Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 News

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).

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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).

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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.

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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…

All the unholy content is now available on our servers, and will stay on for an entire week from October 30th to November 7th.





A small groups of soldiers of various nations have found themselves surrounded by hordes of undead Nazis in the middle of Berlin. Will they survive? Who knows, but we're sure it will a hell of a fight!

This is a unique rendition of the old Red Orchestra map where you'll be able to pick your side either as a brain dead zombie or a lucky survivor. Zombies can't use weapons, but they are numerous, and they won't go down from a single shot to the chest. Outnumbered and low on supplies, if survivors want to get out of this doozy alive, their only option is to work together and watch each other's back.




Along with the Halloween event, today marks a new feature release which includes a couple of fresh additions to German arsenal.

[h2]Maschinenpistole 3008[/h2]



When situation was dire, Germans looked abroad for inspiration and came up with this oddly familiar firearm. Meant as a last ditch weapon, this STEN's foreign cousin can be mainly found in the hands of Volkssturmm troops.

[h2]Sd.Kfz. 251/9 Ausf. D “Stummel”[/h2]



A new modification of the ever-present German half-track has arrived. Equipped with a short 7.5cm KwK 37 gun and a paper thin armor, Stummel might find itself outgunned against heavier armored vehicles; nevertheless, it was proven to be highly effective at blasting through fortifications and fighting lightly armored targets.

The Stummel has been added to the following maps:

• 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

[h2]Other Changes[/h2]

• Reduced player’s 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).

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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.

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