July 2018: please tell your friends and family to get the Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 mod for RO1. The game needs more players! Despite it being almost 10 years old, it still gets new updates somewhat regularly thanks for dedicated modders. The most recent update was published earlier July (that was version 8.0.10). It added a couple new constructable pieces; Dragon's Tooth and Vehicle Pool. There were also quite a few smaller adjustments, like how supply caches must now have longer distance between them to prevent "hax" by those who just build instead of fight (it’s like with those types of persons who hunt for welcome bonuses in different gaming platforms by learning how to search the right thing in a foreign language, like for example googling "Suomalainen casino" could find welcome bonuses offered in Finland).
This game was made possible when a developement team won a free license for Unreal Engine 2.5 and the next generation of it, version 3.0, with their modification called Red Orchestra: Combined Arms. Combined Arms was participating in a game contest that nVidia together with Epic Games organized. Winning top prize lead to foundation of Tripwire Interactive in 2005.
Tripwire Interactive’s Red Orchestra: Ostfront Ostfront 41–45 was originally released 14th of March 2006. Ostfront was Tripwire’s first published game. This war game is settled on Eastern front in World War 2. Battles can be fought in Soviet and in German side. Game has infantry maps, tank maps and few maps that combine both types. Latest official update for RO came in Spring 2007. At that time 10 new community made maps were released. Tripwire Interactive had polished them before release. Some of the latest official maps are listed below.
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