Half-Life 2 Aftermath Retail Details

Eurogamer.com is reporting on details of the upcoming Half-Life 2: Aftermath expansion pack. At the moment Valve is still finalizing their publishing partner, and they expect to announce who that will be in early summer. From the article: "He also added that the current release date estimate for Aftermath is 'September'. Those with long memories will recall Valve signed up with Activision back in Spring 2003 for future content, but so far the only release has been Day Of Defeat. It is not known whether the US publisher will be adding to its expanding roster of FPS developers, with id and Infinity Ward among others already signed up. We shouldn't have long to wait to find out."

Soo.....

[thenetbox]

September 2008?

Re:Soo.....

[Tsunayoshi]

Apparently you don't understand the little amount of work they have to do...shouldn't be more than adding the new levels since the engine is already built. Off of the top of my head...I would say NLT August 2008

Day of Defeat: Source?

[JorenDahn]

Wait, so did they just say DoD:Source is out? The lack of DoD:Source is the only reason I haven't installed my collector's edition of HL2 yet...

Re:Day of Defeat: Source?

[Fred Or Alive]

Steam still has DOD:S as "Comming Soon" section, but I don't have Half-Life 2 in any form.

Perhaps they're refering to a retail version of the HL1 mod, like they did for Counter-Strike?

Unfortunate Engine name

[Funk_dat69]

Every time I hear about these "source" releases, I keep reading it as source *code* releases.

Like: 'Damn! More Valve source code on the net? They needs to get the latest 15 windows mega-critical security patches, like, quick!"

Then I realize that we're talking about the source *engine*. D'oh.
That reminds me... *goes to windowsupdate.com*

Re:Day of Defeat: Source?

[Jmechy]

DOD:S has not yet been released, and no media or details have been released in months.

Re:Day of Defeat: Source?

[DeadlyDonkey]

Yes there have, but they are mainly print-only. There were some scans of some pages of DoD:S in PC Gamer in the UK about a month ago, which showed them doing a CS:S to DoD:S (abbreviation heaven!), aka totally redoing everything.

Natural Selection

[superpulpsicle]

Wasn't Natural Selection supposed to be the most anticipated HL2 mod? Is it me or is the mod community really slow with any HL2 addons?

Re:Natural Selection

[Ford Prefect]

Wasn't Natural Selection supposed to be the most anticipated HL2 mod? Is it me or is the mod community really slow with any HL2 addons?

Well, given that everyone has to figure out how all the new modding stuff works, practice with it, learn how to make the higher-quality content expected for Source, actually produce said content, test it, program stuff, design, alter, monkey around and generally do a full-time job in whatever free time they have available, I don't think things are going too badly... ;-)

Is there any estimate

[Happy Monkey]

on the Lost Coast release date?

Re:Is there any estimate

[Jmechy]

They said that it would be released this summer as a free add-on, along with the graphical updates to add HDR to source.

Expansion due out "this summer"

[Some_Llama]

Great!!!

So now the game I paid 50 dollars for will have it's story explained and actually make sense, now all I have to do is fork out another 40 bucks to get it!!!