WWII China Battlefield Beta has been released!

**Emperor Taizu** · December 31, 2008, 01:43 PM

Just had to open a thread for this incredible mod by WilliamBerne over at Taleworlds. Please leave a comment.

http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.p...c,52800.0.html

demo download:
http://postdownload.filefront.com/12...170d6f1f2b33d3
before you play it, please change the mod name, from ww2 in china to WW2 China Battlefield.
I was too tired, forgot to correct it.

hallo everybody,
the english name of my mod is WWII: China Battlefield, chinese should be 大刀向鬼子头上砍去.
I have be working on this since 1 year ago. 1 year has passed, I think this one will still be the first really modern warfare mod of MnB which gonna be based on a really history

In the 1.0 version of my mod, there will be brand new:
world map(china map),
traditional chinese buildings and european style buildings,
chinese adn japanese melee weapons, pistols, submachineguns, rifles, carbines, machineguns, grenades, coehorns, artileries
helmets, uniforms, boots, puttees, breathmasks.

Factions
It begins in July 1937, there are 5 mainly factions in this mod:

National Party (Kuomintang)
They are leaded by Jiang Jieshi(Chiang Kai-shek) formally, but they never pulled themself together. Jiang Jieshi controls central armies, which have better equipments and weapons. The other warlords have themself local armies, but they intend to fight for themself only.

Communist Party
Mao Zedong and his red army has survived NP's encirclements and suppressions, now they want to unite other chinese armies and fight against japanese with them together.

Northeast Anti-japanese Alliance
These bravest soldiers fought against the japanese invaders alone since 1933, they got nearly nothing from Republic of China government to support. now the guerrilabands are getting weaker, they must find a way out.

Japanese invaders
The invaders have carfully stage-managed this invasion. Experienced officers, well trained soldiers, powerful artileries and warcrafts and bountiful supplies are waiting in their base in manchuria. They are dreaming of defeating china in 3 months.

Puppet Regimes
They are set up by japanese invaders. The Manchurian Puppet Regimes is the biggest one.

features
(some of them won't be included in the beta version)
-- machineguns, grenades, coehorns, artileries and bombings are the new fatal elements in the battles.
-- armies will bomb each other during battles, if they have artileries or warcraft.
-- New wepons and equipments will surely lead the gameplay to a different style, and you won't be able to win if you still stick at the old strategies.
-- all scenes will be adjusted, with chinese buildings items etc..
-- logistics is far more important: watch your baggages!
-- some old "useless" skills will be more important than ever.
-- new missions.
-- almost every weapon, horse, uniform, and other equipments has 2~4 lod meshes.
-- good weapons and helmets look differently from the ones in bad conditions.
-- many new sound effects; each kind of weapon has its own sound.
-- new musics.
-- motorbikes, tanks? dont know if I will be satisfied.

there are some little problems in the following screenies, e.g. the caucasian faces... they will be adjusted. but I'm still glad if you can point them out.

Screenshots:
national party, central army

national party, local army

communist party, 8th Route Army(not the sergeant guys)

japanese invaders

puppet army

credits:
meshes of type 38 rifle, type 14 pistol, type 11 MG, browning pistol, beautiful chinese caps(and their beautiful textures) are from Kelavis.
some of those new sounds are from DOD:Source, some from Insurgency(they are mods of HL2).
1 texture (horse_lowlander) is from Open Source Project, sorry can't find out your name, please pm me.
1 sound from KON_AIR's old mod.

thank you Thorgrim for making BRFedit.
thank you kelavis, oolonglgx, rubik, without your helps and advices of dealing with module system, I would never go this far.
thank you everyone who's supporting me, from both this forum and mountblade.com.cn(which I have long time not posted but still checking everyday).
at the end, thank you Armagan and the other team members, who have made such a great game and allowed us players to realize our thoughts(although this engine is still no good enough and we are short of official modding tools), thank you!

Wish everybody have a happy new year!
Guten Rutsch!
新年快乐！

a simple hause

a restaurant from Shanghai Bund.

view mesh 593 polies, collision mesh 351 polies.

ok, here are some of my guns I made several months ago.

mosin-nagant sniper

hanyang made(old chinese rifle)

MP18

type 44 carbine

type 100 SMG

type zhongzheng rifle(chinese version of Kar98k)

ZB26 MG

**ccllnply** · December 31, 2008, 01:46 PM

Looking very nice. How did you get the machine-guns to work?

**Gelgoog** · December 31, 2008, 11:06 PM

meh.. Can't say I was to enthusiastic about this mod. Yes it did have guns, but the implimentation of an almost pure firearms mod without changing alot of other aspects leaves this feeling quite incomplete. When you have virtually no access to armor and most weapons doing 40-50 dmg, then 1 shot hitting you is an instant kill. There is also the fact that pistol and rifle accuracy doesnt differentiate much. Why can my pistol use rifle ammo and vise versa?

there there is the fact that submachine guns and machine guns can not fire fully automatically which defeats the purpose of putting them in.

nice touch with the hand grenades though, but seriously without armor this game is nearly unplayable. Also when pulling out a pistol or rifle, it would help if it didnt sound like a sword being unsheathed.

all in all I rate it a 4 out of 10. because the novelty of the mod wears off within 30 mins and utter frustration kicks in.