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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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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!
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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
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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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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"I come from Canada...they say I'm slow....eh?"
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....
First of all Sven Co-op is a co-operative mod, not a deathmatch mod. Comparing Co-op with deathmatch is not very fair.
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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
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You can run the original with WINE (not wineX) just fine, but the anti-cheat will say you're cheating. I don't know if Steam (the new frontend thingy) will work or not. Just play single player or join servers that aren't running anti-cheat and you're set. Linux Games has a hosted site or something on the toolbar to the left that has detailed intructions that are updated fairly regularly for playing Half-Life with WINE.
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