Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Released internationally: November 30, 2004, June 2013 (Mac/Linux) This game has unused areas. This game has revisional differences. This game has a development article This game has a bugs page

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Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is the often forgotten multiplayer mode of Half-Life 2, released as a separate game. What makes this different from Half-Life deathmatch is the fact that you can punt a toilet towards enemy players with the Gravity Gun. It was once given for free to owners of Nvidia graphics cards.

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Unused Areas

dm_runoff has an unused sewer area that is cut off from the rest of the map. This sewer may have been used as a shortcut between the map's ends, due to this area's placement.

Revisional Diiferences

Official HL2DM Mapping Contest

Back in 2005, Valve held an official mapping contest for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, in order to bolster the game's number of maps. By 18 March 2005, this contest was over with the map dm_underpass being the winner, with dm_resistance and dm_powerhouse being second and third place respectively. These maps were later added to the game. Another map called dm_avalon was listed as a honourable mention, however, this map was never added to HL2:DM proper.

SteamPipe

When Valve migrated to using the SteamPipe content delivery system for their games, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was no exception. However, with this update, a new map for the game was added called halls3 (known internally as GreatHalls). This map was originally created by Chris "MacMan" Ashton of Turtle Rock Studios, as a sort-of sequel to a Half-Life deathmatch map he made prior called Halls2.

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