NOT COMPATIBLE

mods designed for 1.03 or older versions will need an update

Hello everyone and thank you for the patience as this patch took us a lot longer to complete then we initially planned to.Nevertheless we're happy to present you the first release candidate of patch 1.04 for Darkest Hour.You can read more on it in Darkest Hour - Dev Diary #33 - Patch 1.04 beta Now to the patch itself!1. Saved games from 1.0, 1.01, 1.01.1, 1.02 and 1.03 versions of Darkest Hour arewith this patch so you should finish/abandon your ongoing campaigns before switching to this one.2. The patch will turn the censored German language only boxed version of the game into fully functional all-language version.3. Mostbefore being compatible with 1.04. We'll post a modding guide to help in the process soon, but for most mods only update to misc.txt will be required.4. If you find any bugs please report them at the Bug Reports sub-forum , using [1.04 RC1] as a thread name prefix.5. 1.03 (and older) versions are no longer supported, so if you use those and find a problem please make sure it is reproducible with the latest 1.04 version before reporting it.1. Make sure you have a clean (unmodified) installation of Darkest Hour. The patch is designed to work with all official Darkest Hour releases (boxed German version, 1.0, 1.01, 1.02, 1.03), but it should work with all previous beta versions too.2. Download169 MB (177*887*477 bytes) from one of these locations Mirror1 3. Start the patch installer program (Darkest Hour Unified Patch 1.04 RC1.exe) and follow the instructions.4. When proper installed you should have these check-sums:- Darkest Hour Full- Darkest Hour Light- No mods (Darkest Hour Core)If this is not the case, then something went wrong and you should start over (uninstall, delete all remaining files, install the main game, install the patch)For steam users, open your steam library.Find "Darkest Hour a Heart of Iron Game" in the list of your games, then right click on it and select "Properties".In the Properties, select the Beta tab and from there you can select the new 1.04 beta (remember to chooseand not 1.02 - Darkest Hour 1.02)!Just select it and close the properties, the update should begin immediately!