*** KeyTrap's Deathmatch Patch v2.1 *** (Used to be KeyMix) If you use this patch, please send me an e-mail (gaunt@cdsnet.net). Any feedback, suggestions, etc. is much appreciated, but I just like to know that people actually like my patch. Sort of an ego thing, I guess... :) This patch is made to make a cool variety on the standard deathmatch games, and add some more strategy to the game. I've worked hard to make it as balanced as possible, and still have a fast-paced game, in addition to making things a little more realistic. I have added some stuff of my own as well as combining (and in most cases improving) my favorite patches (in part or in whole). This is the result. A great deal of the credit goes to the original authors, and the docs for the patches I've cannibalized are included in the \docs directory. All source is included, and generally, the changes I've made are pretty well documented. Frankly, I think I've made too many changes for a .diff file to be worthwhile, but feel free to do one yourself if you really want to... The fiend patch is my favorite. I've done extensive modifications to it, to make it more fair and exciting to play. I tell you, it's really freaky when that thing jumps in your face out of some dark corner. Try in on e1m8. Had to soup it up a bit to make it more playable. Just don't let it get anywhere near you... :) It takes some practice, but it's worth it. See below for more info. INSTALLATION: Go ahead and pkunzip this directly INTO your quake directory, using the -d option. (If you didn't, then you now know what the problem is) Then just run kdeath.bat or kserv.bat and have fun... These are the additional impulses you need to set for this patch: Impulse 54: Toggles Fish Rockets (It really only changes the model) Impulse 62: Detonates Pipe Bombs Impulse 63: Toggles between different types of a selected weapon. (for instance, toggles between normal rockets and drunk missiles) Impulse 64: "Gear Shift" for the fiend. Toggles between high and low jump angles. Good for the low gravity level(s). Impulse 98: Changes down one skin (for player skins or fiend skins) Impulse 99: Changes up one skin (for player skins or fiend skins) Impulses 100 - 144: Selects a particular player skin Impulses 175 - 176: Selects a particular fiend skin Impulse 210: Observer mode. (You have to suicide to change back.) Impulse 253: End Fiend Cheat Mode (Back to Human) Impulse 254: Fiend Cheat (Doesn't work in Deathmatch or Co-op of course) **************** Changes for v2.1 **************** -Grrr... there's nothing more embarassing than releasing your patch, just to find some major bugs in it the next day. Fixed a bug where you could get the nailgun/lasergun just by picking up some ammo and pressing #5, and fixed the bug where you wouldn't get frags for killing someone with the throwing axe. Hopefully that will be all of them... :) **************** Changes for v2.0 **************** -Added the code from the v1.06 source. Not a lot of big changes, just some bug fixes and impulse 12 now reverse-scrolls through the weapons. If you haven't downloaded the upgrade patch from ID software and installed it, you should now. You can play without it, but you don't really want to... :) **************** Changes for v1.7 **************** -Teleporters! Finally, I got someone on the Quake newsserv to help me out. gave me some code he'd gotten from someone else, and it was enough to enable me to hack out a patch to enable you to fire through them. You can fire throwing axes, nails, lasers, all 3 grenades, and rockets throught the teleporters. I had a bunch of trouble with the throwing axes, but I guess that's what you get for combining patches. As of now, you can't kill yourself with your own missiles, etc. by firing them through a transporter and standing in front of it. I tried, and it screwed up a whole bunch of other stuff, so I just put it back the way it was. (I think there's only one spot in the game where you can actually do this anyway.) Discovered that you can get out of Observer mode by "kill"ing yourself. Thought about it for a while, and decided to leave it that way. You lose all your frags when you get into Observer mode, and you have to die to get out of it, so it's not very productive to try and cheat with. As usual, let me know if you notice any bugs. :) **************** Changes for v1.6 **************** -Lots and lots of bug fixes, and little afterthought changes that number too many to list... -Heh... I realized about 10:00p.m. that anytime anyone toggled a weapon, EVERYONE toggled that weapon. Fixed that quick. -Added the new alien skin for the fiend. You can switch between the two using impulses 98 & 99 as a toggle like the player skins, or you can use 175 and 176 to change directly. I liked the alien skin so much, I made it the normal skin for single-player. The thrown fiend head also has the alien skin on it. -I snagged the pipebomb models from the skarmod4 patch, implemented them, and made new ones for use with the proximity mines. -Added a "gear shift" for the fiend. The jump angle was too high on the low gravity level, and you had to look at the ground to jump forward. So now impulse 64 will toggle between a low and high jump angle. -Added and modified the Observer patch by some guy who didn't put his handle in the docs, which are of course in the \docs directory anyway. Cleaned up the code a little bit, and made it so that you have the bubble model (fairly innocuous). I didn't think observers should be able to interfere with the game in any way. -Added a whole ton of new player skins, and rearranged some of the original ones. I had to change the impulses around, so if you were using keymix15 or earlier, you may have to modify your autoexec.cfg and config.cfg files. Changes are listed above. -Look in weapons.qc for a list of all the skins, or bind keys to impulses 98 and 99 and scroll through them all. The player.mdl is getting really huge, so I have some concerns about people with less then 16 megs of ram being able to pre-cache the thing. If you have problems, let me know and I'll take out the less-exciting ones. You can simply rename (or delete) the player.mdl file in the progs directory, and it'll solve the problem, although you won't have skins available. Kudos to the Quake Grinder page where most of these new skins came from. -I like DemonStar's Name-fun scripting, but it's sort of a pain in the ass to use, so I decided to hard-code it in. Look in the \name directory, for instructions on creating your name, and place your personal script in the keyname.scr file. The patch will re-run the script every time you pop up in a new level. If you don't have the file, the worst you'll get is a "can't run keyname.scr" error. No biggie. -Added Wrath's RealHeal patch, so that health that you don't need isn't picked up, and is left in the health box for later. Changed it so it works with the Mega-health boxes too... -Added Wrath's RealFall patch, so that you take more damage the higher you fall. I took the liberty of changing it a bit so you don't take quite as much damage as the original patch, but it's still more than the original game. Also took out the annoying comments that tell you how far you fell, which are wrong on the low-gravity levels. Docs are in the \docs directory. -Fixed the bug where the fiend's corpse wasn't solid. -Added an impulse "cheat" to end the fiend mode in single-player. -Added psycho-prisoner's xitmsg patch. Nothing special, just leaves different messages when someone leaves an ongoing deathmatch game, as in "BlahBlah wussed out with -2 frags. -Moved all .mdl files into the \progs directory. Well, the only complaint I've really had about my patch was the fish rockets. I was just going to take them out, but for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of them entirely, prob. for the nostalgic reason that they were the first thing I put in here. So, you now have a choice. Normal rockets are default, Impulse 54 toggles them. Have fun... :) **************** Changes for v1.5 **************** -Added the Throwing axe patch. Kudos to those guys for the well-documented, smooth code. Very cool. Changed it so you start out with 3 at the beginning of each level or when you respawn. Docs are in the Docs dir. with everything else. -Bubbles! If you try to fire the superlasergun under water, all you get are bubbles. Similarly, if you fire it into water, the bolt won't go through the water, but will 'evaporate' a small chunk of water into so many bubbles. Much thanks to S. Patrick Gallaty for his help with code so that the bolts could recognize that they were in water, and the bubble idea. -Added Steve Bond's shotgun shell patch, although I took great liberties in changing the velocities of the shells so that which way they go depends on what direction you're facing. Very cool patch tho. -Changed the proximity mines so they use twice as much ammo. They're very cool, but too powerful. It sucks when someone puts about 100 of them around a transporter pad. -Fixed it so that when you change back into a human from being the fiend, your "best" weapon is selected, instead of just having the shotgun. -Changed the drunk missile launcher so there is a little more time between shots. Makes it a little more playable, plus you're supposed to be reloading 3 rockets instead of just one. -When you switch weapons, the game tells you which modified weapon you're using (SuperLaserGun, Proximity Mines, etc.). -Having problems with the biosuit patch. Right now it just changes your skin so you look like the wizard. Have to figure out how to modify the player.mdl file to add the biosuit skin. Always something new to figure out... :) **************** Changes for v1.4 **************** -Mostly just fine-tuning stuff... -Added Shyft's biosuit patch, but it doesn't really work. I think I need to mess with the .mdl files and junk. Prob. for 1.5. -The laser "nails" use 2 cells instead of 3. -Drunk missiles do approximately 3/4 of the damage of normal missiles. This offsets being able to be hit by 3 of them at once. I also made them considerably more "drunker". All three of them now have the same origin point, as we were having trouble with the "side" two missiles exploding on a wall you were standing next to. -Changed all grenades/pipe bombs/proximity mines so they explode when they land in lava. It's not perfect, because they will only explode when they touch something in the lava, so if for some odd reason you were standing UNDER the lava (ouch) you can fire out of it. Or you could fire through some free floating patch of lava, if someone makes a level with one. -Your proximity mines now all explode when you die. Had to do something to try to keep from having 300 proximity mines bouncing all over the place. You can still get packet overflow errors if you have too many. **************** Changes for v1.3 **************** -Fixed a fairly nasty bug which caused you to switch to the nailgun when out ammo with something else. This normally is supposed to happen, except that the nailgun wouln't fire in this case. Caused quite a few unneccessary deaths... :) That's what I get for coding at 3 a.m., I guess.... **************** Changes for v1.2 **************** -A whole bunch more new skins. Pretty cool, especially Kramer. Kinda funny seeing a Quake dude in a suit. Fixed the wierd text errors I was getting. Funny how much you can fix if you change a || to a &&. -Umm... I noticed that you can now gib the zombies that are hanging on the wall. I'm not sure how that happened, but it's pretty cool... :) -Added some new weapons and a toggle. Hook a key up to impulse 63. When you switch to the grenade launcher or the rocket launcher, hit impulse 63 to toggle between the different available weapons. -You have regular grenades or pipe bombs that you can set off whenever you want (impulse 62). Changed it so that they all go off if you die, suicide, or disconnect. Proximity mine grenades are enabled, but aren't too hard to disable if you think they're too much for deathmatch. Remember you can kill yourself with them just as easily... -You have your choice of either the regular rocket launcher (fish!) or drunk missiles. (ROTT!) There's code in there for them to be homing missiles, but it didn't work very well, and sucked for deathmatch anyway, so I made it go away. -You have either the regular supernailgun, or the superlasergun (something I actually wrote myself) which does a bit more damage, but takes 3 cells per shot. I couldn't get rid of the nail "tink" sound, so when a laser hits you or a wall, so you'll hear both sounds. Kind of odd.... Made it so you can select the super nailgun even if you don't have any nails, but you have cells. It gives you a message if you switch to the lasergun but don't have any cells. -Grrrr... I had a patch put in that let you fire through transporters, but it was buggy, and would crash quake if you started level e2m1. (seekprox.zip, it does it with the original patch, so it's not my error). Have to find a new one... this won't be finished without it. -There's code in there for the kicking patch, but it doesn't work at all. Oh well. Something else to fix. -Fixed a bug that you could fire more shells than you had, and sometimes you would get below zero ammo and it will wrap around to 255 or 254. You didn't actually get that ammo. The bug was actually in the original game code for the super shotgun. I hope to add more weapons as I find good ones. I want to get a hold of the "grappling hook" source code. **************** Changes for v1.1 **************** -After getting my ass kicked a couple times as the demon (25 to -2, by my roommate, Kalima) I decided the demon needed to be just a WEE BIT tougher. Basically all I can say now is you'd better kill it before it gets anywhere near you. And I changed the Pentagram so that it also acts like a megahealth box. The main problem with the demon is that it doesn't have a long-range weapon, so against 3 guys with rockets, well, it needed to be tougher. An interesting side note is that if the level ends with someone as the demon, everyone who's not a demon will see his arms and legs sticking out from that vantage camera angle. Kinda funky. -For some reason, the text that goes with MultiSkin is cycling over and over and not leaving the screen. That gets really annoying, so I disabled it. Have to figure out what the prob. is and fix it for v1.2. -I would like to add various weapons from the morewpns.zip and drunkm3.zip files, but the source code isn't in those. I hope to contact the authors and beg it from them... :) **************** Notes for v1.0 **************** -This is a combination of code from Jfiend, Multiskins, and gibbin3, with a little changing of the impulses from me. You can set impulse 200-218 in your autoexec.cfg to start as that skin, but for some reason if you go to a new level, you have to re-do it. I recommend binding a key to that impulse. Also, I recommend binding the [ and ] keys to impulses 198 and 199 respectively. These allow you to change skins at will. I will be adding various things to these as more new things come out, and I actually develop some of my own stuff... :) -In addition I marked some lines of code (starting at line 1213 in weapons.qc) that if you rem them out will enable the impulse 9 cheat in deathmatch. However, since the server controls it, that means that EVERYONE can use the cheat. It's really kinda pointless, as that takes all the fun out of the game, but it's nice to know. -I added the fairly simple "exfish" code. If you don't like firing fish, I marked the code where you can change it back. :) ************ Planned Additions: - I'm going to make a model so that the fiend can be invisible. - I'm going to make the backpacks explode when they land in lava. - I'm going to try making the shotgun shoot lava balls if you have cells to burn. See how that works in Deathmatch. - I'll try and add the Deathmatch 3 code, in case anyone wants to use it. - I'm going to make it so you can shoot through teleporters, as soon as I figure it out or find source code for it. High priority. - Will make the grenades explode if you shoot them. - Various other things I'll think of later. The whole point of this is to make cooler deathmatch games. If you have cool patches you'd like to add or cool ideas, feel free to send me mail. Have Fun, but remember to look up from the monitor every couple of hours. Play Quake too much and you'll go blind. :) -KeyTrap gaunt@cdsnet.net If you have any cool source code (like working code for weapon teleporters!), or any bugs you care to report, please send them to me.