Red Orchestra: Darkest Hour: Normandy 1944

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Darkest Hour: Normandy 1944 is a tactical first person shooter total conversion for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 based on the events on the Normandian battlefields starting on D-Day.

Pilot release will have Omaha beach and all of the D-Day breakouts attempts by the Allied forces.

[edit] Maps planned for release 1

  • Pegasus Bridge
  • Sainte-Mere-Eglise
  • Pointe du Hoch
  • Les Mesnil Patry
  • Villers-Bocage
  • Battle of Carpiquet

[edit] Leaked

On April 15 Darkest Hour's private FTP server was hacked and a older build of Darkest Hour mod was stolen, Aeneas2020, the mod creator posted this on the forum:

"Dear Red Orchestra Community, After posting last night about our website I have some sad and disturbing news to report. Someone hacked into the Darkest Hour ftp and stole one of our older builds. This build has since been posted on torrent sites and many of you are downloading it.


To those of you who did this I would like to say on a personal level that you clearly have no respect for the huge amount of time myself and my team have put into this project. Your desire to play DH has now meant that you may have delayed us getting it to you as you have done untold damage to the ftp. This is the lowest form of thuggery and human behavior and I personally will not rest until we have found out and reported those who did this to the correct authorities. Many of the developers including myself feel that we have taken a lot of flak (including death threats sent to me personally and 2 weeks ago we had a bomb threat on our website) in recent months and I have spent the majority of the day talking people out of leaving DH and moving onto other projects. You only had three or four weeks to wait and now you may have ruined it for everyone who waited and worked so patiently on DH.


To those of you considering downloading these torrents: I cannot vouch for any of the content or viruses that may have been implanted into the software. More importantly by downloading this stolen content you are helping to endorse this behavior and we will not treat you with any kindness and respect if you are to post bugs or screenshots here or elsewhere. I must remind you that this is an older build and does not represent the final quality of DH. Therefore we will not be responding to any comments about this leaked software and will treat anyone reporting or posting on it as the source of the leak and press charges to the full extent of the law (it should also go without saying that anyone taking content from this build and posting it before DH releases or as their own work will have similar treatment).


We have always tried to be open with everyone here about Darkest Hour and this has shocked and upset everyone involved. If you want to download the torrents that is fine by us but I can assure you that what you are downloading is not the final product and we hope that loyal fans will abstain. During this time I appreciate any support we receive in finding these people and even just letting the other guys in the dev team know that you are still looking forwards to DH.



Sincerely, Aeneas2020 DH Project Leader"

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