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Hey all, I just thought I'd give a heads-up to any who didn't already know about this. My favorite Battlefield: 1942 mod, the WWII realism mod Forgotten Hope, is releasing its 0.6 beta version on Saturday. All sorts of improvements have been made over the last release (0.5), including the new (and very sexeh ) Königstiger, many new sounds and textures from Merciless Creations, the Polish as a playable nation, towable artillery pieces, new plane physics coded by Takiwa from Merciless Creations, maps galore (over 43 in all, IIRC. The map installer is around 400MB by itself, with the main mod installer weighing in at around 700MB), and the most terrifying of all Weapons of Mass Destruction™, the Almighty Tractor! Cringe in fear!

This is but a sampling of the new content, though. There are too many improvements for me to list, plus only the dev team and the beta testers know all the changes. They'll probably release a changelist tomorrow or Friday, before the release of 0.6. If not, I know there'll be one included in the installer. Anyway, you can find out more, and download the new version on Saturday, at http://www.fhmod.com.

And now, a few choice screenies:

Königstiger ingame (*drool*):


The Almighty Tractor, Harbinger of DOOM!!!! ingame:


The American airfield in the redone Wake Island:


The lovely JU52 transport plane, on the redone and equally lovely Crete map:



BTW, check out the new preview video from the mod's site. Don't let the title of the first news post confuse you, though. It's in the second news post down, after the one with the hand weapons.

Gotta love the Farm Machinery of Doom!

Of course. I'm pretty sure the Almighty Tractor, Harbinger of DOOM!!!! will replace the knife as the most humiliating way to die in Battlefield, seeing as it putts forward at the blindingly fast pace of 5 mph. If I ever kill anyone with the tractor, it'll have to be just like the steamroller death from Austin Powers.

*cries*

such a thing of beauty.

I bet the Tiger from FH would kick the crap out of all the armour in DC with ease .

making a map that has 10 tigers vs 40 chi ha's just to see

Can't wait to check out the maps

*Looks at the pictures, then to his old computer and starts crying*

Well, the release is only a few hours away now, at 19:00 GMT (13:00 board time). The file mirrors will come online, and the password will be revealed for the protected RAR file the dev team released on the eDonkey and BitTorrent networks. Only two more hours, and I'll be murdering people left and right with the Almighty Tractor, Harbinger of DOOM!!!! Bwwaaahhh!!!

On a side note, both to make room for this release and to archive the ~20 GB of anime I have on my HD, I bought a Sony DRU530A multi-format DVD burner yesterday, plus a 25-pack of TDK 4x DVD+R discs. It's nifty!

The password for the encrypted RAR was just released, and it is as follows:

>>>WhoH@veM@deThisStupidPassword?<<<

Yes, that seriously is the password. I'm installing now.