Progress Report, Battlegroup42 for BF:V
Work on BG42 for BF:V is coming along nicely. We've created quite
a few internal builds these past few weeks, adding new effects,
animations and maps. We have, of course, been showing off recently
many of the vehicles and maps that will feature in the forthcoming
release. This week, therefore, we'd like to look to the future.
Firstly, with the impending release of BF2,
you'll be interested in Gamers
Radio Broadcast's interview of several mod teams, including
the BG42 Mod.
Secondly, we'd like to share with you some
work-in-progress models being readied for future releases. We'd
like to start with our new Sherman base model. We're very excited
with this excellent model by DaCrapper and plan on building many
varations of the Sherman.
Our base model for the
M4A3 Sherman and texturing provides a platform for US Armor in
BG42
We have also been working in the small arms
department and have a finished Walther and a Sten model for show.
Mr Arhipov has done some excellent skinning overtop Geronimo's
Walther P38 model and Geronimo's excellent BG42 Sten model has
received some skinning work by DautlessDouglass:
Ultimately it comes
down to the infantryman and his weapons!
Of course, we haven't neglected our well
known strengths in the Eastern Front theatre and present some
great Russian tank models by Koricus:
Upgraded and enhanced
Russian Tank models and skins for BG42!
Discuss
this news posting in our forums.
Battlegroup42 for BF:1942 Goes to
Beta4
Battlegroup42 for BF:1942 is very near to a release date and is
entering Beta4 which we expect will be the last round of testing.
We have decided to combine the 1.1.1 release with the MOB Map
Pack#1 and release as Battlegroup42 1.2. Our newly named BG42
v1.2 will come with a host of corrections, including returning
the Tiger, Panther and IS2 turret and land speed to 1.0 speeds,
considerable work fine tuning the AT weapons, and have further
balanced many maps as well addressing some long standing issues.
The inclusion of the map pack will add new
maps to BG42 including BG42-enabled versions of the EA map pack
maps, versions of Berlin and Stalingrad with no tanks, and many
brand-new maps created especially for BG42 by members of MOB.
PanzerSmurf has put together a short movie
showing off some of the new maps for BG42 1.2:
Some fly-overs of some
of the features of the new BG42 1.2 Maps!
(Windows
Media Viewer | Quicktime)
Lastly, Beta Tester, -=NC=-CrazyLarva has
been posting previews
at the BG42.com forums.
Discuss
this news posting in our forums.
Development Team Update
Battlegroup42 Team News
As many of you have undoubtedly noticed,
our official forums have undergone yet another name change. This
is the last one - we promise! Our forums can be found at www.battlegroup42forum.com.
Come on by, register and introduce yourself. We've got some interesting
conversations already going and our forums are the best place
to ensure your ideas, thoughts, praise and criticism get heard
by the whole development team!
The team gives a big welcome to the members
of Gamers
Radio Broadcast (Gaming Metal,
Rock & Hard Rock Radio Broadcasters & Players League
|GRB|) and Catastrophic
Attack Team (Clan [CAT]) for joining our ranks of beta testers.
We also welcome Jamison Geibel, Ian Coccozza as testers. You've
probably seen a few more beta servers in your server lists thanks
to this increase in our beta tester staff. A big public thank-you
for all the help from all our testers!
