I don’t want this to turn into a TF2 Only Blog, but the DoD:S update is dragging it’s feet, the Pyro Update came out (with all the attendant enthusiasm for new maps), and we haven’t been playing on FNF’s DoD:S Beta server. It’s hosted on Bat21‘s home dsl and is pretty laggy. Nevertheless, DoD:S guru [...]

A quote from FuzzDad in the DoD:S section of the steampowered boards (in response to charges of DoD:S turning into or being unduly influenced by TF2): They are not going for the “TF2 look”. Never have, never will. The stuff they brought over from TF2 was done so just to get it to run in [...]

Fudgeums posing over my corpse on DoD:S Beta’s Palermo. Palermo is an update of a classic DoD map called Railroad. In Source, a mapper named Insta reworked it, replaced the train bit with a seaside, and called it Salerno. So – Railroad, Salerno, and now Palermo. It’s a solid map (not great). That’s me, dead [...]

From Valve’s MattBoone, posting in the DoD:S section on steampowered: EDIT: New update coming out not today, but tomorrow. The friendlyfire tag fix is partially done – won’t go into effect until we update the engine, which will be sometime before the beta goes live. dod – achievements are now all stored locally as well [...]

OK, this is old. But I’ve been watching a couple movies I got (Steve McQueen’s “Bullitt“, for one). Posting here the few I find interesting. The full list can be found at steampowered.com: Day of Defeat: Source Beta New team identifier icons as rewards for completing achievements – 1 per class achievement, and 1 for [...]

FrankNFurter jumping into action.

OK, so I’m enjoying the new DoD Achievements (until they’re reset). I got this one tonight:

Sgt. Schultz surprises Bat21 a second after this screenshot was taken. Good to see Schultzy back, I need to profile his new fragwagon on here.

Day Of Defeat: Source Beta Update Released May 28, 2008, 5:00 pm – Jason Ruymen – Product Update Updates to Day of Defeat: Source Beta have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include: Day of Defeat: Source Beta Fix for client crash in spectator [...]

From MattBoone of VALVe: Hey guys and gals, here are some of the things in the works for the next update to the beta. Because of the holiday we didn’t get a chance to release a fix today, but early tomorrow we should be releasing a crash fix to the servers. After that I have [...]