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, [...]

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 the [...]

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 [...]

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.
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- achievements are now all stored locally as well for offline achievement dialog
- [...]

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 completing all achievements
Added [...]

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 gui
Fixed third person tracers [...]

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 a list of [...]