DMSP quake mod v2.0 - Feb 2001
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Authors                 : Aardappel (Wouter van Oortmerssen)
                          Fat Controller (Rob Cruickshank)
                          Tim Elek
Email Address           : wouter@fov120.com
Web Page                : http://wouter.fov120.com/maps/dmsp/
                          http://www.planetquake.com/fatty/
                          http://www.planetquake.com/tertiary/
Description             : Quake mod that lets you play an SP
                          game in any DM map.

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NEW FEATURES IN v2.0 (since first release):

Fat Controller added the following:
- Axe now does more damage, you can use them to gib zombies
- Fixed monsters telefragging eachother
- Fixed monsters trapped in teleporters
- Fixed big monsters stuck in walls
- DM mode works: you get frags for monsters and players (see below)
- Added sounds (countdown, death and intermission)
- Added DMSP intermission graphic
- Ring of Shadows replaced by Ring of Ammo
- Monsters now drown in liquids, no more barking doggies in the lava :)
- Omicron entities suppression

Aardappel furthermore added:
- Quicker corpse, gib & monster head removal, fixes "packet overflow",
  and better fps on slow systems
- COOP SP mode: players start on DM spawns
- Added teamplay mode 2 DM (see below)
- Added fiends to the monster selection
- slightly more precise time reporting (for competitions).
- new map cycle: dmsp1, dm4, dm6, and then a random bunch of custom maps
- Fixed (simplified) monster drowning

ELEK contributed:
- this release contains his map DMSP1, exclusively made for DSMP!
  (read the seperate readme in the maps dir).

More maps were planned, but due to terminal lazyness on behalf
of some unnamed mappers, they didn't make it in. Sorry for the delay.

                          
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INSTALLATION:

Create a new dir under you quake (i.e. "quake/dmsp2") and put the
the contents of this archive in there. Start quake with:

YourQuakeClient.exe -game dmsp2 +map dmsp1

Set skill to 0-3. You can load up any *DM* map in *SP* mode to play.

The default map is ELEK's beautiful DMSP1, which has been designed
especially to give even more intense gameplay!

Have fun!

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I had the idea for this mod because I noticed the number of quality DM
maps far outnumbers SP maps, yet there's no fun way to play them (they
hardly ever are on servers, and bot DM gets old fast). So I decided
to make a mod that spawns monsters on DM maps to try to emulate a SP
experience.

The way it works:

As the map starts, you get 10 seconds to grab the items you need,
after that, the "invasion" starts: monsters spawn in on the deathmatch
spawns (1 every second!) and attack you straight away. The amount of
monsters that invades the map is fixed and determined by the "skill"
variable: 40/60/80/100 of them on skills 0/1/2/3. Different maps play
well with different amounts of monsters, so experiment with this var
for the most fun challenge.

Only the 9 easiest monsters spawn: grunt, enforcer, knight, zombie,
dog, ogre, scrag (each 1/8 of total monsters) and hellknight / fiend
(each 1/16) but make up for this with numbers. Monsters always
spawn at the same place in the same sequence on a given DM map,
so you can compare how you do and develop strategies.

Since DM maps have no exit, the map ends when you have killed all
monsters.

On maps with not a lot of items, and especially on the higher skill
settings, you will need to develop strategies to make it through.
The best trick is to collect plenty of items, then wait before
attacking until you can take them out in bunches using the quad.

You can play this mode in coop mode. Simply run a coop server
as usual, and players will spawn at the DM starts.

This mod was designed for SP, but its a good laugh in DM mode:
- as before, the map ends when all monsters are dead.
- you get 1 frag for every monster you kill
- in regular DM, you get 2 frags for fragging a player, and extra
  "bounty" frags for the number of players he killed since he last
  respawned.
  However, if "teamplay 2" mode is set on the server, you lose 2
  frags for every teammate you kill and don't get their bounty.
  You can use this to play as a single team (similar to COOP but
  with respawning items), or actual teams against eachother. 

Issues:

- The map you choose is crucial. On some maps this mod is a lot of fun,
  on others plain boring. The main problem here is monster movement, on
  maps where DM spawns are cramped or do not give easily navigatable
  access to the rest of the map, monsters will just stand around near
  the spawn. Also, big maps don't work very well. So what you need is
  *small, vertical, easy navigatable maps*. Of the id DM maps, DM4 fits
  this description best, and there are plenty of custom maps that do
  very well (strafin6, bless, aerowalk, quite a few of my ish maps etc).

- playing it on SP map is rather pointless (you'll just get extra monsters and
  no DM weapons!).
  
- if the map has exactly 7 DM spawns, monsters at the spawns will all
  be of the same kind!


Changes:

Beside the obvious changes to the quake SP mode to make this possible
(monster spawning etc.), The following other changes have been made:

- monsters are angry as they spawn.
- monsters will even fight their own kind when provoked (sorry, I am
  just a sucker for monster infighting, and it adds to the strategy).
- ring is now the "Ring of Ammo". Invisibility to monsters would defeat
  the whole purpose of DMSP.
- axe now dies more damage (gibs zombies if you are out of rockets)
- monsters drown!


I would like to hear from people of maps that work exceptionally well,
along with the skill setting they are nicely balanced at. Demos of amazing
runs are welcome too... I can see fun competitions around this mod.


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* Copyright / Permissions *

You now the drill: don't tamper with the archive or anything in it. Cheers.
Distribution in any way is ok. Hey, you could even ask me :)


Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel)


