Release 3.0 Manual Last Updated 06/01/04

Author: MadNad Homepage: http://PlanteQuake.com/Excessive IRC Channel: #ExcessiveUT2k3 Date:06/01/2004 Release: 3.0 (build 2225) Contents Installation Description GamePlay FireMode Bind Weapons Vehicles Fixes & Updates from V2 Configuration Dedicated Server Setup Performance Notes Known Issues Thanks / Credits Installation Unzip to the UT2004 root directory or run the UT2MOD Description This is an Excessive MOD for UT2004. It replaces the standard UT2004 weapons and vehicles with Excessive versions, gives all players all weapons and maxAmmo, regenerates players' health, start with 100 Armor and 300 Health, increased speed (ground & water), increased jumping capabilities, removes falling and self-damage, and awards 100 adrenaline every 3 minutes. The majority of these default settings are configurable in the mutator configuration. You will die, and you may not even know where your enemy came from. The result is a fast paced, carnage enriched game that will leave you be begging for more.

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GamePlay

• Excessive Menu
          - Server Menu for server side options
          - Client Menu for client side options
          - Hidden advanced menu for advanced server control
  
• Increased PlayerSpeed and jumping capabilities
  
• All players start with 300 health and 100 armor
  
• Health and ammo regenerate
  
• All players start with all weapons and ammo
  
• Self-damage & falling damage is completely turned off (self damage is configurable in mutator configuration)
  
• Excessive Combo can be executed at 150 Adrenaline - ( L+R+L+R )
  
• Random Teleport can be executed at 50 Adrenaline - ( R+F+R+F )
  
• Added firemode toggling for Translocator, Sniper Scope & Assault Grenades (thx Exor)
  
• Added 3-stage weapon upgrade system. (players spawn an upgrade unit when they die. some weapons cannot be upgraded)
  
  
  Toggle Firemode
  This is an added feature for Excessive. With the translocator selected, you can toggle between a LOCATE and a LAUNCH beacon. The locate is similar to the standard locator. The launch gives the player the velocity of the flying puck. With the Dual Assault Rifles selected, you can toggle between BOUNCY and EXPLODE on impact grenades. With the sniper rifle selected, you can toggle between NORMAL and NIGHT VISION scopes. You can bind this key in the standard UT2004 control settings menu. You can also bind the firemode toggle by editing your user.ini:
  
      Aliases[x]=(Command="button bSwitchFireMode| ExcessiveFireMode",Alias= "ExcessiveFireMode")
  
  x being the next available unassigned alias in your user.ini. For me, it was 30. Make sure you do not have 2 instances of one alias, otherwise the bind will not work. After adding this alias, you will need to bind the alias to a key, for instance, scrolling down from that line in the user.ini, I decided to bind it to my middle mouse button.
  
      MiddleMouse=ExcessiveFireMode
  
  

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  Weapons
  
  TransLauncher
  
• Toggle between TransLAUNCHER and TransLOCATOR
  
• TransLOCATOR
          - Uses this for precise translocating
          - Translocate to the beacon and start falling
          - Beacon launches further and faster. Teleporting out leaves behind a shock explosion
  
• TransLAUNCHER
          - Uses this to catapult yourself
          - Translocate to the beacon and receive the bacon's velocity
          - Beacon launches further and faster. Teleporting out leaves behind a shock explosion
  
  Shield Gun
  
• Primary:
          - Instant Death, and momentum transfer increased (for jumping)
  
• Secondary:
          - Full bodied shield which reflects/blocks almost all weapons
          - Sprint mode with 10 or more ammo
  
  Dual Assault Rifles
  
• Toggle between bouncy and explode on impact grenades
  
• Primary:
          - Accuracy, rate of fire, and damage increased
  
• Secondary:
          - Launches 4 grenades, two from each Assault Rifle
  
  Bio Rifle
  
• Primary:
          - Rate of fire, damage, and damage radius increased
          - Spread fires 3 globs/shot which can collect and spawn more globs
  
• Secondary:
          - Charges much faster, and will launch a huge regenerating glob
  
  Shock Rifle
  
• Primary:
          - Rate of fire, damage, and momentum transfer increased
  
• Secondary:
          - Rate of Fire, speed, damage, and damage radius increased
          - ShockBalls can be caused to chain react. # of chain reactions are configurable
  
  Link Gun
  
• Primary: Was secondary for UT2004
          - Link beam explosions on the beam tip
          - Linking up causes more powerful beam and projectile fire
  
• Secondary: Was primary fire UT2004
          - Shoots up to 3 projectiles in spread or twirl formation
  
  Flak Cannon
  
• Primary:
          - Larger projectiles, rate of fire and damage increased but wider spread (results in instant death from point blank)
  
• Secondary:
          - Each projectile now spawns 3 shells randomly on impact
  
  Minigun
  
• Primary:
          - Rate of fire and damage increased
  
• Secondary:
          - Fires larger exploding bullets
          - Added momentum push
  
  Rocket Launcher
  
• Primary:
          - Semi auto Rocket Launcher
          - Fire accelerating rockets
          - Rate of fire and damage increased
  
• Secondary:
          - Fires up to 6 accelerating rockets
          - rate of fire increased
  
  Sniper Rifle (lightning)
  
• Primary:
          - Rate of fire increased, and causes 5 arcs.
  
• Secondary:
          - Faster zoom.
          - Clear Scope option in ExcessiveV3Config
  
  Sniper Rifle (classic/assault)
  
• Toggle between NORMAL and NIGHT VISION scope
  
• Primary:
          - Rate of fire increased, smoke removed and bullets explode.
  
• Secondary:
          - Faster zoom.
          - Clear Scope option in ExcessiveV3Config.ini
  
  Redeemer (Pickup)
  
• Primary:
          - Redeemer speed & damage increased
          - Spawns 30 rockets on impact that seek players
  
• Secondary:
          - Warhead speed & control increased
          - Fire 30 rockets from warhead, remaining spawn on impact
  
  Painter (Pickup)
  
• Primary:
          - Paint time decreased
  
• Secondary:
          - Faster zoom.
  
  Ion Cannon
  
• Three Ion cannons replace one, which triangulate on fire and cause an brief unstable ionic field before the blast.
  
  Mine Layer
  
• Primary:
          - Number of deployable mines increased. Once deployed, the mines grow in size. When dormant, the mines cloak themselves, periodically uncloaking to scan for enemies. Increased mobility.
  
• Secondary:
          - Emits the low-powered laser pointer to direct your mines.
  
  AVRiL
  
• Primary:
          - Rocket speed , firing rate and damage increased.
  
• Secondary:
          - Locks on to vehicle heat signatures.
  
  Grenade Launcher
  
• Primary:
          - Launches sticky grenades that adhere to walls, floors and ceilings as well as vehicles and players. When stuck to a surface, the mines will trace a laser trip beam to another surface as long as it is less than 3000 uu's away.
  
• Secondary:
          - Detonates deployed grenades.
  
  Flamethrower
  
• A custom Excessive Weapon added to Version 2 of Excessive.
  
• Primary:
          - Unleashes a stream of flames that can light anyone and just about everything on fire.
  
• Secondary:
          - Fires a napalm shell that leaves a fiery trail in its path and spawns 3 flame globs that spread on impact.
  
  Vehicles
  
  Manta
• Speed, health and manuverability increased.
  
• Primary:
          - Dual multi-stage plasma casters. Rate of fire and damage increased.
  
• Secondary:
          - The MANTASTOMP: By holding crouch or altfire and exceeding a verticle speed of more than 1000 uu's per second, you can perform this move. has a StompRate of 1 stomp every 2 seconds, to eliminate abuse while going down steep inclines, it does 600 damage and a has a damage radius of 1000 uu's sending vehicles flying.
  
  Raptor
• Speed, health and manuverability increased.
  
• Added a rear turret that is operated by a second player or bot.
  
• Primary(pilot):
          - Rate of fire and damage increased.
  
• Secondary(pilot):
          - Rate of fire and damage increased. Fires 2 rockets with tweaked explosion effects.
  
• Primary(passenger):
          - Leviathan passenger turret mounted to the rear of the Raptor with raptor seeking projectiles. Rate of fire and damage increased.
  
• Secondary(passenger):
          - Zoom.
  
  Scorpion
• Speed, health and manuverability increased.
  
• Added a passenger minigun turret that is operated by a second player or bot.
  
• Primary(pilot):
          - Plasma ribbon. Rate of fire and damage increased. Added a couple nodes on the ribbon so it goes wider(possible bolo net in the works?).
  
• Secondary(pilot):
          - "Sling arm" blades.
  
• Primary(passenger):
          - Passenger minigun turret. Rate of fire and damage increased.
  
• Secondary(passenger):
          - Zoom?
  
  Hellbender
• Speed, health and manuverability increased.
  
• Secondary(pilot)
          - Excessive horn! w00t!
  
• Primary(passenger 1):
          - EMP Quanta spheroids. Rate of fire and damage increased.
  
• Secondary(passenger 1):
          - Shock lance with incresed rate of fire and damage.
  
• Primary(passenger 2):
          - Turret charge time decreased. Rate of fire and damage/effects increased.
  
• Secondary(passenger 2):
          - Zoom speed increased.
  
  Goliath
• Speed, health and manuverability increased.
  
• Primary(pilot):
          - 140mm depleted uranium cannon. Rate of fire and damage increased. Added explosion and smoke effects.
  
• Secondary(pilot):
          - Increased zoom speeed.
  
• Primary(pilot):
          - Rate of fire and damage increased.
  
• Secondary(pilot):
          - Zoom speed increased.
  
  Leviathan
• Speed, health and manuverability increased.
  
• Primary(pilot):
          - Rate of fire and damage increased.
  
• Secondary(pilot):
          - Deployment speed and rate of fire increased. Enhanced explosion effects.
  
• Primary(passengers):
          - Rate of fire and damage increased. Projectiles now seek raptors.
  
• Secondary(passengers):
          - Zoom.
  
  

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  Fixes & Updates from V2
  
• Fixed priority of weapons to use epic default priorities
• Flamethrower napalm, spawns 3 flame globs that spread on impact
• New 3rd person flame thrower model
• Flame thrower skin modified
• Added the flame thrower static mesh pickup
• Flame thrower displays in the weapon database
• Fixed flame thrower water crashing
• Added steam effects if flames touch water
• Fixed flame thrower wait animation that turns off pilot
• Added flame thrower ammo logo on HUD
• Fixed not being able to set Excessive weapon priorities through the weapon database
• Added New Ion cannon ( 3 Ion Cannons Per 1 in map ) causes unstable ionic field
• Fixed painter switching bug online
• Fixed Guided Redeemer Warhead explosion to only spawn remaining rocket ammo
• Fixed spawning rockets from primary Redeemer projectile impact to seek only the other team or if it can't find one, a random player start
• Fixed assault rifle ammo 1 bug
• Fixed speed portion of Insane Combo not functioning
• Fixed the invisibility portion of Combo Insane not lasting the duration of the combo
• Random Teleport much more random :)
• Random teleport with BR ball drops ball
• Tweaked some weapon push on BR ball
• Added range to the BR ball
• More easily lock onto BR team members for passing
• Tweaked most weapons momentum push on BR ball
• Made bio globs float on water
• Slightly reduced rocket max speed
• Instant rockets
• Semi auto rockets fire on keypress, instead of release
• Removed gametypes ( only run as a mutator )
• Fixed weapons stats not displaying correctly at end of game ( press F3 )
• Added more configurable options in mutator config gui
• Added Excessive Menu Music
• Added bindable Excessive keys in the standard UT2004 controls menu (must have full download of Excessive)
• Added a menu for advanced game settings
• Added Menu Credit list
• Removed accessed nones
• Added loads of fun :)
  
  
  

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  Configuration
  Excessive has a lot of variables you can configure. Most of which can be configured in the mutator configuration screen. All of the available configuration variables can also be set manually in the ExcessiveConfig.ini. To reset to the default ExcessiveV3Config.ini variables, you can delete ExcessiveConfig.ini, open up the mutator configuration window and clicking the "ok" button will create the ExcessiveV3Config.ini.
  
  Server Side Configurable Variables ( = Multiplier )

  [ExcessiveV3.Excessive]
  damageScale=0.000000	The amount of player self damage
  AirControlSetting=1.200000	The player air control
  GroundSpeedSetting=1.150000	The player ground speed
  WaterSpeedSetting=1.200000	The player water speed
  AirSpeedSetting=1.200000	The player air speed
  JumpZSetting=1.400000	The amount of Self Damage
  MultiJumpBoostSetting=20.000000	The jump boost per multijump
  GravityZ=1.200000	The gravity multiplier
  HealthSetting=300	The player max health setting
  ShieldSetting=100	The player max shield setting
  MaxFallSpeedSetting=20000	Player speed at which falling damage occurs
  MaxMultiJumpSetting=2	Set the number of max multijumps per player
  RegenShieldRate=2	The rate of shield regeneration
  bKeepAdrenalinePickups=True	Enable/Disable adrenaline and pickups
  bKeepUdamagePack=True	Enable/Disable double damage pickups
  bKeepShieldPickup=True	Enable/Disable shield pickups
  bKeepBioRifle=True	Start player with the excessive bio rifle
  bKeepShockRifle=True	Start player with the excessive shock rifle
  bKeepLinkGun=True	Start player with the excessive link gun
  bKeepMinigun=True	Start player with the excessive minigun
  bKeepRocketLauncher=True	Start player with the excessive rocket launcher
  bKeepSniperRifle=True	Start player with the excessive sniper rifle
  bKeepFlakCannon=True	Start player with the excessive flak cannon
  bKeepAssault=True	Start player with the excessive assault rifles
  bKeepShieldGun=True	Start player with the excessive shield gun
  bKeepTrans=True	Start player with the excessive translocator
  bKeepFlameThrower=True	Start player with the excessive flamethrower
  bKeepRedeemer=True	Enable/Disable redeemer pickups
  bKeepIonCannon=True	Enable/Disable painter pickups
  bRegenShield=False	Enable/Disable regerating armor
  bKeepComboInsane=True	Enable/Disable excessive combo insane
  bKeepComboTeleport=True	Enable/Disable excessive combo random teleport
  bKeepSuperHealth=True	Enable/Disable superhealth pickups
  InstantRockets=True	Enable/Disable Intant Rockets ( False fires semi auto rockets )
  RocketMaxHoldTime=0.000000	Set the multiRockets max hold time ( 0 = invinite time )
  [ExcessiveV3.ShieldGunEX]
  ShieldJumpStrength=1.500000	The power of shield jumping
  [ExcessiveV3.ShockProjectileEX]
  SetNumCombos=4	sets the number of chain reaction shock balls ( 0 = No limit )
  [ExcessiveV3.RocketProjEX]
  xMomentumTransfer=1.000000	A rocket jump boost
  [ExcessiveV3.FlakShellEX]
  xMomentumTransfer=1.000000	A flak jump boost

  
  
  Client Side Configurable Variables

  [ExcessiveV3.ExcessivePlayerController]
  hitSoundVolume=1.000000	The hit sound volume
  TeamHitSoundVolume=0.500000	The team hit sound
  hitSound=	The currently selected hit sound
  CustomHitSound=	The currently selected custom hit sound
  TeamHitSound=	The currently selected team hit sound
  CustomTeamHitSound=	The currently selected custom team hit sound
  bUseCustomHitSounds=False	Enable/Disable custom hit/teamhit sounds(true = use custom sounds)
  bUseClearScope=False	Enable/Disable clear sniper scope

  
  
  

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  Dedicated Server Setup
  Start a server from UT2004 multiplayer menu, or use one of the server.bat files to start your dedicated server. One has been included as an example for deathmatch. Excessive can now only be run as a mutator. Remember to add ServerPackages=ExcessiveV3 in your UT2004.ini under [Engine.GameEngine].
  
  
  

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  Performance
  You may want to tweak with some settings to boost performance. Here are some recommended settings for lower end systems:
  
  

  Texture Detail	Normal
  World Detail	Normal
  Character Detail	Normal
  Physics Detail	Normal
  Character Shadows	Off
  Dynamic Lighting	Off
  Detail Textures	Off
  Decal Stay	Off
  Use Blob Shadows	Off

  
  
  

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  Notes
  Although the weapons and other modifications are configurable in the mutator configuration, it is recommended that you play with the defaults to enjoy the true intent of Mr. Pants Excessive Overkill for UT2004. Excessive was designed & tested extensively on these systems:
  
  GameTesting
  Windows XP
  Pentium III 933MHz
  512MB RAM
  GeForce4 TI-4200 128MB
  
  Windows XP
  Pentium III 1GHz
  512MB RAM
  GeForce2 GTS/PRO 32MB
  
  GameServer
  Windows XP
  Pentium III 1GHz
  512MB RAM
  
  Windows XP
  Pentium III 450MHz (overclocked to 600MHz)
  512MB RAM
  
  
  

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  Known Issues
  Because of the huge number of explosions and projectiles flying around, Excessive can be very bandwidth and video card-intensive. Don't expect glass-smooth gameplay unless you're on a high-end system on a fast connection. It is still more than playable on lower-end systems and connections.
  
  
  

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  Thanks
  Epic
  MrPants
  
  Code
  Wormbo
  Bart
  
  Flame Thrower
  Jonathan “Ghost Enigma” Swenson - Models
  Chadrick “ShroomDuck” Rode - Textures
  Andrew “Dru” Morris - Textures
  Jeffrey “Ezeikeil” Giles - Concept
  
  Music
  El Revengo - “The Game”
  
  Beta Team
  AeXStrider
  Bean
  Blueberry
  J3110
  FragBitch
  Kyllian
  LoveFest
  MentalAbyss
  Mr. SlackPants
  NaMaNaX
  Plumb_Drumb
  Pressure
  
  Retired Beta Members
  DFA_Demon
  Techbota
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  |AeX|[KK]Lance
  |EMC|Clark Kent