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This week, Valve has added another title from its classic catalog into the growing Mac game library. Day of Defeat: Source now joins Portal, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike Source as a native title for Apple's computer platform
Day of Defeat: Source launches for Mac as a SteamPlay title, allowing current owners of the PC version the option to also download and play it on Mac machines. As a SteamPlay title, users from both platforms can also face-off against each other on the World War II-inspired battlefield.
Day of Defeat began life as a Half-Life mod in 2000 before being purchased and sold by Valve, and publisher Activision, in 2003. In September 2005, Day of Defeat: Source was released.
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Now you can enjoy Day of Defeat: Source, the WWII mulitplayer classic from Valve, on your Mac! Assume the role of infantry, sniper or machine-gunner classes and experience the intense online action set in Europe during WWII.
Updates to the Orange Box Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Orange Box Engine
- Updated the engine to report SteamIDs using the Steam_0 format instead of Steam_1
- Fixed problems in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, and Source mods running the current Orange Box engine
- Reverted the change that capped rate at 30000
A major update to the Source SDK has been released on Steam. Included in this update are major features and fixes for the tools in the Source SDK. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Major New Features
- Half-Life 2: Episode One enhancements
- NPC behavior enhancements
- New Tool application called 'Source SDK Base'
- Uses the latest shipping version of the Source Engine (HL2: Episode One)
- This content will be updated whenever a new version of the Source Engine ships
- Mod makers should always use its SteamAppId (215) in their single player and multi-player mods
- Many other improvements and bug fixes
For a full list of changes, see the Source SDK Release Notes on the Valve Developer Community site.
The second Day of Defeat: Source Free Weekend has begun. This free trial period features all the new content recently added in the Summer Update to Day of Defeat: Source, including the new gameplay type (Detonation), new missions (Jagd, Colmar) and gameplay and technology enhancements. If you already have Steam, click here to give it a try with no obligation to buy. If you do not have a Steam account, click here to create a free account and join the ranks for the Free Weekend. All Steam users also receive free access to the recently added Media area, which features the DoD movie shorts and a growing collection of game trailers.
Preloading for the second Day of Defeat: Source Free Weekend has begun. This second free trial period features all the new content added to Day of Defeat: Source in the Summer Update, including the new gameplay type and missions. Click here to preload. Preloading will let you start playing the moment the countdown hits zero.
Valve's Popular WWII Online Action Game Approaches First Birthday
Bellevue, WA, June 22, 2006 - Valve® announced a Day of Defeat: Source Summer 2006 Update featuring a Free Map Pack is scheduled for release on June 28 via Steam to everyone who owns a copy of the game.
The Map Pack, which arrives just before DoD: Source's 1st birthday, introduces a new gameplay style, Detonation, in two brand new missions (Jagd, Colmar). In addition to the new missions and gameplay style, the Summer 2006 Update also introduces new technical features and gameplay enhancements to Day of Defeat: Source. Some of the new gameplay enhancements - such as spawn clip adjustments, improved hit location detection, and weapon balancing - were made after reviewing the player statistics gathered since the stats feature was added to DoD: Source earlier this year.
Since its original release in the fall of last year, Valve has introduced a number of new features, missions, and enhancements for the game - following in the company's long tradition of ongoing development for its online properties. Below is a summary of the new missions and features added to Day of Defeat: Source since the initial launch:
New Missions Added:
Colmar (June 2006) -- Set in Northern France, Colmar introduces Day of Defeat's Detonation style of gameplay. Marred with cold weather conditions, Colmar's Detonation objectives drive successful teams to attack target areas in unison.
Jagd (June 2006) - Jagd challenges teams to a more advanced urban Detonation mission, one that must be completed in a limited amount of time and is therefore unforgiving to unorganized offensive attacks.
Kalt (February 2006) - The narrow city streets, wheelhouse, and center bridge on which Kalt is fought challenge Axis and Allied forces to disperse and hold multiple points. As such, surging attacks and sudden changes in momentum may be common.
Argentan (January 2006) - The first new mission introduced after the initial launch of Day of Defeat: Source is set alongside the rolling hills of a French trainway. It's hillsides and country structures provide the setting for punishing sniper and machine gunner standoffs.
Technology Updates:
- Color Correction
- Film grain
- New Shaders:
- Image-based texture blending
- Light warping
- Phong Shading/Rim Lighting on player models
- Improved Animations
- Support for Bloom on DX8 level GPUs
- Prop Vertex Lighting
- Engine Optimizations
Gameplay Enhancements:
- Spawn Clip adjustments
- Improved Hit location detection
- Weapon balancing
- Detonation Gameplay Introduced
- Player Statistics
Available via Steam and at retail outlets the world over, Day of Defeat: Source is one of today's most played online action games. Players join the ranks of Axis vs. Allies battles in Western Europe at the height of the war in 1944. Players enlist in specific combat roles, ranging from scouts to sharpshooters, and are tasked, as a unit, to complete objective-based missions.
For more information on Day of Defeat: Source, Valve or Valve's games, please visit www.steamgames.com.
About Valve
Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company's portfolio of entertainment properties includes Half-Life®, Counter-StrikeTM, Day of Defeat®, and Team Fortress®. Valve's catalog of products accounts for over 20 million retail units sold worldwide, and over 80% of PC online action gameplay. In addition, Valve is a developer of leading-edge technologies, such as the Source game engine and Steam, a broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content. For more information, please visit www.valvesoftware.com.
Day of Defeat: Source is now available for a free trial via Steam. Visit Steampowered.com to get the game and play through the weekend for free.
A major update to the Source SDK has been released on Steam. Included in this update are several features and fixes for the tools in the Source SDK.
New SDK Features
- High Dynamic Range lighting now supported in the tools
- Day of Defeat: Source support now included
- New Hammer Editor features:
- VGUI Model browser with real-time 3D view
- Map autosave/backup
- Model and displacement rendering in 2D views
- Many other small improvements and bug fixes
For a full list of changes, see the Source SDK Changelist on the Valve Developer Community site
For those of you running with a 64-bit capable AMD processor, along with the Windows® 64-bit operating system, Half-Life 2 and Lost Coast are now available in native 64-bit versions. Steam will automatically detect your OS and run the appropriate version the next time you run these games.
We've been working with AMD to get the Source engine up and running in 64-bit mode to make sure we're taking advantage of these hardware configurations. This is just a first step for Valve into 64-bit. Going forward, we realize that more and more of our customers will be running with 64-bit processors and we will be set to take true advantage of them.
Valve Corporation today announced that Counter-Strike™: Source™ and the Half-Life® 1: Anthology are available now at retail outlets in North America.
In addition to the latest version of the world's number 1 online action game, Counter-Strike: Source also includes Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Day of Defeat®: Source, the latest version of the popular WWII online action game from Valve. [...]
For more information, please visit: www.valvesoftware.com
Day of Defeat®: Source™, the latest version of Valve's popular WWII online action game, is available now for pre-load and pre-purchase. Day of Defeat: Source leverages the Source engine's advanced features such as high-dynamic range lighting, advanced graphics, and realistic physics simulation.
Anyone may pre-load the game free of charge and decide to purchase at any time. Those who pre-purchase the game before it is released will save 10%. To pre-load, pre-purchase or just find out more, please visit www.steampowered.com.
Day of Defeat: Source, Valve's World War II-themed multiplayer action game, is approaching beta and will be available early this spring via Steam. A team-based multiplayer game that cast players in the Axis vs. Allies battles of Western Europe circa 1944, Day of Defeat: Source leverages the power of the Source engine to introduce integrated physics simulation technology, all new audio, updated maps, enhanced effects and more. More information about Day of Defeat: Source will be released in the coming weeks.
Valve has released the Source Software Development Kit (SDK) Tools via Steam. A precursor to the release of the full SDK, which will be released shortly after Half-Life 2 is made available, the Source SDK Tools release offers a comprehensive toolset for starting production on Source-based MODs, including Hammer, XSI EXP for Half-Life 2, compiling tools, the Source Model Viewer, documentation on programming, modeling, building materials, and more. For more information, please visit www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/
