Desert Combat .3 release date announced!

[Civilian]

April 5th

AC-130s BABY!

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
� 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 *

Air

� Mig29
� SU-25 Ground Attack Plane *
� M124d Hind attack Helicopter *

Hand Weapons

� AK-47
� AK7-SU
� Browning Hipo Handgun
� RPG7
� 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.


Thanks and I hope you enjoy DesertCombat .3, see you on the battlefield.

Frank DeLise
DesertCombat
Founder

[Civilian]

� Suicide Bomber *

OMG, I just saw that

[Incompetent]

ahem, w00t, been waiting for this for a while, altho i can't believe they sold out to those fileplanet bastards, defenintly makes them look worse to me. Hope it's semi-balanced in this version

[Squeeky]

How'd they sell out to FP?

Edit:Woot im a FP Subscriber, hehe ill tell you guys how it is

[Civilian]

Well, I think it could be much worse than selling out to fileplanet. According to CNN, the team is discussing selling this as an expansion pack:


http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/25/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm


"Desert Combat" is still a work in progress, but more than 250,000 people have already downloaded it. And traffic to the game's official site has increased by roughly 15,000 page views per day since the beginning of the war.

While it currently focuses exclusively on the 1991 Gulf War, team leader Frank DeLise said the game will eventually include missions from Somalia, Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Players can choose to fight for either the U.S. led coalition or the Iraqi side. (Ironically, players from Germany, which opposes the U.S. action, often tend to play as Iraqi soldiers.)

A new version of "Desert Combat" will be released next week and will include new weapons for both sides (including scud missiles and A-10 attack planes) and a mission to find and destroy (or, if you're the Iraqis, defend) a chemical weapons plant.

"Desert Combat", which was overwhelmingly voted last year's most popular mod, is a free download for now, though that might change with future versions.

"We've been approached by multiple publishers to try and sell it," said DeLise, "so it's probably not going to be a mod for long. It'll be more of an expansion pack."

[Dyganth]

Yep, I can see EA buying this and selling it as an expansion, maybe it'll actually be good then.

[OneManArmy]

w00t!!!! /me passes out!!

[Navaron]

April fools anyone? Who knows.

[Navaron]

There's so much cool shit in there, I don't know where to start.

Deployable SandBags *
� Deployable Mortar *Spec Ops
M124d Hind attack Helicopter


GO BUY THIS GAME PEOPLE!

[LesserShade]

:drools: must download. Too bad fileplanet is for fascists

[JonnyK]

Originally posted by Squeeky
How'd they sell out to FP?

Edit:Woot im a FP Subscriber, hehe ill tell you guys how it is

w00t me too :) fileplanet subscriber has it's ups ;D but my battlefield stopped working this morning! i'll have to fix that BS now.

[Squeeky]

Reinstall BF1942

[Doobz]

EA announced today on Gamespot that they will be releasing Desert Combat as an expansion pack. See for yourselves:

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6024279.html

[Derfud]

Man i am gonna own all of you since i am a tester and have already grown adept with all the new toys :)

[NeoTassadar]

Will anyone play as Iraq?

[Derfud]

n00b, iraq has SCUDs, a hind, and suicide bombers, not to mention the stationary AA cannons that are just like shilkas. :)

[Civilian]

Iraq also has the T72, which seems to own the M1A1s. And they spawn about 5 of them on every map, where as the US receives about 1 M1A1 and 3 M2A3s.

EA announced today on Gamespot that they will be releasing Desert Combat as an expansion pack. See for yourselves:

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6024279.html

I'm calling April Fools on this...

[Doobz]

heh, maybe so...

[Derfud]

And on another note, confirming with the devs that file planet will not be the only mirror.

[Doobz]

yeah, but those with fileplanet subscriptions get the thing 3 days early....

somebody here better have a subscription....

[Civilian]

Just check the DC forums tomorrow, I gurantee someone will get it and post it on another site.

[Doobz]

yeah, and the dev team will take down the post, as they entered an exclusivity contract with fileplanet

[Civilian]

Nah, it will take them forever to take it down. Hell, they didn't even bother to take down the post about the leaked .3 beta until it got to 6+ pages.

[Squeeky]

You know the guy who made DC is going to make MUCHO deniro

[Civilian]

Definitely.

DC has made this game infinitely more fun. Without DC, I might not have even bought BF.

[Derfud]

3 days early, it's probably the leak i'd bet

[Civilian]

Read the message about the release. It's not a leak. ;)

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.

[Derfud]

Don't steal my thunder :p