Grapple\Bungee Mod v1.0 (c) 1998
by xNichG (Nicholas Guttenberg, nickh@erols.com)

Preface
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I don't know all that crap that goes at the beginning of
mod descripts, so I'll just give a brief description. Any
questions? :)

This mod has three parts, a pickup bungee grapple that you can
throw any number of times, a grapple cannon that fires both
bungee and retracting grapples, as primary and alt fire. There
is also a grapple bomb of sorts, which grapples enemies and
explodes.

Detail
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Grapple Cannon: (summon grapple.grapplecannon)

   This is a subclass of the flak cannon, and fires both retracting
and bungee style grapples. It does not use up any ammo. Firing once
shoots the grapple,  and firing the second time removes it from the
wall. This follows with the bungee grapple, which however, does not
have a 'rope' attached (the rope will be fixed in v2.0, promise :))

Retracting (Normal) Grapple: 

   This grapple pulls you to whatever it attaches to at an even rate.
This means you can break your fall by shooting what you want to descend
to before you jump. It also means that once it overcomes your original
momentum, you'll move in a straight line, despite gravity. This may seem
weird, but its a lot nicer when you've gotta be accurate :)
When fired at a monster, a direct hit will instead pull THEM to YOU. This
is useful if you're near a lava pit or cloud zone, and decide to bungee
up, and drop your foe. One warning, however. Presently, the rope segments
spawned by this do NOT dissipate if the grapple enters a cloud zone, since
thats effectively an instant destroy. I'm working on that too.

Bungee Grapple:

   This grapple can be extremely dangerous to your health, but combined
with the retractor, it can be very useful. Picture this: You've grappled
to a tall building, and you want to slow your fall while you grapple
something further away than what you'd normally be able to reach, and can't
descend to ground level, since its over water\enemies\whatever. You fire the
bungee at your new target, let it hit, and swing over till you can fire the
first grapple once again. You can also use this for hitnrun, where you bungee
a tall object, and grapple down to your enemies, shoot, and let go. Just be
careful of the rebound :)

Grapple Bomb: (summon grapple.grapplebomb)

   The defaults on this make it a touch too powerful, gibbing anything in the
small range of the explosion. The real power of this device, however, is that
it shoots grapples at every foe in range when it sticks to a surface, and
pulls them in. 2.5 seconds later, it detonates.



Legalese
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   This is the part we all dread... Lessee, where to begin...

1. The contents of grapple.u are copyright Nicholas Guttenberg, 1998.
2. You may not place this mod with any commercial product without the
   permission of the author, and a license from Epic Megagames.
3. The author is not liable for any damage, psychological, or physical,
   resulting from the use of this mod.
4. You may put this mod in levels you create without the author's permission.
5. You must give the author credit if you distribute this mod, or things
   using this mod.
6. You may not distribute code changes to this mod without the author's
   permission.

If you break #2, I will personally hunt you down and sic Epic on you :)


