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Science & Industry 0.97b Half-Life Mod Release
An anonymous reader writes "Science & Industry, a teamplay mod for Half-Life, has been updated. S&I is one of the oldest Half-Life mods: it was there at the first Valve mod expo back in 1999, but it hadn't been updated since 2001! A new version is finally being released today. Science and Industry is a mod in which players assume the role of Security Officers in one of two rival corporations striving for domination in the cutthroat world of chemical and weapons research and development. Learn more about the mod on its website. This new version works for both WON and Steam versions of Half-Life. For a full list of changes, either check the Science & Industry website, or this detailed forum thread."
This is my first time complaining about a post relevancy, but ...
A half life mod release a front page news? Please.
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At best, there were 4 to 6 servers online at any given time, with no more then 2 or 3 players on each
Meh, I like the small servers (as long as their is always people playing. That way I'm able to build a tight knit of friends.
Thats why I like cube, for more of the social than the gameplay
Just my two cents
ANother HL mod, SvenOps 3.0, was released today. It is a multiplayer teamplay mod.
Finally, Natural Selection HL mod 3.0 is also due today or this week.
That's three HL mods for the holidays!
Cover your eyes and click this link!
This is pretty cool, considering that I was a die-hard fan of the mod. I don't know what was so charming about it... it might have been the sound that played when you hit a scientist. It might even have been the community; nobody every played it and so all the Blueyonder servers had the same people on all the time. If you've never played it, download it now. I wonder/hope they will be porting this to Half-Life 2 when it comes out!
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I perfer SI over Sven co-op, but lately I'be been playing some Natural Selection halflife mod. NS really is a blast if you have some good teammates and a commander who builds correctly and in order.
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I think thats what makes SI and NS so much fun, the build aspect. Not just a FPS, but you have to work and build better weapons. You dont get the "AWP" frenzy like CS, as some servers even ban the AWP for that reason.
For a few years, people said "wouldn't it be cool if people could play C&C in FPS mode?". Then C&C Renegade came out, but it didn't really have the build out like C&C/Red Alert.
Also, is it HL Mod day, nice
The same community can be easily built on a large server, especially one that keeps stats. Drippy's is an example for TFC, check it out at http://www.lunaticrage.com/drippy/
Christ, we're hosted off PHL. We're not gonna be bloody slashdotted.
Sure, like we've never heard *that* before.
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Get the trailer here
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It's better, more fun, and more complete than Counter-Strike.
Counter-Strike, btw, was a Half-Life mod and is currently the most popular FPS by far being played. There are twice the number of players of any other FPS despite its age.
Totally relevant, and front page material.
I don't know why someone modded this guy down. Everything he said about the mod is true. Now, don't take me wrong I enjoy it, but once one team takes an advantage, with all the scis and most of the tech already researched, it is all over. You don't even have to play the rest of the map. When one team has all the armor, health and regen upgrades plus a full team of scis continuously putting out new weapons there is no chance for the other team to win. Especially since all the winning team has to do is protect the scis.
SI was never a huge mod, it had a small community with a couple of servers with only a couple of regulars, but it was nice. You got to know the other people playing and most of the time your teammates would actually know how to play the game well (ie focus on upgrades before weapons). Hopefully this new update brings forth a new group of SI players...
sorry about lame question... I never played half-life (I'm still playing quake2 ;)
does half-life work under linux? If so, then where can I download some demo/shareware half-life version for linux?
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But yes, it's less of a one-player-dominates-all game... On the alien side (where resources are evenly distributed across all players and each must decide which structures they think would best help either them personally or the team as a whole), since resources are spread evenly, and resources are key to getting good upgrades and thereby winning the game, it's not enough that one player spend his resources wisely... the team only wins if the team's average skill is higher than the other team's. (this seems to be true for the marines as well, but it's not obvious to me why, as only one player on the marine team makes decisions regarding resources)
On the other hand, this shifts the the game quite a bit. Instead of becoming the best individual player you can, the key to ensuring victory is to remember which players on a particular server are better, and to join the team at the begining that contains the higher average skill.
I think that since mods for this game are still being updated/released, it's a good way of telling Valve that the gaming community likes what they've done.
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In a similar way that
Keep showing them what we like, and maybe one day they'll really listen and not bring out as bad a game as Dikitana.
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Two new (and apparently a third) new HL mod releases.
Nice.
DoD 1.1 should be coming soon. Now if only there was a WON version of CS I could play so I don't have to go through crappy Steam....
How's the WON version supposed to work? As I understand it VALVe has already shut down or will soon be shutting down the WON servers for good, therby ensuring everyone HAS to use the smelly pile of goo that is called STEAM.
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First of all Sven Co-op is a co-operative mod, not a deathmatch mod. Comparing Co-op with deathmatch is not very fair.
s /New%20 Maps/
Secondly, there is actually a c&c map for Sven Co-op called cnc_defense which can be found here:
ftp://ftp.waes.ac.uk/halflife/SvenCoop/Map
Sorry bad link ftp://ftp.waes.ac.uk/halflife/SvenCoop/Maps/New%20 Maps/
as soon as they saw that it ran somewhat "ok" in wine they canceled, because valve cant program their way out of a paper bag with a light, compass and a map
The fact that valve did not release a linux or freebsd port and it has not affected them tells more of the linux and freebsd community then valve. I do not believe they will have any problems making a ton of scratch from hl2 when it comes out.
That this article 'bout Half Life has an icon being the Rocket Launcher from Quake 3. (sigh).
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GameTab has a torrent and seed for the Science and Industry mod. Enjoy!
Since we're talking about games on a slow news day, there's also a Babylon 5 game which a lot of people are downloading. It seems to have been done by a Russian guy who is ending the project and is putting out what he's got. Link and info are here: http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/download.php?tar get=ifhsetup.exe
Natural Selection is done by a seriously cool group of people. Flayra (the head developer / producer) has some great philosophies on how the good of the group is the good of the individual, and some roles on the alien side are to protect the other players. It's all very wholesome in an incredibly fast paced violent way.
Link: Natural Selection
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totally agree!
the only real problem for marines, which seems to unbalance the game, is they require a good leader and player for the commander. This is why aliens usally win on pubs, because the comm's, just suck.
If you play on a clan server, marines win a TON more.
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I think the point is that Valve doesn't give a rats ass about the repect of the Linux community.
Where are my mod points when I need em? =)
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..for the time being. I was just playing some TFC on WON a few hours ago. Why? Because the old version still works quite nicely with wine.
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Oh, and the main difference between CS WON & Steam is a riot shield and a few tweaks. You are much better off playing TFC anyway.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. -- Mussolini
Empires mod for Battlefield 1942 is gonna be the closest to C&C in FPS mode yet. http://www.empiresmod.com
You can still play CS 1.5 through WON. 1.6 is what is on Steam.
For those that don't know, Steam is a new content distribution system developed by Valve. You will have the option of purchasing, then downloading Valve games through Steam. I am guessing the eventual goal is to bypass brick and mortar distribution and to get monthly subscription money flow (good luck guys).
Another note, Steam has its own authoriziation protocal for logging on and playing online. This is what differentiates it from WON. I personally have 2 seperate installs of Half-life... One for Steam and One for WON.
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No offense, I think Half Life mods deserve attention, but S&I? Almost no one plays that mod. There are other mods much more deserving of attention that S&I. Take Natural Selection for example. That mod pushes the HL engine much further than any other mod I've played, and could really use some good press, as its numbers have been dwindling lately. If you do try out Natural Selection, just give it a few days. I found it was one of those rare games where it really isn't that fun at first, but after a few days you really get into it. The reason for this is that the learning curve is much higher than most games, and it especially takes time to learn how to be good at all the alien classes.
The AWP was banned on the same servers that would not allow Terrorists to "camp" (read Guard) with hostages.
I always considered those servers/admins/clans as not actually embracing the whole game, but had merely grasped the gist of it but never played properly. Basically, turning a strategic team combat into a team deathmatch game.
Who else loved fy_iceworld? That was my favorite map for a kill-fest.