TheHUNT '98 Single Player MOD Version 4.0: Air Strike Pre 3.9 Remarks I'm sorry, but although these versions were all private playtests among my friends and I, they forced me to take a step back to make it these two steps forward. Before 4.0, I had four major project failures, which rendered the *.QC source unworkable and the progs.dat files undecompilable. There was one thing that I can say wasn't worth losing in these failures; monster hyper mode. It was a function that gave a monster faster and more accurate reactions to their enemy as their health dropped lower and lower. Now however, I think that's a bunch o crap, comparing the the remaining 3.5 demos to those I've already made with 3.9 and 4.0. 3.9 Remarks After two years of cogitating what and how to promote this idea of complete havoc upon the Quake monster AI, I have finally personified it in its true form. TheHUNT '98 is a special MOD under my design which gives the player a competitive experience against the CPU. The AI is now top notch with such features as multiweapon grunts, REALLY fast monsters that can catch up with the player and straif VERY well when confronted with danger, team AI monsters that will do anything to protect you and stay by your side, and new abilities for the CPU such as smart aiming for all weapons affected by gravity and the inclusion of smart fiend jumping. I'm not gonna leave the team AI any time to rest in this overview. When fiends are on your team, they can be inspirational, annoying, helping, or just downright stupid. When there are a LOT of fiends on your team, BE CAREFUL!!!! Always let em catch up with ya, but DO NOT let them keep any reasonable targeting distance or else they'll jump to catch up and end up mashing you. When fiends pick fights with each other, don't even bother trying to shoot them to make em stop. Just go ahead and try and complete as much of the level as you can without em. Well... its your decision. This MOD works VERY well in DM, allowing monster-morph, ricochetting nails, and army monsters to join with you against all odds. Whenever you recieve attacker damage, all of your beasts home in on the fool that hurt you. When you die, your beasts convert to "friend" form, becoming lost souls that roam aound for a new moaster. Hey...what can I say? Its a dog-eat-dog world. That's why I never so much as spawn a dog in deathmatch. How would you like it if your fiend army turned against you? Well....that should be enough to say.... 4.0 Remarks: Well....what can I say? This MOD is pretty cool in the aspect that your enemy is actually smart now. Not only have I eliminated all of the bugs; including the game-crashing suicide and water-death bugs; but I have also added in a more dependable monster for the player to lead... the wizard(Not the damn fiend!That hyper S.O.B.!)). Not only is the wizard now the fastest and most agile monster in Quake; he's now on your side if you choose him via the monster spawn command(see below). There's something wrong however with the wizard's code now. Sometimes in battle, when he's facing other monsters, he'll straif, flee for cover, and successfully fight like a madman. At other times, he sits in one spot and just mows em down while they straif. Somehow, I feel that I'm being cheated. I mean....wizards straif and take cover REALLY good against players, but they just don't fight monsters as efficiently as they should. Here are the bound keys: Q-Chasecam W-LaserSight e-GL Flashblend On r-GL Shadows s-HUD(Now view the world in fullscreen!) M-Monster Team Spawn(1 Monster) Morphs (Reasons to use em) N-Human (You!) B-Zombie (Healing) V-Vore (Homing missiles) C-Scrag (Reaching high places such as sniper spots) X-Hell Knight (Dunno... maybe his fire attack?) Z-Shambler (Scaring the shit out of someone who doesn't use morphs) L-Fiend (30-60 pts per jump attack) K-Ogre (Grenade set-ups) Mouse User's Config(use +mlook) Y-forward H-Back G-Straif Left J-Straif Right Mouse1-Fire Mouse2-Jump A list of the codes that I used: -Cranked -Friend v4 -Morph2(Coming REAL Soon!) -Chasecam 4.01 with HUD support -Inside 3d and Minion AI tutorials for enemies Next Version:4.0 public proposals -Any bot I can sneak into the final product. -