Eastern Front Patch 1.70

Eastern Front fans,

The new version [IP address redacted] has been released! It has been 11 months of development and we have a a lot of changes coming, we also have a couple of new members: DMz and Beefy^ which will help us on the soviet and ostheer fronts of the mod. Now, for some details of what the patch contains:

• The most important achievement from this version is than now Eastern Front has been optimized! Thanks to DMz and Beefy^ now Eastern Front mod will use less resources, which means we expect players get a better experience while playing instead of frequent crashes.


• Soviets now have their own flags in their captured points, which means you won't see that blue flag anymore neither an allied flag. This also applies for Victory Points.


• Soviets now also have new models for their Firebase emplacement and their Outpost.


• Jumbo is no more the reward unit for the Calliope, which means the US faction has one less unit as reward, we might add one more or not in the future, although right now we cannot think of anything that fits.


• New maps, and many changes for the old ones to make sure they stay balanced.


• New weapon models for soviets, courtesy of inukshuk and eliwood.


• Soviets now display stats.

Right now we continue working to finnish the Ostheer assets, but now with the help of DMz & Beefy^ it is possible to release both, Ostheer and the revamped Soviet assets on 2.0!



As this version contains huge changes, it wasn't possible to make a patch version for the launcher, so only the full version will be available for this time. We would like to thank players for all the feedback they gave us and to give an apologize for delaying too much for this patch, but I'm sure it will be worth the delay. Also, thanks to our balancers for giving us a hand to have a better balance.

As most of the players know, Eastern Front balance team is small, so something probably have missed us, so remember to give feedback about how you feel the game, what can be done to be improved, what is wrong with the current balance, etc. Anything that can help us to improve Eastern Front, but don't forget to bring up replays or screenshots, according to the report you will do, to back up your suggestions.

Remember, Ostheer beta is closer, stay tunned and see you in the battlefield!



Thanks for downloading and continue to enjoy,

Eastern Front Development Team

Last edited November 22, 2012 at 9:38 PM by blackbishop

Hrmm that lovely T-34/85 with bedsprings looks very nice... Will that be an available upgrade or come standard on all T-34/85s?

It won't come as standard otherwise they won't be able to use the tank rider ability :)... unless you ignore how weird the infantry will look :P.

Fck the Soviets I am getting Crusaders for RMC

Be aware that Crusaders were a fairly last minute addition and haven't been balanced much yet. They'll be looked into ASAP.

Do the RMC get the possibility of choosing between Achilles and Firefly? I was really hoping to see a return of the Firefly for the RMC. And is it possible to add some extra download locations? Neither of the three listed in this post is working for me...

Oh yes, I forgot: great work!

Last edited November 20, 2012 at 8:01 AM by Nils18

A torrent would be nice.

GJ!  ;D

Great job as always guys, models are looking very nice and shiny. Glad to have the outpost fixed too, loving the model for it [ Great job Walki ] and the firebase. Keep up the wonderful work  :)

I read the info and I am thinking this way - after 1.7 we will see 2.0  :P


This is the best update of the mod for now.
And this means that you guys are on the right way giving better and better gamplay to everyone who love EF mod  8)

Last edited November 20, 2012 at 3:18 PM by Dreamerbg

I personally thank all Balance team one by one who spent their valuable time, worked like crazy day and night just to improve the gameplay to a higher competitive level. They didn't just play the game for fun, took the case seriously like a job, fought each other like hell but for all done for the sake of the game. I'm proud to be part of this guys.

DarcReaver ( change your PC pls ), Killar ( he's a kind of Dexter ), GodlikeDennis ( timezone diff can't stop him ), CranialWizard ( he survived from a tornado ffs ), Glimmerman ( Pizzaboy ) and JBConquerer ( he is not Justin Bieber, really ).

Hope you enjoy the game guys. Don't forget to follow our Twitchtv streams ;)

Last edited November 20, 2012 at 4:11 PM by Riggsman

Thanks Riggs!

I would also thank every balancer for his time and effort which they did put into the soviet faction. Without you there would have been no patch. Also thanks for the propaganda casts and nice games with you Riggs!

yeah i also like to thank all of you guys
you did a great job (like you do with every patch :P)

keep on the good work together
I tip my hat in front of you :D

I just have to download the full version and installed it right? Dont have to uninstall or anything? :O
Downloading right now! I cant play to check it out! That was a really good trailer btw! Good job on that! Loved the jagdtiger making the entrance at the end!

Good job everybody! That you guys are doing this volunteerly without charging for it its just amazing! ( Yeah Iam gonna donate money sometime, I just dont seem to get my paypal to work :P)

Thank you, dear balancers. You did an outstanding job! :D

Nice job on this patch, all round good job. I like the dug out look on the firebase emplacement however its still just a repainted 105, doesn't really look anything like an 122mm A-19 or 152mm ML-20 which kinda set them apart from all the other howitzers of the war, just saying.

Would be nice if you could get a custom model for the actual howitzer itself, not just the emplacement.

The soviet Howie is a M30 howie model. Doesnt look similar to a USA 105 at all. Or you play something different i dunno.

had every game sync error whats the reason for this?

We will fix that as sonn as possible!

I just installed v1.7 over the existing mod and now the launcher is only "gathering information...", nothing more.
I'm not able to play, because the button is grey. I can only LOGIN, which works.
By clicking on VIEW PROGRESS the window gets bigger and nothing happens.
And yes i run the launcher as an admin and yes the directory in the settings is correct.

Any ideas?

Find a file named EF_Launcher_Config in EF directory and open it.
Then change this line Auto_Update=True to Auto_Update=False

I made 2 screenshot to show you were is it :)

Morvagor wrote:
I just installed v1.7 over the existing mod and now the launcher is only "gathering information...", nothing more.
I'm not able to play, because the button is grey. I can only LOGIN, which works.
By clicking on VIEW PROGRESS the window gets bigger and nothing happens.
And yes i run the launcher as an admin and yes the directory in the settings is correct.

Any ideas?

Deactivate "autoupdate" in settings, then restart the launcher

I knew it, worked also last time (i guess it was from 1.5 to 1.6)...
Thx @all.

Riggsman wrote:
I personally thank all Balance team one by one who spent their valuable time, worked like crazy day and night just to improve the gameplay to a higher competitive level. They didn't just play the game for fun, took the case seriously like a job, fought each other like hell but for all done for the sake of the game. I'm proud to be part of this guys.

DarcReaver ( change your PC pls ), Killar ( he's a kind of Dexter ), GodlikeDennis ( timezone diff can't stop him ), CranialWizard ( he survived from a tornado ffs ), Glimmerman ( Pizzaboy ) and JBConquerer ( he is not Justin Bieber, really ).

Hope you enjoy the game guys. Don't forget to follow our Twitchtv streams ;)

We love you too Riggs xD

(You like snipers? Open your ass)

I feel the KV2, very fast, getting slower as they get veteran
and the sniper ace very easy to kill with pumma

Something new I noticed, are the maps with OH instead of EF in front of their names. What is the difference with them?
And secondly, there's a new game mode, DVP. What exactly is this?

Great update, I'm just curious about those two things.

Hi, three friends and I have had a lot of trouble with so far: We had 'Validating Media' problems -which we managed to make a work around with a combination of STEAM files "verify integrity of game cache" for all of COH games on Steam ...and the other two [who do not have a Steam copy] have deleted their my docs game cache for COH.

Now though, we keep getting 'Sync Errors' no matter who hosts the game.

Also: What are the OH maps?

We have figured out what was wrong. We will release a hotfix soon fixing the issues.

These issues were sync errors caused when two or more human players played with one or more AI players(either ally or foe).

When the update is available you will get it through the launcher.

So... Anybody seeding? XD

I'm seeding for... 25 kb/s or less, uploaded about 500 mb so far :P

PS:
For the guys, who's downloading the 1.7 patch by using torrent and from US, please give it up, you're from US for bloody sake. You got great internet connection; moddb and filefront don't limit your IPs. So download from those sites instead.
And anyone got the premium code from speedyshare through SMS? I spent 1.5$ and nothing happened...

Last edited November 22, 2012 at 3:13 AM by Dann88

Ok, so other than those Sync errors; it's a great update. Really keen for the hotfix for that.

I love that the Ruskie sniper can do his job now with out a lot of painful micromanagement. The new skins are great! and I like the conscripts a lot now -not quite as good as the original no Pop-cap cost ones [I loved using a big mob of them to distract the enemy and capture points] but I still think that a 7 pop cost is expensive for how weak they are.

The Observer team is a weird unit... the Flare is cool, but the MU cost is very high. And they don't seem to be making any kills -even against Pioneers. I'll have to experiment a little more with those guys.

I think the Marine Commandos are a very different army now -they are really diverse and interesting, GREAT job! The Crusader is nifty! but I think the 'Hull Down' animation is not working -it just stops moving and the treads on the wheels seem to fade, no sandbags or such being set up.

What are the [OH] maps? -some are very interesting, but every one above 2p is not showing their Thumbnail picture in the map selection.

aaannd speaking of maps: the most important thing is MORE 8 player ones! I play with a bunch of people here in Australia and a good friend in the States -we are all EF junkies and love having big multi-player games. Moaaaar-Maps please!

Every time I show EF to someone they always say how professional it looks and it just keeps getting better; so keep up the good work! Bring on the Ostheer!

Conscripts take up one population each, but also provide one each. That way, they are the same as costing no pop but we also fix the issue of 0pop units not showing squad size correctly.

Observer team will take a lot of balancing because the flare is potentially very abusive, like recon run, since it is an uncouterable detection unlike a jeep or bike etc.

Asking again, for the 3rd (or 4th?) time in this thread, What exactly are the OH maps?

And also, what is the DVP game mode?

I have been downloading for 3 days now <3 70% woooohooo!

iirc rizz uploaded the new fix full patch already

so the current version is 1.701

So then I have been downloading this 1.700 version for nothing. Great! Well at least its gonna feel good to delete it XD


Edit: I did the genius move of deleting it before even looking for the 1.7001 version who doesnt seem to be downloadable atm.

I will recommend myself for the cross of intelligence nobel prize !

Last edited November 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM by Sommarkatze

Please update the links in the update, bish! :P

Does the hotfix patch which is 1.02 gb need the 1.7 patch which is 1.08 gb installed in the computer first?

Dann88 wrote:
Does the hotfix patch which is 1.02 gb need the 1.7 patch which is 1.08 gb installed in the computer first?

Nope. I just uninstalled 1.7 and dl/installed 1.7.1 and it works.

What Riggs said is correct, there was just a bunch of unnecessary files released with 1.7.

So where do I find 1.701 ? Or should I just download teh 1.700 with hotfix from the moddb site?
Sorry If I sound really dumb or anything but this really aint my thing :/

http://www.moddb.com/mods/coheastern-front/downloads/eastern-front-170-full-with-hotfix-1

Hey you know the EF chat box when you first load EF (prior to starting the game). It still doesn't remember your password :(. Can this be fixed

You have to ask Rizz about it. Mumble is also down since weeks.

Can you upload elsewhere the last patch (hotfix). I cant download it from its place atm. :(

I have a suggestion (not a balance or bug issue). When you click mechanics and hover over a tank, the garrison icon appears rather than the repair icon. Can you switch this and make repair the primary option? It would make things a lot easier. It would also remove the surprise you get when you see T-34s with Mechanics rushing in XD

What you are proposing is that mechanics are not allowed to ride tanks unless the unit is at 100% HP or no ride for them at all. I don't think it has nothing wrong with it, just like trying to get a pio squad or engineer squad to repair a Halftrack, that's how all engineers work, so it is fine IMO :).

Pac-Fish wrote:
I have a suggestion (not a balance or bug issue). When you click mechanics and hover over a tank, the garrison icon appears rather than the repair icon. Can you switch this and make repair the primary option? It would make things a lot easier. It would also remove the surprise you get when you see T-34s with Mechanics rushing in XD

Instead of right clicking the Tank for repair, just use the hotkey for repair or select manually from Mechanics task bar. Otherwise they will get on the Tank. It's same if you click rep for a HalfTrack with PE squads, Instead of repairing they will get inside.

So the solution is, choose Repair icon.

btw for all of you who have still problems to download the new patch
here is a new torrent tracker -_Full.exe.torrent.html]http://www.file-upload.net/download-6844091/EF_Setup-[IP address redacted]-_Full.exe.torrent.html

Patch downloaded, got in game with two others. Three quarters through battle and Sync! error -aaargh.

Trying another game now to see if it happens again.