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Day of Defeat Source Final Update
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-Lemming- at 2008-07-03 01:18:00 CET
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The time has finally come, when the long-awaited
DoD:s Update would recieve its final release. Over the last 5 weeks, thousands of gamers have played the beta, updating the developers with bugs and glitches to be fixed, and giving overall feedback. Now the update has been released officialy, and to go along with it, a
free weekend has been offered for this week-end only, to bring in new interest to the game.
So what's new? Well, if you didn't know already here's what's new in the
Palermo Update :
Achievements : Over 51 unique achievements which are earned by different feats in the game. They cover different styles of gameplay, and reward and recognise rare events during gameplay.
Palermo : The VALVe team decided it was time to make salerno official, and bought the map from its original creator, Magnar "insta" Jenssen. The renamed the map dod_palermo, and changed areas on the map, for example, the lobby, the beach and the cafe(see below).
Freezecam : This was a popular feature in TF2, due to the hilarity of the shots you would see from the freezecam. This feature shows a freezeframe of where your opponent was, when he killed you, and how much life he has left.
Nemesis and Revenge : This is another TF2 feature intergrated with the game. Nemesis and Revenge are related to the number of times you kill the same person, 3 in a row without them killing you, and you are "dominating" that player. If a player if "dominating" you, they are your "nemesis". However if you kill them, you have "revenge".
Player Statistics : As a player continues to play the game, whether it's public or private gaming, their statistics will be tracked. Players can view their overall progress, their achievements, how many dominations they have achieved with a particular gun, how many kills, how many deaths etc.
Cone of Fire & Bullet Registration : For many years, DoD:s was called a broken game. Bullets seemed to act randomly, and the game seemed more random than skill based. This has all been changed with the new orange box engine. CoF has been reduced, and bullet registration has been made less random, and more accurate for each gun. This of course, could imbalance the k98 and the garand. VAVLe tried to balance this problem by lowering the recoil on the garand.
It all sounds very fancy and something new, but is this a popular change? So far mixed opinions have been expressed on the
steam forums. There you can post any bugs or glitches you may find with the new DoD:s, it will pay off to make the effort to report a bug in the end.
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Name: Jorge "-Lemming-" Clift
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Location: Denmark
Mail: lemmingalright at hotmail dot com
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seiken
2008-07-05 19:06:51
gj Lemming aka Mr. zP
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dR
2008-07-05 19:09:22
I'll translate the last paragraph Jorge omitted.
Dear Valve, we, your loyal customers from the very earliest of betas way back when are absolutely fucking outraged to be so direspected with your pathetic "final" version. Beta test it for a few months you useless idiots. COD2, WOW, COD4 have decimated a half way decent scene, and you rushed out a terrible port. You should be ashamed you horrible idiots.
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dR
2008-07-05 19:13:47
Ya, well I always included opinion, I couldnt care less!
No one remembers the nice guy :p
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NuKeR
2008-07-05 19:20:40
nkr says lol
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aKaaa
2008-07-05 19:23:33
if i stay in dods, i am soooo going assault! its now the best weapon in the game..
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PanTeroR
2008-07-05 19:52:53
If you want others huds compatible with the new dodsource, look here :
http://www.dodfrance.com/index.php?page=news&id=2322
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mlr
2008-07-05 20:33:22
ze update includes 52 achievements and not 51 :p
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dR
2008-07-05 21:12:30
51 achievements + achieve them all = 52
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jul1qN
2008-07-05 22:29:17
I must buy a new pc, thx :(
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Beluga
2008-07-05 22:53:06
Alot of bugs still, like pronebug, map glitches, pink trees
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DeZ
2008-07-06 01:54:28
Easy expansion, to get more to buy dods and postpone the death of day of defeat:source.
I know many will say that an update shows that dods is not dead and it develops the game. I would agree if this update did something for dods, but it doesnt. Instead it feels like a test-update, before Valve will apply it on css.
What im trying to say is that, the only thing dods got in this update was:
Freezecam
achievements
Friends avatar whatever...
minor bug fixes.
Nothing indicating that dods will recieve more updates or that valve has planned a future for dods (like TF2 and its character updates/evolving).
Disappointing
again.
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steunwiel
2008-07-06 08:46:30
#20 ... touchdown! So true tbh
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eternium
2008-07-06 10:31:55
#16 your screenshots also turn out black in mat_queue_mode 2. I used an alias (which I slapped into my cfg) to fix that, but that stopped working after I shut the client and turned it back on. No idea why :C
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TBallS
2008-07-06 21:48:39
i can alt-tab on mat_queue_mode 2
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KiA-
2008-07-07 01:45:50
looks shit
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Snk
2008-07-07 10:25:55
Nice update, with some cvars to put off achievements, dominating sounds and stuff it's enjoyable. We just have to wait the next update for bug issues but I guess Valve wants to finish with DoDS so it'll come very soon :)
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Tomsku
2008-07-07 12:44:52
Dez is right! This could have been a nother story if this update would have come like 2years ago! =)
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skinner
2008-07-07 15:17:24
I wish one day they scrap this game, and make a good version of it...nothing can fix shity source.
But talking about this update alone, left peak fix and tighter cof overweights all the small bugs that it brings;]
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nkk
2008-07-07 16:47:47
can i use cl_interpolate 0 again?
1 looks too cartoon
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True
2008-07-08 14:26:05
might have to reinstall this shite to see how they managed to make it even worse then it was! :D
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hoyoxAA
2008-07-08 23:55:25
True dont do it. Its a waste of time
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cuBeee
2008-07-09 11:06:03
Everybody wanted TF2 in WW2, nice update VALVe
reg = improved
achievements = useless thing for public players, now playing only with assault shitweapon, cause it's the bestest
fastswitch = now useless, OH NOES! :((
and it's nice to see avatars when pushing tab, but it is quite dissapointing to see only clantag without fullname :D
Overall, this game was updated to purely public game, there is almost nothing better, except reg (which is now really great)
Thanx to some clans there still exist trainmap servers with rifles only.....
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skinner
2008-07-09 12:29:54
#32 dont forget left peak fix, thats very important too. No more corner abusers
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exodusss
2008-07-10 03:18:52
im glad they removed the ability to sprint before scope for the fast scope glitch, really fucking annoying when people did that ^^^^^^^
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187
2008-07-11 06:31:30
How are you supposed to get rid of the nasty mouseacceleration which isnt supposed to be there? Got cpl mousefix and noforcemaccel commands in launch options.
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bnzrr
2008-07-11 08:59:20
what a waste of time. Making source even more shitty, thought it wasn't possible.
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steunwiel
2008-07-11 10:57:06
#22 make your config read-only and your alias binds wont disappear...
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skinner
2008-07-11 13:12:48
#35 check this out, its better then cpl fix:
http://team-synapse.com/Default.aspx?tabid=57&g=posts&t=227 "This is a mouse acceleration fix that completely removes all acceleration from your Windows registry instead of simply compensating for it (as the CPL Mouse Fix does) so that it is completely removed from both Windows as well as in all games. It also has the ability to turn it back on if you ever want it back so I highly recommend this fix."
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w00dy
2008-07-11 13:40:49
#36 If you don't like the game then don't post about it, its simple.
Nice update, after a few pcws then you dont even notice it really, just becomes second nature.
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nkk
2008-07-11 22:20:19
interpolate is bad
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z0Ink
2008-07-12 13:04:18
#39 Agree!
But there are a few bugs, reminding me that its still the Update :D
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bnzrr
2008-07-12 19:02:43
#39 Im posting my opinion, which I have a right to do, so just shutup scrub, its simple.
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NuKeR
2008-07-12 19:16:20
said the scrub
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w00dy
2008-07-12 22:30:33
#43 And you have played the game? And theres no need to get defensive Mr. eAnger
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datika
2008-07-19 21:32:05
that was my favourite game, but now, i dont know that i love this game or not... a want to use cl_interpolate 0 again!!! :)
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readeh
2008-07-24 08:36:11
Stop the bitch whine kthx.
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ruohiz
2008-07-26 01:26:27
LAG-GY
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Landdropper
2008-07-26 08:45:52
#46 minimize value of lerp and be happy
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lennox
2008-07-26 09:13:44
what's this lerp thing you're all talking about?
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