Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45

CROMWELL THAT ENDS WELL Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:00 Written by Captain Wilson

World War II gamers, get ready for another step forward from Darkest Hour: Normandy 1944. We have a significant patch being released in a week that will not only fix a few gameplay issues but add new content.

First of all, we our proud to reveal our latest British vehicle the Cromwell Tank. This will be added along with several new pieces of content in the upcoming patch. The Cromwell modelled by Tman24 and textured by Aeneas2020 will form an important part of the British Armoured contingent.

Many of you have been asking where our new bug fix patch is. We originally scheduled it for this week, but unfortunately its release has been delayed. This is due to many reasons including some missing staff members and because we want to make sure everything is perfect before we get it to you. So we are currently working on a 7 day delay - it will be released next week.

But to keep your mouth watering, here's a few more pieces it will contain:

Carmes Pont

By Killer9999
Released: 29 June 2008

In this infantry map located approximately 10 miles south-east of Carentan, the 82nd Airborne Division attacks - for the second time - the small village crossing of Carmes Pont. Their aim is to secure both sides of the village separated by the river and take the church to remove possible sniper attack on the village. Also information has come to light that shows the 352nd Infantry division have wired the bridges with explosives; it is up to the commanders of the 82nd airborne to use and protect or if ultimately necessary destroy the bridges in a last of attempt to secure this village on foot.

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DARKEST HOUR'S FIRST WEEKS Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:00 Written by Captain Wilson

In just two and half weeks, Darkest Hour: Normandy 1944 has gone from a collection of images, ideas, teaser trailers, and heart throbbing anticipation to a functional multiplayer game with over 10,000 downloads and over 30 dedicated servers. World War II gamers across the world have discovered that the scenes displayed in our screenshots and trailers were not "too good to be true," as they act them out themselves.

Many of you noticed that with our initial release came a critical bug that crashed players on certain maps. After hours of trial and error, we were able to fix this bug - on 16 June, Patch 1a was released, containing not only the fix for the crash, but several visual and map bug fixes. In addition, a collection of new weapon sounds were included which sound phenomenally better .