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Re: My Q2 mod

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From: Cy Edmunds
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 19:39
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"EvilBill" <devlin@SPAM-ME-NOT-o-JERK-weset.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
message news:c4mtp2$64n$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I recently obtained a copy of MS VC++, so I've been fiddling around with
the
> Q2 source code (I don't actually *know* C++ so I've just doing a bit of
> fiddling) and after picking up a few things from QDevels, I thought I'd
> release a test build of the changes I've made. It's available on my FTP
> space at
> ftp://65.30.181.223/quake/EvilBill/evilbill-mod/evilbill-test-dll.zip -
> simply unzip to an 'evilbill' folder in your Q2 directory and do the usual
> quake2.exe +set game evilbill
> I shall be firing up a test server tonight - the IP is currently
> 81.76.96.196, but my PC's been crashprone of late so I've had to do a
*lot*
> of rebooting :(
>
> Summary of changes:
>  - Power-up timers now display for *all* active power-ups, not just the
one
> first activated
>  - "id" command added to display the names of players you're looking at
> (untested as yet)
>  - Death messages altered (for example, "EvilBill visits the volcano god"
> for falling in lava)
>  - Message of the Day code added (currently untested for clients - not
> certain whether local file needed or not)
>
> Server will be going up... well, now <g>
> Standard DM, Q2DMx rotation.
> Enjoy :)
>
> -- 
> -- 
> "I see what the nhh-stars do, because so fair is their shape; it is well
for
> me with them and it is well for them. I am a nhh-star, the companion of a
> nhh-star, I become a nhh-star, and I will not suffer for ever."
> EvilBill - http://www.evilbill.co.uk
> My Quake2 FTP site: ftp://65.30.181.223/quake/EvilBill/
>
>

Have you guys considered using WoD for coop play? I've never tried it but I
think it should certainly work with WoD6 or WoD7. (It won't work with WoD8
though.) Then you can set the bad guys on fire, use a grappling hook, etc.
Better yet, you get the superweapons and they don't. :)

-- 
Cycho{HHR}
http://home.rochester.rr.com/cyhome/
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