Berimbau Mod for Half-Life 2 Project Berimbau's International Playtest news

Berimbau

Half-Life 2 mod | TBD

Berimbau is a multiplayer Source engine mod featuring fierce sword duels in a retro-future universe. The game features an open sword combat system that allows for creative use of combos, counter-attacks, and parries. This combat system encourages players to develop attack patterns and strategies to defeat their opponents, rather than random "knife-fight" melee combat. We plan to become a total conversion in the future, making this our own game, free to share with anyone who has Steam and the SourceSDK Base.

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Posted by Jkupo on Apr 26th, 2008 digg this super bookmark

Ok so thanks to Flux and my schedules syncing up today, we've got some great development news...

The first playtest.

Oh yes, and I realize it still isn't Monday. I'll try to contain myself.

Tonight was the launch of our Alpha V.1 playtest, in multiplayer. And in true Team Berimbau form, we had to do it in the most difficult way possible. So tonights playtest was conducted internationally, the host being Flux in China, while I connected from here in the US. Tonights test revealed some interesting connection issues and also gave us our first taste of what Berimbau will become. Needless to say this is quite a victory for the team, as we also solved a bunch of other issues setting tonights playtest up (version syncing and document sending). Further development will follow.

Screenshots and video will be available as its uploaded.

(Next Update: Monday, maps and characters....I mean it this time.)