Day of Defeat approaches

By Tom Bramwell Published 12 September, 2005

Firm date from Valve.

Day of Defeat: Source, the Half-Life 2 engine reworking of popular World War II-based Half-Life modification Day of Defeat, will be released on September 26th, says Valve.

The game will start preloading via content download service Steam in the next week or so as Valve gets ready to "throw the switch" – preloading, of course, sees games quietly downloaded to users' hard disks in encrypted form so that it can be playable as soon as it's released. It's a system that worked very well for Half-Life 2.

Dedicated server administrators will also be given some time to sort matters out ahead of the September 26th date.

Valve, ever keen supporters of the mod community, also took the opportunity to promote TRON/Matrix-esque Half-Life 2 mod Dystopia, which is available right now, so we'll do the same. Have done in fact.

Another thing to remember is that Lionhead programmer Mark Healey's cute little mouse-based martial arts knockabout, Rag Doll Kung Fu, is set to launch on Steam sometime in the near future. We've played it and it's... quite fascinating.

We'll let you know when DoD: Source and RDKF are out. Both will be made available for a standalone purchase, and DoD: Source is free to all Half-Life 2 Silver and Gold subscribers.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • towser #1 7 years ago

    Thank god I got the silver package! Hope this was worth the wait....

    /shakes fist skywards

  • Hicksy #2 7 years ago

    Fantastic news! I loved the original DoD :)

  • Freek #3 7 years ago

    I like how everybody says it's "Free" to gold and silver subscribers since you actaully paid for DoD when you bought either of those.
    Do we get our money back now or something? ;)
    Edited by 1 at 12/09/05 @ 13:33

  • Nasty #4 7 years ago

    Hmm. How much was the original Silver package?

    For me, £24 for retail half life 2 on pre-order from Play, plus $19.99 for DoD:S (about £10.90). So £35 quid all in. Is that not a hell of a lot cheaper than the silver package?

  • Dire #5 7 years ago

    Also don't forget in the silver/gold package you got all of Valve's back catalogue aswell. Halflife, Counterstrike, Counterstrike Condition Zero, Op Force, Day Of Defeat etc...

    rather cheap when you look at it really.

  • Nasty #6 7 years ago

    You mean like Half life that almost everyone had anyway and CS and DoD that were free?

  • Dire #7 7 years ago

    I'm sure not everyone had the original HL. I still know people who have played HL2 but have yet to play the original. Generalizations suck.

  • Psi #8 7 years ago

    ooo on my birthday! which of you is gonna buy it for me ;p

  • manic #9 7 years ago

    Hurrah! Something to live for!
    Does anyone know if Dystopia is single player... or any good?

  • Tomo #10 7 years ago

    $20 for DoD? Facking hell :/

  • Nasty #11 7 years ago

    My point is, there are a lot of folk out there who bought silver or gold at the time because valve said it was the only way to get DoD:S. Even till up to about 2 months ago they were adamant that you would still have to do this even if you already had the retail HL2. Now they've announced it as being $20 for retail owners.

    If I had went for Silver or Gold rather than retail just for the DoD:S then I would be very pissed off right now. As it is, I will eventually have spent a total of £35 and will have HL2, CS:S and DoD:S.

    ps. How about if I say the majority already had Half Life then :p
    Edited by 1 at 12/09/05 @ 17:00

  • Ginger #12 7 years ago

    I'm sure not everyone had the original HL. I still know people who have played HL2 but have yet to play the original.

    Damn, that's terrible. Make sure they all start playing HL immediately :)

  • urban #13 7 years ago

    woot

    HDR bitchens!

  • sir_tripod #14 7 years ago

    DoD:S FTW!!!111!!1!oneonetwothree

  • Macross #15 7 years ago

    No Dystopia isn't single player (so far anyway) it is quite fun though, although it does get boring after a bit seeing as they only released the demo with one map so far :\

  • brombeer #16 7 years ago

    The article title suggested an Xbox 360 article. Damn.