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  Title : QuakeWorld Disc 
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Filename  : QWDISC12.zip
Version   : 1.2 beta

Date      : 3/8/97

Author    : Howard Roy

Other mods: Killer Quake Pack 1.0
          : Air Strike 1.0

Email     : Howard@mortimer.com

Web Page  : http://www.mpog.com/kqp/

Credits   : ID Software <- well, no ID, no Quake. Simple.

            Even though I have neither use one single line of code nor
            one single frame of model from the Severed patch, I still
            wanna thank Steve Winston-Brown and The Lone Gunmen for
            imspiring me to create this patch.

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  Type of Mod  
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Quake C  : yes
Sound    : yes 
MDL      : yes

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  Format of Quake C  
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unified diff  : no
context diff  : no
.qc files     : no
progs.dat     : yes


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  Description of the Modification  
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* This is a beta QuakeWorld version of Disc 1.2
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If you have seen the TV series : Xena - Warrior Princess, you'll notice
Xena has a very cool weapon, her disc.

I've re-create this weapon, once it's fired, it'll bounce off walls and
so on for a while before it'll be returned to you automatically. If you
hit the attack button again once you've fired the disc, it'll start to
return to you right away.

Since it can bounce off walls, it's very useful when it's fired into a
small room. Just watch it bounces and slices through your opponents.
The Disc does damage according to its velocity, so the faster it
bounces off a wall, the more damage it'll make.

The very neat feature about this Disc is that it could actually
*** LOP SOMEONE'S HEAD OFF *** . Yep, just AIM close to your opponent's
neck/head area, and see their head flies off if you have done enough damage.

In version 1.1, I've also added a new idea, you can now use the disc to
*** SLICE SOMEONE INTO TWO HALVES *** . YEP, just AIM to the middle of
your opponent and see their body splits into two if you've done enough
damage.

In version 1.2, you can now even lop people's arms off and see the blood
keep bursting out... Once your arms have been cut off, you cannot fire
or change any weapon, and to heal your arms, you'll need to bring your
health back to or above 100.

To lop someone's arm off, you just need to get their health below 50
with ANY weapon, and if you're lucky, you'll see their arms fly off.

I've also included more realistic body parts that you can see flying off
from gibbed players. The skin of the body parts actually MATCHES with the
player's one.

If you want to get the source of Disc, please contact me at
howard@mortimer.com

Thanx.

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  Brief summary of features  
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New weapons  Ammo Scale*   Description     (* 1 is least powerful, 5 is most)
=============================================================================
(Ammo cost : S = shells, N = nails, R = rockets, C = cells)

Disc            0 - (4) A bouncing disc that can lop someone's head off.

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  How to use Modification  
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Press 1 (or impulse 1) twice to switch to the Disc, or enter Impulse 100
to switch to the weapon directly.

The longer you hold onto the disc, the harder and faster it'll fly off
and the more damage it'll do when it hits something.

Once you have throw the disc out, if hit the fire button again and the
disc will start to return to you.

Otherwise the disc will keep bouncing around for a while before returning
to you.

If you're too far away from the disc when it starts to return to you, it
will be dropped to the floor and will be automatically returned to you
after around 3 seconds, or you can actually run over the disc and pick
it up yourself.

To lop someone's head off, you'll need to aim near your opponent's
neck/head area, once your opponent's health is low, you'll be able to
lop his head off.

To cut someone into two halves, you'll need to aim near their torso area,
once your opponent's health is low, you'll mostly likely to be able to
slice him into two halves.

To cut off someone's arm, you just need to bring their health down to
below 50 with ANY weapons, and if you're lucky, you'll see their
arms fly off.

If your opponent's health is low, your disc will sometimes be able to
gib your opponent into pieces.

Please keep in mind that you can only lop another human player's head off,
and you can only see body parts flying from gibbed human players.

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  How to Install the Modification  
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goto Quake dir
make a sub dir named something like QWDISC
unzip everything with -d into that sub dir
run quake with the -game option

Examples:

C:\>cd quake

C:\Quake>md QWDISC

C:\Quake>cd QWDISC

C:\Quake\QWDISC>unzip -d QWDISC12.ZIP

... unzip files ...

C:\Quake\QWDISC>cd ..

C:\Quake>QWSV -game QWDISC

That's it.

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  IMPULSE Commands  
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Brief IMPULSE commands summary :
(please refer to the text files mentioned above for full info)

Impulse 100  Switch to Disc instantly.

** Use the BIND command to make your life easier, example :

BIND A "impulse 100"

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  Technical Details  
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Known Bugs:

 None so far ...

 * The change weapon bug in previous versions has been fixed.

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  Future Enhancements  
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 Can't think of any right now, let me know if you've any.

Please email me at howard@mortimer.com with any suggestions for
improvements.

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  Revision History  
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Version 1.2 beta

 Initial beta QuakeWorld version release

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  Contacting Author  
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As mentioned above, my email address is :

Howard@mortimer.com

I also have a personal web site located at :

http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/u6m1

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  Copyright and Distribution Permissions  
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 Authors MAY use these modifications as a basis for other
publically available work.  Please send me any modifications
you make!

 If you have used part of this patch (code, model or sound) in
your own patch, please give credits to the authors who have made
them - including myself. Thank you.

 If you ever need to use any single frame of the player model
included in this patch, please first contact me and get my permission,
cuz I've spend many hours of hard work to re-model those 3D player
models, thanx.

 You may distribute this Quake 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.

 This patch can NOT be distribute on ANY product PRODUCED or even
RELATED to a lame company called Actura.
