Cold Ice was an early HL1 DeathMatch mod back in the days when Counter-Strike was unheard of and Oz and RocketCrowbar reigned supreme (Rocket Crowbar was another excellent mod, but the mod team went in a very strange direction and ruined the mod, and that was the end of Rocket Crowbar). This was back when CDS (Charlotte Death Squad) was one of the hottest Oz servers and won.west/won.east were pretty good DM servers. I remember very well the day when the total number of Half-Life servers in the world hit 1000, but I digress..... It featured over the top weapons (nuke launcher, kamikazi vest, awesome chain gun, sexy satchel bombs "ohhh, push that button!", excellent maps with an ice and snow theme and a bit of tongue in cheek humour. I loved how everytime you switched weapons you would hear a quiet voice announce the weapon. When you switched to the PPK, you heard "Bond. James Bond". It was hilarious :) .
For a while it was very popular, but Valve broke it with one of their HL updates. Cold Ice died overnight. Several years ago a new team got together and made a beta build, made a half-assed attempt to publish it, and then the team fell apart again. I talked to several of the team members back then, and worked with one of them in an attempt to publish another beta, but alas the guy with the source code vanished and took the source with him. We never heard from him again. I continued to run an Ice server, and still get a bit of traffic from time to time.
Got any more info on the mod ? Never heard of it !
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