Source: Half-Life 2
Related: Dystopia

By far the most common question we've recieved during development has been; "when's Dystopia coming out?" Right up until today the answer has always been "when it's done". Well, the last week of testing has made the team very confident that the Dystopia demo is indeed done.

Source: Half-Life 2
Related: Troy

Troy: Divine Playground is back! We've been away all summer for our internships, but some members still managed to create content. Gus produced a quick video to explain where we are at, and we've got some goodies to show you as well.
[VIDEO LINK AVAILABLE ON TROY WEBSITE]
A couple of months ago we received a Hoplite model from Marco Hakenjos, and we modified it so that it would look like the Greek and the Trojan models we wanted. Here is a WIP of the two soldiers, as well as Dez concept arts of theses guys. You can also see the new long bow model.


We also got some ingame screens to show. There is no T:DP HUD yet – it should be done in the next two months.

T:DP will feature dynamic music. Here are some "layers" of the music you'll hear when playing. The frenzy music will play when you're in the heat of the action, while the quiet song will play if you're just slacking off your godly duty, admiring the landscape.
[AUDIO LINK AVAILABLE ON TROY WEBSITE]
Now here is the most important part of the update: we are opening some positions to work hard with us. We just finalized the schedule for our next term - the next four months - and we will need to be very productive to create the awesome final product we want. We need prop & character modelers, animators, skinners, mappers, texture artists and a 2D artist. If you are accepted as a team member you will have very clear deadlines and the opportunity to give your feedback on our currently playable version.

Source: Half-Life 2
Related: Dead

Ok I'm making this fast because I have alot of things to do, so here is our August media update, its a small one compared to our other media releases but alot of that is due to us focusing on game play issues and code right now.

So here are some models that we hope you will enjoy!



We hope you enjoy the update and we look forward to bringing you another one in September!

Updates coming with in the hour!!

Source: Sven Co-Op

Sven Co-op v3.5 is still in development, as is Sven Co-op 2 for Half-Life 2.
Currently, things like college and our real-life jobs are slowing down progress. As far as Sven Co-op v3.5 goes, the Team has been thinking about releasing incremental patches. For example, in the first patch, features we haven't finished yet will be commented out of the code. We're thinking about doing "Bronze Release, Silver Release, Gold Release." When we finally reach "Gold Release" status, all of our planned features will be in a working state.
This is just something we want to do for the community, because we know how long everyone has been waiting for the new patch. We haven't been ignoring you.
In the Bronze Release, most of the new v3.5 game modes will not be available. However, things like Running and Shooting for the AI and many bug fixes & new features, will be there.
Some of the things, which are 100% complete, are listed below. This does not list in-progress items, as mentioned above.

Finished Item Change Log

• Fixed FGD bug that caused an error in Worldcraft/Hammer if loaded for the first time.

vFixed bug that allowed players to gain an unlimited amount of ammo after dropping specific weapons.

• Fixed missing name for the Nihilanth boss monster.


• Increased Alien Grunt Armor protection.


• Decreased rappeling speed with the barnacle grapple.


• Increased allowable server name length, server names no longer appear "corrupted".


• Clamped suit volume to 1 to prevent any "SV_StartSound: volume = X" crashes.


• Fixed animation popping for the Sniper Rifle when doing a full ammo reload.


• Fixed various name declarations for monsters.


• Fixed mp_respawndelay not being set when defined in a map cfg file.


• Fixed bug that froze monsters in place if their follow-target died.


• Alien Grunts can now turn their heads.


• Scripted_sentence feature: When adding a "+" in front of a wav file path under


• "Sentence Name" in Hammer, the monster will be able to say the given wav file without the need for a sentences.txt entry. (Sounds are automatically precached)


• Big Mommas will now run after and attack anything that happens to kill one of their children.


• If in an alert state, monsters will run to help any nearby friends by looking for their enemies (if ally is engaged in combat). Result is a more active group of monsters that are better aware of their surroundings.


• Monsters now run over to dead bodies of their allies, rather than stare off into space.


• Changed priority of following monsters to keep following their player-owner more often.


• Grunts now regard Big Mommas as their Nemesis if being pursued by them.


• Squad leaders can now communicate with other visible squad leaders.


• Upon encounters with new enemies while being attacked, Big Mommas will attempt to shield themselves from incoming attacks.


• Hud now properly outputs a weapon's clip count, weapons can have over 100 rounds in a clip.


• Increased view height of nodes from 8 units to 32 units in order to greatly improve navigation around obstacles like stairs, the top and bottom of hills etc.


• [Note: 'Maximum visible nodes' level design error was removed.]


• Fixed a serious node-graph linking glitch, node graphs allow monsters to navigate areas 100% better.


• Fixed bug that would allow monsters to damage/break objects with their melee attacks even if "Trigger Only" was set on func_breakables.


• New entity: monster_handgrenade


• Can have custom model and health option sets the delay before explosion when spawned.


• Changed "monster_satchelcharge" in FGD file to "monster_satchel" since there is no "monster_satchelcharge" entity in Half-Life.


• Small CPU optimization/fix added for the Bullsquid when it fails to find a path to its enemy.


• Idle sounds added for the Voltigore.


• Fixed problem with the Squadmaker entity not transferring free-roaming options to its created monsters.


• Cleaned up Squadmaker and Monstermaker code.


• Female assassins can now run away from dangerous zombie-like creatures as all other human classes do. (And they're quite good at it, too!)


• Monsters now recognize Big Momma's mortar as a dangerous thing and attempt to run away from it.


• Melee-only Male Assassins will now flee if they're being pursued by an attacker, and come back to fight when their enemy has its back turned.


• Fixed problem with the Apache (when killed) constantly exploding and throwing metal if it fell on top of another monster.


• Monsters will make an attempt to get away from Apaches/Ospreys when the helicopters are falling to the ground.


• Female Assassins no longer make running sounds when walking.


• New trigger_push spawnflags: "No Clients" and "No Monsters"


• Will cause the trigger_push to ignore either entity type.


• "Disable Respawn" spawnflag added in for items (healthkits, batteries, etc.)


• Added a "Health Cap" option for item_healthkits.


• Allows for bonus-health, or to disallow players to use the kits after a specified health level.


• NOTE: 1 unit of health will drain from the player every 2 seconds if over the maximum health amount.


• Health kits can be set to give a specific amount of health to the player, individually from other health kits.


• Increased grapple entity tongue size to make it easier for players to grapple onto things.


• Osprey Helicopters now fall and slide onto the ground a bit once they crash, and explode after a second or so. Any grunts riding inside of the craft are jettisoned out when it explodes (and killed)


• Tweaked func_pushables. Stop moving and +use one to "pick it up", move into it to push, or move into it and +use while aiming slightly downward to push with more control. Pick up and start moving to throw a short distance.


• When attacked, Barnacles will flinch in place making them easier to notice.


• Cleaned up sound effects, client-side effects, AI glitches, and a crash bug for the Shock Trooper monster.


• Tweaked/Reduced Shock Trooper damage resistance.


• Revamped trigger_hurt damage function, players get correct levels of damage regardless of lag level (E.g. no more instant deaths from trigger_hurts that give 20 damage)


• Re-worked ammo-dropping system to only drop as much ammo from the player as can be picked up by the standard ammo_entities.


• Medkit healing rate increased


• Added "item_generic" to the Sven Co-op FGD (Accidentally left out)


• Alien Grunt Hornets have 50% reduced sight range, and only tracking-hornets will be fired if the Monster can not see his enemy.

• If enemy is visible, the alien grunt will fire hornets in a similar manner to the player hornetgun's secondary fire.


• Shell casings and gib models now properly bounce and react to the ground.


• Increased shell casing life time from 2.5 seconds to 5 seconds.


• Changed tongue orientation for the barnacle grapple.


• Screen now shakes when in proximity of grenades or other dangerous explosive devices, intensity of screen-shake based on damage.


• Tweaked shell-casing ejection points for a few weapons


• Crossbow zoom-toggle delay decreased


• Minor change: Monsters make a pain sound when they're injected with a needle from the Medic Grunt. Sorry, we had to do this :)


• Fixed schedule bug that affected monster attack animations.


• Monsters will immediately start following a new player when they're +used, instead of just stopping and clearing their old follow-target.


• New weapon: M249 Squad Automatic Weapon


• Pitdrones now hide from their enemies when reloading their spikes.


• Monsters now make various sounds to coincide with the NPC commands.


• Fixed a few issues with the "Create" command for mappers. Adding a "1" at the end of the input will toggle friendly/enemy monster spawning.


• Mandatory delay of 2 seconds added for teleports, to prevent impatient players from telefragging their team mates.


• Increased the turning/facing speed for Male Assassins


• Fixed rare crashbug related to humans running away from dangerous monsters


• Updated HWGrunt attacking behaviors and fixed tracking bugs


• Player Health column added to the scoreboard.


• Decreased accuracy for Otis and Medics that use the Desert Eagle handgun.


• Fixed some issues with monsters walking off of ledges.


• Re-worked Gargantua flame-mechanics for brush-based enemy support.


• Gargantuas now respond to bullets when shot from behind.


• Added light-based muzzle flashes to weapons


• New fair and balanced scoring system. The more health a monster has, the more points you receive for taking them out.


• Changed around head-bob mechanics for falling/landing. (Requested)


• Male Assassins now take more opportunities to use their grenade attack.


• Fixed problem with secondary attack not calling the dry-fire animation on the Glock 9mm.


• Scientists can now be set to "fear" players and other friendly monsters.


• Fixed various reloading glitches for the Glock and 357.


• Door improvement: Check added to make sure linked doors remain in-sync with eachother.


• Can be disabled with flag.


• Set gl_round_down to default to 0, offers greater image quality.


• New Entity: Trigger_change_class


• Changes a monster's classification when triggered.


• Changed some display errors in the sven-coop.fgd file.


• Fixed a friendly fire problem that caused monsters to shoot their partner's backs by mistake


• Falling into water is no longer a safeguard against fall-damage. The deeper the water, the lesser the impact.


• Can be disabled in map CFG with "mp_water_falldamage 0"


• Light entities now have a flag to remove them from the world. As a result, they no longer [need] to add onto the entity count limit (Regardless of if you do specify a targetname for them)


• Global light control entity added. Mappers now have the ability to toggle all texture lights in a level on or off, or give them a specific pattern (e.g. flicker)


• Streaming audio support and *.pls playlist file support added for the Sven Co-op MP3 player.


• New Entity: trigger_track_goal


• triggers a func_track_train to start moving toward a specific path_track path entity. Acts like a "call" button for elevators, and can be used to direct trains to specific destinations.


• Fixed akimbo uzi hud ammo visibility bug.


• Changed scoring system points per-monster.


• Weapon models can now have custom weapon muzzle sprites specified by the weapon.QC file. Use: { event 5005 "sprites/spritename.spr" } -


• NOTE: Ensure sprite model is precached.


• Fixed various "freezing" problems with the Voltigore AI


• Fixed ancient bug which prevented "running through shallow water" sounds from playing


• Players no longer make "bubble" sounds when standing in water, sound effect now plays when fully submerged in water.


• Redundant server-side footstep sounds no longer play.


• Particle system created for water splashes and hit effects, etc.


• Mysterious "second bullet" decal mark is no longer drawn when the 357 and Sniper rifle fires.


• Mapper placed weaponboxes now automatically respawn.


• Fixed a series of third person player animation bugs.


• Tweaked Wrench secondary damage.


• Takes about 5 seconds to charge up secondary fire, to give a maximum damage bonus of 85 damage points, in addition to the weapon's standard damage.


• Scientist now plays fear animation for gunshot fire (Bug existed since Half-Life)


• Fixed monster yaw speed handling.


• Players can now retrieve their own detpacks by +using them.


• Things like shell casings now float in the water.


• Offloaded FMOD DLL to svencoop cl_dlls folder to prevent any further 3rd party mod incompatibilities.


• Fixed several crashes with the mp3 player code.

If you have modelling experience, and would like to join the team, please send a portfolio of your work to sniper@svencoop.com. NOTE: We're looking for people who want to work with the Half-Life 1 engine, not Half-Life 2, at this time. We need some additional talent to help finish various Sven Co-op for Half-Life 1 modelling tasks.
We thank everyone for being patient during this process.

Source: Goldeneye Source

Recently we were asked by Sentinelrv of headcrabunion for a interveiw. We accepted and now it is posted on the HCU's website. Head on over there for the full interveiw

I recently got the chance to do an interview with the mod team behind GoldenEye: Source, which is a recreation of the original GoldenEye's multiplayer, but using Half-Life 2's Source engine to power the mod.

Sentinelrv: How much of the games mechanics, such as player movement will you be changing?

Goldeneye Source: Very little if any at all. One of the biggest things that we think we need to do is make the game just like it was in the original, as far as game play and movements go. One thing we will be adding is Jump, which will be a server side option to turn it on or off for those who want to play how it was in the original. There are also talks about adding lean and other additional movements, which we think will better the game play. Over all we think we will keep any improvements we make a server side option.

Sentinelrv: Is there going to be any kind of public beta testing when the mod nears completion?

Goldeneye Source: We will be releasing a beta sometime soon. Which will include a few maps, characters and weapons.

Click the link for the whole interveiw
http://www.gamespot.com/unions/read_article.html?union_id=HCU&article_id=23171248

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Source: Plan of Attack

We're happy to report that a competitive Plan of Attack ladder has been created on ClanBase. This is an excellent opportunity for all of those clans out there to begin competion with one another. So go ahead and sign up (new clans here) and start playing some matches! The dev team clan will be added shortly.
Over the past few weeks we've also added a number of screenshots from the upcoming Beta 4. They are in our media section, so make sure to check them out!

Source: DODEC

As im sure you all have noticed, the site has been down all day. I take full responsibility for this as I mistakingly did not fully remove EZ with the Hardwares ftp access due to an oversight and he proceeded to DELETE EVERYTHING on the DoD Editing Center. It seems that he has taken a personal dispute between him and myself and betrayed the ENTIRE day of defeat community by attemping to destroy this valuable resource which I have built for everyones convenience and enjoyment.

However, luckily I saved a backup and am fixing the site as we speak. The file database is FULLY operational now, however ALL images of recently uploaded files (last couple of months) are COMPLETELY lost and will not be fixed. The forums are currently a WIP and should be fully operational by tomorrow morning latest. News wise, the news systems templates were completely lost and I will be rebuilding them from scratch tonight, so this ugly white will only be temporary. Finally, while to site is being fixed up, I may see if I can add a few new features here and there that I have been working on for the DoD Editing Center: Source (which also btw was deleted by mr EZ With the Hardware - Thank goodness for backups).

Anyway that is what went on today. On a personal note, I would like to encourage people to keep visiting. The bad times are now behnd us and we have a bright future ahead. I will continue to update the site and I promise I will not betray you like Mr. EZ.

Source: Resident Evil: Extermination

Hey, everyone, it's that time again for a little something called "information updating." Basically, the About Section's been updated with a nice little FAQ, so those of you who have questions about stuff but don't want to dig through the really complicated full About Section can just simply click on About and go to FAQ and boom! A lovely list of questions and answers. (if a new question becomes common on the forums, we'll probably add it later).

Other additional info includes two NPC Profiles under About->Characters. Don't worry, this won't spoil everything and you'll still be surprised when some of these guys (and eventually gals) show up. You can take my word on that!

We also got Lynx to update the skin for the Zombie Civvie you saw last time. You can check the image below or seek it out in the Media Section. Yeah, sorry, the back-view's been hacked away with a saw since we realized there wasn't much "back love" to give to the world. And yeah, there will be new skins next update. We can guarantee that.

Because that brings us to point #3 - we're not going to update for a few weeks and take some time away from the "public eye". Leon has gone back to Art School so he's mostly just gonna be doing labor for us during the weekdays (and consulting with me and Tequila from time to time via email). I (Futsin) also personally need to take some weeks off to work on some projects I've had laying around. The others will most-certainly stay dedicated and inspiration is still violently high. And we most certainly will still be planning and plotting things constantly, as we always do. Just that we'll be going back into the shadows of secrecy for a bit.

No worries. We will return! This is not the sign of cancellation or anything else the naysayers out there can throw at us (we got "naysayer repellent" in the mail today here at REE H.Q.), for this is merely the time where we patch up our wounds and reload our guns. When we get back, we intend to have a new forum and HUGE bunch of media. (including wallpapers!) There's a lot in store for you folks.

So for now, relax, put on some music, and get some reading done. Have faith, for all is currently well.