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Bitl just announced the newest edition in the Smod Series, Smod Firefight Reloaded. What is Firefight Reloaded? FIREFIGHT RELOADED is the sequel to SMOD: FIREFIGHT built on Source SDK 2013. This new mod aims to bring back the old-school style gameplay of older shooters like Quake, while integrating some SMOD-style gameplay themes into it.

Since December 24 people were anxiously waiting for the alpha to be released, now on January 15 the locked alpha was released to those who wanted to try the WIP project. Now 9 days later the pre-beta has been announced, with only half a month away I'm sure Firefight will be a huge hit with the community. I know I'll be getting it!
Stay tuned on Bsnooch to see when the mod will be released. The day it's released their will be another News Article with the download link.

Thanks for the update Bitl and here's to another Smod Classic!

DOWNLOAD THE ALPHA BUILD

FIREFIGHT RELOADED DISCUSSION

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In case anybody missed the stream last week, we did a 2 hour sitdown with Pepsifan04, the creator of SMOD: CryLife, to look at the latest build of "CryLife2".  We dug deep into how his mod works, upcoming developments, SMOD Standalone, and a bunch of other topics.

I have now uploaded the videos onto Youtube in 20-30 min segments. Watch the first one below or click the link to shoot through to the whole playlist!

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Just in time for 2015, OneManShow has dropped the FINAL version of SMOD Redux.  This is not some crappy spin-off from a random ModDB user. This is the real deal. Watch the video below for instructions on where to download, how to install, and a quick preview of the mod. Enjoy and show OMS some support for kicking out an update for a mod which so many thought was dead.

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We sat down with JuanManShow, creator of SMOD Redux and talked about the History of the (English speaking) SMOD Community and how the mod was discovered by Facepunch users, the first SMOD mods, SMOD Multiplayer, Close Contact, the rise and fall of the Tactical forums and everything in between.

A 50 min oral history with some ranting in between.

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Pepsifan04 has released his SMOD Standalone Client to fix all the issues being caused by the Valves update to .vpk format.

Currently it fixes the following issues:
- LUA being broken in SMOD.
- Large Address Aware flag.
- SMOD uses Orangbox Engine.

The installer will extract files to make SMOD operate independent of Steam. It will still require you to own LEGAL copies of Half Life 2 and the Source SDK.

For more information and to download the Installer please visit this thread - http://bsnooch.com/forums/index.php?topic=1360.0