Day of Defeat update

Detonation


Day Of Defeat Source Summer Update Coming June 28
Posted on 22 June 2006 · contact


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





You can see a video preview at [storefront.steampowered.com];








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The film grain seem to add to the atmosphere of WW2
































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are there DRIVABLE VEHICLES YET!???

gin Wrote:
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> are there DRIVABLE VEHICLES YET!???


I havent really played much DoD but whats the point? This isnt BF.

I think that film grain looks awesome. I always preffered CoD to DoD.

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> are there DRIVABLE VEHICLES YET!???
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Not yet, but for that matter neither are there any in CounterStrike, but they are both awesome games though




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Hmm I'd like to try this out as well as Half Life 2: Episode 1 but when I open Steam and click on the purchase link I get the page not found error as you might see it in IE. Any ideas why? I'm on the Internet behind a hardware router but FF and IE work. Just done some Windows Updates through IE so IE can definitely access the net even with the router.

MarcLister Wrote:
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> Hmm I'd like to try this out as well as Half Life 2: Episode 1 but
> when I open Steam and click on the purchase link I get the page not
> found error as you might see it in IE. Any ideas why? I'm on the
> Internet behind a hardware router but FF and IE work. Just done some
> Windows Updates through IE so IE can definitely access the net even
> with the router.

I have the same problem, goto [www.steampowered.com] find the game on there, click purchase, it will ask you if you have Steam installed, click yes then it should open Steam and work!

Day Of Defeat, still dosn't have enough maps, and is full of annoying TKers. Hence why I still prefer COD atm, but if they get this map pack out, may bring me back to it


PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam

Ianwoollam Wrote:
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> MarcLister Wrote:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hmm I'd like to try this out as well as Half Life 2: Episode 1
> but
> > when I open Steam and click on the purchase link I get the page
> not
> > found error as you might see it in IE. Any ideas why? I'm on the
> > Internet behind a hardware router but FF and IE work. Just done
> some
> > Windows Updates through IE so IE can definitely access the net
> even
> > with the router.
>
> I have the same problem, goto find the game on there, click purchase,
> it will ask you if you have Steam installed, click yes then it should
> open Steam and work!
>
> Day Of Defeat, still dosn't have enough maps, and is full of annoying
> TKers. Hence why I still prefer COD atm, but if they get this map pack
> out, may bring me back to it
>
>
Just tried that and it won't work in FF. FF doesn't recognise the steam protocol. And in IE the same thing happens. I even opened Steam and it still didn't work. Boo hoo.

Hmmmm! works in IE for me! but I have IE7

/EDIT\ Sorry scratch that, I did it in Bon Echo Alpha (Firefox 2.0) FF and IE7 don't work for me either


PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2006 02:01PM by Ianwoollam.

Another video of a new map, Colmar


[storefront.steampowered.com];







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Trailer 3

Day of Defeat: Prelude to Victory


For you guys that are struggling to get the trailers to play in Steam













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Haha, good little video, no, great video! And the spade at the end! :P

Ianwoollam Wrote:
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> Hmmmm! works in IE for me! but I have IE7
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> /EDIT\ Sorry scratch that, I did it in Bon Echo Alpha (Firefox 2.0) FF
> and IE7 don't work for me either
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> Lindsay - Your one to talk, you haven't had a serious relationship
> since your wife, and you guys wern't even speaking towards the end!
>
> Michael - Yeah.... lot of that was the coma.
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> Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2006 12:01PM by Ianwoollam.
Think I've fixed it. I check out the Steam support pages and found nothing. I then decided to reinstall Steam. I downloaded the exe and ran it. I can now buy through Steam; a window pops up telling me how much a particular game will cost.

Free Day of Defeat weekend starting tomorrow.


Exsisting steam users can preload it and enjoy it for free beginning from tomorrow ( Friday 7th ) til Monday ( 10th July )



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