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Just a quick FYI to everyone.... I took the BF 1942 server off line last night. It has not proved to be popular as a 1942 server.
I plan to convert it over to Desert Combat Final, since that seems to be the desire of a clear majority of the people who expressed an interest. I'll leave it off line until I have a chance to do so, as it does tax the server somewhat even when empty.
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| Friday, January 28, 2005 |
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We have learned alot about what maps work in actual HL2:DM gameplay.
With that in mind I hope you will enjoy this next selection.
The new maps are:
dm_arrival
dm_deathclub_v1
dm_island17
dm_nighthawk
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dm_outpost
dm_sanctuary_reloaded
dm_underpass_b3
dm_torque
termination
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You can download them ahead of time as individual maps or as Map Pack #4
Termination is DocRock's initial foray into Source and its a
beauty. All indoors but multilevel, open, bright and with lots of
ammo. Definitely one for the team dm server. dm_torque is
based on the concept of the original HLDM map. It was a favourite
then and the gameplay feels similar. dm_arrival is absolutely
huge. It is based on the arrival station at the beginning of HL2.
dm_island17 is a lot smaller but looks like it will be fast
and fun. I'm looking forward to checking them out with a full server.
You coming along?
 
 
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| Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
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The SunLit Day of Defeat Map Pack #16 is now
available for download. You can find it on the
SunLit
DoD Map Pack #16 download page, where you
can also see a complete list of the maps
included along with pictures of each one.
There are some all-new maps, including
dod_straberg and dod_skyline_b3, as well as
some different versions of well-known maps,
including dark_switch and dod_flash2_b1. And,
of course, there's the obligatory remake of
cr44, dod_kettle_b3. I swear, we could play a
whole night just on a mapcycle of dod_cr44
clones :).
There is a new mapcycle on
Futurama that includes all the new maps.
Enjoy.
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| Monday, January 24, 2005 |
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SunLit now has a BattleField: 1942 set up and running. For those of you who
are unfamiliar with this game, it is a WWII first person shooter. The most significant difference between this game and DoD is it has vehicles. You can
drive tanks and jeeps, fly planes, etc.
Here is the server info:
Server Name:
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BF 1942
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Server IP Address:
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If you have the retail game and have not played it recently, you'll want to get the BF1942 1.6 patch
and the BF1942 1.61 patch (links are to Fileshack).
We want to see how this runs, and make sure it doesn't lag the other servers (we had problems with Call of Duty in that regard) for a bit. If successful, we will solicit everyone's opinions on whether we should keep it as a BF 1942 (WWII) server or switch to the Desert Combat (modern weapons/middle east) mod.
Many thanks to Laike for getting screen shots of all the standard maps for us!
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| Friday, January 21, 2005 |
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It wasn't our imaginations .
When the Web Site went down, the auto downloads from the web server were also cut off.
All the custom map downloads reverted to the game servers themselves, both HLDM and DOD side.
That put some strain on the system and resulted in some strange lag.
The problem with the web server was some bad RAM. The provider had the RAM swapped out and the server rebooted in no time :D.
The lag was alleviated when the web site went back up.
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| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
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The official Counter-Strike Bot will be released for Counter-Strike: Source on Monday (January 17th). The Bot features enhanced abilities and will be available for all owners of Counter-Strike: Source. Also included in Monday’s release is an updated version de_tides, rebuilt by Turtlerock Studios.
Source
The CS:S will be down for about a half hour for the update when it is released.
**Update** CS:S updated 11:00 am est Jan 18
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| Monday, January 17, 2005 |
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HL:DM Maps - Do the Remakes "Work" in HL2:DM ?
Good question. Who are the remakes made for ? The HL old timers or the HL2 fan who may not have even played HLDM ?
Do the remakes capture the fun of the originals?
With this in mind, a new mapcycle is up on the SunLit HL:DM server
Shotgun Madness 69.56.242.81:27015
The maps will fast auto-download from the server
Refresh your memory of the old favourites * or if you are new to HL:DM,
jump in the game and see where the HL2:DM mappers got their inspiration.
If you have never played HL:DM and already play HL2, installation is free and easy. Read below for the the simple instructions.
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"You can take the girl out of Death Match but you can't take the Death Match out of the girl"
My attempt at SunLit Games' third HL2 Death Match Map Pack 3 is ready today. :)
It includes remakes of HLDM classics such as Frenzy, Lost Village, 5_5castle_v3( dm_castle_overload)
and a scenario in Ravenholm, dm_morbid.
   
The new maps are:
dm_battlefield
dm_castle_overload
dm_casual
dm_corrode_b5
dm_darkCity
dm_frenzy
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dm_killboxreloaded
dm_lostvillage
dm_morbid
dm_pit
dm_swamp
dm_xen-sahara
mp_urban_decay
np_refinery_b4 |
Your forum comments on the number of spawn points, any r_speed issues, fun factor
and whether the map would be good for teamplay
would be greatly appreciated. Maps with obvious problems were excluded but some issues can't be discerned by a lone player.
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| Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
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New Logo
It was a long time coming but SunLit is bringing in the New Year with a new banner.
There were some excellent submissions made by the community, cool colours, designs and concepts.
A big thanks to all of you who exercised your creative talents.
The final selection was the image created by -FpS-Vandal . Nice work!
It had the colours , the motto and the recognition of the Half-Life engine driving our game servers now and to come.
We hope you all like it.
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| Sunday, January 09, 2005 |
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SunLit MOTW | SLDL - CAL - CGL
69.56.242.80:27015
The Annex aka Winter Warfare has been revamped to a Map of the Week venue.
It will be running the current and next map of the week for the SunLit Day of Defeat League , CAL, CGL and other outside leagues.
The SLDL maps are custom and will fast download from in game or can be installed ahead of time from the SLDL Maps page.
We welcome visitors to our community and hope they will enjoy the custom maps, good company and fair play.
Remember:
FF is ON
DO NOT TK/TW or Fire in the Spawn
Do not fire or nade INTO the spawn
Do not use the spectator exploit
No Swearing, Obscene or Hateful Chat or Names
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| Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
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A few players have reported problems with Loss in Futurama. I have looked into it and I think the likely culprit was a bad setting in the server.cfg file. At one point recently while trying to fix something else, I had tried changing the sv_maxrate to 20000. I forgot to switch it back afterwards. I bet this was the problem.
I also defragged the game server machine today and scanned it for viruses and ad-ware, just to be sure.
On the client end (that's your computer :) ), you can all make sure that you have your "rate" setting at no higher than 9999 (if you have DSL or Cable) and no lower than 2500 (if you are on dial-up). To check this setting, start DoD, pull down your console, type "rate" and press return. It will show your current rate value. To change the value simply type "rate 9999".
Hope this does it. Post a comment here or in the forums if you are having persistent trouble. Keep in mind an occaisional spike from 0 to 1 or 2 choke, as long as it disappears again fairly quickly, is normal.
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| Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
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We have another new custom model for HL Rally, the Peugot 206 XP. This is actually a re-skin of the stock HL Rally 206 skin, extracting this will overwrite the original with this nicer looking skin. If you want to keep your original, re-name or back up your hlrally>models>player>206>206.mdl file before extracting this one.
The Peugot 206 XP model should be extracted to your hlrally folder, just like the maps.
The author is johnnyfartpants and you can offer him any comments on the HL Rally forums.
Happy racing.
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| Monday, January 03, 2005 |
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You asked for them and they are ready for you :)
The Schedules are posted for the month of January.
The maps list was compiled from suggestions put forward by the SLDL teams and are:
adrenalin4
belgium
cr44_b3
devestation_b5
difesa
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diversion
factory
fury_b4
harrington
koln_b3
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railroad2_b2
sherman2_b5
snowcity_v3
thunder
zafod
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You can download them from the SLDL
Maps page.
I'll have the scoring cfgs loaded up tomorrow on all 3 servers.
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| Sunday, January 02, 2005 |
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Mini Cooper has been added to the SunLit Rally server. This is the original Mini Cooper, popular in England in the 1960's.
You can install it from the link above. It installs to the same folder as our HL Rally map installers (C:>Program Files>Steam>SteamApps>{your e-mail}>Half-Life>hlrally). If you have installed HL Rally maps or map packs from SunLit previously, the installer will remember the proper folder.
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| Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
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Our second map pack for the HL Rally mod is now available for download.
You can find it on our HL Rally Map
Packs page.
Some pics from a few of the new maps are below. You can also see all the
pics, along with individual map downloads, of all our maps on the HL Rally Maps page.
   
If you don't have HL Rally yet, you should check it out. It's neat, it's
something different, and it's free. You can find it on our HL Rally Mod page. You'll find instructions on
installing it at the top of that page.
Enjoy.
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| Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
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We have two new maps for Christmas. You can download them from the links below, or let the server auto-download them to you.
I've added these maps to the mapcycle on the SunLit Winter Warfare server.
I hope all our great friends that play here have a wonderful Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.
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| Friday, December 24, 2004 |
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Please note that both of our Half-Life 2 DeathMatch servers now have new IP addresses. This is due to an effort do deal with lag (specifically, high levels of choke) on the HL2DM servers, on a suggestion from another server operator. We are separating out the servers on to two different IP addresses.
New IP Addresses:
SunLit Source of Horrors
Type: HL2DM DeathMatch
IP Addr: 69.56.242.82:27055
SunLit Team DeathMatch
Type: HL2DM Team DeathMatch
IP Addr: 69.56.242.81:27055
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| Monday, December 20, 2004 |
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There's a new mapcycle up on Futurama. If you are up-to-date with our maps, there's nothing new to download, this is simply a new selection of maps from our library, not a new map pack.
I've selected a ton of maps that I consider some of our best. Especially ones we haven't played in a while. I've mixed in most of the standard maps as well -- in order to draw new players in.
If you are missing any of the maps, you can find them listed alphabetically in our DoD Map Library. If you are missing most of them, you can also download all 150+ of our maps from our DoD Map Packs page. All maps and map packs are in self-installing files.
Here's the list:
dod_belgium
dod_anzio
dod_adrenalin4
dod_1939_b11
dod_avalanche
dod_campagne
dod_carentan
dod_caen
dod_cherbourg
dod_sturm
dod_clervaux3b
dod_chemille
dod_crete
dod_crossfire
dod_chemille
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dod_diversion
dod_dust
dod_donner
dod_enemy
dod_switch
dod_fabrik2_b2
dod_escape
dod_feldfeuer
dod_kraftstoff
dod_harrington
dod_falaise
dod_hameau
dod_hill_classic
dod_flash
dod_hochburg
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dod_jocund1
dod_flugplatz
dod_latan3
dod_mainz
dod_forest
dod_navarone_b3
dod_railroad
dod_glider
dod_sampol3
dod_sector4
dod_jagd
dod_slope
dod_solitude_b2
dod_kalt
dod_toulon_b2
dod_volonne
dod_saints
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Enjoy!
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| Saturday, December 18, 2004 |
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SunLit HL2DM Map Pack #2 now available for download.
The maps for Half-Life 2 DeathMatch continue to come out at a rapid clip. It's very encouraging to see so many mappers working to make custom maps for a new game so quickly.
Many of these first new maps have been fatally flawed in some fundamental way. Some were beautiful, but unplayable. Some were poorly textured, but fun to play.
The reason we've come out with this new map pack so quickly after the first is that there are finally a few maps out there that both look good and play well. The ones I'm most interested in are dm_bounce_b2 (a completely re-textured version of the classic HLDM map), dm_rebar_b5 and dod_substorage. Pictures of these three maps are below.
There are a few other maps in there as well. You can see a complete list, along with thumbnails and expanded pics of each map on our HL2DM Map Pack #2 page. A new mapcycle will be posted on the HL2DM servers shortly.
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| Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
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We now have an Half-Life 2 Team Death Match server.
SunLit Source of Madness
Team DeathMatch
67.18.13.94:27125
It is running the same maps as our regular HL2DM server.
Also, I've killed off the Natural Selection server, as no one was playing it, and we need to make sure we have plenty of capacity to run new mods for HL2.
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| Monday, December 13, 2004 |
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I know most ordinary players are quite happy to play the same two maps over and over again, but all of us who play at SunLit are used to a little more choice and variety. I don't know about you, but I'm completely sick of playing dm_overwatch and dm_lockdown ad nauseum on our HL2DM server (SunLit Source of Horrors).
No more! Half-Life 2 Death Match Map Pack #1 is now ready for download. Click on the link above to download the whole pack or individual maps. You can also see some nice screenshots of all the maps on that page.
Please note that all SunLit HL2DM maps and map packs should be installed to the following folder:
C:>Program Files>Steam>SteamApps>{your e-mail}>half-life 2 deathmatch>hl2mp
After you have installed any SunLit HL2DM map or map pack to this folder once, it will remember the folder location for all subsequent HL2DM installs.
AintSkerd did most of the hard work of scrounging around various servers and websites finding some playable maps. There are not that many out there yet, but he's found a few gems. I'm particularly looking forward to barney_gulch and ofc_thebeach. There's also a new version of crossfire for HL2DM, called dm_crossfire2_b2 -- and with this one, the airstrike works.
You can see the new mapcycle here.
You can see screenshots and download maps or the map pack here.
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| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 |
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The cold winds are blowing, the snow has begun to fall for many of you, and the holiday season is upon us. We wanted to do something to mark the occaision, so SunLit is having a virtual Winter Festival of sorts on one of our Day of Defeat servers.
It's the very best kind of winter festival, of course. You can stay inside and huddled over your warm monitor, there are no annoying relatives, and, of course, you get to shoot guns and blow stuff up.
The server normally known as the SunLit Annex, has been renamed SunLit Winter Warfare and is running a mapcycle of winter and wintery maps exclusively. If you are up-to-date with our custom maps (i.e., you have all our map packs installed), you do not need to download any thing. All the maps are simply winter maps already in our vast custom DoD map library.
You can see a list of all the winter maps, see pictures of all of them, and download any you might be missing on our Winter Warfare maps page. If you are missing most of the maps, you can also download a special map pack on the same page.
Happy Festivus, and Enjoy!
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| Monday, December 06, 2004 |
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14 teams and 15 custom maps later, [GsS] and [HoD] again had the opportunity to test eachother's mettle.
Both teams had the skills, the strats and a 3 year familiarity with their opponent's styles and capabilities.
[GsS] came up with a decisive win over [HoD] with a final score of:
[GsS] 801 - [HoD] 358
Congratulations to both teams on an excellent season.
SLDL 5 is in the planning stages for a start in early January.
If your team is interested, please confirm with Pvt.John or Rosie or post in the SLDL forums
Happy Holidays
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| Monday, December 06, 2004 |
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The SLDL finals are tonight.
[HoD] and [GsS]
Map: cr44a
Sunday 8pm est
Match Server #2 ip: 69.56.242.80:27065
You can cheer on your favourite team in
SLTV2 ip 67.8.13.94:27035
Password: "sldl"
It will be a bloodbath :)
GL and HF
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| Sunday, December 05, 2004 |
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Hard to believe it, but we're already up to Map Pack
#15 for DoD 1.x.
You can download the map pack from the link above (you must be registered and logged in).
It's a big download -- 167 MB -- thought we'd push our server to the wall on this and see what
happens :) As always, install to the following folder:
C:>Program Files>Steam>SteamApps>{your e-mail}>day of defeat>dod
There are some updates of maps we've played before, including a fixed version of
dod_trenchfield2, which is one of my favorites. It had some missing textures before, but looks
great now. The final versions of dod_fury and dod_saisie are in there, too, along with a new
version of dod_cr44 called dod_cr44v2. Please note that dod_cr44night is included with the
download for dod_cr44v2.
Also, dod_normandy is back for the first time since the good old days of DoD Beta 3.1. It's
flag-based this time, instead of objective-based. Col. Krust mentioned a while ago that he
wanted to see dod_festung_v4 again, so this map has been added, too.
Those of you who have played Call of Duty will find dod_harbor_b3 to be very familiar. It is
essentially a remake of the standard CoD map Harbor, but in the DoD engine. It is very nice and
polished looking.
There are also a few "just for fun" types of maps included. Some crazy person converted some
custom HLDM maps to work with DoD in a Team Deathmatch sort of thing. I've included a few of
the better ones here -- scorched, plateau, and chaocity1. And of course, by popular demand, we
now have dod_walmart.
The new maps are running in a new mapcycle for Futurama.
Some pictures of the maps are below. You can also see all the pictures, with their map names,
and download individual maps or the map pack itself on the DoD Map Pack #15 page. Enjoy!
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