Severian's Mod: A Helpful Resource
Severian's Mod is a Half-Life Deathmatch modification. It was created by Severian, and if I am not mistaken, was the very first mod ever created for Half-Life Deathmatch. Years later, this mod still thrives due to it's addictive nature. You can visit Severian's Mod website at http://www.severian.org/severian.
Severian's Mod makes several changes to the regular HLDM settings. Here are the changes you will find in this mod:
- Shotgun reloads much faster than normal.
- Shotgun shoots much faster than normal.
- Shotgun damage increased from normal.
- Crossbow reloads much faster than normal.
- Crossbow has no delay between firing shots.
- Crowbar, when right-clicked, fires off a taunt to nearby players.
- Snarks, when right-clicked, teleport the player to a random spawn point. This can only be done once every 5 minutes, or once per death (whichever comes quicker!).
- Snarks also look different and use the 'chumtoad' model.
- Snarks, when dying, explode and cause area effect damage for 5 points.
- Egon, when right clicked, is effectively a suicide tool.
- Egon, when fired, does not aim properly and leaks radiation.
- Hand Grenades, when right-clicked, launch and detonate on impact. You can only do this once every 5 seconds.
- Tripmines, when right-clicked, will place a 'lightning' mine which will blow up with 150% of the damage of a regular mine.
- Players have 1 second of spawn protection before they may be shot. They can however, fire immediately upon spawning. Note: This is more like half a second of protection, just enough time to avoid a spawn mine, or dodge a spawn camper.
- Flashlight is much brighter than normal.
- Map information, remaining time, and fraglimit displayed when you are dead.
- Identification of players when you aim your crosshair at them, built in.
Severian only released Severian's Mod for Windows servers, but several programmers ported his mod to Linux for us. Among them are CheezPlug from [FUD] clan. If there are others please let me know and I will add their names here.
Downloads
You can download the mod here:
Known Bugs
There are a few bugs with Severian's Mod due to the fact that it was coded for Half-Life pre-Steam. Steam uses STEAM ID's and Severian's Mod unfortunately has no clue what a STEAM ID is. Thus, you will never be able to use any Stats programs by Steam ID under these versions of Severian's Mod. You will always have to gather the statistics using the player names. Another limitation is that bots will not work with Severian's Mod in teamplay mode if there are more than 6 teams in the mp_teamlist variable. This should be taken seriously as your server will crash if you attempt to use bots with more than 6 teams specified. Lastly, whenever Steam servers auto-update, they will replace the Severian's Mod engine (.dll or .so file) with the default Valve engine file. You will always have to copy it back in on top of the previous engine file. Let's get into that right now.
Update: Jussi Kivilinna was kind enough to let me add this here; he has created a Won2Steam plugin that will rectify this Steam ID problem. You can download it here. It's a Metamod plugin - you can get Metamod at www.metamod.org.
Installation
To install Severians' Mod, you must go into your game server root folder and enter the /dlls folder. On a Windows system, you will see a hl.dll file. You should make a backup copy of this file and then upload your sev.dll file to this folder. Then rename your sev.dll file to hl.dll and restart the server. Your server will now be running Severian's Mod. The same goes for Linux, but the original file is called hl_i386.so and you need to replace it with the .so file from the .zip files above.
Server Side Setup (Required)
Installing the engine file will only get you so far; you still have some options you will want to set up on your game server. With Severian's Mod, you can actually spawn players with whatever weaponry you choose. The following are a list of commands that you should insert as lines in your server's server.cfg file.
- mp_giveweapons "weapon_crowbar;weapon_9mm;weapon_shotgun"
- mp_giveammo "9mm:67;buckshot:24"
- sv_maxspeed "320"
Those are the default values for Severian's Mod. You can change the variables any way you want. For instance, if you wanted to spawn people with all the weapons available and lots of ammo, here's what you could add to your server.cfg:
- mp_giveweapons "weapon_crowbar;weapon_9mm;weapon_357;weapon_9mmAR;weapon_shotgun;weapon_crossbow;weapon_egon;weapon_gauss;weapon_hornetgun;weapon_rpg;weapon_handgrenade;weapon_snark;weapon_tripmine;weapon_satchel"
- mp_giveammo "9mm:250;uranium:255;357:24;buckshot:125;bolts:50;rockets:5;ARgrenades:5"
There are plenty of fun combinations you can use. You can control the message that is displayed when players die by creating/editing a "server.txt" file in the Valve folder. Just put the info that you want to display in this file.
If you have any questions or problems running the mod you can contact me anytime on ICQ 7173510 or e-mail me here.
The above is taken partially from http://severian.org/severian. I am in no way taking credit for this mod, I am simply hosting this page to enable to mod to flourish.