Forgotten Hope 2.45 VERSION COMING SOON

[pershainovitsh]

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I have no words for this. So I'm just going ot say that there is a new version (2.45) of FH coming out on Friday the 13th (July) this week. An early download may be available so you can just type in a password to access it once the actual release date is met.

In mere 1,5 hours from now, they will reveal even more of the new version! So far we know that there will be three new maps, some new game modes (Objective: something like Rush, Sector Push: something like Conquest Push but with sectors) some new weapons and some new vehicles. Also they have improved some maps and a couple of maps were set to night when playing hte 64 player version.

This link shows all the news revealed this month: forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/archives.php?selectedmonth=7&selectedyear=2012



Do you guys think we should have some kind of a FH event this weekend? There WILL be lots of full servers to play on. I don't know if my budget GFX card can handle FH though, I'll have to test it. But still, this is awesome.

[pershainovitsh]

You can download torrent files containing the new version, but they are password protected. At 18:00 GMT the passwords are revealed and the normal downloadable files will be added on the website for download.

forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/news.php?id_news=413

This page has a link which lets you download those torrent files (you need a torrent program to download them) and a link to the full changelog.

Some big changes: Anctoville (the smallish map where it always rains) with 64 players will be Objective mode. The British AT kit has been replaced with a commando kit (which has a silenced (!) Sten SMG, a Browning Hi-Power pistol, a special grenade, binoculars and some other stuff) and they added a Churchill tank into the map.

Full changelog:
forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/screenshotsfh2/news/2.45_release/ForgottenHope245Changelog.txt

Some parts from the changelog I noticed:

Changes to soldiers:
* Removed stamina drain from sprinting and jumping
* Reduced player movement speed by 3%
* Decreased player bleed health loss by 50%
* Tweaked ragdoll behavior to be more realistic

So I guess in practice stamina has been removed altogether? I think I like the sound of that. Many times I've been on the edge of my stamina and using every bit of stamina gained, so my moving was very twitchy. That is annoying.


* Added new Tankhunter kit with Hawkins anti-tank grenade
* Added new Tankhunter kit with Hafthohlladung
* Added deployable M1917A1 tripod pickup kit
* Replaced M1928 by M1928A1 for British Normandy NCOs
* Replaced Mills bomb by No69 grenade in Canadian assault kits
* Replaced P08 Luger by Browning Hi-power for Waffen SS NCOs

I don't know that much about weapons so I'm not going to comment that much on these. As far as I know, the Browning wasn't used by the Germans so that's a weird change. And I've always liked the Luger more than the Browning for some reason. (in the mod)

* Added cannon pushing animations
* Added bicycle peddling animations

* Improved passenger animations for more cover in APCs
* Moved pistol ironsights further away

All these sound very good. They also added new animations to many weapons.

*Added new M1928 Thompson
* Added new Satchel Charge

* Added .50 cal mountred on tripod
* Added M1 Garand with M1905 bayonet
* Added MG34 bunker mount
* Added M1917 with M1 Garand Riflegrenade
* Added duck ability to Lafettes

More good stuff.

* Added separate gunner and 'driver' positions to AT guns
* Added direct fire ability to artillery guns

I'm not sure about these. Why would anyone want to be a driver on an AT gun? Well, I guess this means if you're going alone with an AT gun, you need to position yourself and when you're aiming, you can't move anymore. Tactical placing is needed.
But direct fire ability to artillery? Would it ever be useful?

[pershainovitsh]

I downloaded the installer which comes in two parts and is about 4 GB in size. On the installer window it says "Please ensure you have removed any parts of previous FH2 versions before continuing." so I went to the FH2 folder and couldn't find an uninstaller. There was no uninstaller in the main BF2 folder either. PR does have an uninstaller in its folder. Do you think it's safe to just delete my current FH2 folder (and FH2.exes from the main Battlefield 2 folder) and then install the new one?

[pershainovitsh]

I just deleted the FH2 folder inside BF2\mods along with all the .exe and other files related to FH2. Installation went fine. When I got to a server, I got shot a second later I spawned (on a fireteam leader) and the game crashed. I don't think it was the game because I didn't see the server again on the browser.

On my brief testing there isn't much I've seen so far. One of the most obvious things is the new mini-map: now it's a square instead of a circle! And it has a PR-style compass underneath it. If you hold down left click after firing a bolt-action rifle, the character won't cock the bolt until you release the key.

The same problem from the previous version persists: if you right click while firing a mobile artillery (to see the exact position you are aiming at like with normal artillery) the map will disappear. It's treansparency seems to go to 100%. If you quit the game and start up again it will go away. If you just switch to single player or another server the map stays invisible. This of course makes the game unnecessarily difficult (the compass helps a bit though if you have friends to guide you) especially because you can't click on the spawn points. Solution: Don't use mobile artillery.

[Lambourne]

i have it installed and ready to go!

[pershainovitsh]

Great! Hopefully we get to play soon. And hopefully you won't get banned from any server for accidentially teamkilling... But there should be more than two servers with players on them thanks to the new version.

So far we have 4 Spartans with FH 2.45:
- me
- Spartan
- rache
- Lamourne

[sfscriv]

[pershainovitsh]

Unfortunately that map has a major flaw: there's a bridge in the middle that the attacker must cross in order to capture the rest of the maps. You can imagine what a mess it turns into when two teams are fighting around the same little bridge. Sometimes it's 32 vs 32, but now that the 128 player server has gotten more popular, it's 64 vs 64 around one small bridge. It's horrible. Otherwise it's a decent map.

[sfscriv]

I like the idea of 128 players but for a map that was developed for 128 players.

[sfscriv]