Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

[Kurtis]

Well, I was happy when I heard the news, but I just played it for about 10 minutes and it sucks big time. Apparently there are only 2 maps available for it, and every server I went to lagged a TON. I'm pretty disappointed...

Not only has VALVe released Counter-Strike: Source incomplete, but now we have ANOTHER beta'ish game to play (Deathmatch). I am very disappointed to say the least. I really hope VALVe fixes the mess they are making for themselves.

[Rich]

I love single player games, but if the multiplayer blows, that is really disappointing. I remember playing the original Half-life multiplayer and it was a blast! :D I hope they fix this one.

[Brian]

You judge too quickly. Just like when you first tried CS:S on your computer and it was laggy. You complained but it ended up being your computer, not the game.

HL2:DM was just released today. Steam and game servers are being pummeled with requests; of course it is going to be laggy!

As for the two maps, they may release more. Valve also released the Source SDK today so there will be a flood of new maps made by modders.

Give it a while before you completely condemn it to hell.

[Kurtis]

Not condemning it to hell, i will of course try it again in a few days or maybe a week or so, but what disappoints me is that VALVe keeps releasing things in such a (HOPEFULLY) unfinished state.

I really wish that they would focus more energy on addressing the concerns and issues that people have brought up with them. There are a ton of people on their forums begging them to update CS:Source, among other things, and yet it seems their requests are falling upon deaf ears.

I'm just disappointed, that's all there is to it. If things improve, I may change my mind, but right now I am not impressed with Deathmatch.

[IronSight]

I agree, it's only fun for a couple minutes, then it just gets repetative. All these objects flying everywhere smoking people in the face, grenades and rockets in the streets. Just too chaotic to be much fun.

I mean, in that prison level, there was guy running around with a giant fence, just lobbing the wall at groups of people...

[Dyrewolph]

... begging them to update CS:Source, among other things, and yet it seems their requests are falling upon deaf ears.

Kurtis... It took them years to develop the half life 2 engine... you should know... you complained about it enough... so give them a bit of time... they may be working on it...

[EmoMakesMeCry]

I doubt that what they released is the final finished product. it's not very much fun right now but give them a chance and i'm sure once they get working on it then HL2:DM will get a lot better.

[Blinkin]

There's already a 3rd map called crossfire. I think it's better than the others personally. I also heard somewhere that valve said it isn't their official HL2 multiplayer. Not sure what that means but it sounds good :). And I believe DM is something Valve whipped up in like a week just so they could quell the masses complaining about no multiplayer.

[MaNiAk21]

Yeah.. I still have 256MB of ram.. I'll be getting another 512 of Mushkin at some point when I have money, and I should be overclocking my PC again.. and then I'll be able to play HL2. :P

[PsychoSnowMan]

It's the first version I bet they'll improve it. The second day I played I was able to get on a server that didn't lag too much and have had fun ever since. It needs quite a bit of improvement but I'm betting valve will have some gameplay changes etc. coming up soon. People have known about the CS:Source update coming in mid december for a month or two atleast by now. There is that HL2:DM update coming out soon too with a new gameplay mode, maps and melee weapons that was announced recently too. They didn't say anything about weapon value changes though.

[Zythius]

You guys tried the "bug" with the pistol?

(Just press and hold both mouse buttons for like 10 sec and then realease them, rapid fire :D )

[Blinkin]

I dont know if it's a bug. heres some code from when you do the "pistol trick". SoundData
{

"reload" "Weapon_Pistol.Reload"
"reload_npc" "Weapon_Pistol.NPC_Reload"
"empty" "Weapon_Pistol.Empty"
"single_shot" "Weapon_Pistol.Single"
"single_shot_npc" "Weapon_Pistol.NPC_Single"
"special1" "Weapon_Pistol.Special1"
"special2" "Weapon_Pistol.Special2"
"burst" "Weapon_Pistol.Burst"
}

Here is the magnum:

SoundData
{
"empty" "Weapon_Pistol.Empty"
"single_shot" "Weapon_357.Single"
}

[Brian]

You want maps?

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5954

Half-Life 2 Map Pack #1 has 50 maps. Have fun :-)

[netcompany3]

yeah, i heard the new patchy sorta thing is gonna clear up a lot of bugs and shizit (<-- haha, shizit) plus, i heard the melee weapons are a TON of fun to just screw around with.

[NO TACT]

I played HL2 Deathmatch at a LAN and it was great. The saw blad map owns. I had just bought HL2 that day and I was owning with the grav gun people who had played for a few weeks once I go the hang of it.