Day of Defeat: Source - Free This Weekend!

DaveyD · 7 Feb 2006 at 08:35

Looks Like Valve are being nice to all those people that have not wanted to fork out the cash for DoD:S without playing it.

Basically it's going to be free from 12:00pm on Friday (PST), so early Saturday morning for us I guess.

Those that don't have it, you can pre-load it now I believe and you'll be able to unlock it in the weekend.

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Of course, after the weekend, it'll be taken off you, so don't expect to be playing it on Monday

DaveyD · 7 Feb 2006 at 16:46

geiger said:
I used to play it on HL 1 and it was ok.

The entire game is HDR ? I would preload it but how big is the game, 1 gig?

If you have Half-Life 2, then it's only a 833MB download. But if you don't, then it'll have to download the Source Engine as well, so could be another 1GB to 2GB on top of all that.

DaveyD · 9 Feb 2006 at 13:33

Tim said:
Pre-loading now, 78%, so will a big CODUO/COD2 fan like this game?

Depends if you go in hoping it to be COD or not.

It's pretty much just capture + hold with crazy Source physics

DaveyD · 10 Feb 2006 at 14:39

I think I originally read it wrong, but it'll likely be 8pm tonight that it's going to be released, as it's 12:00pm PST, which would be mid-day.

PCT is 8 hours behind GMT, so it'll be 20:00 tonight that it should work.

DaveyD · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:20

ShiWarrior said:
Just noticed that!!

thing is, its only free for the weekend it says, anotherwords we got to pay for it on Monday??

That's the whole idea.

You don't have to pay for it, you can go back to being DoD:S-less

DaveyD · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:45

VeNT said:
check your rates Fozzy,

Problem is, if there's so many new people about, then you'll have a very very high percentage of people with dodgy default rates.

But it's probably the best suggestion. And make sure you connect to a proper dedicated server in the UK.