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Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I was ever good at

by Christopher Livingston

It sucks when you love a multiplayer game that no one else ever wants to play. As a kid I loved the card game War, but no one would ever play it with me, probably because it's a genuinely terrible game which is entirely luck-based, so it's really just gambling (which may have been why I loved it, now that I think about it). As a teenager I always wanted to play Running Bases (Pickle) but everyone else was into shooting hoops or touch football. Lame... Read more.

Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam

by Andy Chalk

November 16, 2024 is the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2, one of the biggest, most enduring videogames of all time. To celebrate the big birthday, Valve has released a 20th Anniversary Update for the game, which adds Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and Episode 2 to the base game, along with all new commentary tracks featuring the original HL2 development team... Read more.

Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update

by benb

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Fixes Fixed player model selection in the options menu. Fixed slam not being able to be detonated if you were too close to a wall Fixed view bob with the SMG equipped. Fixed using the Gravity Gun to yo-yo grenades, sometimes causing the server to disconnect or crash. Fixed missing sound effects for the Gravity Gun. Fixed characters playing a missing animation when switching weapons while jumping and moving. Fix weapons being invisible when being given another weapon of the same class. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Maps Increased player spawn point count in many maps. Fixed prop placement in maps that would allow players to escape the world. Fixed floating props in dm_runoff. Fixed the area portal on the blast door in dm_runoff causing the world to no longer render when the door was shut. Added geometry to many maps where the player could see outside of bounds. Fixed several areas where the player could see out of the world. Moved the blue barrels in dm_resistance that...

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Update Released

by erics

An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The major changes include: Numerous security and stability improvements

Update Released for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base

by Valve

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include: * Various stability and security updates; * Fixed NPCs not blinking; * Fixed being able to switch weapons while holding a primed grenade;

Have You Played Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

by contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Matt Cox)

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. “Toss a toilet at your friend today!”, goes the Steam blurb. That does rather capture the spirit of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, doesn’t it? (more…)

Why I love duelling with toilets in Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

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We're digging into the PC Gamer magazine archives to publish pieces from years gone by. This article was originally published in 2005. For more quality articles about all things PC gaming, you can subscribe now in the UK and the US .    When Tim was on his super-secret Seattle mission to trick Valve into spilling on Aftermath (PCG 148), the most exciting thing he sent back to Gamer HQ—for me—wasn’t about that. It was a photo of a T-shirt, with no text and a simple white icon. A man, getting hit in the back of the head by a toilet. We are a cult, we Gravity Gunners, and this is our sign. The smart money wasn’t on Half-Life 2 Deathmatch as the ‘surprise for the community’ Valve teasingly announced a week before its release. It was bound to be a CS:S map or a new terrorist skin. Then, on the day, everyone restarted their Steam clients and got a picture. It was of a woman, firing a toilet at a Combine guard with the Gravity Gun. W...

Update Released for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base

by Valve

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include: * Fixed physics not operating at the correct tickrate when specifying non-standard -tickrate options on the command line; * Fixed viewing demos recorded at a non-standard tickrate causing the next listen server hosted to be at that tickrate; * Various security and stability improvements; * Updated localization files;

Update Released for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base

by Valve

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include: * Fixed being unable to start any map in single-player mode;

Update Released for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base

by Valve

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include: * Improved Steam Voice support; * Removed sv_use_steam_voice convar. Steam voice is now selected via "sv_voicecodec steam"; * Fixed demos not properly recording Steam Voice status, resulting in potential corrupt voice in demos with differing default settings; * Will now use the native Steam Voice sampling rate, instead of clamping to 11kHz; * Improved compatibility with Steam client beta; * Added CELT audio codec currently in use in TF2 and CS:GO; * Server operators may enable use of this codec via "sv_voicecodec vaudio_celt"; * Steam voice remains the default voice codec in all SDK2013 games; * Updated spec_player command to match recent improvements in TF2; * Now accepts partial player names, Steam IDs, etc. * Fixed security issu...

The rise and fall of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

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In its quieter moments, the cellblock is almost soothing. Its striking chequered floors, incongruous Escher-like architecture, and concrete walls adorned with chipped paintwork and bullet holes lend the space an unlikely degree of charm. Besides the light echo of peripheral footfall and HEV suit-charging it's eerily quiet. That is, until the Rebels step out against the Combine: barrel-chested, leather-skinned and bloodthirsty—an inevitable eruption of gunfire, pulse orbs and exploding frag grenades follows.   Since its arrival two weeks after Half-Life 2's mid-November 2004 launch, Lockdown has been one of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch's most popular 2v2 maps. Top players have came and went since, however TheRealQuAz and Maxtasy are long-serving veterans who've occupied its online multiplayer wargrounds since 2008.  Observing in god-like spectator mode, I look on in awe as these experts exchange blows with two lesser players; dancing around the map and ex...

Update Released for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base

by Valve

An update for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base has been made available. Important note for SDK mod authors: This update replaces the current main branch of the SDK 2013 Base with what was previously the "beta_test" branch. The previous SDK 2013 release branch as well as the outdated "upcoming" branch are now available for a short time as "previous" and "previous_upcoming" respectively. The major changes include: * Fixed potential security issues (thanks to Justin G. (aka sigsegv), Nathaniel Theis, Simon Pinfold for these reports); * Fixed a case where changelevel2 would print a map not found error and fail to function in SDK2013 mods; * Fixed an exploit that could be used to crash dedicated servers;

Update Released for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and Source SDK 2013 Dedicated Server

by Valve

A mandatory update for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, as well as the Source SDK Base 2013 beta branch has been made available. The patch notes are below. * Fixed a security issue related to the file system (thanks to Simon Pinfold for this report); * Fixed mp3 sounds causing occasional hitching and framerate stuttering; * Fixed OS X players being limited to medium texture quality; * Fixed maps compiled with static prop lighting causing crashes for players on medium or low texture quality; * Fixed steam.inf not being loaded from the base directory for SDK mods; * Fixed server crash when running with 64 players plus SourceTV; The following fixes were already included in the previous update for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch: * Fixed ent_teleport causing a crash when issued by the server; * Fixed buildcubemaps command not working for maps that already have cubemaps embedded; * Fixed -buildcubemaps command line option generati...

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Update Released

by Valve

An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include: * Fixed "You do not have this 3rd party mod installed" error when joining game servers via the Steam server browser; * Fixed ent_teleport causing a crash when issued by the server; * Fixed buildcubemaps command not working for maps that already have cubemaps embedded; * Fixed -buildcubemaps command line option generating black non-HDR cubemaps; * Fixed a potential cause of graphical corruption for OS X and Linux users;

Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and Half-Life Deathmatch: Source Updates Released

by Valve

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and Half-Life Deathmatch: Source have been released. The major changes include: * Fixed a problem with the Steam Overlay for Mac clients; * Fixed maps using static prop lighting producing bad lighting in some conditions; * Fixed a Linux client crash related to the sound system; * Fixed client consoles being spammed with a message about invisible weapons;