Is this game slower paced than Red Orchestra?

Red Orchestra is tooooo... slowly paced. I need something thats a mix of TF2 and CS.

drunkentyger

I haven't touched DOD:S in a while. I received it & HL2DM with my purchase of CS:S. I better go look for some purdyyy weapon skins [until my Internet connection starts to improve and I can play some multiplayer games again T_T]

Saprol

Where's CS:S love?? Throw us a fricken' bone here (too)!

MonsterMan

So when are we getting these features on Half-Life 2?

Well, the achievements anyway. :P

Dave Silva

I haven't played Day of Defeat for about a year. I started with the first and was kind of done with it. Now with achievements...well they got me back into TF2 as well.

To be honest I like Valve achievements better than XBL achievements. I don't get points, but they're a lot more fun. I think of them as mini-missions, and what Valve has produced feel like it. Getting a million kills in Gears feels like a thankless job.

Snake726

@PepsiPerfect:

At $10 its decent enough, I like the original DoD more but Source can be fun every now and again

jisf0rjosh

@Flawless101:

Its been in public beta for a little over a month now

They also tightened the Cone of fire for pretty much every gun, making them less random and pretty much removing my only complaint

jisf0rjosh

Surprisingly, I've never played this or the original DoD.

Is it worth it?

PepsiPerfect

Well guess it is time to redownload DOD:S again! Wooo HERE I COME WWII....again -_-

Smash88

@Dekabreak:

Basically, almost all palermo servers are full.

Dekabreak

A pretty warning for you guys:

At least 23 servers are online, and if you're trying to play in Palermo, you wind up in a full server.

Dekabreak

I think that developer's should focus more on updating existing content instead of just pushing new pieces to their next iteration. Given Valve's development time, I guess it isn't as feasible to have new maps promised for DoD:S II - Dawn of Victory, but even companies that do tend to focus more on pushing the product to shelves need to take heed.

Look at what Criterion is doing for the Burnout series. A scheduled and relatively meaty set of updates for Paradise City is making the game continually hop back into my 360 just to get a few rotations.

nick.soapdish

@wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!: I agree, There lies-in the difference between the companies. Mr. Lombardi was smart enough to pounce on the community mods and saw the potential of Steam and its cafe/personal accounts.

Repetition till the mass of consumer is oblivious to the small changes. Big profit and a happy Valve/Steam/Users ecosystem.

PsycheE

Now I'll hafta start playing DOD:S and CS:S again! Thanks Valve!

Troubadour

@PsycheE: Sure, that's one way to look at it, and you're certainly right-- but other companies have turned their backs on the audience in more distinct ways than that, and continue to. So while it's certainly logical that Valve act as they did, it's also not an uncommon enough thing that they could've made the opposite choice.

wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!

Kotaku forgot to mention the free weekend, July 4-6 for DOD:S.

Diesel_Power

Valve, how do i love thee? Let me count the ways. Seriously though Valve and Steam are like the Alexandria of PC gaming, keep doing what you're doing guys, you're bringing PC gaming to realize its potential.

In other news, Palermo is fun to say.

PATSCRU

@wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!:

They have no choice. The community MODs for all their games kept Valve's boat afloat till Steam found its place.

It would be the biggest douchery if Valve ignored its community after it netted them millions upon millions. Counter-Strike definitely kept the Valve name going well after HL1 fanfare died off.

PsycheE

@ThaiGrocer:

Love it. Even if your sniper your suppose to be constantly on the move in this game.

Diesel_Power

Way to go, Valve. I hope other publishers would put more focus on keeping a healthy relationship with the community-- it's certainly served these guys very, very well. Sometimes you have to weigh the costs of doing something-- and Valve will never recoup these costs in a monetary way-- against the benefits of having a fanbase that would do anything for you and your games.

wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!

@ThaiGrocer: I don't like it. :/

Fadakar

I have a question for the people that play this game: what do you think of the new freeze cam feature?

ThaiGrocer

Awesome, can't wait 'till I try out that new map.

Also can't wait for that Heavy update.

Dekabreak

DODS is my most played game, can't believe there was little warning about it hitting :<

Flawless101

I love valve so much, pc gaming's finest. ;D Updating so slow though, everyone's on this one. :(

Fadakar

steam achievements?

ZetaCrossfire

Awww crap, I've been looking for reasons not to buy this. Well, at least I'm working an extra day this week, plus overtime for the 4th of July holiday. That ought to cover the cost for this and gas.

Pezdispenser

You'd be surprised how its EXACTLY a mix of TF2 and CSS WW2 style.

Its a really really really fun game... i cant reiterate much

Leepox

@drunkentyger:

Its faster paced than RO due to it being less realistic, almost feels arcadey at times

jisf0rjosh

@drunkentyger:

You'll be surprised that it really IS a mix of TF2 and CS

IMO you should buy it.. its worth every single penny

Leepox

Oh man, I totally forgot about DOD....
Sadly I haven't played it in about 5 years. I stopped playing PC games along time ago. But damned if that wasn't one of my favorite online games ever. I kicked ass at that game.

themadman123

I forgot how rad the DoD: Source menu music is. Hot damn.

Snake726

been playing the beta for a while now...

only got one damned achievement so far.
they're slippery buggers!

mosumi

What's the point of the achivements on Steam if you can just make an achivement map and unlock them all by basically cheating?

KirbyMorph

Love this game. I played some of the Beta of this new update and it's pretty slick. Some people moan about it being too TF2-ish, but really if it wasn't moved to the latest version of Source we wouldnt see any support for it at all.

Way to go!! :D

Thugmunk

@FunkyJ: So, it is just like being at a pub together? Seems to be going that way these days, anyway.

nick.soapdish

I love DoD:S!

Every Friday night a bunch of us Older Gamers get together, have a few drinks and play the game and chat over Vent.

It's like being at the pub together, except we get to shoot each other.

FunkyJ

Ha! Everyone's all "oh man, I forgot all about DoD! Gotta get back into it!" and "hey, I should pick this up and try it out, is it any good?"...

It worked, Valve. :)

MonsterMan

KirbyMorph, just because you like to cheat for your achievements doesn't mean everybody else does.

Diesel_Power

God, I used to love this game. CS:S, too. Damn, Valve is pretty good, aren't they?

peAr nectAr

@KirbyMorph: Some of us are trying to earn the bonus features in TF2 the right way.

I've looked at a bunch of people I've played against and they have ALL achievements. And that just seems wrong somehow. Looks like they cheated a lot. Makes me sad. :\

Dave Silva

I have been playing DOD since the CS beta days. Hopefully these achievements will get more people into DOD.

Sammo21

I remember about 4 years ago, it seemed like everyone HATED Valve and steam. Now look at them now.

They grow up so fast! *tear*

aR-Tard

Yay!

I've owned this game for the longest time, but only a month or so ago did I really start to play it, and damn, is it good.

Updates to a game I play right as I'm starting to get into it = win.

LastFace

Speaking of getting achievements without cheating, I'm only 250000 fire damage away from Pyromancer, which happens to be the last achievement I have left for the Pyro pack. I really have no life. :(

Pezdispenser

Yeah my clan has been playing the BETA of this for a while. The hitboxes have been improved very much. I think this update is for the better good of DOD:S.

AggroRhodes

Haven't played the source version but been wanting to, now's a good reason.

Recently got back into Counter-Strike (source) again and really enjoying it. It's odd that I've played many of the more recent multiplayer games like Battlefield XXX, UTK7, Quake Wars, COD4... but none of these have the addictiveness, stealthy-ness (knife kill) or the so pissed off feeling when you got head-shot 3x of Counter-Strike

Been playing on 64.69.38.35:27015 (west coast) as zzt711, great server!

zzt711

I love DoD. The original, note this one, but thats because it fairs poorly on my machine and it does not have as much content as the original (wich I still go play when I find a populated server from time to time).

Ill have to fire up STEAM when I get home to check out Palermo.

Shiryu

I used to play day of defeat religiously back in the day until one of their patches introduced this god awful recoil when you shot, i haven't played the game since.

nitram100

the "new" palermo map is a community map that has been doing the rounds for ages as salerno that valve have decided to use.

JellyDoodle

I played the beta for quite a bit and the achievement system kept resetting itself for the weapons-based kills. Hopefully they've fixed that.

Frank

@aR-Tard: I remember about 4 years ago, it seemed like everyone HATED Valve and steam. Now look at them now.

Yeah, look at them. They've fooled people into thinking buying games you don't own is a good thing. It's pretty sad. Steam still definitely sucks, it's just a poke in the eyes instead of a kick in the crotch.

KaneRobot

Holy crap, I had given up on this one. I used to play the HL1 version of DoD back in the early betas up through the retail release, but once Source came out I got tired of it quickly. Never thought I would see this happen.

KaneRobot

the weapons seemed improved in the beta (although that's not saying much considering how bad they were) but i hate everything they added from TF2. the sounds, the freeze-cam, the particle effects, they all seem completely out of place in a ww2 game; it's like the veterans walking up to the menin gate for the last post only to start playing yakkety sax on their bugles.

and palermo is one of the worst (non-orange) customs i've played for dod:s, even though the original, dod_railroad for pre-source, was one of the best. then again i'd also rank 3.1b as the best ww2 game i've ever played and dod:s as by far the worst game full stop.

lordofsword

DoD:S, for whatever reason, has never been able to capture that magic of the original DoD. Maybe it's because war games have outgrown CS-style multiplayer... I don't know. Still, I spent years playing the original DoD, and I just can't get into DoD:S. I hopped in last night to see if maybe I needed to give it another chance. Sadly, no.

PaulMorel

I'm assuming the next to get achievements is Counter-Strike: Source and then Half Life 2 and Half Life 2: Episode 1.

KEITH1437

There's been achievements for a while, they were in the new beta of DOD:S a few months ago. I don't know if everyone got to participate in it though.

tdreher

I remember when Steam was a buggy piece of crap, but look at it now

killy_spark

I do not like the kill cam myself. Regardless of the fact that a good sniper keeps moving, if you don't give away your position, you still have an infinite advantage.

Personally I enjoy the servers that blackout after death.

Dark_Swordmaster

wow, seriously? this is awesome there hasnt been an update like this in forever! now if counter-strike source got something like this.. =D

Tekkai