Follow Freeman

We are gearing up now for the immanent release of Follow Freeman beta 3. After many months of hard work and collaboration with many other Half Life 2 mod teams and the wonderful help we have received from our community of Follow Freeman testers and fans who have all contributed in the true spirit of cooperation to the monumental amount of maps and features supported by Follow Freeman Beta 3. There so much stuff that we can’t fit it all in so here is a brief summary.

Half Life 2 single player campaign

Community mods converted for Follow Freeman Co-op
Rock 24
Metastasis
The Island
Ravenholm
Penetration
Combine Destiny
Causality Effect
Infiltration
Awakening
Mistake of Pythagorus
City Rebellion : the co-op remix
Riot Act
Coastline to Atmosphere
Dayhard
Antlion Troopers

Over 140 community maps from 15 separate developers and mod teams all collaborating in a shared love of creativity, cooperation and game-play

10 battle-zone maps including classic counterstrike source maps converted for PVPVE game-play, off road racing in the Jeep Rally, and the dreaded sequel to bz_trainstation (the leet coop map that pushes player co-operation to the limit) yes its bz_trainstation_2

As well as the maps we have some lovely new features.

World Co-op High Scores Website
At the end of each adventure the teams co-operative score and the stats of each player are sent to our website.

In game economy system
players earn money from kills and co-operation and can then spend it in Vorti-Guns

Vorti-Guns
Between missions players can use the in game shop (in the ready-room) to buy and sell a selection of 35 unique weapons including the counterstrike weapons, and stock up on ammo and equipment for the next mission. The shop can be opened and closed in-game in the admin control area so Half Life 2 purists can still play with the original weapons only.

Inventory multiplayer save and restore
Normally in multiplayer games players do not keep their weapon from one map to the next but Follow Freeman now saves your weapons and keeps your inventory on the server from one mission to the next.

Co-op friendly inventory
the weapon selection system has been redesigned so players can share all weapons and ammo types. Enabling a greater level of team work and tactics

Right now we are checking in content for the next release sometime in January and as soon as the beta testers are happy we will compile the linux version and go for the public release. If you cant wait and want to play some sweet smooth coop asap then you are welcome to join our friendly community of beta testers you can join here.

Mercilessdevelopment.com

For more information on the game play features see our public forums where I will be posting more development reports showing the features and how they work in greater detail over the coming weeks.

Mercilessdevelopment.com

For general info about Follow Freeman you can see our online manual our and content guide at

http://www.halflife2coop.com

If your part of the half life community and you want to get involved in then don’t hesitate to contact us, we are a community driven team and all gamers and developers are welcome.