Gameplay

Rebels: Source is a multiplayer mod for Half-Life 2. You and your teammates play as the rebels defending against relentless assaults from the combine in round based gameplay. Can you hold out against the combine assaults long enough? You can't do it alone!

Rebels: Source has a basic gameplay, but it can be expanded into much more advanced ideas. Most maps are a capture the flag with NPCs, although you have to defend and can't advance once ground is lost. Once dead, you cannot respawn until your team loses (all rebels die, or all flags are captured), or you manage to defend until the end of the round (win; the server decides how long rounds are).

Classes

There are three classes you can pick from. You must wait until the next round until the classes take effect (defaults to soldier).

The three classes are:
Soldier: has body armor and armor, making them tough.

Medic: automatically heals nearby teammates, making them vital in a long fight.

Support: great at close range with the shotgun and can resupply nearby teammates, making them vital in long fights.

A good team requires all 3, and it's difficult to survive a long round without all of them working in tandem.

Maps

cp_valley: a rather direct on defensive level. The difficulty scales up quite a bit as more players are in the game.

rs_apartments: a tiny map, with a lot of choke points, except for the windows. Those windows tend to rip up even the most organized team.

rs_citadel: an even tinier map. You can try to escape, or put up a last stand fight.

cp_trainstation: the combine won't take it easy on you now, they called in the big guns.

Server Hosting

When starting your own server, make sure that sv_lan is set to "0". Also, make sure a firewall is not blocking Rebels: Source, and if you use a router, make sure all ports are correctly forwarded. Checking all these settings should ensure that other people can join the server.

Rebels: Source was designed with the intent of being multiplayer and singleplayer at the same time, so there a server variable that can adjust the difficulty: mp_difficulty. It is used as a multiplier to how many players are in the game. For example, if there are 3 people in the server, and mp_difficulty is set to "2", the difficulty would be set to how it would normally be when there are 6 people playing (3*2 = 6).

Changes in this version

Released on December 22, 2006
- fixed problem when player slots below 2
- stopped players from trying to drop weapons while dead
- fixed stunstick
- fixed slam
- fixed many console warnings and errors
- fixed repeated "your class will be changed to..."
- added new map cp_trainstation
- cleaned some code up a bit
- removed team talk competely
- German translations (thanks to Bugle$)
- changed "<name> (Rebels)" in list of players in spectator
- fixed NPC animation jittering
- fixed some prediction errors
- fixed a rare crash
- added mp_difficulty to start server menu
- mp_playermultiplier renamed to mp_difficulty
- fixed a potential crash
- fixed a hole in the citadel roof
- forcefield around apartment doors
- make doors break on apartments
- stop sound after round
- decals cleaned up after round
- added the new flags
- reorganized class menu
- added map obj/bkgr overviews
- new radio commands recorded
- new icon in top left MOTD window
- new background
- rewrote round output handling
- campaign support added
- fixed zombies

cp_valley
- fixed holes along the edges in valley
- made generator buzz
- added radio
- fixed crunching
- swamp material now has fog
- double gunships don't spawn in each other
- added a warning about the mine field

rs_apartments
- made the doors break on apartments
- forcefield around apartment doors
- added radio
- fixed a slightly off window

rs_citadel
- fixed a hole in the citadel roof
- extended for escaping
- added objective
- readjusted window combine