Half-Life 2: Wars brings the struggle between the human resistance and their Combine overlords to a real-time strategy setting. HLW has been in development since 2007 and last saw a public release (Multiplayer Beta 1.0.4) in March 2011. The Multiplayer Beta, which you can download here on MODDB, requires Half-Life 2: Episode 2 to play and is our very first public multiplayer release! It features 3 game modes: Antlion Skirmish, Antlion Capture the Point, and Overrun, showcasing the Antlion and Combine playable factions. Future releases will include skirmish matches between Resistance and Combine.

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Cybio
Cybio Mar 16 2010, 2:34pm buried:

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Video not found :-(

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tk210
tk210 Mar 20 2010, 6:28pm replied:

You sadens me

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Xenoshock
Xenoshock Mar 16 2010, 2:37pm buried:

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P R O C E S S I N G

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zaro27
zaro27 Mar 16 2010, 3:09pm says:

Cool antlions dude.

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JoeTheJanitor
JoeTheJanitor Mar 16 2010, 3:10pm says:

Love the antlion wars!

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*Selfie*
*Selfie* Mar 16 2010, 3:14pm buried:

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It sucks that no one plays this :(
Can never find any servers.

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Sander
Sander Mar 16 2010, 3:18pm replied:

Clearly, because we did not release multiplayer yet. This stuff ain't ready yet.

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cortez666
cortez666 Mar 16 2010, 3:44pm says:

somehow this reminds me of the Starcraft zerg rush

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krg
krg Mar 16 2010, 3:45pm replied:

I thought Starcraft 2 when I saw this. Which means ITS GOOOOD.

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RedTiki
RedTiki Mar 16 2010, 4:28pm replied:

and whitout the "buy the game three times to unlock the entire single-player"-********

so its beeeetteeeeer than just GOOOOOOD.

lol.

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23-down
23-down Mar 16 2010, 3:45pm says:

Glad to see you're still working on the mod.. Nice video. :)

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Pandango
Pandango Mar 18 2010, 1:16pm replied:

they have been working alot and never have stopped, if it would be dead the main page would say something about why or how it died.

also, they have been recoding all the time since the old code, so its a whole new game. with lots of improvements!

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Craka_J
Craka_J Mar 16 2010, 3:46pm says:

Reminds me of the zurg in StarCraft 2 a bit. :D

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$n!p3r
$n!p3r Mar 16 2010, 4:11pm says:

awesome

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Knut
Knut Mar 16 2010, 4:20pm says:

..wow, that looks great! I think I can't wait for it
especially like the burrow feature.

I also hope to see the earthshaking towers as defensive towers later in the game

..keep on working!

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ApornasPlanet
ApornasPlanet Mar 16 2010, 4:23pm says:

well I don't like the fog of war being so close all the time. and why does the bodies disapear?

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Necrod
Necrod Mar 16 2010, 4:57pm replied:

i think fog represents line of sight... and bodies disappear so it doesn't lag...

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RedTiki
RedTiki Mar 16 2010, 4:30pm says:

those (dev-ish) towers were quite OP, please say they aren't acually buildable whit out that little dev-tool you had there?

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Sander
Sander Mar 16 2010, 4:32pm replied:

It's just a random dev video. They won't be buildable in this form. I simply made a small test turret :)

Pretty much nothing is final of what you see in the video.

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Rukus_
Rukus_ Mar 16 2010, 5:35pm says:

Cool, but will you include an optimization option to simplify the animations or models for lower end computers?

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NullSoldier
NullSoldier Mar 16 2010, 5:56pm says:

Looks good, also remember this is most likely lagging because it's being recorded. There's no need to simplify animations any further.

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Su[)az][mA
Su[)az][mA Mar 16 2010, 6:00pm says:

you really like those spawn-a-million-antlions battles don't you sander? :P

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Madox
Madox Mar 16 2010, 6:38pm says:

Nice to see some progress again guys... keep up.

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Awesome_ninja
Awesome_ninja Mar 16 2010, 6:39pm says:

PROGRESS!! WOOT! I'ts been a while since the last post of HL2 Wars, and GREAT job guys, hopefully tho, it won't lag as much in the final build with huge battles. I know this is not yet optimized, and maybe a cheap GPU, I undertand you, I'm just saying that hopefully people will be able to run it without too much spec problems =)

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NullSoldier
NullSoldier Mar 17 2010, 9:52am replied:

Note: It's being recorded, therefore lag. I bet this runs perfectly smoothly without using recording software.

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Redexodus
Redexodus Mar 16 2010, 7:08pm says:

You guys should create some new units for each faction (especially antlions, if anything) it'd get kind of repetitive to use merely 3 different types of units the whole game.

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Discrate
Discrate Mar 16 2010, 11:56pm replied:

The units isn't what makes the game mode fun. It's the objectives in the game mode that make it fun.

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Anderan
Anderan Mar 16 2010, 7:27pm says:

yay, an update.

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preowned
preowned Mar 16 2010, 8:00pm says:

cant wait.

just an idea/suggestion:
make some other noise when the antlions are fighting (the melee ones) so its a bit more interesting the the default noise.

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Ryswick17
Ryswick17 Mar 16 2010, 8:29pm says:

this is looking fantastic!

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wazanator
wazanator Mar 16 2010, 8:39pm says:

Very nice!

Do the antion grubs represent how many antlions you can make at that hill?

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Discrate
Discrate Mar 16 2010, 11:57pm replied:

The grubs are the resource in this game mode. A update will be posted soon with full details on how the game mode works.

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Nik440/Catalyst
Nik440/Catalyst Mar 16 2010, 10:21pm says:

Yay for antlion ambushs! =D

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SfcRock
SfcRock Mar 17 2010, 12:40am says:

Deffinatly starting to look more extensive. keep up the good work!

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Shadowmetroid
Shadowmetroid Mar 17 2010, 2:02am says:

Good job, this was worth the wait! But seriously, update more often please. I was dying for a while here. :D

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Flazor
Flazor Mar 17 2010, 2:32am says:

LOL, the persons above got karma raped xD, this mod is really the stuff.

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13370001
13370001 Mar 17 2010, 4:13am says:

Awesome work

Keep it up.

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KaiMan32
KaiMan32 Mar 17 2010, 7:31am says:

It's been quite awhile since I've heard any updates on this mod :)

I can't wait for the new content :)

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StoneCrowUK
StoneCrowUK Mar 17 2010, 12:50pm says:

looks great

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petemyster
petemyster Mar 17 2010, 12:53pm says:

Video was an anticlimax for me :(
I mean, it was great to hear from you guys after such a long time, but I was really hoping for some news on the multiplayer beta and such :D

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Discrate
Discrate Mar 17 2010, 12:54pm replied:

Maybe you will get some in a couple of hours? :P anyway the video pretty much shows what we are doing better then words.

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Ennui
Ennui Mar 17 2010, 2:53pm replied:

News post is awaiting moddb authorization! You can see it on HL2wars.com right now.

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Pandango
Pandango Mar 18 2010, 1:18pm says:

sorry somehow i got this post here, twice ?

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Pandango
Pandango Mar 18 2010, 1:20pm says:

sorry somehow i got this post here, twice ? like the one above?

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flaillomanz
flaillomanz Oct 5 2010, 7:10am says:

lag. Nice.

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FlyingAce
FlyingAce Dec 29 2010, 2:36pm says:

how do you start dev mode?

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Shows some of the progress on the new version of Half-Life 2: Wars, like the new fog of war shader, team color shader, new unit code and antlion burrow ability.

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Mar 16th, 2010
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Sander
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