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Garry’s Mod for Mac

Benji — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:26:58 +0000

Yesterday Valve announced that they would be delivering Steam and Source on the Mac Platform. Many people have been asking whether or not this means that Garry’s Mod will be playable on a Mac in the future as well.

From the official Steam article:

“Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac,” said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve.”

“Support for the Mac in Source and Steamworks is available to third parties immediately.”

Garry announced on his blog that he would do his best to make it happen.

Radioactive Sandbox

Benji — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:19:19 +0000

Radioactive Sandbox is a cross between the deathmatch and sandbox gamemodes with a post-apocalyptic theme. You aren’t forced to kill other people, but it is an option. If you aren’t too keen about killing people then you can explore the map searching for valuable loot, or go on missions provided by your faction’s trader. The whole point is that the gameplay is open ended and entirely up to the player.

You start off choosing a faction. There are 3 factions, each with their own strengths.

Bandoliers: A group of misfits that travel the wastelands looking for valuables. This faction has better selling prices at their trader, as well as increased payoffs for missions.
Exodus: A faction devoted to researching the environment and exploring dangerous areas looking for samples and stuff. This faction is the most scientifically advanced, and gives you access to various utilities including radiation filters, medication, flares and other things. These items are quite difficult to come across if you’re in any other faction.
N.M.A (Northern Military Alliance): This faction is a group of rebel militants seeking to dominate the wastelands. They have access to better weapons, and start off with slightly better guns.

Once you have chosen a faction, you are spawned in the faction base and left to do whatever you want. You can talk to your faction’s NPC and go on a mission for him so that you may earn money to upgrade your weapons and buy more supplies, or you can go off on your own and explore the map, finding loot and attacking other factions.

Other features:

Customizable item system. Create your own items unique to your server.
Day/night cycles that are map-independent. All you need is an env_sun in your map.
Item/spawnpoint placement gun for admins, so you can make the gamemode playable on any map.
Weapon base that supports scoped and non-scoped weapons.
Dynamic radar that detects various things.
Bleeding, radiation, and stamina system that directly affects the player.

Currently there are no maps for this gamemode, which is where you can help. This gamemode plays better on maps designed specifically for it. For more information, click here.

The first map for the gamemode, titled Rs_TheLonelyRoad, has been released.
For more information visit the radioactive sandbox thread or the map release thread.

This map requires HL Episode 2

gm_mount2 – Mount any source engine game in GMod!

featurecreature — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:21:23 +0000

GM_mount2 allows you using props of nearly every Source engine based game in Garry’s Mod including Left 4 Dead 1 & 2, third-party Steamworks games like D.I.P.R.I.P Smashball, and every source mod you have installed on your PC.

In the past there were similar addons but they neither allowed using Left 4 Dead nor were compatible with dedicated servers. This has changed with gm_mount2! Do you own Left 4 Dead? Enjoy giving Louis tons of pills. No extra editing required! Do you host a dedicated server? Install the addon and allow your guests spawning any content you have installed!

Download:

For more information and support, visit the forum thread.

Fretta Contest Gamemodes

Benji — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:21:30 +0000

The Fretta Contest has ended. Check out some of the great entries!

(Remember, these are only entries, NOT the winners!)

Ascension, created by Kathar and Anima – A side-scrolling co-operative gamemode in which 4 teams must build, climb and race each other to the top of the map. The first team with all players at the top wins.