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My favorite memories of DoD is whenever I joined a server there would always be a bunch of boomers playing the game kinda seriously. They must have been all in their 50s yet they were calling strats like you would in CS:GO.

I'll have to state a fact here that developer who made a decent 3rd-party bot addon (Strumbot) for this game died in a Tsunami tragedy in Thailand back in 2004. His legacy kept the game alive, even for a tiny bit.

Calling the SMG classes more "rifleman" classes was comedic but also made my eye twitch a bit

This game is such a fun one to play when you're bored and don't know what to do

The maps where the Germans have more classes it's because you're playing as German paratroopers, that's why they get the FG42s (Fallschirmjagergewehr/Paratrooper rifle 42).

I don’t consider Team Fortress Classic as “realistic” when you can fly 1000 MPH with grenade jumps and being able to give people cancer as medic

I used to play Day of Defeat: Source quite a lot in 2016 when the playercount was in the 1,000s. It was a nice medium between TF2 and Counter-Strike, but seeing it slowly lose popularity over time really makes me sad. Hopefully someone in the future can make a game like this-or even better yet, bring Day of Defeat back alive again.

I was there… 3000 years ago. Haha my teenage days could be described as DoD, TFC, and CS 1.5. Miss em. Thanks for shining light on this forgotten gem though.

I put hundreds of hours into this game when it came out. I was also a HUGE original Day of Defeat player. I still have a DoD:S poster I bought from the Valve merch store back in the day. I was really sad to see Counter Strike move up with the times, but they left/forgot about Day of Defeat. Still goes down as one of my favorite games of all time.

I used to be apart of a realism unit back in DoD:S, way back in 2014.. We were called the First Special Service Force or the FSSF. Later called the 70th Infantry Division or the 70th ID. We were run by a Vietnam vet who called himself Seadog. Probably my best years in gaming were in that unit, I loved everything about it, the camaraderie, the friendships, the discipline, the loyalty. Unfortunately the unit disbanded I believe in 2019 or 18.. Can't remember, I'm proud to be apart of Seadog's command for those 7-8 years. Never forgot this game, never will! :)

The thing I remember the most about this game is how snipers and MG's were limited to 2 per team at most so you didn't had half of your team humping a hill with an score of 2 - 1 at the end of the match and MG's were actually terryfing to confront face to face. Battlefield games could learn from this.

Imagine if Valve decided to go on with this game like they did with CSGO, they could have destroyed AAA companies in the WW2 shooting genre

I used to love DoD:S but I was a little late to it - I remember my dad playing on the Battle for Europe campaign servers every weekend and swearing like a pirate. Each battle was pre-arranged, the teams had tactics worked out on their forums, the results meant that the frontline on Europe would move backwards or forwards, and it was super serial. I miss him. P.S. The first day Source was out, I remember he got blown up by a grenade, throwing him into the air, where his ragdoll hit a bazooka, that then blew him into a bathtub. We laughed and laughed like hyenas.

loved tis game when i was a kid i hated playing with the bri'ish, I always thought they were disadvantaged by having fewer classes... but if you think about it, the more classes that the other 2 had were basically the same thing, 3 rifles, 3 machine guns... like... kinda unnecessary

Tell ya what. Back in the 2000s, this and _Return to Castle Wolfenstein_ we're absolutely my jams. Oh. And that stand-alone _Wolfenstein_ thingy with mod classes and game modes. But, yeah. Wandering through trenches, camping in ruined buildings, mowing down people with that heavy machine gun… Those were the good ol' days~ (I also played a little _Counter-Strike,_ but I liked _Day of Defeat,_ more.)

3:25 The Axis having more classes depends on the map, not on the server

those passwords protected servers with Chinese names seems to be hackers banland because the name just translate to hackers containment facility or something similar to that, though that is only the first part of the name and I don't think translating the second part would be necessary.

Day of defeat source looks great, exactly like a ww2 gmod, I'd play that

I absolutely loved Day of Defeat, I spent too much time in that game. I feel like there's not enough content about it, deserves a lot more attention.

Not gonna lie, dod was one of the best games I‘ve ever played. You were able to cook grenades, were able to pick up grenades and throw them back and guns actually did a decent amount of damage. So a Kar98 was a one shot kill (best weapon in the game) and the mg42 was rattling through everything. There were high up positions for snipers as well as holes in the floor where you could hide. Overall a fantastic game for it‘s time. The source version sucked though.

6:44 16 hours of playing the game and I never realized that I thought I was doomed to be a turtle for the rest of my life Thanks :)

I despise online games, but this one I have so much nostalgia which will never be replicated. Steam said I have 2,400 hrs on it, but I feel it must have been 3,000hrs at least. I played DODS between it's release and up till almost mid-2010s. What got me hooked was the whole "realism" gameplay, or realism mod, so it's not part of the standard game. It pitches the two teams against each other, instead of capture the flag, it's about search and destroy, or elimination. The last standing team wins. There is no respawn so if you die you are out of that round. First you load the realism mod, then the admin pick a leader for each team. The leader takes turn picking which players he wants to be in this team. The first few picks are always the best players. It's a three round match, each team take turn being the defender or attacker. Defender stays on their side of the map and can't cross into enemy territory. When the realism round start, there is like a 5-10 minutes prep time where no one can shoot, the team leader hand out weapons to individual players and the defending team set up a defensive parameter. Normally, each team are only allowed 0-1 MG, 1 sniper, 1 rocket, 1-2 auto, the rest are rifles. Only the best players get the sniper rifle. When the round start, you don't just rush out to the other side of the map or you will be killed immediately. The approach is slow and careful. The attacking team will try to use alternative paths to get to the other side of the map and goes behind the back of the defending team. Only your own team can hear your voice communication, so there would be a lot of communication about the enemies location. There are other tactics like camping in a house and moving furniture to block the door or stairway, or pushing furniture to a certain location to use as cover, although some mods frown upon it. Sometimes on a big map, one of these realism round could last an hour long, and it would usually be down to two players left from opposite teams, trying to seek out each other. It can get pretty tense when you're the last guy alive left in team. Usually realism only happen later at night when all the usual guys gets together, and it go on until early morning 2-3am when people started leaving for bed. For a short period of time in my life realism was my life, it would be going to work during the day, then log on each night to play realism. There were a lot of different realism clans at the peak. What really killed the whole scene overtime were guys using hacks (see through walls), toxicity building up, and the interesting old timers who held the clans together leaving or the server maintainers quit, in combination of this very specific generation of gamer growing up and had to work or go to college. And a lot of them were I should say down in luck and joining the army. The peak of the realism was probably around the early 2010s. There might be some realism still going today, but it's very minimal. There was one famous character in the realism scene that anyone who played during that golden time knows. DeBlanc [505th PIR], he was a Louisiana Cajun cop, probably retired now I'm guessing. The dude is an old timer and a real character, very raspy voice, would come online drunk a lot of times. He would keep the mood upbeat for everybody in the server. It was always the usual guys you play with each night, so at times it was very fun just chatting about life and what you're up to. It was a very unique experience for its time, gaming has moved on now and doesn't have the same feel, different generation of gamers as well.

I remember the m1 garand being able to fire as fast as you could click to pull the trigger and you were able to bind a primary fire button and a secondary, so what me and my friends would do, was to bind the trigger buttons to mousewheel up and down, and then we could empty a clip in basically half a second. Good times were had with this game, good times !

About the dates , the first version i ever played of DoD was around 2000-2001 , the last update before source was in fact 2003. And for DoD : Source , it came out at the same time as Half-Life 2, in fact it comes with the collector's edition of HL2 , with CSS, and Half-Life Source

I'll go ahead and quip in my thoughts. I used to be part of the community that beta tested the releases of the GoldSrc port and a very early version of DoD:S. The community itself was rather large for the time and even rivaled the budding CoD community. There were 4 sides to select but only 2 per time. Depending on the map you got the Allied (American/British) vs Axis (Regular/Paratroopers). Main differences were mainly in the weapons type. Rocket class wasn't added in during the initial 1.0 version but in a later revision. Rockets were meant mainly for demolition rather than enemy elimination. There were some major changes when DoD:Source came out. The British and Axis Paratroopers were removed along with several redundant weaponry. Other weapons were given to the rocket class for better defense. M1 Carbine for the Allies and the C96 Mauser for the Axis. Weapon mechanics were changed as well. Iron sighting for the rifles, select fire for the support class, sniper reloading rounds one by one instead of via stripper clip.

"Or you could say stormtrooper..." Yea you could because it's the literal translation of Sturmtruppe

I played that game a lot back in the day. The maps were really creating a great atmosphere. And since you would respawn quickly the pressure wasnt so high, so it was a nice and casual way to kill some time. It was also my first experience in really meeting with friends online and talking during playing. I'd really love to get back into gaming but nowadays the choice is a bit overwhelming.

I will never forget about DoD. I played it from the very first version. It was one of my favorite games. There were some awesome mods for it like Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers sound effects, different skins, tons of maps, etc.... So many great memories. I really miss those days.

I played on a zombie server on DoD Source like every day for a while when I was in high school. Always wondered what ever happened to that server, good times and a great game!

This will always be my first online shooter that got me into the world of gaming :)

I'd like to point out that one of TF2's most well-known community server maps, cp_orange, was originally a DoD map, dod_orange

I always played this game when I was just a little kid. Actually, I'm still playing this masterpiece

Got that CS:Source Trilogy pack with Source, HL2:DM, and this game. One of my favorite childhood purchases.

I have returned to this game after i dont know how many years, and it still has that power to keep me playing it

I played it when cs was like 1.5 and no “steam” that time, so much fun playing with my cousins.

I have over 700 hours on this game. So many great memories it was such a great community.

Resistance and liberation was by far my favorite ww2 game. Nothings ever scratched the itch that it did

It's interesting looking back at these games in the final form, but I played them while they were still mods and being developed. There was so many maps that came and went, and also when the bazooka was first introduced, some of the maps had different paths that you could only access once you blew up a wall or whatever with the bazooka. One map had a latter to a sniper next that you could only get to once you blew up something so you could access the ladder. DoD was a super fun game and it's time may be over but it would be cool in Valve did something with it in the fiture.

I randomly came across this account and found out you actually uploaded unlike every other good account you find in your recommendation pretty cool

I dont know why, maybe its the simplicity but the gunplay felt so good in day of defeat which no modern shooter can catch again. You got hell let loose and post scriptum with their gunplay and then you got a classic day of defeat with a gunplay better than those. (Im MG main btw maybe thats why)

The main thing why Day of Defeat is so cool is because of good maps. But in Source has strange weapon balnce

I started watching your videos recently. Nice Videos !

Just found your Videos by chance and they just make me happy. Give me so much nostalgia. I rember the DoD:S times in which i only played mg 42 like rambo, was hard to handle the recoil but was fun if you figuered out how :D

Firing machine guns in this game feels awesome, even by modern standards! 😎

I think of 2 best WW2 games in casual and realistic, Day of Defeat/Source for casual and Red Orchestra 2 for realism. I had so much fun in DoD:S even just by playing in 1 server.

proud to had played DOD, thanks for the video, its so cool remembering this games!

Your videos are so damn chill- I've not played Half life or such in yeeeeears but find myself binging your videos Loving them from Scotland o/

nice video i like how you edited everything

I've played DOD:S more than the original, and still play it occasionally

0:10 "and then no more sequels..." CS2: hold my molotov

pro tip, throw the nade to a corner and let the grenade fuse timer to start, and then press E to pick it up. . wait until 1 ~ 3 seconds depending how far the target is and throw it, this is poor man's noob tube. works everytime.

2:07 these Chinese severs are titled "retention center for cheaters." I am guessing that an admin transfers cheaters from a normal server to these to prevent them from playing.

Wow! It's the single time Valve has slapped "Source" onto the end of a game's name and it didn't suck!

Well. I never heard of this one. Thanks for bringing it up 😊

Guys, This game is still alive, put a filter in the server browser as dont show empty servers. And you will get full servers without bots.

I love how they are runninf with the rifle in their one hand(right hand) because in ww2 most soldiers ran with one hand

Gun game is pretty fun in DoD Source, played it a few times. Also, this game had zombie mode just like Counter-Strike but it wasn't big enough and it was ran by a small community called TheVille ORG. The first GoldSrc game was ok, even though I only played it with bots because it's the only way to fully try it out. Both were good games but we're overshadowed massively.

I had a team with our own server on DoD and we went on IRC to look for matches against other teams. It was really fun times, it was like 20 years ago damn I feel old now

I hope you upload more often i really like your videos

Finally, someone brings up this classic hidden gem of Valve. Man, had the WW2 shooter market not been so oversaturated by the end of the mid 2000s, this franchise could've gotten its own Global Offensive. Also, you can b-hop in DoD:S, it's very different from traditional b-hopping and requires a lot more timing and precision.

4:07 well, you could translate that as "tankhunter" 😅 the normal German word for bazooka would be something like Raketenwerfer ('Rocketthrower') nowadays. :]

I remember playing one of the early versions of Day of Defeat back in 2001 on my fathers work laptop and I still love this game, even though nearly noone plays it anymore.

XD love your humor bro, just subbed.

I remember being the tryhard for this game. I was by the last objective and no one wanted to cap it so I did loo

I have played this came since it came out and iam 57 best war came ever. Believe you can buy this game on steam for about 10.00 bought my kids this game around Christmas for 4.95

Played thousands of hours of this, no question one of my favs ever.

1:38 One of the server titles in Chinese says "You're gonna miss your family tree if u attack the server" LMAO

I played it SO much. I loved the immersive maps ( too bad updates of the original DoD notonly added maps, ... but also deleted some.. :( ). The sound and ambient was amazing, I found. It also helps I live in Belgium and lots of the old maps actually look like the old towns here, or the Ardennes. I'm sad to see it go. I've recently played it a bit and it's either fully tricked out 'fun' maps or AIM maps with players with inhuman reaction and aim. Luckily I found my jazz with Red Orchestra 2 after this, DoD:S also kept me busy untill Infamy came along, but it's not the same... Say, anyone fancy a OG DoD lanparty?

You know, i might check out this game, looks interesting.

DOD and DOD:S were true masterpieces.also germans and brits sometimes got extra classes on certain maps as theyd be the attacking side on defence heavy maps

He also forgot you can play as Italians and the Swiss, the mode is called "Spectate".

I have almost 300 hours with this game, I enjoyed every second of it. Unfortunately I'm using a M1 mac and i can't play it anymore. Underrated beautiful game...

I love day of defeat and im glad ive gotten so many good games for so cheap. reminds me of how i got insurgency for 1$ back in the day

You finally uploaded something

Nothing beats rushing home at the age of 13, to hop on with the bois, onto a modded 60 player count massive DoD:source map and just experience the utter CHAOS that was war, with machinegun fire peppering over head and snipers holding every angle you could imagen while trying to capture the points in the middle of it all. I'll crack a cold one to that!

I remember playing a zombies mod in day of defeat. The original one because I never played the source one.

I wish Valve would continue Day of Defeat and compete with games like Battlefield, Call of Duty, War Thunder, Enlisted.

Great memories watching this video. I think that I started playing this game at its beginnings. It used to be fantastic. It would have the speed and frenzy as CS, but in a WWII environment. I would play for a clan and we even played the European DoD championship (we came last since my team would desert mid-game). In my personal opinion the downfall of this game was when they started to adjust the recoil of the weapons, the mussel flash and really poor design for new maps implemented with updates. I believe that Valve was not really interested in making this game a success because there was, probably, a fierce competence with BattleField and Wolfenstein. Great video man, and thanks for the smile after watching the video.

Thanks for covering DOD. Source really lost the grittiness DOD had when it was a pre-retail mod. I have fond memories of the early 2000's between DoD, Red Orchestra, Call of Duty, and watching Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.

This game made me remember the old days when I was playing battlefield 1942

Storm troopers would probably look at you and laugh

Thanks for your work!

So many good maps in DoD, usually very big. I played the hell out of dod_charlie which was a D-Day map. Also loved Caen which was a city of rubble that provided many different sniper spots. The TEK bot server shown in the video is fun to play-it's humans vs. bots that have near perfect aim and reaction time

It's a shame that Valve never ported every official map from DoD to DoDS. Valve abandonned the game pretty quickly to release TF2.

Despite myself being extremely loyal to Valve and worshipping all there games, I’ll admit the best WW2 shooter is still Call of Duty: World At War

Congrats for the 20k subs

Some person tried to roast you? Damn, you don't deserve that, you're videos are way too entertaining.

Good video, I liked the jokes. Though I think at 4:34 that was a missed opportunity that you didn't show the sniper fg42's recoil. I like the goldsrc version. it's more crusty and cozy and I like its gameplay more. day of defeat source looks basic, just like cs source

To me the best WW2 shooter is Wolfenstein ET by Splash damage.

Actually, the games go on forever in empty bot servers or modes game modes. With players games do end pretty quick. Average is 10-15 min

one of the first games I ever played with sprint and ADS. I remember it being mind blowing at the time.

Looks like We have pretty similar experience with this series.

0:09 This didn't age well 😂

Sorry for being 1 day later but i want to tell you that your the coolest english half life youtuber (i originally speak spanish but i also now to speak inglish) and i love your work.

I really was looking for a low end fps game . Thanks !

Day of defeat source is fun but very slow paced because most people who play it are old german men and its movement. Server I used to play was fun to play but did not allow fast weapon switch. I have heard that some servers do not like new players and elitism is very common but gladly that server I played in had only admins ruling dumb players to behave

I found this one along with the very first insurgency, the mod insurgency for cs source. Played along with both and I can say these indie games are better than the $100 games they sell that is riddle with shit tone of bugs and useless contents. Im looking at you CoDVan and BF... 👀

My brain burned due to you calling a smg guy a rifleman, thanks for that

I have thousands of hours in DoDS & still play it most days. Thanks for giving it some love.