[ Mod News ] Desert Combat .5

Winters

Desert combat 0.5 preview video has been released. The .5 release is expected to be on November 7th 2003 and will be about 500 -> 550MB. The video is 48MB.




Download Links
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ando

whats that thing on the side of the medical chopper? looks like a torpedo

Ro: maaan!

The blackhawk in the picture is actucully a medical transit hawk. The US army use it to carry the wounded and to bring medical supplies. The things on the side are extra fuel tanks to give it a better range and payload.

The one for DC.5 will be able to heal soilders who ride in it.

ssh

On the medical Blackhawk... I just don't get it. I don't think people are going to use it on public servers. You really don't get any gratitude or reward for flying the things and healing troops. It's much the same with the normal Blackhawk. It could be an amazingly effective weapon, but it requires a bit of a commitment from 3 or 4 players for it to really work.

It'd be a lot more interesting if the "boring" (AC-130, UH-60 etc.) vehicles could be piloted by AI or something and directed by the gunners, like in Opflash.

suppafly

just wondering how come they release new patchs/versions so often? like the .4 one was just out there a little while ago

vac

because they hate me.

I've stopped playing dc because of how frequently they update the mod with massive patches.

tuxy

Originally posted by suppafly
just wondering how come they release new patchs/versions so often? like the .4 one was just out there a little while ago

its because just about every gamer has access to broadband*


*may not be true if you live in ireland or equaly backward country

shinzon

im puttin in an order for this now, so if anyone would be kind enough to burn this onto cd if its out on monday or whenever its out itd be appreciated


shin

Winters

Ok kiddies, we are getting close to the expected release date for DC .5. The DC team say they expect to have it released on the 7th November i]this Friday[/i and so I will be trying to get mirrors up for you as soon as it comes out. It will be between 500 and 550mb in size so we will hopefully have a CD or two going around this here community updating everyone.

So just to wet your appitite a bit more before Friday here are some more screenshots of DC .5 and its new maps


DesertShield


Basrah Nights


No Fly Zone

Expect DC .5 on Friday

Lucutus

Originally posted by Winters


No Fly Zone

Expect DC .5 on Friday

Mmmm, ground to air missile loving. Hmmm, looks like that Tower provides something of a blindspot... This should be good...

Broadband hopefully by the end of the week, New DC for the weekend.

Luc

Jim

will someone be so kind as to update me?

suppafly

Originally posted by Winters
It will be between 500 and 550mb in size so we will hopefully have a CD or two going around this here community updating everyone.

yeah that would be nice if someone could do that. also i still have the last update cd (eod, 1.45 bf1942 and dc) so if anybody still needs to be updated with those pm me yur details and i'll send the cd along to ya

BenH

Originally posted by Winters
It will be between 500 and 550mb in size so we will hopefully have a CD or two going around this here community updating everyone.

Well I have a 600K pipe so I'd be more than willing to add a couple of CD's to the circuit once I have it.

Regards,

Ben

Spiffing

500-550mb? That will take quite a while

CombatCow

Originally posted by Spiffing
500-550mb? That will take quite a while

not if ya got a 1mb line


CombatCow

timeout

not if ya got a 1mb line

or if you're in college with its 1mb+ lines

Its comming down at the moment at only 300k from fileplanet tho but it'll be down within the hour. Then to go home and try it out

Timeout

Winters

DesertCombat Beta Version 0.5

Mirrors will follow in the next post

0.5 Public Release Weapons and Vehicles

** 0.5 REQUIRES Battlefield 1942 version 1.45 or greater

* When you see a star, that means it's new to 0.5
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 Artilary

Air
• A-10 Thunderbolt II
• F-16
• AH-64 Attack Helicopter
• UH-60 Blackhawk Transport Helicopter (New Dual Miniguns)
• AV-8b Harrier
• AV-8a Harrier*
• AV-8c Harrier*
• AV-8m Harrier*
• F-14
• F-15
• UH-60q *
• UH-60l *

Hand Weapons
• M16A2 Assault Rifle
• M203 Grenade Laucher
• Mp5 sub machine gun
• M9 handgun
• SMAW rocket launcher
• M249 Machine Gun
• M25 Sniper Rifle
• C4
• Stinger
• Smoke Grenades
• Car-15 *
• Mk23 *

Misc. weapons
• Maverick Missiles
• AMRAAM missiles
• Hellfire missiles
• Hyrda missiles
• MK83 large Bombs
• SnakeEye Bombs
• SCUD Rockets

IRAQ

Land
• T-72 Heay Tank
• Shilka Mobile Antia
• BDRM2-Spandrel (amphibious)ircraft
• BDRM2 (amphibious)
• BM21 Multiple launch rocket truck
• M-1974 Amphibious Artillary
• BMP-2 Amphibious Personel Carrier *
• Ural Personel Carrier
• Smoke Grenades
• Panstyr * (Anti Aircaft Truck)

Stationary
• NVST Machine Gun *
• SA-3 Sam Site

Air
• Mig29
• SU-25 Ground Attack Plane
• M124d Hind attack Helicopter
• Mi8 Transport Helicopter
• Mirage

Hand Weapons
• AK-47
• Gp30 Grenade Laucnger
• Browning Hipo Handgun
• RPG7
• PKM Heavy Machine gun
• Scorpion sub machine gun
• Tabuk Sniper Rifle
• C4
• Mortar
• Skorpion sub machinegun
• Stinger
• PSS *

Maps
DC Battle of Eastings
DC Lost Village
DC Al Khafji Docks
Inshallah Valley - Flatline|44
DC Basrahs Edge
DC Basrahs Nights *
DC No Fly Zone *
DC DesertShield *
DC Weapons Bunkers
DC Medina Ridge



Know issues with the Beta .5
Optimization
Since this mod is a work in progress, some optimizations have been made to the models for performance. You might experience a slight slowdown due to the fact that we haven’t done a full optimization pass yet.

Balancing
Currently the game feels balanced, but some things may destroy objects faster then they should, the game will continually balance out as the mod progresses. This goes for speed of vehicles, weapon damage and amount of ammo.

Airplane and Helicopters
Not all planes have a new cockpit yet, this is a work in progress.

Maps
Only maps that display a small DC logo in them have DC vehicles. This is only temporary until new maps are created. Some new DC maps do not support single player yet, coming soon.
Battle of Eastings, does support it though.

If you find any bugs, please send them to bugs@desertcombat.com

Frank DeLise
Truama Studios
President

ssh

I'm sitting in the fileplanet queue now, though filerush.com have a torrent. None of my external machines have a new enough version of python to run bt.

If anyone in trinners wants to download a copy internally i'll be able to stick it up somewhere.

Jim

bit annoyed that eastings is still the only single player custom level.

anyone care to lob a copy my way:(

Winters

DesertCombat 0.5 Full Install

Windows Client Mirrors (541.6MB)
» http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/121935.shtml i] Fileplanet [/i
» http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/battlefield1942/modifications/desertcombat/patches/win32/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install.exe i] Blueyonder [/i
» http://games.eof.net/files/bf1942/dc/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install.exe i] eof.net [/i
» http://kungfu.gigaisp.net/mirror/desertcombat5/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install.exe i] gigaisp.net [/i
» http://www.bf42.com/index.php?site=file&id=105 i] bf42.com [/i
» http://web.sysrq.no/bjorner/div/Bf42/dc0.5L/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install.exe i] sysrq.no/ [/i
» http://www.gameservers.net/downloads/battlefield1942/modifications/desertcombat/patches/win32/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install.exe i] gameservers.net [/i

Windows Bit Torrent Mirrors (541.6MB)
» http://www.ggstudios.net/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install.exe.torrent i] ggstudios.net - [b]Bit Torrent[/b] [/i
» http://www.bf1942servers.com/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install.exe.torrent i] bf1942servers.com - [b]Bit Torrent[/b] [/i
» http://suprnova.nonooweb.com/suprnova/torrents/528/DesertCombat_0.5L_Beta_Full_Install-exe.torrent i] suprnova - [b]Bit Torrent[/b] [/i
Please note these are Bit Torrent mirrors. For more information on Bit Torrent please visit the Bit Torrent web site


Windows Server Mirrors (34.5MB)
» http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/battlefield1942/modifications/desertcombat/patches/win32/desertcombat_0.5l_full_server_install.exe i] Blueyonder [/i
» http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/132780.shtml i] Fileplanet [/i

Linux Server Mirrors (34.3MB)
» http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/battlefield1942/modifications/desertcombat/patches/win32/desertcombat_0.5l-beta_full_install.tar.bz2 i] Blueyonder [/i
» http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/132779.shtml i] Fileplanet [/i

Ill be adding more as soon as they appear.

CombatCow

Yipee 100K a sec

Thx Winters.

CombatCow

Dr4gul4

Originally posted by Combatcow
Yipee 100K a sec

Thx Winters.

CombatCow

Yipee 500K a sec

Thx Winters.




LOL Combatcow

Lucutus

It's all about the bandwidth with you, isn't it?

CombatCow

Originally posted by Dr4gul4
Yipee 500K a sec

Thx Winters.




LOL Combatcow

:rolleyes:

CombatCow

Dr4gul4

yes yes it is and how many times i can kill in the Apache also





See ya at Darkside tony

D.

Lucutus

Both of us in Apaches is not going to save you, my air to air skills are unmatched.






* note to self - get a dedicated AH64 gunner @ darkside.

Dr4gul4

Damn it boy u think some greace eatin gunner's gonna save ure hide, When they made Airwolf they did it cos they saw me in the apache.


lol



* note to self - Dont panic 2 much when flying upside down


d.

ando

dammit... connected, waiting for reply .... server busy waiting to retry


argh to late

neGev

Nyom - I love college connections. ~900k/sec off Blueyonder.

Lucutus

Originally posted by Dr4gul4
When they made Airwolf they did it cos they saw me in the apache.

Lol, yea, sitting in the apache just like ernest borgnine! AHAHAHA!

felt like I was on the CS board there for a sec, sorry!

Falgorn

any particular server you guys all play on, or do you just join whatever looks good at the time?

Dr4gul4

Personally just lan play is all i get for the moment the 2nd 1 meg line is goin in to me home soon so i might hop on then if we can manage to get some thing organised


Personally i think of my self as a young Jan-Michael Vincent
Only with out the bad hair


D.

Lucutus

/me listens to the Air Wolf theme tune.

Last time I had a LAN in a gaff, (only 12 PCs), we were playing DC and all of us humming the airwolf theme tune, was funny. Must do that again at darkside... nice -n- loud.

Dr4gul4

Originally posted by Lucutus
/me listens to the Air Wolf theme tune.

Last time I had a LAN in a gaff, (only 12 PCs), we were playing DC and all of us humming the airwolf theme tune, was funny. Must do that again at darkside... nice -n- loud.

Np Ernest I'll be hummin away with ya as long as u can get in the cockpit with me and i'll show u a few tricks of the trade



D.

Lucutus

Ok, now I'm scared!

ando

Originally posted by Falgorn
any particular server you guys all play on, or do you just join whatever looks good at the time?

adslguide.org.uk

tuxy

so there isnt going to be an update patch?

ando

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Winters

Originally posted by tuxx
so there isnt going to be an update patch?

Nope. The DC team decided it would be best to release this as a fresh install insted of another update. Also if there was to be an update it would have been about 200mb or more anyway.

Its better not to keep getting updates for every patch. This will start off all DC players nice and fresh .. now to add some more mirrors

ando

wow, really like the new harrier's. They used to be impossible to fly with the vibration effect, now its nice and smooth.

shinzon

Ok guys whoever has a disk ready to go with this on it can you get in contact by IM and ill give you my postal address

Cheers

Shin

BenH

Just so happens I've got 2 disks ready to go for the 56K crowd. I was intending to send them to a mate who runs an internet cafe in ennis for distribution. But it can go elsewhere first.

Do you want anything else adding? The 1.5 patch prehaps?

Best,

Ben

shinzon

actually yeah if you wouldnt mind if you have the full 1.5 patch you could stick it on there i only have the incremental one at the mo

PM on the way

Shin

ando

one thing I don't like is that they have taken away the fighter choppers from some of the maps, and replaced them with people carrier choppers. The sound of the new choppers are really nice although, very realistic when viewing from F12 view
Basra nights is so much fun to play on but the new gesture voices are badly done IMO. 'Go Go Go, lets move it' now sounds like inspector gadget.... 'go go go gadget' !

Moriarty

The Mig29 seems a tad too powerful now. Otherwise, its a nice update. I particularly like the new m1a1 animation when its firing a shell, looks far more accurate.

ssh

I seriously like the A-10 gun sound, really cool spin up and down noises.

It's good to see a release which has fewer new features and lots of bug fixes and tweaks.

Winters

Anyone with the DC .5 on CD could they please send it this way
Just post if you have it and ill PM you.

DC team are already hard at work on .6 too. Geez, you think they would give us a break for a few weeks and enjoy .5 before they start to tell us of .6.

I wonder whatever happened to the hovercrafts that they planned to introduce too. I remember screens of them for .3 then .4 but they must have removed them

shinzon

This has gotten me thinking about this whole Desert Combat malarkey

Isnt Desert Combat supposed to be released as an expansion pack to Battlefield 1942 in the not to distant future, if so then .5 indicates there fairly far along in terms of Vehicles maps etc etc and of course working out the kinks in the code.

So why the hell dont they just finish the damn thing off and release it instead of every couple of weeks releasing updates and expect us to download (or ask for a CD)another 500 meg plus patch

Just my 2 cents

Shin

ssh

Because there's demand for it, I suppose. Most people who play it seem to be happy enough to download it.

It'd be better if they just stuck all of the files in something like a CVS repository, and people could just sync up the modified bits. But that'd be smart...

Falgorn

How do they make money to continually advance the mod? Dont tell me its a labour of love? Do the various hosting websites award DC on the amount of downloads they get? This would also be a reason for such numerous and large updates!

Mick L

I have .5 on CD if anyone wants it.