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Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45Newsv12.1.13 - QoL Update: Auto-Run
Game update

v12.1.13 - QoL Update: Auto-Run

Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 · published 9 May 2026, 13:51 UTC · build 23158650

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This update introduces a small quality-of-life feature: a chat auto-run. Now you can lead your squad, share crucial information, and argue with your fellow teammates without being late to wherever you were going.

Opening the text chat while on the move, will engage the auto-run and keep you going in the same direction. And if you're driving a vehicle, the auto-run will hold the accelerator pedal for you.

This feature is optional and can be disabled by ticking off the "Keep Moving With Chat Open" checkbox in the input settings.

Changelog (v12.1.11 -> v12.1.13)

Includes unpublished changes from last weeks v12.1.12 patch.

Features

  • "Keep Moving With Chat Open" option.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug that allowed players to mantle while firing a gun or holding a primed grenade.

Guns

  • Replaced placeholder German LeIG HEAT shell for Soviet M1927 howitzer with new proper BP-353A model.

  • Increased ammo capacity for the new BP-353A shell from 4 to 5 (Soviet manual mentioned these rounds came in crates of 5).

Maps

Hedgerow Hell

  • Increased setup phase duration from 140 to 180 seconds.

  • Increased Allied AT roles from 1 to 2.

  • Added additional Axis AT role equipped with a Panzerfaust.

  • Reduced Axis tank crewman roles from 4 to 3 (number of tanks is unchanged).

  • Removed Allied and Axis mortar operator roles, as these have been largely replaced by mortar constructions and the map is generally player-artillery heavy as is.

  • Changed M7 Priest to unlock when Barn and Tellier Farm objectives are captured.

  • Changed M5 Stuart to unlock when Bunker objective is captured.

  • Reworked construction limits to use new system.

  • Axis can now build 2 Pak 40, 2 Pak 38, 1 Flak 36, 1 Flakvierling, 1 LeIG 18, 2 GrW34, 6 HQs.

  • Allies can build 5 M1 AT Gun, 3 M5 AT Guns, 3 M1 Mortars, 7 HQs.

Chambois

  • Fixed a number of static stairs on the map being old myLevel type with broken collision.

  • Fixed a floating roof static.

Dzerzhinsky Tractor Factory

  • Fixed a missing texture causing the map to not load.

  • Reduced sound radius on bullet whizzes.

See you on the battlefield,

Darklight Games

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