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More than seventeen years after Nethack 1.0, the popular dungeon exploration game will finally get a multiplayer edition counter-terrorism mod, called Counter-Hack, will be released by the end of May.
Roughly based on the popular Half-Life mod Counter-Strike, Counter-Hack pits two teams of sixteen players against one another. Assuming the roles of terrorists and counter-terrorists and wielding a wide variety of weapons, the players fight for glory on an online battlefield

There will also be a single player version of Counter-Hack where a player must save a shopkeeper held hostage by terrorist Uruk-hai.

The long-awaited mod is made possible by the new features of the new NetHack 4.0 engine. As well as turn-based multiplayer functionality, support for greater maps and 8-bit color has been added.

Peter Bentsen from the Nethack DevTeam admits the team has taken its time. “We’ve been working on this since 1992, but we didn’t want to rush things. And it’s been worth the wait. NetHack 4.0 may not have the graphics of all those fancy eye candy game engines out there, but it’s more advanced than Half-Life by all standards. And still, it’s able to run on all those machines that are not on the bleeding edge that Half-Life demands.”

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