LA_MERC_Diesel
April 2nd, 2003, 07:37 AM
.3 release woot....AC130 time!
tidbits from www.desertcombat.com (http://www.desertcombat.com)
The DesertCombat team is pleased to announce the third major public alpha of DesertCombat will be available April 5th. If you are a fileplanet subscriber, a pre-release of .3 will be available on April 2nd. Make sure you visit FilePlanet for more details. Since the first and second test was so successful, we were able to get valuable feedback and bug reports to make this mod even better, Thank you so much for the support, feedback and donations.
Public Alpha 0.3 features a slew of bug fixes and additions aimed at creating one of the best war game experiences on the PC. In this stage of development each is roughly balanced with some minor advantages to each, making gameplay much more fun and exciting.
.3 Public Release Weapons and Vehicles
** This is not the complete or final list, this is only what is available for the public alpha and more will follow in the next alpha release.
US
Land
• M1A1 Heavy Tank
• M2A3 Light Tank
• MLRS Mobile rocket truck
• Humvee with a .50 cal machine gun and Supplies
• Humvee with a Tow launcher
• M163 Vulcan Mobile AntiAircraft
• M-109 Mobile Artillery *
Air
• A-10 Thunderbolt II
• A-10 Thunderbolt II Bomber *
• F-16
• AH-64 Attack Helicopter
• UH-60 Blackhawk Transport Helicopter *
• AV8b Harrier *
• AC-130 Gunship *
Hand Weapons
• M16A2 Assault Rifle
• New MP5 sub machine gun *
• M9 handgun
• Remington Shotgun
• SMAW rocket launcher
• M249 Machine Gun
• M25 Sniper Rifle
• C4
• M15 LandMine *
• Deployable SandBags *
• Deployable Mortar *
IRAQ
Land
• T-72 Heavy Tank
• Shilka Mobile Antiaircraft
• BDRM2 (amphibious)
• BM21 Multiple launch rocket truck
• M-1974 Amphibious Artillery *
• SCUD Launcher *
• Stationary ZPU anitaircraft machine gun *
Air
• Mig29
• SU-25 Ground Attack Plane *
• M124d Hind attack Helicopter *
Hand Weapons
• AK-47
• AK7-SU
• Browning Hipo Handgun
• RPG7
• Saiga12k Shotgun
• PKM Heavy Machine gun
• Scorpion sub machine gun
• Tabuk Sniper Rifle
• C4 *
• M15 LandMine *
• Deployable Mortar *
• Suicide Bomber *
• Deployable SandBags *
Misc. weapons
• Maverick Missiles
• AMRAAM missiles
• Hellfire missiles
• Hyrda missiles
• MK83 large Bombs *
• SnakeEye Bombs *
• SCUD Rockets *
• AS-7 Bombs *
* New in DesertCombat .3
.3 Public New Features
DesertCombat now has 6 new classes to choose from,
Sniper
Assault
Heavy Gunner
Anti Armor
Support
Spec Ops
These new classes have a wide range of new abilities, including the ability to create mortars anywhere on the battlefield for any soldier to use or create sandbag walls to hide behind in the middle of a battle.
.3 Public New Maps
DesertComabt .3 comes with a few new maps, One of which is DC’s own DC Battle of 73 Eastings, an intense tank battle map. More maps are coming soon. In the meantime, we have mad over 5 new maps from the exisiting BattleField 1942 maps, These variations are called Day 2 – Day 3. Day 2 means = less airpower, Day 3 = land war only. This allows players who want to play without to much airpower in the air.
tidbits from www.desertcombat.com (http://www.desertcombat.com)
The DesertCombat team is pleased to announce the third major public alpha of DesertCombat will be available April 5th. If you are a fileplanet subscriber, a pre-release of .3 will be available on April 2nd. Make sure you visit FilePlanet for more details. Since the first and second test was so successful, we were able to get valuable feedback and bug reports to make this mod even better, Thank you so much for the support, feedback and donations.
Public Alpha 0.3 features a slew of bug fixes and additions aimed at creating one of the best war game experiences on the PC. In this stage of development each is roughly balanced with some minor advantages to each, making gameplay much more fun and exciting.
.3 Public Release Weapons and Vehicles
** This is not the complete or final list, this is only what is available for the public alpha and more will follow in the next alpha release.
US
Land
• M1A1 Heavy Tank
• M2A3 Light Tank
• MLRS Mobile rocket truck
• Humvee with a .50 cal machine gun and Supplies
• Humvee with a Tow launcher
• M163 Vulcan Mobile AntiAircraft
• M-109 Mobile Artillery *
Air
• A-10 Thunderbolt II
• A-10 Thunderbolt II Bomber *
• F-16
• AH-64 Attack Helicopter
• UH-60 Blackhawk Transport Helicopter *
• AV8b Harrier *
• AC-130 Gunship *
Hand Weapons
• M16A2 Assault Rifle
• New MP5 sub machine gun *
• M9 handgun
• Remington Shotgun
• SMAW rocket launcher
• M249 Machine Gun
• M25 Sniper Rifle
• C4
• M15 LandMine *
• Deployable SandBags *
• Deployable Mortar *
IRAQ
Land
• T-72 Heavy Tank
• Shilka Mobile Antiaircraft
• BDRM2 (amphibious)
• BM21 Multiple launch rocket truck
• M-1974 Amphibious Artillery *
• SCUD Launcher *
• Stationary ZPU anitaircraft machine gun *
Air
• Mig29
• SU-25 Ground Attack Plane *
• M124d Hind attack Helicopter *
Hand Weapons
• AK-47
• AK7-SU
• Browning Hipo Handgun
• RPG7
• Saiga12k Shotgun
• PKM Heavy Machine gun
• Scorpion sub machine gun
• Tabuk Sniper Rifle
• C4 *
• M15 LandMine *
• Deployable Mortar *
• Suicide Bomber *
• Deployable SandBags *
Misc. weapons
• Maverick Missiles
• AMRAAM missiles
• Hellfire missiles
• Hyrda missiles
• MK83 large Bombs *
• SnakeEye Bombs *
• SCUD Rockets *
• AS-7 Bombs *
* New in DesertCombat .3
.3 Public New Features
DesertCombat now has 6 new classes to choose from,
Sniper
Assault
Heavy Gunner
Anti Armor
Support
Spec Ops
These new classes have a wide range of new abilities, including the ability to create mortars anywhere on the battlefield for any soldier to use or create sandbag walls to hide behind in the middle of a battle.
.3 Public New Maps
DesertComabt .3 comes with a few new maps, One of which is DC’s own DC Battle of 73 Eastings, an intense tank battle map. More maps are coming soon. In the meantime, we have mad over 5 new maps from the exisiting BattleField 1942 maps, These variations are called Day 2 – Day 3. Day 2 means = less airpower, Day 3 = land war only. This allows players who want to play without to much airpower in the air.