As the old thread got closed, because of - well - private chatting, I decided to start a new one.
As news are rare at the moment, I want to start with a summary. What do we know about the next patch, especially the BotB content as Russia is very far out. I mean the already shown stuff, as well as for example the maps and names spotted on the test server. And some speculations, what is missing and a "must have".
Since the last patch was shown:
- Jagdpanther
- Sherman Jumbo (76 and 75mm)
- M24 Chaffee
- M1919A6
- Jagdpanzer IV
- Eihandgranate
- Sd.Kfz. 250/3 Command Vehicle
- german playermodels in wintercamo
- Some Mapscreen of Botb
- M1903A1 Springfield rifle
- M9 Bazooka
- Leuchtpistole 34
- Fiat 626
- Hetzer
Is there still something very very important missing? A weapon, a tank? The most important thing are the US winterskins, which need to be done or better to say, finished and shown to us.
The next list will contain the names of maps, which were spotted on the testserver (a Part of this list is taken by a list made by Kelmola in the old thread):
- Kuuterselka
- Crimea 1944
- Gold Beach
- Ste. Mere Eglise
- overlord
- Meuse River 1944
- bastogne
- Foy
- Hürtgen Forest
- Battle at Puffendorf
- Vossenack
- Eppeldorf 1944
That are some Maps related to the Eastern front, the next 3 maps are maps related to normandy (Ok, the overlord map seems to be a testmap and comes up for years now.)
Then there are maps, which seems to portray to the BotB fighting. The last maps are related to the Hürtgenwald battle, which is already german territory.
I will finish my post with some speculating.
One of the map sreenshots, which was shown in the january news, has some similarities to kettcars signature. So I guess: One map might be done by kettcar:
![](http://www.abload.de/img/fhforumbanner3ufsl.jpg)
![](http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/screenshotsfh2/news/110117x/map03.gif)
Next I remember there was a "hurtgen forrest"-thread in the modding section. The screenshots on the january update made me remember that. The map shown in the moddings section contained a forrest with a lot of fortifications and even some special statics, like westwall bunkers. In a short search I couldnt find the thread anymore, nearly all evidence in the public part of the forums are gone. But I found a thread, where torenico asked what to do next (Hürtgen was an option) and in the "battle of aachen"-thread he showed a very WIP of such a bunker. Next he said, he want to redo his "battle-of-aachen" map.
Very, very WIP sreenshot of a bunker made by terenico, 1 year old. The ones from the hurtgenforrest map, looked different and were more or less finished.
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1424/r503rndr.jpgMy randomn guess: The hurtgen forrest map from the modding section had enough potential, so it got moved to the internal forums and might be one of the maps of the release.
Thats it, I hope this thread will not be closed because of chatting. I hope we can summarize all the infos, which are written between the lines and such, as we got a lack of news at the moment.
Oberst
PS: I nearly forgot, the tank warfare will be reworked, which was said somewhere in the suggestion forums.