Tacos Mod contain 25 new missions, 47 new weapons, rifle-grenade-launchers, flame-throwers, missions set during winter, 11 new items, 25 new ammunition types for firearms, over 60 new textures & more. The mod lean towards historical accuracy, but focuses more on game-play with missions both completely fictional & some loosely based on real events. If anyone think this is worthwhile & want to help out just PM me. Also feel free to give me feedback & your thoughts on the mod.
A new member have joined Tacos Mod: dgn! He have already contributed with a lot of knowledge of WW2, as well as added new content to the mod directly & helped with technical things. Many of the coming changes & additions in Alpha-8 will be from him.
Alpha-8 is well in progress, with a 2-part mini-campaign based on the Battle of Castle Itter already completed. A bonus mission has also been made, where you play as Norwegian commandos & another bonus mission where you play as Volkssturm is almost completed.
26 new weapons have been added, including missing icons such as the P08 pistol, M2 automatic carbine, suppressed Sten Mk IIS & RGD-33 grenade.
There are new rifle-grenade types: incendiary & armor-piercing. The rifle-grenade-launchers are now also able to fire regular rifle ammunition in addition to firing grenades. With other words, rifle-grenadiers are now able to shoot, blow up, burn & tank-hunt, given the ammunition & opportunity. This also means rifle-grenadiers don't have to carry an additional rifle.
Portable bags are coming, such as haversacks. They act like regular boxes, except you can keep them in your inventory, giving you more effective space. They can also be used for reserve-ammunition, back-up weapons, as well as allow quick trading or dumping of items.
The Chasseurs Alpins in Green Blood now have their own uniforms. The Kriegsmarine uniform have also been significantly improved, in addition to new Volkssturm uniforms for the up-coming mission.
The inventory space of vehicles will be increased. The added space will allow you to more effectively stock up on anything you wish. dgn is also currently working on creating new vehicle schematics images for the inventory back-grounds, so that vehicles will have correct back-grounds.
You will be able to fire rocket-launchers & grenade-launchers whilst being prone in Alpha-8. The unit will no longer be forced into a crouch position. Units put on fire at will mode no longer go into standing position before firing as well. This will make units equipped with the aforementioned weapons less suicidal & more stealthy.
Fold-able weapons such as the MP-40 now take up 1 less horizontal inventory space.
Resuscitation Kits are now accessible via the "grenade slot", the slot next to the weapon slot. You no longer have to open up the inventory in order to revive allies, just select the Resuscitation Kit as easily as you would a grenade.
There are more minor & major things in the works, but that is all we feel like reporting for now.
Four years later, there was an update for a mod, that most people probably have forgotten about.
Alpha-6 is on the way & a texture artist has joined the development of Tacos Mod.
This patch make all automatic weapons much more unique with new fire-rates, instead of all having the same as in vanilla. It also adds the last training...
The seventh demo of Tacos Mod. - - - - - - - - - - HOW TO INSTALL: Unrar(decompress, open) the "tacosmodA7.7z" file with a program that can decompress...
This is a patch for Tacos Mod version Alpha-6. It fixes a game crash when loading the Green Blood mission. Installation: Put the "tacosmodA6" folder in...
Sixth "release" or demo of Tacos Mod. Version Alpha-6. - - - HOW TO INSTALL: Unrar(decompress, open) the "tacosmodA6.rar" file with a program that can...
This is a patch for Tacos Mod Alpha-5. Additions: MG-34 Panzerlauf, C96, 7.63x25mmM & Advanced Training. Changes: Fire-rate changed on most automatic...
Fifth "release" or demo of Tacos Mod. Version Alpha-5. - - - HOW TO INSTALL: Unrar(decompress, open) the "tacosmodA5.rar" file with a program that can...
Fourth "release" or demo of Tacos Mod. Version Alpha-4. - - - HOW TO INSTALL: Unrar(decompress, open) the "tacosmodA4.rar" file with a program that can...
So, how´s the status of this mod???
Alpha-7 is the newest version right now & is fully playable with many new missions, weapons, factions & balance changes.
If you mean the progress of Alpha-8 then well, the PSU on the computer I had it on toasted itself, so the dead-line of 2024 mentioned before might be correct. Alpha-8 is however, assuming HDD is fine, fairly close to done.
Thanks for the info. I really appreciate your work in this mod :)
For the mission, "Fallen Hunters", the crate provides a PzB-39, but with the incorrect ammo.
This has already been fixed for the upcoming Alpha-8 version, a long with many other ammo fixes.
Thank you for reporting this anyway.
It would be cool if you would add your own vehicles :D
We have actually been kinda working on new vehicles. Just texture & stat/equipment changes for now tough.
Among the ones coming in Alpha-8 are Sokol 1000, Finnish & Polish Vickers 6-Ton Alternative B, T-26E (Finnish upgraded Vickers), Munitionsschlepper & M39 Pantserwagen.
There's also some texture work for a German glider & Dutch AT gun.
I have uploaded an image of some of the new vehicles in addition to a sniper upgrade if you're interested in that.
The Munitionsschlepper in the Alpha-8 version is exactly the "Munitionsträger auf Geschützwagen III/IV (Sf.) Hummel". It could carry 34 150mm shells (only 18 on the standard Hummel). As always, these are the standard sepcifications, corresponding to the fitted storage. But in battle situations, crew genarally filled the combat compartment with as much ammunition as possible. This remark concerns all military vehicles, in all armies, and in all conflicts.
Cheers.
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Lol i always thought that your mod is just for fun, adds stupid things or something but it looks like it have real and good content in it. I suggest that you should think about changing that logo/picture to something more serious or something that'll tell more about whats in it. Lol it took me few years to finally check whats inside and not be disappointed XD
How bigoted of you, you should've been able to tell long ago if you read the description.
You got a point though, I'll consider doing that.