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* TeamFortress v1.21                                 readme.txt *
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Introduction
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TeamFortress is a new QuakeC patch which radically changes
team games. It provides far more incentive for teams to
actually work as a team. Each member of the team has unique
weapons, items, and abilities.

It is most fun to play on a map with two, or more, clearly defined
team fortresses, or bases. We're a little limited until we
write a good map for it, but until then, try some of quake's
levels. Define the team areas, and a goal or two.
For example, we sometimes play on e1m1. Its not a big map, so
we play with two teams of 4. One team's base is the room containing
the end of level slipgate. The other team starts at the bridge
outside, and has to finish the level. The first team has to
prevent the other team from finishing the level.

Once you have some clear goals like this, and start using the
individual class's abilities to complement each other, it's a hell
of a lot of fun! :)

At the moment, we've got one FortressMap almost finished. As we, or
you :), make more maps for this patch, we'll put them up on the
WWW page (see Availability).
If you're interested in making maps to use the extra features
of this patch, see the TeamFortress Map Details below, and the
tfortmap.txt file inside this .zip file.

Oh, and one more thing, I know there are some things in this
patch, such as pipe-bombs, that are in other patches, but they're
here because they're good to have. I'd far rather people complain
about our lack of originality than say "Why the hell didn't they
put in pipebombs?" :)

What do you need to know?
-----------------------
Really, if you want to get into TeamFortress as soon as possible,
all you need to know is the command "helpme". Type this in at the
console and you'll be shown the help index.
You should be able to figure it out from there :)

_NOTE_: The aliases created for you, such as helpme, do _not_
        work in a single-player game if you type them into the
        console. Instead, you _must_ bind a key to them, get out
        of the console, and press the key.
        e.g. In the console, type "bind h helpme" and then
             get out of the console and press your h key.
        If you're interested in why you have to do this, see
        the Impulse and Alias summaries below.
        Although this is a pain, it's worth it. Trust me! ;)

Player Classes
--------------
TeamFortress uses multiple player classes. Whenever a new map is loaded,
all players start in Observer mode.
When in Observer Mode, players can use there fire button to cycle
through all the observation points on a map, and watch the action.
To get out of Observer Mode, players must choose a class.
To choose a class, just use the appropriate alias. Once a player class
is chosen, you cannot change class for the rest of that level.
The classes implemented so far are as follows:
    SCOUT:        Fastest moving class. Can only wear a small amount of the
                lowest absorption armor. Limited to the 2 Shotguns and Nailgun.
                Low ammo levels.
                Carries a Motion Detector, 2 grenades, 3 concussion grenades.

    SNIPER:        Medium speed. Wears only small amount of armor, upto medium
                absorption level. Limited to Nailgun and Sniper's rifle. Medium
                ammo levels.
                Carries 2 grenades.

    SOLDIER:    Slow moving class. Wears large amount of armor, at all
                absorption levels. All normal weapons except Grenade Launcher.
                High ammo levels.
                Carries 4 grenades, 4 nail grenades.

    DEMOLITION MAN: Medium speed. Wears medium amount of armor, upto medium
                absorption level. Uses the ShotGun and Grenade/Pipebomb Launcher
                Carries 1 DetPack, 6 grenades, 4 Mirv Grenades.

    COMBAT MEDIC: Medium speed. Wears medium amount of armor, upto medium
                absorption level. Uses both Shotguns and the Super Nailgun.
                Carries Medikit, 3 grenades, 2 concussion grenades.
                Regenerates slowly. Has a Bioweapon.

    HEAVY WEAPONS GUY: The slowest moving class of all. Lotsa armor, high
                absorption levels. Uses both Shotguns, the Nailgun, and
                the Assault Cannon (yeah!)
                Carries 4 grenades and 1 Mirv Grenade.

    RANDOM CLASS: Each time you respawn you have your class randomly
                  assigned to you.

New Weapons
-----------
Sniper Rifle:
    This weapon is used instead of the shotgun by the SNIPER playerclass. It
    uses shotgun shells for ammo, and operates in two modes:
        - Single Shot. With a reload time of 3 seconds, this mode is what
          sniping is all about. One shot from this will kill most players
          except for a heavily armored SOLDIER or DEMOLITION MAN.
        - Auto Shot. Although this fire mode does a lot less damage than
          single shot and uses a lot of ammo, its great for picking off
          a wounded target, or a fast moving SCOUT.
    The other tricky bit about the sniper rifle is that it is a rifle. You
    can't just snap shot from the hip with it. If you're moving too fast,
    the rifle simply won't fire. Besides, you're a sniper, you're not
    supposed to be strafe-fighting with soldiers! :)

Assault Cannon:
    Big! Fires lotsa bullets! Really fast!
    What more do you want?
    It's used by the Heavy Weapons Guy. Select it like you would the
    Rocket Launcher. It takes 10 cells just to power up    each time you
    pull the trigger, and then starts to eat up your shotgun ammo like
    you wouldn't believe!
    It also tends to eat up enemies too, so it isn't all bad :)
    As you fire the Assault Cannon, it gets hotter and harder to control.
    After firing, it has to cool. This can take a while, and is dependant
    on how long you fired it for, natch :)
    Luckily, cooling require no effort on your part, so you can change
    weapons while you wait.
    Oh, you can't move while firing either, and you can't fire when
    you're not on the ground.

BioWeapon:
    This weapon is used by the COMBAT MEDIC. The COMBAT MEDIC's axe has two
    modes: Medikit and BioWeapon. In Bioweapon Mode, when the COMBAT MEDIC
    hits someone with the axe, they will become infected, and begin to lose
    health. Anyone coming in contact with an infected person also becomes
    infected. Infection can be cured by the COMBAT MEDIC's medikit.
    COMBAT MEDICS are immune to the Bioweapon.

Grenades
--------
Several new types of grenades now exist, and all classes have access to at
least one of them. They are not to be confused with the grenades used by
the grenade launcher.
Use of these grenades is exactly as one would expect. Pull the pin, throw
it, and wait. After 3 seconds it goes off. Just make sure you throw it
_before_ the 3 seconds are up :)
The grenade types are as follows:
    Normal        :    Normal grenades simply explode. They are twice as powerful
                    as those shot from the grenade launcher.

    Concussion    :    Concussion grenades don't actually hurt anyone, they just
                    blow everyone away from the grenade explosion at a high
                    speed, and then make them woozy. They're the SCOUT's best
                    way of escaping from a roomful of enemies. The ensuing confusion
                    usually gives him enough time to run.

    Nail        :    Nail grenades are good in large rooms. Instead of detonating,
                    they raise up into the air and hover. They then begin to
                    rotate while firing nails. After doing this for a few seconds
                    they explode like a normal grenade.

    Mirv        :    Mirv grenades are room-clearers. When one explodes,
                    it divides into approximately 15 individual grenades which
                    then explode.

New Items
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Motion Detector:
    This item is the SCOUT's best friend. The SCOUT can specify an amount of
    cells spent on a scan. The detector displays a list of all enemies/friends
    within a distance around the SCOUT, and their direction in relation to the
    SCOUT. The more energy spent, the larger the detection distance.
    Bear in mind though that the motion detector only detects motion (natch! :)
    So it won't pick up stationary or very slow moving players.
    You can toggle detection of friends and enemies using the aliases "scane" and "scanf"
    or impulse 1 and 2 after the Pre-Impulse. For more information on
    Pre-Impulses, see the Impulse Summary.

Medikit:
    The COMBAT MEDIC has a medikit which allows him to heal any other member
    of his/her team by hitting them with his axe, when it is in Medikit Mode.
    Each hit will heal them    10 points and reduce the 'ammo' for the medikit
    by 10. You can see how much 'ammo' for the medikit you have by looking
    at your inventory. If the COMBAT MEDIC walks over a health box while at
    maximum health, the health box will be used to replenish the medikit 'ammo'.

Detpack:
    The DEMOLITION MAN has a Detpack. This is a large-scale explosive device.
    When the DEMOLITION MAN places it he is unable to move for 4 seconds
    while he primes it.
    The timer on the Detpack is set by the DEMOLITION MAN. e.g. After the
    Pre-Impulse, an Impulse of 10 sets the timer for 10 seconds. For more
    information on Pre-Impulses, see the Impulse Summary.
    Oh yeah, Scouts can disarm them by running over them :)

New Rules
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Reloading:
    All basic weapons except the Nailgun and Super Nailgun have clips. When all
    the ammo in a clip is spent, the weapon is reloaded. This can take anywhere
    from 1 second for the Shotgun to 5 seconds for the Rocket Launcher. Ammo
    amounts in the clips varies between weapons.
    While reloading, you cannot change weapons.

ToggleAble Game Settings
------------------------
There are now a few toggleable game settings which can be changed while
playing. Each has an alias which toggles it.
The options at the moment are:
    Multiskin/Classkin
        This option switches between Multiskin, where each player can use the
        skin commands to cycle through all the available skins and choose one
        they like, and Classkin, where each player has his/her skin chosen
        for them based on their class.
    Class Persistence On/Off
        This option allows you to turn on Class persistence between levels.
        E.g. If it's on, when you go to a new level each player will stay
        the same class they were in the last level.
    Cheat Checking On/Off
        This option toggles whether you want speed checking of players in
        an attempt to catch people tinkering with their maxspeed. It's not
        an elegant way of checking, and is by no mean foolproof, so you
        may wish to turn it off. If you're playing with friends, turn it off
        and save some of the server's computing time. If you're playing on
        the net, you might want to leave it on. It's better than nothing :)
    FortressMap On/Off
        This option turns on the use of effects which only work on maps
        built specifically for TeamFortress. I'd advise against turning
        it on in maps that aren't built for TeamFortress.
        If you play on a TeamFortress Map, TeamFortress will detect this,
        and set this setting On, but you're welcome to turn it off if
        you want to deathmatch.
        See TeamFortressMap Details below for more info.
    AutoTeam On/Off
        When on, AutoTeam will automatically assign players to the team
        with the least number of people in it, when the player chooses
        his/her class.
    Respawn Delay Cycle
        You can cycle through various respawn delay times. Respawn
        delay time is the amount of time a player is unable to respawn
        for after they die.
        This is useful in Team Games to prevent players from killing
        themselves to get back to their Fortress quickly.

Alias Summary
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Aliases are fine and dandy, but there's just one small problem with them :)
If you're playing a single-player game, aliases that use a Pre-Impulse, such
as all the Help, Scanner, Detpack, and Setskin aliases, don't work if you
type them in at the console.
If you're playing a single-player game, you'll have to bind them to a key,
get out of the console, and press the key. It's a bummer, but hey!, this
patch is for team games :)
And Pre-Impulses are too good to remove because of it.
The aliases that are automatically created for you by TeamFortress are:

Help Related
    helpme            :    Display Help Index
    generalhelp        :    Display General command help
    classhelp        :    Display Class command help
    weaponhelp        :    Display Weapon command help
    itemhelp        :    Display Item command help
    skinhelp        :    Display Skin command help
    teamhelp        :    Display Team command help
    togglehelp        :    Display Toggleflag command help
    preimphelp        :    Display Pre-Impulse help
    showpreimp        :    Display a list of the Pre-Impulses used
    showimp            :    DIsplay a list of the Impulses used

General
    inv                :    Display your inventory
    showtf            :    Display the status of all Toggleflags

Class Changing
    scout            :    Change class to Scout
    sniper            :    Change class to Sniper
    soldier            :    Change class to Soldier
    demoman            :    Change class to Demolitions Man
    medic            :    Change class to Combat Medic
    hwguy            :    Change class to Heavy Weapons Guy
    randompc        :    Change class to Random Class

Grenades
    primeone        :    Prime a grenade of Type 1
    primetwo        :    Prime a grenade of Type 2
    throwgren        :    Throw whatever grenade you've primed

Pipebombs
    detpipe            :    Detonate all your pipebombs

Scanner
    scane            :    Toggle detection of enemies with the Scanner
    scanf            :    Toggle detection of friendlies with the Scanner

Sample aliases for the Scanner
    scan10            :    Scan using 10 cells
    scan50            :    Scan using 50 cells
    scan250            :    Scan using 250 cells

Sample aliases for the Detpack
    det5            :    Set your detpack for 5 seconds
    det20            :    Set your detpack for 20 seconds
    det250            :    Set your detpack for 250 seconds

Toggleable Game Settings
    t_skin            :    Toggle Multiskin/Classkin
    t_classpersist    :    Toggle Class Persistence
    t_cheatcheck    :    Toggle Cheat Checking
    t_fortressmap    :    Toggle FortressMap

Skin Selection
    nextskin        :    Change skin to the next skin in the player.mdl
    prevskin        :    Change skin to the previous skin in the player.mdl

Sample aliases for Set Skin
    skin10            :    Change skin to number 10 in the player.mdl
    skin20            :    Change skin to number 20 in the player.mdl

Team Handling
    imin1            :    Start/Join Team 1
    imin2            :    Start/Join Team 2
    imin3            :    Start/Join Team 3
    imin4            :    Start/Join Team 4
    showscores        :    Display Team Scores

The sample aliases are examples of how the Pre-Impulses commands are used.
For more information on Pre-Impulses and how to create your own aliases for
Scanner/Detpack/Setskin etc, see the Impulse Summary.

Impulse Summary
---------------
In version 1.0 everything relied on Impulses. Now, it's all bound to aliases.
This means you don't have to know the impulses unless you want to merge this
with another patch, in which case you can look at the code, or type "showimp"
in the console.
The only thing I should mention is Pre-Impulses. A Pre-Impulse is an impulse
which must be used before another impulse. The second impulse can then be
interpreted in a different way.
For example:
    The SCOUT's Motion Detector has a Pre-Impulse of 249. You specify the
    amount of energy you want to spend on the scan with an impulse after it.
    So if you wanted to use 50 energy to scan, you would do Impulse 249
    followed by Impulse 50. The recommended way to do this is to bind
    a key to an alias. In the console, you could do this:
        alias scan_50 "impulse 249; wait; impulse 50"
        bind S scan_50
    This would make 'S' do a scan using 50 energy.
There are already aliases created for all Pre-Impulse things, but you might
to make your own, for different time/energy usages.
You will probably want to make an alias to set your favourite skin when
playing Multiskin, so you don't have to use nextskin 14 times if you
like skin 15. Create an alias which does the Multiskin Pre-Impulse(202), and
then does the Impulse matching the skin you want, e.g. 15.

Team Details
-----------------------
We now handle a basic Team structure. Apart from standard Teamplay,
you can use FortressTeams. In FortressTeams we allow upto 4 different
teams on the one map.
Players can join a team by using the aliases imin1,imin2,imin3, and imin4.
The first player to join a particular team becomes the Team Leader, and
the color of his/her pants becomes the Team Color. Any players who
join that Team from then on will have their colors automatically changed
to the Team Colors.
Once players join a team they cannot change to another team.
Any player who attempts to change their _pants_ color away from the
Team Color will be penalised. Shirt colors can be changed freely.
FortressTeams are a must on any Map that was written for TeamFortress,
since the spawnpoints on a TeamFortress Map are allocated to particular
teams. See the TeamFortressMap Details for more info.

TeamFortressMap Details
-----------------------
As of v1.2 we've got support built in for maps designed specifically
for this patch, allowing them to use various extra entities.
This allows us to do fancy things, such as:

    Auto Detection
    Team SpawnPoints
    Armor                  (Still to be Done. :)

    Goals
    GoalItems
    Timer Goals

These only come into effect if the Toggleable game setting FortressMap is On,
and the map you are playing on is designed for TeamFortress.
If you want to create your own Maps for TeamFortress, the details you
need to know are in a seperate file, included in this .zip, called tfortmap.txt

N.B. Within a matter of days we'll release the TeamFortress Entity Editor.
     This will allow you to make TeamFortress maps within a nice Windows GUI.
     Check the www page over the next week or so for it.

Multiskin Details
-----------------
We now have support for skins in TeamFortress. There are two modes:
Multiskin and Classkin, which is the default. With Classkin, your
skin is set to a skin based on your Class, and you cannot change it.
Multiskin works the same way as the Original Multiskin by Dennis
Noordsij. For now, all skins we use are skins which come with Multiskin,
but we've got a couple of people drawing skins right now, and when
they're done, we'll give them to Dennis to include in Multiskin.
If you download a newer version of Multiskin that has more skins
in it, you will have to edit defs.qc. Right near the end of the
file is line like this:
    float MS_MAX_SKIN    = 32;
Change the 32 to the number of skins in the new player.mdl.
The latest version of Multiskin's player.mdl can always be
found at http://www.inter.NL.net/users/L.J.Noordsij/qc.htm

We've now have skins for 4 of the TeamFortress classes, so
hopefully by the next release we'll have them all done.
Anyone who's interested in doing mdls/skins for our new
weapons and items, please email us.

Servers with this Code
----------------------
If you're interested in using some/all of this code for a Net server,
then all I ask is one thing: Mail me (address below) and tell me.
I'd like to know if anyone uses it as a Net server, simply because I'd like
to play a server on the net using this code.
Since I don't have a server...;)
The biggest advantage of notifying me that you're running a server
with this code is that I'll mail you new versions whenever they come out.

Also you may wish the edit the defs.qc file and change the value of
the last line, which looks like this:
    float IS_NET_SERVER    = 0;
Change the 0 to a 1, and recompile the code. Now, TeamFortress will
only use graphics/sounds that come with quake, so people connecting to
your server won't need any extra files.
Of course, it won't sound/look half as good... :)

Copyright and Distribution
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Authors may use this code for the basis of other freeware quakec
code, but not for any for-profit code, such as modification of this
patch for the purpose of running it on a commercial Quake Server.

You may distribute this patch in any electronic format as long as this
textfile remains unmodified and all of the files in the archive are
present, and as long as no charge is made for it.

Non-Commercial Quake Servers are free to run this patch, but
it'd be nice in you mailed us and mentioned that you are.

Availability
------------
The latest version of this patch can always be found at the
TeamFortress WWW page - http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~cookj/index.htm

The latest version should also be on the following locations:
ftp.cdrom.com/pub/quake/    <- check incoming, newstuff or quakec/multiplayer
The Quake Stomping Grounds - http://www.stomped.com/files.shtml

Other Stuff
-----------
TeamFortress was written by Robin Walker and John Cook. Various other people
contributed ideas to it. I can't hope to list them all, but here's some of them:
    Ian Caughley, Peter Wilson, Jason Grant.

Some of the code for TeamFortress was influenced by other people's.
They are as follows:
    Mirv Grenade code was influenced by Firewall code from Steve Bond ([e-mail])
    Pipebomb code was influenced by code from AsmodeusB ([e-mail])

Although we've never seen their code, these people are credited here
because they've got great ideas:
    Multiskin, from the first person to work it out, Dennis Noordsij ([e-mail])

Also, thanks must go to the following people for their comments and suggestions:
    John Wolsch ([e-mail])
    Thomas LULLIER ([e-mail])
    Bas Olthoff ([e-mail])
    Phil Sykes ([e-mail])
    Serendip ([e-mail])
    Frank O'Connor ([e-mail])
    Chi Tang ([e-mail])
    Chris Etheridge ([e-mail])
    Kevin Cheng ([e-mail])
    Matt Cortes ([e-mail])
We wouldn't have got past 1.0, let alone 1.1 and 1.2, if it wasn't
for these guys/gals.

And finally, thanks must go to Mike Kaminski ([e-mail]), for pointing
out the stupidest mistake I've made for a while :)

What are we working on now?
Still enhancing the abilities of the TeamFortress Map Goal Entities.
More classes : Technician, Engineer, Barbarian, Spy
More items - Personal Teleporter devices, Deployable autocannons(like Aliens :)
           - JumpJets, Personal Shields Generators, Rebounding Shield
           - Armor protecting against specific weapons(Got this done, just a
                   little bit more work to do)
More grenades - Shock gren.(get out of the water!), Teleport Grenades,
                BioWeapon grenades.
Mdls for all weapons and grenades, and for reloading.
And a Windows Application which will allow you to create TeamFortress
maps with ease.

Yeah, I know this list looks a lot like what we said we were working
on after v1.0 and v1.1, but we've been working mostly on the Map code.
If you don't believe us, take a look at what it can do :)

I'm happy to help with any questions about the source you have.
One thing that we took pains to do was to make almost _everything_ #defined.
You can 'tweak' 90% the game details just by editing the defs.qc

Robin. (Bro in Quake)
[e-mail]

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Version info for those that interested:

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Version 1.21 - Released 17/9/96
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Bugs Removed:
    - Assault Cannon backpack/cooling bug fixed.
    - BioWeapon not infecting monsters bug fixed.
    - Megahealth always curing infection bug fixed.
    - Detpack stuffcmd failure bug fixed.
    - Medikit non-precached sound bug fixed.
    - Deathmatch Everyone-respawn-in-the-same-place bug fixed.
    - Heavy Weapon Guy's weapons cleaned up.

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Version 1.2    - Released 11/9/96
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Features added:
    - TeamFortressMap Goal Support (Yeeha!)
    - Bioweapon for the Combat Medic
    - More Toggleables added.
        - Auto Teaming
        - Respawn Delays
    - Players start in Observer mode.

Classes: Scout, Sniper, Soldier, Demolitions Man, Combat Medic,
         Heavy Weapons Guy, RandomClass.

Changes:
    - Rewrote various sections to reduce variable use
    - Changed Team Spawnpoints handling
    - Team Members now only damage each other with Area-Effect weapons.
    - Armor doesn't protect against drowning, etc.
    - Remove telefragging.
    - Concussion grenade toned down a little.
    - Rewrote all the code for timers. Not only does it
      now save variable space, it also makes sure we clean
      up _all_ timers.

Bugs Removed:
    - John got it! The nastiest bug we've had yet!! Bye bye Zmalloc error!
    - Medikit bug fixed
    - Toggleflags being incorrectly passed between levels fixed

Known Bugs:
    - The Assault Cannon cooling still isn't perfect.

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Version 1.1    - Released 31/8/96
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Features added:
    - Help revamped.
    - Aliases for Help, Detpacks, and Scanners added.
    - Multiple Player skin support added.
    - Added World Toggleables handling.
        - Classkin and Multiskin Toggle added.
        - Class persistence between levels Toggle added.
        - Cheatchecking Toggle added.
        - TeamFortressMap Toggle added.
    - Detpack CountDown added.
    - Scanner now gives directions of blips
    - NetServer setting which uses no non-standard quake files
    - TeamFortress Map Support (Yeah!!)

Classes: Scout, Sniper, Soldier, Demolitions Man, Combat Medic,
         Heavy Weapons Guy.

Changes:
    - Undefined players are now invincible, but can't move.

Bugs Removed:
    - Detpack was spawning two objects.
    - Gibbed while Reloading bug fixed.
    - Dying while concussed bug fixed.

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Version 1.1    - Released 24/8/96
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Initial Release
Classes: Scout, Sniper, Soldier, Demolitions Man, Combat Medic