Half Life: FireArms

[Andrew1990]

I remember way back in I believe was 99' a mod for Half-Life called Firearms. I was wondering what ever happened to that? I miss that old game and I played that even before I played CS for the first time.

Also, does anyone still play this online? I cant even seem to find the mod download for it.

 

[Maleficus]

It died, nothing could stand up to Counter-Strike, one of the most vibrant mod communities ever was overshadowed by a single mod.

Science and Industry
Natural Selection
Wasteland
The Opera
Firearms

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Maleficus
It died, nothing could stand up to Counter-Strike, one of the most vibrant mod communities ever was overshadowed by a single mod.

Science and Industry
Natural Selection
Wasteland
The Opera
Firearms

Natural Selection is still going strong - there are usually several full servers.

 

[Andrew1990]

Darn, and I wanted to bring back some of my glories days.

Thanks for the info though, much appreciated.

 

[sswingle]

I would say it died to day of defeat. They were both very similiar, and now DoD lives on.

 

[venkman]

Action Quake/Action Half Life was pretty cool

***THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT OLD KICK ARSE MODS***

 

[duragezic]

They were making a Firearms 2 for Source but I'm not sure they are anymore. I don't think there was ever even a beta release.

 

[rodrigu3]

Originally posted by: duragezic
They were making a Firearms 2 for Source but I'm not sure they are anymore. I don't think there was ever even a beta release.

http://www.firearms2mod.com/

Last post is from December 6, 2008 so I'd say the mod is very much alive and in production. I remember that game was the cause of many hours of procrastination in college. It looks pretty faithful to the original.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Maleficus
It died, nothing could stand up to Counter-Strike

What about Team Fortress Classic or Day of Defeat?

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: venkman
Action Quake/Action Half Life was pretty cool

***THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT OLD KICK ARSE MODS***

I LOVED Action Quake 2, I thought A:HL was a weak bastardization tho .. diving handcannon shots? Lame.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

Originally posted by: rodrigu3

Originally posted by: duragezic
They were making a Firearms 2 for Source but I'm not sure they are anymore. I don't think there was ever even a beta release.

http://www.firearms2mod.com/

Last post is from December 6, 2008 so I'd say the mod is very much alive and in production. I remember that game was the cause of many hours of procrastination in college. It looks pretty faithful to the original.

Very awesome. I always favored this game over CS back in the day. I did love DoD though.

 

[Auryg]

Don't forget Desert Crisis..such a good mod, but far too few played it

 

[Maleficus]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX

Originally posted by: Maleficus
It died, nothing could stand up to Counter-Strike

What about Team Fortress Classic or Day of Defeat?

What about them? TFC predated CS's hayday and DoD could never hold a candle to CS, yea it had its dedicated crowd but it was nothing once compared to CS.

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: Auryg
Don't forget Desert Crisis..such a good mod, but far too few played it

Yeah, good mod but sad that very few played it really.

 

[Wooden Badger]

seems they are remaking the first version for source also
http://www.firearms-source.com/

 

[rodrigu3]

Originally posted by: Wooden Badger
seems they are remaking the first version for source also
http://www.firearms-source.com/

From what I understand, there is sort of a race between the two dev teams to get their games done because those who originally wanted to make firearms for the source engine differed in opinion. It looks like Firearms 2 is much further ahead in development, as they actually have some gameplay footage. Neither of the mods looks very polished though - one thing that jumps out at me is that most of their textures are poorly aligned. People would be surprised what a high-quality texture layout will do in terms of making a game look finished.

http://www.firearms2mod.com/po...?images/ingame/mp5.jpg

Take a look at the brick pattern on the slope for example, that just looks bad.

 

[Molondo]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: Maleficus
It died, nothing could stand up to Counter-Strike, one of the most vibrant mod communities ever was overshadowed by a single mod.

Science and Industry
Natural Selection
Wasteland
The Opera
Firearms

Natural Selection is still going strong - there are usually several full servers.

I think i read somewhere that they are making NS a stand alone game. Working on an engine.