RED ORCHESTRA 2/RISING STORM’S COMMUNITY-MADE MOD, HEROES OF THE WEST, NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE!

Continuing the long Tripwire Interactive tradition of showcasing the best user-generated content for their games, the company is happy to announce the release of the Heroes of the West mod for Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm through Steam, created entirely by members of the community (with support and assets from Tripwire and Antimatter Games).

Heroes of the West brings the Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm experience to the Western European theater, pitting the US forces against the German Wehrmacht. It also introduces a whole new faction, the British, bringing the 'Tommies' to the game. The mod is available on Steam completely free for owners of Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm.

Heroes of the West includes 4 new maps, 5 new character sets and 10 new weapons.

The initial release of Heroes of the West on Steam will feature 4 maps:

• Omaha Beach - The US 29th Infantry Division storm the bloody beaches of Normandy during the 'Longest Day', June 6th 1944, battling against well dug-in Wehrmacht troops of the 352. Infanterie-Division.
  
• Carentan - Immediately after the invasion of mainland Europe on D-Day, units of the US 101st Airborne division fought to capture the key town of Carentan from the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6. This was the first encounter between US airborne troops and their German counterparts in the Western Front theater.
  
• Port Brest - During the brutal fighting for the key port of Brest from 7 Aug to 19 Sept 1944, the 2 Fallschirmjäger-Division defend against the US 2d Ranger Battalion. This was an encounter between the best troops of both sides and involved bitter street to street battles.
  
• Oosterbeek - Operation Market Garden was a bold attempt to get allied troops across the Rhine and into Germany before the end of 1944. In this map, troops of the British 1st Airborne defend the town of Oosterbeek against a mixed bag of German troops pushing into the key Rhine crossing at Arnhem, attempting to seize it back from the lightly armed British before the arrival of relieving mechanized ground forces.

Key Features:

New player character models for the European Theater:

• German 1944 Heer
  
• American Rangers
  
• American Temperate Army
  
• American Airborne
  
• British Airborne

New weapons:

• M3 Grease gun
  
• G43 rifle
  
• G43 Scoped
  
• STG44
  
• Sten MK V
  
• Lee-Enfield No.4 MkI
  
• Bren MkII
  
• FN Browning Hi-power
  
• Mills bomb
  
• PIAT

The Heroes of the West team will be continuing to support the mod with regular updates of maps, characters, and weapons over the coming months.

Heroes of the West is a free mod for owners of Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm and can be downloaded here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/440090

To celebrate the release of Heroes of the West, Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm are today's Daily Deal on Steam and are on sale for 75% off and can be purchased here: http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/35450/

NOTE - The Daily Deal ends Thursday March 24th at 10AM PST

RED ORCHESTRA 2/RISING STORM’S COMMUNITY-MADE MOD, HEROES OF THE WEST, NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE!

Continuing the long Tripwire Interactive tradition of showcasing the best user-generated content for their games, the company is happy to announce the release of the Heroes of the West mod for Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm through Steam, created entirely by members of the community (with support and assets from Tripwire and Antimatter Games).

Heroes of the West brings the Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm experience to the Western European theater, pitting the US forces against the German Wehrmacht. It also introduces a whole new faction, the British, bringing the 'Tommies' to the game. The mod is available on Steam completely free for owners of Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm.

Heroes of the West includes 4 new maps, 5 new character sets and 10 new weapons.

The initial release of Heroes of the West on Steam will feature 4 maps:

• Omaha Beach - The US 29th Infantry Division storm the bloody beaches of Normandy during the 'Longest Day', June 6th 1944, battling against well dug-in Wehrmacht troops of the 352. Infanterie-Division.
  
• Carentan - Immediately after the invasion of mainland Europe on D-Day, units of the US 101st Airborne division fought to capture the key town of Carentan from the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6. This was the first encounter between US airborne troops and their German counterparts in the Western Front theater.
  
• Port Brest - During the brutal fighting for the key port of Brest from 7 Aug to 19 Sept 1944, the 2 Fallschirmjäger-Division defend against the US 2d Ranger Battalion. This was an encounter between the best troops of both sides and involved bitter street to street battles.
  
• Oosterbeek - Operation Market Garden was a bold attempt to get allied troops across the Rhine and into Germany before the end of 1944. In this map, troops of the British 1st Airborne defend the town of Oosterbeek against a mixed bag of German troops pushing into the key Rhine crossing at Arnhem, attempting to seize it back from the lightly armed British before the arrival of relieving mechanized ground forces.

Key Features:

New player character models for the European Theater:

• German 1944 Heer
  
• American Rangers
  
• American Temperate Army
  
• American Airborne
  
• British Airborne

New weapons:

• M3 Grease gun
  
• G43 rifle
  
• G43 Scoped
  
• STG44
  
• Sten MK V
  
• Lee-Enfield No.4 MkI
  
• Bren MkII
  
• FN Browning Hi-power
  
• Mills bomb
  
• PIAT

The Heroes of the West team will be continuing to support the mod with regular updates of maps, characters, and weapons over the coming months.

Heroes of the West is a free mod for owners of Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm and can be downloaded here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/440090

To celebrate the release of Heroes of the West, Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm are today's Daily Deal on Steam and are on sale for 75% off and can be purchased here: http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/35450/

NOTE - The Daily Deal ends Thursday March 24th at 10AM PST

Hello everyone!

We have some exciting news to share. The Heroes of the West team is preparing a Steam build of the mod (not a workshop build - but one with its own Steam page and install button. If you played RO 1 think of how Darkest Hour and Mare Nostrum were set up).

In preperation for that they hope to start doing some testing on that build this weekend and are looking for volunteers for a closed test this Sunday.

If you are interested in helping out reach out to them here: hotwbetakeys@gmail.com

Hello everyone!

We have some exciting news to share. The Heroes of the West team is preparing a Steam build of the mod (not a workshop build - but one with its own Steam page and install button. If you played RO 1 think of how Darkest Hour and Mare Nostrum were set up).

In preperation for that they hope to start doing some testing on that build this weekend and are looking for volunteers for a closed test this Sunday.

If you are interested in helping out reach out to them here: hotwbetakeys@gmail.com

http://www.darkesthourgame.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdq1M8WFfE

Four years.

It has been nearly four years since Darkest Hour has recieved an official update. Today, that changes.

Darklight Games is extremely proud to finally announce the release of Darkest Hour 6.0!

I would like to personally thank a couple of team members by who made this update possible.

Andrew Lett, our level designer, for his tireless efforts and enthusiasm, even when tasked with the monumental amount of work required to update and modernize over 30 levels by hand!

Matt Hands, of the programming team, for the staggering amount of bug fixes and enhancements made to the vehicle code, and of course for diligently (and exhaustively) documenting every commit!

Other special mentions include Peter Klinger, Piotr Lukasik, Torben Hensgens and Ian Campbell. Of course, we also thank our faithful testing team whose efforts have helped make this the most stable and bug free version of Darkest Hour since it's inception.

This is not our last hurrah. Darklight Games will continue to update and modernize the game on a significantly more regular basis. We will provide more information on this in the coming weeks, but for now, we can't wait to play with all of you!

Those interested can find the change log here: http://darkesthour.darklightgames.com/public-relations/change-logs/v6.0.0.pdf

Long live Darkest Hour!

Sincerely,
Colin Basnett
Darklight Games

http://www.darkesthourgame.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdq1M8WFfE

Four years.

It has been nearly four years since Darkest Hour has recieved an official update. Today, that changes.

Darklight Games is extremely proud to finally announce the release of Darkest Hour 6.0!

I would like to personally thank a couple of team members by who made this update possible.

Andrew Lett, our level designer, for his tireless efforts and enthusiasm, even when tasked with the monumental amount of work required to update and modernize over 30 levels by hand!

Matt Hands, of the programming team, for the staggering amount of bug fixes and enhancements made to the vehicle code, and of course for diligently (and exhaustively) documenting every commit!

Other special mentions include Peter Klinger, Piotr Lukasik, Torben Hensgens and Ian Campbell. Of course, we also thank our faithful testing team whose efforts have helped make this the most stable and bug free version of Darkest Hour since it's inception.

This is not our last hurrah. Darklight Games will continue to update and modernize the game on a significantly more regular basis. We will provide more information on this in the coming weeks, but for now, we can't wait to play with all of you!

Those interested can find the change log here: http://darkesthour.darklightgames.com/public-relations/change-logs/v6.0.0.pdf

Long live Darkest Hour!

Sincerely,
Colin Basnett
Darklight Games

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TacticalViper#events/764848484220219451

Community Streamer TV is hosting a HoTW game and is inviting everybody to join in or watch!

To join you'll need the latest version of the Heroes of The West Mod installed, server and TeamSpeak information are posted on the event page.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TacticalViper#events/764848484220219451

Community Streamer TV is hosting a HoTW game and is inviting everybody to join in or watch!

To join you'll need the latest version of the Heroes of The West Mod installed, server and TeamSpeak information are posted on the event page.

We are pushing live an updated to Red Orchestra 2 / Rising Storm with the following changes:

• Added new opt in beta map - Barrikady Factory.

Opt into this Beta DLC via this link to stay up to date:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/324850/

(if you have trouble seeing the link go to http://store.steampowered.com/ and add /app/324850/ )


(NOTE TO SERVER ADMINS: Update the following APPID to also download the map - app_update 324890 validate )

Other changes:

• Fixed kick voting
  
• Fixed team selection locking up when a player swaps from spectating one team, to playing for the other
  
• Fixed single bullet reload interruption having major sync issues in online play
  
• Fixed edge case where pump action shotguns could sometimes reload more shells than they actually had
  
• Fixed Battlefield Commission scene being badly broken in Eyefinity
  
• Fixed burning players being unable to see themselves on fire
  
• Updated C96 pistol sound references to use the correct sounds, not the ppsh sounds.
  
• Tweaked recoil values of all machine guns to increase difficulty of shooting accurately
  
• Removed force walk when firing an MG

We are pushing live an updated to Red Orchestra 2 / Rising Storm with the following changes:

• Added new opt in beta map - Barrikady Factory.

Opt into this Beta DLC via this link to stay up to date:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/324850/

(if you have trouble seeing the link go to http://store.steampowered.com/ and add /app/324850/ )


(NOTE TO SERVER ADMINS: Update the following APPID to also download the map - app_update 324890 validate )

Other changes:

• Fixed kick voting
  
• Fixed team selection locking up when a player swaps from spectating one team, to playing for the other
  
• Fixed single bullet reload interruption having major sync issues in online play
  
• Fixed edge case where pump action shotguns could sometimes reload more shells than they actually had
  
• Fixed Battlefield Commission scene being badly broken in Eyefinity
  
• Fixed burning players being unable to see themselves on fire
  
• Updated C96 pistol sound references to use the correct sounds, not the ppsh sounds.
  
• Tweaked recoil values of all machine guns to increase difficulty of shooting accurately
  
• Removed force walk when firing an MG