
The two bundled maps are the prison-based dm_lockdown and the streets-of-City 17 style dm_overwatch. Half-Life 2 Deathmatch is a separate entity to Half-Life 2, running from a different executable, and features its own built-in server browser. The image you see here originally appeared on Valve's Steam news page yesterday, and soon after the SDK appeared on Steam along with the 32MB HL2 DM download. It's Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and you can download it over Steam right now and start chucking things around with the gravity gun across a pair of maps based on sections of the single-player game.

In October 2009, another independent mod developer started working on DMC: Source.As promised, Valve has surprised us all with the unexpected bonus supplied along with the Source SDK this week. Valve hasn't announced any plans of their own regarding the conversion of DMC to Source, although in the 2003 Half-Life 2 leak, map sources & textures for a Source conversion of Deathmatch Classic, akin to Half-Life: Source. Several people teamed up with him on this project, but it was eventually scrapped. In October 2004, an independent mod developer announced that he was starting work on DMC: Source, a conversion of Deathmatch Classic to the Source engine. DMC also imitates Quake's physics, which allows an advanced player to gain a lot of extra speed or jump very high by using a number of movement skills such as bunny hopping and rocket jumping.ĭeathmatch Classic is infamous for having an inactive community, Its record player count being 28, In 2018 the group Deathmatch Classic Mania orchestrated a "DMC Revival" party, Although after it increased the peak to 300, It did little more than that and the small community went back to normal shortly after the "DMC Revival".


The gameplay is similar to Quake Deathmatch, with essentially the same weapons (except the weapon for melée combat, which is Half-Life's crowbar instead of the original axe). The original release included five maps converted from Quake. Deathmatch Classic was conceived by Valve as a tribute to id Software, and is essentially a remake of the multiplayer component of id's Quake.
