Anyone here ever play it?
http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com I've played it from allll the way back in the old beta days, before Valve software bought 'em out... I mentioned this back in the Battlefield 2 thread, but that brought back some pretty cool memories of that old game...before the uber-complex maps...before para gameplay, before the MGs were added, even before they nerfed the M-1 Garand...
Some of the fonder memories include:
Spawning on the beach at Omaha as an Allie, charging up, and shooting some Germans as they came out of the underground bunker, dodging the others as they returned fire with their K-98s, and finishing the others off, a literal dance of death.
games on Hill as an Axis soldier.... running around the artillery plotting board and whaling on the 'fire' buttons to bring down artillery fire on certain sections of the map...and then reading the bitching about "airstrikes being abused"
...mainly by those who simply parked themselves right in the middle of the strike zones as a sniper, and attempted to pick off any Nazis, rather than attack the fortress and take control of the control points.... the biggest whiners then tended to be the biggest lamers... (although, sometimes, they COULD have a valid point, like when someone was map exploiting.. )
Sometimes, it just SUCKED to be Allies on that map...you'd use medium to long range rifle fire to clear out the front bunker, and head right up the path to the fortress itself...only to have a load of 88mm arty adjust your attitude but good.
One exploit that got around (and I *did* use a bit, myself.... mainly when it'd be funniest... ) One could pull the pin on a Grenade (and I forget how exactly, ) but it wouldn't explode until you released it to throw it, or died...I think you held down one of the fire buttons when you dropped the gren originally, and then picked it back up with the use key. Anyway, I used to love (at the start of a map) to prime a gren, set it up as described above, and hop into the middle of a gaggle of Nazis..... of course, someone would think "ooh, free kill. " and then shoot you.
KABOOM. You'd explode, as well as anyone within the blast radius. If done like ONCE or twice, it'd be funny to most folks, even the 'victims' but people got to where that trick was all they'd do, and it was removed. (Rightfully so, of course. )
Another fun memory was on one map, (can't recall exactly which, ) whee I was covered by an enemy sniper...if I ran around the corner, I would die. To retreat would take me back into the guns of the enemy.... well, one enterprising Nazi heaved a stick grenade at me, bouncing it around the corner. Sucker forgot to drop it, pick it back up, count to 2 and THEN throw it. I picked it up, bounced it high off the wall opposite to me, got it just barely right, and gave the Sniper on the 2nd story a facefull of KABOOM. The poor would-be grenadier, apparently surprised at the turn of events just stood there slack-jawed while I popped him with my trusty 1911....
I do sometimes jump out there in DoD nowadays...but with all the extra fancy stuff they've added, and the huge number of players they've added, I've noticed entirely too much Counterstrikeitis.... this tends to kill a game faster than anything for me...
