"The Darkest Hour Team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Darkest Hour to Steam!
New Items
* Added a "Simple HUD Colours" checkbox to the game's HUD settings, which sets the team colours back to Red/Blue for colourblind players (and people who really hate green/gold)
* C96 M712 Mauser
* Fixed Red and Orange Smoke Grenades for use in marking locations and rally points, can be carried simultaneously with other grenades. Only one rally point can be active at a time however and the last grenade thrown/binoculars marked will take precedence.
* Added Mantling.
* New tank - M36 Jackson "Slugger"
* New tank - Panzer III Ausf. N
New Maps
* Dog Green (A condensed re-release of the old Beta map)
* Freynaux and La Mormenil
* Hurtgenwald (Back by popular demand)
* La Chappelle
* La Monderie
* Noville
New Features
* Improved track damage model
o Hit areas are now better defined.
o Frontal and aft shots now have a possibility to take out tracks.
* Additional component damage:
o Locational hits to the turret can disable traverse, or affect gun elevation.
o Locational hits to the turret can cook off shells in turret ready racks.
o Locational hits to driver's area can damage control or "disable" tank.
* Improved crew damage model
o Crewmen can now take fire damage (hot, hot!)
o Hull gunners can now be struck by penetrating shots (damage to drivers and commanders added previously)
* Added rider positions to the following tanks:
o Sherman M4A1 75mm
o Sherman M4A1 76mm
o Sherman Firefly
o Panzer III series
o Panzer IV series
* New ammunition icon art for Allied tanks
The entirety of the change list can be viewed on the forums here and here!
We are very pleased with this release and we hope that you will be too! We are indebted to the effort of our testing team and the continuous support of the community as a whole. We can not thank you enough!