Transmission 15593 feature - Orion: Source Mod for Half-Life 2

Orion: Source

Half-Life 2 mod | Released Jun 11, 2010

Orion is a total conversion utilizing Valve Software’s Orange Box engine. Orion immerses the player in an intense online experience with dynamic combat and a vast array of new features.. Featuring fast-paced tactical gameplay on futuristic battlefields, Orion brings the fun into gameplay.

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This week William and Emanuel are joined by Guest host Phillip Marlowe and later on by Robert “campaignjunkie” Yang of Radiator. Phillip has an announcement about the dm2sp.com competition and we go off topic a lot more than usual.

Posted by William on Aug 4th, 2009
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Transmission Code: 15593 (#42)

Posted a little later than usual this week. - Nic

Extended Show Notes

Introduction

00:00:40 - William and Emanuel are joined by guest-host Phillip Marlowe and later on by Robert Yang of Radiator.
- Segway: Phillip shares his likes and dislikes around the topic of Radiator - Emanuel decides to dig into him a bit.
- Segway: Talk a little about Research and Development.
- Segway: “The Bad Mod Mentality”

Podcast17 News

00:09:30 - Phillip announces the closing details of the dm2sp.com competition.
- Segway: Discussion about different competitions and possibly how another one could do better.

From the Mouth of Valve

00:13:20 - Zeno Clash SDK released
- Segway: Should SP Mods go straight to retail? Should MP Mods go straight to retail?
- Segway: Are you willing to pay for something that could be a mod that goes retail?
00:20:19 - Left 4 Dead Update Released
- Segway: Hint at the new TF2 Update, that turned out to be fake.

Releases

00:21:14 - Level 0-0 Rebuild (HL2 Map)
00:22:25 - The Great Escape
- Segway: PlanetPhillip yearly awards + hints at a Podcast17 mod of the year
00:27:55 - Physics Drydock (HL2 Map)
00:32:15 - Beyond Reality
00:34:15 - Pulse Episode One Beta 1
- Segway: Discussion about Demos.

Updates

00:37:11 - Modular Combat 1.75 Released

Media Blitz

00:40:10 - Obsidian Conflict’s birthday, 1.35 heads up.
- Segway: SMod and Counter-Life.
00:42:40 - Combine Insurrection Weekly Progress Report #2
00:44:00 - Blue Shift: Reassignment Media Release
00:46:00 - Morning Faith Development Special #1
- Segway: Discussion about narration.
00:48:45 - Logistique - Short News…
00:49:40 - Orion - IRC Server Relaunched.
00:51:20 - “Yama” L4D Campaign is beautiful.
00:53:15 - Triage - Just a quick little update.
00:56:00 - Firearms: Source - Blue Player Model, Map Updates, and Sako Rk.95 Showcase.
00:56:40 - The Lost World: Source - Weekly Update 03
00:57:48 - Robert Yang of Radiator arrives.
00:58:15 - L4D: Dead Before Dawn Trailer
00:58:54 - Insurgency Media Update
00:59:30 - Perfect Stride Continuum - v2 Coming Next Week
- Segway: Emanuel and Phillip argue about technicalities again.
01:04:10 - For Hire - Media Update
01:05:11 - BLACKSECTOR - Update #9 - Prepare For War
01:06:00 - Jailbreak! - King of the Hill

Articles

01:07:16 - Modular Combat: Server Files Coming Soon!

Interview

01:07:40 - Interview with Robert “campaignjunkie” Yang from Radiator.
- 01:11:04 - Connections between player and character + details on how a mod like Radiator can emotionally touch gamers.
- 01:16:30 - Details about the characters in the Radiator Series with a segway towards how he came to develop 1-2.
- 01:20:25 - Developers being Typecasted.
- 01:21:48 - Information about voice acting.
- 01:25:50 - Discussion about immersion.
- 01:35:32 - Why didn’t 1-2 have a time limit?
- 01:36:00 - Let’s talk game design school.
- 01:39:25 - Let’s talk about the difficulty and lack of “tutorial”.
- 01:42:50 - How many people actually beat the mod?
- 01:46:00 - Information about Radiator 1-3
- 01:48:18 - Engine limitations and further development.
- 01:51:30 - What’s more important, dialog or gameplay?
- 01:53:00 - What is in the future of Radiator?
- 01:55:15 - Development Cycle
- 01:57:00 - End of Interview

Question / Discussion

01:58:40 - PlanetPhillip Poll Question 134 - Do you kill when you don’t “need” to?

02:09:15 - Wrap-up.

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From the Mouth of Valve

Releases

Updates

Modular Combat v1.75 Released

Media Blitz

Articles

Modular Combat: Server Files Coming Soon!

Interview

Question / Discussion

PlanetPhillip Poll Question 134

Post comment Comments

ÐiamonÐ Aug 4 2009, 9:37am says:

Thanks for the media coverage!

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purplehaze412 Aug 4 2009, 10:27am says:

Wonderful, Thanks for posting this.

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Dnst Aug 4 2009, 10:43am says:

I played Perfect Stride v1. It is like a surf map but without nice surfing like in thos cs maps. You really need to work hard to collect the coins. It needs better maps.

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Argoon Aug 4 2009, 11:21am says:

With the trend of game developers running away from the PC exclusives i think mods will be more and more important for PC gaming, and i also think the best mods should indeed have commercial release.

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