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Winning Half-Life 2 User-Created Deathmatch Maps

Posted by Zonk on from the congrats-now-get-fragging dept.

Voodoo Extreme has the news that the winners of a recent design contest held by Valve will now see their Deathmatch maps added to the Steam repetoire. From the article: "Three Half-Life 2: Deathmatch maps are now available via Steam. These maps were created by the three players who won our recent HL2:DM mapping contest. If you have HL2:DM installed in your Steam games list, you will receive the new maps automatically."

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  1. fileplanet by mcslappy · · Score: 5, Informative

    fileplanet is hosting some of the ones that were in the top 10, free to download

  2. Awesome! by OmgTEHMATRICKS · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll we have to do now is await the Slashdot map pack and HL2:DM will be complete. Features: A special capture-the-flag level featuring SCO on one side and Slashdot on the other! Level set in Soviet Russia where the lag complains about the players! Level set in North Korea where only old people use gravity guns! One level so complex that it can only be run by a Beowulf cluster of sentient supercomputer overlords! A level made in the post-9/11 era! And, of course, the bonus Underpants Gnomes level created by CowboyNeal.

  3. HL2 Custom Maps by wallykeyster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the best custom maps I've played is the WTC level from Singe. If you are a HL2:DM player, I recommend finding a server hosting it.

  4. Deathmatch = yawn by antdude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I played some of the original HL2 maps. The gravity gun was a nice touch, but I got bored with deathmatch in all games long ago. How about the rest of you?

    I like team based games. CTF is old as well. That was fun during Quake 2 days.

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    1. Re:Deathmatch = yawn by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 2, Informative

      When you have a group of people acting as a unified squad, each aware of the other's actions, it's completely engrossing!

      Natural Selection can be pretty cool for this, especially when playing as Kharaa (aliens). With all the hive-sight and whatnot (basically a wallhack to locate all your teammates and enemies they can directly see) there can be some amazing, unspoken teamwork emerging - it's great when a horde of skulks burst from cover without warning and annihilate a heavily-armed bunch of marines, without a single word spoken or prompt typed...

      I'm not a very good multiplayer gamer - I usually get shot within seconds by some hyperactive twelve-year-old with ultra-fast reflexes. But add a bit of teamwork, and I can actually become useful. :-)

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  5. Fun by Mukaikubo · · Score: 2, Informative

    I really, really dig HL2DM. Much more than Counterstrike, call me crazy.

    I really like the new maps. The one (can't remember which it is!) that's the fairly small map, with a fairly enclosed area for the rocket launcher and a balcony overlooking the area with a shield terminal an excellent field of fire... yeah, that one's absolute mad joy in a 6v6 team deathmatch. Both teams tend to set up around two separate defensible points and lay into each other.