And to visualize it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAnuWkmxwXs

Main features

• 650+ land/sea/air vehicles, probably one of the biggest mods ever created by now
• 130 maps featuring huge tank battles with 30+ tanks, naval combat with big fleets, pure air battles including heavy bombers or even everything at once!
• revised damage system with angle mod and different ammo types
• largely improved vehicle and airplane physics
• new hand weapon animations
• great naval combat with battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and PT boats
• amazing ambient sound and light effects

Installation

*click here*


Server



Be aware that you'll only find people there on specific times! Fight nights on Friday to Sunday evenings (European time) and events on Saturday/Sunday. Both start at:

17:00 - UTC
20:00 - 8 pm Eastern Europe
19:00 - 7 pm Central Europe
18:00 - 6 pm BST Britain
14:00 - 2 pm Buenos Aires
13:00 - 1 pm East Coast USA
12:00 - 12 pm Central USA
10:00 - 10 am Pacific USA

On fight nights or events there are usually 20 to 30 people on the server, sometimes even during the week, check the server history for details. To get an impression here's a video that was recorded during one of the last events: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWKg_B1awD0

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2) What about spare parts: Did tanks back in WW2 carry for example new optics and glasses/mirrors for viewports as spare parts? Or could you get this only at maintenance units? How easy was it for a crew to change your destroyed optics for a new one? And how many "test" shots do you need to adjust them?

In this video you can see the commander of a Panther replacing some vision blocks in a combat situation: http://youtu.be/-4JQbgccR4Y?t=2m31s

A bit later in the video the driver does the same.

I don't care about towable AT guns anymore, I want a towable plow for my tractor now.

Haven't played much but I love the new MG cover system and reload animations... FHSW will always be awesome, but it's a shame there is almost no European audience for it.

I also love these animations more than all the new vehicles (with the exception of the Luchs maybe ). I hope some Europeans give it a chance and try it out, but that's what we hope with every release..

@ww2fighter20: SP appears to be completely broken now, the maps simply crash when you try to load them. 

Pics explaining the reworked tank system and changelog (English version at the bottom): http://wbmuse.blog89.fc2.com/blog-entry-183.html#more


Installation

1) Battlefield 1942 patched to 1.61b
Patch 1.6 (268 MB)
Patch 1.6 to 1.61b (6 MB)

2) Forgotten Hope 0.7
Part 1 (689 MB)
Part 2 (686 MB)
Part 3  (694 MB)

3) FH Fan-Mappack 6 (required for some maps)
Download (506 MB)

4) Forgotten Hope Secret Weapon 0.5
Your must delete your old installation of FHSW first by simply deleting the folders "FHSW" and "STFHSW" from ..\EA Games\Battlefield 1942\Mods\
Part 1 (1338 MB)
Part 2 (1516 MB)
There is a Windows 7 and widescreen fix included in this installer, make sure you run FHSW with admin rights and without any compatibility mode on.


Servers

Europe/NA

Join at European evening/night time, preferably on weekends
Site: http://fhsw-europ.ucoz.de/

Asia/NA

Join at Japanese evening/night time any day, guaranteed full or close to full server

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As we played it on the server we found quite a lot of bugs but considering that they're a pretty small team and the gargantuan amount of vehicles (about 650 now) it's understandable. They're working on a hotfix at the moment. The new reload animations are absolutely unique for Bf1942 and worth the download alone.

Hi,

1) go to ..\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\fh2\ai and open aidefault.ai with notepad
2) change the number after aiSettings.setMaxNBots to increase the amount of bots, this line occurs twice in this file, change the one that is further down (because it's not correctly rem'd out I think)
3) save and close
4) run fh2

Really sweet update, guys. I enjoyed every minute so far.