The first free MOD for Killing Floor, Defence Alliance 2, is now available on Steam! Major updates to Mare Nostrum and Killing Floor have also been released. To celebrate the major update to Mare Nostrum, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is being offered at 50% off until Monday!
In doesn't end there... all owner's of Killing Floor now receive 2 guest passes to hand out to friends that want to play free for three days!
Updates for Killing Floor have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Four of the top maps from the Killing Floor Grindhouse Custom Map Making Competition:
- KF-Icebreaker - Winner of the $10,000 grand prize in the mapping competition and one of the most ambitious, creative, and visually stunning Killing Floor maps ever made, Icebreaker is set on a large icebreaking ship that is pitching and rolling in the middle of a fierce storm.
- KF-Departed - Winner of second place in the final wave of the mapping competition, Departed is a visually impressive level set in an industrial city area outside of London. Featuring hectic gameplay this map plays as good as it looks.
- KF-Crash - Winner of third place in the final wave of the mapping competition, Crash is an impressive remake of a classic custom map for the original Killing Floor mod. The map is set in an urban storage facility where your team’s helicopter has crashed.
- KF-FilthsCross - Winner of second place in the first wave of the mapping competition, FilthsCross is both incredibly fun and intense. Be warned, this map set in an Underground tube station is one of the most challenging Killing Floor maps ever made.
Changelist for Mare Nostrum:
- 26 all new Steam achievements.
- 14 new infantry weapons, such as the ever-distinctive Thompson submachine gun, Bren machine gun, Beretta 1934 pistol, and the SMLE rifle.
- Full Italian and Polish localisations.
- Over 20 new crewable vehicles including the Carro Armato M13/40 and Semovente 75/18 for the Italians, countered with multiple Valentine tank variants, plus the Stuart I, Matilda II and Vickers Mk VIB.
12 new maps, including:
- Crete - Fallschirmjager units dropping into the midst of Australian defenders in this classic battle.
- Ancona Approach - The Fallschirmjager are back in action, this time defending against the Polish advance in eastern Italy.
- Gazala Line - Desert tank warfare does not get bigger than this. Start your engines and prepare for total war.
- Road To Tunis - The war in North Africa is almost over, but the British must first push the Axis tanks from one last mountain valley to reach Tunis.
- Tobruk Central - The Australian defenders have been under siege for longer than they can remember, how much longer will they be able to hold out?
- Bardia - The Italian garrison is surrounded, but they will not give us this cliff top town and its valuable port without a struggle.
9 June 2009 — Tripwire are happy to announce the release of Darkest Hour, the latest full mod for Red Orchestra, over Steam. To celebrate this release, Red Orchestra is 66% off until Monday, June 15th.
Darkest Hour is free to all those who own Red Orchestra and can be simply downloaded and installed through Steam. Darkest Hour finally brings the Americans to Red Orchestra, focusing on the beaches of Normandy, Operation Market-Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and on into the Reich. A trailer is available on the Steam web page, along with screen shots and more information. Now you can play as American, British or Canadian troops, with a huge range of additional features:
- More than 20 new infantry weapons, such as the ever-distinctive Garand, M1 Carbine, .30-cal, Bren, FG42, Thomson and the Enfield rifles
- American Bazooka, British PIAT and German Panzerschreck to go tank-hunting with
- New infantry features, including Airborne drops onto the battlefield, bullet suppression and supersonic cracks, plus a new radioman class for calling in artillery strikes
- Over a dozen new crewable vehicles including the King Tiger and JagdPanther for the Germans, countered with multiple types of Sherman in 75mm, 76mm and 17-pounder versions, plus the Cromwell, M10 Wolverine and Achilles
- 11 new maps, including:
- Juno Beach — Canadians storming the beaches in classic D-Day action
- Carentan — the US 101st Airborne assaults the town shortly after D-Day
- Brecourt — 101st Airborne attempt to put a key German artillery battery out of commission behind the beaches
- Ginkel Heath — British paras drop into a hotly-contested LZ at the start of Operation Market-Garden
- Wacht-am-Rhein — sweeping tank combat during the Battle of the Bulge, including the fearsome King Tiger
- Stoumont — American infantry and armor try and hold back the SS PanzerGrenadiers in the streets of the Ardennes town
So whether it is the Normandy campaign, jumping onto the dropzones around Arnhem or the bitter fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, new and old players alike will get a chance to see why RO remains a classic. Now with the opportunity to re-play those battles RO-style, courtesy of Darkest Hour: Europe 1944-45! For more information on the mod (and to see the trailer) head to the Steam page.
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added 44 Steam achievements
- Added new map Fallen Heroes
- Fixed issues in several maps: Zhitomir1941 (Fixed spawn protection exploit), BlackDayJuly (Fixed unreachable artillery radio), HedgeHog (Fixed artillery on spawn exploit)
- Player counts should now show accurately both in-game and in the Steam server browser
- Added VOIP support for Listen Servers
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Steamworks is now used for all backend matchmaking
- RO will now show up in the Steam server browser, making it much easier for people to find RO matches
- Steam friends matchmaking now works allowing people to use Steam friends to join the server their buddies are playing on both in game and out of game
- Outdated servers will no longer show up in the servers list. This will prevent the issue of getting mismatches when attempting to connect to servers that aren't running the latest version of the game
- The buddies tab has been removed from the in-game server browser as all buddy functionality is now operational using Steam friends
- Added spectator, start, and end cameras to Krivoi Rog
- Fixed an exploit in Smolensk Stalemate where you could get under the terrain
- Enhanced security features
Tripwire Interactive today released its next update pack for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, the award-winning WWII online action game. The update includes a new map, a new vehicle and some major graphical enhancements to the game and is available to owners of the game for free through Steam. To give gamers a chance to try the updated version, Tripwire is offering a five-day freeplay period, August 29-September 3, as well as a 20% discount for new purchasers.
The new map - Krivoi Rog - gives players the largest tank slugfest to date, with 16 square kilometers of terrain, 3000 meter viewable range and up to 50 players. This map also features the new vehicle - the German Panzer IV G, providing the German players with some additional fire-power for the mid-war period.
In addition to the new map and vehicle, Tripwire has created an all-new adaptive bloom system for the game's graphics, making the bloom crystal-clear even at low resolutions. For further eye-candy, Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering settings are now configurable in-game.
There are plenty more changes, updates and bug fixes in the update. Read the full changelog on the game page for details.
Tripwire also announces a six day freeplay period, this Wednesday through Monday. Anyone who does not have Red Orchestra can play the full game completely free for six full days. Simply download the game from Steam and start playing-the freeplay period starts at 1pm on Wednesday, August 29 and runs through 1 pm PST on Monday, September 3. Those who purchase Red Orchestra via Steam before September 5 will receive 20% off the regular price.
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added a new map – Krivoi Rog
- Added a new adaptive bloom system
- Added new tank variant – the Panzer IV G
- Added a screen shaking/blurring effect when a player is hit by a melee attack
- Engine enhancement to support much larger terrain sizes
- Added a forced team balance system which will swap players to the other team when they die if teams are unbalanced
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Players that don't have a role selected will no longer show as being on the Russian team
- Fixed players being able to see through the blackout view if they were using the scoreboard
- Fixed various artillery and grenade team killing exploits that would allow players to circumvent the team kill kick/ban system
- Fixed artillery exploits that would allow players to call in artillery in areas where they should not be able to
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added new level, Danzig. Features intense, close-quarters infantry combat in a bombed out city environment
- Added new vehicles, the Panzer IV H German Medium Tank and the Universal Carrier Russian Armored Troop Transport
- Added support for the Logitech G15 Keyboard
- Added ROTV game spectating and "shoutcasting" functionality
- Added enhancements to allow for longer view distances
- New camouflage skins for all camouflaged German tanks and enhanced skins for the snow versions of all Russian tanks
- Fixed the tank cannons firing blanks under certain lag related conditions
- Fixed getting stuck infinitely reloading the bolt sniper rifle if you picked up an empty sniper rifle and tried to reload it
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added native Logitech G15 Keyboard support
Note This patch has been rolled back due to compatibility issues when connecting to servers
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- G41 - German semi automatic rifle which was used early in the war but phased out with the arrival of the much improved G43
- All new Russian voice commands
- Improved jogging animations for the players
- New custom death icons for panzerfaust kills and sniper kills
- Fire mode icon for weapons with selectable fire modes (STG44)
- Weapon pickup enhancements - partially due to feedback from the free week, we have implemented a much more simple system for picking up/dropping your current weapon. Weapons can now be picked up by looking at the weapon you want to pick up and pressing the use key. Your current weapon will then be dropped automatically
- Ammo pickup enhancements - when a player drops ammo they now drop a single ammo belt or ammo pouch instead of multiple ammo clips or bullets. This makes the process of taking ammo from a dead enemy much simpler, or picking up your ammo when your weapon is shot out of your hand much easier
- Player ragdolls are now effected by explosions from grenades, artillery, and HE rounds
- Option for original role names - the player can now choose to view the original untranslated role names in game
- Russian language localized version
- Many bug fixes
Note A small update to the dedicated linux server which fixes an issue with two missing texture files was released after this update
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added the new map LvesKrovy, featuring close quarters combat
- Added smoke grenades for German and Russian commanders
- Streamlined the interface to make it easier for new players to get into the game
- Changed the tank cannon round switching system to more closely match tanks of the period
- Removed the "No Decisive Victory" win condition. One team will always win now
- Enhanced the scoreboard
- Improved the 3rd person upper body movement while prone
- Fixed choppy VOIP while using Hardware 3d or EAX sound setting
- Fixed players bouncing off of other players that were prone
- Fixed a glitch that would cause red squares on terrain where blood had been
- Fixed an exploit where commanders could call in artillery strikes on a position that they marked in a previous round
- Fixed grenades being unable to fire when changing stances
- Fixed problems relating to server settings for spectating restrictions
Updates to SiN Episodes: Emergence and Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added Arena Mode
- Added 4 Arena Mode Maps (Highrise Lobby, The Office, Turbine, U4 Processing Station)
- Exposed some additional statistics from the Personal Challenge System
- Updated manual with additional troubleshooting information, Arena Mode documentation
- Minor asset rearrangement required for upcoming SDK release
- Fixed issue where "Pipes & Crates, Inc." phone message would not play
- Fixed visual issue with Elexis hologram on some DirectX 7 cards
- Fixed issue where security bots could not be damaged from certain locations in Highrise
- Fixed some closed captions
- Fixed minor issues with U4 Lab 02
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Red Orchestra- Fixed a Recoil issue caused by last weeks update
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added two new weapons: the MP41 submachine gun for the Germans and the M44 rifle, with permanent bayonet, for the Soviets
- Added French language files and updated the German language files (including a German game manual)
- Numerous map changes, optimizations, and improvements, including a visual overhaul to Arad
- Added base code for flying and hover vehicles into the engine for mod teams
- Updated armor and penetration values for the Tiger, T-60 and SU-76, and increased the power of the Tiger’s 88mm main gun
- Optimized memory usage and decreased map load times
- Fixed the "Gray Sniper Scope" bug
- Fixed a bug related to Steam logins expiring
- Fixed a bug in the tank penetration system
- Fixed "Blank Firing" weapon bugs
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed users with the SDK installed not being able to connect to game servers
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Added the Friendly Fire Punishment options to the webadmin and in game server configuration menus
- Added the Death Message Mode settings to the webadmin and in game configuration menus
- Added the ability to see players SteamId in game. Type the command "ListPlayers" to get the list
- Fixed a bug where webadmin would stop responding and the server's ping would show as "?" in the server browser
- Fixed a memory leak caused by two maps being loaded into memory at the same time
- Fixed a recoil bug affecting both bolt action rifles and semi automatic rifles
- Fixed a bug where TK banning was not working properly
- Updated Linux server with improved stability
- Fixed an exploit where players could have both no motion blur and no alternate blackout effect
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, Tripwire Interactive's first-person action game set on the Russian Front of WWII, is now available via Steam for just $24.95. For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.
