The Darkest Hour Team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Darkest Hour to Steam!

New Items

• Added a "Simple HUD Colours" checkbox to the game's HUD settings, which sets the team colours back to Red/Blue for colourblind players (and people who really hate green/gold)
• C96 M712 Mauser
• Fixed Red and Orange Smoke Grenades for use in marking locations and rally points, can be carried simultaneously with other grenades.  Only one rally point can be active at a time however and the last grenade thrown/binoculars marked will take precedence.
• Added Mantling.
• New tank - M36 Jackson "Slugger"
• New tank - Panzer III Ausf. N

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Maps

• Dog Green (A condensed re-release of the old Beta map)
• Freynaux and La Mormenil
• Hurtgenwald (Back by popular demand)
• La Chappelle
• La Monderie
• Noville

 

 

 

 

 

New Features 

• Improved track damage model
  • Hit areas are now better defined.
  • Frontal and aft shots now have a possibility to take out tracks.
• Additional component damage:
  • Locational hits to the turret can disable traverse, or affect gun elevation.
  • Locational hits to the turret can cook off shells in turret ready racks.
  • Locational hits to driver's area can damage control or "disable" tank.
• Improved crew damage model
  • Crewmen can now take fire damage (hot, hot!)
  • Hull gunners can now be struck by penetrating shots (damage to drivers and commanders added previously)
• Added rider positions to the following tanks:
  • Sherman M4A1 75mm
  • Sherman M4A1 76mm
  • Sherman Firefly
  • Panzer III series
  • Panzer IV series
• New ammunition icon art for Allied tanks

The entirety of the change list can be viewed on the forums here and here!

 

We are very pleased with this release and we hope that you will be too!  We are indebted to the effort of our testing team and the continuous support of the community as a whole.  We can not thank you enough!

 

See you on the battlefield! 

A few days ago, Exocet, Nestor and myself sat down with Ueber from HoS.de and answered some of his questions about Darkest Hour's past, present and future. Click through to read the juicy details!

 http://heroesofstalingrad.de/wiki/interview:dhinterview

We´re proud to release three new DH-wallpapers for our community!

After many months of hard work, delays and endless "what's taking so long?" threads, we are very pleased to announce that Darkest Hour Beta 3.0 is now available via Steam!

Please note that if you already have Beta 2 it is very important that you delete or rename your DarkestHour folder before downloading Beta 3. Older versions are incompatible with the Steam client and will result in a corrupt download.

Built on the award-winning Steam favorite, Red Orchestra, Darkest Hour brings the classic RO multiplayer experience to the beaches of Normandy, Operation Market-Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and on into the Reich. Now you can play as American, British or Canadian troops, with a huge range of additional features including:

• More than 20 new infantry weapons, such as the ever-distinctive Garand, M1 Carbine, .30-cal, Bren, FG42, Thompson and the Enfield rifles
• American Bazooka, British PIAT and German Panzerschreck to go tank-hunting with
• New infantry features, including Airborne drops onto the battlefield, bullet suppression and supersonic cracks, plus a new radioman class for calling in artillery strikes
• Dozens of new uniforms for all nations
• Over a dozen new crewable vehicles including the King Tiger and JagdPanther for the Germans, countered with multiple types of Sherman in 75mm, 76mm and 17-pounder versions, plus the Cromwell, M10 Wolverine and Achilles
• New armor features, including engine damage and fires, crew hits and tracks visibly breaking when hit
• More transport – Kubelwagen, Jeep and Opel truck
• 11 new maps, including:
  
  
  • Juno Beach – Canadians storming the beaches in classic D-Day action
  • Carentan – the US 101st Airborne assaults the town shortly after D-Day
  • Brecourt – 101st Airborne attempt to put a key German artillery battery out of commission behind the beaches
  • Vieux – vast sweeping armored combat as the British attempt to break out during Operation Goodwood in Normandy
  • Ginkel Heath – British paras drop into a hotly-contested LZ at the start of Operation Market-Garden
  • Wacht-am-Rhein – sweeping tank combat during the Battle of the Bulge, including the fearsome King Tiger
  • Stoumont – American infantry and armor try and hold back the SS PanzerGrenadiers in the streets of the Ardennes town
  • Bois Jacques – tenacious American defense against the combined German tank and infantry forces
  • Foy – the Germans’ turn to defend against attacking American airborne troopers

So whether it is the Normandy campaign, jumping onto the dropzones around Arnhem or the bitter fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, new and old players alike will get a chance to see why RO remains a classic. Now with the opportunity to re-play those battles RO-style, courtesy of Darkest Hour: Europe 1944-45!

 

 

 

 

Additional information for custom mappers can be found here:

http://forums.darkesthourgame.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5062

Additional information for server admins can be found here:

http://forums.darkesthourgame.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5114