has been nearly four years since Darkest Hour has recieved an official update. Today, that changes. Darklight Games is extremely proud to finally announce the release of Darkest Hour 6.0! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdq1M8WFfE I would like to personally thank a couple of team members by who made this update possible. Andrew Lett, our level designer, for his tireless efforts and enthusiasm, even when tasked with the monumental amount of work required to update and modernize over 30 levels by hand! Matt Hands, of the programming team, for the staggering amount of bug fixes and enhancements made to the vehicle code, and of course for diligently (and exhaustively) documenting every commit! Other special mentions include Peter Klinger, Piotr Lukasik, Torben Hensgens and Ian Campbell. Of course, we also thank our faithful testing team whose efforts have helped make this the most stable and bug free version of Darkest Hour since it's inception. This is not our last hurrah. Darklight Games will continue to update and modernize the game on a significantly more regular basis. We will provide more information on this in the coming weeks, but for now, we can't wait to play with all of you! Those interested can find the change log here. Long live Darkest Hour! Sincerely, Colin Basnett Darklight Games

Last - if the 6.0 comes out in January 2016 ;) as there is an info that this mod for DH will be not supported (sadly) in newest DH version. So there is Christmas footage ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrIaE74ESVU

We are excited to announce that public testing for update 6.0 has officially come to a successful end! We would like to thank everyone who came out for donating their valuable time and helping us ensure the release is as bug free and enjoyable as possible! An extra special thanks to those who made it out almost every time. You know who you are. Thank you! As a tribute to all who attended the test sessions, here is a group photo we took after filming footage for the update 6.0 trailer. We can't thank you enough and are looking forward to seeing you by our sides in the trenches or in our cross-hairs very soon! [url=https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/t31.0-8/1498035_10153829194776692_2447947984217822450_o.jpg][img=https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/t31.0-8/1498035_10153829194776692_2447947984217822450_o.jpg]

We need more for a Bridgehead test, get in here!