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Installation

  • On Windows there is no installer yet, so you have to follow all the steps below.
  • On Linux, you might want to check if an OpenMoHAA package is available with your package manager.

Requirements

Installing official patches

If the MOH: Warchest copy is installed, skip directly to the OpenMoHAA installation section.

Otherwise, install the following patches:

Game Patch to download and install
Allied Assault Depends on the installed language: English, German, French Italian, Spanish, or Dutch
Spearhead 2.0 to 2.11, followed by 2.11 to 2.15
Breakthrough 2.40b

These patches are required to connect to multiplayer servers and ensure a smooth, bug-free single-player experience.

Downloading/installing OpenMoHAA

Ensure that you download the binaries compatible with your platform in the releases section.

Which release should be downloaded?

It depends on the OS that is installed on your device:

OS Kind of hardware (CPU, platform...) Archive
Windows AMD/Intel *-windows-x64.zip
Windows Qualcomm/Snapdragon (ARM-based) *-windows-arm64.zip
macOS Apple Silicon (ARM) *-macos-arm64.zip
macOS Intel *-macos-x86_64.zip
Linux AMD/Intel *-linux-amd64
Linux Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 *-linux-arm64

Once the correct archive was downloaded:

a) Extract the archive1 to your MOHAA installation directory.

-or-

b) Extract the archive1 somewhere on your hard drive, create a shortcut to each of the launch_openmohaa_* executables (or omohaaded.exe), and set the shortcut's 'Start in' directory to your MOHAA installation directory.

Once you're ready, start one of the three launchers based on whether you want to play the base game, Spearhead, or Breakthrough, and then you can start playing.

Notes:

  1. For servers, only the omohaaded.* and game.* binaries from the archive are required.

Appendix

Cleaning up the game installation directory

If you want to clean up the mohaa installation directory by keeping only what is needed for OpenMoHAA, the following files/directories can be kept:

[MOHAA]
├── [main]
|   ├── [sound]
|   ├── [video]
│   ├── Pak*.pk3 // all pak files
├── [mainta]
|   ├── [sound]
|   ├── [video]
│   ├── pak*.pk3 // all pak files
├── [maintt]
|   ├── [sound]
|   ├── [video]
│   ├── pak*.pk3 // all pak files
├── All files from the OpenMoHAA archive

Extracting GOG setup file on Linux and macOS

If your MOH:AA copy was acquired from GOG then this section will be relevant.

The MOH:AA Warchest installer files on GOG are Windows binaries. To attain the game files, you can quickly extract them using Innoextract.

  • Install Innoextract using your preferred Package Manager (e.g. Brew).

  • Once installed run the command innoextract setup_medal_of_honor_2.0.0.21.exe. The MoH:AA game files will be extracted into a folder called 'app'.

Alternatively, you can use WINE as well, but this process may take longer if you do not already have WINE installed and configured.

Obtaining a demo version

Alternatively, free demo versions are available online. Here are the links to the demos:

Game Type Link
MOH:AA Single-player (0.05) https://www.gamefront.com/games/medal-of-honor/file/single-player-demo
MOH:AA Multiplayer1 (1.00) https://www.gamefront.com/games/medal-of-honor/file/multiplayer-demo
MOH:AA Spearhead Multiplayer2 (2.11) https://www.gamefront.com/games/medal-of-honor/file/mohaa-spearhead-demo-eng
MOH:AA Breakthrough Multiplayer2 (0.30) https://www.gamefront.com/games/medal-of-honor/file/mohaa-breakthrough-demo
  • MOH:AA singleplayer demo ships with the level: Mission 3: Level 3.
  • MOH:AA multiplayer demo ships with the level: Stalingrad. The Hunt can be added with the MP Demo addon.
  • MOH:AA Spearhead multiplayer demo ships with multiplayer maps: Malta and Druckkammern.
  • MOH:AA Breakthrough multiplayer demo ships with multiplayer maps: Anzio and Palermo.

Notes:

  1. Can play on MOH:AA 1.00 servers only.
  2. Only compatible with demo servers. These servers can be identified by having the letter d at the start of their version number (e.g: (d2.11)).