Desert Combat .3 released friday 5th april...

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Pac^

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Doh!
thanks for pointing out that im a fuckwitt. its out saturday.

/me gets his coat
 
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Will

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I thought it might have April Fool, that's all.;)
 
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jkl

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just wish more ppl would play it on game server :(
 
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Pac^

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pop into #game.bf1942 and give some of us a slap to wake us up...we'll play
 
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Pac^

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nicked from the DC website

The DesertCombat team is pleased to announce the third major public alpha of DesertCombat will be available April 5th. If you are a fileplanet subscriber, a pre-release of .3 will be available on April 2nd. Make sure you visit FilePlanet for more details. Since the first and second test was so successful, we were able to get valuable feedback and bug reports to make this mod even better, Thank you so much for the support, feedback and donations.

Public Alpha 0.3 features a slew of bug fixes and additions aimed at creating one of the best war game experiences on the PC. In this stage of development each is roughly balanced with some minor advantages to each, making gameplay much more fun and exciting.

.3 Public Release Weapons and Vehicles

** This is not the complete or final list, this is only what is available for the public alpha and more will follow in the next alpha release.

US

Land

• M1A1 Heavy Tank
• M2A3 Light Tank
• MLRS Mobile rocket truck
• Humvee with a .50 cal machine gun and Supplies
• Humvee with a Tow launcher
• M163 Vulcan Mobile AntiAircraft
• M-109 Mobile Artillery *


Air

• A-10 Thunderbolt II
• A-10 Thunderbolt II Bomber *
• F-16
• AH-64 Attack Helicopter
• UH-60 Blackhawk Transport Helicopter *
• AV8b Harrier *
• AC-130 Gunship *

Hand Weapons

• M16A2 Assault Rifle
• New MP5 sub machine gun *
• M9 handgun
• Remington Shotgun
• SMAW rocket launcher
• M249 Machine Gun
• M25 Sniper Rifle
• C4
• M15 LandMine *
• Deployable SandBags *
• Deployable Mortar *

IRAQ

Land

• T-72 Heavy Tank
• Shilka Mobile Antiaircraft
• BDRM2 (amphibious)
• BM21 Multiple launch rocket truck
• M-1974 Amphibious Artillery *
• SCUD Launcher *
• Stationary ZPU anitaircraft machine gun *

Air

• Mig29
• SU-25 Ground Attack Plane *
• M124d Hind attack Helicopter *

Hand Weapons

• AK-47
• AK7-SU
• Browning Hipo Handgun
• RPG7
• Saiga12k Shotgun
• PKM Heavy Machine gun
• Scorpion sub machine gun
• Tabuk Sniper Rifle
• C4 *
• M15 LandMine *
• Deployable Mortar *
• Suicide Bomber *
• Deployable SandBags *


Misc. weapons

• Maverick Missiles
• AMRAAM missiles
• Hellfire missiles
• Hyrda missiles
• MK83 large Bombs *
• SnakeEye Bombs *
• SCUD Rockets *
• AS-7 Bombs *


* New in DesertCombat .3

.3 Public New Features

DesertCombat now has 6 new classes to choose from,

Sniper
Assault
Heavy Gunner
Anti Armor
Support
Spec Ops

These new classes have a wide range of new abilities, including the ability to create mortars anywhere on the battlefield for any soldier to use or create sandbag walls to hide behind in the middle of a battle.

.3 Public New Maps

DesertComabt .3 comes with a few new maps, One of which is DC’s own DC Battle of 73 Eastings, an intense tank battle map. More maps are coming soon. In the meantime, we have mad over 5 new maps from the exisiting BattleField 1942 maps, These variations are called Day 2 – Day 3. Day 2 means = less airpower, Day 3 = land war only. This allows players who want to play without to much airpower in the air.


Thanks and I hope you enjoy DesertCombat .3, see you on the battlefield.

Frank DeLise
DesertCombat
Founder
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Also it looks like its available for fileplanet subscribers on the 2nd of April..whilst the rest of the world has to wait til saturday.

;)
 
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whipped

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I really should get GAME to give me and the other newsies a fileplanet account to use :)

The again, we might get in trouble for putting FilePlanet exclusive stuff on our FTP. Everyone would have to keep quiet :)
 
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Pac^

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this early release from fileplanet needs a unique id to install so sadly it wouldnt install for other users. So your options are either wait til saturday or pay $7 to fileplanet for a months subscription.
BTW the SCUDs are awesome :D
 
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whipped

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If I'd *cough* manged to aquire a download of the mod, who'd be interested in me putting it on the FTP. This would be totally unofficial and is just a .rar file that you unpack into your mods directory. I'm going to try it out myself first and give it a good virusscan, but it should be ok.
 
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.Cask

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Well as I truly despise fileplanet and being purely selfish I'd say yes please put it on the ftp.

However for the sake of stopping anyone getting into trouble I think it might be best to let people use their favourite P2P program :)
 
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Gumbo

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Yes, please ftp it up, make life a lot easier.

And Cask, I'm sorry it won't happen again, please come back, I promise not to op you.....
 
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whipped

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Ok, it's on the FTP. I haven't tested it, but it's been throughly virus scanned. The file may get taken down at some point, but I don't think it'll be a problem.

If you don't like leaked releases then feel free to wait until Saturday when we will mirror the official release.

You can grab the 110MB file here.
 
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Furr

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Must............resist..........temptation

arrgghh

im at work to :|
 
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Sock-Stuff

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so glad i checked this fourm. don't think i coulda waited till saturday.

50 mins to go
YIP!:clap:
 
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Embattle

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50 minutes...pah ;)

Hmm you really enjoyed it.....esp shooting me up :p
 
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Embattle

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AC-130 Gunship with six positions should cause some laughs when it all goes wrong :)
 
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Deadmanwalking

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a few but be warned they are filled with the worst of the worst in terms of lameness and playing tactics =/
 
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Embattle

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I couldn't seem to get it to work properly :(
 
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Pac^

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unrar it so u have a folder called DesertCombat containing all the files..and stick it into /mods folder in your bf 1942 installation directory. Then simply activate it from the custom game menu in normal BF.
 
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PhaZeY

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I had a good few hours on it last night, suprisingly the others i was playing with seemed to have a basic idea of tactics. Loading a blackhawk with spec-ops and landing in the Axis base was awsome. The Su-25 is a welcome addition and counters the A-10 quite nicely. There was mention of suicide-bombers but i never tried it......All in all a very very enjoyable update.

./P
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by Pac^
unrar it so u have a folder called DesertCombat containing all the files..and stick it into /mods folder in your bf 1942 installation directory. Then simply activate it from the custom game menu in normal BF.
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I did but it crashed back to windows :(
 
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whipped

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Well, this is the *unofficial* release, so some bugs should probably be expected. I bet they're using the FilePlanet test as a last minute bug fixing spree.
 
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Cdr

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Worked for me first time.

The harrier uses a very clever system for VTOL / straight flight, takes a bit to get used to.

First time I've actually got into DC, and I'm getting to like it :)
 
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bids

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Works fine here too - I particularly like the Scuds as Axis - huge hit area - useful for someone like me who couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo :)
 
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|WarpiG|

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i think im gonna get myself a new joystick and give this mod a try :)

i couldnt fly the apache's at all in 0.2... kept getting in the air, loosing control and smashing into the ground.
i blame the joystick, it nothing to do with my crapness ;)
 
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