SPOTLIGHT
- NEW SITE!Welcome to our newly designed
website created by our very own Yorick.
There's been a big reshuffle and lots of
new content added so check it all out!
This fun multi-player mod can now be downloaded via Steam! If you've never played Smashball, now is the time to give it a try. This mod combines not only competitive team play, trying to score with a ball in the opposing team's goal, but also combat between teams in a struggle for victory.
Smashball is a fast-paced, ultra violent first-person sports shooter. Two teams use super-human maneuvers, a real-physics grappling hook and high-powered weaponry to try to get a single ball into their opponent's goal. On the league web site, players can see match stats, create teams and participate in our cash tournaments!
We don't see a great deal of high quality single player modifications for Half-life 2 but the newly release Curse Episodes mod oozes quality. Voted the Most Anticipated Mod for 2008 by ModDB, Curse episodes are set in an Egyptian themed world, fighting against enemies with really enjoyable melee combat.
The mod has plenty of action moments (including boss fights) and puzzles to solve. You can download Curse Episode 1 from a selection of mirrors at Moddb. You only require Half-life 2 to play this mod.
Massive media update from the firearms source team, showing off all the hard work they've been up to. New models for their massive selection of guns, lots of new realistic and accurate military animations, new player models for the red team and a new map. The new media looks extremely good from a talented team which have shown excellent progression over the past few months.
The Resistance and Liberation team have been working hard after having taken on new faces to work with the original development team. Work is ongoing and they are looking to port the modification onto the Orange Box engine for the next release.
Recent progress by new and old developers alike has brought a renewed energy and sense of progress we hope to soon share with you all. Along with the new website design, we will also be updating the FAQ and News sections of the website
The team are looking for animators, modellers and texture artists to join the team, but in the time being, below is an example of their progress showing maps Lafiere, Carentan Causeway and Carentan. Keep up to date with the mod on the Resistance and Liberation website.
The well known mod, No More Room in Hell fell off the map not long ago, after being in development for 5 years. However, a more solid core team have joined their ranks in order to bring the zombie apocolypse mod back to life. The mod is a total conversion based on the Half-life 2 Source engine and promises to bring lots of fun game modes, non-linear maps and an array of fun weapons.
The good news doesn't stop there. No More Room in Hell will be available for download as an open beta before Summer 2009 and L4DMods.com will follow the progress with a hawk's eye. The open beta will feature the mod's first gametype, called Survival Barricade which is a mixture of Left 4 Dead's Survival Mode and Call of Duty: World at War's pathetic excuse of a Zombie game mode. The Survival Barricade will have up to 8 players spread randomly in a map, they then have to find each other and see how long they can survive a never ending torrent of zombies hungry for brains and flesh while barricading the doors and windows of their shelter with whatever they can find around them
The team are also looking for animators and technical artists to aid development. You can get more information and updates every Sunday on the NMRiH website.
The team behind the total conversion Off Limits have released a very fresh new website, featuring some very impressive new gameplay videos as well as a call for playtesters. They've also posted an update on their progress, including the addition of a talented sound designer to their team and some information on how the level development is going.
Hope you enjoy it and I hope you get a slight feel of the game play and its cool features, it’s great fun so far (can’t stress that enough :p ). We can always use more dedicated playtesters as well, so if you are interested in giving feedback and helping us test the mod on Sunday’s 8pm (gmt +1) please register on our forum and PM Keats, he’ll set you up!
To see the new gameplay video and more information about Off Limits, check out their website.
A day many of us have looked forward to is here, Decadence mod is now available for download. 'Decadence has been in development for over one and a half years by a small group of University students, and the time has finally come to unveil the mod for the rest of the community'
It's been a very
interesting experience to develop Decadence, and we're really proud of the end result. We hope you all will enjoy it as much as we did developing it! From everyone in the Decadence Development Team: Thank you for the support and patience! So, what are you waiting for? Go download Decadence, we'll see you in-game!
This is a mod we've been keeping track of for a long time and looks really good fun, I suggest everyone downloads this and tries it out. Decadence can be downloaded here on the Decadence website.
The time is nearing closer for the release of Decadence mod, 28th March to be precise before we can enjoy this highly anticipated mod. The Decadence team have put together an introductory video introducing the main objectives involved and how rounds are won and an overview to the classes available.
As usual, its a well produced video by the team even if our resident Majestic XII narrates it in a very girly voice. You can download the video here or watch it below. Decadence website.
The winners in the Seventh Annual Mod of the Year Awards have all been revealed and mods for Valve games feature heavily all the way through the different award catergories.
There were many honourable mentions in the released Mod of the Year category including Insurgency, Sven Co-op, Empires and Dystopia. Half-Life 2 Wars was at 10, Age of Chivalry at 8 and Eternal Silence was at number 7. Pirates, Viking and Knights 2 came in at 6 and Zombie Master was in 5th place. Portal: Prelude was in third place and Zombie Panic: Source came in second place. The BF2 Mod Project Reality was the number one mod in this category.
Black Mesa received an honourable mention in the Upcoming Mod category. The Neotokyo mod for Half-Life 2 was in second place and Dead Before Dawn for Left 4 Dead was voted top of this category.
Of course there were many other awards handed out, head over to the Mod of the Year Awards page to find out more.
The first patch for the Eternal Silence mod since it was released onto Steam has been released. If you have the mod installed on Steam then it should automatically update with the following fixes:
[FIX] Shorten transition distance from 500m to 200m to save bandwidth.
[FIX] Made it so only ships from the hangar are networked (not all players/grenades/ion bombs)
[FIX] Shorten ship visible distance from 1800m to 1500m.
[FIX] Fixed player collisions, no more rubber band.
Fixed config reset bug.
Added Cancel button back to loading screen.
[FIX] Allowed Target Last Attacker for passengers.
[FIX] Bomb dropped properly when the carrier disconnects.
[BAL] Lowered DPS on the Ion Cannon primary fire.
These fixes should go some way to sorting out the lag issues that some have been experiencing the past few days.
InterWave Studios have released a patch to their 1.0 release fixing several key issues. If you haven't played their mod before, perhaps now is an ideal time to start, especially if you are a fan of the television series.
In the Stargate: The Last Stand multiplayer games, players can choose to defend their home world in secret offworld missions, or destroy the Tau'ri as the elite Jaffa, Guards and Warriors in Anubis' ranks. Players are able to equip themselves with a wide array of weapons that are featured in the television series, from the Goa'uld Staff weapon to the Tau'ri FN P-90
The Dystopia team are counting down the days till their 1.2 release via SteamWorks by releasing snippets of new media from the release. Today they have released new screenshots from maps exodus and broadcast (see below) as well as a selection of fan made videos from 2 days ago.
Later on in the week, the team will be hosting a Q&A Session to kick off the process of their release party. We will keep you updated when the new version is launched. For more information, visit the Dystopia website.
We've been keeping you up to date with Decadence for a long time now, but now we reach the point where release is really close, March 2009 in fact. We've shown lots of screenshots but...
There comes a time in every mods development cycle where screenshots aren’t enough, and if they say a picture is worth a thousand words, a trailer should be plenty!
This week, we've been lucky enough for the Ninja Workshop team to have given us access to their new closed beta build of their mod Berimbau.
Berimbau is a multiplayer Source engine mod featuring fierce sword duels in a retro-future universe. The game features an open sword combat system that allows for creative use of combos, counter-attacks, and parries. This combat system encourages players to develop attack patterns and strategies to defeat their opponents, rather than random “knife-fight” melee combat.
Playing together over the past few days has been great to see a mod in it's relative infancy as it's core features are put into place. This mod offers a unique experience, whereby you must co-ordinate strings of attacks, as well as blocks & parries. Dodging and stance changes are all important, and this will be a mod to look out for in the future. Duels can be fast and frantic or controlled and methodical, multi duels will add to the chaos once introduced.
Keep up to date with the ninjaworkshop team on their website, and I'm sure they will be looking for support in the ModDB MOTY competition if this looks up your street!
Zombie Panic Source is a SteamWorks supported mod, so this update should be delivered to you without any hassle via Steam. Changes to this new version include:
Added new ZP:S Barricading System
Added the ability to unload weapons
Added Punker player model and zombie counterpart
Added ZPO_Harvest
Updated Waitress rigging and textures
Updated ZPS_Cinema with new props, textures, and layout
Added weapon: Winchester Double barrelled shotgun
Added new hands for every player model and replacing old
Added new anims for every weapon (including the new Weapon)
Added infection notice on scoreboard for Zombies
Worth noting firing speed for Super Shorty is now faster
Added a massive list of prop models and materials
Humans now show bright green for zombies if infected (without Zvision)
Some great looking new maps included in this release as well as a barricading system which looks really impressive and should add a new dimension to the gameplay. Zombie Panic Source website.
