The Battle Grounds(BG) is a Half-Life Modification based on the Revolutionary War. You and your teammates will have to act together strategically to fight the enemy teams. It will be team based game play.

In Bg you can play as a solider in two teams:

1. The Royal British Army
2. The Colonial United States Continental Army

For each side you will have a choice of several classes, each with their own individual style and unique playing feel.

More details will be added later as our source feature list is fleshed out

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The times when we lack the time to write news posts, are always the times where the most progress is made. Even if it doesn't look like it behind the scenes there is an unbelievable bustle going on. And then when everyone calms down for a few days, we decide to take some time to post a progress report again.

Another big playtest took place on the two weeks ago. It lasted for several hours and with the help of the team and a good bunch of dedicated volunteers we managed to get a long list of bugs reported and fixed.

Firstly here are shots of the totally revamped bg_ruin. Steve worked his butt off to improve it in the short period of time.


Bugi has helped to fix a lot of map bugs in an unhuman short time and Predator didn't sleep for almost a week to fix all his maps without a break.
The lack of sleep payed off though. Predator fixed around 10 maps at once and the result is pure potential player pleasureness. Here are some shots from ForestRoad


The revamp of ruin not being enough already, Steve has started his next sideproject, a rebuild of bg_ruin. This map might be released in a mappack or via the forums as custom map.


A few other things that got done recently: Marzy revamped the weapon reload animations and added new hands to a bunch of models.
Ben fixed around 30 codebugs. JMW, Smashed and XSpike prepared their maps for 1.2.2.
With the first pieces of the HL2 SDK have been released, the Battle Grounds 1.2.2 will be the final release for HL1. We have already started planning BG:S which will be released over steam.

The first experiments of porting bg maps were successful. On the one hand Source offers unbelievable new aspects for future gameplay. On the other hand it increases the workload for mappers and modelers drastically. But be patient. BG:S will be one of the top HL2 mods. We promise this and will do everything necessary to make that happen.

To finish off here is a snapshot of XSpike's work in progerss port of bg_snowlake:

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CMs BG Weaponskinpack

CMs BG Weaponskinpack

Sep 27, 2008 Weapons Skin 0 comments

This skinpack makes the third person-view weapons look more like the first person ones and increases their quality. Most first person sleeves now got...

The Battle Grounds 1.0f (final)

The Battle Grounds 1.0f (final)

Jul 04, 2006 Full Version 0 comments

This is the final Version of Battle Grounds for Half-Life 1. Changelog in a nutshell - Tweaked gameplay to perfection - Updated every old map and player...

The BattleGrounds 1.0F Ruin - Short Version

The BattleGrounds 1.0F Ruin - Short Version

Jul 17, 2005 Weapons Skin 0 comments

The BattleGrounds 1.0F bg_ruin video. Map created by Stevie Video by PostalDude #battlegrounds on GameSurge

The BattleGrounds 1.0F Ticonderoga

The BattleGrounds 1.0F Ticonderoga

Jul 15, 2005 Movies 0 comments

The BattleGrounds 1.0F bg_ticonderoga video. No shooting but enhances the more ambient side of this one of a kind game. Map created by Stevie Video by...

The BattleGrounds 1.2.1 Movie

The BattleGrounds 1.2.1 Movie

Jul 14, 2005 Movies 0 comments

A 2 minute video showing a linebattle in battlegrounds.

The Battle Grounds 1.2.1 Full

The Battle Grounds 1.2.1 Full

Jul 03, 2005 Full Version 0 comments

Full windows installer for The Battle Grounds 1.2.1 for Half-Life 1

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Taris
Taris Jun 15 2005, 3:52am says:

Will you have to use your musket the EXACT same way they did back then? All that cleaning and reloading is going to be annoying.

Just sneak in the gravity gun
:devil:

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Qwertyz
Qwertyz May 31 2005, 2:34pm says:

They are hl1 screens

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Sp4wN
Sp4wN May 30 2005, 7:10am says:

are these screens of BG for hl2?

loool
same old crappy models and skins...

please do something about that

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Chunky
Chunky May 30 2005, 12:02am says:

who does the animations on ur team?

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Puissance
Puissance May 28 2005, 8:31pm says:

That reload animation is really smooth, it's looking good!

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BlackPanther.
BlackPanther. May 26 2005, 5:35am says:

Website is up and running smoothly. There has not been any significant downtime in the last months.

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mystery8
mystery8 May 26 2005, 3:32am says:

Did their website change? Bgmod.com seems to have been down for quite a while.

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exdeath
exdeath May 14 2005, 9:30pm says:

this mod is realistc???????

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Chunky
Chunky Apr 28 2005, 12:02pm says:

i just found out this is coming out for hl2! i cant wait :D

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Lord_Draco
Lord_Draco Mar 20 2005, 11:57pm says:

theres the final HL1 version to finish, poor black panther has hardly any time to work on it these days:(

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