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Posted by Spartan on Fri Jul 1st at 5:04pm 2005

Well many of you may already know about Valandil. Progress is going great but we are in need of a few more team members. Mainly another coder, another animator, a few more mappers, and some more texture artists. If you have any interest in joining please e-mail Bill at bill@valandilmod.com, or send him a PM on the Valandil forums. The official site can be found here. http://www.valandilmod.com

If you don't already know. Valandil is a Half Life 2 mod that focuses on medieval warfare. There will be 3 different factions to join and several different classes to play, as well as the use of seige weapons.












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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 1st at 5:42pm 2005

I'd go as a mapper, seeing as this looks like a very promising mod from the previous media releases I've seen, but I haven't mapped in a while really. Plus, I have to get to work on turkeyburgers for Fortress-Forever.




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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Fri Jul 1st at 5:44pm 2005

Once I find some time, I think I'll sign up as a mapper.

Until Later...




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Posted by Spartan on Fri Jul 1st at 5:57pm 2005

The team workin on it is filled with a lot great mappers modelers, texture artists, animators, etc. Bill makes sure we stay on track and from what I've seen so far everything is top notch. I'm really glad I joined up. It's hard to choose a mod these days. There are so many great ones. There is going to be a lot of competition among mods in the Half Life 2 community.




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Posted by Windows 98 on Fri Jul 1st at 7:52pm 2005

Hahaha freewebs <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


Id join as a member, but i dont think im that good



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Posted by Spartan on Fri Jul 1st at 8:14pm 2005

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Hahaha freewebs


Who's website are you looking at?




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Posted by Andrei on Fri Jul 1st at 9:10pm 2005

I think he thought the link to your site was the mod's adress.




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Posted by Madedog on Sat Jul 2nd at 7:55am 2005

lol... I'm already tied with two mods, so - sorry, but I ain't going to participate <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">
But - otherwise it seems a cool one, alas I am not interested in Medieval times... I never liked history. It was (you call it F, right? As Failed?) 2, so I cut the crap.




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Posted by Spartan on Sat Jul 2nd at 4:23pm 2005

We mainly need another coder. We have a large team and a coder but with all thw work we've got it would help out a lot to have a second one. Of course they are hard to come by. Another animator and maybe another mapper or 2 would help also.




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Posted by SaintGreg on Sat Jul 2nd at 4:54pm 2005

Don't you already have like 50 people?





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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jul 2nd at 5:24pm 2005

That map screenshot looks like HL1 tbh, no offence to who did it, but Piranesi looks just as good (From CS 1.5).

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I always find it funny how people think coders are more rare than animators...


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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jul 2nd at 10:01pm 2005

Something about those screenshots reminds me of Gothic.




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Posted by Spartan on Sat Jul 2nd at 11:01pm 2005

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Something about those screenshots reminds me of Gothic.

Seeing as how this is medieval warfare I'd hope so. By the way to aleviate any confusion this is a multiplayer game. It's not an MMORPG.




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Posted by Andrei on Sun Jul 3rd at 9:55am 2005

(as if you could make a MMORPG with the source engine. just imagine -- 200 people stuck on dm_overwatch each tortured by ~ 1400ms lag).




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Posted by MisterBister on Sun Jul 3rd at 11:10am 2005

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(as if you could make a MMORPG with the source engine. just imagine -- 200 people stuck on dm_overwatch each tortured by ~ 1400ms lag).


As far as I know there is actually one MMORPG based on source somewhere out there. The game is probably being created right now... But thats all i "know"..




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Posted by Andrei on Sun Jul 3rd at 11:47am 2005

Even If you could squeeze so many players in a map for source the game would still be unplayable because of the lag. The more the laggier. I don't think those guys will be able to pull this one off.




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Posted by Spartan on Sun Jul 3rd at 2:18pm 2005

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Even If you could squeeze so many players in a map for source the game would still be unplayable because of the lag. The more the laggier. I don't think those guys will be able to pull this one off.

What guys?




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Posted by ReNo on Sun Jul 3rd at 3:01pm 2005

Sure you could create an MMORPG using source, provided you heavily modified it. Obviously the current netcode is suited to small numbers of players as opposed to large, and the maps are detailed FPS levels not large scale RPG settings, but you aren't just going to "up the player limit" to turn it into an MMORPG. I'm sure the team building the game (which is a commercial product by the way, if you are meaning the one I think you do) are making a whole load of changes to the engine to make it more suitable for their type of game. For example, in HL2DM there is a lot of detailed information being thrown back and forth over the net (think of the physics alone!), much of which an MMORPG wouldn't need to bother with. Rip out some of that stuff and you are freeing up bandwidth for larger numbers of players, and more stat based information to be transmitted.

So I guess its gonna be pretty hard for a mod team to pull off anything like an MMO, there isn't any reason why people who have properly licensed the engine and are willing to make plenty of tweaks to it cannot.




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Posted by Spartan on Sun Jul 3rd at 3:06pm 2005

Like I already said. Valandil is a team based multiplayer game like DoD or CS. It is not an MMORPG.






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Posted by ReNo on Sun Jul 3rd at 3:23pm 2005

We weren't talking about Valandil - read the past few posts.




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