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Loki's Minions Capture the Flag 3.0 ----------------------------------- CLIENT INSTRUCTIONS: -------------------- Unpack this zip file (if you use pkunzip, do it with a "-d") into your Quake 2 directory. You are now ready to play! If you have Gamespy, run it, then select from the menus "View->Custom Tab->Import". Browse to your Quake2/lmctf directory and select "LM CTF.qst". You now have a custom tab to help you find LM CTF servers! PLAYING A GAME: --------------- The easiest way to play a game is to run Gamespy, tell it to update all servers, and then click on your "LMCTF" game tab to find LMCTF servers. If you already know the IP (internet protocol) address of the machine you want to play on, simply run Quake2, and pull down the console. Then type: connect <server address> Quake2 will know how to switch you to playing LMCTF. HELP! I'M IN THE GAME! ---------------------- Players will automatically be assigned to either the red team or blue team upon entering the game. The action starts right away! If you have forgotten how to play, and need some help, use the LMCTF menu system to guide you. From the console, type: ctfmenu and a menu will appear. From there, navigate the entries as you would navigate your inventory, by using the inventory next, inventory previous, and inventory use buttons. If you don't have them bound to keys already, try binding these: bind [ "invprev" bind ] "invnext" bind enter "invuse" You can always exit a menu by hitting escape. I highly recommend binding your "ctfmenu" to a key, such as "backspace". From the main menu, you can switch to observer, change yours skin (and gender), or switch teams. Under the help menu, you can learn how to play, what the commands are, or what your radio sounds are. HEAD'S UP DISPLAY (HUD) ----------------------- You will see a few changes to your display right away. If you look directly at another player, you will notice a name appear in the lower left hand corner of your screen. This is the name of the player you are looking at. If the player's name is in GREEN, then they are a teammate. If the name is in WHITE, then they are are not on your team. In the top right corner, you will see a picture and a number. The number is your current individual player score, and the picture is a portrait of you. This is useful for telling what team you are on, and what you look like, so your friends can recognise you ("Hey! I'm the bald guy in red!"). Also, if you have the enemy flag, this icon will change to display a picture of a man holding a flag. Lower down on the right side of the screen are two more pictures and two more numbers. These correspond to the red team's flag status and score, and the blue team's flag status and score. When a team's flag is at home and safe, the team logo appears next to the team score. When the flag is stolen, this picture changes to look like an enemy player carrying away your flag. If the enemy flag carrier has dropped the flag and your flag is lying around waiting to be returned, the icon changes to look like a tilted flag that just lies there. Right above these scores is a spot which will display a special icon if you pick up a Strogg Artifact. These Artifacts (Haste, Damage, Resistance, and Regeneration) give their keeper special abilities. You may only pick up one Artifact at a time, and so long as you hold one, a picture of the Artifact will appear on your HUD. CHANGING YOUR SKIN ------------------ If you look in the upper right corner of the screen, you will see a small portrait of yourself. If the person is wearing red clothes, you are on the red team. Blue clothes designate a member of the blue team. Each team has 3 male and 2 female "skins" to choose from. To choose a new skin, or change your gender, type "ctfmenu" on the console. Then move down the menu items and select "Change Skin". You will now be in a menu that displays a list of skins. Select the one you want, and you will see your portrait in the upper left change to correspond to your new skin. When you are happy with your choice, hit escape to exit the menu. CHANGING TEAMS -------------- You can change teams either by selecting "Change Team" from the "ctfmenu", or by typing a team command designating which team you want to be on. For example, to change to the red team, type: team red or change to the blue team by typing: team blue OBSERVER MODE ------------- Using the "ctfmenu", you can select to "Become Observer". This will turn you into a disembodied ghost which other players cannot see. In this mode, you are part of neither red team nor blue team, and can only watch the game, not play it. You can fly through walls and watch all the action of a game without interrupting the players. As an observer, if you select "ctfmenu" again, you can "Play CTF", which will automatically drop you onto the team that needs you most. To toggle observer mode from the console (skipping the menus), merely type: observe and you will become an observer if you are not one, or join the game if you are already observing. CHASE CAM --------- As an observer, you can choose to view the game action from a "chase camera", like those that are mounted on cars in the Indy 500. You can only jump to chase cam mode if you are already an observer (see above on how to become an observer). To start your chase cam, type "ctfmenu" on the console, then select "chasecam" from the observer menu list. Or, merely type "chasecam" on the console to toggle the chasecam on and off. To switch who you are following, hit your weapon fire key or button. You will cycle to the next player. TEAM RADIO ---------- You can communicate with your teammates using sounds through the use of a "radio". Your radio lets you call out to all teammates such vital information as base status, or whether offense is ready for it's next offensive. To send a radio sound, type: play_team <sound> where possible sounds include things such as, "clear", "status", "roger", and "defense". For a full list of the sounds you can use, type: radiomenu This will pop up a menu listing all the possible radio sounds that come with LMCTF. You can also use this menut to actually play sounds, by selecting a sound in the menu. Players can only play one radio sound per second -- this is to prevent players from abusing the radio. If you decide you are tired of hearing other people go on and on over your radio, you can turn your radio off by typing: radio 0 While the radio is off, you cannot send radio sounds to others. To turn it back on again, type: radio 1 MAKING YOUR OWN RADIO SOUNDS ---------------------------- If you and your clan want to add radio sounds, it is quite simple. First, create both a male and female version of the sound you want to shout. For example, if your sound was "Get outta my way!", you would create two files, and name them: fem_outta.wav male_outta.wav Make sure that the sounds are prefaced with "fem_" and "male_". Also make sure the sounds are Windows PCM .wav files of no more than 22 kHz. Next, place these sounds in a "sound/radio" subdirectory of LMCTF, or place them in a pak file with this directory in it. Lastly, distribute this pak file (or .wav files) to your friends. Anyone who doesn't have it won't hear anything, and will just get a minor console error. OFFHAND GRAPPLING HOOK ---------------------- Capture the Flag contains a grappling hook weapon that is not in standard Quake 2. Many are already familiar with it: you fire the weapon, and a hook and cable shoot out. If you hold down the fire key, it continues to fly away until it hits a surface, and reels you in. LMCTF contains an enhancement to the grappling hook, whereby if the server enables an option, players can fire their grappling hook without having to switch to the grappling hook weapon first. This makes for interesting new gameplay in LMCTF, where players continue to fire weapons even when grappling across room. If the LMCTF server you connect to supports this feature, known as the OFFHAND grapple, you can bind a key as follows: bind space +hook Now, for as long as you hold down the spacebar, you will grapple as if you had the grapple weapon in hand and were holding down the fire key. If the server you are on DOES NOT support OFFHAND grapple, then this key will merely switch you to the grapple weapon. This means you no longer have to worry about binding a DIFFERENT key for the grappling hook when playing on OFFHAND supportted servers. AUTOTEXT -------- Autotext is a system of automatic text replacement. Anytime you talk to someone using say or say_team, the autotext system will automatically replace special character sequences with meaningful text. Here is a list of supported autotext sequences: %l -- your current location %a -- your current armor amount %h -- your current health %t -- your currently carried artifact %w -- your currently equipped weapon %n -- your team name %p -- detailed position of where you are So, if someone typed on their console: > I am %l with %h carrying %t! Meet me here! It would be displayed as: LM_Jormungard: I am at the red flag with 90 health carrying the Damage Artifact! Meet me here! FAQ --- Q: I pop up the CTF menu, but I can't move in the menu using the arrow keys. Why? A: Due to the way Quake 2 is written, CTF can't detect arrow keys. Instead, it wants you to use the same keys you use to move around in your inventory list and select inventory items. If you don't have these keys bound, bind keys for "invnext", "invprev", and "invuse". Q: Every time I try to change maps by typing "map base2", the game switches to "base2", then restarts my maplist. How do I stop this? A: Two solutions. First, try typing "gamemap base2" instead. "gamemap" is a friendlier command that doesn't restart the server every time. A second solution is to rename the "maplist.txt" file to something else so the server can't find it. It will then let you change to whatever level you like anytime. Q: How do I drop artifacts or the flag? Can I drop ammo? A: Type "drop artifacts" or "drop flag". You can drop ammo for your currently selected weapon by typing "drop ammo". Or you can "drop bullets", "drop rockets", or "drop grenades". Q: "Can't find map 'q2ctf1'" How do I play with id's Q2CTF maps? A: Copy the "pak0.pak" file from your "Quake2/ctf" directory into your "Quake2/lmctf" directory. You are now ready to play. Q: I can play the game, put other players don't seem to be carrying weapons, or they look like they are wearing giant white diapers. What is wrong? A: You need to install "VWEAP", the visual weapons pak. This is a pak used by many mods, and should be downloaded into your Quake2/baseq2 directory. To find out how to get the "VWEAP" pak, go to the LMCTF web page at: http://www.planetquake.com/lmctf/ COMMAND LIST ------------ Commands you can use during the game: team <red/blue> id -- Centerprints the name of the player in front of you ctfhelp -- Gives a summary of commands flagstatus -- Tells you what has happened to the flag position -- Tells you your [x,y,z] coordinates, your facing, and a text description of where you are in the map. Especially useful for mapmakers ctfmenu -- Invoke the main CTF menu radiomenu -- Invoke the radio sounds menu radio <1/0> -- Turn on or off your radio observe -- Toggle observer mode chasecam -- Toggle chasecam mode (only works if you are already an observer) +hook -hook -- Use these commands in combination to use the "offhand" grappling hook. The "offhand" hook is a server side option whereby the player doesn't have to switch weapons to use the grappling hook. If the offhand hook is disabled, these command will merely select your hook weapon. CREDITS ------- Creator and Lead Programmer: Mike "LM_Jormungard" Scandizzo Additional Programming: Doug "LM_Surt" McCreary Lead Artist: Brad "Stupidsh!t" Klann Additional Art: Mike "LM_Jormungard" Scandizzo Map Textures: John "Der Kommissar" Staats John "Mr. White" Keffer Brad "Stupidsh!t" Klann Sounds: John "Mr. White" Keffer Brad "Stupidsh!t" Klann New Models: Jacob "Goose" Jaeggli Wicked Env Artwork: John "Der Kommissar" Staats Stecki Maps: Keith "Vampire" Mercer John "Mr. White" Keffer John "Der Kommissar" Staats DHeise ("ZugZug") Mark Major Suicide20 id Map Conversion: Doug "LM_Surt" McCreary Public Relations: Wanker John "Der Kommissar" Staats Web Page Design: Brad "Stupidsh!t" Klann Additional Contributions: Fear-Berrys Kevin L. Kitchens ChronoKid Stephen "Lament" Maloney VWEAP models and code: Hentai A special thanks to Clan Loki's Minions for their assistance in testing, to id Software for the source code used to make this mod, and to Zoid for helping me out with tracking down some nasty bugs. Visit our web page at: http://www.planetquake.com/lmctf/ or http://www.captured.com/lmctf/