MODS available directly through steam

    I just got a news update about this... the mods include age of chivalry, insurgency, zombie panic, and a few others.

    Congrats to all involved. It was pretty awesome of valve to do this.

    I couldn't find a news item anywhere on their site... weird.

    here is the copied press release from steam:

    "As a part of our continuing efforts to support the MOD community, we will begin hosting selected MODs directly on Steam starting next week. The first five MODs to ship on steam will be Age of Chivalry, D.I.P.R.I.P., Insurgency, Synergy, and Zombie Panic. As always, owners of any Source game will be able to download and play all of these MODs for free.

    Once installed, these MODs will appear in your "My Games" list and will receive automatic updates just like other games on Steam. Also, these MODs now take advantage of Steamworks, which provides stat tracking and tighter integration with the Steam community.

    We're excited to see MOD developers get wider recognition for the hard work they have done, and we hope to support more MOD teams in the future. Watch for the official release next week!"

    Without trying to upsetting the mod community, Mods are about ready for a proper release, but only fairly recently.

    I wish Fist Full of Frags and PVK2 where on that list, I'm sure they will be soon though

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    Valve finally (partially) deliver their promise to host mods on steam after what? 5 years?

    There have been mods available on Steam since forever. These mods are special because they get Steamworks integration, are in the Orange Box engine, and have achievements.

    I honestly don't ever remember Valve promising that kinda thing, and in the past we have had other answers such as " all content would have to be Valve approved etc" It's a pretty nice move, which also basically means Steam gives them a way to support mods without purchasing them, which only means more and more will benefit from it.

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    I honestly don't ever remember Valve promising that kinda thing.

    They did say about it when Steam first went live, only other thing I can find is some old hlcoders emails:

    I see, clearly other priorities came in the way. The most important one probably the fact they needed to establish Steam as the leading digital distribution platform, something no amount of mods could ever do, and using the bandwith for that purpose and nothing else was a smart move. Now that this is starting, I only hope this is the first step towards the global client based distribution of all things mod in the future. Steam has a peer to peer system already, it would be so sweet to enable it for players to share the custom maps and models on the fly, with no waiting time.

    I doubt Zombie Panic: Source is gonna be getting any updates, for one. It's got promise but the mod team hates work as far as I can tell, leaving it unbalanced and a bunch of maps shit to play. It's a shame, because if you get on the right map (like subway) it's AMAZINGLY fun. But the primary game mode requires the humans to actually kill off the zombies, which move faster (humans have a slightly faster base run rate but weapons slow you down, so it doesn't matter, you're always slower), take way more damage, and have 30+ pooled extra lives to respawn with. Not to mention limited ammo. If the game would even just accept zombie winning is inevitable and do something like celebrate the last remaining survivor as the winner or something, even that would be acceptable, but it's all or nothing.

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    Better late then never!

    Indeed, don't get me wrong I'm glad this happened. Just wished Valve sort of let the community know in the 4 or 5 years inbetween about the delays and not just "maybe soon"

    Not sure they picked the best 5 mods to start with though. I would have definitely got PvK2,Fortress-Forever,Dystopia rather than AoC/DIPRIP/Synergy.

    Edit: Minerva too.

    Congratulations to everyone involved in these mods, it's a great initiative and I thank Valve for this, never is too late. My only concern is what is going to happen with the already weak Source mod community. I mean if some mods which are already ignored will be even more ignored due the massive media attention will get those spotted mods. Time will tell.

    So finally Steam now is now able to do what HL and WON could do more than 5 years ago...

    Quote from R_Yell

    Congratulations to everyone involved in these mods, it's a great initiative and I thank Valve for this, never is too late. My only concern is what is going to happen with the already weak Source mod community. I mean if some mods which are already ignored will be even more ignored due the massive media attention will get those spotted mods. Time will tell.

    If there's any mod that deserves attention, it's Fistful of Frags. No Guns (melee, dynamite, bow only) matches in FoF with friends is some of the best fun I've had multiplayer ever.

    Won could automatically update mods and host servers for fast dls and updates? I had some "Mod Game" Button in my games but never had anything like autoupdate o_O

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