Sunday Mod Round-up 4/04/10

[Sliver]

Remember you can submit your mod news to [email protected], or add your mod to our mod listing database here. This week:[br]

• Visage media release- Three new screenshots released, along with a interesting new puzzle.[br]
• Firearms: Source gives new info on grenades- A recent post goes over their two new grenade models and features, as well as new weapon crate colors.[br]
• Occupation Source Beta 2.8.1 available now- The new patch fixes a number of bugs, and adds some cool new gameplay features.[br]
• Hope releases new gun render- Progress for a M100 assault rifle model shown.[br]
• Dogfight posts about level design- The team talks about what goes into mapping for Dogfight.[br]
• Field Zone progress update- The team gives a rundown of current going-ons, such as being mentioned on Podcast17, and their new gun model.[br]
• Dangerous Worlds 2 media release- Three new screenshots shown, and a message to all fans.[br]
• Fruit Life revived- A new developer has brought the acclaimed mod back to life, and shows off some new screenshots.[br]
• Tension update on mapping progress- New video released that goes over the difficulty of making maps for Tension, and possible solutions.[br]
• Swarm beta released- This prestigious new mod, which pits you against thousands of enemy soldiers, has been released into Beta 1.0.[br]

 

[FoxFire]

This might sound rather spiteful, but I'm finding it harder and harder to care about Source mods anymore.

Anyone else having this problem?

 

[Acepilotf14]

Nothing's really interesting anymore. It's all just vaporware. Anything that was worthwhile has already been finished.

 

[JustachaP]

i don't really care for Source mods much because they are mostly not popular so there are hardly any servers and no australian servers

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Nothing's really interesting anymore. It's all just vaporware. Anything that was worthwhile has already been finished.

There are definitely still great ideas and gameplay mechanics coming from the mod scene. It isn't as vibrant as in the past, possibly due to how saturated the market is with affordable games these days...but things like Garry's mod prove they still hold their own.

The problem also seems to be that there are a lot of mods these days, and a lot of them don't ever release or hype and let us down. You need to know who is serious and what is worth keeping an eye on.

Visage is beautiful, Firearms is going to be tons of fun for sure & Tension is worth tracking on moddb. Don't quit on them, last year Research & Development released by Matt Bortolino was mindblowing, on par with the quality of Half-life 2 and better than Minerva in my opinion.

Turn your back on mods and you'll miss a trick.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Source modding peaked with Zombie Master.

 

[StarBob]

My take on Source mods as always been that the most ambitious ones are never finished or, somehow, are still under development. Like Black Mesa. I feel like I saw that 20 years ago and it looks about that same...

I think Valve (or someone) should hit these more serious mod developers with a little money and then sell their mods for cheap (like $5) so that they'd actually come out and be high quality.

 

[FoxFire]

We need to go back to the good ol' days of the GoldSrc engine where anyone could make a mod (and just about everyone did).

Those were the days...

 

[tschumann]

I have to agree. There's just something about GoldSource mods. Maybe it's to do with Valve funding the better ones.

 

[Insano]

Source modding peaked with Zombie Master.

April 1st is over.

I played ZM for months.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

No BM:S news?

 

[BlueWolf72]

We need to go back to the good ol' days of the GoldSrc engine where anyone could make a mod (and just about everyone did).

Those were the days...

NAILED IT

 

[alchemistlord]

No BM:S news?

Yep. And none in the next hmmm...... 5 or so months?