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The Official Steam group for Heroes of the West. Where Events get organised and special announcements made. Also a useful place to talk to othe Heroes of the west players.

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Heroes of the West March update.

March 15, 2017 - =(e)= Lemonater47 | 0 Comments

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Tripwire Interactive and The Heroes of the West team are excited to announce their latest update featuring two new maps and a brand new game feature, Airborne Ammo Resupply Drops!

Owners of Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 can grab the mod for free from Steam, just run the launcher at least once to get all new movies for the map loading screens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaxBEwwMw8Y

http://store.steampowered.com/app/440090/

Please join us on our HOTW Public Discord[discord.me]

Please allow servers time to update. If you join a server and begin to download files, hit F10 to exit and try another server. Also, if you participated in beta testing, don't forget to opt out of the beta. Questions and feedback are welcome on the discussion boards.

-The Heroes of the West Team

Full Update Details

New Maps

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Reichswald - 9th of Feburary 1945.
This is the very northern tip of the Siegfried line. British forces advance on a heavy german bunker position. While the outnumbered German forces desperately try and hold on. If the Germans fail the Brtish have a clear path into the German mainland.

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Hell's Corners - 6th June 1944.
American Airborne forces landed in farmland flooded by the German defenders to make crossing the terrain difficult. This is one of the locations where the flow of water is controlled, The Barquette Locks. Control of the locks mean the allies can start draining the fields.

Airdrop Supplies
On both Hell's Corners and Oosterbeek, Allied commanders can now request a supply drop from a C-47. Using the same markers as artillery these supply drops will contain weapons for players to pick up and use. As well as becoming an ammo resupply point on the map. They are faction specific weapons and generally contain a lot of automatic weaponry.

Game Changes

Fixed Normal/bump map on the G43.
Adjusted MG42 and MG34 hipfiring recoil.
Increased Jeep acceleration and maximum speed. It now performs better in the lower gears.
Fixed the M2HB textures.
Fixed clipping in the commander view of the stug when you looked to the right hand side.
Removed the "Axis/Japanese suppression resistance bonus" from Rising storm which also affected the Germans in HOTW.
Fixed British levelling bonuses meaning they should now be in line with the other HOTW factions in terms of stats.

Map Changes

Oosterbeek

Adjusted Spawn Protection for Axis once A/B are captured
Added some missing Covernodes
Modifed coloring of the environment
Added Ammo Paradrop for Allies

Elsenborn

Modified Allies Spawn Protection for Objective C
Fixed Ground Collision near Objective B Bunker
Added more elevated Firing Positions for US in Final Objective trenches

Foy

Adjusted Lighting and Sky
Adjusted Fog
Added more Cover nodes
Split Intitial Allies Spawn zone into 3
Opened some houses behind A and B
Moved spawn 1 for allies closer to D when E, F, G active
Adjusted G cap zone size for easier entry
Added guardrails to stairways in some buildings
Raised Tickets for both teams significantly
Adjusted german spawns for the early objectives

Ardennes Assault Hotfix

December 23, 2016 - Commander Shepard | 3 Comments

The Heroes of the West Team is pleased to announce a hotfix to the Ardennes Assault Content Update released last week. We have been listening to the community and are happy to release this update of balancing adjustments and also address several bugs. The changes are listed below.

As always, please allow servers time to update and if you join a server that begins to download content to your PC, press F10 to cancel and try another server. We welcome feedback and questions on our Steam Community Forums or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/Twx24zZ

Foy Changes:
German spawns for A/B moved back
Increased spawn protection for Allies in A/B cap zone
Now A,B, C and D lock if they are captured.
Increased spawn time for Stug III
Changed map time from 27 minutes to 30
Adjusted no artillery area's
Added more tickets for both teams
Increased maximum spawn time for axis to 21 second max
Decreased maximum spawn time for allies to 17 second max
Adjusted spawn protection near E, so Allies can now flank from behind.
Added ladders to the Foy church tower
Allied artillery cooldown is now 3:20 minutes versus 6 minutes for germans.

Other Changes:
Added Jeep sounds
Added Jeep kill icons
Made the M2HB hit detection serverside for armour penatration calculations
M2HB will now damage vehicles
M4A3 Sherman 3rd person engine volume lowered.
Raised Damage for the M2HB to be more likely to kill infantry.
Bazooka smoke trail made thicker.

Fixes:
Fixed Config file error's
Fixed one map tip for Foy
Fixed bazooka backblast being tied to the end of the bazooka
Fixed dismemberment for the M2HB.
Fixed M1919 sights aligned with the fired round properly.
Fixed double recon plane on Saint come du mont.