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Day of Defeat Half-Life Mod Released

Posted by simoniker on from the achtung-spitfiren dept.

alwsn writes "The greatly anticipated Half-Life mod Day of Defeat has just had v1.0 released. This is an amazing World War Two team-based mod, and there's a stand-alone retail release on May 6th. DoDHQ has a good list of mirrors - also, here's a BitTorrent link. Keep those file windows open once you finish downloading." Thanks to many submitters for pointing this out. Please note that you need a retail version of either Half-Life or Counterstrike to run this downloadable version, although, as mentioned above, the retail box will be a stand-alone title.

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  1. Uh-oh by Dolemite_the_Wiz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Annoucnements like this are going to attract all the Counter-Strike hackers. The same thing happened when Game-Spy awarded Day of Defeat Mod of the year. 12-year old brat hackers with God complexes invaded DoD servers for a few weeks after the Game-Spy award.

    Dolemite
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    1. Re:Uh-oh by KDan · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They will also attract people who weren't aware of DoD's existence, but have enjoyed CS and TFC before and are very interested to try it out.

      Like me :-)

      Daniel

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  2. DoD? Why? by don_carnage · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why play Day of Defeat when there is a much superior WWII game: Battlefield 1942.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm all for mods (Counterstrike is by far the best mod of all time), but DoD doesn't even hold a candle to BF1942.

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  3. Be nice to the new people... by alwsn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been playing Day of Defeat for the past 2 or so years, since 1.0b and have greatly enjoyed watching my favorite mod grow into what it is today.

    I know one of the biggest problems Counter-Strike player and its community encountered when CS when retail was the flood of new, clueless people to forums and servers. I've already seen inumerous people who don't have a clue about DoD on servers.

    If you happen to run into somone new like this, don't shout 'n00b' at them, help them out. If they ask a question, give them a quick answer. Yes, you might die when you're typing out the response, but it's only a death. We were all new to the game once, and helping out people when they need it will help keep the strong community DoD is known for.