Level Name- Descent into Medwave v2.4b Filename- Medwave.map Author- Overlord Joe E-Mail- xiaogui@pipeline.com URL- http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/8442/index.html Author Stuff- Hihiyadoin? Works with - Duke v1.4+ ATOMIC EDITION ONLY!! New In this Version- -Some more enemies. -Made Respawns Stayputs so they won't travel into unreachable spots. -Added one new secret. -Learned how to make glass, put it everywhere. -Mirror in the bathroom. -Fixed major slowdown at start of level. -Minor revisions to wall coloring and sync will adjacent walls. Story- First, Duke Nukem had to clean out an alien scourge in Los Angeles. Then, he went one on one with the Overlord on the moon base, and destroyed a pantheon of alien warships en route to earth. And when the aliens seemed to have reached their goal of human annihilation, Duke brought down their Cyberlord in an grueling battle mono e mono. Then all was peaceful. But then, out of nowhere, Duke gets a call from the U.S. government. It seems that the alien queen was stranded on earth all this time, and has bred a new wave of alien resistance. Duke soon met to the challenge of kicking the asses of anything ugly enough to get in his way. The alien threat was finally no more, or so it seemed. Duke Nukem finally has some time off and decides to kick back, relax, and take it easy. Unfortunately, several aliens have decided to make a last ditch retreat into earth orbit, and bring Duke with them! Duke is captured in his sleep and awakes to find himself in run down, crappy-looking waveship. The ship's only mission is to research into new forms of technology and find a way to get the crew back home without the ship flying apart. They as well have begun to clone a legion of Dukes to be used for their own army! But the Aliens, without the guidance of their Cyberlord (whom Duke already kicked the crap out of), have been goofing off like crazy! The new experiments have been put aside for some heavy duty partying! Most, if not all, of the chambers on the ship have been turned into pleasure rooms or used for recreation. Yet, fun has a price. Because of the alien's stupidity and negligence of the already ongoing experiments, more and more projects are turning up failures. The only place to dump such waste is into the Radioactive Disposal unit, which has become dangerously unstable as of late. Leakage of the radioactive waste mutates the ship's crew and turns them into a crazed, insane anarchial bunch of mindless psychopaths. They have begun to fight amongst themselves over nothing, and have left a bunch of ammo and weapons everywhere, just waiting to be picked up. A large crash signals a total meltdown as the dangerous radiation seeps into the reactor core, shorting out all electrical equipment and totally screwing up anything that still works. The waveship begins to fall apart at the seams. Duke takes this opportunity to escape from his prison, which has been unlocked in the core crash. But the core is still functioning, yet totally abnormal and will blow itself, and the earth with it, to high hell if someone doesn't shut it down first. Nukem gets off the floor and begins his decent into Medwave. His only hope is that the psycho aliens don't destroy the ship before he has a chance to save his life (as well as the lives of the billions of humans below). Duke plans his out his mission for his escape from his imprisonment: 1 - Find The Reactor Core 2 - Shut it Down 3 - Find a still functioning Jettison pod 4 - Get the hell out of there! **********Play Info************** Signal Player- YES! CO-OP- I guess.* Dukematch- I guess. same* Episode/Level- Episode X, Level Z Difficulty- None, but I heard some parts are a tad bit cheezy New Music- Eye by the Smashing Pumpkins New Sounds- Bonus music from the Layre TC is now the bar music (barmusic.voc) "Duke meets Dr. Jones" is now a message from Hot Wok (jones04.voc) Anamatron Mouse sounds have been changed: Hot Wok takes your order in Chinese (sweet03.voc) Alarm sounds (sweet04.voc) And Hull Breach after core crash (sweet05.voc) Go to http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/8442/index.html to download the sounds. New Art- Nope, but fun to play with the Duke-Nudes tileset! *******BUGS! READ FIRST! DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!****** * - I tired this in multiplayer and it didn't work out too good. For some reason, Duke's lower half got stuck in the floor. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know. Due to the high number of sprites, this level might not work too good on older machines. I originally had a pentuim 120MHZ proc. w/ 16MB RAM, and it only slowed down during times of hight explosions. Even older machines might get an error saying to many sprites spawned, or will crash if the frame rate gets too low. ************Miscellaneous********** This is my first level that I ever built and it took over two years to make. After I finished the first version, it sat on the bottom of my hard drive for several months until I got the Atomic Edition. Your par time is 35:00 with 11/11 secrets and 150/170+ enemies. Some enemies won't register if they kill themselves or if they get killed by another enemy. You'll get a higher frag count if things like Recon Cars blow up and release a Pigcop. This level is nonlinier, so there is no predefined path. There are many routes to take, all of which eventually double back in on themselves. Choose your path wisely. You might not want to get too deep on one route until you get some of the bigger weapons. Other people who helped- -Polly, who sat around and told me how much his level was better than mine. -Bernanka, who kept my seat warm when I went to take a piss. -Russka, who trashed my room and wouldn't shut up. -Time and space, who let me finish this level with my sanity still intact (at least partially...). -Monty Python, Gary Larson, Weird Al Yankovic, Johnny Carson and Hoho, the drunken immigrant, for without them, I am nothing. Carbone would be so pissed: I made this level deep in the duldrums of '96 and posted it on one of my many webpages, however not many (any?) people went to it, so now I'm pissed. Hopefully Dukeworld will post it and someone will download it. If not, well, I'll be a monkey's, uh... I don't even want to go there...