Half-Life DM GOLD century megapack addon

Half-Life DM GOLD
century megapack - best of all times

version 1.0
1998 - 2017

What is this?

• 805 maps for multiplayer game.
• all required resources (textures, models, sounds, skyboxes, details, etc.).
• documentation, whenever available.
• original fixes that you won't find anywhere else.

Who is this for?

• First of all - for players: no more need to spend hours digging a couple of nice maps out of mountains of garbage.
• For HLDM server owners: pack does not contain any trash like temporary files and you will find maps for every taste there.
• For collectors: this is history!
• For admirers of beauty: this is art!

Features:

• Original documentation was preserved and recovered (all text saved to mapname.txt).
  Recovered lost resources for many maps.
• Many maps were fixed (e.g. wrong transparency modes for ladders, fences, etc.).
  Maps were tested for playability.
• Fixed sounds: markers, frequencies, some loops were purposefully cut to avoid crashes on some HL versions and for smooth looping.
• In some rare cases "music" was cut off - huge WAV-files with horrible quality that were playing on the map (like the train announcer voice at the beginning of HL).

Installation:

• Unpack the entire archive into Half-Life directory, when asked to "overwrite folder valve?" choose "yes".
• Note: all files are new (no standard HL files will be overwritten), they can be safely deleted to restore HL to its original state.
• Nothing else

Tested on:

• Half-Life 1.1.2.1 (steam) + XDM 3.0.3.8+
• Windows 7 x64 + DirectX 11 + Nvidia GeForce

Important notes:

• mapcycle.txt cannot be larger than 8KB (8192 bytes)! Because of this it is better to keep it in unix format (LF) - Half-Life does recognize it and more maps can fit inside.
• Some maps contain animated lights (flickering lamps, fire, etc.), that on some video cards may drop FPS from 60 down to 10! That's how the game is made.
• Old Half-Life versions (WON) have tighter limits on models, sprites and sounds - some maps may fail to run there.
• Also, some Half-Life are likely to crash because of unsupported sound file format (> 22050HZ, > 8bit, > 1ch) or those containing bad markers/regions/etc.

Afterwords:

• Pack author: ~X~
• My respect goes to map authors - without them we wouldn't have anything to play!

Interesting facts:

• Maps were chosen out of more than 4000 total, manually.
• Detail level was not the only decisive criteria: you can find relatively simple maps with good gameplay in this pack. There are many factors, but all of them are as objective as possible.
• Maps are collected from all around the world, sometimes - from places many would afraid to visit :) - file archives, pirated CDs, abandoned HLDM servers, torrents, DC++, maps sent via IM, sites, forums, friends, clubs...
• Maps were tested on original Half-Life and XDM ( Mods.moddb.com ) mod, which greatly expands HL multiplayer capabilities.
• In the process of separation, piles of maps of doubtful quality were formed: from "ok" that "almost made it" to "epicfail" that can cause vision damage. :)
• Author of this pack had all chances of becoming Stalin, Beria, Hoover or Hitler while staring at some mappers creations... but he didn't. :)
• Author of this pack is a mapper himself and produced lots of maps, none of which are featured here. All of them were made for XDM, where you will find them. \(~_o)