Dark Powers
Introduction
Dark Powers (DP) is a teamplay modification for Half-life 2 Deathmatch (HL2DM). DP adds a layer of strategic area control gameplay on top of the standard HL2DM team play. Spawn points are captured by overloading combine consoles with dark energy pellets AKA combine balls. Spawns can also have attached devices to help their teams, such as weapons and health dispensers.
News
24 Sep 2011 : Dark Powers is now listed on the Valve Developer Communiuty. I plan to add some media later.
22 Sep 2011 : Dark Powers version 1.2 Released! Download
- Fixed a bug where target id's were not being displayed
- Added more detail (and light) to the dp_nova map
- Replaced the console model with a custom "capture point" model, this makes it easier to capture, since the balls don't bounce off any more.
- Smoothed out some of the angular curves on the spawn model
- Started work on some server-side bot code (currently very very stupid bots).
3 Sep 2011 : Dark Powers version 1.1 Released! Download
- Fixed a bug where map information was not being displayed on the Message of the Day (MOTD) screen.
- Fixed a bug where the light cone on spawn points was not updatign when the spawn changed teams.
- Added a new scoreboard type screen that lists the statuses of all the spawn points.
- Added target identification to spawn points and spawn devices, so you can more easily tell where you are and what team they belong to.
Dark powers is now listed on ModDB 
where I have set up a discussion forum.
27 Aug 2011 : Dark Powers version 1 unleashed!
Frequently Asked Questions
What
What's New in Dark Powers?
- Team Spawn Points, protecting you from spawn camping
- Combine reactors, producing dark energy balls
- Combine Consoles, Toggle the friend and foe circuits of Team Spawns
- Spawn selection menu, simple Pick 'n' Power (PnP) gameplay
- Spawn status aware HUD, recieve updates on the status of spawn points through your HUD
- Spawn Devices:
- Armories, Weapon dispensers that provide superiors weapon to allies
- Ammo Crates, dispensing ammo to team mates
- Auto-Turrets, defending your spawn points
- Health dispensers, healing allies wounds
- Power dispensers, topping up allies armor
- Forcefields, Giving allies control of movement around the map
- Map Buttons, Enabling team mates to trigger map specific events...
- Map name, version and author information in the Message of the Day
- Stance specifc accuracy, sprinting and jumping will increase the spread of your shots, crouching and standing still reduce the spread.
What do I need to play DP? You need to have installed the Source SDK Base 2007 from the tools section of the steam library. For now you will need to have any source engine game (such as HL2 or TF2) in order to install the Source SDK Base.
Where
Where can a get DP? Right here. Download
Where are people playing DP? Check out the Steam Community group for a list of servers.
How
How do I install DP? Extract the zip file to your steam/steamapps/sourcemods folder (in c:/program files/ by default), keeping the directory structure. Once you restart steam DP should be listed in your games library.
How does spawn capturing work? Grab a combine ball out of a reactor, carry it to a console and launch it at the console. A menu listing the spawns should appear, click the spawn you want to power. Spawns have 3 states: Shielded, Ready and Locked. Players can only use spawns that belong to their team and are ready or shielded. Enemy Locked spawns change to your team when you power them, allies spawns become ready. Enemy Shielded spawns become Read when you power them, powerin allied Shielded spawns has no effect. Enemy Ready spawns become Locked when you power them, allied spawns become Shielded. Locking and shielding are temporary effects and wear off over time.
How can I help? You can host a DP server, or make DP maps using the valve Hammer and the dark powers FGD, Email me bugs, exploits, suggestions, feedback or money
When
When will DP be released? Right now! Download
When will DP be updated? When it's ready.
When are people playing Dark Powers? Vist the Steam Community group to arrange a game.
Who
Who is playing DP? Check out the Steam Community group to see who's playing.
Who is working on this mod? DP is a one man mod, by ChromeAngel, the lead developer behind Exterminatus
Why
Why would anyone make another Rebels VS Combine mod? DP is most of all a test of the gameplay mode. I would really like to make another sci-fi themed mod, but making all the assets only to then find the gameplay isn't fun would be massive waste of time and effort. By making a shallow mod in the HL2 universe I can re-use assets and code from the Source SDK and focus on the gameplay first.
Why is it called Dark Powers? Because the gameplay revolves around powering devices with combine Dark Energy Pellets and Dark Energy was already in use by another mod.