The Red Tide/Blitzkrieg Challenge

Hello Eastern Front fans,

We proudly announce a special mode for Angoville map on the incoming 1.24 patch, The Red Tide/Blitzkrieg Challenge, created for Eastern Front; it has a sole objective: to hold your base with the time given, against the hostile waves of infantry and tanks that the enemy will send to rip you and your base.

You can choose between play the challenge at Normal or Speed Mode.

You can select up to three difficulty settings: Rookie, Veteran or Hardened.

If you select Normal Mode you will defend your base against enemy raids at normal speed with moderate resources.

If you select Speed Mode, you'll defend your base against the enemy on a faster environment: the speed of the game will be tweaked depending of the chosen difficult. You will earn huge resources with this mode, of course, on easy you will receive more than in hardened. But the AI will have a boost as well.

The time you must hold depends of the difficult as well, but is the same in both modes. For Rookie the timer starts from 15 minutes, Veteran lasts for 20 minutes and Hardened 25 minutes long.

As well in Speed Mode, if you choose Rookie the game speed is 3 times faster than normal. Veteran is 6 times faster. Hardened is 9 times faster. Your mission is to hold your base, that's it.




We also apologies for the lack of updates - news or release; but real life is unpredictable, and we all do try and live it.
Nonetheless, 1.24 is in the works and will contain further balance improvements to the game; changes in gameplay; and you can expect an interesting twist...

Last edited November 14, 2010 at 6:04 PM by blackbishop

Endurance mode + EF = AWW YEAH!!  ;D

I wish this mode was available in more maps, but I guess that isn't possible.

Quoteand you can expect an interesting twist...

Ostheer? New reward units? a new mode maybe?

In this new upgrade, my problem will be regulated ? (I have deceleration - Maybe the fault of my graphic card ATI and his last upgrade ?)

Looks... Weird...

Possibly a great release to prepare us for 1.24?

Hell yeah!

And where can I obtain this mode?

Last edited November 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM by Cranialwizard

The Red Tide/Blitzkrieg Challenge? Sounds like Stonewall to me.
What will germans buy for fuel if vet is gainable? They gont have BARs, Stickies, 76mm guns or a Supply Center or the Soviet Armory so I guess the teching system will be changed a bit.

"Hardened is 9 times faster." - This means the PAK fireing rate will be 3 shells per second.  :o

is this for the 1.24 update or can i download it somewhere now?

So how do I get this mode?

Guys, it's an annoncement, meaning it's not yet released! Be patient or become patients (surgery ones, that is)

It's not like Stonewall. I already can say that you will get bashed the first time you play it on Rookie but you'll see. After the first time it's getting really funny :D.

It's planned to go live with the 1.24 release.

This sounds amazing. Keep the Ostheer movin!

walki1 wrote:
It's not like Stonewall. I already can say that you will get bashed the first time you play it on Rookie but you'll see. After the first time it's getting really funny :D.

Indeed.

Awesome guys!! Thanks!!  8)

...what reaction are u w8ing?  ;)
of course THANK U DEVS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..... why Angoville  ???

Because it's a good 1vs1 map.

XD very nice guys, tower defense for Eastern Front..  ;D
what do you mean with "it's getting funny after the first time playing it"?

I guess: at the first time you are getting wiped out in seconds, so then you have fun trying to make up your defences.

blackbishop wrote:
Because it's a good 1vs1 map.

... yes, it's good 1v1 map.... but why ONLY Angoville  ???
I mean it's really good map, but there is plenty of them. And why only 1v1? Couldn't it be possible on 2v2 maps? like Pointe du Hoc?

I think this mode deserved its own map, An trenched area, hilltop, reinforced village ETC for it to really come out as an gamemode. Im sure theres lots of ppl who would find it funny to play alongside with freinds also.

For me an normal 1v1 map dosent give the same "defendstyle" feel that a custom map design for this purpose would give.

anyway just my few cents. KEEP UP the good work.

A quick question:
Will the AI have unlimited pop, significantly more, slightly more, or the same? My computer can barely run 2v2 offline. I'm hoping it wont crash my computer.

In the current build, you are forced to 60 pop, the AI is around 90 pop.

cephalos wrote:
I guess: at the first time you are getting wiped out in seconds, so then you have fun trying to make up your defences.

blackbishop wrote:
Because it's a good 1vs1 map.

... yes, it's good 1v1 map.... but why ONLY Angoville  ???
I mean it's really good map, but there is plenty of them. And why only 1v1? Couldn't it be possible on 2v2 maps? like Pointe du Hoc?

Well, perhaps on other update this will be possible... but think of this as a new beta mode...

Maybe you could host a mapping contest (somewhere in the future) for a map designed for this game mode? Im sure theres alot of talented mappers around this forum who would contribute with something, I would love making a map for you myself (when i have time), so this gamemode will be a 100% EF feeling. 

I would also contribute a map to the contest.
I think this is a nice idea Snug.

yeah that's a great idea! i would love to contribute too, but i just don't know how to make good maps lol

Lol! Just looked at moddb.com and your mod is the most popular mod. Everytime you guys release new stuff, other mods don´t stand a chance!  ;D

Killar wrote:
Lol! Just looked at moddb.com and your mod is the most popular mod. Everytime you guys release new stuff, other mods don´t stand a chance!  ;D

Lol!!!
Indeed... now you mention it...

Killar wrote:
Lol! Just looked at moddb.com and your mod is the most popular mod. Everytime you guys release new stuff, other mods don´t stand a chance!  ;D

In this special case, quality means quantity, the quality of the mod makes a quantity of hungry RTS-gamers the mouths water.  ;D
I think a good choice for a future 2v2 Red Tide/Blitzkrieg Challenge may be this map: http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=4324.0
It has a "we fight to survive" atmosphere and is suitable because of its longish form. The ruin of the castle or whatever it is ought to present is also a nice location for it.

yes i agree it really gives this feeling of endurance mode
but what i would really love is a hilltop fortified position like
the british campaign where you defend a hill

Hmm hope you guys looked at the screenshots...
You only defend your base sector and you are also able to capture points on the map which you will lose very fast again :D.

But It could be played on any map (hopefully (expect Lyon and Best))

walki1 wrote:
Hmm hope you guys looked at the screenshots...
You only defend your base sector and you are also able to capture points on the map which you will lose very fast again :D.

But It could be played on any map (hopefully (expect Lyon and Best))

Hell yeah!! ;D

Looks nice, was yearning for something alike!
So, when is the premiere scheduled?
...
And, of course, triple hurray to the Devs!!!

Last edited November 11, 2010 at 7:48 AM by IJoe

Whats wrong with Best?

Seeme wrote:
Whats wrong with Best?

He said expect not except ;).

Oh Ok

Ops sorry I mean except

Best = hardcore blocking & camping

same for Lyon. You could easily just repair the footbridge to the fuel point make a barracks and blow up the bridge again...

Last edited November 11, 2010 at 1:52 PM by walki1

Yeah walki youre right, Lyon and Best are much too easy to defend, only blow up the bridges and wait until 15 minutes are over. Thats no challenge.

I didn't played on best yet(is it the same map that the mission on the campaign?), but imo lyon could work as a decent 'guinea pig' map, just for testing purposes (the few times i play on lyon is because of that); besides that I always use Angoville :).

My 2 cents on "custom maps" for this mode:

They should be "Brest Fortress" for Blitzkrieg Challenge and Zeelow Heights (or Prokhorovka) for Red Tide respectively.

Mappers, try these ideas ;)

Or how about a new, more defense-oriented Berlin map? perfect for a last stand on the Reichstag

Happycat wrote:
Or how about a new, more defense-oriented Berlin map? perfect for a last stand on the Reichstag.

I was thinking on that map too :).

QuoteThey should be "Brest Fortress" for Blitzkrieg Challenge

I'm already working on it but for something different you'll see.

Well I can do that Berlin Map.. Road to Reichstag^^ (A road blockes by lot of debris and parts of destroyed buildings, a headquarter in the front of the reichstag, and the russians coming down the famous road "unter den linden").

Any map with destructable bridges would be great, Achelous River is also a great one, so is Seine River Docks.

No! no way! It's not really challenging to play Achelous River isn't it?

Hardcore blocking....

Bridges would destroy any sense of this game mode. Seriously.

walki1 wrote:
No! no way! It's not really challenging to play Achelous River isn't it?

Hardcore blocking....

Indeed. Just make sure your bridges are destroyed and the game will be over in less time than you might imagine.

At least tanktraps & barbed wire are disabled.  :)

walki1 wrote:
At least tanktraps & barbed wire are disabled.  :)

why