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Base Defense

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Base Defense
Base Defense cover
Developers
PLut
Engines
GoldSrc
Release dates
Windows November 20, 2017
Taxonomy
Modes Multiplayer
Series Half-Life mods and fangames
Subseries of Half-Life
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Base Defense is a multiplayer game in the Half-Life mods and fangames series.

The game requires Half-Life to be installed in order to be played

General information

Official ModDB Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Base Defense\valve\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/632730/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/632730/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Open the console (~) and use connect followed by the IP and port.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
OpenGL 2.1
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD, Miles Sound System
Input SDL

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) XP, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References