Dystopia Goes Orange

So it seems that yet another venerated Half-Life 2 multiplayer mod has made the leap to the Orange Box engine, fancier graphics and eventual super-stardom. Well, probably only the first two. Dystopia is one of those fancy “team deathmatch as well as a bunch of other original game modes” kind of games, with a new update coming out September 10th (four days from now!).

It brings with it the usual bout of stuff that a Orange Box update comes with, namely the enhanced TF2 version of the engine, possible achievements/stat-tracking as well as a mountain of bug fixes, balance updates and a brand new map. It’s a rather impressively sized list of updates. The current news update doesn’t include the update list, but it does have a large amount of screenshots for the new map, titled Fusion.

For those of you that don’t know, Dystopia is a “cyberpunk themed total conversion of Half Life 2, created by an amature [sic] development team and released to the public for free.” It also happens to be a hard-to-explain game. Objectives are reached through the classic way of blowing everyone and everything up as well as hacking into the internets and blowing everyone and everything up. It’s like you’re playing on the internet whilst playing on the internet!

To sum it all up, the 1.3 update for Dystopia has all of the fanciness of the new Source engine. I’m looking forward to it even though I’ve played very little of the older version of it. So, Steam, September 10th.

Or, if you can’t wait, look at pretty pretty screenshots at the Dystopia website.

You can also get the jump on it by downloading the older version. It’ll update automatically once the new version comes out.