                       --Posessed Pickups! 1.0--

Title    : Posessed Pickups! 1.0
Filename : Posessed10.zip
Version  : 1.00
Date     : 1-28-1998
Author   : Rick DeMar
Email    : missy1@infoave.net
Credits  : id Software for creating Quake and Quake II, the end all of first person shoot-em-up games! Also many thanks
               to the many Quake developers that I have studied and learned from. Qdevels!!!

Type of Mod
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Quake.dll: yes
Graphics : no
Sounds   : no

Format of QuakeDLL
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.c files   : no
.pak file  : no
gamex86.dll: yes

Description of the Modification
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An interesting unexpected way to keep campers at bay! Imagine you are playing against your ruthless girlfreind that
has a bad habit of sitting on that rocket launcher spawn area as if it were Fort Knox. You slip her this patch, and fire
up a deathmatch game. There she goes, running off to get her rocket launcher... but... it isn't there... (?) She turns around
just in time to see it hobble toward a window and bounce through into the courtyard outside. It takes her a full 5 minutes
to catch up to it as it wanders away from her, during which time you have sighted your trusty railgun on her back. 

Feature summary:
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Once picked up, ALL pickups respawn as MOVETYPE_INFIBOUNCE, causing them to bounce and wander
aimlessly about the level. If at that point the item is picked up, it will respawn where you picked it up, thus providing
an endlessly random pattern to item placement, and a new challenge: chasing items around the rooms.
 
Features:
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** Affects ALL pickup items including health, powerups, ammo, weapons, armor, etc.

** Wandering items reduces or eliminates camping for ammo or powerups

** No splash splash splash splash as an item bounces around in a lake or river

** Adds the challenge of chasing a much needed weapon or other pickup around a room

** Works in Deathmatch, Co-op, AND Single Play

** Adds humor factor, and humor is good :-)


How to Install the Modification
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Create a directory named posessed in your registered Quake 2 directory, 
unzip the posessed.zip archive into it, then start playing Posessed Pickups
with:

Quake2 -game posessed 

Alternatively you can start the Possessed Pickups game by typing

set game posessed
 
in the console and then starting your game.

Problems
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Bouncing items may get hung up on sloped areas like ramps and hillsides. Rooms and rivers with sloped sides may 
collect large numbers of pickups. Deep holes or enclosed areas with overhead openings (such as acid/lava pools 
or pits) are also problem areas for trapping pickups. Some pickups may not begin to bounce and move until they
have been picked up many times. Not all maps work well with this mod, but it does certainly make things interesting 
when you have to chase things around :-) 


Author Information
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This is my first release of a Quake2 mod and is really just a simple release for warm up purposes. My first work was for 
Doom, and consisted of two levels titled "Showdown" and "Paradox". For Quake I, I released some two add on map sets 
for the Eliminator Bot (E1M1 and DM6). Soon to be released is a large scale weapons enhancement I have written for 
Quake 2.

Copyright and Distribution Permissions
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Authors MAY use these modifications as a basis for other publically 
available work.

You may distribute this Quake 2 modification in any electronic format 
as long as this description file remains intact and unmodified and is 
retained along with all of the files in the archive.

Availability
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This modification is available from the following places:

ftp.cdrom.com
