Iron Front: Liberation 1944 - Release date announced
 

Iron Front: Liberation 1944 is a WWII east front tactical game that uses ArmA2 engine :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwNd-y6YlHw


A few screenshots :

http://i43.tinypic.com/2irpu1y.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/rs6aew.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/2ekrz2h.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/23h6ps3.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/xp0tcg.jpg



http://ironfront.deepsilver.com/en/

Damn! Methinks I'll be buying that one.

May 25, 2012

I'm on it been waiting for this for a while!

look like a WWII ARMA i'm on!!!

yeah this IS arma, or at least its Engine. I hope they have possibly made some changes to the animation system that ARMA uses. That is by far the worst part of the game. Well that and that god forsaken use menu lol. The models look good and there are even some aircraft! I'LL pick this one up for sure.

First ive seen of this. My oh my, am I buying it!!!

damn i hate music in gamevideos...

seems i get grounded this summer, except it has a non-arcade FM...

S!

I have been waiting for this one :) Finally a WW2 tank game! Last one that was good was Panzer Elite ages ago. If this Iron Front is more like a sim then good bye World Of Tanks and it's arcade! Planes in it..forget it! Time to roll some heavy steel!

Wow, that first pic with the Airacobras looked real to me until I saw the people.

Pretty impressive lighting on the nose of that twin (is that a Pe-2?)

Wow, sign me up for that one, I know what I'll be playing this summer..and what I won't be if things don't change. wink.

Will this be released in Australia? Looks fantastic and the true colour is something that really catches the eye for me. Will it be online purchase only or in stores aswell? (EB games etc)

Fallschirmjaegers with FG42's and correct pattern splinter smocks? Panthers with Zimmerit? Wow, whats not to like...something to look forward to.

S!

The more I read the more I want it :) Seems the devs of this one have really put time into it :) Hopefully the vehicles are more sim than arcade. Airplanes I do not care of, ARMA engine is not known for it's accurate FM modelling.

Well, it looks like a really cool FPS. I'm liking RO Heros of Stalingrad, but we have never been given much in the way of German Paras except for one of the the call of duty or MOH series way back, even then, they were a small part of the battle, and you couldn't play them in online. This looks very promising. Oh, to boot, the trees dont shimmer and shake.

Definite buy.
LibMod guys did alot of nice addons in the early days so the kind of deserve getting payed this time.
Building some warfare/CTI for this will be fun (unless they've cut off the script ability from standard arma).

I've had my eye on this for quite a while now, nice to see that it's finally going to see the light of day! As some have said, I hope it keeps the scripting abilities of ARMA in it though, since I loved the ability to record the path of a unit to play it back later. If they've kept it in this it means I can go up in a 190, buzz the countryside at treetop height, then replay the path with me as a soldier on the ground and enjoy the sights/sounds. Can't wait either way!

Looks amazing

Count me in! Awesome stuff, thanks Buchon!

I'm going to be on this like white on rice.

I'm presuming you guys dont mod with Arma2, As this just an arma2 mod, paying full game price for a mod? plus all the issues inherant with A2 will be in that too.
Dont forget the engine will be outdated later in the year when A3 comes out anyway.

THATS WHAT I call A FRIDAY UPDATE! :D

O-M-F-G!

I'm sold!

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Here are some screenshots i posted over at simhq awhile back :)



http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...3950c27f3a.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...on_front_3.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...on_front_2.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...7c033a17a8.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...4981d8053b.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...4734b2e33a.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...85e2ae430a.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...09746c73d7.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...d38ea78875.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...3950c27f3a.jpg

http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergal...982ee4ea6a.jpg

Didnt know Arma2 was even being modded, shows you I've been spending a bit too much time following one other game...wink. I will pay for this game, its right up my alley, and it appears that since the user modded and I assume free Arma2 works, best bet is the retail release will as well, that is how RO Heros of Stalingrad started out, a mod of the Unreal engine. This looks fantastic to me, thanks for the outstanding Friday update! May is close, and so is summer accounting for a possible delay. Happy camper!

OMG, those screenshots just keep getting better! Fantastic! Setting as wallpaper! Someone did some real fine work with the skins, historically accurate! The panzer crews, all gear, microphones and throat mikes....superb!

sounds great! might be something to consider . . . thanks for throwing this up






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You know . . . if this was a Cliffs of Dover / Moscow Dev screen shot,

there'd be 10 complaints on the colors,

some on the grass not shimmering right, something about the trees and foliage not matching Polish ecosystem . . .

the guy's eyeballs are modeled incorrectly, his finger pointing doesn't match the internal skeletal fingers of his hand

but since its Iron Front Liberation II / Arma II engine, they can get away with it.


just sayin' (joking)


http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/.../216/7nTnr.png

Since they related to the possible customers worser than MG did (look at the forum, so many questions unanswered) I'm going to wait for reviews.

Until then I'll play I44 mod.

Wrong assumption.
I do mod, as a creator, not only end-user.
As such, I realize what an insane amount of time these guys have put into this.

I have absolutely no issues at all paying for this as I played LibMod alot before when it was "just a free mod" and know they know their stuff around.

I guess you really don't value the work of all the mod-makers in Armaland?
Nothing wrong with that of course but maybe you should try mod something?

exactly...when i scrolled down, the first few seconds i really thought that its a picture and the post therefore a joke in some way.then i realised when i saw the people on it, that it is indeed a computer generated pic.waoh:o

well im not interested in fps games, but the graphics look really stunning

ARMA II with the WWII mod is awesome, really looking forward to this one, great as a squad game.

'im playing Arma2 with I44 mod on. It looks very similar to that one. But I will take a look at it, when it arrive. Yes Arma3 should be out Oktober 2012, but it will take a year or 2 before we see that cind of mods to the new game.

~S~

Agree , it looks like the 144 mod for Arma2. Playing with it while i am waiting for a patch for IL2.. Realy nice mission aditor.
Here is a cool vid, but it got sound added to it. But the video and grapic is nice :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hmLK...eature=related

Looks interesting. Also I might have to look at ARMAII, its pretty cheap on steam.

will be looking forward to get that new game, i have been a hardcore fan of that since OperationFlashpoint1995; so im pretty much sure anything that is made on armaII engine will be good.

Yeahhh I doubt it. If CloD looked this good, had good flight models and could actually be played for more than 45 minutes I'd be very very happy.

I just hope we get a really good Stalingrad map with this game. The tractor fabric, the grain silo... would make my day :)

Wrong Assumption.
I'm an Arma modder too, i mod for my clan not the public. I would never charge money for my mods, also check out the screens its even on Chernarus.
Its not the modding I dissagree with or the hard work thats gone into making it quite the contrary, its the money aspect especially if its full wack game price.
I44 all the way for me.

Anyhow Sorry Buchon i kinda derailed your thread, My apologuies.

Does anyone have an OFFICIAL game site for Liberation 44? I'd like to see more of these screen shots. Thanks. Also, is there an official "arma2 mod" site?

Hello Wandalen, is this utube post you have here from the upcoming retail release or from the amrma2 modded already? I'd really like to get the arma2 and mod it up to this (looks like carentean)....are the in game sounds good? Please let me know, I'll go out TODAY and get arma 2 and modd it up to play this, way cool stuff! thanks..hope to hear from you.

This the best site for Arma series' mod
http://www.armaholic.com/index.php

Liberation '44
http://ironfront.deepsilver.com/en/

Anyway one night we can play i44 together in a private server. Are you guys interested?

I had installed Invasion44 but its currently uninstalled, my dual core don't have enough power for this, I'm just waiting my overall PC upgrade to reinstall this.

They added new animations, here is the 2.6 release video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBp9LCFnMZQ

2012 is the WWII year for ArmA2 :)

With Invasion44 and Liberation44 you can have the two fronts, west and east, in one game and with the tactical realism of ArmA2 and his goodies (missions editor ... Coop ... mods ... )

I'm having a hard time finding missions and campaigns for I44.
Anyone that could be so kind and help me with some links?

Thanks :)

Thank you :)

I'm still going to get Liberation, but thanks to all for pointing out i44. I knew it existed but have been holding out from giving it a go since I don't have any experience with ARMA and mods. I've finally bitten the bullet now though, let's see how it goes.

Well, Liberation will probably be better in a lot of ways since they have access to engine tools modders never will get.

I pre-ordered Liberation months ago and i always welcome any WWII game :)

A BF3 engine WWII game would be great!!

That's sort of how I imagined Battlefield 1943 to be (but with frostbite, not frostbite 2). Unfortunately they never got round to releasing that on PC though, only for consoles, which was extremely frustrating and I never really understood why they didn't release it

Back on (sort of) topic though, i44 is amazing! Does anyone know how to make B17's drop thier bombs in the editor though? If give them a destroy waypoint they fly very low over the target trying to strafe it, then crash.

this reminds me of what it might look like for Arma II's engine. Best at HD 1080

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLwGU...feature=colike

I play BF43 on my ps3 now and then. It's fun for half an hour, but theres only 3 maps and a small dogfight map.

I would also love an extensive WW2 Battlefield game.

here a german gameplay video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVGd...ayer_embedded#

Looks great, I love it :razz:

Already pre-ordered, looks even better than ArmA2 :)

We need only ARMA2 for this? Or ACE too?

No you will need to buy it.
They bought the licence for ArmA2´s Real Virtual Engine, and used it to create a standalone Game from their former planned mod content.
It is a standalone game on the arma engine.

I hope it's goint to have Arma2 v1.60's netcode and optimization.

Thanks NSU, I was holding out for a gameplay video, but that looks absolutely brilliant! Graphics seem improved over Arma II slightly (though I could be wrong). Can't wait for this now though!

not bad at all. going by the comments in the Video it is a ressource hog, though, so I am curious how it will work out.
What I really love is the how they created the landscape, that does look as central european as it can get.

Great, Arma engine and WW2 just work well together, even better then a modern scenario given their avionic limitations. I think I'll get it.

Is this game a FPS or something a little different? It says you are a soldier either red or german and you can use planes and tanks to attack. I have never played ArmA2 and have never seen it been played either.

I'd say it is something between a FPS and an Infrantry Simulator. Rumors says it is used by some militaries to train their soldiers. Maps are huge by any FPS standart, encompassing whole regions or Islands.

Here is a little gameplay vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfkje...eature=related

ArmA engine is a lite version of the VSB engine they sold to the US military. Delta Force uses it for training.

while your waiting try this one...its free :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBp9LCFnMZQ

Here’s a brief summary of what’s included check the classlist.txt for a full list of units objects weapons and ammunition:

Soldiers
United States – 1st & 29th Infantry Division, 5th Ranger Battalion, 82nd & 101st Parachute Infantry Regiment.
British – Infantry Airborne Division, British Commandos.
Germany – Heer, Heer-Camoflagued, Fallschirmjäger, Schutzstaffel.

With over 30 infantry weapons.

Vehicles
30+ German vehicles – including tanks, recon vehicles and troop carriers.
20+ Allied vehicles – including tanks, recon vehicles, troop carriers and landing craft.

Aircraft
Allied – B-17 Flying Fortress, Douglas C-47A Skytrain, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, P-51D Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIa, Spitfire Mk.Ia., Hawker Typhoon
Axis – Bf-109E4, Bf-109F2, Bf-109G6, Ju-52/3mg5e, Ju-87, Me-262, Me-262A

Maps
Omaha
Omaha V2 (Greatly enhanced and expanded)
Merderet
Merderet (Winter Version)
Battle of the Bulge map by prowler

Missions
33 MP Missions
11 SP Missions

Soundtrack
Over an hour of original music by SFG

Features
Ballistics coding
Weapon Resting (automatic or manual)
Bayonets
Prone AT Weapon Firing
Custom Weapon Animations (holding and reloading)
New movement animations (jumping, crouch sliding etc)
Hit animations
New detailed player wounding system
Overhauled In-game User interface
Hand signals
Crew served weapons (Moving/Rotating static weapons, adding/removing ammo, mounting/unmounting weapons on tripods)
Crate vehicle-loading system
Overpressure effect
Tank damage and immersion system
New cursor- name tag system
New main menu UI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=zNVGdqSmxJM#
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmeV...eature=related

looking good.

S!

Those Iron Front videos look really good, but in some places AI really dissapointed a bit. Like a Panther sitting still showing it's side or rear to a T34-85 or similar. And in the 2nd video AI was driving around like a gaggle of headless chickens. But I guess the final release might be a bit different. Anyways beats World Of Rus...Tanks ;)

#3 - Infantry walk-through (Beta version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A5dQ6Gld_0

Looks a basic single-player mission to learn how give orders to your squad.

Is this a new version of i44? When I last played it, maybe 8 months ago, I think there were like 6-8 squad sized missions, and 1-2 full platoon/company sized ones? Almost nothing if you wanted to play Wehrmacht.

Still is, for singel player that is. It comes with 11 SP and 22 MP/coop missions.Most of the missions are for co-op or multi-player which is a shame.

yes, v2.6 just came out this month :) there are 11SP 33MP plus at last count there were 6 2.6 I44 servers running 24/7 and you can go here for community made campaigns and missions http://forum.invasion-1944.com/viewforum.php?f=10

and you will soon have the pleasure or misfourtune of an encounter with a certain Cat.....:grin:
WIP section http://forum.invasion-1944.com/viewt...t=120&start=10

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9624177/I44_...er/tutuut1.jpg

S!

Panther..damn it looks good and was a good tank. KwK 75 L/70 high velocity gun, sloped armor etc. I wish Iron Front could be more like a sim than a shooter as there is no WW2 tank sim out there. And no, World of Tanks is not a sim, just an arcade joke :)

New video from Iron Front
;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=uOKP5IQzy7c

they model the tanks correctly from what i understand :) i was in a 10 min battle with 5 shermans i got 4 of them all the while taking hits but got flanked by a firefly ...BOOM!

WOT...played for about 2 hours.... they are working on a jagdpanther

http://forum.invasion-1944.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=145


and since youo like the panther...how about a restored running one :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsodIneQGzI

#4 - Gameplay-Walkthrough (Beta)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_NWczB1VYw

#5 - Gameplay-Walkthrough (beta)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OEqGdsHEw

Looks epic, cant wait :grin:

Russian reviewer´s "Weapons and Infantry" video (with English subs) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k_aVSZa91w

Awesome video :grin:

Too much blood and guts for me. I can't play those things. Just Flight Sims for me.

Hey there fellow pilots,

If you want to know more about this game, then this is your chance:
I've been offered the possibilty to interview Patelaros Vasileios (aka "Panzer_Baron"), Art Director of the Iron Front team. This interview was mainly supposed to be an alternative to the interview being done by ofpec.com, an ArmA/OFP community site, and a chance for the Red Orchestra community to ask their questions, which may differ from the stuff that the ArmA/OFP community wants to know.
But since you guys seem to be interested in the game, too, I also ask you to send me any questions you have concerning Iron Front via PM or just post them here, so I can answer the ones that have already been answered in the official forums.

Best regards,

No0dle

Btw: Have you already heard about the unofficial Iron Front: Liberation 1944 steam group? Feel free to join: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Iro...Liberation1944

Many thanks for the opportunity.

Questions:

Release date?

Will they correct aircraft 3D models before release? Some proportions are very wrong and cockpits have very low details even for an arcade 2012 game. Tank models have more correct proportions than aircraft ones. It is a big immersion killer for a not-fictional WWII game.

Will it have latest ArmA2 netcode version (v.1.60 patch IIRC)?

Can they integrate the Warfare game mode (from A2) in stock game?

When they plan to move to ArmA3 engine?

What multiplayer modes are available in stock game? Any PvP AAS, A&D, etc. missions included?

Thank you. Could you please post a link to your interview when it is done.

S!

A couple questions, surely asked but anyway :)

1) How well are the tank guns been modelled, for example the high velocity German guns, reload times and so forth.

2) Will there be extra tanks like StuG III/IV and of course Russian counterparts added later?

Looks very interesting and that Panther looks so damn nice!

:)

Looks nice in HD full screen :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qsl_...layer_embedded

Something we can play till BoM is out.
Get it! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=WEeRRD3iD88

So when is this game due out? Have they set a date yet? I can not wait to drive a King Tiger around! ;)

See post 77 ^

that's the one that states may 25th.

Nice video :grin:

Amazing the head-tracking use at the end of the video, cant wait :)

Does anyone purchased ArmA2 via Steam? Does it make it more difficult to install and manage mods than a non-Steam version? I have a non-Steam ArmA2 but thinking about getting a Steam version of Iron Front.

S!

The more I learn about Iron Front the more I want it. Finally it seems to be the time when WW2 tanking has been successfully resurrected and thanks goes to this team creating Iron Front :) I wish they make more content, keep it patched up and all that :)

Some friends of mine have the non-Steam version of Arma2 and the Steam version of Arma2OA.

Many mods require them both, and usually the free Mod-managers can manage the paths to both the version.

We are using Six-Updater (http://www.six-updater.net/p/download.html) and it has this feature, so there should be no problem.

Hoping for some big maps :)


http://www.armedassault.info/ftp/pic...s1/UDSSR_6.jpg


http://www.armedassault.info/ftp/pic...s1/UDSSR_4.jpg


http://www.armedassault.info/ftp/pic...s1/UDSSR_1.jpg

I fear it suffers the simplicity of Arma2 in regard to tanks. Very simplified.

Iam playing a lot ArmA/OA .... do yourself a favour and purchase it via a physical copy or an official Download. Me m8s I am playing with is are bunch of mixed Installations, the default one do an easier life.Steam is fine, but the mod management can be a bit tricky and is always a thing for its own.
I am sure there will be controverse voices, but you are doing a lot easier with a default installation.

No it does not. Since the very beginning of Liberation 41, which was the first mod of the Developing Team ( now Iron Front)in Operation Flashpoint (the original in 2002), they introduced their own armor management and DM. You can check the DM and the pentrtion in some of the videos on youtube ("playing Iron front part 1- 5" or sth like that).
Do not expect a tank combat simulation, like T34vsTiger should have become, as ArmA2 is a military Sim,but mainly adapted for infantry battles. Similar to flying in ArmA2...it works,it does its job and looks good, but you cant compare it with Il2 flying of course. Thus I recommend everyone who never played Arma2 to dowload "Arma2 for free", to chekc if the gameplay is suitable for one.At the end it is more a simulation than a shooter. More nights on our server, where i fired just one round, and did most in pathfinding etc., just as example.

Video Channel Iron Front testing
Klick

From the Publishers Forum

Thank you. This is what I heard before. No Steam then.

It is rather infantry tactical simulator. Tanks and aircraft are arcade but better than BF3 IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJ6Qgj7Tdc

English subtitles will be added soon ...

English subtitles have been added.

Moreover, here's a preview from SimHQ:

http://simhq.com/_land3/land_127a.html

And don't forget this:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...5&postcount=74

No0dle

P.S.: Sorry for double-post ...

Outstanding video :shock:

Thanks :P

New video review!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEeRR...layer_embedded

I got my review copy today. Unfortunately there is a problem with it. Hope it's solved tomorrow :)

Thanks for that, it looks surprisingly polished! I was expecting it to look good and to be quite good, but if it's as good as it looks in that video this is going to be a really pleasent surprise!

Also, it's nice to have a video with English commentary too! The subtitles were fine, but then I find I spend more time reading them than actually watching the video, which is probably why I'm so surprised by how polished it looks :D

Wow! New kid on the block has some impressive ground models for WW2 battles
 

http://simhq.com/_land3/land_127a.html

:shock:

That one has been on my radar for quite some time. As the preview states enhanced damage model for the tanks, this one could become a very good ww2 tank sim.

Yes does it still have the crazy head bob like your kneck is made of rubber and your legs are made of jelly that gives you eye strain after 45 mins? :rolleyes:

Original ArmA2 has head bob adjustable in the settings screen iirc.

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