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Tripwire Interactive and The Heroes of the West team are excited to announce their latest update featuring two new maps and a brand new game feature, Airborne Ammo Resupply Drops!

Owners of Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 can grab the mod for free from Steam, just run the launcher at least once to get all new movies for the map loading screens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaxBEwwMw8Y

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Please join us on our HOTW Public Discord[discord.me]

Please allow servers time to update. If you join a server and begin to download files, hit F10 to exit and try another server. Also, if you participated in beta testing, don't forget to opt out of the beta. Questions and feedback are welcome on the discussion boards.

-The Heroes of the West Team




New Maps

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Reichswald - 9th of Feburary 1945.
This is the very northern tip of the Siegfried line. British forces advance on a heavy german bunker position. While the outnumbered German forces desperately try and hold on. If the Germans fail the Brtish have a clear path into the German mainland.

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Hell's Corners - 6th June 1944.
American Airborne forces landed in farmland flooded by the German defenders to make crossing the terrain difficult. This is one of the locations where the flow of water is controlled, The Barquette Locks. Control of the locks mean the allies can start draining the fields.

Airdrop Supplies
On both Hell's Corners and Oosterbeek, Allied commanders can now request a supply drop from a C-47. Using the same markers as artillery these supply drops will contain weapons for players to pick up and use. As well as becoming an ammo resupply point on the map. They are faction specific weapons and generally contain a lot of automatic weaponry.

Game Changes

Fixed Normal/bump map on the G43.
Adjusted MG42 and MG34 hipfiring recoil.
Increased Jeep acceleration and maximum speed. It now performs better in the lower gears.
Fixed the M2HB textures.
Fixed clipping in the commander view of the stug when you looked to the right hand side.
Removed the "Axis/Japanese suppression resistance bonus" from Rising storm which also affected the Germans in HOTW.
Fixed British levelling bonuses meaning they should now be in line with the other HOTW factions in terms of stats.


Map Changes

Oosterbeek

• Adjusted Spawn Protection for Axis once A/B are captured
  
• Added some missing Covernodes
  
• Modifed coloring of the environment
  
• Added Ammo Paradrop for Allies

Elsenborn

• Modified Allies Spawn Protection for Objective C
  
• Fixed Ground Collision near Objective B Bunker
  
• Added more elevated Firing Positions for US in Final Objective trenches

Foy

• Adjusted Lighting and Sky
  
• Adjusted Fog
  
• Added more Cover nodes
  
• Split Intitial Allies Spawn zone into 3
  
• Opened some houses behind A and B
  
• Moved spawn 1 for allies closer to D when E, F, G active
  
• Adjusted G cap zone size for easier entry
  
• Added guardrails to stairways in some buildings
  
• Raised Tickets for both teams significantly
  
• Adjusted german spawns for the early objectives

The Heroes of the West Team is pleased to announce a hotfix to the Ardennes Assault Content Update released last week. We have been listening to the community and are happy to release this update of balancing adjustments and also address several bugs. The changes are listed below.

As always, please allow servers time to update and if you join a server that begins to download content to your PC, press F10 to cancel and try another server. We welcome feedback and questions on our Steam Community Forums or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/Twx24zZ

Foy Changes:
German spawns for A/B moved back
Increased spawn protection for Allies in A/B cap zone
Now A,B, C and D lock if they are captured.
Increased spawn time for Stug III
Changed map time from 27 minutes to 30
Adjusted no artillery area's
Added more tickets for both teams
Increased maximum spawn time for axis to 21 second max
Decreased maximum spawn time for allies to 17 second max
Adjusted spawn protection near E, so Allies can now flank from behind.
Added ladders to the Foy church tower
Allied artillery cooldown is now 3:20 minutes versus 6 minutes for germans.


Other Changes:
Added Jeep sounds
Added Jeep kill icons
Made the M2HB hit detection serverside for armour penatration calculations
M2HB will now damage vehicles
M4A3 Sherman 3rd person engine volume lowered.
Raised Damage for the M2HB to be more likely to kill infantry.
Bazooka smoke trail made thicker.


Fixes:
Fixed Config file error's
Fixed one map tip for Foy
Fixed bazooka backblast being tied to the end of the bazooka
Fixed dismemberment for the M2HB.
Fixed M1919 sights aligned with the fired round properly.
Fixed double recon plane on Saint come du mont.

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To mark the upcoming anniversary of the start of 'The Battle of the Bulge' (Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein) Tripwire Interactive and the team behind Heroes of the West mod are proud to announce the release of the HotW winter 2016 update for Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2.

Based on the German counter-offensive in the winter of 44-45, this update has 3 new maps; 2 winter maps and Saint-Come-du-Mont, a community-made map based around the fight between US and German paratroopers in Normandy.

The maps set in the Battle of the Bulge include the classic map, Foy, from the Darkest Hour mod of Red Orchestra Ostfront.The other Map features brutal fighting with US GIs defending against an all out assault at Elsenborn Ridge in December 1944.

The update includes all-new winter uniforms for the US and German forces and features a new vehicle, the Jeep with an M2 50 cal. machine gun mounted on it, a fearsome light support vehicle.

Owners of Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 can grab the mod for free from Steam here- just run the launcher to get all new movies for the map loading screens.

Please join us on our Discord here.[discord.gg]

Please allow servers time to update. If you join a server and begin to download files, hit F10 to exit and try another server. Also, if you participated in beta testing, don't forget to opt out of the beta. Questions and feedback are welcome on the discussion boards.

-The Heroes of the West Team



Here are the full Details

Three New maps:

Elsenborn Ridge: The Single American sector that held out during the Ardennes offensive. Located to the north of Bastogne the German failure to push the Americans back stalled the German advance into Belgium.

Foy: The 101st Airborne assualt the small town of Foy as the germans mount a hasty rearguard action to save their retreating heavy armour.

Saint-Côme-du-Mont: Before the Americans could take the crossroad town of Carentan they had to first secure the surrounding area. The small rural town of Saint-Côme-du-Mont is standing in the way of Carentan.

New uniforms:

German Winter uniform made up of German greatcoats, white Parka's, white overtrousers and winter camo helmets.
American Winter uniform made up of Melton wool overcoats in brown and green as well as the M-1943 field jacket and uniform.


New Vehicle:

Willy's Jeep with a heavy M2HB .50 calibre machine gun


Loading Screens for all Official Heroes of the West maps.


Other changes:
Added A Sherman to Port Brest.
Adjustments to Brest to make it more tank friendly.
Destroyed Stug mesh is no longer partially see-through.
Stug front wheel flickering fixed.
Stug Cupola armour redone to better reflect its shape.
Fixed Collision issues on some Hedges on Bocage.

This is a smallish patch which fixes and adjusts various things. Aiming for a better gameplay experiance with tanks and getting rid of a few eyesores.

• Fixed bug related to the angle calculation of impacting shells/rockets on some of the plates on the Sherman and Stug. Resulting in deflections on 90 degree impacts. Shermans and Stugs won't seem invicible on the sides and rear anymore.
  
• Added actual armour values to the MG shields on the Stug since they were up to 50mm thick on some tanks.
  
• Buffed Panzer IV frontal armour from 50mm to 80mm as this is 1944 meaning the 80mm rollout had taken full effect. Plus it was also weaker than the Sherman from the front prior.
  
• Nerfed the penatration on the shermans main gun meaning it shouldn't screw over Panzer IVs and Stugs on the first shot nearly as often.
  
• Buffed HEAT penatration on both the PIAT and Bazooka to more realistic values to cater for the Panzer IV buff.
  
• Nerfed german halftrack durability So it isn't essentially invicible anymore. Engine, gearbox and fueltank have higher damage modifiers and break more easily. Overall "hitpoints" reduced from 1000 to 750. Still requires players to hit those weakspots.
  
• Stug main gun now properly has the Stats of the L48 75mm gun rather than the Panzer IVs L43 75mm main gun. Slightly faster muzzle velocity and penatration.
  
• Fixed Stug turning into a turretless sherman with german markings on death. "Buetepanzer" Bug occured due to the Stug having a "turret pop" death and getting confused due to the fact the Stug doesnt have a seperate turret.
  
• Fixed "Gang signs" arm bug on the German Parka mesh for the German autumn uniform on Hill400
  
• Added Reload sounds to the Bazooka
  
• Improved peripheral visibility on the bren gun while Aiming down sights.
  
  
  
• Added 50 more allied reinforcements on Bocage.
  
• Moved Allied spawn protection towards the defenders slightly on the B/C objectives to prevent MG42s essentially firing into spawns.
  
• Fixed Stuck locations for the bots.

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