Source: Hammered

As the founders of hammered, we would like to help the community even more than we already have, and so we would like to announce on Saturday 15th January at 10pm GMT London (2pm PST) We will be hosting a ‘live chat!’ help for users of the hammer editor in our mIRC channel, We will answer any questions you have about how to do things in hammer, and will happily offer any advice But please remember to follow these few simple rules.

Please follow these simple Rules during the 'Live Chat!'

• We will not be providing technical support for Hammer so don’t ask things like “woot my hammer crashes lolz! plz help!” (That’s Valve’s job to fix not ours)



• Please don't visit if you can’t type grammatically correct English.



• Please keep it clean, the usual IRC channel rules apply. (Please go here and scroll down for the full list)

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You will need an IRC client such as mIRC to join in.
You can download it free from its website www.mirc.com

Once you have mIRC simply click the link on the main menu to join!
(#hammered hosted on GameSurge.net)

Source: Steam

Just a reminder that the deadline for HL2: DM Map Contest submissions is this Saturday, January 15th at 11:59 PST. Full details and contest rules can be found here: http://steampowered.com/?area=map_contest

Source: modDB
Related: Family

Production of the Family MOD is moving right along in the new year, and we are happy to bring you more media to look at. Family MOD now has 2 weapons functioning in-game, the .38 special and the Tommygun. Screenshots of the 2 guns and the Chicago level have been added to the gallery.

In this update we also have included a render of one of our player models wielding the Tommygun.

We plan to bring you much more in 2005. Check back here at ModDB for updates, as there is more to come.

Source: HL Fallout
Related: Future Warrior 2025

The upcoming HL2 mod, Future Warrior 2025 has recently released a video trailer showcasing some levels that will be in the mod. Also featuring in this video, is the ability to blow up walls with their destructible terrain feature.

This 1:20 minute trailer comes in a size of 25.6MB, and can be downloaded from the official Future Warrior 2025 website.

Source: HL2 Files
Related: Hackers

The Half-Life 2 Mod Hackers has been announced to the public:

Introduction:
There are three sort of hacker; White, grey and black hacker's! A black hacker is the "evil" one, he infects computer with viruses, all ilegal stuff... The grey hacker is a person who thinks of something, and complete it, wether its legal or not. And last the White hacker, he is the good one, wich makes Anti virus programs, and makes security systems.

There a many sort of viruses there will be included in this mod like:

• Time bombs: They are viruses wich infect a computer and execute itself after some time!


• Rabbits: The fastest spreading virus known.


• Trojan Horse: Looks like a normal program, but is a very dangerous program!

Story:
In 2025 a machine is invented. A machine to cure all disabilitys! It re-codes the dna in the brain and make the person perfect. The machine works perfectly. Until it is stolen, by are group of terrorists. All the scientists were killed by the terrorists. 12 of the worlds most pro hackers was captured by the terrorists. 4 White-, 4 Grey and 4 Black hackers. They were to hack into the machine, re-program it, so that it could make the terrorists EXTREMELY perfect. So they could do everything! All 12 hackers coded 24 hours a day for 2 days, till it was finish. The leader of the terrorists group sat into the machine and the hacker started it. His brain was filled up of data, too much data, so much that he grew nuts! The hackers took his weapon killed the other terrorists as well as him. They re-programmed the machine so that it didn’t put in so much data. Each of the hackers made there own program, and all of them got different skills. All of them taught them self karate and how to handle weapons. The machine made them faster, stronger and wiser. But the Black Hacker’s used they new skills to create new very evil viruses and they hack all sort of sites and steal all they documents. The police can track them, but can’t kill them they are to fast, strong and wise. The only hope is the White hackers. So the White Hackers start fighting the Black hacker’s and eliminate the viruses. The police wanna kill all of the 12 hackers, get them out of the world. But they can’t. The grey hacker’s want they freedom, and fights both the White and the Black hackers. All of the 3 teams are against each others. All with different skills and weapons.

The mod:
This mod will be multiplayer only, there wil be three teams; Black, grey and white hacker.
In each map you can choise from only two teams, sometimes it Black agains White, and in other maps different!
If you thinking that this mod is about hacking, think again. You will get to transfer files, spread viruses and stuff, but game itself is basicly a First Person Shooter!

The gameplays:

• Capture the disk: This is Black vs. Grey hacker gameplay. A sort of capture the flag, but just capture the disk.


• Get the files: This is Black vs. White hacker. The black hackers has stolen some files, and the files in on there computer! Now the the White hacker need to assault the Black team, get to the Black's computer, and hack in (will take about 10 seconds) and get the files. All this they got 3 (or something) minutes to do...!


• Time Bomb: This is Black vs. grey hacker's. Both team invented a time bomb virus. A time virus infect a computer, a execute itself after some time. You have to go and plug this virus in to as many computer's you can. If the one from the other team plugs in a virus in a computer that you have infected, but the virus has not yet been executed, your virus will be overwritten. The time bomb will execute itself after 20 seconds!


• Trojan Infect: This is grey vs. white hacker's The grey hackers just made a trojan horse, now they gotta spread it! You go in to a building, and go to each computer and spread it. The grey hacker's need to spread it to 7 computers. And the white hacker's need to stop 'em before they do it.


• Catch the rabbit: This is white vs. Black hacker's. A rabbit is the fastest spreading virus! The black team spreads the virus, and the white team has to eliminate the virus. When the virus enter a computer it deletes itself after 15 seconds! There will be a radar in this gameplay wich shows what computer the virus is on at the moment. The white hacker's need to get to the computer wich is being infected at the moment and eliminate it. There will have to do this before the virus spreads to 15 computers.

Stay tuned for further updates!

Source: Frontline Message Board
Related: Border Patrol

We are currently looking for talented people specialised in:

• creating vehicle textures


• creating weapon textures


• mapping (you have an eye for detail)


• modeling (you're also able to unwrap)

You can apply for a position at jobs@border-patrol.nl
Make sure you attach some samples.

Source: Pex Games

The Constellation members of Natural Selection are currently testing the next version of the mod - NS 3.0 beta 6. But the developers behind the popular mod are also working on the next two big stepps of the NS universe : Natural Selection Source and Natural Selection 2. Leader Flayra has posted an interesting statement on this :

"Flayra : The dev teams for NS and NS2 will eventually be totally separate, so both will continue to be updated for the years to come. NS2 will be a totally new game and will have both single-player and multi-player. It's going to be a much bigger 'leap forward' then NS was."

The community also started converting textures for NS Source. Details can be found here.

Source: Nils Kochem from BrainBread via mail
Related: BrainBread

The following new about the upcoming version 1.2 from BrainBread was send in:

Hey there!



BrainBread V 1.2 is waiting for the release today. The patch will be released 19.00 GMT and it will extend the content of BrainBread significantly. Make sure you and your friends don't miss it! For details concerning the exact changes check the changelog:

• .44 colt is now a slot 2 weapon


• Included gastank


• Included winchester


• If an empty weapon is dropped it's automatically removed


• Skill increases crosshair calm speed


• Implemented last man standind mode


• Fixed rounding error on remaining zombiekills


• Probably fixed bug where a gun fires the wrong bullet type


• Fixed ammo boxes not showing


• Fixed escape zone exploit


• Other bugfixes


• Increased difficulty by 10%


• Updated the official maps


• Added official Science-Fiction campaign


• Added custom user campaign

Last man standing:
Activated when playing on a map that starts with "lms_":

• Once a zombie you cant respawn as a human


• Last human standing wins


• Mission completion means humans win


• After 15% of the round time has passed joining players won't be able to join the human team anymore


• Everything else remains the same

Gastank:

• Can't be shot while in the box


• After throwing it can be shot or damaged in order to make it explode


• It can be picked up anytime (also after being thrown) if the player doesn't yet have one and has a skill of 10 or more.

So we can look forward to great updated zombie killing in a short while. For more check the BrainBread site.

Source: PlanetHalfLife
Related: Sands of War

The following status update has been posted over at the site of Sands of War. The team is currently working on two versions, namely the update 1.5 version and a brand new Source version:

Currently we working on two totally different versions of SoW:

• SoW1: Sands-of-War 1.5


• SoW2: Sands-of-War on the Source engine

Sands-of-War 1.5 was planned to only be a smaller update, but it is turning out to contain quite a bunch of features. Here is a list including some of them:

• Several new high quality maps


• Particle system named Sand Storm


• New weapon model


• Radar


• Infrared


• Smoke grenade


• Tear gas

The particle system will be able to create a wide amount of effects. Here you can see a screenshot of it generating rain in a test map.

Even though it contains a massive amount of new features we are planning to have it done it shorter time than usual! Within a week we will release the 1st release candidate to the internal beta testers.

Check the Sands of War site for more information.

Source: Steam

The official Counter-Strike Bot will be released for Counter-Strike: Source on Monday (January 17th). The Bot features enhanced abilities and will be available for all owners of Counter-Strike: Source. Also included in Monday’s release is an updated version de_tides, rebuilt by Turtlerock Studios. For more information or to purchase your copy of Counter-Strike: Source, please visit www.steampowered.com.

If you start up Steam you now get to see a preview screenshot of the upcoming new map:



Also Valve's Dave Riller is making a brand new Hostage map. The small close quarters combat hostage map is set for a release in February. So stay tuned for more, because Valve is planning to release new on a more weekly basis.