Nerdy And Loving It

I learned about this Counter-Strike Source Mod recently called Warcraft Source (aka WCS).  The mod plays the same as any normal Counter-Strike match with the same guns and maps for the most part, except you have powers.  Each class in the game has different abilities such as faster running speed, partial invisibility, more damage, summoning weapons, flying, slowing people down, and many more.

Here are the first few classes, just to give you an idea (note that the following text is taken verbatim from the game):

1. Undead Scourge
   1. Vampiric Aura – Gives you a 60% chance to gain 12-30% of the damage you do in attack, back as health
   2. Unholy Aura – Gives you a speed boost, 8-36% faster
   3. Levitation – Allows you to jump higher by reducing your gravity for 8-64%
   4. Suicide Bomber – On death, you have a 20-70% chance to explode and make 70-160 damage on each player in 12-18 feet range
2. Human Alliance
   1. Invisibility – Makes you partially invisible, 62-37%
   2. Devotion Aura – Gives you additional 15-50 health each round
   3. Bash – Have a 15-32% chance to render an enemy immobile for 1 second
   4. Teleport – Allows you to teleport to where you aim, range is 60-108 feet
3. Orcish Horde
   1. Critical Strike – Gives you a 15% chance of doing 40-240% more damage
   2. Critical Grenade – Grenades will always do a 40-240% more damage
   3. Reincarnation – Gives you a 15-80% chance of respawning once, with old equipment and where you died
   4. Chain Lightning – Discharges a bolt of lightning that jumps on up to 4 nearby enemies 40-75 feet range, dealing each 32 damage
4. Night Elves
   1. Evasion – Gives you 5-30% chance of evading a shot
   2. Thorns Aura – Does 30% mirror damage to the person who shot you, chance to activate 15-50%
   3. Trueshot Aura – Does 10-60% extra damage to the enemy, chance is 30%
   4. Entangling Roots – Every enemy in 25-60 feet range will not be able to move for 10 seconds

There are also items to buy in the game.  Here are a few examples:

1. Necklace of Immunity – Makes you immune to enemy ultimates.  Use this if you keep dying to someone blowing up.
2. Orb of Frost – causes frost dmg to slow your enemy’s movement.
3. Ankh of reincarnation – Saves your equipment for the next round if you die.  This is useful when you’re short on money and are buying expensive weapons.
4. Boots of Speed – Makes you 20% faster.  This can be bought up to three times.
5. Cloak of Shadows – Gives you 75% invisibility.  This is very useful, especially on bigger maps.
6. Scroll of Respawning – respawns you.  Fun to come back and get revenge for someone killing you.  This can be annoying if someone keeps doing it over and over.  Personally, I would rather see this item removed, since there are classes with a ressurect skill.
7. Disguiser – makes you look like the enemy.  This only lasts one round.
8. Mole – this makes you spawn at the enemy spawn location after a 3 seconds.  Very fun to mess with people using this.  There is a later class called Agent that randomly uses this.
9. Tome of Experience – this gives you experience.  It’s useful because you only get so much experience per win and per kill.  By buying these you can level up much faster.  I would actually prefer they get rid of items like this and just give more xp for kills.

To find a WCS server just go to the very bottom of the Counter-Strike server list and look for a server called Warcraft Source or WCS.

Here is a link to the WCS homepage.  You can read the forums if you are interested in hosting your own server or helping create new classes. http://warcraft-source.com/board/index.php?action=forum