Stargate: The Last Stand Released

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Good news for all you SciFi fans; After a long time in development, the source-based mod Stargate: The Last Stand has been released for everyone to play. For those unfamiliar with the mod, a brief overview is given by the team:

Stargate: The Last Stand is a total conversion mod for Half-Life2. What does this mean? Well, it means that the development team are stripping the Half-Life2 (a.k.a 'Source') engine down to its bare bones, and re-building a completely new game from the ground up. In the Stargate: The Last Stand multiplayer games, players will play on one of two teams, Goa'uld, or Tau'ri. Each team will contain one base class (for example Airman for the Tau'ri) and 4 special classes for which players can nominate themselves for (for example Dr. Daniel Jackson for the Tau'ri). Each class will be armed with its own weapons and unique physical abilities, and will be challenged with our central gameplay 'The Last Stand'.

Find out more about the mod by visiting their site, or go directly to the download by clicking here.

[wood250]

cant get onto servers after installing and restarting steam.

main menu screen loads but when i try to join i get this error:



any ideas?

[Xanthi]

Yes, you have downloaded the server package and not the client.

[wood250]

wat a t i t i am . thx.

[Generalvivi]

downloaded during lunch... ill have to play it tomorrow

[pk_hunter]

it's indescribably awesome, coming from a stargate fan. Seeing staff weapon blasts ripping through marines as they defend the SGC is superb.

Then you look beyond the initial WOO STARGATE IN SOURCE feeling and notice that the maps are often bland and poorly optimised, that there are more bugs than you can count and that the goauld weapons are hillariously imbalanced.

Lots of potential, but not ready for release yet.

[Bema]

Lots of potential, but not ready for release yet.

Thankyou! I thought I was alone on that. I can see what they're trying to do, but some of it just doesn't...work.

Unfortunatly i've been a naughty boy criticising them before, so im a tad concerned if I post my thoughts on their forums i'll get flamed & ignored! At the moment im just starting tagging my comments onto other peoples threads, so I should get it all out eventually.

[IW_Louis]

Although we are grown up enough to appreciate proper feedback. When its a vague as this it can get a little irritating. Please support your arguements with something, or it just feels like you are pulling crits out of your hats because thats what you're supposed to do on an artists forum.

[Bema]

or it just feels like you are pulling crits out of your hats because thats what you're supposed to do on an artists forum.

Not entirely sure I follow that part? Anyway Louis, i'll have a proper sit down tomorrow afternoon and write as many of my thoughts as I can on the promise I don't get the standard "It's still in beta" remark.

In fact, I may wait until you release the patch (assuming it wont be too far into next week), otherwise i'll get the "It's in the patch" remark too!

[IW_Louis]

well... it is still in beta, but thats the point of a beta. To improve the game. If you suggest something thats really obvious, it most likley is already in the patch.