CS_Compound Shots

January 27, 2005 12:06 PM

Restarting Steam will get you the latest news update from Valve, which shows two screenshots from the upcoming cs_compound that's being released for Counter-Strike: Source soon (some time in February). The news item also promises an update on the Half-Life 2 mapping contest soon.

In other news, the Vivendi Universal news page has word that Half-Life 2 has sold 1.7 million copies worldwide so far. Thanks GameGossip.

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simon_tack

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January 27, 2005 12:09 PM

i find the rate of their new maps VERY slow ..
what about de_train / de_nuke / cs_assault ?

really, all they need to do is copy them and make them nice in cs:source ...
bleh, Valve = SLOW
- shotgun1
  
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  January 27, 2005 12:18 PM
  
  Since other people made those maps they're probably copyrighted in some way right? So valve can't just copy someone elses design and make money off it etc. cs_office is probably in the public domain since the guy that made that map committed suicide long ago. The others either work at valve or gave the ok I'd bet.
  - jrock
    
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    January 27, 2005 12:30 PM
    
    So we need to find the authors and hold them at knife-point until they relinquish rights for Valve to update them?
    - shotgun1
      
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      January 27, 2005 12:34 PM
      
      I don't know if the author still holds the rights or if they were transfered over to valve when counter-strike went retail. Now that I think about it, valve probably does own the rights too all of the maps in 1.6 but earlier betas I don't know. I'd rather them be working on cs2 anyway, 20 brand new maps.
  - Serpico74
    
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    January 27, 2005 1:51 PM
    
    I don't think so. All of those maps made it into Condition Zero, which was a retail product.
    - Boxelder
      
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      January 27, 2005 2:05 PM
      
      Right, they must have rights to all the maps. Valve owns counterstrike after all, it's not a mod.
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    January 28, 2005 4:58 AM
    
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- tomservo
  
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  January 27, 2005 1:57 PM
  
  Valve isn't making the maps.
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