Day of Defeat: Source Get the Steamworks Treatment and a New Map

With the beta out of the way, Day of Defeat: Source has officially introduced its set of new Steamworks features this week. The Palermo update adds 51 achievements, player avatars, Steam Community integration, updated graphical effects, and a new freeze cam. There’s also a new map, Palermo, which is a remixed version of a user-created map (dod_salerno).

The integration with Steam Community allows you to easily spot friends you’re playing with (via an icon next to their name on the scoreboard) and player statistics much like those in Team Fortress 2’s. This is nothing earth-shattering, but I’m sure it must be nice for the longtime DoD fans to see all of these new free features be released.

Counter-Strike seems like a natural fit for a Steamworks update, so I wonder if we’ll be seeing that next. In the meantime, you can be playing DoD: Source free this weekend. All you need to do is download Steam, and you’ll have free access to the game (and its new features) through July 6.

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