FHSW 0.5 has finally been released and with over 650 land/sea/air vehicles it's now probably one of the biggest mods ever created.

Posted by eYe.ris on Aug 2nd, 2012



The long awaited FHSW 0.5 has been released!



It’s a pure multiplayer mod so your only chance to properly play it is to join one of the servers at the given times, links at the bottom.

A quick summary of all the offical news since the release of version 0.42:

there are a lot more not offically announced things included! Here's the full changelog: Text-upload.com

A quick guide on how to install it correctly, but you can obviously skip some steps if you already have them installed:

1) Install Battlefield 1942 with the latest patch 1.61b

Patch 1.6: Gamefront.com (268 MB)

Patch 1.6 to 1.61b: Gamefront.com (6 MB)

2) Download and install Part 1 to 3 of Forgotten Hope 0.7

Part 1: Gamefront.com (689 MB)

Part 2: Gamefront.com (686 MB)

Part 3: Gamefront.com (694 MB)

3) Download and install FH Fan-Mappack 6

Gamefront.com (506 MB)

4) Download and install Part 1 and 2 of Forgotten Hope Secret Weapon 0.5

You must delete your old installation of FHSW first by simply deleting the folders "FHSW" and "STFHSW" from ..\EA Games\Battlefield 1942\Mods\

Part 1: Gamefront.com (1338 MB)

Part 2: Gamefront.com (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. Apply Win98/Me compatibility mode on the FHSW desktop icon if it crashes too often, the downsides are longer loading times, lower resolution and Punkbuster problems.

As you might or might not know FHSW is a pure multiplayer mod, so you won’t find any of the new things in singleplayer. There are two servers for you to choose from, you have to join at specific times to find players on them though:

Europe/NA



Join at European evening/night time on weekends

Site: Fhsw-europ.ucoz.de

Asia/NA



Join at Japanese evening/night time