Historically accurate equipment displays the benefits and failings of their real counterparts. Features such as multi-role APCs and improved infantry classes promote team play by making it easier and more beneficial for players to work together. A comprehensively revised damage system allows for a much greater depth of feel without being draconian, one-hit kills are the exception not the rule.
We have gone to great lengths to produce game play that is both balanced and enjoyable. Attention to detail has also become a key aspect of the mod with high quality textures, sounds and models all carefully researched and developed. The result is a mod with approximately 150 tanks, trucks and cars; more than 80 aircraft, over 80 small-arms and over 190 unique maps. These are increasing with each release and represent 13 nations: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy (+ post armistice Italy (1943-45), Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, France (1940), Vichy France and Free French (1940-45), The United Kingdom and The United States.
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Changelog - first patch for RC4
- vehicle fixes
- fixed OT-34/85 missing engine sound
- added missing right side road wheel on Kangaroo
- fixed the misaligned suspension on Sturmpanzer II
- fixed missing recoil on gunbarrel of Semovente 75/18
- fixed faulty first person view on bow mg of M3 Light (all variants)
- moved the gunner seat of the Wespe to a better position
- fixed wrong soundscript for engine of ISU-152
- fixed missing sound for rear machine guns on He-111 torpedo bomber
- added improved tank track animation speed settings made by al13326
- fixed missing tank tracks sound on early KV-1 tank
- added missing crosshair on Sexton (Coop version)
- resized SU-152's idler wheel to better fit the tank track
- removed unused crosshair from Ha-Go rear turret machine gun
- fixed offset railings on Hilfskreuzer hull mesh
- fixed game crash when destroying the ZIS-3 gun (both stationary and mobile version)
- removed crosshairs in BV-138 cockpit view
- map fixes
- added missing static object on 4006-dunkirk_perimeter
- fixed faulty soldier spawns on 4208-jiangxi
- changed the US soldier kits to US Marine kits on 4410-clash_on_surigao
- added missing textures for some tree meshes
- fixed wrong texture for Flak 36 on 4005-montherme
- fixed wrong spawn of B-4 howitzer on 4108-uman_pocket
- changed US Rifleman Springfield kit to M1 Garand kit on 4204-fall_of_bantaan
- fixed floating fences on 4307-prokhorovka
- switched Serbian Soldiers on 4405-raid_on_drvar to new Yugoslavian Partisans (thanks to Laufer for the content)
- fixed typo in cullradius.con in 4406-fox_green
- fixed typo in cullradius.con in 4411-operation_infatuate
- fixed typo in map description of 4501-operation_matador
- fixed typo in cullradius.con in 4504-pounding_the_rock
- fixed typo in cullradius.con in 4504-royan_outskirts
- added missing effect soundscript to 4504-royan_outskirts
- various fixes and additions
- changed the Italian Navy flag to the correct one
- fixed soldier kits using the wrong "Assault" description (machine gunners for example)
- fixed size of some soldier helmets (thanks to Laufer)
- fixed damage of Breda 42 anti tank grenade
- reworked Soviet "Pilotka" hat (thanks to Laufer)
- added Valentine III and IX to Russian repair depot
- started damage system overhaul. This was necessary due to some values being too low or too high.
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moddb download link -> server patch
We want to thank all of our team members and fans for their continued support of the mod, and hope that you'll have a lot of fun with the new version :-)
BattleGroup42 Final – RC 4 released
News 8 commentsIt’s been more than two years now since our last release of BattleGroup42, which was Release Candidate 3 of our final version of the mod. Ever since...
BattleGroup42 Final RC2 release
News 11 commentsWe've already announced it on our Facebook page, and now it's official! Release Candidate no. 2 is now available for download and has already been running...
Big BattleGroup42 model presentation - part four
NewsWith part four the BattleGroup42-team is continuing its extensive new models presentation. Most of these models were created by Gauranga and integrated...
Big BattleGroup42 model presentation - part three
News 4 commentsThe BattleGroup42 team is greeting all players and fans with another part of our big model presentation. Once again it's about models made by Gauranga...
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BG42 Final - Client installer executable
Full Version 2 commentsThe BattleGroup42 mod installer consists of five parts. One executable file and four .bin files. Download all five parts into the same folder on your...
BG42 Final - Client installer 1a
Full VersionThe BattleGroup42 mod installer consists of five parts. One executable file and four .bin files. Download all five parts into the same folder on your...
BG42 Final - Client installer 1b
Full VersionThe BattleGroup42 mod installer consists of five parts. One executable file and four .bin files. Download all five parts into the same folder on your...
BG42 Final - Client installer 1c
Full VersionThe BattleGroup42 mod installer consists of five parts. One executable file and four .bin files. Download all five parts into the same folder on your...
BG42 Final - Client installer 2a
Full VersionThe BattleGroup42 mod installer consists of five parts. One executable file and four .bin files. Download all five parts into the same folder on your...
BG42 Final - Full Server
ServerThe BattleGroup42 Final - Server installer. Only necessary if one intended to make a dedicated server.
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u guys should add the polish and some early war french battles.
cheers chaps,dl'ing now.
would you say this mod is a worthwhile single player experience?im not interested in online and im looking for a good ww2 mod.
Yes. Our COOP support is improved over the original game and most of the maps now have bots on them. This is looking to be increased to the stage where all maps will have COOP support.
thanks for reply,so are you looking to have this in place for 1.7? im wondering wether to wait or get it now.
Get it now there are several maps with COOP support in the current release. The next full version (v1.7) will be released in 2010.
Get it now as Afri says. Not all maps will have COOP even in 1.7. The majority should have it though so there will be plenty of variety for you to play with.
Any chance that you integrate COOP support for your pushmaps ?
We love playing the urban area maps like Luki, Noville and Uelzen but alas the maps don't have COOP support :((((((
In a pinch normal conquest mode lieu coop will do it.
PUSH mode doesn't work well with bots (which is why those maps that are PUSH maps in conquest are 'normal' maps in COOP). Bot support will be added at some point but we don't have any dedicated AI coders at the moment and therefore progress is fairly slow. Certainly they are on the list of to-do maps.
are there any maps with the dutch fighting the Japanese??
Not yet but we are looking at creating a few for future releases. Currently we only have the Dutch fighting the Germans in the defence of the Netherlands in 1940.