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*==============================================================* * TeamFortress v1.2 readme.txt * *==============================================================* Introduction ------------ 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. 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 --------- 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 --------- 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 -------------- 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 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 3 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 -------------------------------------- Authors may use this code for the basis of other freeware quakec code, but not for any for-profit code. 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. 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 (wedge@nuc.net) Pipebomb code was influenced by code from AsmodeusB (tazq@sos.on.ca) 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 (lnoordsi@inter.NL.net) Also, thanks must go to the following people for their comments and suggestions: John Wolsch (john_w@bga.com) Thomas LULLIER (106110.1406@compuserve.com) Bas Olthoff (reboot@dsl.nl) Phil Sykes (phil@centrenet.co.uk) Serendip (an705819@anon.penet.fi) Frank O'Connor (FrankO@mail.Publix.com) Chi Tang (ctang@nucleus.com) Chris Etheridge (etherbi@castlegate.net) We wouldn't have got past 1.0, let alone 1.1, if it wasn't for these guys/gals. And finally, thanks must go to Mike Kaminski (LKKAM@msn.com), for pointing out the stupidest mistake I've made for a while :) What are we working on now? More classes :) Technician, Engineer, Barbarian 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. 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) walker@netspace.net.au ======= Version info for those that interested: -------------------------------- Version 1.2 - Released 11/9/96 -------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------- Version 1.1 - Released 31/8/96 -------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------- Version 1.1 - Released 24/8/96 -------------------------------- Initial Release Classes: Scout, Sniper, Soldier, Demolitions Man, Combat Medic