Player movement is very smooth and arcadey (just like CS:GO), fixed spawns (just like CS:GO), but each weapon feels very different from the next. I enjoy the infantry gameplay over BF3's by a large margin.
The feel of the game is also very smooth for its age. You get to know people, or stay anonymous if you wish. One reason I enjoy DoD:S over any other shooter game (such as BF3) is because most people are friendly and talk to eachother and use mics in-game (but are hardly ever abusively). Everyone wants the community to grow and welcomes new players. Everyone follows the rules (or gets kicked, yay dedicated servers). Tangentially, an example of why i love DoD:S and the community: The bar is set high with cooperation and friendliness: when realism is initiated, everyone "lines up on the wall" to be picked by a team captain. Most regular US DoD:Source players play in the small set of normally populated low-ping servers, and many of them casually or competitively play "Realism" matches when enough people want to play (Realism: a player made mode of attacker / defender 1-life Counter Strike style match, best 3 out of 5 matches wins a realism).
The existing community has held together through almost complete neglect by Valve for this long. WW2 will never go out of style completely, in fact, it'll come back in force due to many reasons, and we will want it to when it does.
#DAY OF DEFEAT SOURCE REALISM MOD PC#
I am one of the longest standing members of the Day of Defeat community (started almost 12 years ago, a few months after initial beta release) and a well seasoned / strategic-minded PC Gamer, and I truly believe that by the time Valve could release a major overhaul of DoD, the general public would latch on to the specifically unique vibe of DoD in the rich WW2 setting. The only concrete criticism I'm seeing is the lack of maps, but more have been added and obviously the community provides more on dedicated servers. I'll also throw in that DoD:S did give a major improvement in hitbox fidelity, as seen here. In light of this, if the community was so displeased with DoD:S, why was DoD been abandoned for DoD:S? Some might be less newbie-friendly, but I can't see any serious issues - what do you think went wrong?Īlso, where is this community backlash? The original CS (same era as DoD) is still today more popular than both CS:S and CS:GO.
That isn't to say that grittiness is bad - DoD:S is aesthetically a very bland game, and could definitely be improved.įurthermore, what were these stupid design decisions? After playing hundreds of hours of DoD:S, I'd say that the classes are fairly (but not perfectly) balanced (yes, even the bazooka). Same atmosphere, same aesthetic, just a different era of graphics. What is this "gritty feel" you are talking about? How did it manifest? I've played DoD:S and DoD, and DoD just felt like a late 90s version of DoD:S - there was no change in feeling at all. What are your thoughts? Would you like to see this IP make a comeback, so to speak? Do you like DoD/DoDS? Why or why not? I feel like some sort of a "yes, we still care, here are some updates!" from Valve would really help reignite the game concerning popularity and competitive play. Is this lack of updates due to the game's popularity in comparison to Valve's other franchises? Does Valve feel that the DoD franchise isn't worth its time compared to spending time on CSGO and TF2 because lower numbers of people play it? No actual updates have come along in quite some time (whereas TF2 and the CS franchise have obviously gotten quite a few, regarding all of the TF2 content and CSGO). For all intents and purposes, it looks like Valve has abandoned it.ĭay of Defeat was one of the most popular HL1 mods, and spawned a "sequel" alongside Counter-Strike Source: Day of Defeat Source, or what is commonly referred to as DoDS.įast forward to now, and we have CSGO, but no Day of Defeat equivalent.
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