I love it when I’m right. At least half right - I predicted cp_fastlane to be one of the two new maps, and lo and behold it is. Along with ctf_turbine, which I’m not sure if I’ve ever played before. I gotta run, so check the details (plus all the juicy Pyro unlockable details) at
———————–>halflife2.net

Anticipation. Gahh! This is making me late for work. Meet the Sniper is out. Will have the obligatory youtube/vimeo embed later, with analysis. Later as in tonight. Until then, here’s a nice Sniper related screenshot (one of those Pyros is FNF’s Poots).

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 [...]

First, let’s Meet the Sniper (tomorrow at 11am. YESS)

(Team Taco Slick, looking a bit worse for the wear - above)
Thursday, the Pyro Grinding Festival begins on a server near you!

From the steam news update:
“….two user-created maps are included to highlight the great work being done in the community and distribute those works to all TF2 [...]

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
- [...]

The update to Pyro, along with a “Meet the Sniper” video is coming soon. From rockpapershotgun.com:
This includes the introduction of a new unlockable weapon for the Pyro, the Axtinguisher. (Best name ever?) Dishing out half-damage when used alone, if used to chop a player you’ve already set on fire (it’s funny how innocent this [...]

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: