Source: Half-Lfie Radio

One of our guests is the guy who wrote the BADGER song! He's from the www.badgerbadgerbadger.com website! Meet the man himself! We're back from E3 and rested! LIVE SHOWS RESUME! Our live show tonight will begin at 8pm EST (1am GMT). Tonight we have several guests, news about HL2, and a E3 followup. We will be broadcasting live from GamesNET! If you would like to chat with us live during the broadcast, make sure you have a GamesNET account. Chat server: irc.GamesNET.net. If you do not have an IRC client, just click on the 'CHAT' link from the top navigation. See you tonight!

Source: Steam

Day of Defeat version 1.2 will be shipping today via Steam. The release will feature tweaks and enhancements stemming from community feedback. For more information, please visit www.dayofdefeat.com.

Changes

• Bazooka is now a selectable class


• Increased garand accuracy ( 0.019 -> 0.016 )


• Increased bullet penetration by 10%


• Increased mg bullet penetration ( factor 0.75 -> 0.65 )


• Reduced K43 recoil ( 0.15 -> 0.13 )


• Reduced greasegun recoil to match thompson ( 0.5 -> 0.4 )


• Reduced FG42 recoil to match BAR ( 1.3 -> 1.0 )


• Reduced Bren recoil to match BAR ( 1.3 -> 1.0 )


• Reduced Enfield aim penalty to match K98


• Increased K98 and Enfield recoil ( 1.0 -> 1.5 ) to match garand


• Improved Enfield accuracy


• Rewrote recoil system and tweaked all recoil amounts to match old values


• Increased movement accuracy penalty on Enfield to match K98 ( 0.1 -> 0.15 )


• Improved Springfield re-zoom behavior


• Improved prone garand butt / bayonet animation


• Lowered standing view height from 28 to 22 units above player origin


• Reorganized slots, primary weapons are all in slot 3


• Improved grenade (straight down when prone) behavior


• Improved helmet of allied carbine classes behavior


• Dropped weapons reset their attack times


• Improved player yaw / gaityaw


• Improved default font scoreboard behavior


• Reset and reload all client env models when demo recording starts


• Improved %s in saytext behavior


• Improved unbreakable glass func_breakable behavior


• Improved minimap userinfo change on the server behavior


• Players suiciding after taking DMG_BLAST damage no longer play explosion death anim


• Improved players sprinting from prone behavior


• Optimized particles


• Optimized cvar lookups


• Optimized minimap drawing


• Optimized player model drawing


• Removed unused effects and sprites


• Removed Movewith


• Removed lightning and extra unused weather features


• Removed cutscenes


• Removed w_ models for weapons that can't be dropped


• Improved names starting with # behavior


• Increased number of custom objective icons per map to 6


• Label in class select menu shows class limit and how many are in that class


• Class menu now omits banned classes and greys out full classes


• Removed hint message on bazooka /piat /pschreck pickup


• Various other improvements
  
  Additions


• Added entity lookup hash to speed up searching for entities


• Added new blood hit effect


• Added mapinfo text files that can edit map properties - ban specific classes and remove spawned bazookas


• Added print warning message if map tries to load too many client_env_models


• Added K43 butt smack


• Added new cvars and commands (see readme.txt for full listing)

Source: Half-Life Radio

We're back from E3 and rested! LIVE SHOWS RESUME! Our live show tonight will begin at 8pm EST (1am GMT). Tonight we have several guests, news about Half-Life 2, and a E3 followup.

We will be broadcasting live from GamesNET! If you would like to chat with us live during the broadcast, make sure you have a GamesNET account. Chat server: irc.GamesNET.net. If you do not have an IRC client, just click on the 'CHAT' link from the top navigation. See you tonight!

Source: HL2 Grounds
Source: The Last Great War

Once again the forums were wiped, I dont know how as I just came back a few days after everything went down hill. Apparently Ronan Hayes deleted them on his webaccount without consulting anyone. Our webdesigner, Gh0st, disappeared, and NC|7, my replacement leader also disappeared. Leaving the mod in the dark, without a leader or any form of organization while I was gone.

It's been a great year or so, and we're sorry to let you down, after a large team that worked so hard for so long, its sad to see a few idling members bring it down.

Goodbye, and goodluck to all,
Mith

Source: Water Wars

Finally all the weapons are finished. The Blade render you see is the second melee soaker for the mod. The Gooper render shows off the soaker that shoots slime.
We need one more dedicated mapper to join to make 2 maps for the release. Towards the end of the month you will see some movies and testing will begin next month towards the end. In closing I show you the final two Water Wars weapons for the mod.

Source: MechMod

Jason has been busy coding in new Alpha Bomb effects using his particle system and sprites made by SSJS. Check out these two brand new screenshots for charging and firing an alpha bomb respectively:



We also have brand new smoke trails for the homing missiles and the wasted missile, and here are three brand new screenshots to show off the new trails:




Do note that these are unaltered screenshots straight from the game to your screens, the glowy effect that you see is the CG pixel shading effect that Jason implemented. Our new modeller Va$h2k4 has also made his first model for MechMod which will make it's way into our first release. The following model is titled MK-II Monster, and it is a heavy duty mech from the Robotech series:



More updates coming soon, keep watching our forums and homepage!

Source: HL Radio

We will have Wacky Wednesday this week on Half-Life Radio. We are taking a couple of days of rest and will resume live shows on Wednesday. We have a big show for you, so join us on Wednesday starting at 8pm EST (1am GMT).

Source: The CPL

The Team Sportscast Network (TsN) online show "In The Crosshair" will conduct an interview with CPL's president tonight at 8:30PM Central. You can listen to the "In The Crosshair" live via streaming audio.
Here's a quote of the TsN press release: "A special and exclusive interview with perhaps one of the most influential persons in the competitive gaming world today: CPL and CAL President, Angel Munoz. Angel will be joining the Crosshair team for a special interview to discuss the upcoming Summer Championships as well as a report card on the state of competitive gaming in general."
The interview will start at 9:30pm EST, 8:30pm CST and 6:30pm PST. The show starts an hour earlier.
Visit www.tsncentral.com for a list of servers, and login early to reserve your spot. You'll need Winamp 2.9 or above to listen to the show.
TsN, an online broadcast and media organization, delivers audio content in the form of online community interactive shows that discuss new games, competitive leagues, as well as upcoming tournaments worldwide. Shows discuss a wide range of topics of interest to both the passive “for fun” gamer, and the professional and aspiring professional “hardcore” gamer.

Source: Valve

Codename Gordon, a new side scrolling adventure through the Half-Life universe, has been released for all Steam customers. Created by Nuclearvision Entertainment, Codename Gordon takes players through dozens of levels inspired by Half-Life and Half-Life 2, challenges players to a slew of puzzles, and showcases many of the familiar creatures in an all new, 2 dimensional playing field. For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.

I just noticed while posting the last news item...HLGaming has reached its 900th news post! 100 more and its the 1000 news post celebration. New things are to be added to the website so stay tuned. Also check out the Message Boards.