Free ‘Half-Life 2: Deathmatch’ and ‘Day of Defeat’

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Both ‘Half-Life 2: Deathmatch‘ and ‘Day of Defeat: Source‘ are ported to the Linux platform. The games are available to everybody, but require some actions to set up:

Launch instructions:

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Requirements:

  • Team Fortress 2 for Linux
  • half-life 2 deathmatch.gcf
  • GCFScape

1. Make sure you launched TF2 for Linux at least once after installing it.
2. Open half-life 2 deathmatch.gcf with GCFScape and extract hl2mp folder to/home/$user/.local/share/steam/steamapps/<account>/team fortress 2/
3. Create steam_appid.txt in the TF2 folder and put the following into it: 320
4. Open the Terminal, go to TF2 folder and issue the following command:

$ ./hl2.sh -steam -game hl2mp

 


 

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Day Of Defeat

Requirements:

  • Team Fortress 2 for Linux
  • deay of defeat source.gcf
  • GCFScape

1. Make sure you launched TF2 for Linux at least once after installing it.
2. Open day of defeat source.gcf with GCFScape and extract hl2mp folder to/home/$user/.local/share/steam/steamapps/<account>/team fortress 2/
3. Create steam_appid.txt in the TF2 folder and put the following into it: 300
4. Open the Terminal, go to TF2 folder and issue the following command:

$ ./hl2.sh -steam -game dod

 

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3 Comments on "Free ‘Half-Life 2: Deathmatch’ and ‘Day of Defeat’"

  1. veridiam February 20, 2013 at 23:07 -

    the only problem is that GCFScape doesn’t appear to be for linux!

  2. CarlosA896 February 22, 2013 at 06:29 -

    When are they gonna release DoDs I wanna play damit.

  3. Marcel de Jong February 22, 2013 at 12:18 -

    My Intel chipset isn’t supported by TF2 (OpenGL issue)
    le sigh, problems that used to be Windows-only are now also appearing in Linux. :)

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