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Forgotten Hope 2 is a World War II modification for Battlefield 2 and is based on the original Forgotten Hope, a modification for Battlefield 1942, one of the most popular multiplayer games ever. Battlefield 1942 featured land, sea and air combat in a way never before seen. It was the goal of the development team to maximize the game experience by adding both a realistic and enjoyable gameplay to FH and the same goes for FH2 in the future.

With over 250 new pieces of authentic equipment, with tanks such as the mighty Russian IS-2 heavy tank and the diminutive Japanese Ha-Go light tank, aircraft from the rugged American P47 Thunderbolt to the antiquated British Fairey Swordfish biplane, warships such as the British Ark Royal aircraft carrier and the German Battleship Tirpitz and weapons including the powerful German Panzerfausts and the fearsome Russian PPSh-41 submachine gun, Forgotten Hope has a wider scope than any other Second World War First Person Shooter, ever.

But the war is far from over. With the release of Electronic Arts Battlefield 2, the development potential has increased a lot. An all-new game engine and physics system brings the battlefield to life like never before. The new material penetration feature measures weapons? ability to fire through barriers based on their composition and players will need to know the difference between concealment and cover in order to survive. Immense, richly detailed, destructible environments, from city streets to remote forests, brought to you with brilliant graphics are more features of Battlefield 2, to name a few. And we are going to bring all this to the Second World War.

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Winston Churchill once said "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." But we do look far ahead. The end of our road has not changed - only the stops along the way. At the beginning, Forgotten Hope 2 will concentrate on the North African theater and the struggle between the British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery and the German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel.

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You will be given the chance to take part in maybe the most important campaign of World War II. Fight on the side of the British forces to give the already forgotten hope back to your countrymen after the mortifying defeat at Dunkirk and the never ending German air raids. Or join the German Army in their drive to gain control over the Suez Canal and steal the last chance of the Allies to win the war and disrupt any strategic plans for building up bases to launch attacks on the "soft underbelly of Europe".

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Whatever the side you choose you will have an almost endless armory at your disposal. Your weaponry will reach from knives to heavy machine guns to anti-tank rifles, your equipment will contain everything from the first aid kit to magnetic hollow charges, your motor pool will offer any type of vehicle whether you want to drive scout cars, tanks or self propelled artillery. Your airfields will give you the chance to pilot bombers and fighters and your dockyards will provide your naval fleet with an armada beginning with submarines and ending with an aircraft carrier.

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Fight on ancient battlegrounds like El Alamein or Tobruk. Forgotten Hope 2 will also offer different gamemodes for different situations - in addition to the standard Head-on and Assault maps Battlefield? is famous for, you will also need to destroy or defend strategic resources and equipment in Objective-mode play.

"The battle which is about to begin will be one of the most important battles in history. It will be the turning point of the war." But it will only be the end of the beginning for Forgotten Hope 2 - we will be expanding the mod to all of the theatres its prequel currently occupies, and more.

So whether you like house to house fighting in Stalingrad, tank battles in the Tunisian desert or dogfights in skies over southern England ? Forgotten Hope 2 will have something for you.

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The first thing we would like to show today is the new Normandy skin for the German recon plane, the Fieseler Storch. This plane was modeled by [79th]Le_Chat and skinned by Toddel.


By June 1944 the Luftwaffe on the western front had been largely annihilated. The constant bombing of airfields and complete allied air superiority meant that there wasn't much that could be done to counter the allied advancements. Although these conditions obviously put restrictions on the use of planes in general, the Storch it was still used in Normandy. Its main special quality was its very short take-off and landing distance. The Storch could land in only 30 metres and take off in 80.

The second item for today is the new version of the German APC - the Sd.Kfz 251/1 Ausf. D. (You've already seen the Ausf. C in Forgotten Hope 2's desert maps.) These half-tracks were made in as many as 23 specialised variants and one of those is our third news item - the Sd.Kfz 251/1-II "Stuka zu Fuss". Both those models were made by K96 and Toddel.


As the tide of war turned against Germany it was forced to redesign many of its vehicles and weapons to make the production process shorter and less resource consuming. A good example of such a vehicle is the Sd.Kfz 251 Ausf. D. The first of these vehicles was produced in late 1943 and compared to its predecessor the Ausf. C it had a much simpler design. The Ausf. D was by far the most numerous of the 4 Sd.Kfz 251 versions with more than 10,000 produced.

The Stuka zu Fuss (Stuka on foot) is quite simply an Sd.Kfz. 251/1 with 6 rocket-launching frames attached. It could fire 280mm high-explosive rockets or 320mm napalm rockets. To aim the rockets one had to turn the entire vehicle, as the frames could only be turned vertically. Since the vehicle did not have a roof to protect the crew from the rocket blast, they had to leave the vehicle and launch the rockets from a safe distance. The wurfgerät 40 rocket launcher (the type mounted on the Stuka Zu Fuss) was nicknamed the "Heulende Kuh" or "Bellowing Cow".


Finally, we have an advertisement from one of Forgotten Hope's communities, Battle for Europe: World at War:

The World at War (WaW) Tournament is proud to announce the first community map pack for Forgotten Hope 2. Many of the great custom maps featured in the tournament have been brought to the masses in this map pack which features six outstanding maps. The maps feature great gameplay and many lush forests and abundant grass. If you are tired of getting sand in all the wrong places be sure to give this map pack a try.


You can download the server and client files for the map pack at Bfewaw.com.
That's all for this week, but be sure to come back next time for another update. Until then, feel free to visit our IRC channel and our public forums to discuss this update and other news.

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Forgotten Hope 2.1 PATCH

Forgotten Hope 2.1 PATCH

May 21, 2008 Patch 1 comment

Upgrades version 2.0 to 2.1. Go to www.fhmod.org for more details.

Forgotten Hope 2.1 FULL

Forgotten Hope 2.1 FULL

May 21, 2008 Full Version 2 comments

Full version 2.1 release download. Go to www.fhmod.org for more details.

Forgotten Hope 2 "Ground Attack"

Forgotten Hope 2 "Ground Attack"

Sep 03, 2007 Movies 1 comment

Forgotten Hope 2 ingame online play footage. BF109E7-Trop and Ju87-B2 "Stuka" vs ground targets.

Forgotten Hope 2 "Dogfight"

Forgotten Hope 2 "Dogfight"

Sep 03, 2007 Movies 0 comments

Forgotten Hope 2 ingame online play footage. BF109E7-Trop vs Spitfire Mk.Vb, Beaufighter Mk.IC and Hurricane Mk.IIC.

Forgotten Hope 2 Teaser 1

Forgotten Hope 2 Teaser 1

Feb 21, 2007 Movies 3 comments

Forgotten Hope 2's first teaser video.

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Fenring
Fenring Aug 12 2008, 7:16am says:

xlucidx: FH2 is heavier than vanila bf2 (as is all mods) but if you can run other mods good i dont see any reason why you shouldnt be able to run FH2, Is there better performance if you decrease video settings quality?

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xlucidx
xlucidx Aug 18 2008, 5:02pm replied:

Not really.

Also it increases load times from 45 seconds to almost 10 minutes!

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pogi2008
pogi2008 Aug 11 2008, 10:55pm says:

Finally, I have finished the download, this mod is great! Thanks a lot guys, and keep em coming!

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xlucidx
xlucidx Aug 11 2008, 3:13pm says:

Is there a reason why this mod runs worse than BF2? :|
BF2 runs beautifully for me and so do other mods, but the FH mod runs like total crap.

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Tymathee
Tymathee Aug 7 2008, 5:49pm says:

Walking stuka!!! w00t. funny seeing it in full 3d and not on CoH

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headshot702
headshot702 Aug 7 2008, 6:57am says:

This mod is great, but I lag so much and my rig can play regular BF2 at high settings. Maybe I just stick with the BF1942 version...

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Dio
Dio Aug 7 2008, 5:44am says:

Hi all,

The mod looks pretty good has always, you guys are trully talented! Looking forward for the European Theater release!

I loved the first version of Forgotten Hope 2 in north Afrika but in my book it's all about Europe!

Regards Dio

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pogi2008
pogi2008 Aug 5 2008, 5:44am says:

thanks... trying to download it... slowly..... man... i need to upgrade my internet... laterz..

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Fenring
Fenring Aug 4 2008, 5:37pm says:

pogi2008: yes all the maps from our first release has bot support, you setup the number of bots in the FH2 toolbox.

sgtmonkmann: d-day maps will of course be in our first normandy release, it just happend that this map was finished first.

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pogi2008
pogi2008 Aug 4 2008, 4:29am says:

Does this mod have bot support??
I would like to know that it has Sp
because i play bf2 sp more often cuz my internet connection lags a lot..
thanx.

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