Source: Pandora Forces

We are still working on Pandora Forces J
Here some of our newest Screens “ak103” and a finished Weaponsound of the “g3”
Currently our Webmaster is translating the German Page in a second one, with English Content. So all our not german speaking Fans can get more Infos about Pandora Forces in the next Days.

Source: Natural-Selection (German)

Flayra - leader of Halflife mod Natural Selection - is forming his own company called Unknown Worlds Entertainment. The mod team is interested in getting the project to retail status. Get statements and lots of information about this on www.natural-selection.de

Source: Mystic MDT

Here is a bonus map for the Afrikakorps serie. It was a expansion of the first and second map but it was left out. The map is not made for low end pc's. NON-dedicated servers without good connection will probably suffer the most.

Download the bonus map below and check the Afrikakorps_bonus textfile included for more info, have fun.

Get the bonus map here:

http://www.edgefiles.com/files/11194.html

Source: Operation: Shadow Phoenix

Heres The newest media from OSP...Since the last time we updated we have been rather busy with the hoildays and such...
OSP is currently Looking for Animators / Skilled HL Mappers if your intereste in one of these postions email me at Beakshy@Comcast.net
Things will be picking up soon at OSP so check our site www.shadow-phoenix.com
Heres the media of our new queen concept and our new spas12 shotgun enjoy!

I hope that everyone had an eventful Christmas day for those of you that have it. For those who do(n't), have a happy holiday season and be safe.

Source The Battle Grounds

After two and a bit days downtime we return. The forums and site are returned and in full working order, however we've lost all the mailing lists. These will be started again the near future and will be more tied to the site.

In the past week and the time the site was down we've been cracking on with BG. Predator has been preparing patches for the mysteriously broken bg_forestroad and some bug fixes for bg_bunkerhill. There will be a quick 1.2.2 patch before the new year to sort out most of the issues that we've had (there are only a few and there all minor bar the bg_forestroad problems).

BlackPanther has been doing some exciting work on bg_snowlake for 1.3. This includes a whole rebuild of the lake area and reworking of the capture areas. To the side you can see two screens showing his progress. I have also been working with BlackPanther on the new site design which will be rolled out in the New Year. A screenshot of a work in progress build of the new design can be seen at the right of this news post.

Finally by no means least, we'd like to welcome Forklet to our team. Forklet will be working on the character skins for 1.3. Forkman will be a familiar face to a lot of you due to his work with Gettysburg, GreenLight by Invasion Works and being involved in the BG community over the past three years. Expect to see exciting work from Forklet shortly.

Source: Xmas mod

After 3 years of work, countless quantities of coffee and other misc substances into my blood system (I have made this mod 100% by myself), Xmas 1.0 has been released !

Keep in mind that 1.0 is still a WORK IN PROGRESS and version 1.1 will be released within 2 weeks to fix any issues you might have.

If you have mirrors for the file, feel free to email me at navalpha@hotmail.com For now, you can download the file (only 16.3 mb zipped!) at this location:

http://www.planetfortress.com/features/lotw/BlackPanther/xmas1.0.zip

I will be making another news post when more mirrors (As well as
fileplanet.com) become available and they will be posted at the official Xmas website at http://xmas.moddb.com/


Changelog:
Feature list:
-2 whole new maps:
Castle morel (x-castle.bsp)
Christmas mice (x-mice.bsp)

-Whole new weapon models and effects:

Candy Cane Crowbar
New Glock 17 model
Raging Bulb
High Definition M4/M203
Double Barreled CoachGun (The boomstick!) Heavy Duty Stapler Rocket Propelled Christmas Tree Panther 5000 Radioactive Eggnog gun Dawalt Nailgun Christmas tree balls grenades "Ravage" R/C Dune Buggy Satchel And more...

-Whole new 2D Graphics (New hud, death sprites, explosions, Launcher art) -New sounds -New VGUI for quick taunts and changing models "on the fly"

Oh and don't forget that the mod's official channel is on #xmasmod at irc.gamesnet.net !

The best christmas present for me is for you to download the mod and enjoy yourselves.
Merry Xmas and have a safe (outside of the game!) holiday season.

Souce: Sven Co-Op
Sven-Co-Op is now avaible for download from www.hlgaming.com. Tell your friends the same. Bellow are some links to the files. If you wish to link to these files please link to www.hlgaming.com for the files will be available on the right in the IN FOCUS section. Thank you and happy playing!
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Change Log

• Mod updated to work with Steam
  
• New monsters: Opposing Force Grunts added, including Torch (explodes when fuel canister is damaged), Medic (heals his allies, whether they're players, grunts or aliens), SAW, and Normal grunt types. Friendly and Hostile versions of each type are available
  
• New monster: Voltigore
  
• New monster: Baby Voltigore
  
• New monster: Cleansuit Scientist - Identical to the Opposing Force version except immune to Poison, Chemical, Radiation, Nerve Gas, and Drowning types of damage
  
• New monster: Black Ops Osprey Helicopter
  
• New monster: Black Ops Apache (for Op4 compatibility)
  
• New monster: monster_hwgrunt_repel - Heavy Weapons Grunt that rappels down. After landing, he'll be able to use his minigun
  
• New weapon: M134 Minigun
  
• New weapon: M40A1 Sniper Rifle. Inaccurate when un-zoomed
  
• New weapon: Barnacle Grapple. Alternate fire toggles pull/rappel mode. Attaches to all monsters, or only some, depending on the map
  
• Shock Trooper Spore Grenades added
  
• Updated Heavy Weapons Grunt
  
• Monsters can randomly roam a level that has info_nodes (must be enabled by the map creator)
  
• All friendly monsters can be made to follow players with the +USE key

Source: Xmas mod

This is Just a reminder that Tomorrow, on December 24 2003 will be the official release of the Xmas modification for Half-Life version 1.0.

Feature list:
-2 whole new maps:
Castle morel (x-castle.bsp)
Christmas mice (x-mice.bsp)

-Whole new weapon models and effects:

Candy Cane Crowbar
New Glock 17 model
Raging Bulb
High Definition M4/M203
Double Barreled CoachGun (The boomstick!) Heavy Duty Stapler Rocket Propelled Christmas Tree Panther 5000 Radioactive Eggnog gun Dawalt Nailgun Christmas tree balls grenades "Ravage" R/C Dune Buggy Satchel And more...

-Whole new 2D Graphics (New hud, death sprites, explosions, Launcher art) -New sounds -New VGUI for quick taunts and changing models "on the fly"

This is but a short list of all the things you will see in Xmas 1.0 Also, this release is incomplete. There are still a lot of things which have not made their way into the mod but ARE in production. What does this mean?

Xmas version 1.1 will be out by the next 2 weeks to fix any issues, finalize the weapon models and add new maps to the mod.

Finally, Xmas is looking for servers who are willing to mirror the mod.
If you are interested, plz email me at navalpha­@hotmail.com

Here is an ingame shot of the newly completed Coach Gun in Castle morel.

As always, you can find every bit of info on the current status of Xmas at http://xmas.moddb.com/

Join us in #xmasmod on irc.gamesnet.net for the release party!

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