As we wait for the Half-Life 2 mod: Eternal Silence to be released by Valve on Steam, news on a reworked map and some tutorial videos comes to surface:
Some more news for you while we continue to wait for Valve to release the mod. We suspect some delays over at another mod team is holding this batch of mods back (but we can't be sure). Regardless, we are pressing on. Some of you may remember a map for Eternal Silence 2.3 which never made it back in 3.0 called es_asteroid. Our mapper Elusive has taken up the task of retooling the map into something fun for everyone and has come up with ctf_asteroid (and soon, de_asteroid). We played this map last weekend and the gameplay was great fun. The flag-asteroids even have secret back entrances which provides an awesome death-from-above experience. Here are a few screenshots of the map.
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This map is planned to be released in the next patch (3.3), but may get thrown into 3.2 depending on delays (don't you love Valve Time).
I'd also like to give a shout out to the [SKULL] guys, specifically [SKULL]MattMan, [SKULL]mR.Waffles and [SKULL]Evuras who put together some excellent tutorial videos (including How Not to Suck 101 Tongue). You can view all of them in this thread. I highly recommend that new players take a look, even I learned a few moves.
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Keep an eye out for Eternal Silence on Steam!
Some more news for you while we continue to wait for Valve to release the mod. We suspect some delays over at another mod team is holding this batch of mods back (but we can't be sure). Regardless, we are pressing on. Some of you may remember a map for Eternal Silence 2.3 which never made it back in 3.0 called es_asteroid. Our mapper Elusive has taken up the task of retooling the map into something fun for everyone and has come up with ctf_asteroid (and soon, de_asteroid). We played this map last weekend and the gameplay was great fun. The flag-asteroids even have secret back entrances which provides an awesome death-from-above experience. Here are a few screenshots of the map.
<center><a href="http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/ctf_asteroid0002.jpg"><img src="http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/thumb_ctf_asteroid0002.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/ctf_asteroid0005.jpg"><img src="http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/thumb_ctf_asteroid0005.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/ctf_asteroid0006.jpg"><img src="http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/thumb_ctf_asteroid0006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></center>
This map is planned to be released in the next patch (3.3), but may get thrown into 3.2 depending on delays (don't you love Valve Time).
I'd also like to give a shout out to the [SKULL] guys, specifically [SKULL]MattMan, [SKULL]mR.Waffles and [SKULL]Evuras who put together some excellent tutorial videos (including How Not to Suck 101 Tongue). You can view all of them in this thread. I highly recommend that new players take a look, even I learned a few moves.
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Keep an eye out for Eternal Silence on Steam!