Situation Outbreak

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January 2024

Situation Outbreak
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Type	Multiplayer Game
Developers	Agent Red Productions
Engine	Source
Based on	Half-Life 2
Release Date	September 13, 2009
Last Version	v1.61 (January 28, 2010)

Overview

Situation Outbreak is an Orange Box mod about the impending zombie apocalypse. Armed with nothing but a 9mm and a pair of brass knuckles, you must do whatever it takes to survive against the thousands of zombies that used to be your friends and neighbors. The cost of failure is nothing less than your free will. There are no heroes. No single person can save the world and there are not enough bullets to go around. The only thing left to do is to kill the damned, hoping that you don’t end up like them.

Description

This is not your average, run-for-your-life zombie mod. Quickly, here are a few things that set SO apart from the competition:

• A custom dynamic difficulty system that adjusts game difficulty in realtime based the Survivors' progress on a given map.
• Seven new, unique, awesome gamemodes, like Holdout and Extermination.
• A completely new arsenal of weapons – all developed in-house by Agent Red Productions.
• Survivors can buy weapons and ammo by cashing in points they earn for killing Zombies and zombie NPCs.
• Gain experience and level up for useful bonuses and powerups.
• Fight off hordes of zombies by hunkering down behind a barricade or going rogue.
• Make your own maps using our fully-developed, easy-to-use custom entity set and in-depth tutorials.

Agent Red Productions takes pride in having created the most active zombie-based mod on the Source scene; new updates are being released just about every month!

Gamemodes

Infection

One player is chosen to become the host of the zombie infection - and must infect the rest of the players by tearing into their tasty flesh! This is the classic outbreak style of gameplay. Either the zombies rule the earth, or the humans retake what was theirs!

Survival

Survivors must defend themselves against the hordes of zombies NPCs for a specified amoutn of time. Be sure to keep the zombies off your back - once you go down, you're not getting back up.

Escape

Survivors only have a few minutes to escape before being overrun by zombies! No one must be left behind! One player is chosen to be the host of the infection at the start of the round. Better hurry, zombies don't raise themselves!

Holdout

Similar to Survival, Survivors will find themselves defending their fellows against wave after wave of zombie NPCs. However like Escape, there's a twist: the Survivors must also defend a specified holdout area until time runs out. Therefore the mission is not only to survive the infection, but to contain it, which makes this gamemode notably harder than the others.

Overlord

Often deemed an Infection-Survival hybrid, one player is chosen towards the start of each round to be the zombie overlord. As a zombie overlord, a player is capable of killing Survivors for points either by using their zombie claws or by spawning their own army of zombie NPCs to command. These points can then be exchanged to spawn even more zombie NPCs. If a zombie overlord is ever killed during the middle of a round, they are spawned as a Survivor and another zombie overlord is chosen to take their place. This continues until a zombie overlord successfully destroys the human race or until time runs out, in which case the Survivors win.

Objective

Often deemed a Escape-Survival hybrid, Survivors must complete a set of objectives before they can escape to safety with the additional twist of having to defending themselves against endless waves of zombie NPCs. If the Survivors fail to complete all of their objectives before time runs out, they lose, making this gamemode the most versatile and open-ended as far as what objectives the Survivors are assigned to complete. As an added challenge, players never respawn once they are killed.

Extermination

At the beginning of the zombie apocalypse when there was still organized government, the Military was willing to do anything and everything it could to prevent the spread of the infection - even if it meant killing their own citizens. This fast-paced, epic deathmatch-style gamemode pitches the Survivors against the Military. Anything goes, and ultimately only one force can come out on top.

Screenshots

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  Subway

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  Deepice

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  Terror

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  Remains

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  Chapel

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows 7 or later	Windows 10 or later
Processor (CPU)	1.7 GHz Processor	2 GHz Dual Core processor
System memory (RAM)	1GB+	8GB+
Hard disk drive (HDD/SSD)	10GB*	N/A
Video card (GPU)	DirectX® 8 level Graphics Card	DirectX 9+ GPU with at least 512MB VRAM

Team

Lead Developers

James Pizzurro (£cho) - Coder, Mapper, Compiler, Animator, Public Relations

Jordan Nolan (GlitchedSystem) - Coder

Developers

Harrison Burton - Mapper

Ryan Gaston (Stubby) - Mapper

(Sethen) - Mapper

Ryan (Undead) - Public Relations

Patrick Nielsen (Red Caste) - Public Relations

(Rusty) - Texture Artist, Compiler

Stephen Swires (SteveUK) - Coder

Ryan Gholson - Modeler

Jarlan Perez - Texture Artist

Chris Mathews - Modeler, Texture Artist

Wallace Fajardo - Modeler

Chris Roth - Texture Artist

Thanet Gasorntip - Mapper

Curtis Williams - Mapper

Michael Perron - Modeler

Brian Smith - Concept/Illustrator

Leonardo Carrion - Texture Artist/Animatior

Kai B. Sidler (woookieee) - Mapper

(Third Eye) - Mapper

Marcell James (NegroSaki) - Sound Artist

Kevin Greenlee (LoudCore) - Sound Artist

Tutorials

• Server Administration
  • Making a Dedicated Server - Manually
  • Making a Dedicated Server - Using Installer
  • Making a Dedicated Server - External Hosting
  • Configuring MetaMod: Source
  • Configuring SourceMod
• Mapping
  • Mapping for Beginners
  • Setting up Hammer
  • Creating an Infection Map
  • Creating a Survival Map
  • Creating a Holdout Map
  • Creating an Escape Map
  • Creating an Overlord Map
  • Creating an Objective Map
  • Creating an Extermination Map

External links

• The Official Situation Outbreak Website ^{[dead link]}
• The Official SO Wiki ^{[dead link]}
• SO on ModDB
• SO on GameBanana