Half-Life 2 Deathmatch & SDK Released Today (12/1)

Steam News announces the release of Half-Life 2 deathmatch along with an updated software development kit for Valve's first-person shooter sequel. Here's the deal:

A Half-Life 2 update has been released via Steam. Please restart Steam to apply the update.

Included in this update:

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
• New multiplayer game featuring physics simulation system

Half-Life 2/Source SDK
• Includes game code needed to create Half-Life 2/Source MODs
• Ability to edit Half-Life 2 maps
• Maya model exporter
• 3d Studio Max model exporter source code
• Sample MOD with vehicles

Source Updates
• HTTP and non-HTTP map auto downloading functionality
• Enhanced dedicated server logging capabilities
• Various tweaks and fixes

*Also: A Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Map Making Contest has been announced. The winning entry will receive a cash prize of $5,000. Two runner up entries will receive a cash prize of $3,000.

http://steampowered.com/img/HL2DM.jpg

Killing people with toilet seats was never as much fun. :)

Sweet!! There's the new multiplayer capability I was talking about previously.

Anyone up for an AK CS:S night tonight??

I suppose I shall have to buy this game. Any game where you can kill people with a flying toilet is worth my 50 bux0rs.

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Originally Posted by [AK]The Beast

I suppose I shall have to buy this game. Any game where you can kill people with a flying toilet is worth my 50 bux0rs.

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Beast.. The single player alone is worth the $50 IMHO.

I think I can make it for 9pm EST. We can either do CS:S or check out the new HL2 deathmatch.

I should be around tonight as well. I'll jump on Ventrilo around 9PM.

I just played DM for about half an hour and its OK. It's a typical Death Match situation. It definitely needs more maps. The one thing I noticed is that people tend to hang out around the spawn points and as soon as you spawn, they kill you (Typical Spawn Camping). I saw this happen quite a bit on the prison map where a guy had the gravity gun and just sat there with a fence and just kept shooting it whenever someone spawned.

Sorry I missed lastnight, I didn't get home until late. If anyone is up for a little Source tonight let me know.

Hy and I had a good time playing Source last night. Piranesi with 24 players was rather intense. :) I'll try to be on around 9pm EST tonight.

I should be around tonight as well.

Hopefully I play better tonight than last night. I'll blame my play last night on all the medication I'm taking to keep this cold I have from getting worse. ;)