[Source] Exterminatus - Rival Species 2

[Ramrod]

Link to old thread

Popping the new subforum's cherry, woo!

Official site

ModDB page

This mod is, at the moment, still in beta, but don't let that stop you. It's pretty good so far.

Basically, the mod is Spehss Mehreens vs Tyranids. Each side has a basic class and four buyable classes. They're broken down like so:


SM classes:

Tactical Marine - basic class
-bolter, bolt pistol, grenades, knife

Veteran Marine - unlocked at ~50pts
- chainsword+plasma pistol, bolter, grenades

Special Weapons Marine - unlocked at ~50pts
- meltagun, bolt pistol, grenades, knife

Heavy Weapons Marine - unlocked at ~100pts
- heavy bolter, bolt pistol, knife



Nid classes:

Warrior - basic class
- deathspitter, scything talons

Lictor - unlocked at ~50pts
- scything talons, chameleonic carapace

Carnifex - unlocked at ~50pts
- bio plasma, scything talons

Zoanthrope - unlocked at ~100pts
- warp blast, repulse effect


The most recent update of the mod is a few months old, and there's only five or six maps so far, and only four community servers, but the community is healthy and quite active on weekends. This Saturday saw at least two of the servers completely full (due in no small part to some players advertising it on 4chan).

There have been several Steam groups created for it.

The modders regularly play it, and in a match yesterday were teasing about the playtesting of two new classes this weekend: the Terminator and the Genestealer.

Some purdy pictures:







The team is apparently small, so updates are a bit long in coming, but what they've built so far is pretty respectable. If you fancy playing a user-made 40K first-person shooter that's better than Fire Warrior, try this mod out.

FOR THE EMPEROR!


PS. mods, is this the right format for a mod thread? I tried to be as informative as possible, so if I made a mistake, go easy on the Pain Glove!


EDIT: Damn, this reads like an advertisement. I am not affiliated with this mod, by the way.

[Bowkers]

Might be worth posting some pics, if possible Ramrod

[Gorb]

Hey, I remember looking at this a long while ago. I never really got into it but it looks like it's come on substantially. Melta weapons with working FX, neat.

Might give this a go assuming I have some free time sometime this month. Which I don't. So we'll see

[Croaxleigh]

Sounds cool. I was hoping at first that this was the TF2 mod-in-progress that a video was posted for; was kinda' sad when I realized it was a different mod for a game that I don't own.

[Ramrod]

Croax, what do you mean? If you own anything that runs in the Source engine, you can install this game. It's not a mod for any particular Source game, it uses mostly the default Source files which are already on your PC even if you only have Portal installed.

As for the pics, Bowkers, I'll take care of it later today. I had been questioning whether to do it or not when I started the thread, but then I decided it would look too much like an ad if I did. So I'll edit the OP in a little while once I've found a nice set of three or four.

[Croaxleigh]

Ah, ok. I thought I'd read that it was a HL2-specific mod. My bad.

[Quak0r]

All done. nothing to see here.

[Ramrod]

If it's still up, Quak0r, I'll log on after dinner (about to eat right now).

EDIT: right, played around for one round waiting for someone else to sign on. Awesome latency, stayed just around 50-70 the whole time.

[Quak0r]

Well I'm done testing the server.
So I'll recommend joining one of the servers advertised on the mod's homepage (208.86.251.35:27015 worked for me as the other one was not available and the third one runs a version not yet released).