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- Lithium Quake II Mod v0.90
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-
- by WhiteFang (matt@lithium.com)
- Available at www.lithium.com
-
-
- Features
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * All features are toggleable, use only the ones you want.
- * Runes; strength (red), resist (blue), regen (green), and haste (yellow).
- * Improved HUD with frags, frags/hr, players, your place, current rune.
- * Damage, speed, and radius adjustable for all weapons.
- * More detailed obituaries, with your enemy highlighted in green text.
- * Grappling hook.
- * Configurable map queue with randomize option.
- * Customizable MOTD (except Lithium info).
- * Observer fly-thru mode.
- * Safety time period for player spawns.
- * No camp option kills campers (adjustable).
- * Kicks anyone who suicides by typing 'kill' many times.
- * Faster respawning as more players join.
- * Adjust start/max values for health, ammos, and armor. Also setup which
- weapons clients will start with.
- * Server configuration and toggles implemented as cvars. This allows
- .cfg files for startup and instant changes on the server console.
- * Bug fixes to Id Software code, including BFG crash, timescale cheat,
- respawning grenades, and no super shotgun auto select with one shell.
- * Compiled for both Windows (gamex86.dll) and Linux (gamei386.so).
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- Installation
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- Create a "lithium" directory in your Quake II directory and copy the
- included files there. You can run either a dedicated server (console
- only) or a listen server (where you can play on that machine as well).
-
- To start a dedicated server, use this command line:
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- quake2.exe +set dedicated 1 +set maxclients 32 +set game lithium
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- To start a listen server, use this command line:
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- quake2.exe +set deathmatch 1 +set maxclients 32 +set game lithium
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- Adjust the maxclients value accordingly. You can modify the MOTD to your
- liking by editing the motd.txt in the lithium directory. Note that the
- deathmatch setting is implied for dedicated servers.
-
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- Configuration
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- If you'd like to alter the configuration, add "+exec lithium.cfg" to the
- command line and edit the included lithium.cfg to your liking. Or create
- your own .cfg file to use, see lithium.cfg for reference. A normal.cfg
- is provided as well, which contains the Quake II defaults. Note that if
- no .cfg file is specified, the internal defaults will be used (lithium.cfg
- represents those).
-
- Any of the commands you see in the .cfg files can be entered directly to
- the server console. The change will take effect immediately for any
- setting, except no_bfg (which will take effect next map).
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- Playing
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- The client command to drop a rune is "cmd rune_drop". To go back into
- observer mode, "cmd observer". An example of what to type on the client
- console to bind the 'd' key to drop a rune:
-
- bind d "cmd rune_drop"
-
- To use the grappling hook, bind a key to "+hook". To use the Quake 1
- style scoreboard, bind a key to "+scores".
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- Future
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- I have many new features planned. There's always more :-)
-
-
- Notes
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- I appreciate feedback, bug reports, new ideas, and comments (good or bad).
- I've been updating this server code in between working on Quake II map
- editing support in Qoole (www.qoole.com). I plan to continue working
- on both, so watch for updates. My email is matt@lithium.com. Sorry if
- I don't reply, as I get a lot of email, but know that I do read it all.
-
- I'm on EFNet IRC as WhiteFang, you can find me in #Qoole, #Lithium, and
- other Quake related channels. If I don't respond to a private msg, I'm
- either away or busy. Don't be offended, but I will eventually read what
- you sent. I absorb all :) I simply can't respond to everything.
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- I'm running a Lithium Quake II Mod mailing list for discussion about this
- mod and Quake II mods in general. You can opt for daily digests of the
- mail list now. Also an announce list is available, for those of you only
- interested in hearing about updates. To subscribe, send an email with
- "subscribe" in the message (not the subject), to the appropiate address:
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- q2-request@lithium.com
- q2-digest-request@lithium.com
- q2-announce-request@lithium.com
-
- Original obituaries code by Karl Spitznas (Billab0ng, spitznas@cc.wwu.edu).
- Thanks to Micah McCrary (micah@xtn.net) for the first Linux beta testing.
-
- Have fun!
-
- -WhiteFang
-