By popular demand (including my own), I’ve added an ammo box in the shed in front of the hotel on the Peenemunde map. That should make holding the hotel a bit easier.

As with all TPU map mods, this is a server side mod, so there’s nothing you need to download to see this change.

I recently received a request to increase the number of tickets for the Market Garden map. According to the person who requested the change, this change was requested by multiple players.

Market Garden now starts with 600 Allied and 600 Axis tickets. Previously it started with 400 Allied and 400 Axis tickets.

I’m also looking at adding an ammo crate to the Peenemunde map at the hotel. The hotel is very difficult to hold without an ammo supply.

Players have also asked for some of the planes on Pacific theatre maps to be replaced with torpedo planes. I’ve asked for additional details (which maps? which planes? which spawnpoints?)

I was getting reports from players about them being killed instantly when bots ran over their mines, or ran into their plane with a jeep, so I gradually reduced the friendly fire kickback percentage. But the reports kept coming, so I finally went into the game and tested it.

Sure enough, when a single friendly bot jumped into a tank and ran over a mine I’d placed in front of it, the tank exploded, the bot died, and my player also died instantly.

It looks like kickback damage, where a portion of friendly fire damage is reflected back on the attacker, doesn’t actually work in the expected way. Documentation on this BF1942 feature is sparse and inconsistent.

So, for now, I’ve disabled friendly fire kickback damage completely. Friendly fire settings are all 25%, so your damage to a friendly is 1/4 of what it would be against an enemy, but you no longer get punished for your damage to a friendly.

Thanks to TPU admin ced for his reports, and for his persistence in the face of my resistance to believe that the problem was real.