"valve" is Half-Life Deathmatch, but not the source version.
Half-Life Deathmatch Source is the Source version of HLDM, and it is
beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. You have to see crossfire via
hldm:source, it is just lovely. I ran a server for it for a while, but
it was never "officially" released by valve, and you can't download it
by hldsupdatetool or the linux equivalent, steam. I remember when it
came out there was a brief promotion of some sort, and a few custom maps
were made for it, it never became very popular. Valve never bothered to
work out all of the bugs or update it and so it has slowly dwindled into
obscurity. There are about a dozen servers still running it, and a
handful of players that still come and go.
You might want to join an existing server and run around a bit before
you invest time getting your own server going. It is listed on Steam
server browser, you can still select Half-Life Deathmatch: Source as the
game.
You have to do a bit of hacking to get a server up and running for it.
Look here for what should be usable instructions:
http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/3367
On 07/20/2012 08:09 PM, Ross Bemrose wrote:
Isn't that for Half-Life: Deathmatch, not Half-Life: Deathmatch
Source? "valve" is listed in the GldSrc games in -command list
On 7/20/2012 10:45 PM, StevoTVR wrote:
The string is "valve".
On 7/20/2012 4:58 PM, Weasel wrote:
Thought I would inquire here about this too ....
I added "Half-Life: Deathmatch" (the version ported to Source) to my
library the other day and was messing around with it. I am thinking
about setting-up a dedicated server for it.
But, on my Linux server (where I host several other existing valve
games, port conflicts worked-out already, etc.) ... I noticed that
the "game" code for it doesn't show-up in the list of Source
Dedicated Server games. "[path]/steam -command list" doesn't show
what code to use to install a dedicated server for it.
I don't see why Valve would port it over, and not make a dedicated
server build available for it. I assume it's just not added to the
list that the HLDSUpdateTool/Steam lists (which I assume is actually
hard-coded into that tool by the way).
I tried various strings myself, to try to guess what it is,
including using various folder names used on the client-side, as
well as various strings from the client-side "GameInfo.txt" file,
etc. - all with no luck so far:
"hl1"
"hl1mp"
"HALF-LIFE: Deathmatch"
"HALF-LIFE"
"half-life deathmatch source"
"half-life deathmatch: source"
Anybody know what "game" code/string to enter into
HLDSUpdateTool/Steam to get the SourceDS content for this?
PS: Yes, I have a fetish for old games and mod's. I have had a HL1DM
server on/off the Internet since pre-Y2k. This might be an
"interesting" sequel to it.
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