Public-Enemy - The Dark Future is a modification for the price-crowned action-game Half-Life. In this connection we - the developers - set a basic value on a dark and atmospheric game world and an interesting character development for the player. In this modification you will find two teams that play the basic role in this game and which will fight against each other in front of this futuristic scenery.
But Public-Enemy is not another Team-Deathmatch game it is much more than that. You will be a part of this world and based on the simple, but extensive character development your character will be individual and not another clone. The graphic aspects, game play features and the design offer you new and interesting possibilities to explore the world of Public-Enemy.
PE takes part in a dark future - which we know from books, cartoons, movies and games like BladeRunner, ShadowRun, Cyperpunk, Syndicate (Wars) or Deus Ex. It is not a high-technology world like Star Wars, Star Trek or other movies or series which have already colonized whole worlds; it is not a science-fiction typically. It is more a neorealistic, dark world.
Public Enemy is the first project of our team and it took about two years of development. Most team members worked apart from their normal activity as student, pupil or worker on Public Enemy. In the time of development we made many new experiences and these found their way also into the final result. We hope that you will have much fun playing Public Enemy - The Dark Future... and do not forget, Public Enemy was only the beginning.

The Public Enemy developers

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The world of Public-Enemy is a dismembered world in which the positive developments were overwhelmed in the next moment by negatives. Social highs and lows are changing so often that it is impossible to count them. It is quiet impressive that the human race could develope itself that far. A clear path doesn't exist in this world anymore. So let's see what you can do in this world - make it better - or make it worse.

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Playing with bots

In order to play with bots you have to click on Create a game and hit ok. After the game has started you can type "addbot" in the console to add a bot. Retype "addbot" up to 31 times to fill the server with bots. You can control their behaviour and skill using various commands described here.
You can also modify the waypoints in the maps or even redo the waypointing on a specific map. More information you'll find here. If you've done a better waypointing or improved the existing one, please let us know, we'll include the new waypoint file into the next patch.

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You can choose between 4 mainmenus: Pistols, heavy guns, equip and cyber. To reach a submenu you have to click on the blue buttons which are under the mainmenu-buttons. In the menu pistols you've got two submenus. There you can find normal pistols and machinepistols. For descriptions of these weapons see "The weapons". In the menu heavy guns you've got four submenus: Submachineguns, Shotguns, Machineguns, and HeavyWeapons / Sniper Rifles. In these sections you can choose a second weapon when you want. For this you have to right-click the desired second weapon. For descriptions of these weapons see "The weapons". In the equipment-section aren't any submenus. There you can choose for example the kevlar vest, grenades or a stimpak. For descriptions of the equipment see "The equipment". In the cyber-section you've got two submenus where you can find the standalone-cyberware and the addons. To buy a cyber-addon the appropriate standalone-cyberware must be selected. For descriptions of the cyberware see "The Cyberware". At the beginning of one map you've got 30 points for buying weapons, equipment and cyberware. But you can earn some extra points as described here

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After the creation of your character and clicking on the GO-Button the game will begin. In order to be fast by right, you should make yourself familiar with the HUD.

Armor and hitpoints
	On the left bottom of your screen you'll see how much armor (AC) and hitpoints (HP) you still have.

Munition
On the right bottom of your screen you'll see how much munition you still have.  (clip | total )

Radar

On the left top of the screen you'll find the radar. - Blue dots show where the terminals are - Light blue dots show where the hackingtool or the case is. - Yellow dots are blinking when someone is hacking a terminal or when the case is in movement - Yellow dots which aren't blinking show when a terminal has been hacked - Red dots show where your enemies are (only in a small range) - Green dots show where your teammembers are - A white cross shows the case delivery zone

Orders
Above the radar you can see your orders

Timer
	On the center top you'll find the timer which shows how much time remains to reach the target.
Teammate bonus In the top right corner you can see how many teammates are near enough to give you a defensive team bonus. For every teammate you'll receive 3.3% less damage. Bonus equipmentpoints display The bar on the right displays the percentage of the maximum amount of bonus equipment points you can get. Back to Index

The first fraction is the Syndicate, which is controlled by several Asian companies. The Syndicate consists of Soldiers of Fortune, Assassins, Yakuza members and other very dangerous criminals. With this "Army", the Syndicate fights against the European and US companies.

On the other side we have military organized and private Security Corps. They are commanded and paid by the several European and US companies. The police troops are also taking care about law and order on these continents. But they don't represent moral intensions. After all, they control the European and US continent with a iron and unscrupulous hand, they are idealizing the interests of an totalitarian police state. Unofficialy they are the death squadron of the western industrial companies. With this army they want to wipe out their opponents - the Syndicate.

We've got two groups that fight against each other, the Western Companies and the Syndicate. The citizens know nothing about that what's going on in the heads of these big bosses until they were influenced in this.

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August 8th, 2043
Sector V-23, L.A., USA

Yoshimo-Enterprises hired Members of the Syndicate to sabotage the radius of mental propaganda. Those propagandadevices have been created by Cybercon to "persuade" the people that life is great in their sectors. Two terminals control those devices. To change or sabotate the propagandamode those terminals have to be hacked!

THE SYNDICATE: Try to escort the guy with the hackingtool to both terminals, so that he is able to install both hackingmodems to upload the secret files.

SECURITY CORPS: Eliminate the enemies before they are able to install hackingmodems on both terminals. Save the status quo for Cybercon!

Note: There are 6 Cameras in the map!

January 28th, 2043
Sector B4, Chicago, USA

Yoshimo-Enterprises hired the Syndicate and inflitrated Cybercon-Industries. The problem is, that they put a special case in the conference room in the upper area of the building. The case includes a very dangerous EMP-Generator to sabotate the whole building! The Security-Corps only have some minutes to clear the building and to bring the case out of the area to avoid EMP-Damage from the datacore!

SECURITY CORPS: Try to fight your way through the enemy and bring the case back to your starting point. You cannot just destroy the case, because this would cause a fatal EMP-reaction!

THE SYNDICATE: Eliminate the enemies before they are able to escape with the case. You have to defend the case for a few minutes to sabotate the datacore!

Note: There are 6 Cameras in the map!

18th, 2043
Sublevel C2, Seattle, USA

Yoshimo-Enterprises hired Members of the Syndicate to steal some secret files from the main database of Cybercon-Industries. This database is in a building in the sublevels of Seattle. There are two external terminals, which are indirectly connected with this network. They have to be hacked!

THE SYNDICATE: Try to escort the guy with the hackingtool to both terminals, so that he is able to install both hackingmodems to upload the secret files.

SECURITY CORPS: Eliminate the enemies before they are able to install hackingmodems on both terminals.

Note: There are 6 Cameras in the map!

July 16th, 2041
Osaka, Japan

A spy of Yoshimo-Enterprises stole some secret documents about new technologies of Cybercon-Industries. He put them in a case, which stands in a dojo in the upper area of the city. Cybercon knows that it has been betrayed by the spy, so they send the Security-Corps to get this case which is defended by the Syndicate.

THE SYNDICATE: Eliminate the enemies before they are able to escape with the case. You have to defend the case for a few minutes. Stay in the area until your rescue-team arrives.

SECURITY CORPS: Try to bring the case to your starting point.

Note: There are 6 Cameras in the map!

June 29th, 2042
Somewhere above New Germany.

The german Ruhrstahl AG has began with the test of their new prototype, codename "Terror-bird". The first idea of the Terrorbird was to create a mobile commandcenter, but because of financial problems this concept changed. Now it is designed for entertainment,for the "High Society". This first official version of the Terrorbird has been designed for a high Member of Yoshimo-Enterprises, which uses it for the transport of some important informations. Those informations are in a case in the center of the airship. Cybercon also wants those informations, so they send the Security-Corps to steal the case!

SECURITY CORPS: Try to steal the case before the area gets too hot! Bring it to your dropzone to escape via shuttle!

THE SYNDICATE: Eliminate the enemies before they are able to escape with the case! You have to defend the case until reinforcements arrive via helicopter.

Note: Three elevators lead into the airship!

June 29th, 2044
Cybercon-Outpost XX-666, Alaska

Yoshimo-Enterprises hired Members of the Syndicate to steal some secret files about a new armortechnology from the database of Cybercon-Industries. The database is in an outpost of Cybercon in Alaska. This outpost is the main technological source for this new armor. There are two internal terminals, which are connected with the network. They have to be hacked!

THE SYNDICATE: Try to escort the guy with the hackingtool to both terminals, so that he is able to install both hackingmodems to upload the secret files.

SECURITY CORPS: Eliminate the enemies before they are able to install hackingmodems on both terminals.

Note: There are 6 Cameras in the map! Stairways and streets have been cleared from snow by the Cyberconpersonal!

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voteable_vars.txt
Defines which server variables can be voted to change by the players, using the "votevar" command (if "sv_varvote" is enabled). Default entries:
sv_autoteambalance
sv_cheats
sv_damageinfo
sv_gameplay
sv_gravity
sv_restartround
mp_fraglimit
mp_friendlyfire
mp_scorelimit
mp_timelimit

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You can find the last six commands (cl_commandname) also in the mainmenu of Public-Enemy under Options / Multiplayer / Advanced...

To see the whole list of commands for Half-Life, click here (needs an internet connection)

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Q: How can I get rid of the annoying help popups/preset menu/intro?

A: You'll find these preferences under Options / Multiplayer / Advanced... Or in the Custom behaviour section of this manual.

Q: Public-Enemy runs very slow on my machine, what can I do?

A: Set cl_glow to 0 or another small number. You can do this through Options / Multiplayer / Advanced or in the console. Additional options can be found in the Performance Settings section of this manual.

Q: Public-Enemy crashes all the time, what can I do?

A: Try setting the variables in the Last resort options section to 0. You have to find out for yourself which one solves your problem as it may be a system dependant problem.

Q: Where do I change the music volume/effect preferences?

A: You'll find these preferences under Options / Multiplayer / Advanced...

Q: The weapons don't do enough/too much damage, and/or the movement is too fast/slow, how can I change that?

A: As described in the Commands & Controls / Server settings you can use the sv_gameplay variable in order to change the gameplay between "action", "normal" and "realistic". Ask your server admin to change the values or enable variable voting if you don't play on your own server.

Q: How are the r_speeds?

A: We asked valve about increasing the r_speeds, because the limit of 500 for general areas is really old. We increased the limit for common areas to 850. (950 would be also ok, but want to make PE also playable for older computers) Most r_speeds are between 450 and 780, sometimes they´re higher, but nothing fatal.

Q: Would you include some of my maps/modelreplaces etc if they´re good?

A: We´ll release semi-official map/modelreplace-packs with the best works created by the community.  Those packs will be available at our downloadsection. If we find tha something is particularly good or fits the PE gameplay perfectly then we'll include it in future patchs (with the permission of the author of course).

Q: I´m a good mapper/modeller/coder etc. May I join your team?

A: Yes, please send us some information about you and your previous work. We won't be developing PE anymore but you are welcome to help on our new project. You'll find more information in our forums.

Q: Which graphis preferences are recommend for Public Enemy

A: OpenGL with a resolution of 640x480 pixels or more

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