r/ArmaReforger • u/Thin_Cellist7555 • May 07 '24
Looking For Members T-90M and Novoselivske coming to Unknown Heroes
Welcome back everybody, today we decided to show you some of the things we have been working on since our last post about the Unknown Heroes Conflict server.
But before we get into it; feel free to join us on discord if you have questions or would like to stay up to date with development:
So... let's dive into it.
The biggest addition, at least in weight is the T-90M. An iconic vehicle that is hard to not think off when talking about the war in ukraine. Our Devs are working overtime to bring this beast onto the battlefield for you to use.
Of course, what would an army be without uniforms?
Our team has a few things coming for you in the next few days. Here's a sneakpeak:
The maps are making steady progress too, so today i invite you to take a first look at Novoselivske. But first in the spirit of our name and purpose, let me tell you a bit about why this battlefield was chosen...
What you see here, is the playable area of the map, closly matching our AO from back then.
The little village in the middle is what this map is all about, Novoselivske.
Fighting for the village began in September of 2022 at the end of the Kharkiv Counteroffensive. Our goal was to secure a way towards Swatove, located further north east.
Progress was slow but steady at first, with both the International Legion and the 92nd Mechanized Brigade working together to secure the western treelines and gain access to the village itself.
In November forces of Kraken managed to seize the town, and heavy street fighting became the new normal. Countless times we were pushed back, retook houses and streets, until we managed to dig in around the factory area and hold. It is a battle few have heard of, yet hundreds paid for this land with their lives.
Around early 2023 Russian forces attempted to break through our lines using mass charges, leading to countless dead, and our positions uncompromised. It was only when both the 92nd and the Legion were redeployed to other areas of the frontline, when the defense collapsed, after a poorly executed exchange of troops, when the 60th Mechanized Brigade moved in. Comprised of mostly fresh recruits and underequipped with armored vehicles and artillery, Novoselivske was soon in Russian hands once more, and the cycle of taking, holding and losing ground started all over again. the village and parts of it switched hands countless more times. By now, there is nothing left. All the people who lived there either fled or died. The corpses rot away in the dirt or get eaten by dogs.
But why do we tell you these dark things?
Simple: Because this is why we are making this map! To remember those who would otherwise be forgotten to history. To remember a village that no longer exists. To make sure that those who fought over this land are not forgotten.
So when you view these images of the WIP map, when you play on it, remember those who lived here, whose homes were taken away. Remember those, for whom this is their final resting place.
This is what Novoselivske looks like today:
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u/KibblesNBitxhes Sergeant May 07 '24
I seen the first post and favorited the server but there's nobody on whenever I look and the ping is terrible for me since I'm in NA. I would love to play this server though
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u/Kae_Le_Goat First Lieutenant May 08 '24
Is the T-90 a standalone mod or do we have to download a big server pack to get it. Asking for my photowork
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 May 08 '24
For a start and for testing purposes the T-90M will be part of our server pack. A standalone release is planned, but for now these things can only be experienced on the Unknown Heroes Server.
The selfless reason for this is a selfless one and a selfish one.
The selfless reason is, that if we release a vehicle like this to the wild, we want it to be good. As in, really good.
The selfish reason is that we want people to see the work we have done, and experience it in it's intended environment.
So for a start, it's in the server pack, afterwards we will be working towards a standalone release
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u/Rude-Maintenance-318 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25
I know you will probably not see this but will the T-90M ever come out? I'm tired of only having the T-72, abrams and armata in my solo gm💔 Mb i should clarify i'm of only having 1 good eastern tank (which is the t-72 since the t-14 just doesn't match the time) because there are many western tanks like the challenger, abrams and leopard.
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 Aug 10 '25
Production is currently on hold, due to a whole slew of issues, but I can check with our dev for the t-90 and let you know
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u/Pr3m1r3 May 08 '24
amazing bro, map looks amazing, are there gonna be lots of trenches?
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 May 08 '24
Yes and no. Yes there will be trenches. No the place won't look like Verdun. Our positions in Novoselivske were mostly dug ins, foxholes and little L-Shape trenches. So no vast trench networks like you'd see on most training grounds and some areas towards Mariupol for example.
I am working with the limits of the enfusion engine to create positions that bring across the feeling of what you'd see in the treelines.
So you'll have many small entrenched positions, enough to shield you from the artillery, if an enemy spotter does his job well. (Did I mention that we have artillery?)
In the village itself you'll find the houses to be the most prominent pieces of protection. I'm trying to find a way to add the bunkers/ cellars that almost every Ukrainian house has, as these were our primary places to stay in when on OP.
Enfusion engine rn is what mostly limits development, since the map for now will be created using vanilla assets and be updated later on when the APPROPRIATE assets are introduced either by bohemia or other modders. (This way clean operation can be guaranteed and you have to download less mods.)
Hope that helps :)
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u/Pr3m1r3 May 08 '24
Yes it does, thank you, I was just wondering if there was gonna be trenches around the map, not exactly big, but like what you find in ukraine, small trench systems with a bunker or 2 and a foxhole.
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 May 08 '24
No bunkers yet unfortunately. There is no way to make them as of now,. I will try to experiment with the terrain building tool, but as of rn you can only go straight down or straight up.
I have a couple of Experiments in different sections of the map tho. Since Novo doesn't exist anymore, and the names and positions all changed primary focus is to recreate the positions I was in as faithfully as enfusion allows me to. So I'll keep trying to find alternative solutions within the engine.
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u/real1lluSioNz May 08 '24
Find someone to host an NA server and un sure this would grow. Perhaps send a messenger to WSC :)
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u/Soul_Assassin_RHS May 08 '24
RHS have stated multiple times that SQ cannot be extended (added as a dependency) to any mod that is made to portray the current conflict in UA. We will enforce our ND clause of license and DMCA your mod from the workshop, so please either rethink the theme or remove RHS as dependency and continue without it.
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 May 08 '24 edited May 08 '24
Ok, I will just go on to clarify a few details here.
Your terms of service say nothing of the sort, and the t-90 is self made. Your vehicles have not been changed in any way and feature no markings. The vehicles marked with Ukrainian or Russian markings are taken from other mods.
The btr80a features your turret, but without markings, and the hull is taken from other mods, while we are waiting on our own models to be finished to replace all third party mods on our server.
Therefore none of your vehicles have been retextured with up to date markings.
Furthermore I want to ask you to think about the intrinsic hypocrisy of the statement made on your website. You tolerate the use of your product for people to play war. The very idea itself is controversial, you seem to not oppose the use of your mod to simulate the war in Afghanistan or Syria, wars which lead to the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents and countless soldiers. A conflict so messed up that even many of the soldiers who have never seen combat came back with PTSD.
You seem to tolerate cold war depictions, a conflict defined by proxy wars, killing thousands all over the world in the interest of Russia and america. Not to mention the ever looming threat of total annihilation.
We understand that your team might be sceptical of our project, and we really think you shouldn't be. We would love to talk to you in person to explain our work and resolve this issue without the need for escalation.
This project means a lot to us, and especially me. I have served in Novoselivske for half a year, I lost about a dozen good friends there. I survived Bakhmut for another six months, where my company was almost annihilated. But nobody will remember them, nobody cares enough about the legion to make an effort to remember them. And should we lose this war, they will be forgotten forever.
And I don't want that to happen. Because they were some of the greatest people.i have ever known. And Arma has always been a game that brought us together.
What I ask of you is to give us a chance to explain ourselves and our project to you, and maybe, just maybe convince you, that the reason our vehicles have the markings they do, and our uniforms look the way they do is not for an edgy joke. It's as real to me as it gets.
I don't want people to forget what happened there.
Edit: we have decided to remove RHS from our server for now, but my request still stands. You guys have done amazing work for Arma and especially Reforger, and you have the power to help make sure people remember history as it happened.
Whether you like it or not, you are part of that history, you have the power to shape it.
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u/Soul_Assassin_RHS May 08 '24
Also just to clarify. The objection for us is making further mods based on out work. If you are just using RHS on a server that runs UA scenarios, that's fine. But if you are taking our uniforms or vehicles and retexturing them, or if you are reusing our scripts to make new units for this purpose, we are not allowing this.
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 May 08 '24
Alright, that gives us some room to work with, so just to make sure I understand correctly, using your mods "off the shelf" so to say, would be ok?
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u/Soul_Assassin_RHS May 08 '24
Yes. Indeed we don't want to stop people from USING the mod in any way they want, but we can enforce the modification and extension.
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 May 08 '24
Understandable. We will get straight to work to make sure the server and its mods comply with all rules and regulations. Regardless, if any members of your team would be willing to speak to us on discord or TeamSpeak, we'd be very happy to do so, to ensure no future issues arise from a lack of information on our part.
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u/Soul_Assassin_RHS May 08 '24
I appreciate your point of view, and even the fact that you have participated in the conflict directly. But you also have to understand that as a team collectively we have made the decision not to allow for our work to be used to show this conflict directly. There are many reasons but these reasons are our own, we also don't need to explain them to anyone. We are not stopping you from making your own thing, just dont use RHS to do it.
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u/Apprehensive-Lead685 Jun 19 '25
What’s the server name
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 Jun 19 '25
Unknown heroes. Be advised that development is currently on hold, as we did run into issues with RHS licensing to base parts of the mods on, as well as lack of attendance leading to continuing payments for the server becoming financially unviable.
Should this change in the future, an update will be posted on this subreddit.
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u/Apprehensive-Lead685 Jun 19 '25
If anybody knows the server name pls let me know would love to play with the T-90M
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u/Thin_Cellist7555 Jul 10 '25
Development is halted indefinitely due to some licensing issues and not enough players during the months after launching the server.
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u/Excellent_Win8530 PC May 07 '24
Slava ukraini 🇺🇦