5 Tutorial Videos (even experienced players might learn!)

So I've made like 5 tutorial videos. 2 apply only to Half-Life²: Deathmatch, 2 apply only to Source games in general, and one applies to all Steam. I think that even the most experienced among you should have a look- there are some things that very few people know! Click the titles, they are links. Or, go to the tutorials playlist, or my Channel.


1) Fast Orb
This is the one that you're most likely to know if you play HL2DM. Just punt the combine ball [orb] after you shoot to make a fast combine ball.


2) Magnum scoping
Wait! This is more than normal magnum scoping. This TOGGLES! With it, you can toggle your suit zoom to get easy headshots!


3) Playing music in any Source game
With this trick, you can play whatever music YOU want in ANY Source game. Nobody else hears the music- just you.


4) Changing the Steam message sound
Have you ever been annoyed by the Steam message-received sound? Don't turn it off- change it! It's not as simple as you think- but it's still easy.


5) Using fonts to recreate the logos from many Source games
Really, I won't be surprised if you don't know this one. You can EXACTLY recreate the logos from Half-Life², HL2DM, HL2EP1, HL2EP2, Garry's Mod, Day Of Defeat, and Counter-Strike using the fonts that came with them. By the way, this is my first tutorial video (that is still up) so it's not HD. By the way I remade it so it's nicer!


Ok I figured out the Youtube tags but the player is so small... You should just go to the URLs.

ADAMANT ÆVE! wrote:So I've made like 5 tutorial videos. 2 apply only to Half-Life²: Deathmatch, 2 apply only to Source games in general, and one applies to all Steam. I think that even the most experienced among you should have a look- there are some things that very few people know! Click the titles, they are links. Or, go to the tutorials playlist, or my Channel.


1) Fast Orb
This is the one that you're most likely to know if you play HL2DM. Just punt the combine ball [orb] after you shoot to make a fast combine ball.


2) Magnum scoping
Wait! This is more than normal magnum scoping. This TOGGLES! With it, you can toggle your suit zoom to get easy headshots!


3) Playing music in any Source game
With this trick, you can play whatever music YOU want in ANY Source game. Nobody else hears the music- just you.


4) Changing the Steam message sound
Have you ever been annoyed by the Steam message-received sound? Don't turn it off- change it! It's not as simple as you think- but it's still easy.


5) Using fonts to recreate the logos from many Source games
Really, I won't be surprised if you don't know this one. You can EXACTLY recreate the logos from Half-Life², HL2DM, HL2EP1, HL2EP2, Garry's Mod, Day Of Defeat, and Counter-Strike using the fonts that came with them. By the way, this is my first tutorial video (that is still up) so it's not HD.


Ok I figured out the Youtube tags but the player is so small... You should just go to the URLs.

not to be disrespectfull to what you have done cuz helping people is always usefull. but the things you have shown are already been done years ago i think you should see some demo's and video's in this section yourself they are pretty much amazing when it come's to tricks.. + you got so much deathmatch videos on youtube now a day. that are pretty much the same i think your video's are a bit overated. what i mean is 99 % on this site already knows about this and the people that are new just visit the training course on this homepage seeing the video's you show above with even more tricks. like movement. cook nades. mag sniping. fast orbs. strategy's.

as for the fonts i have to say that not alot of people know about this soy thats a good addition although you got tons of information site's on how to do this. but the video addition is cool

I learned how to change my messages sounds.........they did annoy me, so i turned them off but if I had know you could change them it, i probably would of

Keep up the good work, maybe do a whole series of advances ones as well.

Ghostface Killah wrote:not to be disrespectfull to what you have done cuz helping people is always usefull. but the things you have shown are already been done years ago i think you should see some demo's and video's in this section yourself they are pretty much amazing when it come's to tricks.. + you got so much deathmatch videos on youtube now a day. that are pretty much the same i think your video's are a bit overated. what i mean is 99 % on this site already knows about this and the people that are new just visit the training course on this homepage seeing the video's you show above with even more tricks. like movement. cook nades. mag sniping. fast orbs. strategy's.

as for the fonts i have to say that not alot of people know about this soy thats a good addition although you got tons of information site's on how to do this. but the video addition is cool

A quick search didn't find anything about custom music or changing the Steam message sound. A lot of people know how to mag scope but not many know how to TOGGLE it. And like you said, the font trick is relatively unknown. I just figured I might as well add all my tutorials so I did.

Thanks,Didn't know 3 and 4.. but wmp in the background always worked for me?

That's true, but this way you can play songs at the touch of a button.

You can also bind a key to "play 0" and it will STOP songs immediately, it won't lag you for a second like snd_restart does.

hha great, now every noob can use it, and there are more and more pronoobs screeming about threir n1 ............

A while a go I created a script for Goldeneye source OST I had te rename all the music files by removing the spaces and any other symbols source didnt recognise. you can download the renamed tracks and the config here
Full instructions here http://forums.goldeneyesource.net/index ... l#msg33052

The main trouble with doing it this way is you cannot control game and you music tracks levels seperately. Also you have to make complicated scripts/binds to play them.

Which reminds me- I was considering making a video with 3 short audio tricks- muting (bind <key> "play 0"), volume control (bind kp_minus "incrementvar volume 0 1 -.25"; bind kp_plus "incrementvar volume 0 1 .25") and one more. What was that last one? Damn, I forget. Perhaps it was bind v "incrementvar voice_enable 0 1 1"?

Wait no I remember it was cl_downloadfilter nosounds! Oh well. Maybe now I have 4 tricks.

play common/null.wav works for stopping playback plus you get no message in console of "failed to load sound 0.wav file probably missing blah blah blah...

Excellent work. I know a lot of things already in HL2DM cuz I spend a bit of time on looking for tips. I have a customised hud, customised crosshair, etc.. like a lot of players here.

But even if I knew most of the things I didnt know about the steam sound ! And it interest me

So ty !

I will introduce all that to the OFF League and my PiraT team

Awesome! Oh, and at Keefy, I didn't know that. I'll keep that in mind. But the "failed to load 0.wav" never bothered me.

UPDATE-I remade the fifth video, about using fonts to recreate game logos. In actuality 4 of my tutorials I've made before but I just remade them in better quality.

Click here.