PCMania 62/PCMania CD62_2.iso/quake/quakec/da_qdm16.txt

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DaScott's Quake Deathmatch mods v1.6
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Author: DaScott
email [e-mail]
Testers/Input: Entreri, DaRipper, Lingus, various #quake addicts

Type: Server required only.  Rules, server, & weapon mods
Target Audience: If you want the best deathmatch there is.. this is it


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What's New
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What's New in 1.6:

ALL "extra" weapons are disabled in deathmatch by setting the skill
to anything but default 1 now.  Oh yeah, and the start map won't change
the skill on you anymore to make this work.  Duh, thought that was already
fixed.  Neccessary to appeal to the purists.

The grappling hook is in.  But it's been modified, so listen up.  First
of all, it's no longer a weapon.  Hitting a player/monster/whatever will
just damage them slightly and break the chain.  You're better off using
the axe. If you get hit for a decent amount of damage while using the hook,
it'll break the chain.  If you hang on the ceiling for more than a few
seconds, you'll fall.  On top of that, the actual range of the chain is
limited now.  What I did was, I took a look at how *I* actually used the
hook, and what I thought it was good for, and then I limited it to just those
abilities.  And, at the same time, elimiated most of the silly camper crap
associated with it.  You can still get to some strange places using the hook
if you work at it, but face it, if someone wants to camp THAT badly, then
they'll just figure out another way to do it anyway.  If these changes
are too much for you, then you are a certified Hook Abuser, and you
should seek help from your local clinic immediately.

The ranking system actually works now.  Type "rank" at console.  Tracks
kills, deaths, accidents, and suicides.   Kills and deaths are only gained
by players doing in each other.  Accidents include shooting yourself in the
foot and getting spiked, drowning, etc.  Suicides count double towards your
accidents and include manually typing "kill" at the console or killing a
teammate.  These scores are automatically shown when a client disconnects.
The "total" rank is 2*kills - deaths - accidents - 2*suicides.  Cool part
is, rank is always dumped to console when the level ends in case you missed
it.

Added one more way to put out flames:  fall far enough that you take
some damage when you land and that'll be far enough to blow out the fire.

I took out the runes.  With the existing weapons beefed up and the addition
of the bfg, there was just no reason to have the runes, even the weaker
version I was using.


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Gernal Info
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Summary: DaScott's Deathmatch patch creates a high-speed camper-unfriendly
         Quake Deathmatch environment. This includes weapon modifications,
         new weapons, server changes, rules changes, and other cool stuff.

Weapons
         -New Weapons: Grapple Hook, Flamethrower and the BFG
           (all disabled by setting skill to anything but 1 [default])
         -Grapple Hook has limited range and hangtime
           Taking damage will break the chain
           Cannot grapple to players
         -Flamethrower flames can be extingiushed by:
           Invulnerability Powerup
           Water
           Falling from a great height (enough to do damage)
           Burning down to 20 health
         -New unique death animations for the BFG
           Rips the flesh off of yer bones..
           Straight outta MK, gotta see it to understand ;>
           BFG takes 30 cells and is unaffected by quad damage
         -Improved Axe, Supershotgun, and Nailguns
           Axe has better range
           Cells can charge the axe
           Supershotgun is 50% more powerful!
         -Take more damage from your own explosions
           Increases rocket suicides; higher rocket jump

Rules
         -"Deathmatch 3" type rules default (weapons stay, items respawn)
         -Can hurt yourself even under Teamplay 1 rules
           Sorry, but walking on your own grenades is ridiculous
         -Teamplay warning if you attack a teammate
           Maybe annoying at times, but better than having all
           of your damn armor shot off out of ignorance
         -Players that reach -20 frags are kicked
         -Powerup items can respawn randomly as any other powerup item
           So what starts out as a quad could become eyes or pentagram
         -Start map exits to the DM levels instead of the End map
         -Exit voting; 30% "majority"
         -Multiple "kill" commands by one player are ignored
Extras
         -If you die with a backpack full of rockets, you may explode!
           Explosion has extra gibbage and can damage nearby enemies,
           and the backpack loses all of its rockets
           Chance and magnitude of explosion proportional to # of rockets
         -New backpack code to prevent getting a weapon with no ammo
           No more getting stuck with a useless weapon under deathmatch 2
         -Floating camera death view
           Sometimes gives a 3rd person view of your own dying corpse ;>
         -Ranking system tracks your kills/deaths/suicides
           type rank at console, also shown when a client disconnects
         -Respawn telefrag protection
           Servermodules version, seems better than the 1.06 code
         -Updated for Quake 1.06
           Plus John Cash's lightning ammo bug fix

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Weapons    Listed in Order of impulse (1-8)
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1a. Axe:  Improved range.  You still need to be close, though.

    Power Axe: Works automatically; if you have cells, you have
    the power axe.  Uses a cell and does random damage, up to double
    the amount of the regular axe.  An enemy struck with this axe
    while you are fully submerged in water is zapped with all of your
    cells at once for a sure kill.  (not exactly easy, tho ;>)

1b  Grapple Hook:  Functions basically the same as the original,
    but it's been modified, so listen up.  Hitting a player/monster/
    whatever will just damage them slightly and break the chain.
    You're better off using the axe. If you get hit for a decent amount
    of damage while using the hook, it'll break the chain.  If you hang
    on the ceiling for more than about four seconds, you'll fall.  On
    top of that, the actual range of the chain is limited now.  Still
    a VERY useful tool.  Learn how to make it work for you.

2.  Pump shotgun: No change.

3.  Super Shotgun: 50% more damaging than the original, almost lethal at
    close range.  Takes longer to reload.  Use it.

4.  Nailgun: Damage increased by 1/3rd  You don't even have
    to wait to get the supernailgun, you can actually kill
    with this thing now.

5.  Super Nailgun:  Even more devestating, with the same habit
    of eating all your nails.

6a. Grenade Launcher: No change.  Watch out for your own grenades,
    they'll hurt.

6b. Flamethower: Simple and effective.  Uses shotgun shells and
    randomly sets the target on fire (and burns until they find water)
    Will not fire underwater. By Steve Bond.  Changes from the original:
    Invulnerability will always put out the flames, as will reaching
    20 health or falling from a great height (and Wedge said you coulden't
    stop, drop, and roll.. ha! ;>)

7.  Rocket Launcher: No change.  Just can't pound people at point blank
    range as many times without taking some damage.

8a.  Thunderbolt: No change.

8b  BFG: Oh yes, the king of them all is back.  Charges up (taking 30
    cells) and releases the famed ball o'death.  Quad damage does
    not effect the BFG.  If you are not familiar with the BFG, then
    read the BFG FAQ available in most doom newsgroups.  Trust me..
    the BFG is very easy to dodge if you know how, and Quake's
    architecture gives many more possible evasive options.  Having
    this weapon in the game forces you to really pay attention and
    adds greatly to the fear factor.  A superweapon, yes, but face it,
    with quad damage respawning all the time, it's not as overpowering
    as you would think, and 30 cells is a LOT of lightning gun use.

    A player killed by the BFG has his skin burned from his flesh,
    and withers in agony until finally exploding.  Yeah, I'm twisted ;>

    Changes from DMplus: Damage formula is much closer to doom's.  Although
    range is the most important variable, the BFG is still highly random
    because the range factor is being multiplied by anything between 5 and
    15.  The BFG's most effective range is within 640 units, after which
    it's likely to drop below 100 damage.  Technically:

    Ball damage: 100-800

    Cone Damage       Range             Damage
                       < 64           (5-15) * 20
                      <=>             (5-15) * (21 - range/64)
                      > 1280          (5-15)

  Orig. by id, made for Quake by Paragon and modified by DaScott
  with permission.


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Rules Modifications:
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Deathmatch 1  Known as "Deathmatch 3" rules, weapons can only be picked
              up once and they are always available for the taking.
              Health, ammo, and powerups respawn.  Just in case,
              the original dm1 rules are available as dm3.

Teamplay      Works the same.. only you will damage yourself no matter
              what rules you use.  So you won't hurt your teammate
              just like usual, but you can't exactly run around on top
              of your own grenades either.  (man that's dumb)  Also
              included is a "teamplay warning" message when you shoot
              your own teammate.  (some people, believe it or not.
              would never figure it out otherwise)

Random powerups  Once a powerup (quad, invisibility, or invulnerability)
                 is picked up, it can respawn as any other powerup.

Skill 1   Actually, this is more about NOT setting the skill to 1.
          Anything but skill 1 removes the grapple hook, bfg, and
          flamethrower.  Leave it alone if you want the leet weapons.

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Server/Console Modifications:
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These are new commands or rules that are made specifically for large
internet quake servers to make them a better place.


Stats command:  Type help-server to get a list of server options
                and a sort of quick help look at the more important
                (client-wise) modifications.  From Servermodules.

Llama Kicker:    A player who reaches -20 frags on a map gets kicked from
                 the server with an appropriately embarassing message.

Exit Voter:  All players can type vote-exit to democratically decide
             to go to the next map.  This is very useful to get
             past the end map or move on to another dm map, but
             can also be nice in a noexit game as well.
             Note however, that voting on exiting the start map doesen't
             work (there's 5 exits), so if you have noexit set on your
             server there still has to be a way to end the map (time or frag
             limit)  From ServerModules.

Rank:  Type "rank" at console.  Tracks kills, deaths, accidents, and
       suicides.   Kills and deaths are only gained by players doing
       in each other.  Accidents include shooting yourself in the foot
       and getting spiked, drowning, etc.  Suicides count double towards
       your accidents and include manually typing "kill" at the console
       or killing a teammate.  These scores are automatically shown when
       a client disconnects and when a map changes.  (pull down the consle
       at the rankings screen to see them)

       The "total" rank is 2*kills - deaths - accidents - 2*suicides.

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Cool Stuff
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Adds to the enjoyment of the game without the players actually having
to do anything.

Volatile Ammo: An id member slipped once and mentioned that killing
               someone with rockets could cause a big bang.  (at the
               time, Quake wasn't supposed to have any rockets ;>)
               Well, what happened to that?  So here it is.
               Up to 20 rockets, you have only a small chance of exploding
               on death.  However, the chance of exploding
               increases greatly with more than 50 rockets. I should
               emphasize here that the explosion only occurs when you die,
               so this doesen't hurt you for having lots of ammo, it just
               makes your death much more.. uh.. visually impressive ;>

               Note that a backpack dropped after an explosion loses
               all of its rockets.

Camera Death   Uses the familiar chase cam mod for a exterior view of your
               own corpse falling to its death.  Happens roughly half the
               time.

Rad suits:    Last twice as long.

Map Order:   On the start map, the end teleport now takes you to dm1 instead
             of the end map.  From ServerModules.


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Thanks/credit goes to:
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W. Harris aka Paragon for the BFG code found in DMplus10

Rob Albin for the chasecam

Johannes Plaas  for ServerModules
  Very cool stuff.

Steve Bond (Wedge) and Choryoth of Quake Command fame for the flamethrower

The BFG FAQ, for the BFG damage stuff

Mike, the morning star dude.

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Copyrights/Permissions
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