[ Mod News ] Desert Combat 0.7 Release

Winters

After a long night and hours of fighting for mirrors and details all you need has finally come out in the open.

Release Notes Version 0.7
The DesertCombat team is pleased to annouce the seventh major public release of DesertCombat. We would like to thank our Beta team and fans for all the feedback.
Public Beta 0.7 features a slew of bug fixes and additions aimed at creating on of the best war game experiances 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.

0.7 Public Release Weapons and Vehicles

** 0.7 REQUIRES Battlefield 1942 version 1.6 or greater **
If you do not have Battlefield v1.6 please download it. Links can be found here

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
• Stryker Personel Carrier (Smoke grenades, .50Cal, Troop transport)

Air
• A-10 Thunderbolt II
• F-16
• AH-64 Attack Helicopter
• UH-60 Blackhawk Transport Helicopter (New Dual Miniguns)
• Harrier
.. • AV-8b
.. • AV-8a
.. • AV-8c
.. • AV-8m
• F-14
• F-15
• UH-60q
• UH-60l
• Littlebird
.. • AH-6 (Miniguns and FFARs)
.. • MH-6 (Transport)
.. • OH-6 (Miniguns only)

Sea
• Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier
• RHIB

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
• SA-7 Anti Air rocket

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

Stationary
• CIWS AntiAircraft
• SeaSparrow AntiAircraft

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)
• EE-9

Stationary
• NVST Machine Gun
• SA-3 Sam Site

Air
• Mig29
• SU-25 Ground Attack Plane
• M124d Hind attack Helicopter
• Mi8 Transport Helicopter
• Mirage
• Gazelle Helicopter
.. • SA-342S: (Gazelle Helicopter) Supply depot; weapons and health
.. • SA-342G: Two gun pods (currently fires minigun projectile)
.. • SA-342H: 2 FFAR Pods (14 FFARs total) and 2 AT-2 (same as Hind, 2 mags)
.. • SA-342L: 4 FFAR Pods (28 FFARs total; fires two FFARs at a time, slower rate of fire)
.. • SA-342M: 4 AT-2 missiles (2 mags)
• MD-500
• MH-500

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
• VSS

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 (Conquest and Singple Player)
DC Weapons Bunkers
DC Medina Ridge
DC Urban Siege
DC Operation Bragg
DC Sea Rigs

Misc
Minigun FX
Avenger FX
Artillery FX
Cloud FX

Armory Objects
M-82 Case
Stinger Case
VSS Crate
MP5 Case


Know issues with the Beta .7

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.

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

Frank DeLise
Trauma Studios
President

From Desert Combat

Mirrors on my next post!
If you wish to see a more detailed list of the changes make from 0.6f to 0.7N take a look at this textfile.

Q_Ball

I've already downloaded 700mb+ of DC stuff this week, now they're making me download more! dang those monkeys and their mods

Winters

** Delete/uninstall your current DesertCombat 0.6 installation before you install 0.7 **
** BattleField 1942 Version 1.6 or greater is required **
If you do not have Battlefield v1.6 please download it. Links can be found here

Desert Combat 0.7 (Windows client Full Install - 591mb)
» http://www.fileplanet.com/download.aspx?f=121935 [ fileplanet ]
» http://3ddownloads.com/Action/Battlefield%201942/Mods/Desert%20Combat [ 3Ddownloads.com ]
» http://www.desertcombat.org/index.php?site=file&id=96 [ FPScentral (bf42.com and Desertcombat.org) ]
» http://fa1.pvp.se/bf1942/mods/desertcombat/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe [ PvP.se - Mirror 1 ]
» http://fa2.pvp.se/bf1942/mods/desertcombat/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe [ PvP.se - Mirror 2 ]
» http://hmongro.com/DesertCombat%25200.7%2520Full%2520Install.exe [ hmongro.com ]
» http://download.worthplaying.com/desertcombat/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe [ worthplaying.com - Europe ]
» http://files3.worthplaying.com/desertcombat/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe [ worthplaying.com - US Mirror 1 ]
» http://files2.worthplaying.com/desertcombat/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe [ worthplaying.com - US Mirror 2 ]
» http://www.filefront.com/?filepath=/worthplaying/desertcombat/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe [ filefront ]
» ftp://ftp.games.skynet.be/pub/www.filesnetwork.com/Battlefield_1942/Mods/Total_Conversions/desertcombat0.7fullinstall.exe [ skynet.be ]
» http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/battlefield1942/modifications/desertcombat/patches/win32/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe [ blueyonder ]

Desert Combat 0.7 (Windows client Bittorrent Full Install - 591mb)
** These are Bittorrent mirrors only! **
» http://bfmods.myexp.de/torrents/DesertCombat 0.7 Full Install.exe.torrent [ BFMods.de - Bittorrent ]
» http://hmongro.com/DesertCombat%200.7%20Full%20Install.exe.torrent [ hmongro.com - Bittorrent ]




Desert Combat 0.7n Server Release Notes

Windows Release Notes Version 0.7
Desert Combat .7N Full Server Install The following will install the files necessary to run a Desert Combat Server. It is recommended that you backup any custom maps, and do a clean install to prevent headaches. Another recommendation is to add any custom maps after you have tested that the server is up and running. Please note, if you are trying to install this for your client and not the server it will not work, since any unnecessary files have been taken out that the server does not need.

Linux Release Notes Version 0.7
Desert Combat .7N Full Linux Server Install Backup your if any custom maps first, before you do anything: YOU MUST DELETE YOUR OLD DESERTCOMBAT DIRECTORY FOR THIS LINUX INSTALL TO WORK, to do this go into your mods folder, if you are unsure where this is just type cd ~/bf1942/mods, then type rm -rf DesertCombat Then you type the following command chmod a+x DesertCombat_0.7N-Beta_Full_Install.run Then type ./DesertCombat_0.7N-Beta_Full_Install.run Then following will install the files necessary to run a Desert Combat Server. A recommendation is to add any custom maps after you have tested that the server is up and running. md5sum: d26d761fc7524c6676b4c92b414b73cb DesertCombat_0.7N-Beta_Full_Install.run

Desert Combat 0.7 (Windows Server - 28mb)
» http://www.desertcombat.org/index.php?site=file&id=99 [ FPScentral (bf42.com and Desertcombat.org) ]
» http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetbattlefield/news/desertcombat_0.7n_full_server_install.exe [ fileplanet ]

Desert Combat 0.7 (Linux Server - 41mb)
» http://www.desertcombat.org/index.php?site=file&id=97 [ FPScentral (bf42.com and Desertcombat.org) ]
» http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetbattlefield/news/desertcombat_0.7n-beta_full_install.run [ fileplanet ]

More will follow as they appear

CombatCow

Cheers Winters,Q_Ball looks like you have more to DL


CombatCow

Winters

I am trying to get a hold of as many mirrors as possible. Fileplanet have yet to put it up on their site, much to the annoyance of all their subscribers. Most of the main mirrors are still being uplaoded. 3Ddownlaods were one of the first to have it uploaded, they have somewhere around 600 people in the que at the moment. Last I looked it was a 2 and a half hour wait. Torrent seems to be the only one thats capable of downloading at the moment.

[update]Fileplanet got it up sometime just befre 3am. and since then have really had a hard time. I put myself into a queue on one of the servers and I am at 441 of 1509 people at the moment. Long wait for some people im guessing. The mirrors above are the best that are around at the moment so use them as you wish. Now if you excise me, it is 4am and I am going to get some sleep. I wouldnt mind a CD of the DesertCombat update if anyone can send me it [/update]

po0k

DC 0.7 Full Install 591Mib
MD5 Checksum: 632b5d7e6a4b8d6ba0bcaeb80e883d1d
Hosted on Frink, 10Mbit line in Galway
{URL fixed}

Grabbed this file from a link in the topic in #desertcombat an hour or so ago, MD5sum verified against a few other people on the channel.

po0k

http://209.123.150.13/DesertCombat%200.7%20Full%20Install.exe
That's the link I got off the channel topic
Pulled down at 405KB/sec average.

605450K .......... .......... .                               100%  469.70 KB/s
03:21:00 (405.92 KB/s) - `DesertCombat%200.7%20Full%20Install.exe' saved [620002444/620002444]

Nietzschean

DC 0.7 Full Install 591Mib
MD5 Checksum: 632b5d7e6a4b8d6ba0bcaeb80e883d1d
Hosted on Frink, 10Mbit line in Galway


Grabbed this file from a link in the topic in #desertcombat an hour or so ago, MD5sum verified against a few other people on the channel.

I dunno link to file from yer frink server didn't work, no such file.

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~ianoc/DC.exe
100meg link.

po0k

Tis fixed now
Some wierd escape characters or something

ye Trinity feckers and your 100Mbit link....grumble

And is it not a 180MBit GigE link ye have to the NOC now?

Frink is still stuck on 10Mbit ethernet to the 80Mbit ATM pipe due to college policy, not even a chance of 100Mbit ethernet to the rest of the college ffs.

Rev Hellfire

I've also mirrored the install
http://www.darkkeep.com/files/patches/DesertCombat%200.7%20Full%20Install.exe

shinzon

Originally posted by SyxPak
Tis fixed now
Some wierd escape characters or something

ye Trinity feckers and your 100Mbit link....grumble

And is it not a 180MBit GigE link ye have to the NOC now?

Frink is still stuck on 10Mbit ethernet to the 80Mbit ATM pipe due to college policy, not even a chance of 100Mbit ethernet to the rest of the college ffs.

Er does anybody understand a word hes on about lol

Shin

strat

Originally posted by shinzon
Er does anybody understand a word hes on about lol

Shin

yeah makes perfect sence to me
what bit of it confuses you?

Winters

Well, the Linux and Windows servers have been released and I have added them to the list of mirrors. I think the list of mirrors there and also in posts above should be enough for all.

This release wasnt done the best I must say. Well, anything that keeps me up till 4am trying to find mirrors will annoy me. If anyone can send out CD's please say so. If I can get my hands on a copy I should have a couple of CDs to spare to send out.

And for anyone who has it ..... how is DC 0.7?

BeatFreak

Right I'm dl'ing now from blueyonder @ 70/80kbs and looks like I have about another 2 hours to go... I'm heading into town now and I'm gonna grab a few CD's while I'm there, So if anyone wants a copy just let me know

Cya in a few hours.

dangerman

gettin it off blue yonder too, 54kb a sec... could they not have released an incremental as well?

still, most looking forward to optimisations, should make it more pleasant on my 733mhz beasty.

Mercury_Tilt

This post has been deleted.

Nietzschean

Originally posted by SyxPak
Tis fixed now
Some wierd escape characters or something

ye Trinity feckers and your 100Mbit link....grumble

And is it not a 180MBit GigE link ye have to the NOC now?

Frink is still stuck on 10Mbit ethernet to the 80Mbit ATM pipe due to college policy, not even a chance of 100Mbit ethernet to the rest of the college ffs.

Yeah i'd to change the name on my link aswell...
yeah it got upgraded but part of college that box is in only has a 100mbit link to the extern line...they won't give us a gigabit link....

suppafly

Well i'm d/l it now so i'll have a cd ready to be posted out to any needy 56ker's.

Just one question about this new one. Should i delete the DC folder completely cuz i clicked on the uninstall thing but i dunno if it uninstalled so should i just delet the folder altogether?

po0k

Originally posted by Serialkiller
Yeah i'd to change the name on my link aswell...
yeah it got upgraded but part of college that box is in only has a 100mbit link to the extern line...they won't give us a gigabit link....

Yeah, we're the same way.
100Mbit link to the pip would allow us to practically flood the pipe.
Don't see why they can't give us 100Mbit uplink to the rest of the college...might be remedied with an FDDI card or router with and FDDI module though
Tap into that lovely fibre.
Would make my burning of linux isos a fair sight easier.

10Mbit is just so sloooooow

po0k

Originally posted by suppafly
Well i'm d/l it now so i'll have a cd ready to be posted out to any needy 56ker's.

Just one question about this new one. Should i delete the DC folder completely cuz i clicked on the uninstall thing but i dunno if it uninstalled so should i just delet the folder altogether?

I normally just install over it??

TheHairyFairy

I would be greatful if someone would offer to send it to me.

PM me if anyone is up for it.

I'll have BB in a few months, and I cant fecking wait.

The Fairy.

Nietzschean

Originally posted by SyxPak
Yeah, we're the same way.
100Mbit link to the pip would allow us to practically flood the pipe.
Don't see why they can't give us 100Mbit uplink to the rest of the college...might be remedied with an FDDI card or router with and FDDI module though
Tap into that lovely fibre.
Would make my burning of linux isos a fair sight easier.

10Mbit is just so sloooooow

Well we have a gigabit lan within the dept, tis just link to rest of college sucks quite a bit. well get 9mb/sec downloads off heanet's server for linux iso's so its not too painfull tbh 3mins/iso usually.........

Mercury_Tilt

This post has been deleted.

suppafly

Originally posted by SyxPak
I normally just install over it??

yeah thats what i do too just that winters had this at the top of his Mirrors post

** Delete/uninstall your current DesertCombat 0.6 installation before you install 0.7 **

Lucutus

I just renamed the desertcombat folder, seemed to work fine.

Nietzschean

Anyone still using dl site i posted? or can i take it down?

Woden

is there no incremental patch? and when is cavan combat changing to 0.7?

Moriarty

Can you leave it up for another hour or two sk? cheers.

Nietzschean

nps, sure i'll leave it up till monday for anyone else then

The TICK

mucho thanks SK! I got it from your link last night cheers. now anyone tell me how to get console working so I can join games2 plz thanks in advance.

Winters

Originally posted by The TICK
mucho thanks SK! I got it from your link last night cheers. now anyone tell me how to get console working so I can join games2 plz thanks in advance.

Please explain. You dont need to have the console running to join games2. The console is accesible ingame by using the "`" key, found just below ESC.

If you want to make a quick shortcut to join games2 all you need to do is create a shortcut to Battlefield1942/DesertCombat on the desktop with the following command line:

"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe" +restart 1 +joinServer games2.iol.ie
Change C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942 to your Battlefield directory

Or you can just use the All-Seeing Eye and find games2 and other servers on that.