Day of Defeat: Source approaching beta

[Scooter]

News broke early this morning on a wide number of gaming websites, detailing the imminent arrival of DoD:Source.

Day of Defeat: Source, Valve's World War II-themed multiplayer action game, is approaching beta and will be available early this spring via Steam. A team-based multiplayer game that cast players in the Axis vs. Allies battles of Western Europe circa 1944, Day of Defeat: Source leverages the power of the Source engine to introduce integrated physics simulation technology, all new audio, updated maps, enhanced effects and more. More information about Day of Defeat: Source will be released in the coming weeks.

More screenshots can be found here:


http://www.eslive.com/news.php?g=2056

[Zeph]

Excellent! :D Nice spelling of Doug Lombardi on the link u posted :)

[RaydoX]

thats awersome look forward to playing that DOD is the best war game around atm

a source version would be a hell of alot better than the cs version

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

sweeeeeeeet

[MIsc^|^decoy]

yea, dod+hl2 physics?

[geordiedmw]

OMFG just come in my pants

[BattleFieldRelics]

About time!

[happynoodleboy]

Well its been a long time coming- and all they can manage is a beta???? FFS whatever happened to finishing your products before you release them?

[geordiedmw]

Hey thats valve for you

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

any clues as to who will get to test it??

[Zeph]

Well its been a long time coming- and all they can manage is a beta???? FFS whatever happened to finishing your products before you release them?
Well they have to be tested somehow, if you remember theyre all based off community created products and not written by Valve from scratch.

[TheTrout]

']any clues as to who will get to test it??

At the moment it's being tested by all the staff at Steampowered.com including the moderators. There's no mention of a public beta yet.

[Scooter]

i stole that thread from clanbase btw so i have noo idea.

[RaydoX]

']any clues as to who will get to test it??

if its anything like cs:source it will first to be allowed will be lan cafe's and then to peeps with cs:cz

p.s. i cannot beleave i went to my lan cafe just to play cs:source :8:

[Scooter]

As posted earlier, Valve started the beta test of Day Of Defeat: Source. By this more and more screenshots are getting released, even the first movies can be downloaded.

Movies:


http://www.clanbase.com/cvs.php?url=files.dayofdefeat.fi/movies/dod_source.rar

http://www.clanbase.com/cvs.php?url=j.students.umkc.edu/jdw89f/vids/dod_compress.avi

http://www.clanbase.com/cvs.php?url=ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/games/nofrag/dodfr/dodsource/xvidclip.avi

[ha0x]

Day of Defeat: Source Avalanche Gameplay Video (NEW & HOT)

- dod_avagameplayfinal.avi [92.1MB]

Looks really great and It's worth the download.

http://halflife2.filefront.com/files/Day_of_Defeat_Source/Media/Video;5683

[Zeph]

Getting it at about 250k/s, looking forward to seeing this :)

[Gazaridis]

That was so not worth the download. It looks almost identical to normal DOD, just slightly sharper and with different gun noises. Oh, and the power lines wiggle.

[scab]

I might even buy HL2 for this... :)

[Zeph]

That was so not worth the download. It looks almost identical to normal DOD, just slightly sharper and with different gun noises. Oh, and the power lines wiggle.
Cynic.

[Gazaridis]

Well, yeah I am a bit cynical. Are the slightly sharper graphics going to be worth the fps hit? Just look at cs - 1.6 still has a big following. If it's a work-in-progress then thats one thing, but if DOD:S is going to be just a direct port then it's going to let a lot of people down. I was expecting DOD:S to make more use of the manipulatable environment, eg: Grenades cause debris, maybe knocking out part of a window frame, rather than just a black decal (see start of movie, where blast decal doesn't carry over between two textures). Apparantly, the sound is good on DODS, as in you hear whats gunfire elsewhere in the map rather than a looped ambient sound, but the video only shows that yes, DOD:S is getting worked on.

[Mordeth]

Remember it is still Beta....

[geordiedmw]

i hope they pull this together as i really want dods to work as dod was my first onlinegames experiance and i love the old girl with a passion went on my old dod server the other day couldnt hit shit was hillarious totaly different way of playing the game gah i used to be a good dod player

[Scooter]

For the last couple of months a team at Valve has been working away on Day of Defeat: Source. We'd like to give people some insight into what we've been doing during this time.

The initial plan following the launch of Half-Life 2 was to get a near direct port of the existing Day of Defeat up and running and release it to the community. After this release, the plan was to take the approach of iterating on the art and gameplay of Day of Defeat through the end of the year. We finished this porting work a few months ago, released this version to a small group of beta testers, and then took stock of where we were. We didn't feel like the game was good enough from a visual perspective to release.

We decided to rework all of the content of Day of Defeat: Source before the full public release, hoping that people would be happier waiting for the product to ship while we gave DoD the attention it deserved. We hope our assumptions turn out to be accurate.

Here is the first screenshot from dod_flash, which is the first map that has been given this complete art pass. We'll have more things to share over the next few weeks.