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Deathmatch Classic with selectable player models

Deathmatch Classic or DMC is a multiplayer mod of the popular first-person shooter, Half-Life. It was released as a free download concurrently with the 1.1.0.7 patch of the game on June 11, 2000. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ... Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Online gaming redirects here. ... For other uses, see Mod. ... This article is about video games. ... Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ... In computing, a patch is a small piece of software designed to update or fix problems with a computer program or its supporting data. ... is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

DMC and Quake

DMC was conceived by Valve as a tribute to id Software, and is essentially a remake of the multiplayer component of id's Quake. Valve Software is a Bellevue, Washington-based video game developer made famous by its first product, Half-Life, which was released in November 1998. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ... This article is about the original video game. ...

The original release included five maps converted from Quake. The gameplay is similar to Quake deathmatch, with essentially the same weapons (except the one for mêlée combat, which is Half-Life's trademark crowbar instead of the original axe). DMC also imitates Quake's physics, which allows an advanced player to gain a lot of extra speed or jump very high by using a number of movement skills such as Bunny hopping and Rocket jumping. Deathmatch (abbreviated DM) is a widely-used gameplay mode integrated into many shooter and real-time strategy (RTS) computer games. ... Codex Manesse: a picture of mêlée at a tournament (from the French, IPA: .) generally refers to disorganized close combat involving a group of fighters. ... Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ... A crowbar A crowbar, also called a pry bar or prybar, or more informally known as a jimmy, jimmy bar or jemmy (British Isles), is a tool consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, often with a small fissure on the curved end for... The bunny hop is a novelty dance in the 1950s. ... Rocket jumping is a method of increasing a players jumping ability in a computer or video game. ...

Gameplay

The default game speed in DMC is somewhat slower than in Quake. The weapons scale from the basic shotgun to the rocket launcher and the "shaft", a powerful directed energy weapon. Three kinds of bonuses are scattered over the maps, which give the player a temporary special power: "quad damage", "invulnerability", and the "ring of shadows" which turns the player into a ghostly, almost invisible figure. This article is about the original video game. ... A broad category of weaponry involving concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic particles, with varying levels of destructive power. ...

The DMC community

Not enjoying widespread popularity like the team-oriented Half-Life mods, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic and Day of Defeat, DMC has found its fan base particularly among nostalgic deathmatch veterans. Further Quake maps were converted for DMC by fans, and original new maps designed. Further modifications were released for Deathmatch Classic, such as DMQ2 (Deathmatch Quaked), developed by the player Pix. These mods were designed for various reasons. The original Deathmatch Classic was not very user friendly for organising duels and team games, and did not offer any alternative game modes other than deathmatch. DMQ2 and other various modifications (one of the earliest being TrendKiller's DMC Pro) help players by including useful tools for organising matches, changing maps and voting through user friendly menus. These mods also altered the physics engine to further imitate true QuakeWorld gameplay. To a casual gamer, Deathmatch Classic feels very similar to Quake, with really only noticeable graphical differences between the games, but more passionate, hardcore players have found the differences. For example the grenade bounce has been altered and the jump physics behaviour changed. Game modes taken from QuakeWorld such as Arena, Midair and Rumble have been created. The gameplay in these modifications tend to be faster. Counter-Strike (CS) is a popular team-based mod of Valves first-person shooter (FPS) Half-Life. ... Team Fortress Classic (TFC or TF 1. ... For other uses, see DOD. Day of Defeat (DoD) is a popular team-based multiplayer World War II first-person shooter computer game of the European Theatre of World War II. // Day of Defeat is a 3D multiplayer shooter that simulates squad-level infantry combat between the adversaries of World... Deathmatch (abbreviated DM) is a widely-used gameplay mode integrated into many shooter and real-time strategy (RTS) computer games. ...

DMC:Source

In October 2004, an independent mod developer announced that he was starting to work on DMC:Source, a conversion of Deathmatch Classic to the Source engine. Several people teamed up with him on this project, but it was eventually suspended. However, Valve released Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, which was released in July 2005. It is a straight port from Half-Life: Source with multiplayer abilities from DMC. October 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: October 2004 in sports Events Deaths in October • 29 HRH Princess Alice • 25 John Peel • 24 James Cardinal Hickey • 23 Robert Merrill • 19 Paul Nitze • 18 K. M. Veerappan • 16 Pierre Salinger • 10 Christopher... The Source engine is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Steam
• List of Half-Life mods
• id Software

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External links

• Planet DMC - the central location for DMC.
• Free Fall DMC Servers - many custom maps, sounds, and models
• DMC-Central - Forums, servers, maps and player stats
• Steampowered.com DMC Forum - Deathmatch Classic forum at the official site of Valve Software.
• GameSpy.com article from June, 2001 featuring an interview with Gabe Newell