Tour of Duty 1.1 approaching

Tour of Duty, a Half-Life modification which puts the player in the heart of the Vietnam conflict, will release version 1.1 of their mod Wednesday.

Some improvements in this version include:
• Ability to go 'prone', which increases accuracy

• Officers can use their binoculars to mark targets (gameplay objectives, or spotting snipers)

• A compass appears on the team's screen, showing them where the target is in relation to their current position

• New 'King of the Hill' gameplay mode (players 'capture' a zone on the map, points are awarded for the time in the capture area)

• All custom player animations

• Rewritten and optimized netcode

• Several reskinned weapon models

• Many new scenery models, huts, budhas, planes, choppers

• AI controlled air support

• New animations for several weapons

• Many bug fixes

• 3 new maps, and all other maps retextured or reworked

View: Tour of Duty Website

News source: Planet Half-Life