New Hl Ww1--trailer Now Up On Site

CplDavis · October 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">so everyone can see it</div> Has anyone been keeping tabs on the new WW1 mod called the trenches?

I know there was a post on this mod earlier when the trailer was released but now they have it hosted on the main site so everyone can see it.
Looks similar to DOD only its 1918.

the 50mb trailer looks prety interesting.

The screenshots page isnt up yet but if you scroll down the info page you can find the trailer and some cool pics.

It will be released this friday.

<a href='http://www.thetrenches.net' target='_blank'>http://www.thetrenches.net</a>

what do you guys think?
Ill give it a try.

Hopefully enough people will download it so i will have people to play with after I get it installed. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Forlorn · October 2004

I dunno if I'd ever try a game like this -

What ELSE can you do in a ww1 other than camp?

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' />

BobTheJanitor · October 2004

A few days to release and no screenshots? AT ALL? Sorry, but the oldest rule in releasing anything gaming related applies to this situation: No pic, no click. I'm passing on a mod team that can't make an effort to build up their own hype with a scant few days until their mod comes out.

CplDavis · October 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Oct 5 2004, 12:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I dunno if I'd ever try a game like this -

What ELSE can you do in a ww1 other than camp?

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
eh, the trailer showed some nice charges across the barren battlefield with bi planes flying over head, grenades and artilery rounds going off and good ol trench warfare,

that and some nice urban stuff too.

Bijiy · October 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Oct 4 2004, 09:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I dunno if I'd ever try a game like this -

What ELSE can you do in a ww1 other than camp?

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Charge with your bayonet and get shot by a camper.

UltimaGecko · October 2004

[probably killing the 56kers here] After digging a bit, I give you:

<img src='http://www.splatmaster.net/1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
...bit bland there.

<img src='http://www.splatmaster.net/2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
...little better with the foggy look, kind of pointy though.

<img src='http://www.splatmaster.net/3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
..."da plane, da plane"...and the blocky bolt-action that looks a kind of awkward.

[I assure you there was a 4th picture but it was bland as hell.]

<img src='http://www.splatmaster.net/5.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
...Gangsta rifle action! Or reloading in a dark enviroment or something.

<img src='http://www.splatmaster.net/6.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
...probably the best of the 7. Aside from the blatant end of the level due to the steep topography, I suppose it looks pretty good.

<img src='http://www.splatmaster.net/7.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
..."Dude, did your helmet just melt?"

It looks pretty uninspiring to me right now. Maybe with some constant shelling and then charging out of trenches will be more atmospheric. I can accept the bland look for 'historical immersion' (though there are a couple of color films of WW1)...but it just looks pretty uneventful.

That just goes to show how bad the modmakers are at artistic screenshot capturing, because digging a bit deeper gets more exciting shots like:

<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/hanle/housesneak1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
and
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/hanle/housesneak6.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Those still aren't overly spectacular...but better. Grenades give off sparks though...which is weird to say the least.

Bijiy · October 2004

That hud annoys me, it just...annoys me.

kida · October 2004

reminds me of the good ol days of 1.1 dod.

RyoOhki · October 2004

This is all well and good, but why bring out a new mod on an engine that is very shortly going to be more than obselete? If this had come out a year or two ago, then no problem. But on the eve of Half Life 2 being released, the question must be asked: why do this?

Not to mention the fact that the game would work far better on Source. WWI battlefields have large amounts of open, wide spaces outside, and the HL1 engine hates stuff like that.

Pulse · October 2004

Maybe they're releasing it now because they did not in fact start making it two days ago, and they don't want all their work to have gone to waste. You know, just a possibility.

Liku · October 2004

That bolt is huge.

Marine0I · October 2004

Barring a miracle, this is going to be DoD, but instead of pretending to offer people a weapons range like DoD, they'll just give you the bolt action uber railgun of doom and be practically done with it.

Think DoD, think karwhor3's, think camping - think ****.

That said, it does remind me of the days when dod was actually good ie 1.3b, so I will be downloading.

Bijiy · October 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marine01 @ Oct 5 2004, 02:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Think DoD, think karwhor3's, think camping - think ****.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
You rang?

Wither · October 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Oct 5 2004, 06:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I dunno if I'd ever try a game like this -

What ELSE can you do in a ww1 other than camp?

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
And you played Battlegrounds? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

CommunistWithAGun · October 2004

Nobody read the FAQ obviously.

Im gonna play it and probably love it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Bijiy · October 2004

NS Off Topic trench warfare fun night?

Mr_JeburtO · October 2004

hmm looks interesting but by no means near perfect.

but il give it a shot as long as theres UK servers because anywhere else and the lag would make it inpossible to hit with a bolt action rifle <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' />

esuna · October 2004

I hope you can get trenchfoot.

And what's all this talk of charging? They had to walk, they were ordered to walk, that is if my memory of history classes serves me very well.

Soylent_green · October 2004

Do you get to go out on christmas eve and play football with each other in the middle between the barbed wires?

CommunistWithAGun · October 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Soylent green @ Oct 5 2004, 09:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Do you get to go out on christmas eve and play football with each other in the middle between the barbed wires?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
haha, too true.

SinSpawn · October 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cpl.Davis @ Oct 5 2004, 06:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Has anyone been keeping tabs on the new <b>WW1</b> mod called the trenches?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
lol new, its been in the making for years, doesn't seem that exciting, I'll still give it a go before it dies off like any other unpopular mod.

New Hl Ww1--trailer Now Up On Site

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