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                                - F  A  Q -

                                  v1.0.3

                             By Arne Michaelsen

                            Email - [e-mail]

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Anyone with information that can update this FAQ, please write to me at

[e-mail], and make the subject line "new info"



If you have downloaded this from a BBS or a newsgroup and have World Wide

Web access, visit my home page at http://www.cco.net/~arne to find the

latest version of this FAQ.



Hexen FAQ 1.0.3 - Based on the commercial release of Hexen 1.0 on October

30th.  This FAQ is back in text-based form so that I could get it out

sooner.  Also, many people have asked me to make a text-only form for

downloading.  When I have the time I will put both this and the html

version on my web page (http://www.cco.net/~arne) for your viewing

pleasure.





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|Contents|

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  Important!

  What is Hexen?

  What's new in Hexen?

  Version info

  Multiplayer

  Cheat Codes

  Classes

  Weapons

  Artifacts

  Armor

  Monsters

  Other programs





* I have taken out the "levels" section temporarily.  I will put it back into

the next version with a lot more info...  I removed it for now so the main

faq can be realesed with the new code information.



* I have removed the section on scripts and wad files.  This is covered

much more knowladgably by Ben Morris's technical specs.  They are

available from ftp.cdrom.com or at my web page:

http://www.cco.net/~arne



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|IMPORTANT!|

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The Full Version (1.0) is out!  Go buy it!  Now!  We know where you live!



For those of you who still haven't tasted it yet, there is a demo available

from ftp.cdrom.com (or your nearest mirror site) in the idstuff/hexen

directory.  It is approx. 5.7 megs zipped (almost 11 unzipped) and has

four levels in it.



The full version comes on 7 3.5" disks (or 1 CD-ROM) and takes about 22

megabytes of hard drive space (cd-rom owners can run it from CD).

The saved games directory will eat an additional few megs since the saved

games tend to be huge.



CD-ROM owners also get to listen to great CD music recordings instead

of midi music for the background music on the levels.  You can even play

any CD you want (I suggest Devo's Greatest Hits).



Hexen is being published by GT Interactive.  Their web page is

http://www.gtinteractive.com  (go figure!)

They have a lot of info on Hexen, including a lot of story background.

Some of their pictures and such are wrong though ;)



Now I heard (from id themselves) that there will be an 8-player patch

coming out soon after Hexen is released.  Look for it!  Play it!  That's

not a request...



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|What is Hexen?|

`--------------'

Hexen is the sequel to a great game called Heretic by Raven Software.

Hexen's full title is "Hexen: Beyond Heretic."  Heretic was the first game

to use the now infamous Doom 3D engine.  It took the awesome 3D

first-person perspective of Doom and put it into a fantasy setting.  It

also added a lot of new features to the basic game-play structure of the

Doom Engine.  Unlike Doom, Heretic allowed the player to look up and down

(to a limited degree), carry items around and use them when you pleased,

even fly!  It also added ambient sounds, currents, and wind to the levels,

as well as objects that could be pushed (and carried off by the wind!).



It had a lot of subtler improvements as well, like better texturemapping,

more detailed objects, even partial transparency as opposed to Doom's

"Predator" looking partial invisibility.  All of the eight weapons had two

modes of fire each, giving 16 different ways to kill your friends!



And now, here comes the sequel to Heretic... Hexen!  Hexen has added some

major changes to the way the Doom engine represents the maps, not to

mention more intelligent monsters, a bigger collection of artifacts, and

even different character classes!



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|What's new in Hexen?|

`--------------------'



For those who haven't played Heretic, it had a set of items that could be

carried and used at any time in the game.  This was new to the Doom

engine.  Hexen also has most of the first Heretic's artifacts, plus many new

ones!  Hexen also has added a lot of atmospheric effects (like lightning

in the background and MANY ambient sounds).  Another nifty effect seen in

level 1 is that you can actually break windows!  There are some other

pieces of terrain that can be affected too, like the trees that can be

destroyed, even a large bell that you can ring!  The sky textures can be

two layers now with parallax scrolling.  On some levels there is a mountain

background with clouds scrolling by.  Some other levels have two layers

of clouds scrolling at different speeds.



The first thing you notice when playing is that you can choose one of

three characters to play now!  They all have strengths and weaknesses.

(The details of each has moved to another section)



When playing Hexen, there is a lot more emphasis on puzzles and traps

now.  No more simple hacking and slashing!  (there still is a lot of that

though!).  I have found some rooms with very interesting traps, from

crushing pillars to poison darts to rapid-fire shards of ice!  Not to

mention very deep pits, spiked balls, and the occasional earthquake!



Another new feature is randomness in the terrain.  Sometimes pulling a

lever can do one thing, but play the level again and it might do

another.  This randomness is not used to a major extent in the demo, but

has a lot of potential for making levels that are different each time you

play.



Yet another new thing is the ability to travel back and forth between

worlds.  For instance, level 2 has portals to levels 3,4,5,6 and 7 (only 3

and 4 are available in the demo, however).  Some actions you do in one

level can affect another.  Sometimes you have to get an item in one level

(like the flame mask) and bring it to another to accomplish your goals.



Another big difference is the way the difficulty levels are set up.  On

skill 1, artifacts that replenish your life will be automatically used if you

are going to die.  Also, skill 5 acts a lot like the skill 5 (Nightmare!)

from Doom, except the monsters do not respawn.  In fact, the -respawn

function that worked on all other doom engines does not make a difference

in Hexen.  In fact, the "respawning" happens at any skill level, it is just

more frequent the higher the skill level you choose.  This is not real

"respawning" since dead monsters are not coming back to life.  Instead,

completely new ones are being created in random places on the level.  They

just ensure that the level is never completely empty.



There are two very important changes to the engine now that make it

more powerful than ever:



1)  The lines that make up the walls can be moved now!  In Doom, doors

could only open up and down.  In Hexen, they can swing or slide as well!

There is a trap in level 4 where you are on a narrow ledge and the wall

moves out to push you off!  Being jammed between two moving walls can

really hurt too!



2)  Probably one of the best changes:  Triggers now activate scripts

instead of single actions.  Now walking into a room can do all sorts of

neat things at once, like lowering the lights, opening two doors behind

you, teleporting monsters into the room, and dropping the floor 20 feet!

Scripts can also be used to automate "continuous" actions.  See the end

of this FAQ for more info on scripts.



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|Version Info|

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The first version to be released to the public was the "retail store beta"

around the beginning of October.  It had 4 levels, working multiplayer and

a lot of little bugs.  But that's why it is "beta."



The demo of Hexen was fixed up and re-released (with a lot of bugs fixed!)

on Oct. 18th.  This was called the official "Demo" version.  The major

changes from the beta were mainly in the behavior of the classes and their

weapons.  Nearly all visual bugs were fixed, as well as being made much

more stable and crashing a lot less.  It rarely crashes on my system

anymore, although it still happens once in a while.



Now the commercial version 1.0 is out.  It is nearly identical to the

demo version, but with all 30 levels.



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|Multiplayer|

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When I hear more about id's 8-player upgrade, I will post it here!



Hexen may be played with 2 players via modem or serial link, and 4 by a

local network (just like the rest of the Doom engine games).



Deathmatch mode makes tons more objects appear on each level.  This usually

includes one of every weapon for each class and all 3 pieces of the

super-weapon for each class as well.  Many scripts that normally have to

be solved by going to other levels will run automatically to open up the

level more and give you more room to fight.  Also, most items and weapons

will re-appear after a minute or so, except the Icon of the Defender which

takes 10 minutes (any less would throw game balance out of whack!).



In Deathmatch games, you can choose to have your class be random each time

you die.  This makes for especially fun games when everyone does it!  And

you really get sick of seeing someone pick the same character (like the

Cleric perhaps) over and over again...  the command line command is

-randclass.  When using DM or another front-end program to setup your

multi-player games, you can usually choose this in the same place you

choose your class normally.



In cooperative mode, you have to solve the puzzles just like a single

player game, so the levels look just the same as in single player, with a

few exceptions:  For one, you can find the weapons of any class that is

playing the game... but you may only grab the ones that your player can

use.  Two, the scrolls (Mystic Ambit Incants) are placed throughout the

levels.  Three, there are some more combined mana powerups that are

available, but not on the scale of Deathmatch games.  And fourth, when you

die you restart the level at the location you last entered into it, and

with 25 of each color mana and all weapons and keys that you had previously

grabbed.  So when you die you do not lose those hard to get weapons and

keys (including the pieces to the super-weapons)... but you *do* lose any

puzzle items you were carrying, as well as all artifacts you had in your

possession.



You may broadcast messages to all players by pressing "t" and then typing

a one line message.  When you are typing, all movement controls still work

(all my controls are not on the letters, so there is no conflict) but you

cannot change weapon numbers until you send the message (hitting "1" will

just type a 1 on the screen.  So don't use it too much when you are busy!).



You can send messages to a single player by pressing the first letter of

his or her color.  Ie, "b" is like hitting "t" but will only send your

message to the blue player.  The player colors are red, blue, yellow, and

green.  You can also use chat macros (you define them from the setup

program) by starting the "chat" typer, and hitting alt + a number, where

the number is the number of your chat macro.



I have found one bug apparently in cooperative multiplayer games so far.

It seems that in cooperative games, the ending sequence to the "Gibbet"

level does not work correctly and you get stuck in the room where the boss

is supposed to come out and pummel you.  But instead the room stays dark

and he does not appear.



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|Cheat Codes|

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The codes have changed in the commercial version yet again!



The majority of codes in the demo version where based on the programmers

names.  Look at the info screens till you find the credits, and use those

names as codes.  The all use the first initial and full last name.  So

Ben Gokey = BGOKEY, which is god mode in the demo.  Don't include any

hyphens or other weird bits though.



For the commercial release:

SATAN = God mode

NRA = All weapons + full mana + full armor.

LOCKSMITH = All keys (one of them looks like a little axe, cool!)

INDIANA = 25 of each item (this will not give you the firemask or other

"one of a kind" items).

MAPSCO = same as IDDT in doom.  Useable only in map mode.  Shows you lots

of neat places you haven't found yet.

DELIVERANCE = pig mode ;)

TICKER = ticker to count your framerate (like Doom's devparm mode)

CASPER = no clipping

BUTCHER = kill all monsters (it tells you how many lives you just ended)

SHERLOCK = All puzzle pieces

INIT = restarts the level you are on.

NOISE = shows sound info on your screen.

PUKE## = runs script (01-99 for the ##)

MAPSCO = allmap mode (must type it in while the automap is on)

SHADOWCASTER# = change class to the # you enter.

VISIT## - warp to level.  The normal levels are now numbered 1 through 31,

but the "secret" level is still in there.  It's number is 41.

CLUBMED = full health.



Also, ala Heretic, the previous games cheat codes will hurt you!  But in

the commercial version, the codes that hurt you are the same codes that

worked in the (pirated) full beta version of Hexen:

CONAN = takes all your weapons away except #1

MARTEK = a warning message the first two times, then instant death!



Another important key is the F5 button.  It is for suicide... useful in

deathmatch when you get bad random characters, or if you get stuck

somewhere without dying.



Here's some other interesting keys:  All the numbers above 4 activate

certain artifacts (if you have them in stock).



5 = Icon of the Defender

6 = Porkulator

0 = Flechette

\ = Quartz flask



The rest I will write down soon.  They are in the readme.txt file that

comes with the game actually...



The Backspace key will now use one of every item you have that can be used

in your current situation.  Makes for some real chaos is Deathmatch.



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|Character Classes|

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One of the best parts of the game is the fact that you can now choose one

of three characters to play:  Baratus the fighter, Parius the cleric, or

Deadolon the mage.  When playing multiplayer, each player can pick any

class he chooses.  This makes cooperative games much more interesting then

they were in the olden days of same-character Doom and Heretic.  It also

makes deathmatch more interesting, although everyone I know picks the

cleric every time (while I always choose the mage!).  When you run Hexen,

you can use the -randclass command line argument to make the game choose

a class for you in deathmatch (in single player or cooperative, it just

makes you the fighter all the time).



Weapon notes:

S = Short range   M = Uses mana

L = Long range    nm= Can be used without mana

H = Homing        E = Explosive/area effect

x = Poisonous     + = Can give the wielder life

P = Penetrates    sp= Spreads

Two sets of ()'s means there are two different effects, depending on the

situation.



               Baratus, the Fighter

Speed    : 10           Weapon 1 - Spiked Gauntlets      (S,nm)

Armor    : 10           Weapon 2 - Timon's Axe           (S,M)(S,nm)

Magic    :  1           Weapon 3 - Hammer of Retribution (S,nm)(L,M,E)

Strength : 10           Weapon 4 - Quietus               (L,M,sp)

Special abilities:  Can run faster and jump higher than the other 2

classes.  Can throw flechettes like grenades.  Also his close-in attacks

are much more powerful than most of the other classes attacks.  He is

actually the best mana-miser around as well.  His axe only uses 2 per

hit (and then only when it actually HITS an enemy... you use no mana if you

miss!) and the hammer uses 3 when it shoots.  Both of these can be used

without mana as well!  Quietus also uses less mana (14 of each) than the

other two super-weapons.



               Parius, the Cleric

Speed    :  7           Weapon 1 - Mace of Contrition    (S,nm)

Armor    :  8           Weapon 2 - Serpent Staff         (S,M,+)(L,M,x)

Magic    :  6           Weapon 3 - Firestorm             (L,M,E)

Strength :  6           Weapon 4 - Wraithverge             (L,H,M)

Special abilities:  Can drop flechettes as poison clouds (VERY useful!)

Turns partially invisible when using the Icon of the Defender.

Has the best homing weapon (Wraithverge) around, but the most expensive

(18 mana of each color) as well.



               Daedolon, the Mage

Speed    :  4           Weapon 1 - Sapphire Wand         (L,nm,P)

Armor    :  2           Weapon 2 - Frozen Shards         (L,M,sp)

Magic    : 10           Weapon 3 - Arc of Death          (L,M)

Strength :  4           Weapon 4 - Bloodscourge          (L,M,sp,H)

Special abilities:  Weapon 1 has long penetrating range for 0 mana.  Can

reflect projectiles when using Icon of the Defender.  Most of his attacks

cost more mana, but have more power than the other classes.



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|Weapons|

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All classes have four weapons.  The fourth weapon must be made up of

three separate pieces before it can work.  The first weapon does not need

any mana.  The second uses blue, the third uses green, and the fourth

uses lots of both.  This is true for all three classes.  Also note that

in deathmatch mode you CAN pick up items that belong to other classes,

but you can't use them (you just get their mana).



Fighter:



#1 - Spiked Gauntlets.

The fighter can land three punches in quick

succession on a target, so he can deal out more damage quickly than the

other 2 classes.  This is the most powerful #1 weapon of the three classes.



#2 - Timon's Axe.  This glows with blue mana, and makes a flash when you

hit someone.  It uses 2 blue mana per whack, but only when you actually hit

someone.  If you beat on the wall with it it will make the flashes but not

cost mana.  It has longer range than punching as well.  It can be used

without mana, but is only about a third as powerful then (punches are

better than the axe with no mana, but have lesser range).



#3 - Hammer of Retribution.  When used at close range it is about as strong

as the axe with mana, but is not as fast.  If you have some green mana,

and use it at long range, it will spend 3 mana to fire a "flaming hammer"

out that explodes. This is much more powerful than the hammer itself.

The thrown projectile explodes and can damage several targets, but the

explosion does not damage the firing player at all.



#4 - Quietus.  This is a big sword that has green flames on it.  It

uses 14 blue and 14 green mana and fires a spread of 5 green fireballs

which are quite powerful.  It fires them whether or not you are at close

range to someone.  I think that the sword itself doesn't actually hit

anyone like the hammer does, just the fireballs.  So you can only use it

if you have enough mana.





Cleric:



#1 - Mace of Contrition.  Less powerful than the fighters fists, but

longer range.  It doesn't have the extra-slow recovery of that third

punch also.



#2 - Serpent staff.  This thing blinks once in a while!  Anyway, at long

range it fires two green wavy fireballs that hit for poison damage.  At

close range, it hits continuously draining the victims life and giving it

to you!  Uses 1 blue mana per firing (yes, thats 2 fireballs for 1 mana,

but they are very weak).



#3 - Firestorm.  Uses 4 green mana to fire a streak of fire across the

ground, exploding if you hit someone with it.  Does good damage.  It has a

limited range, but that range is pretty good.  You just can't fire it

across huge chasms.  Note that even though the fire travels on the ground,

you can still shoot it up.  The fire makes a path any direction you fire...

it just happens that most of the time this happens to be along the ground.

If it hits a creature, it will explode and leave some burning marks on the

ground for a second or two.  This causes extra secondary damage to the

target and anyone near it.  It also means that a fast moving target will

take less damage than a slow one.



#4 - Wraithverge.  Fires a big gray burst that

splinters into four ghosts.  These ghosts fly out in a straight spread if

no enemies are nearby, or fly in circles around nearby villains.  They do a

lot of damage as they fly around, and scream all the time.  When they kill

someone, they look for another victim to fly around.  They do disappear

after a little while though, or if there are no more enemies.  Uses 18 of

each color of mana.





Mage:



#1 - Sapphire Wand.  This is like the elven wand... unlimited range, but

weak.  It does have neat looking tracers though.  Not as powerful as the

fists of the fighter or the mace of the cleric, but it fires "almost

instant" bullets... that is they aren't instant, but they are so fast that

you can't really dodge them at all.  Note that this weapon penetrates!

That means it goes through enemies so you can hit more than one with

a single shot, as long as they are lined up.



#2 - Frozen Shards.  This is cool.  Uses 3 blue mana to fire a *big*

spread of icicles.  Each icicle does a little damage, but there 17 per

volley, so it adds up at close range.



the spread looks like this:

             *

          *  *  *

*   *   *    *    *   *   *

          *  *  *

             *

Note the center column is 7 shards, not five.  Limits of ascii... <sigh>



When a target dies from these,

instead of falling he becomes frozen.  After a few seconds, or if he is

hit with something else, or falls, the frozen guy will shatter into lots

of pieces.  These pieces sit on the ground and slowly melt away.  Pretty

cool.  If a player dies by this, his screen turns blue, and he dies like

normal, but the point of view does not fall to the ground.  You can watch

your killer move around, and then you shatter and the POV falls.  You can

also press space bar soon as the screen turns blue.  See if you can run

fast enough to see your own frozen body before it shatters!



#3 - Arc of Death.  This is a bolt of electricity that follows the

ceiling AND the ground.  If it hits someone, it stays on them and hurts

them for about 3 seconds.  After it hits, it "locks on" to that person.

So if they move it will follow.  If you move VERY fast, you can outrun it

after it locks, but not usually.  It is a very good monster killer though.

You can fire it at creatures that you normally couldn't see as long as

there is no wall completely blocking your path. For instance, you can fire

it off a cliff to hit someone right at the foot that you can't even see.

Requires 5 green mana.



#4 - Bloodscourge.  It fires three incredibly powerful fireballs.  Each one

is capable of killing any of the creatures I have met so far in one hit, as

well as the players (except the fighter if he has a really high AC... but

even then he is very near death, and thats from ONE of the three fireballs).

Uses 15 of each color mana.  It acts a lot like the Wraithverge, but deals

more damage at the expense of less accurate homing power.



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|Artifacts|

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First, these items are directly descended from Heretic:



Wings of Wrath:  Lets you fly.  In single-player mode, they will last until you pass

the current hub.  In multi-player, they are limited to a minute or two of flight.



Quartz Flask:  Gives you about 25% health back.  These will be used

*AUTOMATICALLY* when your life hits 0 *AND* you are on skill level 1.  At

higher skill levels you still must use them yourself.



Mystic Urn:  Gives you 100% health back.  These will be used AUTOMATICALLY

as the flasks are, but only after the flasks run out.



Chaos Device:  Teleports you to the starting point of the level.  A small bug in

the 1.0 release of Hexen has this artifacts name swapped with the Disc of

Repulsion.



Torch:  Provides a high, glowing light level in all areas for a few minutes.



Now for some new stuff!



Banishment Device:  Like a Chaos Device, but you use it on others

instead!  It fires a neat-o pattern of rings.  Whoever gets hit by it

(monsters included) gets teleported to a random starting position of the

level.  For some real fun, transport a bunch of MEAN monsters, then hit

another player to send him into the thick of them!



Boots of Speed:  What can I say?  They make you run faster.  The mage

becomes decently fast and the fighter gets blazingly fast.



Dragonskin Bracers:  These glowing purple bracers increase your AC by 4

when you use them.  You can use a few at once, but only up to a certain

maximum level, depending on which class you take.  They only last for

a certain amount of time, after which their effect goes away.



Disk of Repulsion:  Makes ALL enemies within a certain range of you get

pushed AWAY.  Can be used to get out of corners, smash guys into the

wall, or push guys of the cliff (great fun here!).  Pushing people into

the wall does do damage to them, but not very much it seems.  I had to

use 5 disks to kill an Ettin.  BUT, any creatures bumping into each other

from this effect count as having attacked each other, and this means they

will usually start fighting with each other.  *IMPORTANT*  The disk can

repulse fireballs too!  In fact, all the creatures in the beta that shoot

can have their missile weapons turned away by the disk. (Note there is

a small bug in the 1.0 release of Hexen, the Disc of Repulsion and the

Chaos Device had their names switched.  Oops.)



Dark Servant:   When used, you toss a Maulator "voodoo" doll

out a few feet.  Sometimes it sits there and you can pick it up again.

Sometimes it becomes a giant Maulotor for 30 seconds to pummel your

enemies!  Note that if you drop it in a spot where the Maulotor would

overlap another object on the map, he won't form.  The doll floats there

and you can pick it up again.  A note on the Maulotors:  They can be killed

like normal, but generally they will disappear by the time you can muster

enough firepower to get them anyway.  If you use the Porkulator on them,

the change becomes PERMANENT and they won't disappear.  Also, when the

Maulotor first forms, he is semi-transparent.  If you can hit him with the

Porkulator at the instant he appears, the result is a transparent pig.



Porkalator:  Just like the morph ovum of Heretic, but it turns people

into pigs!  Note that when you are a pig now, you can still use items.

Anyone who is a pig can throw the green flechette flasks as though they

were the fighter.  Wings of wrath can make you a Pig of Wrath!.  Pigs are

also small enough that you can stand on them like steps.



Flechette:  The green flasks.  Each class uses these differently.  The

fighter chucks them forward and they bounce off of the walls and floor.

It explodes when it either hits someone, or comes to rest for 3 seconds.

The cleric drops it right where he stands (run!), then it quickly explodes

into a noxious cloud for about a minute.  Anyone walking into this cloud

suffers poison damage.  The screen turns green and they cough a lot. Even

after they leave the cloud, they will take damage while the screen slowly

fades back to normal.  The mage drops these like the Timebomb in heretic.

it explodes very quickly.  This is one of the most plentiful artifacts in

Hexen.



Mystic Ambit Incant:  The Cleric can gain life from it.  The fighter can

gain 1 armor point, and the mage can gain some mana from it.  I finally

found out what they do in multiplayer now!  When you use it, it will also

affect all players within range of you (the range is 255 game-world

pixles to be exact).



Icon of the Defender:  This gives you invincibility without changing the

color of your screen, which is handy.  It also has side effects which are

different for each class.  The cleric fades in and out from total to

partial invisibility.  When he is totally invisible, missile weapons can

move right through him.  The mage becomes reflective to all missile

weapons.  Any that hit him bounce away.  If a cleric fires his Wraithverge

at you, this can make the ghosts home in on him and kill him!



Krater of Might:  Looks like a chalice.  This artifact, when

used will fill your mana levels to the max.



.-----.

|Armor|

`-----'

Armor sticks around a LOT longer now than it did in the old demos.  In

the old version of the demo armor flew away in big chunks everytime you got

hurt, but now it goes down much slower, making it a lot more valuable!



Each class has a different limit on armor.  Each piece of armor protects

you in different amounts depending on your class.



.------------------------.

|class    max min A S H a|

|------------------------|

|Fighter   16  3  5 4 3 1|

|Cleric    14  2  2 5 1 4|

|Mage      12  1  1 3 2 5|

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Max = maximum armor class *without* using any bracers.

Min = minimum armor that never goes below this value.

A = Mesh Armor

S - Falcon Shield

H = Platinum Helmet

a = Amulet of Warding



.--------.

|Monsters|

`--------'



Ettin - The first monster you will probably see is the two-headed brown

beastie wielding a mace.  His attack is hand-to-hand range only, so he is

not a major threat.  All the players hand weapons have a greater range

than he does (even the fighters punch!).  Typically takes about 5 or 6

hits to kill using the weakest weapon of any class (3 with the fighter!)

They can be dangerous in packs!  When they corner you and have more than

one hitting you at a time your life will go down FAST!



Afrit - These creatures resemble the gargoyles from Heretic, but

they are on fire!  They are also much smarter:  They shoot fireballs at

you in bursts of three, and the strafe side to side quickly when they fire,

making them very hard to hit.  A fire gargoyle in its "resting" state

looks like a gray fiery sphere.  When you "wake them up" they unfold into

themselves.  They are invulnerable in this "sphere" mode.



Chaos Serpents - D'Sparil rode one of these at the very end of Heretic.

It is a large (taller than you) creature that shoots fireballs at you or

bites at close range.  They are not nearly as hard to kill as the one in

Heretic, but they are still trouble, and usually appear in groups of two or

three.  Those fireballs do a LOT of damage too.



Brown Serpents - Pretty much just like the green ones, but they fire green

gas-balls which hurt even MORE than the Green serpents fire!



Wendigo - Always found in icy levels... They look like Swamp Thing but

bluish and made of ice instead of green moss.  They fire pairs of spiky

ice balls that shatter when they hit anything into a spread of 6 ice shards

that have the same effect as the mages #2 weapon.  When you kill

these guys (with any weapon) they shatter like they died from frozen shards.



Centaurs - These creatures are tough to kill.  They don't have a lot of

hit points, but everytime you hit them they raise their shield and become

invulnerable (and can reflect most spells).  After they drop their shield

they can be hurt again.



Slaughtaurs - Just like the Centaurs but their shields can fire

blue, fast moving fireballs at you.  They hurt a lot and are hard to dodge

because of their speed!  They tend to be harder to kill than Centaurs too.



Stalkers - These slimy green guys usually hang out in swamps, or regular

water if they are feeling particularly clean.  You can see their tails

swishing about in the muck, but you cannot hurt them until they rise up

out of the water.  Unfortunately, they only like to rise up right next

to you!  They don't take much to kill, but they hit you very hard!

Some Stalkers will rise up you of the water even when you

are not nearby to shoot at you.  They fire hissing green balls of gas that

you can hear fly by.



Dark Bishops - These resemble the bishops from Heretic, but they are

wearing much nicer clothes now.  They can fly, and can "zip" around at high

speed once in a while.  They fire volleys of 10 fireballs that come at you

in a spiral pattern.  They have limited homing, so they can chase you after

you dodge them.  Their spiral motion makes them VERY hard to predict!

Sometimes they hit corners and stop early, sometimes they loop around

corners that you swear they couldn't have and hit you!



Reivers - Only seen in the last few levels of the game, these can fly,

shoot fireballs at you, and hit at close range for some nasty damage.  They

resemble the top half of a corpse in chainmail with a helmet on and long

arms.



Death Wyvern - an undead dragon that is the first mini-boss you

encounter.  He swoops in circles and fires a fiery breath-weapon at you

that causes some secondary explosions after it hits.



Heresiarch - A powerful mage with the tail of a scorpion and three mana

cubes circling his head.  He has several attacks, as well as a temporary

reflective invincability spell and he can summon Dark Bishops to his aid.



Yourself - Yes, as part of the game you must defeat one of each of the

three player classes.  They move like a player and fire your own weapons

at you.  They might be a confusing addition to Deathmatch games as well!



Korax - The Big Bad Guy.  He's big.  He's mean.  He's tough.  He's so bad,

he's even dangerous when dead.



.--------------.

|Other programs|

`--------------'



These are the other programs I have found useful for playing around with

the levels and other tidbits.



hexspc09.zip  is Ben Morris's technical specs, and comes with the program

ACC by Ben Gokey (Raven's head programmer) for compiling level scripts

from text files.



deth267.zip is a Doom, Doom II, Heretic, and Hexen editor.  heth-b11.zip is

the most recent upgrade (install it ontop of deth267) that incorperates all the

new info from Ben Morris's tech specs into the Heth Hexen editor.



deep802s.zip is the latest shareware release of DeeP, and will edit Hexen

levels but has not been updated (yet) with the technical specs info yet.



All these files can be found at ftp.cdrom.com or any site that mirrors it, in the

idgames directory tree.



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If anyone has extra info, email me at [e-mail].  Please only

send useful information, not stuff like misspellings (of which there are

many, I know).



Feel free to add this to any web page or whatever, just let me know when

you do so I can come and see it!

Make sure you give me credit for it too!

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Arne Michaelsen - keeper of the FAQ, email: [e-mail]



Special thanks to:

Todd Wagner ([e-mail]).... for many cheat codes and activation keys.

Killian ([e-mail])............ for listing a lot of scripts.

Deird'Re M. Brooks ([e-mail])............. for the clipping code.

Paul Falstad ([e-mail])........................... for the tech details.

Kyle Hofmann ([e-mail])....................... for the hidden text.

Rowan ([e-mail]).................. for the ascii picture.

Colin Caird ([e-mail])............ for too many things to list!

Carl Plunkett ([e-mail]) for help with the files.



Ben Morris for all the tech info!



I'd like to thank all the ops on the irc channel #hexen, since they found most

of the new codes for me.  Especially PLuNKeTT, Baratus, and Tyrian.



Thanks to Dan Sully and cco.net for providing me with Web space!



Extra special thanks to the fellows at id and Raven for making a great game!