Valve
announces a Day Of Defeat: Source Steamworks Update is in beta testing,
adding Steamworks services, new effects, and a new map:
A new update
adding support for Steamworks is currently available in beta for Day of Defeat:
Source, the popular World War II online action game from Valve, creators of the
Half-Life and Counter-Strike games. Leveraging the recently released free set of
services available in Steamworks, the Day of Defeat update will add 51
achievements for DoD, player avatar display in the scoreboard and win panel, and
detailed player statistics integrated with the Steam Community features (www.steamcommunity.com).This update also adds support for popular features introduced in Valve’s Team
Fortress 2 (TF2), the PC title named multiplayer game of the year by Gamespy.com
and PC Gamer. These include “nemesis/revenge” freeze cam and new effects driven
by the particle system introduced to the Source engine for TF2.In addition, this update will also introduce a new map, dod_Palermo, which is a
remix of the most popular community map, dod_salerno.Owners of Day of Defeat: Source, retail and Steam versions, may join the beta
free of charge.