Powerball for Quake2 OS: Win95 Powerball is a multiplayer patch for Quake 2, now in beta. Behold, the readme: Powerball 2 V beta 1 "And another dark chapter of killing began" Skull - Dec 1997 How to play Powerball (The Aim) ===================== The aim of powerball is to have more points than the other team! You can do this by scoring points in the oppositions goal (the one with their colors all around it!) You can either score by running into the goal while holding the ball (10 points) or by throwing the ball into the goal (5 points)). You also get points for killing the opposition (of course!). Scoring ------- You get 10 points for your team if you score a goal by running into the goal-point with the powerball or 5 points if you throw the ball into the goal. You score 1 point for killing someone but 2 if you have the powerball. There are two scores at the top of the deathmatch scoreboard which represent the total score for each team. Teamplay console variable ------------------------- There are different values for teamplay: 0 - Can't hurt other team members but can hurt self (recommended mode) 1 - Can't hurt other team members or self at all! 2 - Can hurt everyone Changing your sex ----------------- Don't try using the player config screen to change your stats! It will crash! Use the commands: name to change your name and cmd sex to change your sex Neither of these commands will kick you out of the game or kill you. Throwing the ball ----------------- Bind a key to the command: cmd throw to throw the ball with it. Practice your throwing! It will be one of your most valuable assets in Powerball. (I recommend aiming up a bit from where you want it to land) Messagemode2 (Say2) ------------------- Use the command: cmd say2 to send a message only to your teammates. (Messagemode2 messages have '()' brackets around the senders name to indicate the difference from normal messages) Changing teams -------------- You can change teams using the commmand: cmd team This will kill you and remove one frag from the target team score, so only do it if they really like you! Team selection will come in soon :-) Running Powerball 2 =================== I would recommend copying your Quake 2 icon from the start menu (right right on start button -> open -> programs -> quake2 is the most likely path) onto the desktop and then editing the properties. This makes sure the CD configuration and stuff works. Add the following to the end of the command line: +set game [gamedir] Where [gamedir] is the name of the sub directory with the dll in it. Double click on the icon and you should now be running a modified quake2! Version Info ============ Powerball 2 beta 1 ------------------ First release for Quake 2! Most things from PB1 are in there and everything is looking great! Hopefully no bugs (crossing fingers) :-) Powerball Team (pball@planetquake.com) ====================================== Kick Ass Coding - James "Skull" Bielby (james@bielby.u-net.com) Fcuking Excellent Art - Brian Collins (brian@zono.com) Amazing Web page,Support and Distribution Shite - Josh Dalcher (dalchrc@heart.net) Many thanks go to LM_Jormungard (mike@ictv.com) for the basic teamplay stuff. http://www.bielby.u-net.com