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[Panzerfire]

I've never got to play the Falklands mini mod when it was out a few years ago. Looking forward to finally be able to play the servers playing these maps ^_^

[Rhino]

Deep, deep inside me I am praying that 1.4 will be released this Saturday, 2nd of April, the date 14 years ago that the Falkland war officially started.

But then reality strikes and it is probably way to soon?.. June 14th then? Ending of the war and 14 years ago, would be a nice combo.

haha. That was actually my initial release planned date a few months ago for that reason for v1.4, with also releasing the news of its release date, the day before

But unfortunately r/l stuff (and now EDH) getting in the way, with also things taking far longer to finish than I had previously anticipated, so ye, release date has been pushed back quite a lot now.

I've never got to play the Falklands mini mod when it was out a few years ago. Looking forward to finally be able to play the servers playing these maps ^_^

Was played for quite a bit of time back in its initial releases, although in the later days of v0.98, not so much, but ye I think many servers will be wanting to run the latest version quite a bit. Raklodder said recently after he joined the testing team "The more I play the Falklands maps, the more I'm falling in love with it", or something along those lines, our IM programs chat history doesn't go back that far to get a direct quote

[Valmont]

This video gave me a few Ideas for the Argentine WW2 ship:

ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982.

Previously named USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold to Argentina. The vessel was the second to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The first vessel was a 7,069-ton armoured cruiser completed in 1899.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzEcRtQ4ws

Also... check the working instruments on the airplanes...

[mries]

14 years?

*34

2016 - 1982 = 34

Oops, was a bit to enthousiastic

[Rhino]

This video gave me a few Ideas for the Argentine WW2 ship:

ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982.

Previously named USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold to Argentina. The vessel was the second to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770?1820). The first vessel was a 7,069-ton armoured cruiser completed in 1899.

Interesting, I didn't know it was a former USN Cruiser that was even launched before the US got involved in WW2, let alone was herself involved in WW2.

I've also been slightly puzzled why HMS Conquer sank the Belgrano rather than at least one of the two (British made) Type 42 destroyers escorts, which where the real threat since they where the ones that had the MM38 Exocet Anti-Ship Missile Launchers on them, but I guess the bigger Belgrano had a bigger political impact and possibly the destroyers had better countermeasures.

[pedrooo14]

Interesting, I didn't know it was a former USN Cruiser that was even launched before the US got involved in WW2, let alone was herself involved in WW2.

I've also been slightly puzzled why HMS Conquer sank the Belgrano rather than at least one of the two (British made) Type 42 destroyers escorts, which where the real threat since they where the ones that had the MM38 Exocet Anti-Ship Missile Launchers on them, but I guess the bigger Belgrano had a bigger political impact and possibly the destroyers had better countermeasures.

Probably the main reason to choose the Belgrano instead of the Type 42 destroyers was because these were protected by the 25 de Mayo carrier, with his anti-submarine aircraft (I don't remember the name) Who constantly take off and attack brittish submarine incursions. (Even more, there is a registered explosion of a anti-submarine missile, but the hour and place do not match with brittish submarine binnacles, maybe russian? Meanwhile the Belgrano group was more obsolet and weak. More like an easy prey.

[Rhino]

Probably the main reason to choose the Belgrano instead of the Type 42 destroyers was because these were protected by the 25 de Mayo carrier, with his anti-submarine aircraft (I don't remember the name) Who constantly take off and attack brittish submarine incursions. (Even more, there is a registered explosion of a anti-submarine missile, but the hour and place do not match with brittish submarine binnacles, maybe russian? Meanwhile the Belgrano group was more obsolet and weak. More like an easy prey.

Ahh turns out your right, the two Type 42s the Argentines had, where part of the Carrier Battle Group, escorting the 25 de Mayo carrier. I had assumed that these where the destroyers protecting the Belgrano since the "20th Century Battlefields" documentary on the Falklands War just sates the southern battlegroup as being the more threatening one, since its destroyer escrots had MM38 Exocets on them, and I knew the Argentine version of the Type 42 had exocets on them, from 7:10secs in, but so it turns out so did the four Allen M. Sumner class destroyers the Argentine had, two of which where escorting the Belgrano (other two I'm guessing where in port?). So ye, that documentary is obvious wrong on that point with the southern one being the more threatening, since obvious the 25 de Mayo carrier battle group to the north, not only had two more powerful destroyers escorting it with the same amount of eoxcets, with also longer range cannon and better air defence weapons (Sea Dart did pretty well when in open waters, just bad when surrounded by hills, blocking radar lock ) but also it had the Carrier in range to launch its A-4s, and it had the three covets just behind, each also armed with 4 exocets each.

So ye, obvious reason the Conquer attacked the Belgrano, was mainly for political reasons then, and possibly the destoyers that where left to the south turned back with possibly fearing of air attack since from what I can see, they had little to no air defence weapons and where the Belgrano had the bulk of them, with the carrier battle group also probably turning back, not only fear from submarine attack (although I'm not aware of any subs trailing it) and from iirc, ship having issues with its catapults and not able to launch its aircraft in the bad weather, but going from memory here.

[Valmont]

Yeah but Rinho did you even watched the video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzEcRtQ4ws

It is Forgoten something with a fully operational WW2 Navy light cruiser (support weapons and all).

Maybe instead of you doing all the heavy lifting we could buy this asset from them.

PS: I will give you the money!

PS2: In fact I want to buy all the assets from Forgoten Hope and its sub mods for the PR team to use, specially those building interiors that look so sexy.

Will they sell for like USD 100?... I would go as much as 200!

[Panzerfire]

Hold on, do they actually sell those? o.O

[Valmont]

Hold on, do they actually sell those? o.O

I don't know but we waste nothing by asking nicely... right?

I mean... I know they refused to give it for free...

[Rhino]

Yeah but Rinho did you even watched the video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzEcRtQ4ws

It is Forgoten something with a fully operational WW2 Navy light cruiser (support weapons and all).

Maybe instead of you doing all the heavy lifting we could buy this asset from them.

PS: I will give you the money!

PS2: In fact I want to buy all the assets from Forgoten Hope and its sub mods for the PR team to use, specially those building interiors that look so sexy.

Will they sell for like USD 100?... I would go as much as 200!

I didn't actually realise that was on FH2, did watch bits of it but thought it was FH1

It also looks like it is FH1 stuff imported to FH2/BF2. But ye, pretty interesting.

[Rabbit]

Surprise question, Goose Green?

[Mineral]

Fixing floaters etc. Should be good to go. Removed night layer though, can't find proper sky texture/sky settings that allow for full moon.

[Rabbit]

yussssssss

[WhatTheHell]

Fixing floaters etc. Should be good to go. Removed night layer though, can't find proper sky texture/sky settings that allow for full moon.

Can'T find the skybox?

Its easy, Take a picture of the full moon with a camera, Then edit it in Photoshop..

A night sky is just black with some white dots, should'nt be too much of a problem?

[camo]

I suspect you've already annoyed him enough darwin. Just give it a rest for a bit.

[happygoogleboy]

Fixing floaters etc. Should be good to go. Removed night layer though, can't find proper sky texture/sky settings that allow for full moon.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo, night rocky hill fighting is a famous falklandsy thing. Oh well.

[LiamNL]

Will there be a grand test event as with 1.0 to test a lot of the new things? Or will it be like patch 1.1 to 1.3xx where we just get a trailer on the release day and dev blogs leading up to it? Would love to get familiar with the ship before it officially hits the servers (My guess is that it will be heavily fought over)

[Rhino]

We will most likely not have any prior testing, and players will just have to fight over it for a few days

[LiamNL]

And what if something happens such as the turret movement dilemma?