Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 News

v8.2.4 Change Log

Here are the v8.2.4 changes! Noville gets an Advance version, changes to server self-optimization system, Patron vote rewards are now scaled to the number of players, and other minor changes. See details below!

Levels

• Added Noville Advance
  

Patrons

• Changed vote weight rewards to be more balanced based on the server’s population
  

Quality of Life

• 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
    

Rally Points
The Rally Point is a powerful tool for squads, and we still want it to be. The last changes critically weakened its effectiveness in urban combat encounters, in that just 2 enemies within a 50 meter radius could destroy the rally point. The following changes should make rally points slightly less susceptible to destruction due to small numbers of enemies within a 50 meter radius.

• 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
  

Bug Fixes

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

Other

• 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