Day of Defeat Half-Life Mod Released

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.

Comments

Re:Uh-oh

[KDan]

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

Wicked

[CaptSisko]

I've been playing Day of Defeat for quite a while already. Development was stuck at v3.1 beta for a long time and apart from some small map bugs and a 'nade bug', it was a very good and stable mod. Most of the maps are 'Domination'-style where you have to 'turn' all flags to win the map/round, there are some maps where you have to blow up a couple of 88s. All in all, a well-rounded mod.

Be nice to the new people...

[alwsn]

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.

Re:DoD? Why?

[ghoting]

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.

The biggest reasons I'm not playing BF1942 right now are: 1) No in-game voice chat (any team-based FPS that lacks this nowadays is doing its players a big disservice); and 2) In order to run a large server, you need at the least a T1. We run two and sometimes three HLDS-based games (CS, DOD and NS; 14-20 players) on a single T1. One instance of BF1942 (I forget if we tried 32 or 64 players) completely saturated it.

It's a bummer, because I agree that it's a really attractive game. The demo was a lot of fun, but they did some big things wrong with the server.