Firearms (computer game)

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Firearms is a multiplayer mod of the popular first-person shooter (FPS) game Half-Life created by Valve Software. Initially developed in 1998, Firearms was created as a quasi-realistic team-based FPS. The mod's main feature is the large amount of playable weapons in the game. There is some debate on the fairness of weapons but that is common to most FPS. Objectives can vary from capturing strong points to destroying objects but the main objective in all maps is to reduce the number of the opponent team's lives to zero. The loss of lives on a team can be stifled by the effort of the team itself and the direct and indirect actions of medics on the team. Firearms was also the first FPS game to feature parachutes. The current, and apparently final build is Release Candidate (RC) 3.0 which was released on April 18, 2005. Under the leadership and programming of Eric Smith (Zerk) and Ben Irwin, Firearms was also included in the Counter-Strike retail package and was later awarded PC Gamer's Mod of the Year award and PC Gamer's Best Multiplayer Game of the Year Runner-up in the year 2000^[1]. Firearms was at one time the #3 most popular mod based on the Half-life engine, after Counter-strike and Team Fortress Classic.^{[2] [3]} There is one bot developed for this mod called Marine bot (current version 0.91).

A controversy about the follow up projects, successor mods and the name Firearms has started in summer 2005. The Firearms development team has since moved onwards to produce the "World at War mod" and is no longer actively developing Firearms. As of August 2006, the official sequel to Firearms is Firearms: Source; however the development is being done by a new team, approved by the original developers. There is a third mod, called Firearms 2, however according to the Firearms official website it is not an approved nor supported mod of the series.

On August 2nd, 2005, the Firearms forums were attacked. The website was hijacked, and the forums were taken over. According to the official website "The same can't be said for the Firearms 2 Team, who kicked off their mod in August 2005 by hijacking the Firearms Forums, FTP, and servers using back-door access supplied by our server provider, ReconGamer. Every single team member and most of the forum admin/mod staff were banned, and we lost all of our art source and personal files stored on the server." ^[4]

Contents 1 Weapons in Firearms RC3.0 2 See also 3 References 4 External links 4.1 Official 4.2 Unofficial

[edit] Weapons in Firearms RC3.0

Hand gun

• Colt M1911
• Colt Anaconda
• IMI Desert Eagle
• Beretta M9
• Beretta 93R

Submachine gun

• H&K MP5A4
• Bizon
• IMI Uzi
• Sterling

Shotgun

• Remington 870
• Saiga 12K

Assault rifles

• M16A2
• AK47
• FAMAS
• M4A1
• H&K G3A3
• M14
• AK-74
• H&K G36E

Sniper Rifles

• SIG-Sauer SSG 3000
• SVD Dragunov
• Barret M82

Machine gun

• M249 SAW
• M60
• PKM

Demolition

• M79 Grenade launcher
• Claymore mine
• M203 attached under M16-A2's barrel
• GP-25 attached under AK-74's barrel
• M225 mortar

Map-object weapon

• M2HB heavy machine gun
• 155mm artillery

[edit] See also

• Half-Life
• Steam
• List of Half-Life mods
• Valve Software

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.pcgamer.com
2. ^ http://www.download.com/Half-Life-Firearms-mod/3000-2113_4-10291769.html cited as award-winning
3. ^ For statistics, see Firearms mention on Half-life retail box
4. ^ Firearms website, http://www.firearmsmod.com as accessed Nov. 2006

[edit] External links

[edit] Official

• Official Firearms Web Site

[edit] Unofficial

• World at War, a HL2 mod by the Firearms development team.
• Firearms:Source The officially sanctioned "sequel" to Firearms. Not developed by members of the Firearms development team, however.
• Incursion mod Another HL2 mod, developed by prior Firearms development team members. Not considered in the same "universe" as Firearms.