Impressions of Deathmatch?

[Lunacy Fringe]

Bit laggy on mostly all servers but none the less very fun indeed. I'm not really a fan of CS:Source so i have lots of fun playing this. It's very easy for me not that hard to get into. See you guys playing!!

[Booger2000]

Here's mine!!!!
Geez Gabe, can we all get Dog-Balled again? Your death match works great!!!! Your just Donkey-Punched the entire HL2 community!!!!!!!!! Can we suck it Some more!!!

[WhiteZero]

Here's mine!!!!
Geez Gabe, can we all get Dog-Balled again? Your death match works great!!!! Your just Donkey-Punched the entire HL2 community!!!!!!!!! Can we suck it Some more!!!
stick to ur own pointless nub threads, kthanx

I havent had any lag problems.
*shrug*

[BL1NXx]

Outstanding. Absolutely addictive - Damn school!

[kingthebadger]

looks good, will be playing later today

[Brian Damage]

If I can make it work once I've downloaded it, and I can find someone willing to put up with my 56k-ness, I'll have a go at it...

[Andrey]

I gotta Steam platform.I started Steam, and it informed me, that HL2Deathmatcn is released, so I installed HL2Deathmatch. After that HL2 didn't launch. HL2Deathmatch also didn't launch!

[fli_guy84]

oh wow the deathmatch is excellent! no other words can describe the thrilling experience while playing it. u can literally see chairs, toilet bowls, cabinets and all other imaginable things fly (toward other people of course). damn, i just stop playing just to write this.

[LeXo5]

Ok so public servers are SUPPPPPPER laggy butttttt

My friend setup a passworded server and it was just him and me and the lag was non-existant. I was pinging in the 50s and it worked really well. We enabled cheats an spawned buggies and airboats with the console :

ch_airboat
ch_buggy

just make sure your aiming far enough away from yourself so that it doesn't spawn in the ground.

we also tried driving around in the tiny maps which was kinda fun. We also tried spawning NPCs with :

npc_create npc_fastzombie

but they didn't react ......... just like in the un-finished deathmatch we found in the original HL2. So no co-op.

The one other thing I was gonna try to get him to try was to load a map that didn't come with HL2DM like d2_coast_04 or something like that but then his mom came and told him to get off the comptuer so heh ad to shut the server/PC down. Now your probably wondering how would HL2DM be able to access HL2 files, I dunno either how but if it can access the model and partial AI for npc_fastzombie then it must have map access too.

Anyhow, if oyu really want to enjoy this, have a friend setup a passworded server and keep 4 or less people in it. We ran 3 with NO lag (pings in the 40-60s) and haven't tried any higher than that for now.

[WhiteZero]

Ok so public servers are SUPPPPPPER laggy

http://www.ilrpg.com/~whitezero/servers.jpg

No lag here.
o.O

[LeXo5]

http://www.ilrpg.com/~whitezero/servers.jpg

No lag here.
o.O


wtf...... they are all 700+ latency for me..... im not kidding

EDIT : I just checked and the latencies are all down....... thats so wierd because within the first 15-20 minutes that HL2DM was out all the servers were SUPERRRRR high ping and in-game play was impossible except for on my friends private server

[Willem123]

My impression is that it doesn't work.

[fantasiser]

my first impressions : seriously kick ass, and im ****in good at it as well (played five rounds and came first in all 5 by quite a margin)

[nvrmor]

woot. :naughty:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/nvrmor/dm_lockdown0003.jpg

[Jifcuits]

hmmmm GRAV GUN + CAR = 4 ppl dead at once !! :D


No crowbar though D:

[grossvart]

Well heres my impression..... it screwed my single player!

[leg0]

HELL YES!!! I knew the suprise was gonna be DM :D
*downloading*

post impressions later

[leg0]

oohh yea... and...

VALVE RULES!!! This shows how much they care about us! :)

[sharp]

Its a great game!

[Gekko]

wtf...... they are all 700+ latency for me..... im not kidding

EDIT : I just checked and the latencies are all down....... thats so wierd because within the first 15-20 minutes that HL2DM was out all the servers were SUPERRRRR high ping and in-game play was impossible except for on my friends private server
Most likely because everyone who got it instantly threw up a server based on whatever crappy connection their PC has, most likely not able to handle a large server, but people did it anyway because they were desperate to play the game with someone else, no matter how laggy. Obviously as time goes on actual dedicated servers will come up and you will be seeing much better pings across the board, just like in all the other mods.

[Diablo2k]

Does it only have dm/tdm or also CTF?

[led-zep]

first impression, really boring, once the novelty wears off people will soon get tired of this. wheres tfc:S dammit, valve keep the tfc community happy as well not just the cs and dm players. not everyone likes pratting around with the bloody gravity gun you know.

[KagePrototype]

How the hell did Valve think CS:S was a better choice than this? They should have spent the time making CS:S and refined THIS game! In other words, I love it. :D

[Willem123]

Well when I finally got onto a server, It was a bit laggy with 24 people running around but great fun.
Al the stuff flying everywhere.

[CrazyHarij]

HILARIOUS! :D

I love it :)

[Burn]

My Impression is that its laggy to high hell. Unplayable.

[Dario D.]

"Latency"? The heck is that?

What about "ping"?

[SonicTitan]

HL2 Dm rocks hard. Was playing this morning with a latency of 45 ish, and I absolutly loved every second of it. The Grav gun is the most awsome deathmatch weapon I've ever seen. Unfortunately things seem laggy for me now, but I'm sure it will improve soon. Can't wait for some new maps.

If some uber genius out there could make a version of the undertow map from hl1 with extra things to throw about, that would be sweet.

[we11er]

My Impression is that its laggy to high hell. Unplayable.

Wait for proper dedicated servers to pop up. Some people have reported perfect gameplay.

[rebb]

Is it just me or does a low ping help a LOT in HL2DM ?

[Gorgon]

Outstanding. Absolutely addictive - Damn school!

dam university :)

[Kapitan Helion]

"Is it just me or does a low ping help a LOT in HL2DM ?"

LMFAO!... Ping is the main thing on EVERYTHING.... How fast your end is.... Etc internett speed xD

[Gorgon]

"Is it just me or does a low ping help a LOT in HL2DM ?"

LMFAO!... Ping is the main thing on EVERYTHING.... How fast your end is.... Etc internett speed xD

yep and the server connection.

for example SWE servers are the fastest in europ cause they use 100Mbit line connection :amazing:

[sharp]

This game is pure ace! All you need to do is finding a very fast server, joining a server with 10 players, (20 players is just madness) and enjoy! I just played tdm but I think regular dm is funnier :)

[h00dlum]

Giving everyone a Gravity Gun when they spawn was a bad move imo. Thats why it lags so much. I think the Gravity gun should be like a super weapon with only 1 Gravity gun per map. That would be much better. Making the weapons able to carry more ammo would also be great..

[SonicTitan]

dam university :)
Damn not enough hours in the day

[DarkStar]

Good Lord! I just got done playing for about half an hour and I must admit that HL2DM is really good. I'm bettin' the farm that we'll be seeing some great maps and mods comin' out for this sucker in the coming weeks. There certainly are some lag issues, but further optimizations by Valve will soon straighten all that out I'm sure.

The weapons are surprisingly well-balanced, althought the magnum certainly needs to be toned down a little. I got 10 kills with it in the first 30 seconds of one match. The gravity gun is a blast of course. There really isn't anything more satisfying than some bastard firing a radiator at you, catching it in midair and firing it back for the kill. Brilliant.

[burnzie]

Giving everyone a Gravity Gun when they spawn was a bad move imo. Thats why it lags so much. I think the Gravity gun should be like a super weapon with only 1 Gravity gun per map. That would be much better. Making the weapons able to carry more ammo would also be great..

I was thinking the exact same thing... infact i just mentioned it to badhat :D


It'll probably get changed... though madness is hillarious at the moment :laugh:

[DarkStar]

How the hell did Valve think CS:S was a better choice than this? They should have spent the time making CS:S and refined THIS game! In other words, I love it. :D

Totally. It's incomprehensible.

[Brian Damage]

It's damn fun... but really difficult for me, with my connection, to use the gravgun properly :P.

[Cukel]

My god, this game just explodes my mind :D I never get tired of shooting a barrel when someones holding it ^^ Not to mention the barricades and neat explosions and crossbows and ohmygod im ejaculating

[seinfeldrules]

http://www.ilrpg.com/~whitezero/servers.jpg

No lag here.
o.O
Hey I remember playing you last night. You kept trying to get into the rocket room to kill me :cheers:

' _ '

[we11er]

ohmygod im ejaculating

You know, I thought it was an OK post until i read that....

[clarky003]

ive got no complaints.. got a 4meg connection with blueyonder... and its great fun.

[SonicTitan]

ive got no complaints.. got a 4meg connection with blueyonder... and its great fun.
Lucky you.

I've got an NTL 750k, and Latency can be a bit variable. I've had it as low as 45 on some servers and as high as 600 on others (that claim low pings). It doesn't seem as consistant an online experience as UT2004, but I have confidence it will improve, and people with slower connections will find it more playable.

[Thorney]

well just played for an hour there, there are a lotta good things about this DM

1. weapons all nicely balanced, perfect rock,paper,scissors style gameplay

2. playable with a 70 ping but hit detection was iffy but that will improve i'm sure

but I can't see it being competitive, I d love to have some excellent 5v5 TDm battles with clans etc but I dont see how the moaning masses will take it.

The gravity gun is fun and yeh it takes reflexes and alertness to pull of cool frags but I can see the moans comin, "Its a no skill weapon", "gravity gun lamer", "lame explosive barrel kill!!" etc comin in the next few weeks once the novelty wears off.

I wish people would play games for what they are but whine whine whine will happen.

Oh and 1 gravity gun as a super weapon wouldn't really work as the best defensive against a gravity gun is another gravity gun hehe

[HadouKen24]

Just played my first match. It looks like it was supposed to have an infinite time/kill limit, 'cause one guy was up in the hundreds. Mebbe not, though; I did get 50 kills after only 20 minutes playing. (and only 25 deaths... not bad, eh? Close to the highest rate on the server.) All weapons but grav guns, 'nades, pistols, and smg's were disaabled, but it was lots of fun just with that. For a couple minutes I was totally pwning people with my grav gun. :cool:

I had a really low ping, like 40 or something like that. My university has a sw33t connection.

I love this game. I can't wait to see what modders do with it.


Oh and 1 gravity gun as a super weapon wouldn't really work as the best defensive against a gravity gun is another gravity gun hehe

True that.

[SpoBo]

hl2dm = holy

that's about it .. it still feels like the first deathmatch but it's just a whole new universe. Let the extra maps and such come !!

[SirOsisOfLiver]

Wow, just had a great time. Much better than I expected it could ever be. The file cabits and shelves flying around is chaos. A couple of lag hic cups here and there, but no worse than any new MP game. Still shocked the physics can work so well online. I agree with the others that its probably more fun with about 10 rather than 20. Hope this plus the SDK really gets things rolling with mods.

[Annon]

It's too laggy in servers that I ping around 40 in.

[Wikt]

GREAT. It's really fun, really fast. The same impression I had when I played HL1DM.

EDIT: Oh yeah - and it is funny how Valve was insisting HL2 won't have MP, and then they actually do throw MP in.. :)

[clarky003]

if you have a middle mouse button, set that to your manipulator... I find it much easier than its default.. give it a try.

[Gorgon]

well just played for an hour there, there are a lotta good things about this DM

1. weapons all nicely balanced, perfect rock,paper,scissors style gameplay

2. playable with a 70 ping but hit detection was iffy but that will improve i'm sure

but I can't see it being competitive, I d love to have some excellent 5v5 TDm battles with clans etc but I dont see how the moaning masses will take it.

The gravity gun is fun and yeh it takes reflexes and alertness to pull of cool frags but I can see the moans comin, "Its a no skill weapon", "gravity gun lamer", "lame explosive barrel kill!!" etc comin in the next few weeks once the novelty wears off.

I wish people would play games for what they are but whine whine whine will happen.

Oh and 1 gravity gun as a super weapon wouldn't really work as the best defensive against a gravity gun is another gravity gun hehe

yeah, and don't forget to mention that real MP should have at least multiple mods, such as RTF...etc

I hop valve is working on some kind of RTF mod for the MP. :thumbs:

[SirOsisOfLiver]

if you have a middle mouse button, set that to your manipulator... I find it much easier than its default.. give it a try.

Or even better if you have a logitech MX 500 or 510 set it to your thumb button. Makes switching back and forth really fast.

[iluyshin]

very poor indeed.

[evecomm]

Installed fine, quicker then I expected. The only game I played ran smoothly and was as HeCtIc as HeLL. A nice chance to CS which is team based and fairly serious. HL2 DM is great fun and CrAzY. Can't wait to see the Source mods!!

[LawOfTheStraw]

"Latency"? The heck is that?

What about "ping"?

Uhm you already answered your own question :E

[SonicTitan]

Deathmatch mode certainly came out at the right time for me. I'm trying to quit smoking and HL2dm it's certainly keeping my mind occupied enough so I'm not thinking about fags all the time.

[Brian Damage]

Wow! HL2DM IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH!

Or at least for SonicTitan's.

[SonicTitan]

Not for your social life though.

[Jimmeh]

Well played it for an hour or so - shitloads of fun!

The Gravity Gun just opens it up so much more - shame theres not as many TDM servers about - I thought that was brilliant! :D

All in all, great job Valve!

[Merrr]

its impossible to find a server that isnt laggy or full :(

[Disposition]

too much lag. feel a bit dissapointed......again.

[t0v3]

I managed to find a 100mbit server which was only a little laggy, and it was great fun.

There is so much potential here for the best fps multiplayer ever. If they sort out all the lag anyway. I'd love to see more TDM servers, and CTF added at some point.

With the use of the gravity gun, tactical play could become a big thing, once better players start to emerge. At the moment its all new, and players are just running around without a clue killing everything and launching barrels and radiators around.

So hopefully first all the lag gets sorted out and we see some good dedicated servers up + we'll see alot of new maps coming out in within the next month. Then we'll have a damn good mp game. w00t!

[Jimmeh]

Hmm, I've had no trouble with lag so far after playing on 5 or 6 servers at random. The only problem I'm having is finding a server that's not full! :P

In-game pretty much every time my ping has been 40-60ish, perfectly playable and a great laugh :D

[Bodacious]

I played for about 15 mins at lunch today and gameplay was great. I was pinging 25 when I connected so no lag and the physics stuf is great. I like the crossbow. I didn't play long enough to find the magnum but I bet that is a good wep, too.

[Wikt]

I played for about 15 mins at lunch today and gameplay was great. I was pinging 25 when I connected so no lag and the physics stuf is great. I like the crossbow. I didn't play long enough to find the magnum but I bet that is a good wep, too.

It's the AWP of HL2DM. A well placed shot is an instakill.

[spencerjrus]

I think magnum should only be 1 shot if its a headshot, dropping from 1 chest shot is quite annoying.

[House]

deathmatch gets boring quickly. we need team fortress 2!!!

[pmhannum]

Dang, why must all of the good stuff come out while I'm at the office working? GRRRRR!!!!

Oh well, I still have tonight!!

Fragya later!!

[Lunacy Fringe]

God damn this DM is so damn addicting...

[Shakermaker]

I like it. The gravity gun is the best online weapon ever. Its a laggy as hell but so much fun. I would like to see levels that are designed especially for g-gun gameplay.

[joule]

My impression.

Very addictive and worthy of my time.
I just hope this lag isn't here forever.

[orsinijj]

Every server I hit was pretty laggy esp. when people were playing catch with that silly gravity gun... that thing needs to go and the crowbar and or wrench and or knife needs to make an appearance.

Just my 2 cents...

[Narcolepsy]

Every server I hit was pretty laggy esp. when people were playing catch with that silly gravity gun... that thing needs to go and the crowbar and or wrench and or knife needs to make an appearance.

Just my 2 cents...
No, it was 6 years for the singleplayer.

As far as my impressions, the manipulator makes this game. I'm afraid the novelty will wear off rather quickly, so keep the mods coming! (Not to say I don't like it - it's incredibly addicting!)

[Pineapple_guy]

Hl2dm is silky smooth for me, All you have to do is join a decent server with no more than 10 people on it. If you do that it should be perfectly smooth!

[mjr02002]

****ing shit omfg i just typed a whole ****ing message and it got ****ed cuz of my ****ing cast hitting random ****ing keys and undo/redo dont ****in work **** shit!11!!!

basically --> its fun now but novelty will wear off, there isnt much substance too it like a game like CS or DoD or even NS (don't get me wrong, I played for 6 hours today, fun as hell). Valve chose CS:S to launch with and it was a good move. I know awt least 4 people in my HS that bought silver (for CS/DoD) and havnet touched HL2 single player yet. There are many others like them out there. CS is a great game (i like DoD better) and valve made a smart decision to launch with it. It makes this "surprise" even sweeter.

Hopefully mods will come out off of this with new game mods like combine vs. rebel CONTROLLED (not random respawn/crap) with rounds. Wow i just thought of a good mode (would work best on city 17 maps)...combine and rebels spawn at one end of the map. One death rounds. mmm...that would bring the urban warfare that made city 17 hl2 parts great into the mix.

Basicaly, HL2:DM is nothing without what people are going to make it to be. Some maps will be made and they will be fun for a few weeks but there is a reason why games like CS and other FPS with much more intricate details than Deathmatch have suceeded --> there is just more there. I don't really know how to quantify it.

[Nudnik]

I'm so used to counterstrike that the weapons seem weak and take too long to kill the opponent..

Other than that, I love it.

[orsinijj]

My impression of this POS valve tries to pawn off on its loyal followers...

1. LAGGY... did they play test it at all??? if more than one person is using a grav gun, it slows to a crawl...

2. Poor weapon balance... the stupid grav gun can propel a chair and kill someone who fires 45 shots into the torso of the thrower with the smg?

3. MAPS - Six years and these two sorry made over from the game maps is all you could come up with??? Come on guys...

[KoreBolteR]

My impression of this POS valve tries to pawn off on its loyal followers...

1. LAGGY... did they play test it at all??? if more than one person is using a grav gun, it slows to a crawl...

2. Poor weapon balance... the stupid grav gun can propel a chair and kill someone who fires 45 shots into the torso of the thrower with the smg?

3. MAPS - Six years and these two sorry made over from the game maps is all you could come up with??? Come on guys...
they started making in november i think, cos they heard people wanted it :D,

ANYWAY..

people will be making custom maps , so get over it :P :D

i find the game is really good, lots of fun tbh

[bi0_gauss]

My impression of this POS valve tries to pawn off on its loyal followers...

1. LAGGY... did they play test it at all??? if more than one person is using a grav gun, it slows to a crawl...

2. Poor weapon balance... the stupid grav gun can propel a chair and kill someone who fires 45 shots into the torso of the thrower with the smg?

3. MAPS - Six years and these two sorry made over from the game maps is all you could come up with??? Come on guys...

hate posts like this
1- not noticed too much lag from the first night..perhaps get a better connection? try different servers? have been in 20+ ppl svrs and barely felt the lag and still enjoyed myself..

2- weapons are fine..there are a bunch of guns that work really well..the ggun has to be strong because if your playing someone decent and you miss..you're dead

3- i like the 2 maps...patiently waiting on more..

[Dario D.]

You have to remember that Deathmatch was just thrown together at the last minute.

Think of it as an Official Mod, just to make you happy and have fun fragging with toilet bowls. Still needs time to really get on it's feet though.

How else do you explain the deficiency? No maps = no time spent. Patience, padawans. :afro:

[pmhannum]

My impression of this POS valve tries to pawn off on its loyal followers...

1. LAGGY... did they play test it at all??? if more than one person is using a grav gun, it slows to a crawl...

2. Poor weapon balance... the stupid grav gun can propel a chair and kill someone who fires 45 shots into the torso of the thrower with the smg?

3. MAPS - Six years and these two sorry made over from the game maps is all you could come up with??? Come on guys...

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you on this one. I played it over the weekend and enjoyed it very much. I was even online when the game hit the net last week. So far I am very impressed with it and have not suffered too greatly due to my internet connection. Granted, my net is through Comcast and my upload speed is limited to 256kb, but even this seems fast enough to make a few kills.

All in all, several things need to be taken into account before we can claim that a game sux:
1) your computer configuration.
2) your internet access speed.
3) the server that you are attaching to (hardware setup)
4) the server's internet access speed.

Take these into account, and your gaming experience will change accordingly.

Later,
PMHannum