Dystopia

http://dystopia-game.com/

After spending over 3 years saying "when its done", I have the thrill of announcing that Dystopia Version 1 is in fact; done. We will be releasing it to the public next weekend. The exact times are:

12:00 a.m. Saturday February 24, 2007 in GMT
07:00 p.m. Friday February 23, 2007 in US EST
11:00 a.m. Saturday February 24, 2007 in AU ESDT

To celebrate we have a teaser trailer which shows off some of the exciting new features in Version 1. This video was created by The-Next, one of our fantastic supporters. It's a 28 meg video, encoded with divx 6.4.

If you can help out by mirroring the installer or setting up servers ready for this release date, please email me: fuzzy@dystopia-game.com

Dystopia, the mod which I have been working on for well over a year now, has finally been completed and we are releasing v1 of our mod next weekend.

For a list of the game's features, click here. A changelog of what has changed from the u4 Demo version of the game is here. Quite a large changelog!

If you've tried previous versions of the game, and enjoyed it, make sure you grab the new version when it is made available. Even if you didn't enjoy it too much, the team still urges you to give it a go and treat it as an entirely new game, because it really is a lot different.

Finally, I'd like to wrap it up with a screenshot of my map featured in the game: Detonate.


(sorry about the file size orphy)

Make sure you check out the game next weekend, and I hope to see some of you ingame.

:smile:

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I seem to have done toilet on your floor

Screenshot looks really sweet! Unfortunately, the site won't load. I get the following error:

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Must have recently went down. TWHL was commenting on it yesterday.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

The site works fine for me.

Site may have gone down temporarily, I'm not sure.

Regardless, it's working fine now (for me, anyway).

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Trailer looked pretty cool. Reminded me a bit of the Max Payne intro with the the pulsing sound and screen, but that's just a plus. :wink:

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http://dystopia-game.com/

Dystopia has been released!

It's quite a hefty download but it's very much worth it. Hope to see some of you fellas in-game.

:smile:

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I haven't been keeping up with this, and all the links posted on this page only lead to a 500+ meg download.

What is this exactly?

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I apologise, Orph, I should have been more clear. I made the assumption that most people in a community such as this would have known what Dystopia is, considering we've been one of the higher-profile Source mods out there (we've recieved quite a lot of attention from VALVe, etc.)

The site only consists of 9 files for the time being because our server is getting hammered by huge numbers of people trying to download our game.



Dystopia is a modification for Half-Life 2 (though you only need the SDK base to play it). It's cyberpunk themed mod set to a future battle between Punk Mercenaries (Punks) and Corporate Security Forces (Corps). With assault gameplay (additional gametypes will come in the future), the attacking team must complete objectives in meatspace (the real world) and cyberspace (a 3d representation of the network.

Planet Half Life gave Dystopia v1 quite a rave review, which can be viewed here. It mentions a bit about the background of the mod, the features, the gameplay and the improvements over previous versions. Check it out if you're interested.

Only 2 hours into release, we've already managed to reach a higher player count than The Specialists and Sven Co-op, as well as popular source mods such as SourceForts and PVKII. Steam's stats currently show us at 398 players, and the number is continually increasing with each update of the page.

What more can I say? Give it a go, you won't regret it. Hope to see some of you blokes in-game (I play by the name '[dys]Trapt' and you'll recognise me by my developer icon on the scoreboard).

Enjoy! :smile:

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You ain't gotta apologize for my ineptitudes bud. I just am either gone to much and lose track, or.. Am just dumb.

I'll download.. Prolly wait till the stampede dies a bit though.

(with my job, I am apt to be gone 2 days to a week.. I just lose track sometimes.)

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:smile: Waiting for the stampede to die is probably a good idea. Our webserver is still getting smashed by huge amounts of people (we're on the front page of digg atm, and we're expecting a lot more people to download when it gets posted on popular news sites). At the moment, you'll probably have trouble getting into servers, most of them are full.

We just passed Natural Selection and Earth's Special Forces on the Steam Player count stats. All the other games above us are all VALVe (except Garry's Mod), and the development team are amazed at how much attention we're getting, and how much people seem to love our game.

If people ask me why I map, I'll have to explain to them the feeling of seeing full servers on Steam, playing my map and enjoying it. It really is an unbelievable feeling.

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Just started the download for this, from my ISP's miror (internode) going at full speed, so should have this in an hour.

Looks cool, cant wait :biggrin:

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You'll be pleased to know there are a number of Australian servers too! Kinda helps that the vast majority of the developers are, in fact, Australians. :smile:

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Trapt said:
Kinda helps that the vast majority of the developers are, in fact, Australians. :smile:

LOL, you're supposed to be reassuring us bud.

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I tried to avoid the initial rush, what with the clogged servers and all, but after your point about once it hits popular news sites, I figure I should get too it before it gets even worse.

In line at fileplanet now.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

172 Downloading via torrent right now. congrats. :smile:

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172 Downloading via torrent right now. congrats. :smile: </DIV></DIV>

Coming my way with no lines and at a whopping 115k.

I highly recommend using this avenue guys. Its far less stressful and at least in this instance 100% legal.

[EDIT] If you see "69.152.211.206" That'll be me.

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You're almost beating TFC right now. I hope the mod can hold it's place over the next few weeks. (OT: what's this "Earth's Special Forces"? They always have hundreds of players and I never even heard of them? )

Anyway, I have this whole afternoon to map, try out that copy of Far Cry I borrowed, and a bunch of new Family Guy episodes to watch. adds Dystopia to the list :wink:

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Why snark works.

The launch has gone incredibly smoothly: we've had heaps of players and the vast majority of them seem to enjoy the game!

I, too, was surprised at the popularity of ESF (it seems to be a HL1 mod based on DragonBallZ). I knew that it existed and stuff, but I had no idea they had such a huge player base. They're rivalling the popularity of TFC at all times, it's quite phenomenal!

Hope you fellas enjoy the game when you get around to playing it. :smile:

Oh, and reaper? Don't have high hopes for Far Cry. It's pretty poop.

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poop

Yea, the Hawaii feeling wears off quickly.

I had a quick game of Dystopia and it looks excellent. I always liked this mod. Great job, guys!

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Why snark works.

/me downloads

Orpheus said:
LOL, you're supposed to be reassuring us bud.

Orpheus you have slandered Australians for the last time!

I challenge you to a duel!
You choose the weapons. I'll see you on the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge at dawn the day after tommorow.

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

smith, man, you can't just expect him to go all that way, you have to meet halfway or something, so somewhere over the pacific ocean

Agent Smith said:
I challenge you to a duel!

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I suffered through you whipping my ass fragging DM_Hydro. Isn't that humiliating enough? :heee:

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Well I would have thought so too, but in light of recent comments I guess it ain't :smile: .

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http://www.hamandjam.org

'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

I'v been playing this a lot lately. Good fun. Anyone els find the learning curve a little steep. I don't seam to being to well. :sad:

Dystopia's gameplay does have many layers, and the aspect of cyberspace makes the learning curve a lot more difficult than a lot of other FPS games out there.

The New Player Guide, which is now a little outdated, has the basic info about the HUD and explains some of the concepts. This was writted for the demo of the game, however, and leaves out some of the new features in v1. I believe a new guide is being worked on at the moment.

Even once you know what you're doing, the game is still rather difficult. I've been playing the game for ages now, and I'm still not very good at it (I tend to suck even more on my own map, it's terrible D:). I guess the only way to get better at something is to practice a lot. The fact that we have some seriously hardcore players which have been playing since first release and are really good doesn't really help at all.

Anyway, a v1.1 serverside patch is coming soon to fix some issues, which should make the game a little more stable and iron out some minor bugs.

Also, it's nice to know you're enjoying it. It makes the effort of making the game worth it. :smile:

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The only issues I've seen are door glitches. Often i saw doors overlapping each other and opening in the wrong direction. Or just jittering. In one instance i saw a door open (vertically) and keep going through the building, then it passed out of the building and into the sky. It keep going until it diapered when it passed through the sky box. Not a big deal but i found it hilarious for some reason. What i did notice more though was the overall smoothness of the levels. I haven't seen any lag yet.

The Source engine doesn't really like doors. :sad: It is unfortunate, as they're rather necessary in games such as Dystopia.

I must agree though, some of the glitchy doors are rather funny. I once saw someone get squashed by doors which opened the wrong way. Understandably, he was upset, but I found hilarious.

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