Day of Defeat: Source Available September 26
 

I know that anyone who plays any of Valves games on a regular basis has already known about this for a few weeks... but for any of you who didn't know: Day of Defeat Source will be available on September 26th.

A few friends and I have already ordered a server and we will be rockin it once the game is released on Monday.

So is anyone else on TFP excited about finally getting their hands on this?

Bout freaking time! I played the original DoD on HL1 and it was addicting as hell.

yes i saw this as well.
However I don't know if it will be available for me... considering that im using a friends account and I dont know which package he got(bronze silver or gold)..
But I'm not sure whether I've played the original DoD or not...
can anyone describe the gameplay?

I could never get the original to work, hopefully I will fare a bit better with this one

I'm looking forward to playing the new DoD..

I played TFC and CS and by the time I got around to DoD, BF1942 was out and I played that instead, now I'm bored of both BF42 and BF2..

I gotta say I'm dissapointed in the map selection that it released with. All this time and there is hardly anything there. Not even hits like Caen, which was one of the most popular maps. I hope the DoD team plans on regularly releasing official maps over Steam (for a short while anyway) and not leaving the entire field to modders, because there are too many inconveniences associated with custom maps to rely on them all the time. Maybe this was already said and I missed it~ it's hard to say because the DoD webpage was so rarely updated and did such a terrible job delivering news and updated info to fans in any intelligable manner that I just gave up trying to learn anything about the game.

Other than the lack of maps, I played it some tonight and was left feeling, "Well okay then." It pretty much felt like the original DoD except with slightly better graphics and of course better ragdoll physics. Nothing really wowed me, and I think a lot of this stems from the fact that I had to wait the better part of a year to finally play it. So I ran the gamut from hyped for the game down to slowly decreasing excitement to "okay I'll just play it whenever they get around to releasing it". I'm not trying to say that I became bitter over the game taking so long and that now I'm "taking it out" on the game by not liking it. I'm just saying that my eagerness to play petered out, and I think I expected something a little more amazing since it took so long.

I'll play more later, and maybe I will notice more subtleties and nuances that really make dod:S stand apart from the original, and then I'll be less critical. But as for now I feel like all I got for the wait was little upgrades to graphics, sound and physics... and I don't even get to try it out on a variety of maps.

I'm probably missing something.

Does this game have iron sights? Really that's one of the major things I was hoping they would add.

I felt the same way meepa about CS:Source, it was the same CS with nice graphics and new physics...not a bad thing but I was tired of the same old maps, and to see the same maps just updated graphics was a let-down.

Gonna give DoD a whirl this afternoon, like I said never got into the "old" version, so it'll be new to me.

I dont really like it. Its far to fast pace for my taste for a war style FPS game. Just capture the flag and move on, and hope you're not on the side that has the 1 AFK dude, and a few other morons.

The rifle recoil is also insane, I am finding my self running around with a pistol out more then anything unless I'm in the wide open areas.

After playing CoD2 I think I'm just going to wait for that to go final.

DoD:Source was just to over hyped for the amount of time that it took to get out.

Did all of you cough up the $20 for it too?

I bought the silver package so it was essentially free.

I bought the Silver package as well, considering that I never played the original, I wouldn't have paid $20 if it wasnt in the package...